Maj.Hans

Now there's something! What if part of the "punishment" for moving high speed through forests was to have the gunner traverse the gun somewhere over the frontal arc, release the palm switches, and just sit there hoping his gun doesn't catch on a tree until his TC stops acting like a fool?

...Or...Is your seemingly innocent claim that you aren't a Cylon just a ploy to make us feel safe, because you actually ARE a Cylon.... :shocked:

Well, on the subject of the Russian tanks, as the T-90 is little more than a re-branded T-72, I'd be perfectly happy to get some more T-72 versions with Kontakt1 and 2 to give us a little variety in the armor we're up against. As for making them playable, while I'm sure we'd all love to see accurately modeled interriors and FCS, I guess some of that information isn't available. I will say that, for the purposes of having more OPFOR variety, I'd be perfectly happy to see that the T-72/80/90/64/etc were made playable even with an incorrect interrior or "best guess" optics and fire control. But still, I'd also be perfectly happy just having more stuff to blow up.

Actually, I'd be more than happy just to have them as AI only units... I just want them so I can blow them up!

Oh, one more thing, if possible. I'd like a way to tell the gunner and driver to keep doing their thing when I hop up on the .50 cal in the M1's. I don't always actually intend on engaging something with it. Sometimes I just want to put out some suppressing fire on infantry real quick.

Fortunately, as the blow off panels aren't really visible in the game, I don't think it would make too much of a difference. I'm willing to accept a few "wrong" bits here and there in order to get it in the game!

It happens only with certain maps, so far the two I've noticed it with are the two Fulda Gap maps in the download section. I don't see anything pop up in windowed mode either.

Well, theres a few things I'd like to see, assuming there was time. 1. A playable IPM1, even if it re-uses the existing M1 or the M1A1 3D model. I think the only thing thats "wrong" on the M1A1 model is the 120mm gun instead of the thinner 105mm tube. I like the 105mm gunned M1 we already have, I just wish I could get the up-armor model! 2. The ability to load MPAT or M908 OR-T in the 3rd and 4th ammo slots on the Abrams to supplement rather than replace HEAT. I understand that the MPAT was used in addition to the normal HEAT rounds on the Abrams during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and I expect the M908 round would be deployed in a very similar way. 3. Some more (AI) T-Tanks to destroy! I think a T-64A would be a great add on for the pre T-80 era, and maybe also a T-72BV or something similar, but naturally I don't expect you guys would have the time or the resources to make those playable, so I'll settle for blowing them up. 4. The ability to fire a weapon from the mounted squad-leader view for vehicles where it's possible to have the troops fight from a mounted position, perhaps in a similar manner to the way the M2HBs can be fired from the hatch of the HMMWV and M113. I know this is probably not something that would be used as a training aid, but it might make for some good multi-player play. Similarly, for tanks fitted with a loader's MG, either the ability to order the loader up to engage with his MG, or the ability to man the gun ourselves, but I guess this should probably be very low priority as I imagine actually employing that weapon would be pretty rare.

I tried alt-tabbing out a few times, but I didn't notice any error messages. I noticed that if you're missing a height map it puts an error box in the background, but didn't find anything like that. It could be a RAM issue, I've got 3 Gb installed, but I guess some maps might just be too much. Does the program need to uncompress and load the entire map before loading the selected area into the mission editor?

I just got my dongle in the mail yesterday, and I've been playing around with the various vehicles and making up some missions. However, when I try to load some maps, for example one of the Fulda Gap maps...I get this weird error. I can't move the map view, and any attempt to view the terrain causes an instant crash to desktop. Anybody know what's going on?

Hey, you don't need to convince me that Pro PE is worth the price! Other people have done that for you by trying to convince me that *Insert name of random FPS game here* is a great tank game because "You can, like, drive the tanks and stuff dude!"...Not really what I'm looking for... ;-) There really isn't anything else out there when it comes to tank simulators. The thing is, with how infrequently these things come out, I can see myself playing this one well after you guys retire. Although I'd prefer to hear that you had a plan for when you ended support, I guess I won't worry about it too much!

First, let me say that I don't have a copy of Pro PE, YET, but I think I want to change that pretty soon...As in, like next pay-check. I'm still playing the original SB, I still love it, but I've been drooling at Pro PE for so long that I figure it's about time I stop drooling, upgrade my PC to run it, and buy the game already. Getting to the point, what I'd like to know is when Pro PE hits the end of it's supported life, when there isn't anybody left to deal with broken dongles and so on, will we see a sort of 'final patch' released that eliminates the need to use a dongle to run it? Call me paranoid, but I've never had to use one of those things before, and honestly the idea that I might accidentally break or loose a little piece of plastic 10 or 15 years from now, and then be sort of 'SOL', makes me nervous. Honestly when I get it, I'm probably going to wind up storing it in our wall safe just to make sure nothing happens.

Just heard on the radio here (Announced as a TASS report...Shoulda seen my face... 'I knew it! The commies are doing it again!') that a British/Russian task force has intercepted a major pirate operation in the Gulf of Aden.

At the start yes, the log on the ground was our start line. Must be behind a foot but there was a coffee cup as a prop. IIRC the setup was something like: You are just leaving a coffee shop with your morning cup of joe. On the way out the door two men stop you, and demand that you hand over your wallet. You decline, and one pulls a switchblade. Engage the targets while backing away from the threat, two body shots and one headshot per target. So at that point I've just tossed a coffee cup (Weighted realistically with spent shell cases!) and drawn my concealed weapon, and am reacting by hosing down the targets. Since IDPA is concealed carry oriented most of the shooting is done up close, and involves lots of backing up away from threat targets while shooting at them.

Yhea, that was an IDPA shoot early last winter on our northern border with Michigan. Temperatures got down into the 30's (F scale, think 'almost frozen' in C), and there was rain on and off. Parts of the range were a total mudpit. But, they decided to go ahead and shoot it, I actually placed pretty well. We had maybe 40 shooters show up.

Well, best photos I could find so why the hell not. Here I am, I'm the big guy in the green. Indiana, U.S.

I don't even have an air strike entry anywhere... SB1 was/is, to me, one of those weird games that seems like its not even half way done, but its so fkin awesome nobody cares. Edit: Alpha, I remember you were having some trouble finding the patches. The fact that you've got an air strike option might be because you've got an older version. These two patches should get a retail copy of SB1 up to its current spec. http://rapidshare.com/files/160461544/SBUpgrade1195.zip.html http://rapidshare.com/files/160461545/SBUpgrade1-226.zip.html

LMFAO...Ahh I've seen that one before, she's even got her own website I think. Okay heres a good one for all you hard core video gamers out there!

Hehehehe....Something like that hedge... "Oh fuck it, call the artillery and bring me an M3." Or *Boot!* "Idiot, get out of the tank!"

He could be trying to 'SA-80' it... Rock and roll and see how many you get off before it jams, cause it's gonna any second now!

Is he yelling "Load!" after each shot?.... Edit... Goddam...Stoppage stoppage stoppage stoppage... He'd be better off hanging out the hatch with a WWI bolt action rifle... My response: 'Stoppage! Stoppage! Stoppage! Stoppage! Stoppage! Stoppage!' "Fuck it, Load HEAT! Engage with main gun! I'll get on the fifty!"

Ugh, lucky you. I spent most of my Halloween time at work. Which was just fine because the two 18 year old chicks working that night decided to dress up as a playboy bunny and scantily clad vampire. Woulda been OK if my night ended at 11pm but I wound up awake and in charge of a drunk tank till 6am when I got home...

Well usually I try not to bitch but what the f*** eh? I'm f***ing broke! The comapny I used to have a quasi-career with f***ing went and closed. Compared to my old $8.00 an hour pay minimum wage f***ing sucks. I f***ing hate trigonometry and OLS classes! My job f***ing sucks, I don't f***ing speak f***ing Chinese so I have no f***ing idea WTF my half of my coworkers say most of the f***ing time unless they're talking about f***ing one of the waitresses. SB Pro PE is f***ing expensive. 8mm Mauser ammo is nolonger f***ing cheap, its now so f***ing expensive I figure now I might as well buy a f***ing AR-15A2 but those are f***ing expensive too. IF they aren't f***ing banned by the f***ing time I have the f***ing money! F*** it all! :nukem:

IIRC its still available on this site. Look under downloads somewhere. I'll dig my copy of it up anyway, its on a CD here somewhere. Kimber...Thats a porn star name not a pistol name! I put my faith in Glock. Glock-17.