Jimpy

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Is that the final version of your SLR that squaddie is holding in one of the screenshots? Â And will there be a "Brian Hanrahan" addon to "count them all out and count them all back again"? Â

It's not just the "youth", I wouldn't mind so much if it was.

I am a native English speaker. It was, in fact, one of the only things I was ever any good at in school. I also taught myself German, basically just to see if I could. I started off by working right through a set of text books and kept it up to date by reading, and a year studying in Freiburg im Breisgau (a beautiful little town in S. Germany). Eventually I have ended up in the Netherlands and had to learn some Dutch (I refuse to take the lazy way out and expect the natives to speak English to suit me, although in many cases I do have to force the Dutch NOT to speak English to me). My biggest problem is that Dutch and German are basically the same language. A philologist comparing them would, I am sure, conclude that the one is just a dialect of the other. This, by the way, is an easy way to antagonise a Dutchman - just tell him he speaks Low German! I continually find myself interjecting the odd German word into a Dutch sentence, or else having to stop mid-sentence because I suddenly realise that I am about to perpetrate a "Germanism" and have to think of the Dutch "equivalent". One advantage however is that reading Dutch, with a knowledge of German, is very simple. As regards accents and pronunciation I find it easier to acquire a "native" accent if they have a strong accent anyway. Just speak in a "caricatured" French or German accent (eg. "Aha! Englander; ve haff vayz ov making you talk!") but use the appropriate language and you can often pass for a native quite easily. I recall once that a German man I met, who had been blind for most of his life, commented that I sounded like a German. This I regarded as praise indeed! One of the problems with the Dutch is that they don't have a recognisable accent that one can imitate. My Dutch pronunciation therefore is terrible. I don't even have the excuse that the Dutch "g" sound is hard for me. As a Scot I use the open vowels and rolled "g"/"ch" Â sounds all the time in my native speech. I still have trouble distinguishing the subtle differences in the sounds of words like "rook" and "reuk"; to say nothing of managing to pronounce the difference accurately myself! I sometimes enjoy the game of spotting how a non-native speaker has learned or polished their English. Some speak with an American accent and use American idioms, some speak with the English accent and idioms. The "American" speakers tend to have got most of it from TV or films; the "English" speakers tend generally to have got it in a more studied, academic way. I have never been troubled at all by non-native speakers making mistakes in English. I am less tolerant, I must admit, of native speakers who have not mastered English. Some of the language standards exhibited elsewhere on the Internet, by native speakers, are truly shocking.

@ pajama: Â Errr...why not open it? And install and patch up this absolutely cracking game/sim and play it?! Be prepared to study and work at it, though! The "superpak" patch sets really improve it (the original game was too buggy to play) and are an absolute "must". It even now supports "head trackers" so you can look around in the virtual world by just moving your head - amazing! I admit I got extremely "interested" (read: obsessed!) in this game for a long time. I read the manual, read the SuperPak manuals, flew all the training missions; practised, practised, practised for weeks and weeks; and on my first "operational" mission in a campaign got lost and ended up perpetrating a horrific "blue on blue" Â (sickened, I was; and I still can't hear the words "ROK ground forces" or "CBU" without a pang of guilt) Â Â Â It didn't stop me coming back to play it again though. Â I leapt to buy LOMAC as soon as it came out. I tried it a few times then forgot about it in favour of my trusty Falcon (4). LOMAC has nicer graphics sure (if your PC can handle them. Not many can - the published system requirements for LOMAC are rather "optimistic" shall we say), but I personally missed the degree of interactivity with the aircraft controls that Falcon 4 offers. It's an excellent flight sim experience though. Rip open that "white envolope" and start flight school!

I think it looks absolutely superb in these views! Might I ask how you made the textures? I'm quite new to this and am always interested in finding out how people achieve such superlative quality.

I like the music for the "helicopter insertion" scene from "We were soldiers" I also concur with CplFrostbite on the "Warriors Bosnia" soundtrack. I suspect it even inspired the music selection for one of the Lowlands Warrior Missions ("Patrol North")

At the start of WW1 the British Army recruited men who were shorter than the normal height regulation but otherwise fit for service. These were named "bantams" (after the small but hardy and aggressive fighting cocks) and eventually they were formed into two Bantam Divisions (35th and 40th). They were popular with the press and public, but by 1916 it was decided that the fitness and condition of men volunteering were no longer up to the standard and no more were recruited.

I presume they are doing it because they are patriotic Argentinians who are interested in representing that part of their military history. That we can also download it and play with it is a priviledge for which I, for one, am grateful. The mod is completely compatible with my Operation Flashpoint installation and I suppose it's in Spanish because it's built by and for Spanish speakers. CTDs are a common experience when dealing with a beta version of any software. @mattmayhem: I totally agree.

Yes, in Argentina they have a bad habit of speaking Spanish. How inconsiderate of them!

The "geographical" reasoning behind the Western allegiance of the units is irrelevant. Maybe the incompatibility with "another parties" addons was intentional? The Malvinas mod is created by Argentinians, whose spokesperson has "the Malvinas are Argentinian" inspired quotations on his postings. So one is clearly meant to play the Malvinas mod as the Argentinians. That's OK, I don't have any problem with that at all, especially since it is meant to be a complete mod. Personally, I have more patience. I won't just delete them because I have to do a bit of tweaking. My main criterion is if the units are well designed and accurate, and, if it's a complete mod, whether the units offered are comprehensive. The Malvinas units generally are, on both counts. Thanks indeed to the Malvinas mod guys for the considerable amount of work that they have done on this.

Just stop calling it West/East. Call it Red/Blue/Yellow/Green or whatever and make it simple to change the allegiance in game. A "UK civil war"? Saturday night in any UK town with a big army base... Â Â Quote: Journalist: "So if you had no weapons what would you use? Marine: "My mate" Journalist: "What? Your mate?" Marine: "Yeah, the last time we were in a fight I picked up my mate and hit the other guys with him" Journalist: "What did your mate say?" Marine: "Aaargh!"

Please someone with more expert knowledge of this conflict correct me if I am mistaken but I believe some Marines wore green anoraks due to a lack of the Arctic issue DPM smocks. So green smocks and DPM "pants" would be acceptable. I recall only Naval Party 8901 (the Marine unit on the Falklands at the time of the invasion) wearing DPM jackets and green lightweight trousers. The Marines were also famous for wearing "Dr. Martens AirWear" boots, which the press at the time  seemed to be very excited about! My biggest complaint just now with the "Malvinas mod" British figures is that their webbing equipment looks nothing like the real thing, the pouches are the wrong shape and it just doesn't look "bulky" enough.

AFAIR it was and is more commonly known as L1A1. Rifle 7.62 mm L1A1 is the official designation. SLR is a generic term (an M16 is an SLR for example), but was a commonly used term for the rifle as used by the British Army (in fact we usually pronounced it like "slar" and not S.L.R.). I haven't seen the new Malvinas issue yet (it's too big to download in a hurry) but I remember noticing that the British SLRs in the first issue had wooden furniture which is wrong for 1982 (it should be black plastic) - apart from the howler that has British rifles with auto fire and Argie ones with repetition only. Â @Ash - I like the irony of putting the Argentineans in the Civilian class Â

LOL, you mean "U.S. ARMY...targets", of course. Figure 11s *are* "real ARMY targets"; British Army. I really like your "Qualification Range" though! I have already taken the liberty of modifying some of the objects to use my British Fig 11 targets. Here's a link to a pic of one of my British infantry lads inspecting one of the "new" targets... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v692/whisky01/targets.jpg