Never mind.

Figured it out.

Still new to my mac.

Still new to TripleA. So still learning how to play it.  Game won’t reload saved games.  I’ve been savings games because it seemed to stop in the middle of AI turns.  I’d save and reopen and it would start up fine right back where it was.  then last night the game locked up completely late late late in a game,  Now it won’t reopen any saved games at all.

@Young:

@SS:

Glad the Industrial Production Chips are back in stock.

Yes IWNGU… sorry for temporarily hijacking the thread… I have enough of your chips for Global, but I would like more 10s as they get low fast, any chance I can buy a group of just 10s the way you have 25s on the side?

Me too!

@CWO:

@Virginia:

I will get a little personal here.�  My father was a ball (belly) turret gunner on a B-17.�  His plane was shot down over Yugoslavia, and he was rescued/saved by Yugoslav partisans. Received the Bronze Star.�  He HATED ‘Memphis Belle’.�  He said about the ‘colorful metaphors’ so often used, "We never talked liked that!�  We never used language that harsh"�  His words not mine. So I’m a little biased and would never include that movie in a top 10.�  Just my opinion.�  the movie has merits, as many of you testify.�  I’m just biased.

Out of curiosity, did your dad ever see the colour documentary Memphis Belle (made around 1944, and which I’ve seen), which is probably very different from more recent feature film of the same name (which I haven’t seen)?  He might have liked it.  That one doesn’t include any foul language.  In fact, one of the things I found the most striking about dialogue in the film was the (admittedly staged for the soundtrack) intercom communication between the members of the bomber crew as they battle enemy fighters over Germany.  The crew members show excellent signals discipline: they keep their voices level (no shouting) and with one exception they strictly limit their statements to businesslike tactical information: things like, “Fighters, ten o’clock high” or “B-17 going down, two o’clock low.”  The single exception is the one that proves the rule: one crewmember makes an irrelevant comment or an emotional remark about something (I forget the details), and the pilot’s voice is immediately heard on the intercom circuit telling him to cut out the chatter.

I have no idea if he ever saw that.

I will get a little personal here.  My father was a ball (belly) turret gunner on a B-17.  His plane was shot down over Yugoslavia, and he was rescued/saved by Yugoslav partisans. Received the Bronze Star.  He HATED ‘Memphis Belle’.  He said about the ‘colorful metaphors’ so often used, “We never talked liked that!  We never used language that harsh”  His words not mine. So I’m a little biased and would never include that movie in a top 10.  Just my opinion.  the movie has merits, as many of you testify.  I’m just biased.

Surprised that not one person mentioned (or I missed it going too fast thru the posts) “Hell is for Heroes!”  What a great movie.  And the cast!!! Steve McQueen, James Coburn, a very young Bob Newhart, Fes Parker, and many other great character actors.  If you haven’t seen it give it a look.

Another great one, though not a real battle movie, “Hell in the Pacific” with Lee Marvin. sorta like ‘Castaway’ meets ‘Hatfields vs McCoys’.

I too vote for ‘Battleground’

Does ‘Band of Brothers’ count?  I guess a series isn’t a single movie.  But would be #1 for me.

‘Iron Cross’ with James Coburn is pretty good.  Though the ending is blahhhhh.  German soldiers trapped behind Russian lines in the waning year of the war.

Not a huge fan of ‘Battle of the Bulge’.  Just not well done in my opinion.  I like it, but feel there are many better movies out there.  I also downgrade ‘The Longest day’.  Too disjointed by jumping around too much.  Book was great.  I own it.  Just don’t like the movie any more.  It doesn’t stand the test of time.  Saw it once shortly after ‘Saving Private Ryan’ came out, after that I couldn’t understand why I’d like ‘longest day’ so much before. Maybe ‘Band of brothers’ ruined ‘Battle of the bulge’ for me in the same way.

Is the ‘Stalingrad’ listed by many the one that came out 2 years ago?  About the girl with 8 fathers?  I hope not because I thought that was a bad movie.

Back to my dad for a second.  He was a mountain hillbilly/redneck to the core.  He epitomized ‘Merica’ to the extreme, hated commies and such.  But till the day he died if you said one thing bad about Tito he’d smack the crap out of you…. :-D

Virginia General
Hampton, VA
A&A Revised, A&A 1940 Europe (want to play Global)