I'm just a little curious as to what webcomics you guys read.  Why you ask?  Well, partly because I'm intrested in what you people get up to in the little time when you arn't on these forums or smoke grenade TKing Beaver, but also because I'm a sucker for good comics and have decided I need a couple of new ones to read.

So, what is your favourite thing about this patch?

Mine personally has been the new handweapons - the lewis especially.

So, which country do you prefer to play as?

Do you prefer to fight for King and Country, or are those Italian feather helmets just too sexy to ignore?  Do you desire the lafette to be in you, or is it a case of 'America, fuck yeah!'

Me personally, its those Italians, with their super sexy weaponry.  Just the breda 30 alone would make me teamswitch for them, and they have a whole arsenal!

So, I want to know what the first map you played online in the mod was, what version it was and what your first kill was (if you can remember!).  FH1 and 2.

Well for me, my first map was Mareth Line.  Back in 2.1 about a month before the player numbers dwindled to the point where even hslan struggled to fill up.  Spawned as a brit and took a sherman.  My first kill followed shortly afterwards - I got a pzIII J on the road above Toujane while firing from the south of the wadi near where the second bridge would be added.  Have yet to play FH1 online (and probably won't ever get to do it either).

So, tell us what your favourite out of these new maps is and why you think its so special.

My favourite has got to be PHL just for the complete epicness that surrounds it: The loading music, the greenery, the FJ's defences, sneaking through the grass, mortaring, FG42...

The list goes on.

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I'm not really making this suggestion because I think it would be good for the mod, but more because its being going round in my head and I want to get it written down before I forget it.  Well, technically its several different ideas that are linked.  Anyhow, I'd like to hear what your thoughts on them are - how you would improve on them and any criticisms of flaws you can see.

The main thing that was going round in my head was that the number of bullets remaining in your gun could be hidden.  However to represent the ability to guess the number of shots left by weight, the 'health bar' like thing that shows the percentage of shots left in vBF2 would be in the place of the bullet counter.  This would give you a good idea of how many shots you have left, but not the actual number.  Guessing would be easier for the guns with low magazines like rifles, and harder for high capacity guns such as the thompson.

The number of magazines left and the fireing mode of the gun would remain.  Single shot guns (e.g. PzB39, Bazooka) would remain the same as currently.

Coupled to this is maybe removing the automatic reload on empty thing.  I know this can be disabled manually, but I'm curious as to how it would be if it was compulsery (except on single shot guns).

The final thing would be to make all clip fed guns unable to reload until empty.  I know this is being done for the garand so the ping sound can be included, but it seems a bit odd that you can keep forcing bullets into a k98 without taking them away.  Affected guns would be: Garand, both carcanos, k98, and P17.  I'm not sure about the lee enfield though.

Also, I should point out that the above only really apply to hand held guns, not vehicles (though stationary mgs could be included).

Found two stacks of ammo crate statics on Alam Halfa that you can sit inside unobserved.  Similar to the Flak 38 ammo that was fixed.  I will upload screenshots and PM the location to a dev (I don't want to cause exploiting).