Grant Whitley

What do you mean? Wouldn't ignore losses cover that?

I like Sriracha okay, and Herdez is pretty good, but the quality control is really bad. Oftentimes Medium is hotter than Hot. My favorite is good 'ol eastern NC barbecue sauce. Mix: 1 gallon apple cider vinegar 1 1/4 cups crushed red pepper 2 tbsp black pepper 1/4 cup salt Let sit for a few hours and then put on barbecue, chicken, or musky vegetables like collards.

The Timothy Brown book is good, although at heart, it's an ethnographic study of the Contras. The author is sympathetic to the Contras; his thesis is(roughly) that they were highland peasants fighting the latest chapter in a long struggle with upper and middle class whites from the Pacific coast, and that they've been unfairly tarred by the integration of ex-Guardia Nacional types(who Brown blames for most of the Contra excesses) and indigenous milpistas into the FDN. He makes a compelling case, and makes use of a lot of primary sources, in particular, previously unreleased FDN/MILPAS archives.

This show is both the best and the worst thing on TV.

Not to take away from the general ridiculousness of the scenario, but the Mexican rail net was sufficient to supply the various revolutionary and federal forces, which often numbered in the range of 15-30,000 in a single concentration(each side). That's not much compared to Europe, but it's a hell of a lot more than I could see the Germans ever getting into Mexico.

Most PC wargames do not use 3D graphics and have very modest hardware requirements. Stuff like TOAW III and the SSG Decisive Battles games mimic the look of board wargames. The HPS Tiller stuff has a very rudimentary isometric mode which most people don't use, but even there, any computer built in the last ten years ought to run it.

See above. It's not the mechanical complexity, it's the unit count and length.

The games aren't especially complex from a mechanical standpoint, but they tend to have a very high unit count and/or lots of turns. It takes a long, long time to play them.

I left out mention of HPS on account of this:

Those are squad level. The Campaign Series(rereleased last year by Matrix) are platoon level, though. Otherwise...get TOAW III. SSG's "Decisive Battles of WWII" games are really good, also. Matrix publishes those, and you can try the first game in the series for free: http://www.ssgus.com/ardennes1.html

What's wrong with COD:WaW?

I'm pretty sure you can set a range. It's the end of the day for me, but if you don't have this cracked overnight, I'll look at some of my spreadsheets tomorrow morning for you.

The COUNTIF function will let you count events based on a parameter or range that you define.

The only thing the chimney does is get the coals hot a little quicker. You can get 90% of the effect by simple stacking.

Any metal cylinder with an aerated bottom should work. But really, a chimney is a luxury. You can get the same effect by stacking your briquettes in the grill and lighting them.