The Commissar

From the "History" section, in big red letters: WARNING: Do not attempt to pass through airport security with this bottle.

Wow, Mr. Emery is an ass!

Actually, suka = bitch

Guy on the Left: *thinking to himself*"I wish there was an empty seat between us, sitting so close together is kinda gay... Guy on the Right: *thinking to himself*: "I wish I went to sniper school and had Klavdia Kalugina as my instructor. She is like totally hot..." Guy in the back: *thinking to himself* "Its pretty cold out here, I wish I had some vaseline for my face..."

Hmm...maybe Hitler was at least a decent enough guy to watch out for his own people. I bet Stalin would have just loved to be given such an excuse to ship the German population to Siberia.

Wow, Im suprised that CMBB got such a good review not just from IGN, but from Steve Butts! He usually reviews click-fest/shootemup fare, as far as I recall. Impressive indeed! Big ups to BTS, as always!

CMBO insult lines were cheesy (pineapples? WTF?!). CMBB on the other hand reminds me of day to day exchanges between my brother and I, lol. East front is where it is at. The greatest battles, the most amazing machinery, the greatest sacrifices.

Hawk, what game are you guys playing?!

Youve got the spelling wrong. He is saying "Da ne streliyai tie!" "ne strelieye tie" literlaly translates to "don't shoot, you" "da" is added to emphasise frustration on the part of the speaker.

LOL, I liked the GIC stab and the penis envy one. Heheheh...

Jon Thats besides the point whether I canceled or not. I actually let it go through because I couldnt believe my eyes (still won that particular battle with a major vic, btw). A spotter is meant to spot. This guy was either asleep on his post or drunk off of captured Russian vodka. If you as a spotter saw a bunch of rounds you ordered to fall over yonder hill drop in your lap, would you sit there and wait until your higher ups told you to add a few meters to your faulty coordinates?

What, THAT off target? I find it unrealistic that the spotter did not at least HALT the barrage when he saw the round landing RIGHT NEXT TO HIM. I dont know about you, but if I called in rounds on my own position I would think something must not have been right and called over to inform the higher ups to "add a few hundred friggin' meters!"

For those not able to see the pic, right click, highlight adress and paste into adress bar.

[ October 16, 2002, 01:31 AM: Message edited by: The Commissar ]

For your attention, I present the following. The highlighted unit is my 81mm spotter. As you can see, he is ordered to fire on the group of Soviets in the distance. Notice to the left of the spotter, the series of shell holes and an explosion. That is where the barrage is landing, NEXT to the spotter! Ive never seen this before, but hopefully BTS will take note.

My grandfather from my father's side served through the last bits of '44 and through '45. Stormed Berlin. I keep meaning to ask him which division, army, etc. he was in but I dont get to talk to him nearly as much as Id like to.

Ive only played the demo so far, but I haven't heard any real cussing on the Russian part. Which is a tad dissapointing because I wanted a game reallistic enough to make my mother blush! When I get the game (ordered Saturday, live in Buffalo) Ill get the translations done if no one does it by that time.

Buffalo is sorta like New England...right? no? crap. Placed my order Saturday, so Im waiting and hoping for a Friday delivery perhaps.

Today I accidently discovered that doing research at college can actually be fun! While looking for articles for a World Civ report, I stumbled across a few articles by Glantz on the Soviet military I had not personally read before. http://www.jstor.org/search/cc99333c.10339433020/1-4?configsortorder=SCORE&frame=noframe&dpi=3&config=jstor AFAIK, everyone should be able to access that page, but if there are any problems let me know. Hopefully you all enjoy this as much as I did.

Once I get my CMBB Ill use the BO disk as a beer coaster. Nah, maybe Ill play a game or two once in a while, but the Western nations bore me when compared to the Soviets.

*bump* The funniest line for me was when he muttered "Damn Proteliat" at the edn of his first phone conversation. I would also be interested in the name of the last musical piece played.

Excellent stuff Grisha. I bookmarked the book and will hopefully get a better chance to read it soon. Thanks a bunch! PS: Hopefully with the arrival of CMBB you'll still find time to post up new chapters

All of them are old except this one, but it was worth the search. Daaaaaaamn... EDIT: It seems the direct link gives this small image. Here you can find a larger version. http://www.cdv.de/english/_index.html [ August 15, 2002, 08:35 PM: Message edited by: The Commissar ]

I dont think its about the timer. Many tcp/ip games have a long enough timer for both players to finish, in my experience. People who take 2 hours to plan all their moves for a 2000 point game are just slow, plain and simple. Nothing wrong with that of course, but if you are slow you can't play as much. If you can't play as much, you get less experience playing. If you get less experience playing, you are worse at it then someone who can get in a dozen games while you fiddle away with just one. So yes, TCP/IP'ers are better gamers IMO.

Terence, Most often it is the last option you mentioned. "Tanko Desantniki" usually hopped off the tank and were expected to run alongside and in front of it as soon as firing started. I took the liberty of doing a little google searching and came across several interesting websites. Here is an interview with one Evgeni Bessenov, who describes the tankodesantniki role as "Now tanks advanced carefully, following tankodesantniki infantry, while our task was to destroy German Panzerfaust teams with small arms or indicate Fritz targets to the tanks, so that they could destroy them with main guns." Full link: http://www.iremember.ru/infantry/bessonov/bessonov1.htm