Jalinth

Thanks for the welcome, all. It's nice to see that people remember me. The DT community was and still is great. 152mm, I seem to remember playing with/against you at some point. Perhaps when I was at a LAN party in town. I was in Barrie when I got the game, but I have since moved back home to near Kingston, Ontario. I'm out in the country so no high speed for me. I don't know when I'll be getting an apartment in town, but once I do I plan to get back into DT. I can't wait to teach all the new kids* about the dangers of a dedicated Thor heavy mortar user. I've missed the feeling of taking out dropships with them. *We will ignore the fact that I, at under 25 years of age, am probably younger then a fair number of the DT players.

Damn, I can't wait until move and I get high speed again. I have missed this game. It just isn't playable on dial-up, at least with the speeds I get. By the way, has there been any news in the last year or so from the DT programmers? Things seem to have fallen awfully silent on that front.

That would explain why I saw so many Infantry with that name yesterday.

I'll Second the long range tank kill. My personal fav. is taking out a Dropship with a mortar shell. Doesn't happen often (to say the least), but it is a great feeling taking out a flyer using a weapon with a 25 second flight time.

Excellent. And good timing for me to. I'm going to have access to High Speed again for the first time since Christmas as of a week today. It will be nice to play some Drop Team again. It just doesn't work worth beans on Dial-Up. And before I forget - Happy birthday Iceman & Smeltz! Not long ago I was guessing I might be one of the youngest DT players, but it seems Iceman's got me beat hands down. I'll be 23 in June

VERY NICE! No longer do I have to rely on my observations about what range to use different ammos. When I get back to having a High Speed Connection, I will print up some of these tables for reference during gameplay. Thank you sir!

In Linux? I've got no idea. In Windows one has to hit print screen, and then alt tab out of the game to a program like paint and paste it into there image.

That was a good game. One thing I noticed that may have hurt you was for a while most of the water team was dropping in the same general area. I just happened to be in a Thor Mortar and was shelling the heck out of the area. What this meant was I was able to cause a fair amount of damage to your forces. Even if I missed who I was aiming at, by the time the shell arrived something quite possibly had moved into the area where it was landing. I know I took out at least 3 tanks and a Dropship with my indirect fire. So the lesson to be learned here is - Change your LZ from time to time. Especially if some damn fool with red pants is making your LZ look like the backside of the moon.

As far as I know Any hovercraft that goes under water for any reason goes 'BOOM'. They are "Very Hydrophobic."

I wonder, is Saturday afternoon a good time for anybody? It would have the advantage of not being the day before monday, so people in Europe (such as Bertram) would be less troubled by the timing issues.

I regret to inform you that the Liveship "Ruby's Dragon" will not be arriving in time for the battle. It's forces have been called away to engage the Clans on the borders of the Inner Sphere, followed by a humanitarian works involving decorating the church Sunday afternoon. The offer of free Pizza was to tempting to resist!

The crew of the mercenary Liveship Ruby's Dragon will offer it's services to the highest bidder. Specializing in heavy indirect fire support, we are ready to pound our employers foes into the dirt!

Just for the record - This movie, with the wrong music is... odd. I use WinAmp to play movies and FooBar to play music. I clicked start on this movie right as a song finished playing, intending to stop the MP3. I didn't quite get to stoping the music before it started. The song that came on was Hayley Westerna's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zucZ5LEuTcI. As it sounded well enough with the intro text, I let it play. Strangly enough, with the sound of the video turned down, it actually worked. Not as well as Bonnie Tyler's "I Need a Hero" Syncs up with the opening movie of Mechwarrior 4, but it was amusing.

I wish I could take credit, but I am but a humble servant of the god of war. It is through his blessed shells that I do his work. His divine will guides them to his cursed foes such that they may be cleansed in his purifying fires. How his shells land to purge the unbelievers while preserving the faithful is a one of the great mysteries of the faith. Only his chosen few are gifted to learn the great truths, the truths of observation, of flight times, of leading and of sustained fire. Only his true disciples are taught the lessons of direct viewing, the wonders of reading the output of his most holy deployables, and of the mantras striking down the infidels unholy "DZ"s. Artilleryman Jalinth, servant of the King of Battles and follower of the god of war! (Who in real life, is actually a civi, but his pants do seem to be turning red for some reason... .) I THOUGHT I had annoyed someone when I took a break from shelling and noticed that the tower I had put the troops into had disappeared. Amazing how much people hate that little 6mm beam of aggravation! During that Gentle Monopods game, I took a cutter and tore up the road leading into the objective. Anyone notice? Was it a problem for the attackers or should I waste my time doing something else next time?

Nice! I like that a great deal. Static defenses like at are tremendously useful!