Dallas

Gentlemen, The purpose of this thread is to conduct a personal survey of those interested in cm from an astrological perspective... as a trivial digression for personal and possibly other's interest. It seems to be disintegrating into waffle about the validity of astrology. Let's not tie up the bandwidth unnecessarily as my experience is that if you do not see the validity, you are inherantly incapable of understanding and applying the concepts. This is not a put down as you will undoubtedly have other strengths. No one has it all. Dallas

Echo, Personal email on the way. You keep forgetting to post your dob! Dallas

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Echo: If you can truly "collate, and interpret" something by supernatural means, please rush over to the James Randi Educational Foundation and collect your prize money. $10,000,000 to be exact. http://www.randi.org/ If not, stop deluding yourself, and others. That sort of gobbly gook is not in itself a problem. People that lie and deceive others for profit and gain are revolting to me. If my powers of logic and reason don't intimidate you, please E-mail me so we can discuss this more frankly. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Hi Echo, I'm not trying to do anything other than indulge an interest and perhaps entertain the forum members while I have a bit of spare time up my sleeve. I'm not trying to 'convert' anyone to my way of thinking. I'm not interested in 'proving' to anyone that this stuff is useful. You don't need supernatural powers to collate and interpret data, statisticians do it all the time. Your powers of logic and reasoning don't intimidate me because they are not present in your post. Good point about the $10m. Why don't I chase that money? I think it is because I cannot prove that this stuff is valuable to anyone. People have to see the value themselves. I haven't looked at the proof required but my guess is that they will require 'scientific' evidence. These areas of knowledge are not scientific in nature and therefor cannot be 'proven' in this manner. I am certainly not deluding myself, and I have no desire to delude others. I agree totally that people who lie and decieve others for profit are not nice people. I hope you are simply misinterpreting my motive because if you are not misinterpreting then you expose yourself as an intolerant and blinkered personality much in need of the spirituality and self awareness contained in these subjects. You forgot to post your date of birth Dallas ------------------ If the war is to be lost, the nation also will perish. This fate is inevitable. There is no need to consider the basis even of a most primitive existence any longer. On the contrary, it is better to destroy even that, and to destroy it ourselves. The nation has proved itself weak, and the future belongs solely to the stronger eastern nation. Besides, those who remain after the battle are of little value; for the good have fallen. Hitler to Speer, ordering a scorched earth policy within Germany - March 1945

Thanks to all who posted and took the time to indulge or comment on my interest. ____________ Supertanker Where is The Amazing Randi when we need him? You forgot to include your date of birth ____________ mscano ...but I'm not giving up a lock of hair or any blood. No, no, that's all in the past... now we prefer sex with attractive females ____________ krueger my hand is broken, will it work through a cast? heh =] also, the local chinese restaurant zodiac placemats, and my ex-girlfriend both say i'm a pig. It worked! Hah! You should see the faces of the girls when I tell them they are Dogs! _______________ Neutral Party Must be really cool to be able the predict the past like that. I KNEW you were going to say that! You forgot to include your date of birth _______________ Mirage2k Can I use this knowledge to predict The Second Coming? -Andrew Prolly not but if you try real hard you may be able to achieve that all by yourself ________________ THumpre Why not? Exactly... _______________ Formerly Babra June 20 '64 -- the year of the sloth LOL... me too! According to my wife. ________________ Loki I think most people here are just having fun with you. Don't take it personnally. If they are making fun of you then they haven't read on Hitler that much. 02/19/72 A lot of people still aren't aware of the extent that Hitler ,Hess , and Himmler used astrology to help them judge what to do. Hitler even had all fortune seers rounded up and killed any that gave readings of a German loss in the war. Loki, I don't think Hitler believed in anything but himself. If he killed astrologers it was because of their anti war sentiments. I think he killed everyone who was overtly pessimistic about the war. As to the significance of the day Hitler killed himself, I think it was because the Russians were in the streets above, killing everyone in sight pbem setup is on the way. ___________________ Huns_1 Day after his wedding? He celibrated with a partial beheading! Alone at his steading. I have the demo version, love it and will order the full version a.s.a.p, till then anyone up to challenge me my email is shawngiles@hotmail.com pick you side and fire away! I have version 1.03 and it is not compatible with the demo version. I don't have the demo anymore so send me a setup when you get the game and patch to at least 1.03, look forward to the game _________________ Ski --------------- To conquer others is to have power, To conquer yourself is to have strength. -Lao Tzu Excellent signature! ___________________ Andre76 quote: Originally posted by Loki: <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Dallas: I'm not calling anyone here ignorant because I am not sure whether you are making fun of me or having fun with me. If they are making fun of you then they haven't read on Hitler that much. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Is this for real!?!?! Are you Loki saying that if we don't belive in astrology we haven't read on Hitler?! And Hitler sure won WWII with help of astrology, oh, no he didn't! Go figure. I've read about Hitler and his occult fascination, just one more idiotic idea of his. I belive astrology is crap. Where is the evidence? All prediction is double edged and everything can be read into it. Loki, here's a prediction for you: tomorrow you'll find a need, and it will be important for you to fulfill this need. Ok, maybe I'm a bit harsh (sorry), but I can't really understand people who just have this need for something greater then themselfs, somtehing that can guide and protect them. I think they live in a dream world. Just my 2 øre (cents).... André Andre, you do have a good point. Predictive astrology has a well deserved bad reputation. Mostly due to brief media 'columns'. My interest is in a different area altogether, the area of personality analysis. I was hoping to gather data that indicated those interested in wargaming had something in common astrologically... thats all. _______________ Flipper Actually I'm more concerned with ammount of dust that accumulate's on the inside of the hatch of a tiger I manufactured in 1942 as opposed to that of the one's built in 1944. So start your own thread! You also forgot to post your date of birth __________________ Joe Shaw Dallas, first, anyone with a name like Dallas is okay in my book (I've been a Cowboys fan since 1967). Second, welcome to the board and I know you'll enjoy the game as much as we all have. Third, I personally don't believe in astrology but my motto has always been "To each their own." ... well that's one of my mottos, the other is is "The day sure does drag when you get to work on time." My apologies if it seemed like I was making fun OF you. As you mentioned, I was having fun with the vast array of interests and topics that this board has engendered. Good luck with CM. Joe Thanks Joe, but you forgot your dob _________________ M Hofbauer What i'm interested in is, do you have a spell against Churchill VIIIs? I desperately need one for several of my PBEMs. Or at least one that will make the Fireflies go away. They don't have to vanish, a mere abandon would do. Heres a spell I call "armour kill"... take one elite 88, conceal along enemy axis of advance with sweeping fields of fire. When the armour is in view and los, say "Go!" three times in succession each time with more emotion. The results will make you a believer! ________________ GI Tom Let me help you out though: I'm a smartass. I don't like Brussel Sprouts. Disclaimer: The above response was solely in jest. It was not meant to harm or destroy anyone's personal feelings. Hey, I'm interested to see what comes of this, even if I may not be a believer. As someone said, to each his own. GI Tom Exactly the spirit I hoped to find here. Give 5 seconds of your time to someone regardless of your 'beliefs'. Thanks. _______________ Michael emrys I made for many years a concerted study of astrology (both the Western and Chinese varieties), numerology, the Tarot, the I Ching, Geomancy, Feng Shui, and many other similar practices. My conclusion was that there is something in each of them in the hands of a wise and sensitive practicioner. But then a lot of wise and sensitive practicioners can do quite well without the props. So it all depends. There are many strange and wonderful things in the world. No, I will not tell you my sign, but I will give you a hint: I love to twit people, but I am not mean. There! That should tell you all you need to know! Michael, if you had made a thourough study of these topics then you would know that it's a loser's game to try to guess. BTW in my opinion there is no truth to Hitler's fascination with astrology etc. My view is that he was a very practical man with little to no spirituality. ________________ Trooper I seem to be meeting Wiccans everywhere... You should stop joining covens then _________________ Schugger I burn my old socks before I launch a new PBEM and in the smoke I see the signs of destruction and decay... Nah, nah... its the smell that makes you hallucinate _____________________ I think that makes twenty people who have actually replied with their dates of birth.. and counting ------------------ If the war is to be lost, the nation also will perish. This fate is inevitable. There is no need to consider the basis even of a most primitive existence any longer. On the contrary, it is better to destroy even that, and to destroy it ourselves. The nation has proved itself weak, and the future belongs solely to the stronger eastern nation. Besides, those who remain after the battle are of little value; for the good have fallen. Hitler to Speer, ordering a scorched earth policy within Germany - March 1945

It's very easy and comfortable to make fun of things you don't understand. Ignorant people have been doing it since we could communicate. I'm not calling anyone here ignorant because I am not sure whether you are making fun of me or having fun with me. It's much harder to break away from one's known world and explore and evaluate for yourself what others have seen but in the end it is far more satisfying. Andy A Yes it will help you win. But you will have to put years of effort into it. Even then you may not have the natural ability to understand it to use it properly. If you do understand it you will soon realise that winning at CM is a pathetic under use for your newfound knowledge. How can it help you to win? It will help you to know yourself. Your strengths and weaknesses. If Patton had realised that he was a Rooster in Eastern Astrology he may not have made so many self destructive political gaffes. Roosters are well known to have the tendency to speak before they think. If Hitler had realised that he was a Taurus Ox Five he may have tempered his vindictive, stubborn and risk loving nature. If Hitler had understood this stuff he would have recognised Stauffenberg and some of the other resistance members as his natural enemies. We might be grateful that like most people, he was unable to grasp the significance. I have most of the well known ww11 general's data from both sides and have studied it in light of surviving information on their performance. I have found no major inconsistencies and some amazing consistencies. Example; put all well known ww11 German officers in a database and select who is least compatible with Hitler... answer is Stauffenberg slightly less compatible than Rommel. Just one of many. Joe and Michael Yes, I do understand palmistry and chirology (the study of hands) as well as graphology (handwriting analysis). And why not? They are all viable tools with long histories of success. Thanks for your replies but I'm thinking the CM world is not ready for me on this level pbem anyone? Dallas ------------------ If the war is to be lost, the nation also will perish. This fate is inevitable. There is no need to consider the basis even of a most primitive existence any longer. On the contrary, it is better to destroy even that, and to destroy it ourselves. The nation has proved itself weak, and the future belongs solely to the stronger eastern nation. Besides, those who remain after the battle are of little value; for the good have fallen. Hitler to Speer, ordering a scorched earth policy within Germany - March 1945

Two things... Firstly, I am thinking that the HitlerJugend division was comprised solely of those born in 1926 because 1926 is the year of the Tiger in Eastern Astrology. The Tiger is the most aggressive and spirited sign in Eastern Astrology. If I was forming divisions, I would definitely use Tigers given the opportunity. I think Himmler thought this as well. Their subsequent battle history speaks for itself in terms of ferocity and tenacity (if not intelligence). My mates think it was just Himmler scraping the bottom of the manpower barrel but I am thinking otherwise... any thoughts? Secondly, I would like to conduct an Eastern Astrological, Western Astrological and Numerological survey on those who frequent the board and thus are interested in wargaming. If you also would like to see the results, please post your date of birth in mm dd yy format and I will collate, interpret and post the results. If the response is good enough for a decent sample, I think it could make very interesting reading. Dallas ------------------ If the war is to be lost, the nation also will perish. This fate is inevitable. There is no need to consider the basis even of a most primitive existence any longer. On the contrary, it is better to destroy even that, and to destroy it ourselves. The nation has proved itself weak, and the future belongs solely to the stronger eastern nation. Besides, those who remain after the battle are of little value; for the good have fallen. Hitler to Speer, ordering a scorched earth policy within Germany - March 1945

I think its just a question of scale. PBEM for larger scenarios and TCP/IP for smaller ones. I thought that VOT and the others were too small to be enjoyed via email but the large scenarios are very playable because you have lots of time to plan. Small battles will probably be most popular via TCP/IP because you don't have to wait as long. The smaller battles are going to be fun with time limits. Second2None... Try playing a large scenario via email when you get the game. I thought pbem was boring too until I started playing a huge one. At least that might keep you occupied until the patch comes out. Dallas

Sgt Rock, I don't know Macksville but if it is near the coast it will have changed a lot. That whole coast area north of sydney is pretty popular because of the surf, climate and that its close to Sydney. I spent a bit of time in Broulee (a village) on the south east coast in the mid seventies and it is now almost unrecogniseable.

Hi Stuka, I'm in Brissie as well. Good to read that all international orders were sent out 1st class airmail. No more than a week for us to wait if ours were amongst the last to ship. krm...your men are doomed Dallas

********Possible VOT spoiler Info******* Hi all, Excellent topic. I am a chess player too and have no problem with people 'resigning' early as long as they tell me and don't just walk away in disgust. In the chess world a player who insists on continuing even after he has a obviously lost position is considered amateurish if not boorish. It's a little different in CM as the luck factor is very high. My current pbem opponent is fighting gamely with the remnants of two platoons against overwhelming odds. His panther is crippled from 105 fire behind the hill 209 and my flamethrower is 100 yards away from it yet he still wants to fight on after my earlier offer for him to surrender. l love that kind of fighting spirit in CM because I may get the satisfaction of taking out the panther with my flamethrower. And I also am interested to see what he can come up with in terms of a defense but I would be just as happy with a win and a new game. Talking about net courtesy I think that the winning player should offer to let the losing player surrender as soon as he thinks the game is a foregone conclusion. In CM pbem the winning player who insists on playing out the won game and gets irritated when the losing player surrenders could be considered the amateurish if not boorish player. Like in Fionn's and Bil's recent game, I don't think it makes a lot of sense to play out a foregone conclusion. If anyone wants a pbem send any setup to dallas@dnaanalysis.com.au I am online via cable 24/7 for business and can guarantee that all games will be played quickly, courteously, tenaciously and to mutually agreed completion. Dallas

********Possible VOT spoiler Info******* Hi all, Excellent topic. I am a chess player too and have no problem with people 'resigning' early as long as they tell me and don't just walk away in disgust. In the chess world a player who insists on continuing even after he has a obviously lost position is considered amateurish if not boorish. It's a little different in CM as the luck factor is very high. My current pbem opponent is fighting gamely with the remnants of two platoons against overwhelming odds. His panther is crippled from 105 fire behind the hill 209 and my flamethrower is 100 yards away from it yet he still wants to fight on after my earlier offer for him to surrender. l love that kind of fighting spirit in CM because I may get the satisfaction of taking out the panther with my flamethrower. And I also am interested to see what he can come up with in terms of a defense but I would be just as happy with a win and a new game. Talking about net courtesy I think that the winning player should offer to let the losing player surrender as soon as he thinks the game is a foregone conclusion. In CM pbem the winning player who insists on playing out the won game and gets irritated when the losing player surrenders could be considered the amateurish if not boorish player. Like in Fionn's and Bil's recent game, I don't think it makes a lot of sense to play out a foregone conclusion. If anyone wants a pbem send any setup to dallas@dnaanalysis.com.au I am online via cable 24/7 for business and can guarantee that all games will be played quickly, courteously, tenaciously and to mutually agreed completion. Dallas

POSSIBLE VOT SPOILER************ I had just moved a sherman over the crest of the middle hill to within 40 metres of the wall just before Plomville. Spotted a German rifle platoon behind the wall and thought they were going to be toast.. No! They ran straight at the sherman taking one casualty before they got right UNDERNEATH the thing and did something that caused a casualty in the tank and changed the crews morale to SHOCKED..I think I was more shocked. They then calmly ran back to the wall taking no further casualties. BTW they were GREEN troops. Too green to know the danger? In retrospect it was the smartest and gutsiest move they could have made. Great ai.

Thanks Madmatt I agree that this issue is not critical and it is a credit to the designers that this is the only change I can think of that I want. Oh and frame by frame slow motion playback ( I can only get 2 sec increments at best) which still makes it difficult to replay those really good shots. The ultimate for me is complete control over the camera, 360 degree panning, tilting etc. and the ability to hotkey my favourite views. Dallas

Thanks Bullethead but I'm thinking of the larger 4km x 4km maps that we will soon have. I'd like to be able to view as much terrain as in views #7 and #8, but with the camera angle of view #4. Dallas

From a search on the topic...

I did a search and cannot find any specific references to this issue in the archives. Why is infinite zoom not implemented rather than the current choices of 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x? I use view "4" almost exclusively and would like to zoom out to see more of the action, particularly once I generate the larger maps in the full game. If it is not too difficult, please consider it as a future upgrade. Outstanding effort on the Gold Demo! ------------------ Dallas

Fionn, I too read the articles and appreciate your motives are honourable. It's your method that I feel could do with some fine tuning. I also want Talonsoft to produce better wargames but I think wargamers are a bit of a minority and as such we might be grateful that anyone at all caters to us rather than exclusively chase the big 3D shooter dollars. So maybe we could let them find their own way, in their own time to make better games rather than try to bash them into submission with righteous facts and figures. You are an experienced wargamer, please would you share with us your favourite wargames and why they appeal to you so that we can then compare them with the the current crop...cc3 et al. I'll kick it off by admitting that I loved Empire on the Atari. I hear grognards retching... Maybe it was because I was young. But nothing since has given me the sheer pleasure of large operations without the complexity that for me, too often clouds the issue. Another one I loved was Borodino on the Atari by the Dr someone. Primitive graphics, probably totally unrealistic battle resolution. But I played it for months on end because I had a feeling of controlling a whole army. Harpoon 2 is another favourite. What a brilliant game for its time. Yes, plagued with bugs, slow and poor ai opponents. But you send an Orion to investigate a contact and it does it SO intelligently! Beautiful to behold. As a comparison, I bought Fleet Commander two days ago and it stayed on my hard drive for 4 hours only while I searched for reasons that could justify my purchase. But am I going to write to them and slam them for what I think is a poor game?...nah, I'll just wait for Harpoon 4 and let them see for themselves how they missed the mark. Hopefully, Jane's will up the ante next time. This type of discussion is likely to be most enjoyable. Best of all, it instructive and constructive rather than divisive. Warm regards, Dallas

If it was MY game, I would hunt down and use the most immpossible to crack system known to man. I wouldn't pander to the wimpy honest end user concerned about being 'inconvenienced' because the 'inconvenience' is not really a big deal. Like, having to find the cdrom to play? Taking two or three minutes to look up a word (in your well looked after manual)...come on Big Time. Give us some state of the art copy protection we can be PROUD of! Imagine...uh, no man...I can't copy THIS cd for you because it has ultra-high-definition-trackdata-simthings!... Sleazy pirate character says...WOW! This game must be REALLY cool to have such major protection! I think I'll have to actually BUY a copy of this one! This is actually good for the pirate because instead of having a quick look at it and discarding it because it cost him nothing and he has hundreds of other pirated games to check out before bedtime, he will actually PLAY it because IT OWES HIM MONEY! Character building really. Yeah, lets get some ELITISM into this copy protection thing. Dallas

I KNEW I wasn't a sucker! BTW is there any field glass 'zoom in' type feature offered? Will you be able to personalise (name) your commanders in multiplayer? Can you save\resume the game at any stage? I love the idea of replaying your battles after the event. I think at one stage Maj Holdridge was toying with this idea in Tacops but it became too resource intensive or something... hope this feature makes it into CM. Can't say how glad I am that wargame lovers are IN CONTROL here!

Fionn, Thanks for the link to the articles. I read them 'after' I pre ordered Combat Mission though. I now feel like a vulnerable fluffy white rabbit frozen in the harsh glare of Big Time's marketing headlights. Although I am somewhat reassured by the level of discussion on this board, they hit every one of my 'buy wargame' triggers and it worked brilliantly for them. Yeah, I bought cc1, 2 and 3 and all the other 'serious' games too. The funny thing is that in my real life I thought I was a rational and 'in control' human being. Hopefully I just fall apart when it comes to new wargames. Hmmm... must look more closely at other areas... The real value in your message is that maybe the level of games development will rise in direct proportion to the awareness of the consumer.