Scott

I've been lurking for a year now...

I ordered mid June last year sometime...

I used to buy a lot of games, but have to budget my time more carefully now. In the past year, I bought: Asheron's Call (Good game, I spend a lot of time on it...being a monarch ain't easy!) Panzer Elite Starfleet Command CM Beta Demo (well, I didn't really BUY this one ) Unreal Tournament (Nightly fragfests with my coworkers at 5...it's great stress relief ) Civ II Gold (Got my wife into this one!) Birth of the Federation (disappointing ) Baldur's Gate That's about everything that I've bought in the last year, all in all I think I've shown some good restraint... ------------------ You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding...

Actually - they only made 6 episodes of the Ben Stiller Show, and FOX only aired 5 of them. Comedy Central picked it up and will show all 6 of them from time to time. It was a wonderful show - and about 2 to 3 years ahead of its time... ------------------ You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding...

I think Hitler's biggest mistakes: 1) Not understanding global warfare. If Germany had secured North Africa, Malta and the Middle East, it would have made it far easier to starve Britian into submission. 2) Impatience. If he hadn't attacked the Soviet Union so quickly, but instead taken North Africa and the Middle East and consolidated his gains in Europe for a year or two, it would have been much more difficult to defeat Germany, or to even invade "Fortress Europe". ------------------ You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding...

I want to feast on the sloats and breakfast cereals, myself. Madmatt: yes, Bela Lugosi is dead, and the Passion of Lovers is for Death...did you catch the Resurection Tour? ------------------ Inferi nihil timent, non habent. [This message has been edited by Scott (edited 01-18-2000).]

My wife enjoys Panzer General 2 - she likes the way the tanks and such move around and shoot . When I tried to show her Axis and Allies, I believe her words were: "Why would anyone waste time on this?". Mrs. Von Shrad, welcome! As Fionn said, most of us are house trained, and I occasionally remember to put the toilet seat down... 3 posts tonight! Someone has definately spiked my coffee! ------------------ Inferi nihil timent, non habent.

Why can't the Germans just use acronyms for everything like the US does? That way, not only is it unpronouncable (like those compound german words), but they could mean any of a hundred different things.... My god...two posts in one night...someone must have spiked my coffee... ------------------ Inferi nihil timent, non habent.

Fionn: From Texas! What were you thinking?? My wife lived many years in Texas, also, so I feel your pain... As for a maximum release date, I don't feel that it is all that important. I gave BTS my preorder back in June or something, so I trust them to release CM when it is ready to be released. I am sure you can all find time to bone up on your tactics while waiting for the game to be released...I know I am! I am more of a strategically minded person, myself, and have much to learn... Hmm...kind of a long post - I better make sure I'm not spotted, I don't know what they do to lurkers here Down periscope! ALARM!!! ------------------ Inferi nihil timent, non habent.

LOL Doug - wait till you here what I have to say about The Bill's labyrinth of a website.... ------------------ Inferi nihil timent, non habent.

In answers to your Win2000 questions - Windows 2000 is Windows NT 5.0; Windows NT has never used DOS and was primarily a networking OS in the beginning. Windows 2000 Workstation edition is aimed both at corporate and home users. There will be one more release of Windows after Windows 98 Second Edition based on the Windows 95 kernel, after that, no more DOS. Personally, I'd love to see the Linux version of CM...

Before Lt_Cigarette damages the reputation of us lurkers, I'd just like to thank everyone involved with CM. I, for one, really appreciate the work that is being done - both on CM itself, and on the fansites like CMHQ. Thanks! BTW - make sure you take new year's eve off - and new year's day too, if you do the night before right!

I usually take an overview with view 7, then settle down with view 3 for most of the planning phase. I will occasionally use 1 or 2 when I am concentrating on one or two units. Of course, I like Tab+1 to get the view from the Tiger... Overall, I have found view 3 to be the most useful for me.

Morte - the fire is definately on - in Last Defense, an American Arty strike managed to hit the open top of one of my HT's, and it was on fire for the rest of the game. In the Reisburg scenario, the Americans set a whole house on fire for about 10 minutes! Thankfully, I only had the sole survivor of a green squad in there...

Don't feel like an idiot...took me 10 frustrating minutes to figure out that I couldn't save because the caps lock key messed with the hotkeys - and I'm in tech support!

I like sending my HT's to the left flank as well in the Last Defence...once the troops have dismounted, it's easy to provide suppression fire for them from the HMG's, or to cover the road and prevent American reinforcements from get into town easily. In the Reisburg scenario, as the Germans, I like using smoke once the Americans have taken the outer perimiter of the town. I set up a smoke screen and split the Ami force into two or three...forcing them to advance blind into my kill zones and pop up at point blank range. It's quite devastating to them, and saves me ammo as well...

At first, I didn't like the esc key, but after playing my first game, I found it's just fine the way it is - just took me a little while to get used to, is all. BTW, excellent job! This is the kind of war game I have been waiting for - I never could get into any of the CC games, they always seemed wrong to me, so I've been stuck with the PG series (which are good games for what they do...). Keep up the good work!

When I played this scenario, the Hellcats took out one of my StuG III's right away, and immobilized my Tiger with a hit to the tread. Thankfully, I had positioned my Tiger on the road so the front right corner was facing towards the Hellcats. The Tiger was able to take out all three Hellcats in two minutes, while shaking off 4 direct hits (2 turret, 2 front hull). All told, the tank battle only lasted 3 minutes...

I'm actually doing better than I thought I would...that studying up on tactics while waiting for the demo has helped! I was advancing on the American positions, my Tiger and Stug using the woods as a screen to and decimating the American squads on the left. Getting overconfident, I moved those two tanks out when the three Hellcats arrived! My Stug was hit and knocked out immediately, and the Tiger was immobilized in the middle of the road...it just calmly sat there and picked off all 3 Hellcats while taking 4 direct hits to the front for no damage! There's nothing like watching you Tiger take sweet revenge when you lose a tank....unfortunately the game is still close and I now have a heavily armored turret...

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Brian: I haven't played EQ, but AC can definately degenerate into the sit, kill, repeat formula. The social aspect is fun, and the allegiance system helps it out. Although, you still have many players offering their allegiance to the highest bidder....There are quests, however, and some legendary objects (swords, helms, etc) that can only be won by fighting your way through obscure dungeons. Overall, a good diversion...

lol - I have too many aliases now to keep track of (ie, I'm Guderian616 on the Zone, _Osiris_ on Battle.net, etc)...I decided I'd just go by my first name for this board! I just have to compliment you on your site and the way you do business...too bad not everyone cares about their customers like you do! (of course, then you might have some competition, rather than a bunch of devout followers....)

I've mainly been lurking, though I have posted a couple of times....

I've been playing the Asheron's Call beta...for some reason, after I found out about Combat Mission, PG II just doesn't seem the same.....

I started with Panzer Blitz and Leader, and spent a lot of time playing 3rd Reich, Axis and Allies and Supremacy. Played some miniatures, mainly Warhammer 40k. I've been studying tactics since I pre-ordered(ages ago, it seems), since most of my time has been spent on strategy games....