Kurtz

The day has ended Twilight in Western Europe. perhaps tomorrow… ------------------ Four things greater than all things are; women and horses and power and war. - Rudyard Kipling

Hey! I tried to warn you!! http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/Forum1/HTML/005618-3.html ------------------ Four things greater than all things are; women and horses and power and war. - Rudyard Kipling

Disappointed man Empty western horizon No CM today ------------------ Four things greater than all things are; women and horses and power and war. - Rudyard Kipling

Downloading patch now Waiting in vain for my mail dark clouds fill the sky ------------------ Four things greater than all things are; women and horses and power and war. - Rudyard Kipling [This message has been edited by Kurtz (edited 06-18-2000).]

A quote from Samuel Johnson seems to be appropriate: "Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy." ------------------ Four things greater than all things are; - women and horses an power and war. - Kipling

Credit card is charged emptiness fills my wallet rapture fills my soul

My money is on Patton.

I was thinking of writing a Combaiku of the Day. But I am a poet, I can’t write on command! The Horror! The Horror! At last brought to light: Steve and Charles’ Magnum Opus But I want it now!

deviating threads. Never ceases to amaze how the subject change

The Gods have spoken: glorious battles ahead! Waiting for CD ------------------ Exterminate all the Brut..err….Smilies…

I just got a vision of the spread of CM: Like a graph out of a movie like "Outbreak"; starting in north-eastern USA, spreading like a prairie fire over the North American continent. Sudden jumps across oceans to airports abroad from where the epidemic continues to spread. Within a fortnight all of the world will be contaminated and unable to work! The Horror! The Horror! ------------------ Exterminate all the Brut..err….Smilies… [This message has been edited by Kurtz (edited 06-13-2000).]

Thanks! OK! here are some more: the Germans have fled the guns are quiet at last stillness in Plomville laid to rest alive waiting in a shallow grave mines have learned patience The falcon plummets just like an incoming shell. The prey is captured No smilies needed poetry conveys image everybody smiles

Oh! What a sad morning! Maybe it should be called a mourning? rows of white crosses soldiers rest eternally under foreign soil European wars young men are sent to their death under a blue sky Fatherland! Glory! we sacrifice our young lives. Posthumous medal

No smilies needed Combaiku conveys image everybody smiles

Can´t you change the filename when you attempt to save the file? If you copy the text you have to paste it into a Notepad or Wordpad document. You can´t paste text straight into a folder. Open Notepad or Wordpad and paste into new document. If you use Wordpad you have to save as .txt.

Traditional haiku always include nature but as this is Combaiku I think the only requirement is some connection to Combat Mission. Otherwise I certainly would have missed some good laughs here, like Germanboy´s haiku about running with MGs. Of course, to include both nature and Combat Mission is the optimal solution. A calm August day the wind rustles the red leaves guns roar far away Angry bullets buzz shattered serenity the stream runs slowly Machineguns rattle tracers flying overhead leaves cover the ground

Nice to see some more poets around here... I almost forgot the haiku I wrote "the Manic Night of the Golden Demo" Gamers are happy Webserver exhausted Gold Demo is out [This message has been edited by Kurtz (edited 06-10-2000).]

Combaiku - Combat Mission Haiku My homage to Combat Mission. I think the last moments of tranquility before the coming storm (the Release) should be spent in a meditative mood. What form of art other than haiku could possibly capture those moments we all have seen (with mixed emotions) while playing the demo? I hear them coming. Enemy Tank? Sound contact. My Faust is ready "Take cover!" I cry fallen leaves cover the ground. A smell of autumn I look through the sight magnification: four times they seem very close Villages pass by Another battle today one more day passes All weapons loaded A steady gaze towards west soon they will be here Soft autumnal rain fallen leaves floating calmly waterfilled foxholes Incoming arty! Like a flash out of the blue! the spade is my friend A peaceful landscape we rapidly dig deeper never deep enough Young infantrymen warring over a lost cause the sun slowly sets The spotter observes A deluge of wrath descends. The repose is gone Our bodies frozen in the heat of the battle panic takes command Heads slowly turning My finger on the trigger a serene moment

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Big Time Software: So they developed what is called the "kurtz" around ("short" in German). <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Actually, "short" is spelled "kurz" in German.

Well, since #1 & #2 are correct, there wasn´t much to say about them.

The scroll wheel moves the cursor to the top or bottom of the screen and the view moves "forwards" or "backwards". But it isn´t working well on my system. TargetDrone: the Logitech mouse I use is symmetric and is equally useless for left and righthanded. I can´t spell! The Horror! The Horror!!! [This message has been edited by Kurtz (edited 06-08-2000).]

Oh! C´mon! Isn´t it obvious that your wife has become a CM fiend!? Check the time and date of the last autosave-file and you will see that neither you nor your son was at home at the time. Soon she will demand more, she´ll want a computer of her own! The Horror! The Horror! j/k

Mannheim Tanker: The difference in ballistics in WW2 guns should be considerably smaller than for the M1 gun, right? But of course there is a difference. The MG could be matched for one of the ammotypes, but I´ve got a feeling the tanks always fire the MG before they fire the main gun, regardless of target type. Which makes me wonder: are the trajectories of different rounds modeled (AP having a flatter tracetory) or is it abstracted to a single trajectory for all ammo? Modeling differences that could be measured in fractions of a meter seems like a overkill, but you never know.

Probably because the coax MG and the main gun are ballistically matched so that when the MG fire hits, the round from the main gun will hit. Easier and faster than firing a main gun round and watch were it goes...

I feel a compelling need to add to the confusion here. FWIK, the penetrator of a SC (HEAT) round is liquid but since it is moving at a few thousand meters per second it behaves like a solid penetrator. A HEAT will give you high penetration but low behind-armor effect and it is sensitive to the stand-off distance (distance between detonation of the round and the surface of the armor). A EFP on the other hand has lower penetration but much more effect behind the armor. It is also less sensitive in variations in the stand-off distance. The penetrator from a EFP travels much slower than the penetrator from a HEAT, but both types form a penetrator out of the liner whose shape varies and determines the effect. A HEAT will make a small hole (finger-sized) whereas an EFP will make a hole you could put your fist into. (Warning! Do not try this at home! ) This is the extreme cases, a HEAT round is usually a compromise between penetration and behind-armor effect. A semantic question: shouldn´t both qualify as shaped charges? [This message has been edited by Kurtz (edited 05-24-2000).]