chrisl

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Stuka: I will ask of the round table of the 'pool for a map and forces to whit your utter humiliation at the hands of the erstwhile Leeo will behold. .<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I shall provide a map and units. They will wing their way to Leeo shortly.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by harpoon: Who do I have to annihilate to make it to knighthood? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Hmm. I don't know that you're quite ready for a kniggethood joust yet. More like a carnival of torture for the enjoyment of the cesspool, then maybe a battle for kniggethood. You should start by carefully selecting one of the more recent additions to the pool, or in their absence, jake the scheming lawyer snake, who lies about setup parameters and is a little too fond of smoke. He also is still a squire (actually he's not even a squire-- more like park-bench dwelling lobbyist looking for a sponsor). I'll provide the scenario-- I think it's pretty well balanced, though it's certainly got some surprises. I actually prefer to rip jake's face off myself though, so I'd recommend that you go slap one of the other new squires with a smelly fish.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Elvis: [QB] chrissyl /QB]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Blame AOL--I've sent the file twice already. Will send again in a minute. While I'm posting, I'll note that I'm about to maintain my perfect record against the attorneys of the pool. The scum sucking bottom feeder jake, in our rematch, has been throwing bad tank after worse trying to get to the center of town in a large, open map. I should note here some of his scumbagous actions: in our previous battles he tells me I'm attacker, and then only after I see that he has more platoons than I have do I discover that it's a probe, not an attack. I beat him anayway, despite being outnumbered (the AI bought me an expensve 8" spotter). In our rematch, he sets himself as attacker and of course makes it an attack. It won't surprise me if it actually turns out to be an assault. He managed to find some easter-egg that Charles his in the game. He set the allied attacker to "armor" and then found the proper combination of keys to hold down so that a new menu item would appear under the german force mix: "worthless wanks without a long range AT weapon to their name". I suspect that he blackmailed Steve with a threat of lobbying against computer wargames. I got 1500 or 2000 or whatever points worth of old men with wooden sticks (not even sharp ones!!) and rocks. There's a bug though, because I also got a KT and an 88 pillbox (not much difference against shermans, except one can move). He's lost or suffered immobilization on all but about 3 of his tanks it seems, where he started with 8 or 9.

As schrullenhaft said, turning off the movie is the first thing to try. Also try reinstalling your original video drivers. I'm using a PB G3/300 Wallstreet and if I upgrade the drivers CM breaks. If I restore the original drivers it's ok again.

Hey! There's already a Peng™ Challenge thread located here: How the Peng Challenge was Won and it's not even up to #200 yet. We don't need to be changing them that fast.

Coriolis force has been in since 1.02. Charles has also included special relativity, slightly abstracted, in the armor penetration model. The high velocity AP shells are modeled as having the appropriate relativistic mass, though I think it was ignored for HE and shaped charge where it's a higher order effect. There have been rumors that BTS was going to include general relativistic effects in CMII, but I think that charles made some attempts to do that already, and some of the code is in CMBO. It's been mostly disabled, but I did notice what appeared to be a wormhole in one operation against jd-- he sent a broken company through a wormhole to hide and when they recovered they came back through it. It disappeared before I could find it, so either the wormholes, the code, or both are unstable, but it seems that the problems only manifest themselves in operations. We really have to wait for faster processors to be able to have GR effects in larger scenarios and ops. There are a number of grogs who have been demanding the inclusion of quantum gravity and/or superstring theory in CM2, but the physics jury is still out on both of those, so it's unlikely that we'll see either one before CMII, if at all, depending on what how some experiments turn out between now and the start of development on that. ------------------ 'Aye, ye'll likely win this one. Much as a fat boy wi' a baseball bat can manage tae kill a frog ain a bucket. Ye'll prolly get a medal an' all.' - OGSF

Nah. Can't be Shaw. I don't think Shaw is capable of rising out of his miasma of dullness to the level of little Harpy. Germanboy is much more likely, he hasn't been posting either. It's possible that GB has managed to pick up a case of BSE and it's turned him into Harpy. ------------------ 'Aye, ye'll likely win this one. Much as a fat boy wi' a baseball bat can manage tae kill a frog ain a bucket. Ye'll prolly get a medal an' all.' - OGSF

You idiot. He's making up the rules as he goes along, just like the rest of us. It's in the rules right here (thumbs through old GI:AOV rulebook)"264.3.14159 Squires with the name Foobar or Fubar who are also destined never to become full fledged kniggets of the cesspool are allowed to fight sheep loving aussies and kiwis as long as they lie about at least two parameters of the setup". There you have it. Send him a setup as long as you lie about two of the parameters. ------------------ 'Aye, ye'll likely win this one. Much as a fat boy wi' a baseball bat can manage tae kill a frog ain a bucket. Ye'll prolly get a medal an' all.' - OGSF [This message has been edited by chrisl (edited 04-05-2001).]

Who said anything about decorous combat? I was thinking something bloody and destructive, degenerating into hair pulling, eye gouging, and the spitting of broken teeth at one another. The two of you would be quite entertaining to watch in the arena. ------------------ 'Aye, ye'll likely win this one. Much as a fat boy wi' a baseball bat can manage tae kill a frog ain a bucket. Ye'll prolly get a medal an' all.' - OGSF

You Meekses ought to know all about hermaphrodites, since Elijah and his sister seem to be one. Anyway, you seem to be quite as insane as the rest of the family, and at least as annoying. I will take you as my squire and sponsor your attempts to get battles and achieve kniggethood in the pool. I would recommend that you single out Oleeo and obliterate his grease stain of an existence. I will supply a battle if necessary. ------------------ "I HATE THIS GAME, YOU AND THIS SCENARIO" -jd

Try turning off the intro movie (hold shift during startup of the program). It's a longshot but you never know... On my mac laptop (with an ATI 3D accelerator) it hangs during the load if the movie started to play. I turned off the movie and it was cured (I've also verified that if I turn the movie back on the problem returns).

Wow. You can do bold! Now sit down. ------------------ "I HATE THIS GAME, YOU AND THIS SCENARIO" -jd

Wankers. [This message has been edited by chrisl (edited 04-01-2001).]

Ok Mace. NOW!!!!! (apologies to the Bald One for stealing a few of his exclamation points) (edited because I forgot to check the roster for this week's drooling freak while Bauhaus is gone) ------------------ "I HATE THIS GAME, YOU AND THIS SCENARIO" -jd [This message has been edited by chrisl (edited 04-01-2001).]

That should be "Bizarro" and his first name wasn't Pablo. You are becoming tiresome. Now is the time in the pool when we dance. ------------------ "I HATE THIS GAME, YOU AND THIS SCENARIO" -jd

See my previous post above. Some suburban Minnesotan has killed and eaten the most long winded (most likely in every sense) member of the pool. At the very least he's been fed into a bark shredder, as that seems to be rather popular in those parts. And be careful asking for the long winded-- you might conjure one of the grogs from the main board-- 150 line posts about armor thickness or artillery shell production. ------------------ "I HATE THIS GAME, YOU AND THIS SCENARIO" -jd

That should be revival you idiot. If you're going to make boring jokes, at least get them right. ------------------ "I HATE THIS GAME, YOU AND THIS SCENARIO" -jd

Any time. To be honest, it's that guy you went to drinks with who I think may be the most boring. I can never even remember his name. Not shandorf, the one who won't go into Mpls after dark. In fact, I suspect that you are he, having killed the real Seanachai and eaten him (No Bauhaus! Sit down, we're in mourning!!) and taken over his username and password here in the pool and in his games via email. Otherwise this "who's duller" question probably wouldn't have come up. ------------------ "I HATE THIS GAME, YOU AND THIS SCENARIO" -jd

Seanachai or who? At least Sean-achoo has a memorable name. ------------------ "I HATE THIS GAME, YOU AND THIS SCENARIO" -jd

I haven't played many with no tanks at all, but I recently played an op where I had no tanks (defending) and the attacker had a bunch of them. I did have a reasonable supply of AT guns (6 pdr and 17pdr) It went only 3 of the 7 battles because the attacker was pretty much slaughtered in each of the three. In the first one he lost nearly all the infantry and a couple bits of armor. In the second one it was a rout-- he sent a bunch of tanks through an AT ambush and lost 7 misc AFVs in a single turn, plus some others in other turns. He's a pretty decent player but was having a bit of a bad op. So you can do quite well with no tanks at all. ------------------ "I HATE THIS GAME, YOU AND THIS SCENARIO" -jd

Did he look like the guy in the bottom center of this page? If he did, and she sees him again, she should peek over his shoulder and send me an email about his forces. http://www.geocities.com/lrmcgarvey/cessphoto3.html ------------------ "I HATE THIS GAME, YOU AND THIS SCENARIO" -jd

I've got a nice squire challenge scenario that I would be willing to offer up to you. I think it may rival Crodaburb for vileness, though it will not at first be apparent. It looks fairly well balanced, but I'm afraid to play it. I would be happy to do a tournament save of it and send it to you for your joust, but only if you both swear to post regular updates. ------------------ "I HATE THIS GAME, YOU AND THIS SCENARIO" -jd

Seconded. All in favor-- at least two of us (despite Hamsters' multitudinosity). All against can keep their bloody traps shut. Lorak--make it so. ------------------ "I HATE THIS GAME, YOU AND THIS SCENARIO" -jd

That's the funniest thing I've read in the last 5 pages. ------------------ "I HATE THIS GAME, YOU AND THIS SCENARIO" -jd

Bah. I was a masterless squire before there were kniggets and squires. I thought the whole thing was stupid. Of course, that was before I was elevated. Now I wholeheartedly believe we should enforce it and you should remain a piddly little squire for all eternity. You idjit. Who do you think started this (expletive deleted) thread? The original uncontrolled canadian himself. Even though he isn't really canadian, and tends to be quite reserved in his behaviour. Nonetheless-- he is, was, and always shall be an uncontrolled canadian rambling through the muck You're nothing more than a Hiram wannabe. There's already a Hiram, even if he pretends to be someone else, and the last thing we need is three of you (since there's already two of him (it's better than having two meeks' though)). ------------------ "I HATE THIS GAME, YOU AND THIS SCENARIO" -jd [This message has been edited by chrisl (edited 03-27-2001).]