chrisl

Make Teaburps Fight Arrowroot at Crodaburg. Gawd. That sounds like that Star Trek:NG episode where they ran into the species that communicated only by historical metaphor. Anyway, Croda, send them the scenario and they must each post regular updates on how they're suffering for our amusement. ------------------ "If you can taste the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat while blindfolded, you have not had enough aquavit to be ready for lutefisk." (stolen from some web page about lutefisk)

This is meant as a serious reply: search under the word "zombie". I saw an HMG crew die and then be resuscitate and run from a burning building. It's in a post somewhere way back in history. I don't know about the two faced part-- maybe they're double agents, or maybe it's a variant on the clown car bug. ------------------ "If you can taste the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat while blindfolded, you have not had enough aquavit to be ready for lutefisk." (stolen from some web page about lutefisk)

Yippee. You can kind of read, and almost form a sentence. Next you need to work on reading comprehension-- the original Peng thread died at my hands (and allegedly in Seanachai or morse's arms) while I was posting the terrible truth about the hermaphrodite Meeks. It was too much for the system to handle so it imploded. Only some quick thinking on the part of Steve kept the entire country east of the mississippi from getting sucked into oblivion (which wouldn't be a bad thing, except it would take BTS with it, which would be a bad thing). Simply posting before the lock goes down is hardly a feat. A thousand monkeys with cheap number two pencils jammed into their eyes banging on $2 pc keyboards could do that 9 times out of 10. ------------------ "If you can taste the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat while blindfolded, you have not had enough aquavit to be ready for lutefisk." (stolen from some web page about lutefisk)

Yeah, yeah, so you can copy stuff out of a book. Pick someone (look at lorak's site and find someone with a lot of losses), and single them out for intense scorn and ridicule for a while. Then beat them to a pulp in a terribly unbalanced (no, I'm not talking about you meeks) PBEM match created by someone like Berliwhirly. Otherwise go away. ------------------ "If you can taste the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat while blindfolded, you have not had enough aquavit to be ready for lutefisk." (stolen from some web page about lutefisk)

Once again, morse forgets to mention the beating he is taking at the hands of the rest of the red devils. At the end of one battle he's lost a big kitty and some turretless things with big guns on them, as well as an appalling number of troops. How many troops, you ask? He seems to have had a couple of companies obliterated, almost to the last man. He didn't have too many partial squads--nearly all of them left little body markers. A full platoon ran screaming off the side of the map (hopefully never to return again). His briefing must have read like the old Doritos™ commercial-- get all you want killed, we'll make more. We also managed to capture a company commander. I demand that BTS add code that allows me to interrogate him as to the strength of his force and expected reinforments. Real commanders got to get out the hot knives and bamboo shoots, why can't I? At least between battles in an operation. BTS please help or do somefink!!! And I'm sure that Rune is truly evil and will wreak his revenge on me in this second battle (I don't think jd matters in this anymore--it's each of us against Rune). ------------------ "If you can taste the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat while blindfolded, you have not had enough aquavit to be ready for lutefisk." (stolen from some web page about lutefisk)

I just played a movie in which a bunch of dead squads and vehicles revealed themselves, but it does depend on movement mode and unit-- a squad walked over a squad and didn't ID it, but a leader walked over it a bit later and did ID it. If the unit stops right atop the dead unit for 10 seconds or so it will be ID'd. ------------------ "If you can taste the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat while blindfolded, you have not had enough aquavit to be ready for lutefisk." (stolen from some web page about lutefisk)

It happens sometimes already, but it seems to be a little random and may depend on the mode of movement of the unit. ------------------ "If you can taste the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat while blindfolded, you have not had enough aquavit to be ready for lutefisk." (stolen from some web page about lutefisk)

If you add up the totals among all the categories, it's generally much larger than the allowed points for the battle. I don't see how you can really end up with that many unspent points-- I rarely have more than about 7 unspent. Once I bought an assault boat (in a dry land scenario) to finish off my points, but it actually turned out to be a gamey thing--it's like putting a big target out to force the enemy units to fire. ------------------ "If you can taste the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat while blindfolded, you have not had enough aquavit to be ready for lutefisk." (stolen from some web page about lutefisk)

The desert is awesome. I'm from the midwest, and (now that I live in CA) I love going out there. You just have to look around more-- especially down at the ground, where there's all sorts of stuff going on. The rock formations are really cool too. ------------------ "If you can taste the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat while blindfolded, you have not had enough aquavit to be ready for lutefisk." (stolen from some web page about lutefisk)

Hey Mace I'm going to send elvis a setup of "alls quiet", so pick something else. I appear to beating the snot out of morse in Rest of the Red Devils, but it's only the first battle of seven, and he'll probably get a couple battalions of reinforcements, while I get none. Meanwhile, the worm is on the other foot in my battle with the Lobbyist. I've been hearing nothing but "Help, help, save yourselves" and "They're slaughtering us" from his troops as they run screaming from the buildings. ------------------ "If you can taste the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat while blindfolded, you have not had enough aquavit to be ready for lutefisk." (stolen from some web page about lutefisk)

It's well worth it-- you'll never buy another game until CM2, and it will ensure that there is nobody taking a cut off the money that will pay BTS while they develop CM2. ------------------ "If you can taste the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat while blindfolded, you have not had enough aquavit to be ready for lutefisk." (stolen from some web page about lutefisk)

That's an ell you git, not a one. ------------------ "If you can taste the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat while blindfolded, you have not had enough aquavit to be ready for lutefisk." (stolen from some web page about lutefisk)

Lorak! Oh Lorak.... Put me down for a Total Victory over Peter"I can't play very well in these woolen mittens(at least not CM)"NZer. Score: chrisl:89 mittenboy:11 ------------------ "If you can taste the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat while blindfolded, you have not had enough aquavit to be ready for lutefisk." (stolen from some web page about lutefisk)

LOL. Only if you're playing the allies. I've got a couple of HMCs that have been beating the snot out of Peter. ------------------ "If you can taste the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat while blindfolded, you have not had enough aquavit to be ready for lutefisk." (stolen from some web page about lutefisk)

Covering fire, leapfrogging from building to building as mentioned above. Smoke can help for getting the first few buildings if you can't get close to them under cover. Try to pick the lines of advance so that it minimizes the defenders chance to shoot at your troops, and have enough squads and MGs that any enemy that pops up to shoot at your advancing troops will be suppressed. Place MGs with LOS down roads to keep the enemy from bringing reinforcements across the streets. Lots of HE-- why take a building when you can drop it on the defending squads. ------------------ "If you can taste the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat while blindfolded, you have not had enough aquavit to be ready for lutefisk." (stolen from some web page about lutefisk)

so just send me a setup. I prefer buy your own, but I'll play just about anything. I owe you a beating for the quote from Peng you had in your sig. It's wrong anyway-- the worst liars of all actually get sent to washington, dressed up like newt gingrich, and called jake. And I still can't remember if you're the young hip-shaking elvis, or the fat sweaty old elvis of the vegas years. I suspect the latter. ------------------ "If you can taste the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat while blindfolded, you have not had enough aquavit to be ready for lutefisk." (stolen from some web page about lutefisk)

So send me the damn surrender file already. Resistance is futile. ------------------ "If you can taste the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat while blindfolded, you have not had enough aquavit to be ready for lutefisk." (stolen from some web page about lutefisk)

Once again, the thread is nearly on page 2. There is however, good news in the world: jake, the evil inside the beltway washington lobbyist, foolishly turned his Panther around and drove it directly away from a building that I occupy in his little satanic village. Among the troops with which I occupy that building was/is a bazooka team. As his Panther turned left (what was going through his head? Clearly it must have been an icepick or a tamping iron) the bazooka team put one right through the side of the Panther. The sad part of it all is that it didn't quite roll onto his AT gu before it stopped. It was some kind of case of "suicide by bazooka"-- his Panther crew were depressed at the direction the war was going, and decided to end it all by waving their ass at an enemy AT team. In the same turn, he managed to lose a halftrack (to another bazooka team) and an armored car (to the arty I believe). Now where the hell is everyone? ------------------ "If you can taste the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat while blindfolded, you have not had enough aquavit to be ready for lutefisk." (stolen from some web page about lutefisk)

Sounds like a great idea to me- there have been a lot of useful info sites (many of them pretty static) that people find and post pointers to in the forum, and then after a few days they drop off the first page or two and are gone. Some I've bookmarked, but some I didn't. I'll send you some of my favorite URLs that I've pulled out of the forum. ------------------ "If you can taste the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat while blindfolded, you have not had enough aquavit to be ready for lutefisk." (stolen from some web page about lutefisk)

Hey! I called you a bag of hot air in that other thread first! I just did it in a slightly sideways way (what's a bagpipe besides an annoying bag of hot air). In other news: Rune is still evil. morse has lost an enormous number of infantry (and this is verifiable, as their bodies are scattered around the map in vast quantities), but has managed to show up with a couple of vehicles. A marder, some kind of armored car, and of course, a king tiger. If he groups them all he can actually manage to rout the odd mortar crew, but is otherwise suffering badly. Frightwig Jake the lawyer is trying to muscle in on Berli's turf-- only now, 2/3 of the way into the battle, does he reveal that it's a probe. He'll lose anyway, as his squads have started routing from the buildings that I now occupy, but he'll persist in annoying me. Morse actually told me the key-- be very afraid when a lawyer suddenly becomes laconic. Jake won't shut up (though he does spell better than morse, so it's less painful for my eyes to look at), so he's not really any danger. The other clue is when his squads yell "Hilfe, hilfe! Rettet euch" as they "sneak" from the buildings. Peter"Wool, wool, wool, that's what I love"NZer hasn't sent me a turn this evening, but his troops are just about to give up the ghost. He made a pretty daring last ditch charge on about 4 positions simultaneously a few turns back, but only one of them still has any life in it, and it's not all that great, nor is it near a flag that's contested. ------------------ "If you can taste the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat while blindfolded, you have not had enough aquavit to be ready for lutefisk." (stolen from some web page about lutefisk)

I fire mortars from the middle of woods all the time, with no ill effect except on the target. ------------------ "If you can taste the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat while blindfolded, you have not had enough aquavit to be ready for lutefisk." (stolen from some web page about lutefisk)

I always thought it was a synonym for "bagpipe". mine comes from the old days when usernames were limited in length (and generally all one case), and I was using a public unix system in Ann Arbor. I have the memory of a turnip, so I tend to re-use it. ------------------ "If you can taste the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat while blindfolded, you have not had enough aquavit to be ready for lutefisk." (stolen from some web page about lutefisk)

Here we are just two threads from the bottom... I gave a recent update on all my games except with morse. To sum it up, he's getting hosed. In our first turn of contact, he left bodies lying everywhere, without actually causing any casualties in return. Lost a Marder, too-- drove it up alongside a squad, parked it, and got out while they threw grenades into it. Not a very good attack so far. Impressively bad, in fact. Either he has an immense supply of troops and vehicles back there, or he's decided to do zombie attacks and march blindly through the graveyard in the fog while my Red Devils shoot his zombies in the head. ------------------ "If you can taste the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat while blindfolded, you have not had enough aquavit to be ready for lutefisk." (stolen from some web page about lutefisk)

If I'm going to charge some troops across a big open field, I try to have likely enemy positions (known or unknown) covered by both MG and rifle fire-- it makes all the difference in the world. If there are stationary units suppressing the defender (even bunkers and pillboxes can be suppressed) then it's easier to cross their fields of fire. As for taking fire from a single tank at a hundred+ meters, that's a reasonable chance to take (especially if you can make it button first). ------------------ "If you can taste the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat while blindfolded, you have not had enough aquavit to be ready for lutefisk." (stolen from some web page about lutefisk)

Also not sure about MS products, but Eudora lets you save an email message as a separate file, then you don't need to to copy and paste. It will even let you take a file thats been split into multiple parts by someones ISP and save them as a single file with the extra headers properly removed. ------------------ "If you can taste the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat while blindfolded, you have not had enough aquavit to be ready for lutefisk." (stolen from some web page about lutefisk)