chrisl

If it takes place at night, then troops will occasionally shoot at other friendly troops. The wonders of CM-- you can read all kinds of reports of that happening for real. Bogging is allagedly related to speed-- fast is more likely to bog than move, but it also depends on the particular vehicle. I haven't done systematic tests, and there have been claims that speed doesn't make that much differenc. Try to have them bog where they'll be useful... Also, please go back and edit in a "Spoiler alert--We Fight and Die Here" followed by a bunch of lines with just a single character on them. ------------------ "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)

You found one of the couple of kinds of cases where troops won't go someplace and you could know in advance. Troops don't like to get close to burning buildings, and they will often have to pick new routes when climbing or driving through steep terrain. You learned the hard way about burning buildings, and you can plot through steep terrain if you use lots of close together waypoints so you can tell if there's something impassable. Troops will generally follow the paths you plotted if they don't come under fire. Most cases where units do something that you don't like is because they came under fire and decided that you were going to get them hurt, so they found somewhere else to go. CM can't plot those in advance. ------------------ "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)

Game updates: Peter"I went skiing because wools socks give me that special feeling"Nzer is taking a terrible thrashing. I beat him to all the flags, but he didn't know it, because it's night, and in his first attempt at them got a good bloody nose. Then he hid for a while, and acted like he was all dead. Then all of a sudden, four platoons appear, charging at my troops. Three of them are decimated, and the fourth is getting hosed by HE from all sides, including above. Then he charged another platoon after the first on one of my positions. Fool. It's about to be finished off, too. Losses to me in all his assaults? About 5 guys. And a whole bunch of ammo...I was saving those bullets for later. Frightwig Jake the lawyer: Well, this one isn't going quite as well. At least I'm doing better than Peter is against me. Jake, being a lawyer, seems to have cheated, since I think he actually has more troops than me, but somehow I ended up the attacker. He'll die anyway. morse- does he want to find out if I have flamethrowers, so I can call him s'mores? I always thought those things were disgusting, which is why morse made me think of them. I signed up what may turn out to be half a year of my life to play him in a 7 battle operation, 20 turns each. I'm playing the Rest of the Red Devils, designed by Rune, which means that I have exactly one more bullet allotted for the whole op than morse does troops (Rune was feeling generous). I'll have to push him into the river or something (morse I mean-- Rune deserves far worse). Send me the next file--I want to finish this one before CM2 comes out. (I was going to edit this so that the UBB code around jake's name was fixed, but decided that he doesn't deserve bold text-- it'll just make him run off at the mouth) ------------------ "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 message has been edited by chrisl (edited 02-13-2001).]

The demo works for PBEM with others who have the demo version-- find someone and play. In fact, I'll play you at VoT with full FOW, and you can hunt for my spotters . My email is in my profile. ------------------ "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 had a blast watching a Sherman driving toward one of PeterNZer's positions firing the bow MG while firing the main gun (manually targeted) and coax at one perpendicular to the line of travel. A joy to watch. My M8 HMC is also behaving well (firing the 75 at Peter's troops). The only one that isn't is the Jackson, with only a little HE it seems slow 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)

But sometimes you just lose the guys and don't gain the position. I just had two squads, an mmg, and a platoon HQ defending in some woods, and my opponent charged a full platoon at them. I lost the MMG and about 3 guys from one squad. He lost all but about 3 guys. He followed on the next turn with another platoon-- one (9-man) squad reduced by 7, another reduced by two, the third in LOS of the 90 mm gun and M2 of a nearby Jackson. He'll end up losing them all, either as casualties or broken. He made another similar charge at the same time as the first, on a similar position, with similar results. Sometimes it's worth the casualties (I do this sort of thing too, having just taken a key building in a city fight that way), but sometimes they're just thrown 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)

I'm too lazy to do the search myself, but in the past couple weeks to a month there have been a couple of interesting threads on rifle grenades. Including one post by someone who owns a launcher, and another post giving lots of range and accuracy information. If I get motivated I'll search and post the links back here. It was all in one thread: http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/Forum1/HTML/015861.html ------------------ "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 message has been edited by chrisl (edited 02-13-2001).]

Get used to it. Didn't you read the grog stuff posted earlier-- maneuver vs. attrition? If I were an attritionist I would charge your positions and you would gun everyone down. As a maneuverist, I'm going to run my troops around a bit, so they can get some exercise, then they'll kill all your men, except for the ones that they capture. It's really been a pretty dull game so far--he's managed to pop a couple of recon Stuarts, but otherwise not a whole lot has happened. Casualties on both sides have been pretty light, except in the building that collapsed on a few of his squads. It was big and made of brick, and they got their defensive lessons from the little piggies. They thought that a big bad wolf couldn't blow down a big stone building. That's probably true, but some dumb GIs with a bunch of HE can. ------------------ "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 not even all that large. On the approaches, when you're maneuvering large groups out of LOS of the enemy, you might be able to do group moves safely, but once you get in close, you really need to plot every single unit's orders. If you keep them organized by platoon, and think about the battle more at the platoon/company level, the troops will naturally be grouped by firefight or "sub-battle". Then you just go around from one firefight to the next, and give orders platoon by platoon, and squad by squad. If you have a flanking maneuver planned, or a group that's going a long way and there's lots of reasonable spots with cover, you can plot several turns worth of movement at once, leaving waypoints in or near cover. Just be glad you don't have 1500 pieces of 1/4" square cardboard stacked 6-8 pieces high on several square feet of hex map, and a cat... ------------------ "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)

He's a wuss for not going right over and forcibly extracting the CD from his cousin immediately. And no excuses that they live halfway across the country either. He could at least send his sister. ------------------ "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)

And get into PBEM or TCP/IP play as fast as possible-- honing your skills against live players with comparable experience will improve them faster than beating on the AI. ------------------ "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)

CM doesn't render numbers very well. You need to get one of the high res number-mods ------------------ "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)

WTF. This thing is two posts from page 2. Friday there's dueling lawyers all day (two pages worth, and they don't even start a game--typical), and then on the weekend there's all of about 2 posts. Did the lawyers scare everybody off? They're not even real lawyers- one's a real estate agent, and the other is Newt Gingrich. ------------------ "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)

Defender in an assault. It may have improved with 1.12 though. ------------------ "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're worried about your opponent showing up with some übertanks, then a Jackson in reserve is a pretty good idea. A couple of Hellcats might be an ok substitute. I often buy one of each. The Hellcat really rocks on a good sized battlefield with lots of places to duck in for temporary cover. Drive like a maniac and shoot everything you see. The M10 sucks-- it's got too slow of a turret for an unarmored TD. The German turretless TDs all have wicked good armor. I almost always buy some pretty vanilla shermans--they're great against infantry, with three MGs and about 70-80 75 mm shells. Great for dismantling buildings. M8 HMCs are also great, given that shermans often don't live long enough to fire most of their shells. The M8 has about half as many, is really cheap, and is well protected against small arms fire. I even buy Stuarts-- the 37 mm gun is deceptive-- it's got a high ROF, about a zillion shells, and a very high muzzle velocity. If you can tease a Panther into turning a bit, you can toast it with a Stuart. I rarely bother with the W versions of shermans-- in an operation you can recover them, but in a QB if it's dead it's dead, and it doesn't really matter if it burns or not. Speed and a fast turret is much more useful for US AFVs than a little more armor or wet stowage. ------------------ "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)

They're all basically similar sized rocket launchers with chemical propellant. Unless someone had a magic propellant mix that nobody could duplicate it's not that surprising that they have similar ranges. The only one that's an oddball is the PIAT. ------------------ "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)

You forgot the third thing-- that I am kicking you're little kiwi ass from here to next tuesday. It's like there's some kind of warp in the space time continuum, because everytime you do something it turns out that one turn before I've set everything up to keep you from doing it successfully. Ooops... I wasn't supposed to tell anybody about the spatiotemporal CM warp engine...dammit...there I go again. Anyway, by the time you read this you'll have had another attack (actually two of them) foiled. It must suck to be you. ------------------ "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)

looks like Shaw is perseverating since they unhooked his frontal lobes. ------------------ "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 have just started the Rest of the Red Devils and can vouch for Rune's evilness. I don't know how the hell I'm supposed to go 140 turns with this. I barely have 140 units of ammo... ------------------ "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)

Probably mild dish soap like Ivory™ and warm water. I once boiled an AOL cd just to see if it would still be readable and it was fine. ------------------ "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)

Go ask Peng in the thread named after him... ------------------ "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 Bald One will surely crack your head for that... ------------------ "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)

Wow! That's pretty vicious, calling him a stinker. IIRC that was a pretty daring word for Bobby Brady to use way back in the early days of TV. It was so bad that Greg and Marcia went to talk to mom and dad about it and after some hemming and hawing did finally come to the issue of how bad Bobby had really been. He had called someone a stinker. That was harsh. I think he was grounded for the rest of the series, and they jammed hot needles under his fingernails, did the water torture, hot lights, and everything for it. I think they even made him play a couple rounds of russian roulette with Christopher Walken. Man, I can't believe you called him a stinker. ------------------ "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 message has been edited by chrisl (edited 02-10-2001).]

"affect" can also be a noun meaning something like "observed emotional response", it's just unlikely that you would use it that way in a discussion of CM, though possible: "I could tell from their affect that my troops were shaken", but since CM isn't really high enough resolution, and the faces don't change, you would probably be lying. You can tell they're shaken from the label in the status bar. ------------------ "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)

Since we're in Germany, and we seem to be overrun by lawyers for the last two pages, I'll post this little bit of fun: ... da steht er im Zimmer plötzlich der Graf von Öderland da steht er und hat eine Axt in der Hand und wer uns der Weg verstellt, wehe, wehe euch allen, ich sehe euch fallen wie Bäume im Wald... Graf Öderland geht um die Welt, Graf Öderland geht mit der Axt in der Hand, Graf Öderland geht um die Welt! It's time for you to get the ax morse... ------------------ "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)