Notnowjohn

I have a VERY extensive collection of WWII German 1/72 aircraft. Modeling is a blast. I started very young(ten years old) and have been doing it fairly consistently ever since. Notnowjohn "Doh!"...Homer

Please. Please get help.

My point is still valid, of course, regardless of feline gender issues.

I think Elvis is clamoring for TCP/IP so that he won't have to have Mr. Peng over to his house every time he wants to play a "quick one". Apparently, Mr. Peng drinks all Elvis' beer and impregnates his cats as well. Who wouldn't be begging for TCP/IP under those twisted circumstances. Any resemblance to any smilies, living or dead, is purely coincidental and should not be construed, blah, blah, blah....

ROFLOL! That topic header is an eyebrow raiser.

I'm with Mr. Norton, I can't wait to do a piece of Stalingrad! And by the way the site, the maps and the scenarios look great!

Personally, I believe the whole question of "gaminess" and things being "gamey" is getting way out of hand. The last time I checked, Combat Mission, while admittedly a very realistic simulation is still a "game". As desktop or laptop commanders, we are given (or choose) certain assets with which we are expected to achieve certain results. Not to make the absolute most of these assets in any given situation just seems silly to me. I played an operation not too long ago as the Germans. My orders were very explicit: defend to the last man! Now, if the last man happened to be the commander of a MMG Carrier, and my defense hinged on having him charge that thin-skinned TD in the possible but-oh-so-next-to-impossible hope of knocking him out, do I hesitate? Hell no. And when my opponent does the same to me do I scream "Gamey"? I think not. I admire his brass and say a silent prayer for his brave, dead lads or laugh my ass off and chalk up another one to this incredible "game" when the impossible happens and he kicks my ass. That's just what makes this "game" so damn much fun! Anything can happen and sometimes it even does. And what exactly is the difference between a gamey tactic in CM and one that is rare, unusual and unexpected in the real world? Did the crew members of abandoned tanks ever charge enemy tanks on foot? I was never there and I dont' recall ever reading anything like that but I'll bet anybody that they probably did. And it probably happened more than once. (This, however, is something I usually try to avoid, as crewmen by and large make suck-ass infantry, and also because I will soon be involved in the CMMC, wherein surviving armor crewmen will be a very valuable commodity.) But I'll bet Patton would've charged that Hummel with those carriers if he didn't have anything else and felt the situation warranted it. Just my lousy, know-nothing two cents, and all resemblances to any smilies living or dead is purely coincidental...

I'm very much looking forward to TCP/IP. PBEM is fine but DOES take forever.

Well, of course, everybody knows that! There is also very little difference in performance between the $1000 and $10 toilet seat models. Or between the $550 and $2 screw-drivers for that matter. I wonder what sort of "wheels" they're talking about here...certainly not the rubberized, air-holding thingies...

I was playing some Iron Butterfly backwards one night while ingesting several unknown foreign substances and I kept hearing "Go to battlefront.com, go to battlefront.com" in between the grooves of the vinyl. Oh yeah, the walls were melting or something like that... Thank you for your patience...

Fionn, consider yourself challenged!( I mean that in the nicest possible way.) And Germanboy, you need to contact me if you have recieved the game. Or have you grown tired of slapping me around, hmmmmm? Notnowjohn, formerly known as Gunnerdream

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat? Sorry.....late. Thank you for your patience.....

I'm with Bullethead. FO with long, clean LOS, plenty of big ammo and an uncharacteristically goofy A.I. that clumps a bunch of infantry together in that tiny patch of woods...

"Silly Judicial system!!??" American justice is the best that money can buy! Look at how well our jurists are paid! And the very reasonable fees that our lawyers collect! And our judges don't have to wear those silly white wigs... Thank you for your patience...

I'll second that! I've been playing and enjoying Bill's work for years, since he did the old "rogue" scenarios for Squad Leader. You can count on him for well thought out, exciting and surprising stuff!!