Wilhammer

My RV skills are 100% in determining that this is a load of hooie. Now, I can imagine something and guess something and be right based on human behavioral base lines, and then say "I see X doing Y at Z time." Anyone ever with 'Judgmental Bastard' on the Tonight Show? He does a good job of divining a lot of info from a person walking down the street, but it is nothing more than good attention to detail and not clairvoyance. A lot of SWAG can be made to look like ESP/RV. All the 'Evidence' presented on this is hearsay in a self feeding loop. A pile of anecdotes is not data, and calling it 'data' does not make it so. Let me try some RV: John Kettler is going to Lampoon me and defend his sources as 'the top of their field' and possesing 'shocking, earth shattering info' that I cannot possibly comprehend, and that my dis agreeing with him is not worth paying attention too as I am a confirmed rude anti-tinfoiler, or somefink like that. How'd I do? Oh, and Mr, Kettler, this being a new board with a fresh start, can you please avoid being nasty with me as you obliquely did in the Troll thread? I promise to be a good boy =============== When I wargame, I have an easy time imagining myself in a situation, and it can seem very real too me, but that does not mean I have done some time warp with my brain. When I was learning CM, I would imagine all kinds of hull down positions while driving or in my yard or out for a walk, and could 'see' tanks and troops scurrying about, but I assure you, I had not left the place and time I was really in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Zealous_%28R39%29

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/08/navys-stealth-d.html 5 BILLION per ship, scrapped now. I have a friend who works in the Beltway Bandit field, and the whole thing is tragic/funny/wasteful to hear about...

My coffee machine came from Dollar General - 8 dollars. Excellent coffee. The key is fresh whole beans and a Black and Decker grinder - 15 bucks for that.

vacuum energy sucks.

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That was Jawsome! A perfect 10! F**King hilarious!

Free markets aren't.

I am waiting on two board games - Clash of Monarchs (a multiplayer CDG on the 7 Years War in Europe) and Successors III, another MP CDG, this time in the Greek world after the death of Alexander.

Scrolling OK for me. XP\Firefox3

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Let's see how the new suit fits...

Yep, fat pipes. University Lan. At home, it would be more like 300-500 kps.

They knew they would get some early d'lers this way...part of the nefarious plan to test the thing 2200 kps; 3 minutes to go.

Bit Torrent is fast, especially when you have a lot of seeds, and its reliable. Security concerns? Only if you use it for pirating stuff.

"Most ppl are just angry because they were told zilch! That is the bottom line on the upset pre-order concerns.

Is it fair to say this; CM is a company/battalion level game, a scale where tanks and vehicles as individual units makes sense. At this scale WEPLOTWEGO makes sense, and loss of control during GO phases reprsents that scale very well from a command level. Battles are at Point of Contact to Assault. Above that scale, you would be regiment to divisional level with platoons of units ala PanzerBlitz/Leader. ToW is squad/platoon level where men are indivdual units. The actions occur at CM's Assault Level / RTS makes sense at this scale for command. The Pause feature is nice to have, but I wonder if it could involve some penalty for usage for specific scenario needs? In Real Life, you can't have a Frye on 100 Cups of Coffee event, but some commander types are very good at situational awareness and some are not. Technology and doctrine, as well as unit 'readiness' would affect SA and the response of those being lead. Pause, however, is the great clickfest equalizer. Works for me in HTTR and CotA.

Well, I have to admit, the old card game Naval War was quite fun. ------- So, we still wait for THE World War 2 Naval Tactical Sim...

I think what we expect is Combat Mission at Sea -and I hope that is what we get.

Since Kettler found it first, I thought thee Font situation was a tri-lateralist Conspiracy, glad to find out it was a BFC conspiracy countered by the CM:AARP community conspirators. And, apparently, UFOs were involved! Unwanted Font Objections.

One time, in CM, my entire game plan was ruined as my opponent, praying, fingers crossed, ordered his last artillery shell on to my Panther and blew it sky high.

You guys are amazing... The ultimate expression in 'Beehive' round size was achieved thus: "One very fascinating factor about the ammunition: since Japan suffered heavy losses in her naval aviation community early in the war, capital ships were expected to provide their own defense against allied aircraft. As a result of this, the 18-inch gun was provided with an anti-aircraft shell of its own, called "San Shiki" (the Beehive)Model 13. This round weighed 2,998 pounds and was filled with 900 incendiary tubes (of rubber thermite) and 600 steel stays. A time fuze was supplied, set before firing, that went off at a predetermined altitude and when the fuze functioned, the explosive and metal contents burst in a cone extending 20 degrees forward, towards the oncoming aircraft. Instantly after detonating, the projectile shell itself was destroyed by a bursting charge, increasing the quantity of steel splinters. The incendiary tubes ignited about half a second later and burned for five seconds at 3000 degrees C, producing a flame about 16 feet long.

Thanks, BTS, I got my replacement edition yesterday. On page 1/7, a minor typo; "KAR-98Ktoting"

Me too. If it were a movie, I would stand in line at 4 AM for the Noon showing. I actually did that for Empire Strikes Back, even made my picture into the paper for it. I was number three in line, and I was friends with 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6. Ahhh, the stupidity of my youth [ April 25, 2003, 08:46 AM: Message edited by: Wilhammer ]