Wilhammer

http://www.4point2.org/ History of 4.2 chemical battalions. WP is prominent in this article, including a description of its effectiveness at scaring soldiers, burning them and toasting cover by a German General. They say that more WP shells were produced for mortars than all other shell types COMBINED. Overwhelmingly, WP was the smoke round used. I am firmly in the "give me my WP" camp.

Great News! [This message has been edited by Wilhammer (edited 09-21-2000).]

I throw down the PBEM gauntlet. After a difficult bid on Friday, I am going to want to unwind. 1000-1500 pts QB, medium to large map (like to have some manuever room). No side preference. I like my terrain/contours to be "busy". Would also like to take on someone in a small down and dirty 500-800 pt small map "busy" terrain 30 turn short. My schedule. I think if I have 3 PBEMs going (I have one now) I can do around 6-8 turns on Saturday, a similar number on Sunday, and 1 turn every day (sometimes twice a day, once before 6AM, the other after 7PM). Send your setup to billwood@triad.rr.com. I can start playing Friday night. In Utmost Awe of CMBO, Wilhammer

A pbem opponent tried to move through a row house wall, and when the TacAI corrected it, they went into the street and got slaughtered by an MG and a squad. Veteran Brit Platoon was rendered useless quickly.

I second M. Bates motion for a forum devoted to Opponent Hunting.

My wife was in Boone, NC this past weekend, and on the way home she stopped at a flea market in Wilkes county. She bought our son some toy soldiers and guns. She says they come from a pile of them, 1:50 scale German WW2 AT Guns. She bought just one! She also got some soldiers, 1:48 scale British WW2, got two bags, 10 guys a bag. They are made from hard plastic, not green/tan Army plastic. The toy company is/was "Highlander Toy and Miniature Military Hobbies, Inc" of Boca Raton, Florida. The short blurb ob the package says they also sell/sold vehicles and terrain, all hand painted. The PAK 40 is hand painted with darg green paint on dark brown plastic. The soldiers are in basic uniform hard plastic, no paint. Pretty good detail, just trimm off the flash and lightly sand and paint, and they would be great looking. These things cost just 25 cents each. Anyone know of this company and the toys they made? BTW, I used to build those Bandai 1:48 AFVs as a kid, I wish I still had them intact. The Panther I later blasted with a pellet gun was spotted (at least another unbuilt copy) on ebay for 75 bucks!

The way it is done now is the best. You know the general nature of the terrain, you do get to pick your own force, and you generally know how big the enemy is. General: "Go over to this spot and take this unit, grab some extra stuff from HQ, and btw, we know th enemy is about this size, and the maps are not too good." Frontline action. The only real improvements I could want; 1. The ability to generate "deep" maps. 2. The dialog boxes for map size and terrain type/weather/tree coverage/hilliness be on one screen. Thanks BTS and fellow CMers.

If the other person on the Contract you signed is an officer of said company, then, in fact, the said company HAS SIGNED THE CONTRACT. In another thread, I stated.... PHAM 911 Pretty Hot and Mad Call 911 He's going to blow! "Good Faith" and "Man of your word" are most commendable, but unfortunately this type of person is viewed as a sucker in business.

Mad Matt. I say; 1. Your Mods are fantasic. I thoroughly enjoy them. 2. Sounds to me that your contract was contingent on a 3rd party, without you knowing. I hope you took no one's words for anything, for in contracting, TRUST NO ONE and get IT ALL IN WRITING. I am in the Construction industry, and I hear many stories like yours. My brother was just taken by a painting contractor that hired him to do a job as a sub, and despite the "agreement" he had, it was nothing since it was unwritten. Is thier a kind of Lein Law in Computing? In contracting, if a subcontractor (in this case, you) is not paid by the contractor (The Gamers Net), then you have the right to file a lien against the property owner (even though the owner knows nothing about this subcontract agreement), and this forces payment as the law MAKES the owner sell the liened asset to pay off the lien(s) unless he settles. (At which point you sign a lien waiver). I don't know who the parent company is, but since you improved that property (with contents and hits) then a lien should be possible. A lien on the owner is going to affect the contractor as he is going to have some explaining to do. When my brother then went to the owner to inform him of the possibility of a lien, the owner got on the phone with the guy he contracted with and my brother got most of his money. (Despite absence of a written contract, implied contracts are legally enforceable in North Carolina). Of coure, all your MOD fans could start a letter writing campaign on your behalf. You deserve compensation.

One time, while playing the AI, I used a StuH42 to area fire a spot near a bridge, and as the AI crossed with vehicles, HE blasts knocked out 2 HTS and an M-8 AC, despite the StuH42 NEVER seeing them. It was blast alone that KO'd the vehicles.

Uhhh. Is a link missing?

Pham911 I wonder what that name means. Let me take a shot at it. Pretty Hot and Mad - call - 911. He's gonna blow!! P H A M 911

Consider construction oriented demolition. Look around as you drive. My firm builds CVS drugstores all over the South East, and we typically demolish two or three buildings at each site, and this usually involves nothing more than a track hoe type excavator and a tracked Front End Loader. You sometimes take the FEL and just drive into the building to KO it, or use the hoe to grapple and pull the walls down while the FEL scoops the remains up. A typical masonry 1 story buiding about 5000 sqft in size can be demolished in about 5 minutes, and then you have about 30 minutes to clean it up. Thes vehicles have roll cages or glass/plexi cabins. Surely a fully armored tank could just drive write down the aisles. Many a WW2 combat story involves a tank hidden in a building with just a hole or a window for spotting and poking the barrel through. I am hopeful we will see it in a future install of a future CM game. [This message has been edited by Wilhammer (edited 09-09-2000).]

First impressions are everything, an unfortunate social truth. I commend M. Bates for his very mature decision to be the gentleman we KNEW he wanted to be. Our society is full of the Outrageous, and M. Bates is a much as victim of this as any of us. We can, and M. Bates proves it, all act like decent gentleman and ladies (whichever is applicable) and the attractive luster of our wargaming community can shine yet brighter. If we want the fine games like CM to be made available to us, then it should be a duty of all satisfied CMers to be professional and friendly so that we can be an attractive haven for many more yet to be discovered wargamers,and so that the discovered can enjoy new gaming experiences in the future. I applaud you M. Bates, you may yet be assimilated.

MB, "I really can't stand for these unneccesary comments about my name, I just can't let this continue!" is to be expected as it was you that elected to "expose" yourself to deserved harrasment. No doubt, you chose this moniker in the hope to get a "rise" by your clever use of your "handle". All kidding aside, I for one would like to see a sensible contribution by all participants on this board, but chosing a name that is designed to be vulgar is adolescent, rude, and will serve you no other purpose than to be thought of as a poorly opinionated fool. This IS NOT a flame, it is an assessment. This "Assesment" is no doubt shared by the collective, and will likley prevent you from being "Assimilated". The non assimilated will either die from intellectual mal-nutrition or wind up saying the wrong thing and be ejected permanently. It is your path to chose, but if your goal is to be a seriously considered contributor to the board and the CM community, I suggest that you supress your anarchistic desires and show a bit of discipline. Damn it man, this is a military simulation board, so simulate your participation as a gentleman, if not for your sake, for the sake of the decency of the board.

Look for "Matt's Scripts Archive" on the web. I had a friend in HS named Paul Bates, and, well, I guess that is you last name as well. Thanks for your understanding.

As you no doubt realise, though we have a wargame community here, their are children reading this forum. Your moniker and your sig is out of line, in my opinion. This IS NOT a flame. I am a concerned father who plays CM with my 9 year old in addition to the PBEM's.

Hi-Res Mods and your System. Kinda curious what the systesm are used in the CM community that can handles things like MDMP-2. I recently replaced my MatroxG200/VooDoo2 combo with a Guillemont TNT2 Ultra Xentor 32. I have a Pentium II-350 on an Asus P2B MB with 64MB PC-100 SDRAM. The H-Res Mods and my greatly expanded graphics capability (and I mean a BIG change) has made CM nearly photo-realistic at times. I will install MDMP2 tonight, that oughta improve it more. I get no skipping, but an occasional pause. I run at the highest settings and a screen resolution of 1024X768. I have but one graphics problem, and that only occurs when I minimize CM and come back in big battles, the graphics are gone and my mouse cursor is a green grass square. I am forced to reboot to restore my graphics. It is soley a user issue, as I run CM with IE and Email, ZoneAlarm and miscellany running as well. Nothing goes wrong as long as I do not minimalize my CM app.

Please remove all of his objectionable posts and pics ASAP.

I thought i read somewhere on this Forum that BTS might look into adding "forced" squad splitting from adverse combat conditions.

Allied esp. American It is my feeling and beleief that the German War Machine was an instrument of evil, and that the Americans, though not perfect, were fighting for Democracy and Free Trade, which incidentally, benefits all who participate. Sure Capitalism fosters greed, but Democracy for the most part (there are slip ups) protects human rights because it is generally recognized that people are the top resources of a Nation; they are the producers and the consumers, and when educated and able to stock up on goodies, then we are less likely to kill each other. The Japanese, Germans, and Russians started the Damn War out of greed and with severe malice. They believed that national greatness involved taking lives and territory, a stupid and short sighted inhuman policy. Death Unto Tyrants. All three of those Nations made a point of wiping out and/or displacing millions of people. Please do NOT use this post to start ANOTHER Merit pissing contest, these are my personal reasons. So, I prefer the Allies, especially the Americans, then the Commonwealth, then the British, then the Free French (though I find it despicable that they ousted the black troops to have the white troops liberate Paris). I have a belief (PERSONAL) that German weapons, though of brilliant engineering, are vastly overrated. Just how much quality could you get out of slave labor? My guess is that it severly impacted the weapons, poor steel, poor welds, suretiptious sabotage and high dud rates. This mainly applies to post 1943, slavery I mean. Nearly all the "Cool" weapons were post 1943. Just My Two Cents. My Croat Buddy, Sir Chill, must be wondering what happened to his move. Hate to say it, but work and family do outweigh CM. Time to go back to work.

Egg Tempura -colored chalk (bright pastel chalks are best) -water -one egg Break off pieces of chalk and grind them into powder in an old pottery bowl with a round rock. Put the colored powder into cups (careful not to breath any). Crack an egg and separate the white from the yolk. Put the yolk in a bowl and add 2 teaspoons of water. Whip it up with a fork until the egg and water are frothy yellow. Add drops of egg-water to the powdered chalk and stir with a paintbrush until you make a smooth, runny paint. Now use it in a painting! ====Actually, one of the oldest forms of making paint. Very popular in the Rennaisance, and a major culprit in paint decay, as the egg protiens breakdown, the paint cracks and flakes off.=======

Ahhh. True, the criticism was mean spirited and totally destructive in tone, in and of itself, but the criticism is good in that it attracted sane, competent and very useful commentary that not only quashed the heresy, but further aids CM. My great fear for CM is that new ppl coming to the board that see this spurious and misguided bitching will turn off any potential new CMers. I revel in those who accept the duty to replace lies and threats with truths and promise. This only aids the cause. No problem ever existed that did not have a least one and usually infinite solution.

This kind of reminds me of the old business adage "No good deed goes unpunished." Now we have a problem with a Work of Art that is not perfect because of the use of robin's eggs instead of chicken eggs to make tempura paint. The price for creation is criticism. The greater the creation, the greater the criticism. Hence, criticism is a GOOD thing. So, all critiques are positive for CM, the Great Art of Wargaming.

A guy walks into a bar and sits at the counter. He moans to the Bar Tender, "All lawyers are a**holes!". The guy nearest him at the bar says, "Better take that back, or I am going to beat you." Our man says, "I did not mean to offend, are you a lawyer?". "No, I am an a**hole"