Kanonier Reichmann

So I take it that the trial is still on then? I can see that the welcoming mat has been laid out, thankyou Berli. I still get a kick out of playing Combat Mission with Volksturm units as I get to see your crusty old bearded personage peering back at me as the face pic. of the German militia. P.S. Have a nice day. Regards Jim R.

So I take it that the trial is still on then? I can see that the welcoming mat has been laid out, thankyou Berli. I still get a kick out of playing Combat Mission with Volksturm units as I get to see your crusty old bearded personage peering back at me as the face pic. of the German militia. P.S. Have a nice day. Regards Jim R.

Seanachai wrote: Thanks for the offer but I don't believe in the process degenerating into a witch-hunt, so I'll pass. Suffice to say I would simply like an opportunity to make some salient points and be done. As for someone who may want to take on the mantle of prosecutor I can think of one very likely candidate and his name begins with a B. Three guesses who that may be. P.S. [i would normnally post a smiley at this point but I wouldn't want to upset the almighty Peng seeing as these threads are his domain to rule over] Regards Jim R.

Seanachai wrote: Thanks for the offer but I don't believe in the process degenerating into a witch-hunt, so I'll pass. Suffice to say I would simply like an opportunity to make some salient points and be done. As for someone who may want to take on the mantle of prosecutor I can think of one very likely candidate and his name begins with a B. Three guesses who that may be. P.S. [i would normnally post a smiley at this point but I wouldn't want to upset the almighty Peng seeing as these threads are his domain to rule over] Regards Jim R.

I don't normally set foot within these cesspudlian haunts but since the offer has been made I'll make one simple statement. Put me down as a witness for the prosecution (in case you couldn't guess). Regards Jim R.

I don't normally set foot within these cesspudlian haunts but since the offer has been made I'll make one simple statement. Put me down as a witness for the prosecution (in case you couldn't guess). Regards Jim R.

The sobering thought is how young and fresh faced he looked and yet probably did not live another year of his life. Regards Jim R.

Puff, if you don't like someone questioning your unqualified and meaningless generalisations, maybe you should refrain from making them? The question for the location of Shisdra is important, because if it is in the Orel area, I take it that is Steppe country? Now obviously very stupid people would compare combat distances in the Steppe to those in France, but I am sure that would not happen to such a distinguished contributor to this board as you. Late war is generally accepted to be 1944-5. In your head you are welcome to claim that late war is 1937 in Spain and draw conclusions, or whatever else, but don't expect others to follow. I will also report your post to the moderators. We have so far had a reasonable discussion, I will not let you wreck that. Have a nice day.</font>

OWWWWWWW!!!!!! My head hurts! Couldn't fit it into the damn pop-out coffee mug holder on my computer. CHOKE! Ooops... forgot to breathe. Regards Jim R.

I'll have a go at answering your query redwolf. Basically, I was able to achieve a decisive victory as the British in Meeting of Devils through better drop zones for my troops, as I perceived it. What I found tended to happen was that a re-inforcement platoon of Paratroopers would appear one turn and provided I didn't charge them around too much in the turn they arrived, invariably an enemy platton of FJ's would also appear by the next turn or soon after, often in the open and within 40 metres or so of my squads. Most of my losses came in the 1st turn from my Engineer based platoon which was mainly in the open and surrounded by enemy forces. I can honestly say that after that turn, probably more than 50% of my infantry losses came from friendly fire when all squads and Vickers MG's would open up on enemy squads in the midst of my forces, causing horrific losses to not only the enmy but my guys as well. There is nothing more frustrating than watching a squad & Vickers continue to fire at 1 pinned enemy man left in scattered trees while 2 squads of my own who could easily deal with him get shot to pieces from so called "friendly" fire. ........SPOILER ALERT.......... / / / / / / / / / / / / One "tactic" that worked particularly well for me was actually initiated by the AI towards the end of the game. In this instance, a partially reduced Green Para squad was sneaking through bush towards the enemy held building (the one with one of the objectives & surrounded by bush & rough) when it took fire from enemy units within the building. The Tac AI took over and immediately rushed the squad into the nearest coover being the enemy building (as is its habit) where 3 other enemy squads were either in and around it. What ensued was a huge firefight where you could literally see the enemy squads shooting themselves to bits trying to kill my pinned 2 man squad for virtually an entire turn. I'm not sure whether it was Warhammers experience as well but I'd venture to say he probably was wringing his hands over "friendly" fire incidents as well. This general trend seemed to be the order of the day (night?) time and time again. The upshot of all this was that despite the Germans still having their Armoured Car & re-inforcing Pz IV on the map, they auto-surrendered due to their losses in infantry being so great at the stage of 2 turns after the re-inforcing Pz IV arrived. All I can say was that I was lucky for the auto-surrender at that point to cut in since the tank was drawing a bead on my own AT gun which couldn't rotate in time and was almost certainly dead meat. If I had lost that then that Pz IV could really have done some damage I think. Overall, I'd have to say I was a bit lucky to have the better landing positions for my Para's when compared with The FJ's which invariably seemed to appear in my gun sights, often in the open, a turn or 2 later. It was still good fun from my point of view but I was never able to achieve much with my Jeep MG's as they were very quickly shot up as soon as they came within range of small arms fire. I probably used them badly, more like scouting units rather than as back up mobile MG's to scouting squads up forward. Oh well, you live and you learn. Regards Jim R.

Hey, I'm all for a CMBO tournament provided it doesn't start until after my exam on the 15th May. Once that's out of the way I'm free for another 2 to 3 months again. Just one thing with the unbalanced scenario's, I hope there will be some ability to tweak the scenario allocation method that is used as I ended up playing the (more boring) Allied forces in 4 out of the 5 games and the much weaker of the forces in both "The Aftermath" (my only German game) and "Gotta Get Up" scenario's, so I never really had the chance to enjoy greatly superior forces in either of the 2 most one sided games. Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy the challenges that they presented me but I'm coming more from the point of view of trying to ensure a bit more variety for all players concerned, whether it be with force nationality or which side has the superior force. Whichever way you do it, I'll still enjoy myself and appreciate the experience but I just thought that if there was an easy way to achieve force variety for all participants then it would be good if it could be implemented. Regards Jim R.

Yep, I did and paid the price with a pretty horrible loss but I figured there was no fun in simply pissing off full speed for the rear with whatever could realistically make it so I decided to make a stand. Not a good idea from the "attemting to win" point of view but at least I had a number of firefights and one good ambush to enjoy while playing the game right out. All I managed to exit off the map was a couple of halftracks, a shot up Coy. HQ with 2 shot up squads in tow & a veteran flamethrower with another veteran (untouched) squad alongside. Not a particularly good return for the loss of just about everything else. Regards Jim R.

Huh? You can ram a smaller tank and KO it?!??</font>

So has everybody already given up discussing those 5 fine scenario's? Personally I think it's a shame but that's just my humble opinion. Regards Jim R.

Oh crap! I didn't bother reading page 10 did I. Belay that previous post of mine thanks TB, it's already out of date. Regards Jim R.

Hi Treeburst. Put me down for option #2 thanks. Regards Jim R.

Anzac Day is a truly moving and historic day for all of us who live in Australia & New Zealand. My father flew in 456 Squadron of the R.A.A.F. as a Night Fighter flying Mosquito's from 1942 onwards and did his bit keeping the free world from tyranny. He is sorely missed by me and the rest of the family (but he still lived to a reasonable old age at least). Lest we forget. Hopefully a certain individual will not dare to enter this thread to rubbish this historic national holiday much as he did with New Zealand's previously celebrated Waitangi Day. Regards Jim R.

Ahhhh, a Churchill, a Churchill.. my kingdom for a (working) Chruchill! Economy of Force was my downfall in the tournament with my "juggernaut" Churchill being reduced to just "naut" in a very early duel with one of Lopaka's green Stug's. Second shot from the Stug was a gun hit and that was then end of my push down the left flank as the British. Things went from bad to worse when I lost a Sherman II to a, there's that word again, green Pz IV when my regular Sherman aquired the enemy tank after moving through bocage, fired a shot and missed then proceeded to lose acquisition for some strange reason while the Pz IV plugged it in return. Luckily I had a Stuart on my right flank take out an enemy Stug after it had, in turn, destroyed my Sexton. My Stuart then managed a weak point penetration against the offending green Pz IV, extracting some measure of revenge for the loss of my Sherman. Unfortunaty I became a bit too cocky with my little Stuart and tried to outflank the remaining regular Pz IVj on my right flank but timed my move very badly so it simply wandered into view of the advancing Pz IVj to be promptly killed. Things were looking grim at this stage as all I had left was the Daimler and the 2nd Sherman II able to fight against the enemy's Stug, Lynx Flammpanzer and Pz IV (which was proceeding to roll up into my rear area from the British right flank). Oh, did I mention that the same green Stug that castrated my Churchill also blew away my 2nd Stuart with its first shot while my Stuart was reversing and targeting the exact spot where the enemy AFV appeared? The long and the short of it was that this green Stug from hell also took out my Veteran Daimler with its first shot (sound familiar?) although my Daimler had the perfect opportunity to hit the Stug on the side from approx. 60 metres the previous turn and missed. This left me with 1 regular Sherman vs 4 enemy AFV's and I was not happy. Thankfully my luck turned by about turn 20 when I rushed my remaining Sherman across the British controlled bridge from the south to north and in the process managed a side shot against the Flammpanzer as it was starting to get menacingly close to my infantry holed up in the centre line of buildings near the river. I then used the Sherman to play ring-a-ring-a-rosy around the 2 story heavy building just to the west of the Church and managed to catch out the Lynx in the process with a shot up its rear for good measure. While this was happenning my Churchill was beating a hasty retreat directly towards the rampaging Pz IV that was shooting up my rear area. I figured the only way it was going to survive was to charge directly at the Panzer while it tried to get a rear shot on me when manouvering between the rear-most line of 2 storey buildings. So directly did I charge it at the enemy that we eneded up colliding head on and the greater weight of my tank prevailed. I then 'fast' moved the "dentureless" Churchill between the narrow space betwen 2 large buildings at my rear while the slow turret of the Pz IVj desperately tried to turn fast enough to kill it from the rear. The immense speed of the Churchill prevailed and it escaped to go on a magical mystery tour down my right flank using the back north/south road for the British. Despite the Pz IV chasing in hot pursuit along the same road, Lopaka (thankfully) decided I had too much of a head start and called off the chase after destroying one of few remaining (fleeing) halftracks, to head back towards the disputed bridge on the British side. BTW, can a Churchill EVER have too much of a head start I wonder?. As it turned out, this proved to be to my advantage as a shot up PIAT team happenned to be in the right spot at the right time and hit the Pz IV first shot as it trundled around my rear area making a beeline for the bridge. Just the previous turn or so the the remaining "uber-Stug" was also making a play for the disputed bridge from the north but another one of my fearless one man wonder PIAT teamette's was waiting for it on the far bank in scattered trees and again.. 1st shot.. plugged the Stug from front on at about 55 metres distance. So, with my greyhound-like Churchill I now charged at the German held bridge from the southern flank, using the roads wherever possible and hoping like hell there were no Panzerschreck teams around to completely defang the leviathin. I figured it wasn't worth risking my only fuly functioning AFV (the Sherman) in a 2nd pincer like movement towards the enemy bridge from the north so I stationed it squarely in the middle of my reclaimed bridge as I knew a German halftrack was lurking behind the northern buildings in my rear area. On the final turn my Churchill lumbered onto the enemy bridge shooting up some broken German squads cowering under it with its remaining bow MG. Sure enough, the German halftrack makes its play towards my bridge with my PIAT team taking a pot shot with its last warhead, only to miss from about 80 metres while a 50 calibre I also had stationed for just such an eventuality only managed the one burst from about 90 metres to also do nothing but button the rotten thing up. At this stage the game ended & I had managed to cause the German held bridge to be disputed but to my horror, "my" bridge with a bloody great fully functioning Sherman sitting right in the middle was also in dispute despite having infantry in buildings to the north and south of it. To say I wasn't happy due to that one lousy halftrack sitting some 40 metres away causing "my" bridge to be in dispute would be an understatement. The end result, a marginal victory with the only half decent functional AFV still on my side but if ever a victory could be considered Pyrric, this was it! Ah well, all's fair in love and war and it was one of those games where one moment you thought you were king of the world and the next turn suddenly you were the janitor cleaning out the urinals. A really fun game all round despite my result causing a loss of over 12.6 Nabla adjusted points for my side. OUCH! Regards Jim R. [ April 22, 2002, 08:04 AM: Message edited by: Kanonier Reichmann ]

Originally posted by Seanachai: Can I take the part of Caligula? I promise to wear a toga every time I enter the forum. Regards Jim R.

In answer to your question about whether I would like to participate in the next WineCape tournament all I'll say is...is the Pope catholic?. Regards Jim R.

Wow! Interesting results. Depite my winning the scenario Economy of Force I still managed to accrue minus 12 or so points. YIKES! And I blame it all on losing my Churchill's gun from the very first shot fired in anger at it. My game winning unit became toothless from the virtual beginning. :mad: I shall console my wounded pride with the game highest score in Meeting of Devils... although it could be argued that this particular scenario has the highest "luck" factor of all of them. While I have the opportunity I would like to thank Treeburst & Nabla for making the whole tournament possible and for their tireless effort throughout. An extremely enjoyable and well organised tournament which I benefitted from immensely. Mind you, I have to agree with the previous poster that Wreck's continual long winded narratives that accompanied each game file really stretched my reading limits every time. Regards Jim R.

I second L4Pilot's suggestion. A truly sensible and reasonable compromise to reflect how a minimally equipped crew would more than likely have reacted on a hot battlefield, IMHO of course. Regards Jim R.

This is your cue Brian. Regards Jim R.

Ooooh shiny ones! How about a pachyderm. I have a special place in my heart for pachyderms.</font>

Avoid 'em. Regards Jim R.