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Holy hell, Canada? What's next, Peng does Detroit? Anyway, some game updates - Berli is thrashing me soundly on this Germanboy-created abortion. Was that the sound of unwinnable I hear? Why yes, I believe it was. Moriarty thought that having a platoon leader try to outslug a Sturmtruppe squad at ~50m was a good idea. That was a big fat slaughter. Hee hee. Slaughter=goodness. He's also trying to use a recoilless rifle to knock down heavy city buildings. Either that or his men decided that they've just got too much damn ammo and felt the need to waste some pointlessly. I can't tell whether he's trying to be sneaky or not, which probably means he is. Scrota is a gamey many-Hetzer-buying bastard. Unfortunately for him they've done jack so far. Open wide, son, it's probin' time. Stevetherat thinks the map we're playing on doesn't have any cover...which pretty much means that unless he's brought some M1A1s to the party, his North-London-living ass will be enjoying a sound spanking soon enough. PolTroon is driving things around in the dark. Sneakytea sent me a corrupt file. Or somefink. Personally, I think he couldn't stand the PBEM data's succintness and decided to add about a thousand lines of commentary in iambic pentameter to the end of it. Aqua Velva - listen, spaceman. When I said "impress me," I didn't mean "talk about your favorite Battlestar Galactica episode." It's true, Battlestar Galactica was pretty funny. But reading about it is as exciting as my morning piss, and a whole hell of a lot less satisfying. I am not holding off of playing you for the sake of avoiding you, or because your kooky nickname makes me wet my shorts, but because you've yet to make me so much as chuckle. You cut-rate Seanachai, come up with a proper assault, and then I'll think about gracing you with a game. We clear, Miss Pretty Panties? In other news - computer troubles which have been plaguing me for a while are getting worse. It's to the point now where CM goes for about 5 minutes before locking up. I have tried every fix I can think of short of formatting my hard drive, and that is something I cannot afford to spend the time to do at the moment. So what does this mean? Well, it means that unless things clear up fairly soon, I am going to have to put my games on hold indefinitely. I will offer my usual terms: if you want a surrender or a ceasefire, I'll give them. If you want to wait and see what happens, that's cool too. I think the real solution is for me to buy a new computer, but that is something I cannot contemplate doing until September at the earliest. Life sucks, don't it? Die all now. ------------------ Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super

Hrm. Well...I'm going to agree with CavScout et al. Having been (briefly) a film major at one point, and being a history student now, I firmly believe that good history doesn't necessarily make good movies. For example, take SPR - a movie which I didn't like, by the way. A historically accurate SPR probably would have followed the beach landing with another hour or so of Americans alternatively wandering into ambushes and getting slaughtered or stumbling across a pack of shell-shocked conscripts and slaughtering them. Realistic? Yeah, more or less. But it wouldn't make good theater. As for movies like The Patriot, or U-571...they're made for an American audience. American audiences like it when Americans do good things. Basic marketing. And like Jeff said, if people are basing their ideas on a movie they saw...well, then they're plain stupid, and there's no cure for that. Frankly, I don't understand the argument that movies which aren't perfectly accurate in their depiction of history are somehow disrespectful to the real participants. It's not as if in the middle of U-571, Matthew McConauwhatever looked straight into the camera and said "by the way, British people are bad. American people are better than them. USA! USA!" The mistake is not that fictional movies are bad history, rather the mistake is that fictional movies should even be seen as history in the first place. ------------------ Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super

Hey Mace...has anyone ever told you you look like Mark Spitz? ------------------ Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super

...and then someone told Hitler about basements. ------------------ Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super

Engineer #1: Achtung! Hitler vants a mine-clearing tank! Engineer #2: But ve have no plans for that, it vill take years to develop! Engineer #3: Vell...I have this picture my 3-year old son drew... Engineer #1: Beauty. Run vith it. ------------------ Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super

Which is why you're still bitching about brainwashing over on Usenet? There is, of course, room for improvement in CM's graphics. And they will improve. If you think that acting like an scat-flinging monkey is going to induce anyone to see your point of view, you are quite delusional. Wake the hell up, kid. And tell me, how does it feel to get constantly flamed on a usenet forum you started? ------------------ Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super

I strongly disagree. Grogism has its downsides, but think of it this way - without grogs you wouldn't have rifle grenades or nahverteidigungswaffen, to name a few. The basic grog impulse is to make the game better by making it more realistic. This can often come across as overly strident and demanding, which is unfortunate. But I believe very strongly that to discount any and all grog-type stuff simply because a few grogs don't have decent social skills is as misguided as to demand BTS fix every niggling detail immediately, drop-everything-else-and-do-it-or-your-game- sucks. ------------------ Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super

Women did serve in tank crews. ------------------ Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super

David - it's a post-war brand, owned, I think, by General Motors. The original jeeps were made by a few different companies. ------------------ Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super

Nice wheels. ------------------ Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super

Oh for Christ's sake. Are you seriously comparing Clinton to Hitler? I am fairly tolerant of others' political beliefs as long as they don't act like total asswipes about it, but I have just lost any respect for you. ------------------ Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super

Oh for Christ's sake. Are you seriously comparing Clinton to Hitler? I am fairly tolerant of others' political beliefs as long as they don't act like total asswipes about it, but I have just lost any respect for you. ------------------ Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super

Ugh, why? The less it looks like her, the less stupifyingly horrible it'll be. ------------------ Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super

Ugh, why? The less it looks like her, the less stupifyingly horrible it'll be. ------------------ Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super

Wow Rob, how many Americans have you actually met in person and talked to? Are you really so incredibly prejudiced that you don't like any Americans at all simply because of their nationality? Most of the Canadians I've met have been good guys, and I've liked them, but based on this thread, I've gotta say I don't think I'd like you very much. ------------------ Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super

What's your point? Quite a few people here (myself included) first heard about CM on other games' fora. ------------------ Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! *sniffle* Thanks for the laugh. ------------------ Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super

TankGirl - you call the threads that were shut down "serious historical discussion?" What I read was more like seriously misinformed tripe, to be honest. ------------------ Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super

Waffe means weapon, it doesn't have anything to to with it being air-detonated. ------------------ Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super

I get most of my game reviews from Old Man Murray... ------------------ Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super

Oom bork dee bork, dee bork. ------------------ Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super

Space Thing - No, the US v. France scenario took place in North Africa where, I presume, the French soldiers were still equipped with French standard issue equipment and possibly some German equipment, although I'm really not sure. However, I don't believe anyone is asking for an "Allies vs. Allies" scenario to be included in CM1, but rather in future games. As I've stated, I don't necessarily think this is something I would be in favor of. However, my reasoning is less that such fights could never happen, (with a few exceptions) but rather that I would prefer to have a historically correct game sooner rather than a hypothetically correct game later. ------------------ Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super

Interesting how Peter Lorre always got to play the serial killer/whining pansy/guy who died, while Sydney Greenstreet always got to play the badass gangster type, yes? You might want to come up with a better metaphor. And so as ye shall not mess with Johnny Cash, neither shall ye mess with the Clash. ------------------ Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super

...realize that Peter is a crack-smoking fool if he thinks that one of the greatest American films of the past twenty years is some "obscure art house film." In response to this travesty against film history, John Wayne rose out of his grave, Colt Peacemakers cocked and ready, and spoke in a sepulcheral voice... ------------------ Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super

Hi Slapdragon - I'm afraid this might come across as a flame. I hope you don't take it as such, but rather as constructive criticism. I would like to address some of your points however... I feel that to some degree you relish in this position. It seems to me that you enjoy being considered "the lead felon," although I'm not entirely sure why. I feel that every time someone mentions a possible problem in which CM might be inaccurately misrepresenting the capabilities of German armor in particular, but of the German military in general, you are quite eager to label them as "Deutschland immer gewinnt" apologists. This may be so, and I would certainly agree that wargamers as a generalized group tend to be pro-Axis (in equipment, not in politics), yet I feel that you've slung that particular term about a bit too readily. I basically feel that you help to perpetuate or in some cases cause the flame wars which you castigate in your post. Again, I hope this doesn't turn into a flame war of its own, but rather that you take this in the spirit it was intended. Cheers, Jon ------------------ Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super