Chupacabra

Oh poor you, you need to send emails to find someone to play with. Yeesh. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Polar: To play Devils advocate, though, you'd have to say that the overwhelming number of people who choose to play Germany indicates that this balancing act has kind of failed. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Well, there are two sides. Someone's got to play as the Germans, yes? ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

[This message has been edited by Chupacabra (edited 12-15-2000).]

Fireflies actually stand a very good chance of knocking out anything less than a King Tiger, but they're Shermans, so pray you don't get hit back. The 17-pounder was an excellent gun. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

Resent, lemme know if you get it. And get your own damn beer, Hiram. I swear, this Knight stuff is going to your head faster than cheap crystal meth. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

I'd love to see an operational-level overlay to CM9:Beyond Mars, but I doubt you're going to get a CC-style campaign out of BTS. As Germanboy said, BTS has stated quite often that to do so wouldn't be realistic. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Croda: Speaking of which...my wonky guns scare you off? Send the file, goat boy! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Er, I sent out all the turns I owed last night, did you not get it? ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

Even with 3d sound it'd be awfully hard to guesstimate distances, much harder than it would be in real life. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by PeterNZer: for example, people loosing to me: Chupacabra, <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Eh? Maybe if you'd return the file I sent you two days ago we'd find out, hmm? ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

You forgot 5) They're Finns You could tell me that the Finish army used catapult-launched reindeer in an indirect fire role against the Soviets and I'd believe you ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

Well, WizardWorks should be releasing Parachute Hunter II in the next few weeks. Stalk the fearsome parachute armed with one of three accurately modelled weapons and using hunters tricks like parachute calls and parachute scent! ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

IIRC during the so-called "Doctor's Plot" in 1952, one of the accusations against the accused doctors were that they were Trotsky/Kamenev/Zinovievites (since all three were basically up to the same tricks according to Stalinist propaganda). The Doctor's Plot was most likely a manifestation of Stalin's anti-Semitism. Some historians have called it Stalin's excuse for the "Final Pogrom." 6 out of the 9 doctors had recognizably Jewish names, and all were accused of working for Western intelligence agencies and Zionists to poison Stalin and his closest military and political advisors. Since Trotsky, Kamenev and Zinoviev were Jewish by birth, the propaganda machine was able to draw a link there. Remember, no one ever said Soviet propaganda made much sense. Basically this was a long-winded way of saying nah-nah ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

Ein Fallschirm = a parachute, so literally, parachute hunter. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

You forgot to call them Zinovievites. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

Fallschirmjäger ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by M. Bates: If people say that you can just have lots of green troops versus a few veteran, then that's not good enough. Even battle-experienced Russian troops could fight poorly because of their training. (now wait for the miserable gits to pick it apart).<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> So, are veterans veteran or not? I've never been a soldier, but I imagine that battle experience weeds out poor training - or more precisely, those soldiers not capable of recognizing poor training as such and moving beyond it - rather quickly. It's a fairly often-quoted aphorism that fighter pilots' life expentancy shot up drastically if they could fly five missions. At that point, they were generally considered to have worked out the kinks in their technique and learned enough tricks to fight and survive. Contrarily, the vast majority of ace kills came from green pilots on their first few missions. But apparently, according to M. Bates, this experience doesn't make a difference. If the training is poor, the experience means diddly. I simply can't go along with statements like that, and I will happily argue them until my fingers go numb from typing. Moreover, I believe that making statements like: "...then that's not good enough," and "now wait for the miserable gits to pick it apart" is a poor way of making an argument. Right off the bat, you're setting up a confrontational atmosphere. If that's really what you're interested in, feel free to say so, but don't expect it to be fun. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Jeff Heidman: Of course, nicer yet would the ability to just play the game without the CD in the drive... <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Copy protection for CM2 - "What did Berlichtingen call Moriarty on Page 42 of the Peng Thread?" ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

The AVRE wasn't meant to be used against tanks in any way. It was designed to quickly reduce enemy fortifications, and it does that quite well. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

By German law, it's illegal to portray Nazi symbols such as the swastika. Since there are many German wargamers, no swastika. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Hiram Sedai: Must be Forgotten Realms then and not Dragonlance. Sorry bout that. I used to play and took it a little too far. I have 4 Dragon Tattoos. No, I'm not a scary fellow. You can trust me to live next door. hehe <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> My lord Hiram, it's a good thing you don't live next door, as you sound like exactly the type of nerd who I spent my formative childhood years mocking in the hopes that my own nerdiness was overlooked. Besides, everyone knows Lorak was the king of the Silvanesti. So there. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh. [This message has been edited by Chupacabra (edited 12-13-2000).]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Seanachai: Hiram, you ballocksed up that joke. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Hee hee, it's cute when Americans try to use English slang and do it wrong. This is the reason I attempt to avoid English slang as much as possible. Except for cheers, I quite like that one. My dearly retarded friend, the proper spelling is bollocks. Even the Sex Pistols spelled that right, and they were dumb heroin shooting punks. Here now, for your pleasure, is a short primer on popular Englishisms, which have been emboldened for ease of recognition. Seanachai woke up one morning, still feeling quite knackered from a hard night of pounding back cheap German lager. He got out of bed and watched the telly for a bit. On the telly, there was an extremely wooden Englishman with a grating voice giving the news. Much to his delight, he discovered that the Queen Mum would be marching in a nude parade down Knightsbridge that very day! Oh, Seanachai was so very happy! He dashed out of his flat and hopped in the lift, humming merry royal-masturbatory songs all the while. Once on the street, he stepped off the kerb and was immediately smushed to bits by a large lorry. Some bits wound up on the bonnet, and some bits wound up under the tyres. And everyone in London laughed, and laughed, and laughed! and there was much rejoicing. THE END. Now get off your bum and resend that file, ya poncy git. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

Hrm. Yes there bloody well is something wrong with Lego bricks, and that thing is Legoland Windsor. Way to go, England. As if that part of the country wasn't bad enough what with the royals running around in it, the English decide to build a big plastic city on top of it as well. Well done indeed. In other news - My inner Croda is laughing at the outer Croda's idea of what constitutes a good firing position for his guns. I sincerely hope he's brought some things to move 'em with. Because otherwise I think my inner Croda will have some severe image issues, and I'm afraid he might start listening to Korn and writing bad teen poetry. JDMorse will receive my surrender within the next day or two. He is, however, a lawyer, so I'm pretty sure I've got the moral victory all locked up no matter how you look at it. PolTroon is blundering through the dark towards the VLs. Now he has found out what happens when the other guy gets there first. Especially if the other guy happens to be packing a lot of MP40s. Plus he's French, so again, I can pretty much guarantee the moral victory on this no matter what the next 30 turns are like. I'm sure by the end the French will have added a new Chup-hating verse to the Marseillaise, and then promptly capitulate and set up a puppet regime in someplace unpleasant. Berli is blowing up buildings. Unfortunately for him they're not ones I'm in. I will now proceed to reman the rubble. Have fun digging me out! In other news, my armored car driver is an eejit, and will be sent to the Eastern Front. I may kill his family as well, I'm not sure. On the other hand, his Firefly is now blind as well as dumb, and will shortly get killed by something wicked and awful. Sneakytea has sent me a corrupt file, no doubt in an attempt to wangle his way out of the drubbing he will receive. Since it's about the only thing his wangle will be used for in the near future, I suggest we all wish him the best of luck. Sit down, Bauhaus. Ah, forget it, up and at 'im, Bauhaus. Moriarty is exposing his genius by dumping a lot of smoke where he's not advancing and then moving the rest of his men in the open. Brilliant. I'm guessing he subscribes to the "what I don't see can't hurt me" school of thought. Oh well. He'll find out soon enough what's going to happen to him. Ta. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

I don't think the issue is just the swastika... he's clearly in the SS, which in and of itself is offensive to a lot of folks. Dunno, personally if I found a site using that logo and didn't know anything about it, I'd most likely jump to conclusions about it myself. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

MG crews can't abandon their weapons at all, so no joy there I'm afraid. I'm guessing that it would be a can of coding worms to try to retrofit that into the game as well. IIRC there was a discussion not too long ago about abandoning mortars/MGs in which Steve gave an answer as to why MG crews can't abandon their guns, so you may want to do a search. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.

RE the Archer - Yep, shoot and scoot. Use it in ambush positions. Any other way and it's going to get wiped out before you can say blimey. And yeah, it's got to be pointing backwards. ------------------ Grand Poobah of the fresh fire of Heh.