Chupacabra

AI is not going to be able to perform in a "reasonable and realistic" manner for many years now. That said, the CM AI is the best I've seen in a wargame, or in any game, really. ------------------ Soy super bien, soy super super bien, soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by PeterNZer: Now. Back to Chupacarbra who is an evil, malicious sneaky low down son of a mongolian whoremonger. Never play this bastard in a night game, his dark rituals leave your men gibbering wrecks whom he captures in order to sacrafice their souls to his demon gods. A brave attempt by a platoon to free some captives was successful but only at great cost. On top of that, he has some hex which means your panzerfausts never fire! He is evil, smelly, evil and he wears glasses. And he's evil too. PeterNZ<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Straight to Cthulhu they go! Oh, and by the way, remember the arty that cut your guys at that VL to pieces and made them run away like screaming playground sissies at the first sight of my troops? You don't even wanna know how much I've still got. Enjoy the screen shake. ------------------ Soy super bien, soy super super bien, soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Moriarty: 'e dinna look like a Scotsman. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Maybe that's what a Peng looks like. ------------------ Soy super bien, soy super super bien, soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super.

We still good for tomorrow/today/bah, whatever, Monday, 7.00? ------------------ Soy super bien, soy super super bien, soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by PeterNZer: - 2 squads in a building, pretty undetected, refused to use their PF on an easy-8 at 47m. One was high, so the chances of a top shot and kill were good. PeterNZ <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Undetected? Why do you think I was flinging HE at the building? Seriously though, I checked the squads which got your Wespe, and they have used rifle grenades. They took out the Wespe with small arms fire and regular grenades, but they did fire the rifle grenades as well. Keep in mind though that they were vets, in command, rested, and in good order. ------------------ Soy super bien, soy super super bien, soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by David Aitken: Cripes, 215 posts? It's like playing an arcade game, racking up an all-time high score, dying, and then starting all over again. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Admit it, you spent as many hours pumping change into one of those Donkey Kong cocktail-table machines as the rest of us did ------------------ Soy super bien, soy super super bien, soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super.

Hello newbie, hello question. The answer is, sorta. You're not going to be able to use on-board mortars in the indirect fire role that you may be used to using them from other wargames. On-board mortars can only fire indirectly if they are in command with an HQ unit which has LOS to the target. Therefore, I like to stick a battery of mortars on the reverse slope of a hill, sneak an HQ unit up to the crest, and start bringing down the goodness. Hope this answers the question, and have fun with the game. ------------------ Soy super bien, soy super super bien, soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super.

Well, the Pershing was, AFAIK, specifically designed to take on the German medium and heavy tanks, so it's not all that surprising that it can do so. IMO it's no better a tank than the Tiger, and in some ways, worse than, say, the Panther. ------------------ Soy super bien, soy super super bien, soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Germanboy: Doug, that was exactly what I thought. Of course it is always easier to claim that being allowed to screw up with no consequence is realistic. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Don't forget, in America, our juries award multi-million dollar settlements to dumbasses who spill their coffee in their laps. ------------------ Soy super bien, soy super super bien, soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super.

See above: No apologies needed, I really would be a total jerk if I got put out because someone posted a link that led more people to material as good as this stuff. And I reckon I'm only about half a jerk or so ------------------ Soy super bien, soy super super bien, soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super.

I thought CM5 was going to star the Doom marine? Um, actually, if it's not covered by the Africa/Mediterranean CM, I'd love to see Greece and the Balkans. Not quite as epic as the Ostfront , but I've yet to see a computer wargame which covered that part of the war. ------------------ Soy super bien, soy super super bien, soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super.

In all seriousness, I'm glad someone else posted a link to that site. The more people who see that stuff, the better. I'm afraid not too many people noticed it when I posted originally, and I'm vain enough not to want to seem like I'm tooting my own horn by reposting myself . As far as I'm concerned, the sooner people read about how things were actually done, the sooner we can bury things like jeep rushes ------------------ Soy super bien, soy super super bien, soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super.

Bah, I linked to that page like a week ago, and did poor overlooked l'il Chupi get any thanks? Noooooo... ------------------ Soy super bien, soy super super bien, soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Germanboy: Yep they were green, but still - but he had a lot more of them. Now obviously that did not help him because he chose to do something with them you should not. I.e. drive them right up under the nose of my platoon, and have them shred to pieces there. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Well, I didn't know you had a platoon there when I gave their orders. By the time they were close enough to see what was up, it was either go somewhere else and get cut up or stay and maybe take some engineers with me. Really, you don't think I'd purposely send green attackers at unsupressed infantry, do you? Not even you are psychotic enough to try a stunt like that. I still say that if the command delay wasn't so horrendous I would've had you. ------------------ Soy super bien, soy super super bien, soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by PeterNZer: .... his conscript hamstertuppen vs. germygirl's VETERAN enginners. PeterNZ<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Be fair, they were green, not conscript Not sure how much of a difference that makes in the situation... ------------------ Soy super bien, soy super super bien, soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super.

Lorak - while people are pestering you to update. Even though the hideous creeling muzak which I can only assume is a Celtic porn soundtrack (from "Sian's Pot of Gold," prehaps) keeps crashing IE after about 30 seconds, I've seen enough to notice that my record is incomplete. It should in fact be 0/1/1 (loss to GI Tom, draw to GI Jim). Although you may want to wait until I finish turning BleaterNZer, Snoriarty, and Crudea into hash before you update. Hatefully yours, ------------------ Soy super bien, soy super super bien, soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super.

Yeah, design a scenario or edit a current one. Now go into the unit editor, and bump up the StuG's ammo load to 90. Et voila. As for changing the default loadout, well, that'd be a little silly, I think. Remember, just because they liked to tote around as many shells as possible doesn't mean they could do so all the time, or even half the time. ------------------ Soy super bien, soy super super bien, soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Germanboy: Lorak the loathed! I call upon you to record my current state of syphilitic degenerate squalor! The combination of hard drugs and tuberculosis is turning my brain to mush! Take me to a methadone clinic, pronto!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Tsk, such a shame. ------------------ Soy super bien, soy super super bien, soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super.

Gerbiltoy did indeed beat me in the pub...shame the victory must be so hollow given the setup. On other fronts - Peter"That's not a sheep, that's Aunt Tilly"NZer is learning the fun of full-on artillery barrages landing on already demoralized units. Was that a Panther crew I heard crying like sissy limp-wristed baby girls? Why yes, I think it was. I have consolidated my position in and around the town, and once I mop up his lonely little Fallguyjokers, I'll be prepared to sit back and do some serious strutting and crowing. Croaka - his infantry squads are running away already? Boy, what are they feeding them in Repple-Depple these days, Wussy Flakes? My halftrack inexplicably decided to stop in the middle of its fast move order between cover and turn to take a shot at one of Cruda's Zippos. Only, it didn't turn to shoot. It had a targeting line, but couldn't seem to make up its mind. It's a good thing that halftrack catastrophically exploded, or I bloody well would've shot it until it did. At least my StuH is teaching one of his Shermans how to cringe and cower. Snoriarty - Er, not much. My Nebelwaffel rounds spread some more goodness around town, but no obvious results. We'll find out soon enough just how much of his troops I caught. ------------------ Soy super bien, soy super super bien, soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super.

I love flamethrowers. I love flamethrowers. Have I mentioned how much I love flamethrowers? Well I do! Squishy ain't bad, but crispy's so much better! ------------------ Soy super bien, soy super super bien, soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super.

From Combat Lessons 1, a pamphlet published in 1944 by the US War Department: Staff Sergeant Richard E. Deland, Infantry, Sicily "In training, bear down on cover and concealment; bear down on the avoidance of the blundering approach... Battles move slowly; patrols can't dash about." From Combat Lessons 3, 1944 Brigadier General William H. Wilbur, Assistant Division Commander, ITALY "In our experience by far the major part of the reconnaisance missions assigned the reconnaisance troop required dismounted action... the Germans are extremely clever in concealment and a weak motorized patrol is quite apt to be captured as the Germans are likely to let them go by before opening fire." From http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/DL/chron.htm In conclusion - jeep rushes seem to have not been done. At the very least, they were highly frowned upon and considered ineffective, if not downright criminally inept. Like the folks say, advance your recon units in bounds, don't send 'em hell-for-leather into the enemy's positions trying to smoke them out. ------------------ Soy super bien, soy super super bien, soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Geier: Btw, has anyone seen what two 9cm RCL AT guns can do to a moose from 500 meters? I have. Pwetty. Even with just concrete shells. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Has anyone seen what a moose can do to the front grille of a Dodge Dart doing 60 mph? Not pwetty. ------------------ Soy super bien, soy super super bien, soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super.

Keegan's book is excellent. Very thorough, and devotes a considerable amount of time to campaigns which generally get ignored by historians (Crete, Greece, the Balkans in particular). I'm also partial to Winston Churchill's 6-volume history of the war. The history is called The Second World War. He (naturally) deals more with the top-down history than with the guys in the trenches, so if you want blazing guns and daring assault, look somewhere else. I find the insight into the leaders and diplomats of the war fascinating, however. It's one serious flaw is that it was written before Ultra was declassified, which is a major omission. It's excellent otherwise, though. ------------------ Soy super bien, soy super super bien, soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super.

UPDATES! My dismantling of SkeeterHTer seems to be going at a fair pace. He has no more tanks, and I have lots, and if I have to blast his infantry out of every bloody hidey hole in France, I'll happily do so, and I've got 30 more turns in which to do just that. HE + Fallschirmjaegers = squishy! Choada and Boreiarty have apparently decided to join convents where the sending of pbem files is forbidden. Or it could just be that they're a bit scared of what's coming next, given the way the past turn went for each. Lots of my things going KA-POW, and lots of their things going BOOOM! MEDIC! And their will soon be lots more. If I get some files, that is. ------------------ Soy super bien, soy super super bien, soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by 109 Gustav: Okay, why is the camo pattern of that new Daimler armored car on CMHQ called Mickey Mouse? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I agree, it's not quite as obvious as the Goofy camo, but the resemblence is there. ------------------ Soy super bien, soy super super bien, soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super.