CavScout

I wonder if the Poles are given much thought because they had to fight on multiple fronts as well. I also wonder why it is laudable that one continued to fight on even when it was evident the war was over. In the end, what service did the German soldiers tenacity to fight to the end (I'd be interested to see POW figures as I think the Germans were surrendering far faster than the western Allies) do for the German civilan? Yes France may have surrendered faster but she wasn't razed to the ground either. [This message has been edited by CavScout (edited 03-02-2001).]

Could the seemingly high number of simultaneous kills be attributed to the fact that many of our games tend to be even affairs?

What military vehicles are doing 50+ MPH on dirt roads? In WWII or today? Throw in likely enemy contact and it is even fewer.

You guys do know that tanks are loud, noisy machines, right?

In essence, you are more alert. Makes it even more unlikely you'd run into an enemy vehicle.

With your view one reaction time, one wonders how I drive to work everyday.... I agree. Just having jeep crews bail is silly.

A German AFV dying is hardly reason to create an auto-bail for jeeps.

I think AI should be improved to avoid these collisions over an auto bail for jeeps.

And you can find just as many, if not more, "instances" of people not "freezing" at the wheel.

I wouldn't jump out and run. That just makes you a target on foot. What's scarier, hit in a jeep or run over on foot. Reverse isn't the only option, trying to the sides is just as well.

Just make it easy. Any tank seen makes crews bail.

All this because some German AFV got killed by a jeep... *SNIFF*

Why not have the vehicle drive out of the way or reverse out of the way. That seems more realistic then giving a tank a kill. Perhaps the AI should react better than doing what you propose. Could you imagine the new use for gun damaged tanks if you could kill vehicles by ramming? Bleh!

I'd say in reality they'd drive out of the way....

Question is would you risk your track doing that?

If they're smart they'll stop, drop and roll!

Let me see, you said, "I never talked to my Japanese colleagues about Yamamoto." You "observed" traits from some co-workers and applied it to a race. Don't dance around it. Contridictions? I just question your irrelvent point.

Spook interesting quotes but what do they mean? How does provoking a war with Japan help us fight against Germany? It is not like the Japanese were fighting the British at the time, were they?

Let me see... you claimed to know why a Japanese Admrial did something in WWII based on the observations of a few Japanese co-workers, workers you never spoke to it seems. If that is not sterotyping... what is? What does the differences in "surrender" have to do with the planning of Midway? [This message has been edited by CavScout (edited 02-23-2001).]

Likely the hoster blocks images from being seen from other sites. The reason why you see you own is the pics are in your cache. If you flush it and come back here you wouldn't see them.

The Japanese are not the only ones to have soldiers disagree with what was happening or had been ordered but continued to do their job. I fail to see how you can attribute this as some Japanese 'trait' other than some foolish racist idea. Secondly, he planned the mission and it failed. The failure is his responsibility. It is much to easy to say, "I didn't want to do it... I was just following orders.." [This message has been edited by CavScout (edited 02-23-2001).]

Try defending on the reverse side of a hill or behind some terrain that prevents long range support from assault guns. Force him to get within striking range with his armor or force him to send in his infantry alone.

What exactly was happening in Europe that would've bolstered aircraft carrier usage?

Gotcha there. I tend to agree.

The whole problem with this conspiracy theory is that while the carriers where out at sea they were not viewed at the time as the main naval weapons. The battleships were STILL viewed as the weapons to have. It would later in the war that carriers would come into their own. Hell, even at Midway the Japanese were trying to lure the US into the big naval battle. Why do you think they had all the ships for?