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Are you saying I should play Jarhead? It would be my pleasure.

Battle update This is gonna be a short one because I only have two (and a half?) battles going. My duel with a non-Pooler, Mr. Hankey, goeth extremely well. We're on the thirteenth turn of Last Defense (the "real" version) and I, as the attacker, am grinding him into submission. My infantry platoons, three of them, have taken a total of twelve casualties. He has scored three point-blank bazooka hits, one on a half-track, with a total of no damage inflicted. His three reinforcing M18s, coming on turn 10, were quickly dispatched, although they managed to B.U. my Tiger. I've dislodged him from his front-line foxholes and occupied them myself. Now, in his own words, it's all over but the sobbin'. Meanwhile, my battle with our favorite ambulance chaser is still in its opening stages (turn 4). He has fired close to 100 rounds of 81mm, by my estimation, and managed to knock out two trucks and scare one squad. We will have to see how the fight unfolds. Here comes the half. Mace has disgracefully failed to return my setup. That's all there is to it, at this point.

Why the disparity between reported statistics and game results? Was a lot of artillery's killin' enacted behind the front lines (CB, command disruption, supply depots)? Bah. Typo [This message has been edited by Check6 (edited 01-20-2001).]

I actually like the 40mm a lot. It does indeed look pretty funny, getting towed sideways.

You schmucks. Yes, I mean ALL of you. I go away for two days and you add four pages of filth to this fetid place. I will have to keep a closer watch in the future. Mace, I will send you a setup momentarily. I believe you have no choice but to accept or retire from public cesspool life as a disgraced coward.

jshanddorf, I have as many testes as I have pbem's going right now. That's two, as for most normal people, Mace. Surely you can spare a spot on your pbem platter for me. Send me a setup; I have no preferences but please, PLEASE don't make something stupid. I wouldn't mind a canned scenario, if there are any you haven't played. checksix224@aol.com

I wrote a lengthy post here and was heartbroken to lose it by forgetting to enter my username. After that unhappy episode, "Screw it!" The gist of my lengthy post was as followed: I've been away a while but you should cut me some slack. JD, check your mail. I am most verily disappointed that nobody noticed me gone. I have all but beaten somebody. As my first all-but-victory I believe this deserves a little bit of recognition. Nobody too well-known, no Cesspooler, but I would appreciate a couple pats on the back anyway. Scrodam, stop that. I mean it, you filthy boy. Stop! /me runs from gross invasion of personal space...

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by CavScout: My advice is get a new CD-ROM drive. Any drive that is tracing circular lines in a CD is wasted.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> He said CD player. He was obviously listening to the unmatchedly beautiful sounds of CM's data static.

The Swiss tournament sounds like a great idea to me. I would be most happy to see that, but count me in for a new ladder as well. checksix224@aol.com

Is this the Gremlin of the R6 community?

Futility I just gave Mr. Hankey a lesson in futility. My halftrack rolls into a little grove of trees and directly on top of a bazooka team. It starts shooting and reversing... too late. The bazooka takes its shot from eight meters away. There is an explosion. The halftrack is still rolling back; a quick check reveals that it is undamaged. I watch the movie with detailed hit labels on. "Gun hit, no damage." The halftrack kills the bazooka before it gets another shot off. I giggle.

Little David was a 914mm gun that was originally a testing device for aerial bombs; they would be fired from the gun with a sabot so that it was not necessary to fly them around. It was sent to the Siegfried Line but not used there. It filled a marginal role at Okinawa. Little David would have been heavily used in an invasion of Japan but obviously things never came to that. Question: A 16" battleship gun projectile weighs 1900 pounds and is equivalent to (SWAG) 450mm or so. Little David is therefore double its caliber. How would the weight of its shells compare?

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Mr. Clark: I don't like the "highlighting" special effect AT ALL, it reminds me of the terrible look of the combat scenes in Ridley Scott's GI Jane. (I normally love RS movies, but he apparently took a hard blow to the head before filming that one.) <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> You mean, GI Jane has combat scenes in it? If I had known that before you said they were terrible then I might have gone to see it just to find out how helpless Demi Moore looks shooting a rifle.

As I just admitted to JD, I am really kicking myself for buying those trucks for a map with so little cover. But I should point out that the ones really parked out in the open are probably dead already. But we shall see how it goes. Peng, your most eloquent post made me want to get infected with whatever the hell it is that you had. Would you, perhaps, cough in a vial and mail it to me? ~Chuckles

You are using sharpshooters in an unintended manner, so I'm not surprised they went fubar.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Mace: oh, and my haiku, just to show I can be as cultured as the next drongo: German's charging Stoic Yanks 'With regrets' letters to Mutter Mace<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> That is most definitely not a haiku.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Hiram has more whipping boy in his little pinky them you do in your whole wretched diseased hide.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I'll bet Hiram doesn't squeal when you land a good one on him. I've been known to squeal.

Okay, JD. I have taken far too much crap from you already. Shall we make a wager? If you manage to beat me, (unlikely; you post like somebody masking a bit of a CM inferiority complex... panzer envy?), I will consider myself "in it for the long hall." I will probably find myself in the position of to Cesspool Whipping Boy, but I'll stay in this damnable place for the long "hall". Should I give you the ass-beating you so richly deserve, I will have the perogative to leave immediately, should I so choose. And you'll have to go lure another whipping boy into your fetid lair. And should my offer be declined, your brand-new whipping boy is gone as of now. You'll probably have to answer to Croda for that one; he seems to have taken a strange kind of liking to me, but hey... that's your choice.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Oh my cut to the quick I am, Fain would I swoon, a touch sir, a palpable touch. I am killed [exeunt to applause] So go away son you bother me, I am not even honored you picked me, quite the opposite "Oh will not some one remove this bane for me?"<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Then I must revert to eighteenth-century English and fourth-grade grammar to be accepted here? MIA punctuation and middle-of-sentence capitalization are the vogue in these parts? Having said that, I now have this to say. James Dennis Morse, (a little bit of guesswork there), we must lay aside all juvenile nitpicking and settle our dispute on the field of glorious battle. Still I await a setup from you. It has been three quarters of an hour, and still I wait.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Half-life was never interesting to me but my Rainbow Six friends tell me that CounterStrike (based on the half-life engine) is excellent. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Well, if it isn't Priest. You may not remember, but I played one of my first online R6 games with you at least 18 months ago. I think that was the day before you posted your retirement from the community. Hope you're still around to read this. Get over to Plan B sometime; http://fleshwounded.dhs.org/ if for some reason you didn't know.

JD, that checkpatootee comment was too much. You really pushed me over the edge. I'm sure that you are a yellow-belly coward of the worst kind, so I must put it on the public record that my challenge is in your inbox at this moment. If the opponents won't come to Checkie, Checkie must find the opponents.

Let's determine the operative word in the phrase, "the bloody Peng challenge thread". The, a lowly article, is not it. Bloody is a meaningless intensive. We shall save Peng and challenge for last. Thread is most likely not the operative word because everything on this board is or is part of a thread. The choice is between Peng, used as an adjective, and challenge, a noun. This thread is obviously not primarily about Mr. Peng, although my all-inclusive challenge is aimed as much at him as any other of you miserable slime dwellers. By elimination, we have shown conclusively that challenge is the operative word of this thread's title. And I have put forth just that.

But what if it turns out that I'm the greatest CM player there ever was, and it takes me well over three years to learn that because it takes nearly that long to find a game against one of la creme de la creme? Come on. Play a game with me, and either I'll find out I'm the greatest CM player there ever was or you'll get a nice ego boost. Most likely the former. STRONG LANGUAGE: ...butt-head. Edited for verb tense [This message has been edited by Check6 (edited 01-10-2001).]

I haven't had the experience of a good whooping yet and I thought maybe one of you cesspoolers could give me one. I've been informed by the outside world that the really good CM players dwell in here... So somebody send me a setup. checksix224@aol.com Hurry up! My fingers are itching!

As I just bought the game I haven't played that many scenarios, and I was wondering if anyone would like to pick a scenario they haven't played yet for a PBEM. In addition, can anybody recommend one that would be fun to play blind against a person?