Slapdragon

Some quickgames are indeed unbeatable, but in real life it was that way also. The great commander would find a way to beat it. The good commander would see that the battle was unbeatable and find some other way. But then again, your own commander may shoot you if you retreat... None of the scenarios, and I played most of them vs AI in the past six months, are "unbeatable". Some of them do have a key to winning them. Some of them are just damn hard. Damn hard means most of us will indeed fail at our current level of skill.

Wait wait, I must have missed this. When did it come out that the Sherman was better off-road? Using CMBB alone as my source , I would pick the T-34 for off-road capability over the Sherman every time.... I looked back over this discussion and didn't see it, so I apologize if it was brought up and explained already in this thread.</font>

This is common with every simulation since Tractics came out: people are shocked to find out that their invincible favorite X was not invincible. Remember, the T-34 was fought and killed, even though it was a shock, by the thousands in 1941 and 1942. Germans beat them with grenades, 37mm AT guns, 50mm AT guns, short 75s, the works. This is why they got to the gates of Moscow -- they destroyed ten thousand or more tanks along the way. But remember, the Germans did not fight fair. They blew up the T-34 in every way they could, from ravaging it from the air, to sticking crowbars in its tracks. Also remember the Russians did not play fair. The Russians felt that a successful T-34 lead attack on a German battalion needed a hundred T-34s in a few hundred meters of front. Bumper to bumper. And this juggernaut would hit a weakened German infantry battalion, who was more used to kicking French and Polish ass than taking a tidle wave of steel on. So, if you really want some historical battles, play the Russians and attack with a 6-1 advantage against German infantry only. CM afterall is a game, and fair fights is the norm, but the reality is nothing is fair.

Please Sir Noba, as a boon for me, take on that wussy cow college graduate and make sure he gets what he deserves. Give him the Russians, you play the Finns, and choose DEEP snow.

I think someone needs to design a tomb of horrors battle for Sean and Panzer leader before they start calling each other honey.

Ahhhh. My Liege, don't go...you have unfinished business.... Noba.</font>

Also realize this, the M4A3 met the T-34 in battle in Korea and the middle east. In both regions it was, tank for tank, superior. Now some of this is outside of the game -- the late model M4 was better built, easier to operate, and its stabilization actually worked, but the T-34 was no slouch, it just was just king of the battlefield when it first showed up against short barreled Model IIIs and 38s.

Also realize this, the M4A3 met the T-34 in battle in Korea and the middle east. In both regions it was, tank for tank, superior. Now some of this is outside of the game -- the late model M4 was better built, easier to operate, and its stabilization actually worked, but the T-34 was no slouch, it just was just king of the battlefield when it first showed up against short barreled Model IIIs and 38s.

Several Pengers are currently fighting in the Magenta Onion, but would any others like to give a bizarre anti-Grog campaign a go? We need a few people interested in both tactics and strategy, who like to post drivel in large amounts (Meeks?) and who have a creative bent (not who are bent creatively),

I tried the same some time ago and found the T-34 was in some serious trouble against a Sherman.

The Movie "Strafbataillon 999" was rereleased on VHS in 1999, and is scheduled for DVD release next year, according to a hand photocopied flyer I got several months ago.

Still, a 761 tanker, according to "Come Out Fighting", took an "88" hit that did not detonate, and passed cleanly between the legs of one of the turret men, severly injuring him. The crew continued to fight their tank, laying the wounded man on the floor of the turret. So even in the Western Front, a tanker does not automatically leave the tank with a penetration, even one severe enough to wound a crewman and blow a big gaping hole in the tank.

But my dear simpleton. He did not post it from the direction I am posting from, that Aussies lack even the smallest sense of humor god granted a toad. Now, in your case, that is very apparent, but what I want is to hear from a real Aussie what they think about why it seems so many Aussies suck lemons each morning. Thus I decided that Noba, who is ten times the Aussie you are, should answer me that riddle.

Just a little gift to you sods. By posting this little article I have again recieved a death threat from down under, plus a few choice e-mails and even one public post. My question is, why are Aussies so completely without humor? Noba my esteemed comrad, what is wrong with your collective psych down there. Is the constant diet of sheep? Is it the raging headache acquired from always hanging upside down? Is it the fact that you are surrounded by marsupials and have pouch envy? Please help me understand this!! By the way Mace, I underlined certian choice lines of the article. Feel free to insert sheep or wanking off into those lines.

I am not sure about this, because my Arms of the Great War says that several hundred thousand made it over by 1919 and they were used in US units. EM, I am not sure if Siminov designed this weapon, but it used an unusual 6.5mm Japanese round with low power to fire from an internal magazine. I was not carrief through with though, but some were made.

Ezell 12th Edition lists about 1.5 million M2s being issued compared to more than 4 million M1 Carbines. The Carbine as propsed was a replacement for the pistol as the primary weapon for second line troops. The large magazine capacity (15 rounds) easy to change magazine, and in the M2, relatively effective automatic fire, meant that more and more infantryman carried it by wars end. Originally, only officers were suppose to carry it, but Engineers, Marines, and Paratroopers started taking to the automatic version, and only some tough love from the higher ranks kept more of these weapns from the front lines. Still, in actually combat photographs of ETO, you can see more and more soldiers armed with Carbines the later you go. The M1 Carbine was not an unreliable weapon during Bulge, and performed reliably in all weather, but in Korea there was a complaint that it froze. This was tracked to the weapon being lighter than the M1 Rifle and its parts freezing more rapidly with condensation, along with the issue of weapons stored for 5 years in warehouses in Japan after having been "recovered" in the Phillipines. Likely the design was not at fault (since it was seen as reliable in WW2 in many accounts) but the condition of the weapon when issued. As for Machineguns, the first two major improvements over the gatling were the Colt (Browning designed) potato digger, and the Maxim. The Colt was made famous during the Boxer rebellion, while the Maxim became famous in the Spanish American War when it beat up on US Gatling units. The concept of a squad automatic weapon comes from many directions. In literature, Browning was proposing a portable automatic rifle to anyone who would listen in 1893, finally changing the design to his famous automatic shotgun for FN, which Colt turned down. A mexican rifle, the Mondragon, attempted to follow up on the Browning ideas, as did numerous other designs before and during WW1, invluding a unique 6.5mm Russian AR which would have been the first major Assault Rifle had it been more widely used. Brownings concepts, if not his designs, were very important in WW1, as several French designers began to look for a weapon that could provide MG support during advances under fire. [ August 14, 2002, 02:46 PM: Message edited by: Slapdragon ]

I am hoping CM:BO does not get patched. Reason: there is only so much time in the day, and I want the next big thing -- the new killer engine, rather than a rehash of the old. CM:BB is a quantum leap , but the next one will be even better.

Hey Buckeye, I don't agree with Dorosh often, and he and I go head to head A LOT. But he is a great person in his own way and does not deserve your ire. He does in fact contribute a lot, and here is does not attack Fionn, just the situation. Please, this thread is a waste, but when two good people go at each other it drives me insane.

Do we have to have a kick Fionn thread every week? It is rude. He can be satan for all I care, but if he cannot play, he cannot play. He is a doctor for God's sake.

Here is something to worry about: OS-X uses Open GL for graphics acceleration. Microsoft is claiming to have patents which effect Open GL. Of course, they have purchased the foundation graphics patents from ATI, NVidia, and SGI during this most recent market turn down, so it may even be true. Microsoft is talking about then charging a fee to each user and developer of Open GL, which wont be Open any more. Currently, it seems like this fee, if put into place, would be totally unreachable by any but the best heeled investors. But to help game developers who are in a crunch, Microsoft will offer nice discounts on WinDirectX to worried game designers. And geuss what only runs on an MS operating system, Direct X or Open GL?

Well, if you have the bod, which I do, then falunting it a little should be ok. Even if you Audience is mostly Australian. As for the picture of Seanachi, of course we arrested a pinko like him, almost as he stepped foot in our state. And he was versifying to the tune of YMCA to the population of Richland County Detention Center in five minutes -- we had 17 complaints of cruel and unusual punishment alone. Later I learned that even the corrections staff was a bit peeved with him, he kept getting back in the intack frisk and probe line, wanted to "do that funky than again". I guess there is only so many times you can look up the north bound side of a south bound gnome and retain sanity. But I am just as happy that the jail staff does that sort of thing.

Noba why have you never reported victory in your quest?

Andreas, I suspect that almost any 16mb card will work with the new game, but my bet is on either the 64mb 3 TI from NVidia usable in every AGP Mac, the ATI 8500 64mb, or the 128mb NVidia 4TI, all of which AI have in machines and seem to push enough data to make them work for CMBB. Of course when I get CM:BB I will let you know, but I am betting the farm on my 64mb 8500 and my 128mb NVidia 4 TI. I have some bets on frame rates if you want to e-mail me.

Idiotic sophmore twaddle dressed as sentences suitable for the MBT.</font>

Broken elbow my arse! You're spewing out your usual reams of gibberish on the General Forum. We should start up a contest to see if there even is a topic on this planet that you won't suddenly develop an opinion/expert status on. Christ on a crutch with motion sickness, but if someone posted tomorrow that they did enjoy the caresses of children, you'd post an op-ed piece on how their child molesting wasn't the 'real thing', with a 500 word synopsis of how it should be done, and round it all out with a sniff over how if you'd been molesting the children, they'd have been in therapy until they were 40.</font>