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I agree... it's too hard to go back to CMBO. Although in my case, a large portion of that inability is due to the fronts involved (I cut my teeth on the old Apple ][ wargame, Kampfgruppe and identify more with the Eastern Front).

Are you sure you installed the patch to the right directory?

I believe nit-pickiness is a hyphenated word. Anything less, is as stated before... "gamey." Using all capitols for "really," is overkill. Italicised would've been more correct. "Exceeds" is an understatement... Don't you like this game? *grin*

Heretic.

Vehicles, weapons and equipment are being repaired and in the dirty brown water of the Beresina river the soldiers seek recreation." Pushing vehicles across a river with other naked men is "recreation?" *grin*

Screw all of that. I'm waiting for the CMBB Pinball Machine. (Oh c'mon! I bet alot you still vaguely remember them).

As does Mozilla (aka. Netscape 7-ish), which is quite useable now for almost everything.</font>

Fantasmic! (sort of a mod slut orgasm-thingmie)

You mean they haven't?!? That was the whole reason for CMBB!!! (Uberfinns' dual eyesight)

That explains a lot of this I got from a buddy who pulled it off the net somewhere... The Differential Theory of US Armed Forces (Snake Model) upon encountering a snake in the Area of Operations (AO) · 1. Infantry: Snake smells them, leaves area. · 2. Airborne: Lands on and kills the snake. · 3. Armor: Runs over snake, laughs, and looks for more snakes. · 4. Aviation: Has Global Positioning Satellite coordinates to snake. Can't find snake. Returns to base for refuel, crew rest and manicure. · 5. Ranger: Plays with snake, then eats it. · 6. Field Artillery: Kills snake with massive Time On Target barrage with three Forward Artillery Brigades in support. Kills several hundred civilians as unavoidable collateral damage. Mission is considered a success and all participants (i.e., cooks, mechanics and clerks) are awarded Silver Stars. · 7. Special Forces: Makes contact with snake, ignores all State Department directives and Theater Commander Rules of Engagement by building rapport with snake and winning its heart and mind. Trains it to kill other snakes. Files enormous travel settlement upon return. · 8. Combat Engineer: Studies snake. Prepares in-depth doctrinal thesis in obscure 5 series Field Manual about how to defeat snake using countermobility assets. Complains that maneuver forces don't understand how to properly conduct doctrinal counter-snake ops. · 9. Navy SEAL: Expends all ammunition and calls for naval gunfire support in failed attempt to kill snake. Snake bites SEAL and retreats to safety. Hollywood makes fantasy film in which SEALS kill Muslim extremist snakes. · 10. Navy: Fires off 50 cruise missiles from various types of ships, kills snake and makes presentation to Senate Appropriations Committee on how Naval forces are the most cost-effective means of anti-snake force projection. · 11. Marine: Kills snake by accident while looking for souvenirs. Local civilians demand removal of all US forces from Area of Operations. · 12. Marine Recon: Follows snake, gets lost. · 13. Combat Controllers: Guides snake elsewhere. · 14. Para-Rescue Jumper: Wounds snake in initial encounter, then works feverishly to save snake's life. · 15. Supply: (NOTICE: Your anti-snake equipment is on backorder.) · 16. Transport pilot: Receives call for anti-snake equipment, and delivers two weeks after due date. · 17. F-15 pilot: Misidentifies snake as enemy Mil-24 Hind helicopter and engages with missiles. Crew chief paints snake kill on aircraft. · 18. F-16 pilot: Finds snake, drops two CBU-87 cluster bombs, and misses snake target, but gets direct hit on Embassy 100 KM East of snake due to weather (Too Hot also Too Cold, Was Clear but too overcast, Too dry with Rain, Unlimited ceiling with low cloud cover etc...) Claims that purchasing multimillion dollar, high-tech snake-killing device will enable it in the future to kill all snakes and achieve a revolution in military affairs. · 19. AH-64 Apache pilot: Unable to locate snake, snakes don't show well on infrared. Infrared only operable in desert AO's without power lines or SAM's. · 20. HH-53 Jolly Green pilot: Finds snake on fourth pass after snake builds bonfire, pops smoke, lays out flares to mark Landing Zone. Rotor wash blows snake into fire. · 21. B-52 pilot: Pulls ARCLIGHT mission on snake, kills snake and every other living thing within two miles of target. · 22. Missile crew: Lays in target coordinates to snake in 20 seconds, but can't receive authorization from National Command Authority to use nuclear weapons. · 23. Intelligence officer: Snake? What snake? Only four of 35 indicators of snake activity are currently active. We assess the potential for snake activity as LOW. · 24. Judge Advocate General (JAG): Snake declines to bite, citing professional courtesy. · 25. Military Police: Handcuffs snake's head to its tail, reads it its Miranda rights, then proceeds to beat snake to a pulp with night stick.

Yes.

I don't understand the requests to make them CMMOS compliant... why would you ever want to swap them out of CMBB?!?! *grin*

I dunno... IN a TCP/IP game tonight, I had some squads in halftracks. They weren't under fire and were effectively out of the battle that was being waged between armor on the other side of the map. No problems for quite a few turns as I waited for the path to be cleared by my tanks. Then, all of a sudden the squads panic, un-ass from the half tracks and start trying to sneak all the way across the map (and toward danger to boot!). I ordered them back in the half tracks. They complied, then did it again the next turn! I ordered them back in the half tracks for the second time, thereby they decided to listen and did stay inside until ordered to exit a few turns later (after moving the half tracks to their destinations). This was the first time *I* had a real problem with the panic modes. These were veterans who had sat there for awhile before the sudden/no-reason panic. (the tank battle was mostly ricochets back and forth on the other side of the map for many, many turns) After the second panic, they wen't back to "normal" and stayed there, even though the tank ricochet battle continued unabated.

You almost caused a divorce here when I got in trouble with She Who Must Be Obeyed... I couldn't stop laughing at your post when I was supposed to be listening to her!

What a bunch of "loosers!" (*grin*)... commie sexty-fors? Everyone with class & pinache' went all out and got an Apple to play the old SSI games... not to mention Gato! (hell, I even went over the top and got one of them new fangled disk drives!) *grin*

Classless society my arse... they don't make Sarge shave!

[Did I turn the oven off before we left?]

I'm just tellin' ya... 'he who smealt it, dealt it!'

Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore!

Knowing what Microsoft Bob would do if they returned without a Big Mac again, Bob, Carol, Ted & Alice kept a close eye out for a McDonalds...

C'mon guys! Let's help Matt out and start collecting contributions to buy Matt a new jack squat for Xmas!

Gamespy. They do you know. (How else would he have known I yell "shoot, shoot!" at my screen?)

And the whole thing was invented by a Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänspatentinhaber :eek: </font>

Hell! I didn't even know she was here!

Did he? hehe