Diceman

Sorry, the French forgot to mention bocage in their operational contingency plans, in case of an invasion from England. Now had bocage been mentioned, you could bet your bottom dollar a Russian spy would have paid some French farmer for a shrubbery or two, and before you knew it the Russian frontier would be rife with bocage; but seeing as how the French overlooked the value of bocage in their strategic plans : no bocage for you! Blame the French. Now what I'm thinking is, wasn't their hemp fields in southern Russia for the production of rope? The real question should be: where are the hemp fields!

Four times as much as it did the day before yesterday. :eek:

Joy in Maryland

Ditto

Irrelevant ramblings once sat here. [ September 22, 2002, 05:44 PM: Message edited by: Diceman ]

I'm ordering the US Windows version of CMBB for a few friends. If you would like me to order a copy for you while I'm at it, I'd be happy to help three, and only three, new friends get a copy of the US CMBB at cost. E-mail me for complete details. My e-mail is in my profile. First come first serve. Please do not reply to this post, just e-mail me. Cheers Eric

USPS international priority mail envelopes look like a good deal.

Can you tell me if it's the 12.5 X 9.25 or the 6 x 10 envelope?

edited because I want to think a bit longer. [ September 21, 2002, 10:44 AM: Message edited by: Diceman ]

Like a Hoover. Ouch!! With exchange rates like that, I should come on over and do some walleye fishing.

20 September, no joy in Maryland. Cheddar and Ritz time.

I'd love to be a part of it but my plate won't be clean enough to add your campaign to it until at least March, more likely the end of April or May. You see, I go on terminal leave in preparation for military retirement at the end of November; start a new job while at the same time relocating in Anchorage Alaska and finishing up two distance learning college classes in December, finishing a third distance learning college class in February, and will more than likely work part time doing individual income taxes through the 15th of April, and possibly corporate and partnership taxes through the 15th of May. Once all that is done and over with I'll have so much free time on my hands I won't know what to do with it, and your campaign looks just like the ticket to burn a bit of it up. :cool:

It'll probably be someone in Germany purchasing it off the shelf. Quite possibly someone who demonstrated great consternation at having to purchase the game through CDV distribution. Meanwhile, we soooo lucky Americans will have to wait for the postman.

I have a copy. There are a few descent illustrations: Leningrad, Stalingrad, Berlin, Prokhorovka, but overall I walked away from the book thinking I should have checked no instead of yes. I expected more detailed information based on the advertising I saw. It's not a bad book, I just felt the reading was a bit light. The maps are not comprehensive by my standards. Movements are displayed in sweeping arrow format at the corps level and larger, far less detail than you find in Guderian's "Panzer Leader", and somewhat less detail than found in Michael Reynolds "Men of Steel, 1 SS Panzer Corps" for example. Just my take on it.

OK, but only because you asked: Guess what wallpaper I'm using? :cool: [ September 10, 2002, 07:03 PM: Message edited by: Diceman ]

So this is what lurks behind the iron doors of the beta forum. :eek:

Dittos. Great idea IMHO.

Are you only going to buy one game this year, and if so, is there another game that will fill the holes in your gaming library better? If I had to choose between say Icewind Dale II and CMBB I'd go with CMBB, but I'm an armor nut. I've studied chess, and I'd call it a gentleman's game. That is to say, you win or loose on the merits of your play, not cheesy tricks. The new features of CMBB make it more of a gentleman's game than CMBO. My general impression is those that didn't like playing with, or had no interest in playing with unprofessional soldiers, i.e. conscript and green troops, really hate it now, or at least find it very frustrating. If reorganizing conscripts is not your idea of fun, play higher quality troops. I suspect many of the gripes people have will fade away when they have the full game, and can play scenarios and quick battles that are more their speed. Only you can truly answer that question. But as a competitive gamer, CMBB clearly is such an improvement in game mechanics, such as firing arcs, that I may not return to the western front until BFC does.

Cool! And let me tell you, it was hard to do too. One year ago we thought we were done with development, but we said "crap, it is still really fun and playable. Let's spend another year making sure it sucks". Looks like we succeeded, so I hope you preorder and make it worth our while Steve</font>

Sunflower seeds! God bless sunflower seeds. Get them in the shell. Not only do they cut down on the cravings, but they keep your hands busy.

Doh!! I hope you play a lot of graphics intensive games. My adamant.com machine runs smooth as silk with the demo, and a highly modded CMBO. With my old AMD K6, there were times when you could measure the frame-rate with an hour glass, but life is good with my Athalon 1800, GeForce4MX440 combo.

I'll do it the hard way for you! All I need is the complete game. If I play with the scenario editor long enough, I'm sure I can find 'em all. :cool:

I thought it hurt when I went from 1021 to 3239! And I don't even know what my member # was before that, because my oldest member profile got corrupted during the first great server crash of 2000.

I'm not sure of the context of your post Madmatt, but I figured the 80 was irrelevant, and a possible cause of future confusion so I deliberately left that little bit out. My order went through just fine.

"Ooooh, looky what I found" I says to myself, and then types feverishly. A minor cookie glitch and adjustment later and out prints order #__535. So is that 535 orders already, or did the count not start at __000? Oh and what's Seanachai's number? Inquiring minds want to know.