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    Story books

    in Combat Mission Archive #2 (2000)

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    Apart from the aforementioned Forgotten Soldier, which is excellent.

    I would also recommend Flesh Wounds by David Holbrook. It's another autobiographical account of a British Tank officers experience in the post D-Day battlefields - pretty grim!

    [This message has been edited by DVN-UK (edited 12-07-2000).]

    [This message has been edited by DVN-UK (edited 12-07-2000).]

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    TAKING THE BLOODY PENG THREAD DOWNUNDER

    in Combat Mission Archive #2 (2000)

    Posted

    Originally posted by Marlow:

    DKNY,

    ...I will thump you between your vacant eyes with your own leg, and then beat you about the face and neck with a spoiled-milk-boiled goldfish....and so on...

    <big sigh> yes, yes, of course you will Marlow, that is, you'll try when you get around to posting the next turn.

    I started another pbem the same day I started playing you. That game is on turn 45, the game I'm playing against you is on turn 8?!!

    In fact my troops are starting to get so bored waiting for you to do something, anything!! that I noticed one of my FO's holding plans for a lifesize reconstruction of Hadrian's Wall across the middle of the map, built to a timescale that calls for the employment not only of my present generation of troops, but their descendants! in fact seeing as this limp wristed conflict looks like its going to draw out into infinity I am almost looking forward to you beating me about the head with my own leg just for the change of pace.

    I wont go away, I kind of enjoy the fact that I 'bother' you..

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    "If we get involved in a nuclear war, would the electromagnetic pulses from exploding bombs damage my videotapes?"

    - Readers' Q and A column in TV Guide, 1985

    [This message has been edited by DVN-UK (edited 12-07-2000).]

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    TAKING THE BLOODY PENG THREAD DOWNUNDER

    in Combat Mission Archive #2 (2000)

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    Somehow I have been sidetracked, I wandered down here to taunt my opponent Marlow and have ended up being diverted by Mark IV!

    To be honest, its kind of hard to taunt Marlow as I STILL HAVEN'T SEEN ANY OF HIS TROOPS!!!....or have I? Do I have observers in the woods watching his feeble attempts to maneuver into advantageous defensive positions?, have I a cheesy grin on my face as I see all, and know all that my poor confused blissfully unaware mongrel of an opponent is planning?...

    hmmmmmm something to think about...before I grind your pathetic army into a mere grease spot on the French countryside, a greasy pool, that even the French peasants (being no strangers to grease of the unwashed variety)will take notice of and pass down the generations in their Folklore.

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    TAKING THE BLOODY PENG THREAD DOWNUNDER

    in Combat Mission Archive #2 (2000)

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    Originally posted by Mark IV:

    Perhaps there should be a taunting guidebook...yada, yada, yada...

    What a great idea Muck IV, although I suggest that someone else writes it. Based on my observations of your taunting 'style' I feel less like I've been disemboweled by your rapier wit, and more like I've being on the receiving end of a half-hearted gumming by a toothless poodle..

    I would taunt you regarding your incompetence as a 'general', but as I have haven't yet had the pleasure of trouncing your cretinous troops into the dust, I'm afraid that your personal habits, religious convictions etc, will have to suffice.

    I would also like to point out that being versed in literature doesn't mean that you regularly read the blurb on the back of a cornflakes packet, or that you struggled through 'Mopsy and Topsy went to the Beach'... once.

    'a 30g serving of crunchy nut cornflakes provides at least 25% of an adults recommended RDA....oops!" tongue.gif

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    TAKING THE BLOODY PENG THREAD DOWNUNDER

    in Combat Mission Archive #2 (2000)

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    Originally posted by Mark IV:

    No, you refer to Lot's wife, but you're too bloody thick to know it. Or perhaps you've confused "Saul"......

    ahhhhh it begins. Thanks for that warm welcome.

    Ok lets deal with Mank IV. First off thanks for putting me straight on that point of Religion, I knew it was something like that. You've got to understand that I'm not too hot on these matters due to the fact that unlike you I don't sit there drooling, wide eyed in my soiled underwear and vest watching an evangelist on daytime TV all day, occasionally taking time out to :-

    a) scratch your balls...that is indeed if you have any.

    B) fart and belch, then breathing the hideous result back in, a contented smile on your cretinous face.

    c) stuff your mouth with whatever happens to be laying around your disgusting pit of an armchair, mouldy pizzas, half eaten candy bars, small animals and cockroaches.

    d) Wonder how on earth your going to save up for that Leather bound exclusive set of deluxe bibles that your fave TV evangelist exalts you to buy 'to guarantee your place in heaven' when its all you can do to waddle over to the computer and type your feeble insults.

    Although your utterly useless display of bible thumping knowledge does mean that you can correct me on that minor point.....thanks again!

    As for the rest of you, time is short, I will deal with each in turn...

    But Marlow...As I am actually competing against you....I would insult your generalship, but I have yet to see any of your troops or armour yet, although your boasts regarding the size and composition of your army lead me to believe that it would have trouble fitting into a medium size country let alone the map we are playing on. I wonder if this 'size exaggeration issue' ever rears its ugly head in your everyday life?

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    TAKING THE BLOODY PENG THREAD DOWNUNDER

    in Combat Mission Archive #2 (2000)

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    While clawing my way for the exit, the dank, putrid air getting noticeably more breathable the daylight streaming into the outer regions starting to warm my 'tourists' body. I happened to glance back (a common mistake I grant you, often committed throughout history, I refer to Sauls wife.)

    What greeted my eyes was Nothing so dramatic as my person turning into a pillar of salt from the feet upwards, but the curious sight of various Peng thread 'legends' congratulating themselves on my easy and humane dispatch back to the more normal world above.

    Naturally this irked me just a little, I hesitated, took a long hard look at the pinprick of distant light that is the exit from this fetid pool of filth, took one last deep breath of the sweet air that manages to penetrate to this outer level,sighed and plunged back down into the gloom...

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    best winter allied uniform mod?

    in Combat Mission Archive #2 (2000)

    Posted

    From the responses I guess that there isn't really a allied winterized uniform mod available of comparable quality to the German mods. Actually I lean towards the historically accurate 'look' for CM so maybe my allied troops should continue to stand out like sore thumbs on the battlefield!! I also seem to remember seeing photographs of US troops in the Ardennes wearing winter camo. but the captions accompanying the photographs "Sgt P. Lamowski from New Jersey reading mail from home during lull in fighting" suggests a posed propaganda style shot so the troops would 'obviously' be superbly equipped for the weather conditions.

    -Dan

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