Head Mahone

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Head Mahone: Well I will say this. The only time an opponent surrendered to me is when his troop's moral got so low they unconditionally surrendered against his wishes. I have never been in the situation where pressing the Alt-S would have made since. I guess being battered and surrounded with no hope of a withdraw would in reality suggest a surrendered. Take note that there is nothing worse than playing a bastard like Steve! That's right, some prickhead named Steve from California with the Email address of Ebon@srj.cncdsl.com. We started playing South of Sword and I gave him a thrashing. With 15 turns left he Emails me and says "you win" and attaches a new QB. I say to him "Steve where's our After Action Report?" He says "you killed 90% of my troops lets play a different game". I asked him to surrender and send the AAR if he thought so (out of common courtesy at least). He read the Email according to my Outlook Email Notification and never replied! The slimy bastard, I'll never play him again! My point being is that surrendering is a better option for your opponent if you don't wont to play anymore. -Head PS Sorry about the ramble but I'm still pissed about that! Hell what a waist of time. The AI plays a better game than that wanker did anyway!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> [ 04-14-2001: Message edited by: Head Mahone ]

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That's damn lucky! I remember one of my Stuart's pumping 3 or 4 rounds into the side and ass of an immobilized Jagdtiger with nothing more than "Penetration No Damage". Finally a Sherman pulled up and finished the job with a side penetration. What a BEAST! Be careful though my friend, Lady Luck is a two timing trick! -Head

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You know, I've read about this smoke crap and the whole time I was curious. Sure I've seen my tanks fire smoke instead of HE at infantry a time or two. I didn't care for it when it happened, but it was a rare occurrence and didn't bother me. Now with that said, just the other day my Brother and I started up a QB PBEM. Every, and I mean EVERY mortar and tank that was ordered to fire HE on enemy infantry fired all of its smoke first! This is happening to my Brother’s troops as well. Not only does it let his troops escape and hide out of LOS from my tanks; it uses up my vital smokescreen for infantry advances. I know what was just said has already been discussed so here is my point. I have been playing multiple PBEMs. Seven at the present moment, and many before this QB. Out of all of the other PBEMs, this particular battle is the only QB PBEM I have played. The other PBEMs where previously created scenarios, and I never experienced the smoke problem to this extent. Being that it began with this QB, I am wondering if you guys are experiencing it with QB PBEMs only as well? Mad Matt, I know these things just can't be fixed with the snap of your fingers but please have mercy! This smoke problem is terribly frustrating when it happens and needs looking into. When your mortar/tank units wrongly smokes up enemy infantry only to have your troops advancing without a smokescreen to face a stronger resistance later on is awful! I know I'm flogging a dead horse here but after seeing this happen with EVERY tank/mortar unit in this QB it has for the FIRST time turned C.M. from fun to frustration. -Head PS B.T.S., thanks for the patience you have with us C.M. junkies. You know when we don’t get our “fix” just right, we get grumpy…

The only medals/awards in this game are the ones that C.M. itself received! Enjoy your full very, it will give you many, MANY hours of fun! -Head

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Dan Weaver: Totally OT: Actually, the Soviet space program was sane. Ours, pre-Viking and Pioneer, was dumb...the Apollo program was a giant publicity stunt and not much else. While we were sending a few fighter jocks to play golf on the moon, they were collecting all sorts of useful scientific data. Let's just count the total of successful Russian space stations (7) versus successful American space stations (1). Their space program wasn't "dumb". It was an inspiration and one of the few bright spots in an otherwise throughly depressing regime.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I never said that it wasn't a success, or that it wasn't sane Dan. To all who read this, I am just giving my opinion of why I think Russia's military sucks. They didn't give it enough funding partially due to their Space program. -Head

To Skipper and Michael, Don't put words in my mouth, and in no way was I trying to degrade THE Space program. Russia, with the incredible potential it has and its disgusting mafia run government, simply lead its troops to the slaughter time and time again. I don't think this was intentional either. I have a friend who has lived in Mother Russia for some time. They BLEW their money racing the United States to the Moon and flexing their nuclear muscle at us with their subs. In return, proper funding was not given for the training of their troops. This is so evident! As far as their equipment is concerned, IT SUCKS. Sure it was more than enough to kill the rebels, but it still sucks. As the M1 tank commander at work said "We where poppin' T-62s in Iraq from 4000m, they never even new it." And as one of our retired Generals said on the O' Riley Factor the other night, "The only military worse then China's is Russia's." I'll never forget the documentary I watched of Russian combat camera footage. Whole platoons would go into hot zones to kill rebels, they’d get overpowered, told they would be air-lifted out, waited at the LZ and no one ever came. This happened over and over again while whole platoons where slowly eaten alive. And no I don't think they have a good track record Skipper..... -Head [ 04-10-2001: Message edited by: Head Mahone ]

I'm afraid it is a bit too bright..... -Head

WOOooo DeltronZero, that's the dumbest freakin' thing I've EVER read anyone post on this board! I'm sorry man, I am sorry.... Artillery spotter are just that, they call in "ARTILLERY" not air support. -Head ------------------ "I don't need my junkie friends all knockin' at my door. I just wanna do an old time waltz with a buxom Irish whore!" -Shane MacGowan

I have always wanted this for C.M.. Even though I love EVERY aspect of the game, and Operations do help, I think this feature would be great! -Head ------------------ "I don't need my junkie friends all knockin' at my door. I just wanna do an old time waltz with a buxom Irish whore!" -Shane MacGowan

I remember watching those poor Russian bastards getting chewed to pieces. The problem is they have a horrible government, and that they wasted all of their money on their space program and submarines. Their generals are piss-poor and so are most of their equipment and tactics. They showed those tanks on the news in freakin columns just driving into town. It was like they thought the rebels would just say "OH CRAP, TANKS" and give up! It was pathetic, just PATHETIC..... -Head ------------------ "I don't need my junkie friends all knockin' at my door. I just wanna do an old time waltz with a buxom Irish whore!" -Shane MacGowan [This message has been edited by Head Mahone (edited 04-04-2001).]

Pvt.Tom, don't forget those infantry squads that are doing all the killing you talked about HAVE machine guns with em (MG42s BARS and the lot). -Head ------------------ "I don't need my junkie friends all knockin' at my door. I just wanna do an old time waltz with a buxom Irish whore!" -Shane MacGowan

Pvt.Tom, don't forget those infantry squads that are doing all the killing you talked about HAVE machine guns with em (MG42s BARS and the lot). -Head ------------------ "I don't need my junkie friends all knockin' at my door. I just wanna do an old time waltz with a buxom Irish whore!" -Shane MacGowan

Man this is just HALERIOUS! One hell of a Stuart huh! If it makes you feel any better LLv34_Mika, I read an account of a Stuart taking out a Panther from the front like your Stug. Yep, a Stuart at point blank range pumped a bunch of rounds into the front of a Panther and KOed it. I searched for that story to prove this but I couldn’t find it. -Head ------------------ "I don't need my junkie friends all knockin' at my door. I just wanna do an old time waltz with a buxom Irish whore!" -Shane MacGowan

Hey Fellas, My Brother is having a bit of a problem with his computer running Combat Mission. Here's the setup: DELL 500 MHZ 128MB RAM 16MB TNT Video Card --------------------------------------------- Windows 2000 freshly installed about 3 weeks ago. There are hardly any other applications installed at this time and no other games. DirectX 8 Latest video drivers from Nvidia. Combat Mission (medium install) with patch 1.12 All of the Microsoft patches i.e. service packs and the lot. --------------------------------------------- The weird thing is that he can play scenarios and QBs. But when he clicks "Join Network Game" and then tries to load a PBEM file it crashes. C.M. doesn’t even let him select a PBEM file, it stack dumps and reboots his computer before showing the PBEM directory. As always, I'll wait for your much-appreciated advice. Thanks, Head

Man that's good stuff, and it will be downloaded! -That's all I have to say.... -Head ------------------ "I don't need my junkie friends all knockin' at my door. I just wanna do an old time waltz with a buxom Irish whore!" -Shane MacGowan

wwb_99 is right! BTS is once again ahead of the game. At the end of a fight in an operation the depleted squads join and fight together the next day, or night. What's the matter you two, never played an operation before? -Head ------------------ "I don't need my junkie friends all knockin' at my door. I just wanna do an old time waltz with a buxom Irish whore!" -Shane MacGowan

That's because you selected the "Use Main Gun" option and were out of HE shells.... -Head ------------------ "I don't need my junkie friends all knockin' at my door. I just wanna do an old time waltz with a buxom Irish whore!" -Shane MacGowan [This message has been edited by Head Mahone (edited 03-28-2001).] [This message has been edited by Head Mahone (edited 03-28-2001).]

First things first. Kill anything that's on the other side of the bridge with inf/armor and artillery. Drop the rest of your artillery as smoke. When the bridge is good and smoked up send at LEAST a platoon over at once. Try to send those troops over before the smoke stops falling. Just remember, if that smoke clears and your on the bridge YOUR DEAD! ------------------ "I don't need my junkie friends all knockin' at my door. I just wanna do an old time waltz with a buxom Irish whore!" -Shane MacGowan [This message has been edited by Head Mahone (edited 03-27-2001).]

I'll have to admit, CM never crashed until the latest patch. It happens on both my Win2000 and my Win98/SE machines. Unlike you guys it happens to me at complete random.... -Head ------------------ "I don't need my junkie friends all knockin' at my door. I just wanna do an old time waltz with a buxom Irish whore!" -Shane MacGowan

I really wish our boys at BTS would give us a treat. I'm dieing for some REAL screenshots! -Head ------------------ "I don't need my junkie friends all knockin' at my door. I just wanna do an old time waltz with a buxom Irish whore!" -Shane MacGowan

I ordered the game before I even finished Chance Encounter. In fact, the very second I launched it and heard the ambient sounds, saw my troops, the trees, the tanks, man I was HOOKED! I've been gaming for a very LOOONG time, and I've been waiting for something like this since the beginning. Once you get the game your play the hell out of it. After about a month the newness will finely wear off and you'll download some mods. Then it'll be a whole new game again! Once you start PBEMing you'll never quite! There's one thing I’d like to suggest right away though. Put the latest patch on it its not already. Then download Mad Matt's sound mod at http://www.combatmission.com . It’s incredible! -Head ------------------ "I don't need my junkie friends all knockin' at my door. I just wanna do an old time waltz with a buxom Irish whore!" -Shane MacGowan