imported_Wildman

I noticed that on my Far Side Daily Calander as well. Must be annual sheep-shearing day or somefink.

I really do hate you, you know that right? Torturing me like that. I can tell you were the type of bouncer to throw me out just as I was about to score with some skank in the dark corner of the bar. Damn I can't wait.

Who is this Yeknod and why can't I scrape it off of my shoe? Game Updates: I now have undeniable proof that Marlow is a gamey, code-hacking, cheating bastard. The proof you ask? A fecking PzIVG that stood on a hill and killed four Shermans including two 76 types in less than two turns. Now we all know that is impossible to do to the heroic American forces so he's obviously hkacked the code to allow for this. As for the other victims Elvis has discovered that rushing a gamey Glider platoon into an ambush results in a lot of dead troops. In addition this game should be renamed "He stepped on his big 14 inch......artillery and the blues." The ijiot forgot to move the impact point and landed all 10 shells in the same place. While really neat to see the 'spody stuff, it was a bit of an overkill. He will pay. Speedy and I have ONE MORE TURN, so send it already. You've lost and I want to see of I can kill that Croc. Plus I want to be able to see and gloat over the carnage. Sir Justicar and I have started. Our seconds are evil, sadistic hellspawn who have given us a night battle on a large map on a town placed on the top of Mt. Fuji. We have Sound Contact and the fusilade of bullets will soon follow I'm sure. For the rest of you, who cares?

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Joe Shaw: Oh no you don't lad. YOU, as the challenger, choose the weapons (the size and type of engagement if you please), while I as the offended party choose the ground (the map you see). Therefore I shall ask Seanachai to select and or create a suitable map for our meeting ... NO DAMNED SNOW! You then, with the help of your [sneer] Second [/sneer], can then determine the size and parameters of the forces to be used. We will then each purchase said forces and our seconds will place them on the map for our battle. Joe<hr></blockquote> Great your Morman Hippieness. Now that you've manage to outline this simple process, yet again! You could persuade that the sweedish chef in the black laytex, Lars, to stop self-flagilation and finish our setup.

Nothing to see here [ 01-23-2002: Message edited by: Wildman ]</p>

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Joe Shaw: Sir Wildman, I find your words to me offensive in the extreme and I'll have you know, Sir, that my HONOR has been impugned AND impinged upon at the same time and together as well. This is not to be tolerated and I demand satisfaction upon the field of honor. I shall ask my former Squire, the noble Sir Lars to act for me in this matter. Name your second, Sir, that the affair may commence and HONOR shall be restored. Snipped as unwarrented drivel... Joe<hr></blockquote> Have your despised and delapidated second send it to my former liege Sir Marlow. Whiel I have serious doubts about his tactical ability, I implicitly trust his honor. Sir Joe, I greatly anticipate your upcomming enviseration by my troops. Inform your second that a resonable amount of pointage would be wonderful, as I want to limit my actual emails with you as much as possible. I wait with baited breath for your first email where you drop into Rules Lawyer Mode. Here's to you having copious amounts of Die-a-Lot now.

Actually if I was talking about Dame Kitty beating me with a stick and throttle it would be appropo, but to call on Bold Sir Joe my ex and certainly least liege? Heinous foul. After I'm done dying in this QB we shall meet again. Jackson's at 50 paces, Oh, that's right. You don't like Jackson's anymore, do you? I still deny any wrong doing however, your obviously trying to frame me. You must be a liberal in the Green party, yup, that's what it is alright. Ballpeen, I'd give you an answer, but I just don't pity you that much yet.

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Sledge59: You're absolutely right, Wildman Squeek, Squeeek.<hr></blockquote> I'm glad to see that you have some ability to recognize greatness when you see it. However, you've one flaw in your hypothesis. I don't give a flaming rat's ass on what the reader thinks. I believe that specifically means YOU!

Sledge if you weren't an SSN I'd let you know I have NO idea what your talking about. That's right NO idea. Crazy newbie nobs, where to they get these ideas and who left the door open? They're all over the place these days.

Sir Shaw, I have decided that your festering, 2nd grade brain may have actually come across one good...ok...adequate idea. That being of course that a knigget of high, or low in your case, may turn down a battle. Of course no where in the rules, does it say I cannot call you the sissy boy that you are. Joe my hatred of you extends further every day. Not only am I forced to read your prattle every day here, I am now forced to find out how you can't "get it up" on that other board. Your travesty knows no bounds. You sir, are a rules lawyer. Yes, that lowest of the low wargamer who blindly follows rule 35a subparagraph b, no matter how mundane and stupendously heinous that rule may be. You are quibbling about the smallest of things, and I don't mean Sir Bauhaus of the Immacualate Thingy. I'm challanging you to step up to the rarified air of combat for the sheer pleasure of watching your opponent cry. I'm salivating over the thought taking your crunchable pixilated soldiers and running over them with my tank thingy, then backing up to make sure that their little bodies are ground up good. So the gauntlet is thrown. If your able to stop shaking long enough, (no matter if it is caused by the DTs) then answer like the craven dog you are and I shall have my former liege build us a field of honor in which to do battle. I await your decision, not with to much anticipation as I'll have to take NODOZE just to get through all the babble. [ 01-23-2002: Message edited by: Wildman ]</p>

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Joe Shaw: Now we see the violence inherent in the system. <hr></blockquote> The system that you are trying to manipulate like a rotten Lawyer. I suppose that I could have spelled out that I was sending you a Byte Battle from the esteemed Der Kessel, but I know that leaving that small detail out would make you froth at the mouth like a vicious little poodle. Therefor, and ergo, I have called a second by default as the scenario sent was designed by Germanboy and playtested by Peng. Now I realize that your a banker and need five forms of ID and everything in triplicate, but this should suffice even for you. So if your done hiding behind "the rules" and your ready to become impaled on the wrath of my forces. (Notice I didn't mention my spear, Bauhaus) Send the file! If that Byte battle is not sufficent for you then offer up an alternate solution, you pillock. Your obviously faint of heart and I can only hope that your poor Morman Wives don't see your cowardise. [ 01-23-2002: Message edited by: Wildman ]</p>

That's is your Justicarness. You pathetic and coniving will end today. I cast the light of truth and daring, (Well ok, the light is from the Willow-the-wisp created by all the gas in here, but I digress) on your scaly and scabby hide. To send poor,innocent, attractive stenographers to the likes of dalem is unforgiveable. (Especially since I did't get one.) I will carve my satisfaction from your greasy, alcohol soaked hide. Until you scream for mercy from MrSpkr and denouce your heathen ways, or until I get a stenographer of my own. I really good one, don't think I'm not aware of your little tricks. A setup with your doom is on the way, and don't try to foist some IL-2 excuse on my either. I know it takes no time to start and immediately crash.

When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is no longer your friend.

Congrats Hiram, You can now be that crazed uncle that takes here to the tattoo shop when she's 16 for that barbed wire around my arm that she just has to have to be cool. wOOt! Wildman

Here's my system first: PIII 500 128Mg Ram ATI Rage 128 GL card in W2K. I get the program to work but the video shows streaks of color across the screen. I can see what should be displayed in the background but its like a mulitcolored rainbow covers up the screen. The strange part is it starts transparent but gradually filles in over about 10 sec. Until I use the mouse to move the camera. I have the lasted ATI Rage 128 drivers. Any ideas?

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Berlichtingen: Notice to Squires, Serfs and SSNs I will accept the next 10 challenges leveled by anyone against me here in the Mutha Beautiful Thread <hr></blockquote> I believe that I will take that tear-soaked gauntlet you've thrown. I'm tired of your evilness SMACK! It smells of a petty evil instead of earth-shattering evil. It obvious your conflicting bio-rythems have addled northern-tier cranium. Our last battle resulted in an unsatisfactory draw and we need a decision. A smaller meeting engagement is winging its way to you soonish. Your power grab is at an end, you killed my Peng prepare to die.

A hearty well-done, Lorak. Rest assured the fight will continue, I'm prepping my AMMO troops for war as we type. As for the rest of you wankers, I might break myself away from CivIII and X-Com long enough to finish your beatings soonish. Until then, SOD OFF!

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by MrPeng: This just in: I will be staying, appropriately enough, at Circus/Circus, although I suspect that Zoo/Zoo wuld be even better. I will have a laptop and hub for network play, and I will be VERY THIRSTY. Gambling holds no interest for me, I know the odds aren't even worth bothering. One could do as well by throwing wads of cash to the winds. No, I will come to look at the golly-gee! computer crap the big boys are shoving down our throats for next year, to drink and to play CM, if there are, in fact, any Vegas CMers there. Other than that, Piss off the lot of you. Peng<hr></blockquote> I would suggest moving to another casino. Unless of course you enjoy vomit stained carpet and getting mugged on the way to your car in the garage. I would suggest MGM Grand, Mirage, Venitian, or Mandalay Bay. [serious]When we go to Las Vegas for RED FLAG, we are briefed not to go to Circus Circus. The gangs in town are focusing on people in the gargage and areas just a block away from that casino. By the way, stay away from a bar called the beach. Four airman were hit with estasy in their drinks while they were there and they got rolled.[\serious] Of course, I expect you will be visiting the Olyimpic Gardens and Crazy Horse II in search of nubile naked woman to oggle. Don't forget to go to the top of the Stratosphere as you can most easily contact your mothership from there. Just remember, hookers are illegal in Vegas itself so if your going to try and produce West Coast podlings, you must visit the Cherry Patch north of town.

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Slapdragon: The ME 262 was in no way a war winner. There was no fuel for them, the production plant for the machine was bombed repeatedly, they needed very long and very vulnerable airdomes to operate from, they could only fly at best speed for a short time, and were vulnerable to higher endurance P-51 and Spitfires if they were not flying pedal to the metal, and they hack a sucky record for time in air versus time being fixed. No doubt they worried the allies a lot, and they did damage, but the only way that Germany could have taken a bite out of the bombing campaign was if they could have flown 2000 of them and had fuel and support to keep them in the air. Which still would have played into the allies hands since that is 200,000 ground crew and airdome staff that was not defending Germany on the ground (the 262 required 3 times the ground crew as the FW 190, not counting fuel services which was a huge organization on paper). The 262 was a luxury that could have been dispensed with all together since there was no gas.<hr></blockquote> I would agree with this assesment of how the Me 262s were actually developed and used. However, if the Me262 was actually design finalized and produced in quantity starting in early 1943, they could have had an impact. Remember, that long-range escorts didn't appear for the 8 AF until roughly mid-1944. Consider the impact of a bomber-killing interceptor in mid 1943, daylight bombing was almost cancelled in 1943 without the Me262 due to excessive bomber losses. As for the engines and their limited life span. The average sortie duration (ASD) now for F-16s is roughly 1.0 hours in an intercept mode. This would be true for the Me262, because it did not carry the fuel for longer sorties. So with an ASD of 1.0 then the Me262 could go 10 days on average before performing an overhaul. Engine overhaul would take roughly 1 day to pull the engine and put a refurbish engine back in, 2-3 days to refurbish the engine. So if we look at a 30-day month of a Me262 that doesn't get shot down in not damaged by fire. If it flies every day of the month, (also unlikely given the weather in Germany and England) that is 30 sorties with an ASD of 1.0. If one engine lasts for ten sorties, on day 10 the plane lands and maintenance uses the 11th day to pull the old engines, put in the new engines and do a ground run. If we assume that the engines are refurbished and not placed on another aircraft then on day 22 the plane come back and on day 23 the 2nd set of engines are removed and the original set put back on. They will fly to day 33. So this shows that an engine will last one month given the figures that were provided earlier. (10 hours for overhaul, 25 hours to full failure) So the production rate would be three engines a month for every Me 262. (It is three because if you go out to 60 days the aircraft will use six engines) However, after 25 hours the engines are pulled and they're not completely useless. You would only have to replace the axial engine core. The accessory shaft, gear box, etc, would be pulled and pull on a new engine core. Its not like you have to produce an entirely new engine to replace an old one. As you can see the Me262 could have been a viable weapons system in 1943, if the design was frozen and production ordered. This design tinkering was not limited to aircraft, and was prevalent in all late German designs. Tank production being a very good example. Stopping Daylight bombing in 1943 was a real possibility and would have changed the course of the war. Would it have forced a peace settlement? I doubt it, however, I believe that Operation Overlord would not have taken place in 1944, it would have been delayed until 1945 at the earliest. Imagine the problems that Allieds would have faced given the actual production numbers were at their highest in Fall 1944 and that was when bombing wasn't stopped.

Nothing to see here, double post. (Twitchy finger) [ 10-31-2001: Message edited by: Wildman ]</p>

On a completely non-generic CMPlayer note. Has anyone heard or been able to check on our scribes whereabouts? Or better yet, thrown a phonecall towards his spousal unit and Loraklings. Surely on you you fey, east coast, Philly types are close enough to hillbilly country to make sure their ok.

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by jshandorf: [QBI will never forget the man with the pink feather and the leather chaps. May he be beatin' into a bloody pulp in an alley somewhere. [ 10-25-2001: Message edited by: jshandorf ][/QB]<hr></blockquote> Yes, Slappy needs beaten whenever he dares don that ridiculous getup.

Several complete different aspects of aviation being tossed about here. First, the ME-262 debate. The Me was ready to go in 1943, but Hilter wanted to make it a bomber and not a fighter, hence it was late being delivered. Calling the ME-262 a fighter is actually a misnomer, it is really an interceptor. The difference is this, the ME was never intended to fight fighters, its only target was the bombers, it had a 100+knot top speed advantage over the Mustang allowing it to use BOOM and ZOOM tactics, or a slashing type attack from a higher altitude, dive to the attack and then zoom back to the altitude. It carried only 20mm cannons which are not suited to destroy fighters due to their lower rate of fire. Almost all kills against the ME-262s were on takeoff and landing. In fact, finding and destroying Jet fields and facilities became a major priority for the 9th Air Force in the ETO. Having the jets in 1943 would not have stopped D-Day, but would have easily delayed it at least a year. In 1943 there were few long-range fighters and none that went the entire bombing distance. The jets would have stopped Daylight bombing by the 8th Air Force until 1944 when significant numbers of escorts were available.

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by PeterNZer: Hi there Kids, Anyway, If any of you are in LA (mark IV!) and are bored on like, wed or thur or fri evening, consider coming down here and enjoying the scenic gas stations and burger joints. PeterNZ<hr></blockquote> Are your out of your friggin' mind!!! No self-respecting person in San Diego would ever take that heinous trip up the 405 to IRVINE. Unless it was to get to Disneyland, that would be ok, or to watch a play, that's cool too, but that is it. Irvine, what gall!

Alright you festering malignant toads. My email is up and working you cowering girl scouts can resume dieing by my hand, or killing me softly...which ever the case may be. My new address is wesley.netcher@minot.af.mil Current battles are, but not limited to: Elvis Speedy StevetheRat If someone else is in the middle of my long hiatus, please send the turn...I'm tired of waiting. Surely you can't even begin to think that I'd take responsiblity for this, do you? By the way Elvis, it is your turn, even though it is without a number. As for the rest of you, know for a fact that I loath each and every one of you; only the mental image of Old Ones in pain and alcohol misery brings a smile to my face in this frozen tundra.