SybotCB

Honestly Kingfish. Do you really think our president would have the intellectual capacity required to play this game. Let alone turn on the computer? B [This message has been edited by SybotCB (edited 03-28-2001).]

my god. Why would someone pay $56. BTS should post a dutch auction on there with like a quantity of 100 and a price of $45 + 8 shipping. That way these people that have no idea where to get it could find it on ebay. Plus they could take Paypal or something and send em out faster. Not that they haven't sold out of em all before. B

... the usual stories of intrigue, passion, sadism, and bestiality. Should we continue the story with 109Gustav and his "special" salmon, Mace and his sheep, Lorak and his worms, or Phillies Phan and his penguin. No subject is taboo for the wierdo's writing in the faq thread. Not even the most wierd, disgusting, puking till you look like peng in the face topic of...

I thought the problem was that the "System" used like 75% SMG, 15% pupchens (or some 75mm Inf Gun), and 10% JagdPanzers. Or some breakdown thereof. Now I admit I don't know anything about WWII. Were units pretty diverse or pretty concentrated. I thought the point of combined arms was effective use of many different units to your advantage. If the above breakdown (IIRC, I've not used this in a battle so don't know what works, and what everyone's doing, on TH) accurately reflects the makeup of a unit during WWII then so be it, Everyone then needs to stop complaining about TH being "gamey". If the above breakdown is not accurate than wouldn't something like relative costing the more of one kind of unit you take MORE accurately reflect the typical WWII battlefield. I'm not saying restrict non-diverse squads. But make it progressively more expensive to add them. B

How about something like: Everything stays the same price. But if you get disproportionate troops (too many SMG squads), then it will start raising the price of those. Giving a discount if you buy as a platoon or something. Much over 4 or 5 of any one item would then be deathly costly to purchase. It would promote diversified units. Would something like that work? I don't know I'm just throwing out suggestions.

Actually a roster would be nice too. But that's been asked for here before, so I think they already knew about that. B

Perhaps you could add a "Boss Mode" I realize you can hit "esc", but for nostalgia sake if anything you could add a cute little compiling screen or processing data. Or a picture of some graphs on a desktop. That would be cool. [This message has been edited by SybotCB (edited 03-27-2001).]

Didn't we fool Hitler with a fake army (I think something about this is coming on the History Channel tonight as a matter of fact). We made him think we were going to attack at Coern and instead we attacked at Normandy. That seems to me like a good example of Dynamic Flags.

Microsoft Intellimouse Optical here. God I love that Mouse. The smoothest mouse on the planet. I don't understand where someone feels there's lag in an optical mouse. Not in mine or it's infintely negligeable. A friend of mine just bought a mouse and pointer combination from Wacom Technologies http://www.wacom.com. The "mousepad" plugs into the computer and there is a cordless mouse that works on the pad in relative mode. And there is a pen that you can use on the pad in a 1:1 relationship with the screen. It looks interesting but I have yet to use it at any length to see if I would like it or not. Gel filled wrist pads at both work and home helped me out a great deal as well.

<BLOCKQUOTE> We'll pay Croda to use his sig in his posts. Then we can charge suckers five bucks each to come in and laugh at him. Mace was quite proud of his scheme, and was shocked when it backfired and... </BLOCKQUOTE> ... Set his scrotum on fire. Quickly Mace in an attempt to minimize the damage to his gonads ...

Bump for the morning crowd. Adding to this. Where would I get the old version of this database. I'd really like the one with the pictures. Though Wolfe's is nice too. B

Any news on this update? Looking to find this database with the pictures. B

Question here from a Wargaming Newbie. I wanna know the origin of two words. 1) Grog, grognard (whatever other implementation of the word) 2) Peng (And why that means your allowed to taunt and slander people (In good fun of course). Thank you for your support. (Preferably 14" Naval Guns). Chris

Maybe he just got a Port-A-Potty. Or at the very least a bedpan. B

I still play Civ 2. It's still as fun as ever. (Multiplayer Civ is pretty fun but it's a different kind of game.) Can't wait for Civilization 3. Another great game that I play (Besides CM) is Front Office Football (It's a General Manager type Sim of the NFL). It was written by a one man company (http://www.solecismic.com) and the game was bought by EA Sports 2 years ago. But it is an excellent game as well. CM is also very good and although I can't say until it happens I have a good feeling that it will join the list of those 2 above games that I'm still playing years after they first come out. B

What's the name of that mod and where's the link to download it

I was looking for a new game and I was actually thinking about buying Close Combat (Whatever the new one is I forgot now). I had never played any of the Close Combat games prior to this. I was reading reviews over at Amazon, trying to decide whether to get it or not. Anyway, one of the reviewers said that it wasn't very accurate and the company really didn't support their product well. It said this game was better and the developers loved what they did more. So I came here, read the manifesto, downloaded the game, and well the rest is history. I'm not a wargamer, I like strategy games. I was looking for another starcraft and I ended up with this. Thank you!!! This fits the bill quite well and I've since started reading material and learning true military tactics simply because I want to get better at this game. B

Alright I bought this game a month ago. I liked the demo, but when I got the game I've completely been hooked. Well anyway, last week to learn more about the troops and their abilities and situations I borrowed Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose. It's been an excellent book and I've enjoyed reading it so far. A couple of days ago I was reading a story about Hill 317 and it being a big Artillary battle and all so I thought I would look for a scenario so I could learn more about this situation. (The book is lacking in maps and stuff). So I went to CMHQ. Now earlier last month when I went there I was sure there was a choice on the side for searching scenario's. But for the life of me I can't find it. All I can see is a place that has like 4 scenario's and 1 operation on it. Am I going crazy or am I remembering a different place? Thanks Chris

I actually like to give them names of Hanna Barbara Cartoon Characters in the order of their probable date of birth. For instance I start off with characters from the Flintstones, head to Scooby Doo, and end the game with the Jetsons. This seems to work best for me. So far my opponents haven't seemed to mind. Seriously, I haven't played PBEM yet (I'm scared; any other PBEM virgins wanna play?)but I would guess I would just use sequential.

Let me just tell you that when I downloaded the demo I played both of the scenario's several times. I liked the game although I did beat both of the scenario's as both sides with full fog of war on the first times that I played them. I thought hey this is a pretty fun game and I'm actually pretty good at it. I'll get it and play all the grog's out there and show them how it's done. This was a completely naive and idiotic state of mind. I received my game in the mail (finally!) on February 16th. (Yes only one day after they emailed me saying it was back in stock, I am so lucky). I immediately loaded up the AAchen scenario against the AI playing as the allies. Cool I've got some new units here that weren't in the demo so I was playing around with them. Anyway I started walking my troops down the street toward the hotel. Using the same basic tactics I used to win the Demo's scenario's. Next thing I now an AT gun takes my tank out in turn 4 and my Halftrack in the next turn. I have 300 German troops in buildings all around me raining bullets on my mens heads. My men are running everywhere just trying to get out of the way. My Company HQ sent a letter of resignation to me saying he could not work for someone as incompatant as I am. And the scenario ended with an Axis Total Victory. Well OK I need to be more careful so I try it again. Still got beat although not quite so quickly. At this point I felt that I needed to try the tutorial. So I went through that several times before finally being able to pull out a tactical victory over the germans. (Just in the tutorial). Anyway, Let's put it this way. BTS seriously mislead's you. The scenario's included with the demo are really easy compared to all the other ones. Also I haven't even played a Human AI as I'm still working on tactics against something as lowely as the computer. I can't imagine playing against a person yet. This game is excellent. The AI is pretty competant. And if you can beat it routinely there's always TCP/IP and PBEM after that. I think BTS has made a lifelong fan. (Only one other company has that kind of devotion from me where I'll by anything they make sight unseen (Blizzard)). Get this game. I'm pretty sure you won't regret it. I still liked the concept of the game and I bought it

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