Soddball

I'm game. My girlfriend bleats like an ideal Mace companion whenever I load the dam game up. You should, however, be ashamed that she beat you. I recommend that she punishes you for hours as part of her victory reward. You may enjoy it too

[ 06-28-2001: Message edited by: Soddball because I was ratarsed when I wrote it. ] [ 06-29-2001: Message edited by: Soddball ]

fanny - is that a technical term? I've been looking through my books and it isn't there. Oh go on, give us a smirk

fanny - is that a technical term? I've been looking through my books and it isn't there. Oh go on, give us a smirk

What do you mean, no drunks? 90% of the intelligible posts are made by people too drunk to focus.

Not only that, you have to pay £100 a month for no readily apparent reason because your lawyer is a thieving b*****d ard.

If you're playing as American or British, your companies get 60mm or 2" mortars. You can use standard rounds to suppress the MG and then charge it. One or two mortars should do the job.

If I may offer a suggestion that may have been missed out: If you leave a gap between two minefields, the AI will drive their tank right through it, yes? Doesn't this become an ideal point for an ambush by a PIAT or AT gun from the side? That's what I do. Comic fun for all the family - especially when two or three vehicles are trying to get through, and they become trapped because the first one has been knocked out.

Read it again, BlindBoy: <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR> I speak up for the English Boys and Girls when I say - Tunbridge Wells Kent United Kingdom. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> UP! UP, Fool! UP! Not 'speak for'! Speak up for! Jeez. I thought you Peng people could read.

Rex, you seriously live in Tonbridge? You're about 3 miles from me! LOL! I speak up for the English Boys and Girls when I say - Tunbridge Wells Kent United Kingdom. And thanks to LCM for disregarding ANYONE outside of America. You are keeping up a fine tradition found widely amongst Americans.

Oh, the shame. I broke my double post cherry. [ 06-27-2001: Message edited by: Soddball ]

I agree with what Goanna had to say about website speed. I'm based in the UK and am one of a minority (I suspect) of non-US players. If you want anything above 56k modems, you have to pay through the nose - IF it's available and I believe about 1/10 of the population can get access to ADSL or cable (please correct my figures if I'm wrong). Therefore, I can either spend 1 minute waiting for a webpage to load, or I can bugger off an look at another site. Incidentally, I know a web designer who's using cascading style sheets to make a fast, attractive corporate website. Maybe BTS could hire him? He's bargain basement

The guy has used the terrain to strike at what has turned out to be a vulnerable point. If, as Gyrene said, he hugged the edge of the board, it might raise some questions in my eyes. However, what he's done is negated the value of your defence by forcing you to fight on his terms. I would consider that to be, whilst perhaps not a 'fair' tactic, the tactic of someone who doesn't want to lose his troops in a head-on assault. If he's played by rules you both agreed upon, troop types etc, and he's broken your defensive line fair and square, I would have to say well done to him. Sorry. Is there any chance we can have more details once the battle's over? I would be interested to see layouts and it would be useful to see how static your defence was.

Why do you Finns have such a bee in your bonnet about this whole thing?

If my information is correct (from one of the twelve trillion threads on this)- - NO MAUS!!!

Make me a German. I'm feeling morally repugnant this morning.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR> I believe it is an African Swallow <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I don't need to tell you how long I've been looking for a swallow That kind of bird is pretty rare where I am.

In a later battle, when he commanded the Mediterranean fleet, he attacked the French fleet in Aboukir Bay, off Egypt. The fleet was there to protect Napoleon's army, which had invaded Egypt to take it from the British. The French were anchored in the bay, close to the shore. They presented a long line of cannon to any attacker, and would be hard to dislodge. However, Nelson decided to risk grounding some of his vessels, and slipped ships close into shore, behind the French vessels. Since their guns were not rolled out or loaded on the landward side, they were unable to return fire. Nelson annihilated the fleet in a battle lasting several hours. The consequence of this battle were widespread. Napoleon lost his African army - the British controlled the Mediterranean and no supplies or replacements could be shipped. It was the end of attempts to take Egypt from the British. This is another example of his use of innovative tactics to defeat his enemies. Cape St. Vincent, Aboukir Bay and Trafalgar were all victories brought about by a daring, sometimes reckless, plan.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR> What I really want to ask was I'll have a beer if you've got extras Soddball. My boss is gone for the day so I suppose I can have one or three. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I have half a case of Kronenbourgh which has been living in my fridge for 24 hours. If you're local, pop in

If I may offer a tip, Panzerman. Whilst you may not mean to offend, some people might interpret the way you type as being blunt with them. That's why smilies are so popular What you ALL (including me) need to bear in mind is that human interaction relies very heavily on a range of almost invisible clues - stance, facial expression, everything helps you gauge a person's reaction to you and what you are saying. With the arrival of telegraph and telephone, that became more difficult, but people were able to use tonal techniques - listening to the voice - to understand the context of their conversation and to make judgments about the person saying it. With email, and online fora, suddenly we are without a means to understand those we are conversing with. There is no facial expression, no stance for us to interpret and as a result even the smallest 'slights' could become blown out of all proportion - and they SO often do. The little clues that you or I would use to decode when someone is 'miffed' and when, perhaps, we _shouldn't_ say something aren't there. It is VERY difficult to express yourself accurately in written form, and I would guess that 90% of the 'flame wars' that occur happen simply because someone is acting online in a way they never would in a face-to-face disagreement about a subject. So how about if everybody kicks back and has a beer, and we all forget the argument - and that's what it could turn into - ever happened. My guess is that nobody meant to rile anybody else, and that at the end of the day nobody wants a tit-for-tat scrap. Well? PS Smilies GOOD! :cool:

Down with narrow-minded ethnocentricity. Long live Friday afternoon drinking, though. If only We have a regime that makes Stalinism look liberal. :eek:

Have you gone and fished all the critical updates for ME off the net? Once I did that, it stopped crashing once a day and now is better than 98.

From my limited experience, I would suggest that standard Shermans aren't alot of use against the beefier german tanks. They are okay against infantry but even a 37mm cannon can shoot through the side armour on a Sherman. It's best to keep them out of sight of some german tanks, like the Hetzer and Panther. They manage OK against the Panzer IV and the StuG. They also need to be protected by infantry. It's very easy to lose a sherman to a Panzerfaust or Panzershreck that it's just driven past. Hope that's ok for starters.

I don't think the unladen flight speed is modelled accurately either - North American or European.

Bradley. Are there any generals outside the gude ahld ewe ess of ay, or did nobody else fight any wars?