Soddball

Yeah, right. The last thing we need is some piss-streaked Angry Wannabe mewling like a cat with its tail stuck in the catflap. Back to your Peng friends, you shrivelled scrotum, and tell them that you're too much of a girly-man for the TNT chucking of MasterGoodale's Thread of Cheery Waffle. You probably have some poetry to recite together, or some ironing to do. Speaking of the GrandMaster Jewel-Encrusted TNT Chucker, has anyone seen him around of late?

I think Mike_the_Wino is a fat, greasy turd floating in a bucket of spew. :mad: Wallybob!! Get me a turn so I can see the creamy arsewhipping I have handed you!! :mad: :mad: In other news, Snarker has decided to diversify from Stuart production into barbecue sales. Seriously angry TNT out loud! :mad:

I think Mike_the_Wino is a fat, greasy turd floating in a bucket of spew. :mad: Wallybob!! Get me a turn so I can see the creamy arsewhipping I have handed you!! :mad: :mad: In other news, Snarker has decided to diversify from Stuart production into barbecue sales. Seriously angry TNT out loud! :mad:

You obviously didn't spend any time in the Politics Forum.

I think there can be a difference. Early-war Shermans only have a 76mm-armoured turret but quickly gain an 89mm turret. Wet stowage is a plus, and helps to keeps your crew alive if and when they have to bail out. That might not matter in a game, but when you're an army trying to keep a veteran tank crew alive so you don't have to send green tank crews out, it's important. In game terms, I agree that the 76mm gun, 'easy eight' and (if it were in the game) the Jumbo are the three biggest improvements. For all the slandering that the Sherman gets - and it gets a hell of a lot - I really like it and I think it's unfairly slighted. Remember that the Sherman first appeared in 1942, and it was competing against the Panzer III and early Panzer IV. It was way ahead of the competition. The 50mm/L42 needed tungsten to penetrate the Sherman at anything but short range, and the 75/L24 bounced off front and turret armour at all ranges and needed a good flank shot to disable it. The 37mm needed to use its Stielgranate to penetrate. I'm also suspicious about the setting of the Sherman's turret armour to '0 degrees', because it looks as though it should be assigned the classification 'curved'. Have a close look at the design next time you're playing. I think the Sherman might need to be looked at again for CMX2. Many of the Sherman's most positive aspects never come to the fore in a CM game because they're out of its scope, but were you to play a grand strategy game, they would become apparent. These are such thing as its reliability, its ruggedness and the availability of parts for repairs. Read the 'Russian Battlefield' website stories about tanks like the KV-1. Russian gearboxes were diabolical. The unreliability of the King Tiger is legendary, but read between the lines about the KV-1 and you'll see that it's not any better - breakdowns on the way to battle, frequent breakdowns during battle. That great, much-vaunted behemoth had a shocking reliability record, but you never see that in the game. Oh sure, you might get it bogged in if you're unlucky, but you don't find your two of your three KV-1 reinforcements not making it to the battlefield and the third breaking down within 20 yards of the front line. So I think the Sherman's biggest advantages are at a level beyond that which you play in CM. They're stuff that matters to armies as much as to soldiers.

Good find Fred, this far into the game's life!

I hate every molecule of youze. :mad:

I hate every molecule of youze. :mad:

I haven't found a single person cheating yet - except when they beat me, in which case they are a gamey cheating hoor. When I win, though, it's through skill.

Which Maggots are hiding their puss-smeared faces in the dirt today? :mad:

Which Maggots are hiding their puss-smeared faces in the dirt today? :mad:

ARHgaGHRAHRGAHRGAHGAGHRGHGHGH!!!! :mad: :mad: Snarker's chewing on some angry TNT packages right now, Maggots!! :mad: I've been loading double helpings into the firing chamber and watching his Stuarts burn!!! ARHhgaHRGHARGAGHAR Wobblebottom owes me a fricking turn so we can finish this tournament game. :mad: Once my scrimmage with him is over, I shall patch and then setups of DOOM will roll out.

ARHgaGHRAHRGAHRGAHGAGHRGHGHGH!!!! :mad: :mad: Snarker's chewing on some angry TNT packages right now, Maggots!! :mad: I've been loading double helpings into the firing chamber and watching his Stuarts burn!!! ARHhgaHRGHARGAGHAR Wobblebottom owes me a fricking turn so we can finish this tournament game. :mad: Once my scrimmage with him is over, I shall patch and then setups of DOOM will roll out.

I wish I knew what you were talking about.

I'm going away for a couple of days to drink beer and escape the asylum that is my life. Turns out to them what sent them.

Padding your post count? The only things that need padding round here are the walls of your cell. :mad:

He's not out of his depth, he's just dead drunk. Happens all the time. Christ, Soddy, one would think that you, of all creatures, would recognize that. Or are you dead drunk again? </font>

Any chance you guys can come and collect Boo Radley? He's way out of his depth in the Waffle thread.

A 'standard' 30 days? What do you think this is, the Peng thread? There's no standards here. There's no rules here. If you can't stand the heat, get your face off the manifold, you whiny girl. You'd better slink back to the Pengers where life is easy - there's no place here for a man who doesn't live by the 'gamey is as gamey does' moniker.

Alright then, you long streak of widdle. You want some? YOU WANT SOME SERIOUS DERANGED, MOLTEN, FACE-MELTING TNT CARNAGE?? :mad: :mad: :mad: ARAHHARGARHRAAHGGGAHghgAHGRAHGRHARGHARGHARGHARGHARGHARGHAGRH I challenge you to a Sig Match!!! :mad: I want the world to know what a fat, sweaty, rub-my-genitals-on-a-piece-of-sandpaper ponce you are. I'm going to grind your pitiful, whining face into the mud, you pestilent streak of dog poo. :mad: My conditions are: 1500 pts, infantry only QB. Winner puts a line in the loser's sig for 90 days. And yeah, you can fecking wait. I've only got Wallybob left to finish off, and we're on turn 9 of 10. Should be done by the end of 2006. Setup when I'm back from a weekend of dull stuff. I've got so many games going, my box is going to be packed more full than Boo Radley's mums'. Although it probably won't earn me as much money. :mad:

What the hell is this? Some kind of spastics' pitch invasion? Piss off, the pair of you!

:mad: :mad: :mad: You're a big, puss-filled wart on the scrotum of an elderly vagrant. :mad: :mad: </font>

Where would be the fun in that?

I can email it to you if your system will take 20MB attachments.

Go on. Post it. You're just trying to turn me on. How's Cheery Waffles, by the way? Sufficiently :mad: ? </font>