Lopaka

Originally posted by Holien: You too huh? Well at least you deserved it!

JAT, What I learned regarding JJelinek is that you should get a free hotmail or msn account and use it to send/retrieve turns. Once I did that we didn't have any problems. I think Jack Trap went through the same issue and cleared it up the same way. Good Luck - Lopaka

If they do show up it will probably be like Dorothy landing on the wicked witch as there doesn't seem to be any room for them to appear. My boys haven't had time to look yet, you wouldn't happen to be wearing ruby red slippers are you? There's no place like home. There's no place like home. There's no place like home...

Reinforcements, reinforcements - my kingdom, first born, several pints of Hagen Daz, a keg of guinness, and pinup calendar featuring the girls of the great white north for some god damn reinforcements. pretty please.

I need the scenario designer for North of Epron to help me out. Ali has graciously agreed to send his Amis from Emilville to help out my beleagured Canadians near Epron, if I allow him to pass through my defensive web. I would send the Brits from the island, but they can't seem to find their assault boats in the fog. So please Mr. Scenario Designer please round up Ali's remaining troops and set them to reinforce my Canadians. Then resend the file and Holien and I will pick it up from there. Your efforts are much appreciated.

Originally posted by The_Capt.: Well as long as your tactics are half-baked and your moves are half-assed I might have half a chance.

Originally posted by Holien: Digital soldiers? I only got analog ones. I demand restitution. Maybe a few bonus points just to even things up. Besides all my opponents got a better commander than mine. It's just not fair at all.

Originally posted by TB155: Damn and double damn - I was afraid you were going to say that.

What the hell? I was only along for the ride. There must be an accounting error. Well if I am to be in the finals, I guess I must ask one question. Should I drink more or less before sending turns?

John Jelinek, I did reply to you through Mike/Treeburst quite some time ago. It is late, and I have been gone for 4 days, and so I have just now been catching up on the big schism. RL has been f'ing with me for a while too, but it may be a TB issue which has kept us from communicating. I will write to him tomorrow and see what's up. When you asked me about setting up a weekend gaming time last week, he later told me he forgot to forward you my message. We may have to find a different mode of communication, but I will try TB first. One way or another I will get thru 2 u. At least, I will be able to figure out where that MG sound was coming from rob/lopaka

John Jelinek, I have sent you an e-mail with no attachment and one with a zipped file attached. I hope this works. If it doesn't, maybe you can ask someone you are getting mail from to be our go between. Fingers are crossed.

Note to Jelinek: I have gotten a few e-mails from you and replied to them, but you don't seem to be getting my replies I guess. That's sort of weird because you did get my original e-mail. Any thoughts on what we do to sort this out? Lopaka

Just wanted to let the members of my section know that I've had a computer malfunction (power supply "exploded"), and, while I fixed that, I seem to have caused other ruckuses which I'm in the process of treating. In the meantime, I might have time to leak a few turns out at work, but I will be much slower than expected for a few days.

My suggestion would be to surrender and loudly proclaim your opponent to be your superior.

You clearly have the combatants ranked within each section - excellent idea. #1 Lopaka

Originally posted by Determinant: I feel your pain! Wait...what were we talking about?

Kanonier, Our battle was indeed a fine one. My greatest complaint was not having a "Chase" command. You either outmanuevered (ala my dead lynx) or I expected you to outmaneuver me (the Churchill chase) and gave up. Both times I figured that if my driver could have simply followed your boys that would have the upper hand. Having to guess where you might go was a sad impediment. In Meeting of Devils, I had the very pathetic situation of many of my platoons panicking at the same time and rushing for cover. Unfortunately they all picked the same cover - one of the houses. This meant that when one squad went in, it pushed another squad out. Because they were then under fire, they wanted to go back in again , thereby pushing out another group and putting them under fire. I had 5 squads all running in and out of the house getting shot up and panicking even harder. Nobody was taking orders. It was one giant drunken frat party where heading out to the front lawn meant getting shot.

I am always willing to take a good beating - even a short and sweet one. As long as I'm allowed to wear my Barry Bonds signature body armor. [ April 25, 2002, 01:45 AM: Message edited by: Lopaka ]

Count me in - and I'm glad to see that my previous sucking might pay off with a good weak schedule.

Just wanted to chime in my "Thanks!" for all the work put in by Nabla, WBW and Treeburst. And thank you to all my opponents for whooping me good. Good luck to the section 3ers who will represent the finest section in either tourney in the finals!

I got my standard issue socks at the beginning of the tourney, but then I sent them out to the modders to add a few finishing touches, and I haven't seen them since. It's hard to find good service these days.

Treeburst: it just ocurred to me that since I have never written an AAR before today, and I'm not sure that I have ever seen one - that my little essays may not be what you are looking for. If that is the case, please let me know if i am totally off base. thx

I have written my first ever AAR. Kind of like the Blair Witch Project meets a Tennyson love sonnet to Wild Bill. I know that nobody cares, but at least we're back on page one. Lopaka

While I usually spend most of my CM time in one state of inebriation or another and will therefore join in the merriment by upping the ante on my intake, I can't help but point out the obvious problem with your study, Cap't. If both combatants are equally intoxicated, how will you be able to prove that there has been an improvement in the ability to command. To truly study the effects you would need half the participants to stay sober, or at least at a lesser state of intoxication. After a battle, and a little time to have the effects wear off the drunker of the two, the sides could switch intake levels and see how that changes things. Of course, this could lead to the inference that one of the combatants can handle his/her liquor better. As an option to the above test, you might allow for equal levels of intoxication with varying substances - please no mixing for this will really skew the test results.

Kanonier - my e-mails are getting bounced from your box. Could you look into it and e-mail me and post here just in case. Two tantalizing turns to go and Lopaka's tourney is toast.