Dave H

Ummmm, have I been banned from this forum too? Was it something I said? :eek: :eek:

Dear YK2, no, I'm afraid I don't. Has he banned me from the Fiefdom forum? I'm afraid I got a little rude. On the other hand, I didn't dump a big bubbling vat of GrandMasterGoodale's premium psychotic molten Russian TNT on those smug Yoricks, either!! GRARGHRARRGHRARRGHARG!! :mad: :mad: :mad: PS. Becket may have the address. Check with him. Be careful what you say, he's an attorney!

Five hours and nothing happening anywhere in Cheery Waffle Land? Time for a song: Where have all the Waffles gone? Long time passing. Where have all the Waffles gone? Long time ago. Where have all the Waffles gone? Gone to syrup each and every one. Oh when will they ever learn? Oh when will they ever learn? Wow, I feel better now!

Congratulations to 86smopuim for destroying my infantry in a CMBB QB. My Soviets did an excellent job of providing targets for his German infantry guns. Other than that, we didn't accomplish anything at all. Since you guys brought up Fiefdom again, here is my thought about it. I posted basically the same message on the Fiefdom forum: In my opinion, alliance members have made the decision NOT to play to win. I think this is ruining the game, because each alliance only has one player actually trying to reach the victory conditions. All the other members are little drones scurrying around providing protection and money to the alliance's champion. If each player looked out for his or her self interest, the game would be far more competitive. I'll admit, I haven't been playing Fiefdom to maximize my prestige points, but I'm sure not going to play to help somebody else win! <font size=5>GRARGHRARRGHRAGHRARGGHRARGH!!!</font size=5> :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: PS. I sure miss these emoticons in the Fiefdom forum!

Can't you Canadians keep this cold air up where it belongs? I'm getting tired of having to make a running start up the driveway to get my car into the garage every afternoon. Enough with the freezing rain and ice already! Axe, I blame you for this! GRARGHRARGGRAHRGGHRARRGH!!! :mad: :mad:

Nevermind, class just oozes out of every pore of your body, doesn't it? Send me a setup, maggot. CMBB or CMAK, your choice. Something reasonably small, not one of MasterGoodale's 4,000 point extravaganzas.

Yes. I don't bold for anybody, and that includes YOU, maggot!!

Nevermind, I sure hope you feel better after that! Now all we need is somebody to come in with a mop and clean up after you!

See my modest proposal for the next round on the Fiefdom forum.

YK2, maybe when I told everybody I preferred playing Sim City to playing Lord of the Flies, they decided to lay off. :eek: :eek: I figure if I don't build any armies then nobody will get any prestige by attacking me. Then I'll do what I did this time, build universities and cathedrals and let my population balloon. It certainly worked pretty well this time. The down side is that I would still survive or not survive at the whim of the alliances. The Yoricks/Holy Rollers/Whatevers seem to think of Fiefdom as their own private game. When you look at the rankings and see 10 of the top 15 fiefs are from the same alliance, you know they control your fate.

YK2, I'm blushing. What did I finish, eleventh? I missed the end, being busy watching "The Wild Bunch", which is much cooler than Fiefdom. I must warn you, I play chaotic rulers and I play them as VERY chaotic. As Kitty mentioned, I did briefly join the Cheery Waffle alliance this time. I "borrowed" a few thousand gold from the bank, and when I left the alliance I told them I was repaying them by leaving their gold in the bank. In all seriousness, I left the Waffles because they had allied with the Holy Rollers. When everyone joins alliances, and then the alliances merge, I feel like the game has been destroyed. The game doesn't depend on any individual's strategy or anything else. It all comes down to which member the alliance decides will get all the money. Even though I was just out of the top ten, any alliance could have vaporized my fief at any time. My army never was bigger than 2,000 units, because I didn't spend the whole game fighting. Next round I plan on making no attacks at all, to see what happens. If one player was only a Reeve and made it to the top five, that tells me that the military path isn't the only one to be successful.

Don't forget Japan.

I saw an interview recently with men who had served in both RAF bomber command and the US 8th AF in WW2. One guy who had been a bombardier on a B17 said that by the last year of the war any German town that had so much as a road running through it was regarded as a military target. So yes, at the time, Dresden was regarded by the allies as a military target.</font>

Some of the comments of the "differences" between how the Allies and the Axis conducted the fighting are amazing. I'm talking about the actual fighting, not reprisals or anything of that sort. Does anybody seriously think the American, Russian, British, Canadian, etc. etc. armies fought with kid gloves on? These commanders had to make decisions which involved the certainty of death for many of their own men. Causing the deaths of some faceless civilians was not going to be any more difficult than that. Air strikes, artillery barrages, and bullets certainly don't make any distinction between friend or foe, combatant or civilian.

Sorry, maggots, a few of us have been playing "Fiefdom" again. Snarker is filling in admirably for Becket as the leader of the Cheery Waffle alliance. He is ably assisted by the maggots 86smopuim and a very intoxicated Soddball. Mace and Kitty, those peculiar <font size=1>peng</font size=1>Waffles, also are very much in the forefront of the alliance. I, on the other hand, am a fellow-traveller with the Cheery Waffleheads. Kitty has her eye on me to keep me from raiding the alliances bank account - again! Anyway, it's been a full day with Fiefdom turns and CMAK turns. More tomorrow.

Ask the <font size=1>penguins</font size=1>. A few of the more discriminating just started dropping in, and we welcomed them as we welcome everyone. We could only assume they were trying to get away from something. Actually Soddball and Seanachai did start a PBEM. Sometime near 2010 we may find out who wins, if Seanachai keeps up his torrid pace of sending turns. Or maybe not.

Can we be certain MasterGoodale (the maggot) didn't move to England to escape the mold and ants? Soddball sounds more and more like him every day. :eek: :eek: :eek: One sure test - get Soddball to play the Germans against the Soviets in CMBB. MasterGoodale would have died before fighting against his beloved Russians. Soddball, you're absolutely right about Inferno. The volume of fire in it puts every other scenario to shame. Can you imagine how this battlefield would look with dynamic lighting?

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Sadly, the firewall doesn't actually block the <font size=1>penguin</font size=1> thread. It does show a message that says "WARNING-Laboratory tests on animals prove that prolonged exposure to the MBT kills all brain cells." People like Berli and Boo and Seanachai are proof enough for me. Actually, while Minnesota looks big on the map, it is almost completely covered with water. The few residents are descended from the dominant native form of wildlife; that being fish. This explains both their prodigious thirst for any liquid and their nearly infinite capacity for such liquid refreshment as they can find. See the DUI record of the Minnesota Vikings football team for additional details.

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Dear Queen Emma, my genuine US government firewall will not allow me to access either site. Some mention of "adult content". Maybe you could just describe them in 10 words or less. FYI, I blame Soddball for more than you know. I have played about a half dozen of his scenarios, so I have a lot to blame on him. I'm currently playing "Inferno", which has more pyrotechnics than I've ever seen in a CM scenario. Unfortunately, many of the burning objects are my infantry squads. I'm also helping him playtest another scenario. He gave me halftracks and armored cars. What's the first unit of his that I spot? A freaking gamey TANK!! GRARGHRARGH!!! :mad: :mad: Speaking of gamey, has anyone sighted mike_the_wino lately? I hope he didn't drown in a wine vat. Keke, are you willing to let me pick another scenario? You didn't much care for the last one. Edited to tell you that you have GOT to see the "Cows with Guns" thread on the GF. It has completely cheered me up! [ January 22, 2004, 10:16 AM: Message edited by: Dave H ]

Top of the morning to all maggots and other forms of life. Dear YK2, this is not the kind of message to leave lying around for people to read first thing in the morning. It may take hours for my stomach to calm down. *Blurgh*, indeed! :eek: :eek:

Well, I certainly can't argue with that kind of proof. I must have been misinformed.

This is such a pitiful cry for attention. Poor Berli. Dear YK2, are all of your <font size=1>penguin</font size=1> subjects so pathetic?

Are you talking about the Universal Transverse Mercator grid squares on DOD maps? At 1:50,000 and 1:25,000 scales the grid squares are 1 km. by 1 km., and are printed in black. At 1:250,000 the grid squares are 10 km. by 10 km., and are printed in blue. There should be a grid box in your map legend telling you all the information, including how to estimate coordinates to the nearest 10 meters. The grid box is normally printed in the same color as the grid.