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so far its come down to a point blank slug-fest between yanqui Paras and VG SMG's squads in the pines on the high ground, with a side show of attrition between Gyrene's "light guns" (AA, Gyrene: got to be) and my own arty park. Didn't you notice that each set-up quartile has one barely negotiable but just about usable vehicular path down to the base of the bowl? you didn't? oh-oh! just you wait till i bring my KT out.

i've never tried clearing them. to be honest the guys i mostly play against(Hi Zippy!) never seem to use them, so i've never had that dubious pleasure. I still think there's something "buggy" about mines.

Have BTS ever suggested when they're going to tackle the PTO? THat would solve a lot of Mod probs.

thats sounds reasonable Gyrene, but it'd be nice to know the formula. Also, i presume terrain/cover has some effect. I get a lot of maileage out of putting AP mines in woods/trees, but AT mines seem to get skirted round most of the time (although I think thats my placement as much as anything).

i have to disagree, gentlemen. i did a few qbs for this purpose, and each time some ATM's were revealed by inf from a distance.

please "whup my ass" if there's already been a thread on this but: I'm damned if i can work out the rules for revealing mines. Sometimes they seem to be visible from miles away, sometimes you don't see them until you've detonated one. How the heck does this work? I like using them, but I'm never sure where to put them. Help! :confused:

Gyrene, if you're out there, get in touch! I can't bear the shame of another TKO.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR> And that much of the mocking commentary from the British is well meant, friendly piss taking. Personally, I take it as a compliment when the Brits mock the Yanks, as its a way of saying "you fellows are a little funny, but you're on the radar screen and not bad guys for the most part." <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I'm very definitely not going to get Disneyish about this, but I think I agree. Despite the ever changing political ground between our two countries, I think American still equals "cousin", in a funny kind of way. On the other hand, we could just be being polite around the only foreigners who can understand what we're actually saying.

but, hang on, i can't let this little gem of Post-Colonial wit flash by without a mention: <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>(q.) be humorous (humourous if you are from the land of fuzzy teeth). <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> At least we don't spend those oh-so-impressionable adolescent years with our heads wrapped in a gleaming framework of steel in order to correct a barely perceptible dental divergance from the vertical. Maybe if Americans spent happier childhoods, they wouldn't be so defensive.

that could even be "illiteracy". i'll get me coat.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Now, stop defiling the cess with your presence and depart. You are bringing down property values quite significantly! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Since I began contributing, "the cess" moved fractionally towards fragrancy. however, your uncultured contribution has once again overwhelmed it with stench of untutored illiterary.

Ah, the teeth thing. Seen that on the Simpsons. Well, its true. We consider a rich "Van Dyke" brown to be the appropriate colour for teeth. Green was briefly in during the Punk era. Of course, the American habit of wiring emotionally suscebtible adolescents' jaws together with huge gleaming contraptions in order to correct a putative 1 degree infraction from the perpendicular says more about the financial acuity of your dentists rather than anything about comparitive standards of oral hygene.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR> This is sociological inquiry into national perceptions as altered by mass media and other portrayals. All very civilized <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> No, I seriously agree. I think, well sometimes when I think what Americans pick up on in the media as being "English, I do wonder what on earth they make of it. I'm not patronising but if i were a US citizen with as little interest in the UK as I curently have in, say, the Sandwich Islands I wonder what little scraps and gems would filter through to my subconcious. Sarah Fergusson, The Full Monty, and soccer violence? Mind you, thats a recongisable snapshot.

hey, you guys must have all have got some serious **it kicked out of you at school. Now listen, its all over. we left the playground a long time ago. nobody's going to beat you up. nobody's going to to steal your packed lunches. its time to let all that hurt and anger go.

The 17th Century Class System helps us all to remember our place, ho yus, Gawd bless us all Mr Scrooge. British sanitary arrangements are a private matter between a gentleman and his plumber. What exactly domost Americans think England is like? The ones who've been here less than three times, of course.

BTW, the voided first round tie-breaker 'twixt me and Philistine is going ahead as a matter of sportsmanship. Philistine just paid the price for exposing a flank shot on his Jagdtiger to two of my Vet Achilles. Had he come across the other diagonal however,I would have been up a certian street without a paddle. Also just killed a Nashorn. Don't think he can have much left.

I've always liked to think that the large English presence in the CM fraternity has inparted a more cultured, gentlemanly, and refined tone than one tends to find in the forums left to the colonials and Europeans.

personally i have grave reservations against letting the computer pick my forces. half the skill is creating a flexible and balanced (read "gamey as heck") set-up. on the other hand, i've no problem with using a logically thought out one. however, wouldn't letting players do randomly distributed set ups lead to the occiasional deliberate 'crepe' set-up: "120 crack kubelwagens. heh-heh, pity the poor sucker who gets stuck with thisone." that's what I'd do, at any rate.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Do I simply resend the file with the meeting engagement fixed? Do you guys want to repurchase... Do you want a differnt map? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I think Gyrene's away for a couple of days, so if i can take the liberty of answering for him I suggest you take whatever course is easiest for you and quickest so we can get this game rolling.

there used to be a Japanese company doing 1/48 scale AFV's, etc. Can't remember the name of the co., but their kits were remarkably detailed: I remember building the Puma, and the suspension and transmission alone had about 30 parts, not counting the wheels. On the comparable Tamiya kit, all you had to do was stick the wheels on lugs moulded on the lower hull. Airfix had a short-lived range of 1/32 kits. My other point is: why do i no longer have the time to assemble 30-part transmissions for 1/48 scale afv's?

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>, there needs to be a special textured cliff tile or...oh what's that term they used in WaW: Operation Crusader for areas where there was sudden rocky drop-offs? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> IIRC it's "escarpment", or in North Africa specifically "Djebel" (means "escarpment" in Arabic).

"nebelwerefer" means "fogthrower" in German, as the multibarrelled rocket launchers were originally designed to lay down smoke screens. getting the AI to do what you want it to is a real swine.

i'll give it a go. e-mail bobbby@nostaw81.freeserve.co.uk

I'm trying to create a series of scenarios that will give the expierenced CM player a decent game against the AI. Please contact me if you would playtest one of these for me. Be warned, they are intended to be as difficult as possible whilst considering the limitations of the AI, but still possible to do(average points is 3-1 in favour of the human player). My mates here have tried them, and they think they're fair enough. booby@nostaw81.freeserve.co.uk

no, hang on Gyrene, i like this set-up.