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  • Birthday 06/27/1972

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    Dropping out of grad school
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    Grad School Dropout, biologist

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  1. I don't think I'd pay for a few landmarks, but I'd sure as heck pay an extra ten or fifteen bucks for full movie-playback.
  2. For people looking to rent rather than buy these movies, all of them discussed so far in this thread except The Winter War are available through Netflix at Netflix.com.
  3. I'll play you, Boo, but just because you sound so literary and collegiate and all with your high school literature handle. Didn't there used to be an Atticus wandering around the board somewhere? You're also much more amusing than Tank Man, who isn't nearly antagonistic enough. I, however, am not one of the people who gets the in-jokes or my name in bold type, so you don't get a little plastic trophy if you turn out to be a gamier bastiche than me and win. Send me an email with a setup or conditions. Something smallish.
  4. Did Madmatt spell his name with craters or foxholes? Will foxholes (as, for instance, fall-back positions) be purchasable by defenders as a fortification like barbed wire and roadblocks?
  5. Gah, it looks like the Tiger shot the hands off the guy on the left before they got it. And I thought gun hits were gamey
  6. There was a long thread maybe about a month back or so before the board crashed talking about whether or not BTS would sacrifice unit realism to balance the game since the Russian player would have a significant advantage in this regard. While others here can likely give a more detailed account of that thread, the upshot was that the Germans would have an advantage in aspects such as maneuver where the German army was historically more ept. BTS felt that they had done a good job of balancing play while keeping things historical and given their track record with that in CM:BO I'm sure that the end result won't be nearly as one-sided as it appears. [ March 04, 2002, 06:45 PM: Message edited by: Sock Monkey ]
  7. AFAIK bridges behave like buildings, so while it isn't possible for, say, engineeers to blow one up with satchel charges, it is possible to destrtoy one with HE, esp. high-calibre artillery. {edit} Ah, the picture you saw may have been acheived by placing minefields onteh bridge and then moving in engineers, who target teh minefields with satchel charges. I imagine some number of satchel charges used in this way might be enough to bring down a bridge but I'm not aware of a way to get engineers to target a bridge with satchel charges generally. [ March 03, 2002, 02:05 PM: Message edited by: Sock Monkey ]
  8. I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) BTS has also committed to allowing opposing players to play units of the same nationality (i.e. brit vs. brit), but I think this is also awaiting a rewrite.
  9. Ah, it must've been the accent that confused me, my apologies.
  10. Are sock monkeys gendered? And if they were, would you want one? I think an anotomically correct sock monkey is fairly far down the list of things the world needs. It's just... gross. And about Minnesota. I've had the pleasure of exploring the length of the Land of 10,000 Lakes, from Ludson to Winona, from the Mall of America to Gary's Bar in Utica. And Brainerd (save for the giant talking statue of Paul Bunyan) isn't all that atypical. It's claustrophobic in Minnesota. Too many trees, poor LOS. My games against Pvllvs (who still hasn't wandered back here) and Dice are still in embryonic stages, but apparently I'm putting on a great parade for Dice's Americans, who haven't had the common decency to line the streets and wave. The setups Bastables and Lars sent are nothing short of hazing, I'm surprised they haven't delivered a bottle of Southern Comfort and a funnel. Lars gave me seven old men armed with muskets to face down a company of Shermans, which is bad enough, but Bastables went so far as to send me a single-player attack scenario balanced for play against the AI, showing a distinct lack of confidence on his part. Has it really been so long since you won a game that you have to send me a Globetrotters vs. Senators comedy like this And, uh, being Seanachai's serf doesn't involve any of that "first night" nonsense, does it?
  11. Eeek, Lars, it looks like half the men on my side were turned out of the old volks home, still shellshocked from The Great War, and the other half didn't, in fact, survive it at all. Marlow has a macabre sense of scenario design. So be careful, you're little green army men (and probabaly their Pershings, eh?) face Adolf's personal 1st Nazi Zombie Corps(e)!
  12. Bump and has BTS said anything recently about the full-movie playback feature? Anybody know if they came up with a sufficiently groovy kludge to get it into the game?
  13. And: No it won't patch the current incarnation of CM in any way, nor will further patches for CM:BO be forthcoming.
  14. Some of my family is from Minnesoda, Lars and I've spent my fair share of time there, so I understand that sarcasm is largely lost on you sub-Canadians, due probably to the combined action of the numbing effects of winter and exsanguination by mosquitos throughout the rest of the year (and plus lots of them are Swedes ya betcha, but that's another matter), but you really are beginning to try my patience. Anyway, I doubt that you could pry yourself away from editing your Lake Woebegon fan-fiction 'zine or scrawling yet another angry letter on tree bark to the Coen brothers for their portrayal of your state in Fargo (I've been to Brainerd, Lars and it isn't half as pretty in real life -- much more of a strip mall and less of an idyllic woodsy town) to play anything like a serious game of Combat Mission, but thanks for cranking up the ol' kerosene generator long enough to share your thoughts. If however sometime in the distant future they ever run a real power line over the empty schnapps bottles out to your icehouse and the lake sturgeon aren't biting, you can feel free to send a setup. How about a nice winter scenario with lots and lots of snow and foul weather, preferably in the dark with nary a building in sight. I'm new here, so I figure the least I can do is spot you the home field advantage.
  15. Gosh, Lars, I don't remember promising anything to anybody. Your disapproval of my taunting of the (late?) Pvllvs has left my inner child blue, but since you mentioned class (here? Yikes, I'm hip to cultural relativism and all, but really? class?) I wonder if perchance you have time for a bit of schooling in the finer arts of blowing things up? I promise to be extra-nice and I'm a regular kitten when it comes to setups.
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