tiborhead

If I should happen to get laid off or fired, count me in. Although, I'm hardly a renowned player. I think I've only played one PBEM game in my life. So pathetic.

Heh. Yes, I am quite lucky. I don't think I could find anyone else willing to play CM with me. Let alone put up with my poor housekeeping abilities and total disregard for my appearance. I think the ability to play Finnish soldiers is what makes it possible. She used to play CMBO with me on occasion, but she seems much more excited now. She insisted on playing ski troops. [ September 27, 2002, 01:00 PM: Message edited by: tiborhead ]

FemBot? Maybe, but I'd think she'd be sort of like a Futurama FemBot.

As mentioned, Move to Contact is not for open ground situations. I learned this little lesson rather quickly. It is VERY useful in woods, pines, and other situations where LOS is severely limited. Using MtC will drastically reduce the chances of walking into an ambush.

Bastard. Where did you find that one, eh? Does she have a sister? Steve</font>

Hmm... I assume your pressing "print screen", minimizing CM, and then pasting the image in paint or something? If so, I have no idea what's wrong.

Those things are fun. I had one last night in a QB. The damn'd thing took out a slew of PzIIIs before being immobilized by a strafing attack. After that, it took about 30-40 hits before the crew bailed out. Damn slow though.

I was planning on posting a long, detailed AAR of a QB played with the girlfriend the other day. It turned out most of the battle was pretty uninteresting, so I'll describe in some detail the pivotal turning point of the battle. The battle was set in December '42 in the Finland area. We (my girlfriend hates competition, so we each play a company + support elements) were to assault a tree-lined ridge and capture 3 flags. We had a total of 2 companies of ski troops, 3 light tanks (not sure of the type at this point), 1 captured T-34, and 2 81mm spotters. Splitting our forces, I would advance up the right side of the map with my company and the T-34, while my gf would advance up the left with the remaining armor and both spotters. On my side, I experienced no contact for quite some time. My gf, however, ran into some trouble quickly. First, a wooden MG pillbox disrupted one of her platoons until her light armor pummeled the fortification with about 3turns worth of direct fire HE. I continued my advance unhindered while she dealt with slight disruptions all the way to her objective, the leftmost flag. Things were going well on my side once contact was made. I captured the crew from a light ATG before it even fired a shot, and routed a defending infantry platoon with help from my T-34. Victory was near for us until... An enemy T-34 popped up not far from one of my infantry platoons. Luckily, I thought, my tank had the drop on him. I guess that doesn't make up for horrible aim. His first shot missed, triggering a hearty F#*K! from both me and my gf. The enemy tank rotates it's turret and puts a round through the turret, killing one and panicking the rest of the crew. The next shot KOs my tank. I am left without armor protection. The enemy T-34 decimates the platoon caught in the open, but my other platoons make it to the safety of the woods near the large flag. Fighting off remaining infantry around the flag, I was well aware of the danger presented by the lone T-34. Once the remaining enemy infantry was driven off, I hid my squads and prepared for the worst. Meanwhile, in a frantic attempt to come to my rescue, my gf lost all three light tanks. Two to an enemy light tank, and one immobilized. There would be no relief. While the squads spread out in the woods hid, two other platoons were in a desperate firefight to take the third flag on my right a little further back the flag in the woods. I was suffering heavy casualties, and decided our chance for victory was slipping fast. Then it happened. The T-34 started lumbering towards the woods. He hit a point from which to fire on my platoons fighting for the third flag, and started firing canister... The canister shot has devastating effect on morale let me tell you. My squads broke one by one and ran for cover. Meanwhile, one brave squad, which probably spawned the myth of the Finnish super soldier, went above and beyond. The next series of screens chronicle the heroic deeds of my lone squad. Thanks to the selfless sacrifice of the heroic rifle squad, my remaining squads eventually rallied. The result was a minor victory for the Axis. Sorry there's not a whole lot of meat to my AAR, but the battle was a few nights ago, and I forgot to take a lot of screenshots. I am working on a new one that should be done soon. Hope you've enjoyed the screens.

I'll post a some in a bit. I'm about to go to lunch, so when I come back I'll post a few pics showing some heroic, Finnish ski troops close assaulting a T-34! Here's a teaser for you. Note the grenade in flight. More to come after I eat my samich. [ September 26, 2002, 03:55 PM: Message edited by: tiborhead ]

I'm planning on posting an AAR sometime soon, possibly tonight if I get the time. It should have plenty of screens. If possible, I'll get my girlfriend to play her Finnish ski troops (she's 1/4 Finnish and proud of it), and go head to head against her in a QB. So, how about it? Would you like to read about how my girlfriend kicks my arse? Or would a regular QB or scenario suffice?

Here are a couple I took from one of the 2 games I played last night. They're not that great, and I would post more but I'm stuck at work and these are the only ones I've managed to upload. This is from a scenario included with the game. Quite fun. At any rate, this is toward the end of the battle, after all enemy armor had been knocked out. I used my only HT to bring up my exhausted tank hunter teams. This shot shows the aftermath of the quick armor skirmish. Well, that's it for now. I'll post some tonight when I get home.

I guess you have more responsibility at your job. Pretty much all I do is set up hotmail accounts for seething idiots. At any rate, I have a little over an hour to go. [ September 23, 2002, 07:14 PM: Message edited by: tiborhead ]

Don't worry. My order number was over 90,000 also, and I still got it today.

Oh, how I loathe you.

In an ironic, bittersweet development, I received my copy today about 3 hours into my shift at work. My initial joy was quickly devoured by the sudden realization that I still have 6 hours to go until I can play. I almost think this is worse than not having the game in your mailbox. Well, the count is down to 4 hours, but still...

Now there's just something fundamentally wrong about that. If it makes you feel any better, I got my copy at work today but won't be able to play until at least 9pm. Stupid job.

All's OK in western Pa. Got it in Pittsburgh!

Yup, I'm already starting to feel a little under the weather (*sniff* *sniff*). Sure hope my condition doesn't deteriorate such that I have to miss any work around, oh, next Wednesday.</font>

Well there's your problem... how did a chicken get involved with your order???</font>

It appears that all is well. I received an email from BFC saying it has been taken care of. Now, I'm not sure if that means they had to cut through their ordering database to alter my info, or just sit around and laugh at me. Either way's fine with me, so long as I get my copy by next week.

Heh, no, I'm not really a government employee at any level. Although, I do have a thing for bureaucracy and wasteful spending.

Can you say "skewed value system"?</font>

You had to edit this post? What'd ya spell wrong...dumb, or ass? </font>

Well, at least it's not as bad as ordering a copy for the wrong system.