Alan

SP was fun for you cause you got to kick my @**! Congrates to the guys that won.

I never should have went into those stinking buildings. Instead of being able to pin you with the troops in the building and moving my schrecks into the woods I had to rush my guys out to get slaughtered. I never recovered from that.

Not to gloat but my PC has both a DVD and a CD-RW drive. I have CMBO in one and CMBB in another. No more switching CDs for me. If your willing to take on new people I'm willing to play in the tournament.

I have a PBEM ready but you don't have an email address in your profile.

I was ranting about the same thing in another thread. If you want you can send me a setup.

I don't think Sword Point was close to an Allied Minor Victory. I only had one unit left that was useful and no flags. I was soundly beaten. I didn't have a good plan on what to do once Alsatian made it across the bridge. Once that happened I never had a chance.

The AI seems to do a bit better as the Allies.

Dawson's Creek is on and my wife must watch that show. If she doesn't see it then she will die, or whine about it until I die.

Herr Oberst has the right idea on how to set up the map. It should eliminate most of the variables (targeting, global morale, etc) that we are complaining about. Seeing we are only talking about 1st shot hits does it matter what the target vehicle is? I can't watch TV tonight so I'll try to set it up and see how it goes.

I'm assuming by lanes Warren means that a t34 would only be able to shoot at one StugIII. That would eliminate turrent rotation as a variable assuming that the tanks started facing each other. Were the tanks immoblized? That would keep them from moving and changing the Hit %. The thing to do would be to set the test up so that one side had one shot of ammo. Then measure the number of 1st shot hits. The other side would just be targets with no ammo.

Could you replay it as a hot seat game and see what the numbers look like for 2 human players?

Bump

Flyby, I sent you an email with a set up.

Sounds good to me. This is the sort of thing I was thinking of. I'm glad to hear you had good luck finding good opponents. [ October 28, 2002, 09:07 PM: Message edited by: Alan ]

You never read any of the Peng threads? There was also one in the General Forum for a while. It had something to do with Dorosh. I know there is the opponent finder forum but I have had crappy luck in getting opponents from there to keep playing or even respond. I've pretty much given up on trying to get opponents from there. It is a pain because playing in the tournament has gotten me addicted to PBEM. It seems like the best thing to do is get some of the losers from the FOTN tournament and start a thread for us to challenge each other to games.

So I take it you like the idea of a challenge thread?

Alstian, If you need something to motivational to work with we could always start a challenge thread here on the CMBO board. I can rant about how my inablity to read the turn number allowed you to win. If you need an in game hint, I'm planning a gamey flag rush with my crews (Is it legal for me to say this?). If I can dispute the flags it should make the score something like 90-10 in your favor.

It doesn't bother me. I've only played a few PBEMs. Maybe 8 total. I'm busy losing to my second opponent in the Fellowship of the Newbie tournament.

That is correct. You will receive movie only turns. The person that generates the movie doesn't watch it first. That is to keep him from regenerating movie turns until he gets one that he likes. If you search in the Archives you should find several threads discussing this. You can send me a set up if you want practice with PBEMs.

That is what it is suppost to do. Mail the turn like it says and let you opponent load it. I've used attachments with Yahoo, Excite, Hotmail, and my ISP mail. The only problem I have had is emailing people using Hotmail sometimes requires me to zip the file because it will include it as a text in the body of the message instead of an attachment.

PBEM goes like this: 1) 1st player sets up. - 1st player emails his set up file to 2nd player. 2) 2nd player sets up. - 2nd player emails his set up file to 1st player. 3) 1st player makes moves - 1st player emails his turn file to 2nd player. 4) 2nd player makes moves. Movie generated. - 2nd player emails movie file to 1st player. 5) 1st player watches movie. - 1st player sends movie file to 2nd player. 6) 2nd player watches movie and moves for turn 2. - 2nd player sends turn 2 file to 1st player. --------------------- So if your messing up on the 5th file your messing up on step 5. What you need to do is hit go and email the file to your friend. He should watch the movie. After it is done he should be able to make his moves.

I was on the 3rd battle of "21st Army Counterattacks" and my system froze on turn 35 or so. When I try to load the autosave it crashes back to the desktop. I have the files saved.

Alsatain hasn't been mashed yet. He pulled a pretty good stunt to get across the bridge. I screwed up in TT, on turn 24 I realized it is only a 30 turn game. Despite what he said above Alsatain is in firm control of all but one of the VLs. He has made much better use of his reinforcements in Sword Point.

Too late I've got CMBB and I'm playing it. It was a close thing too. My wife though she would hide it and give it to me as a Christmas present. Luck for me she hid the package for my 401K plan. My opponent is house hunting and moving. I'm busy coaching 2 soccer teams and being a league commissioner. He is dealing with the distractions better than me and has taken avantage of some mental lapses.

Alsatian and I are churning out turns at a pretty good pace. We are up to turn 17 and 14. How is everyone else doing?