willbell

Here's a serious question. Is there a membership roster for this sad group of chattering posters (aka Peng Challenge Thread), and are there any official competitions, ladders or what ever they are called here? Never done one, might be interested. My hope is that within pages and pages of illiterate drivel and cut and paste rhyme (of which the first two and last two lines have been read by the poster) I will find the answers to my questions. Or not.

Seanachai, Guess there's some doom comin' my way?

Oops, I meant my LN.

Right now I'd give my LT for a few in the Stalingrad scenario I'm playing.

Here's my two cents on halftrack tactics. If you have a few you can load up a squad in the rear and then wait for developments. You will be ready to deliver fresh reinforcements at any point in the field. With the armor and .50s you can get closer than a truck. I keep them away from areas with tanks, guns, and HMGs. But there are always places where you have mainly infantry to deal with, and the HTs shine there. As mentioned before by someone, you can run across open areas as long as there are no tanks around, or plenty of smoke. Basically, I just hold them for the missions that come up where they work well, otherwise, I just set them in relatively safe places, covering obscure enemy lanes of travel. It's kind of like fishing, you sit there doing nothing, then all of a sudden you catch a few. Will

Sounds like you would try out a Napoleonic version of CM if it were available.

Tick, tick, tick.

Seanachai, Interesting inference, I think "experienced" is not the same as "expert," or "beginner" (as in Auto-Surrender learning curve). But I would be happy to take a game, even with a commander who starts off assuming surrender. ASL poetsmeary: ASL is American as a Second Language, which is a humorous (by West Coast standard?) variation on ESL, which is English as a Second Language (mentioned in earlier post, you have to follow the thread), which is a particular education track in the public schools (of which I am a victim; of the schools, not the track). Poetsmeary? A word born of artistic license, Poets (obvious), smeary, think... what do Pengers usually smear all over these posts? As for the game, are there special rules? From the posts I'm under the impression that there are.

Boo R The game?

Pointless drivel... Artless prose... Hark back to my childhood fart jokes... Endless ASL poetsmeary... Now where do I get a CMAK PBEM game with an experienced player? Oops, probably not supposed to ask directly. (The instructions are vague on this thread)

Yikes!

Wouldn't want to miss anything interesting.

Seanachai, Um, ring a bell when you get to the important part. Will

Designer there. Sorry guys about the little side talk here.

Joe, Ever check out www.loantoolbox.com ?

True enough for the time being.

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No, but someone else can take up the flag here.

You know, it is not far off from current cavalry doctrine. You get your armor ahead of infantry, stop movement, and it is vulnerable.

Yankee Dog, Your impression is correct, as long as you have infantry support. They must be available to move in right behind you to actually hold the ground. Will

Oops, I should have said Napoleonic era, just to be exact. Kyber pass was later, but the cavarly doctrine still held.

John, OK, I will admit out-right ignorance of the wrong battery angle. But not having cavalry charge a battery, unsupported, was most positively a tactical doctrine of the era. You can't sabre the barrels out of opperation. Dismounting to spike them is dangerous because you might lose your horse and you are a long way from your own lines. You can sabre some gunners, but this would be with enemy infantry around you taking shots at you, and most of the gunners will have run behind some infantry to hide. It's easy to sabre soldiers running away from you, but facing a lines of infantry with guns blazing is another thing entirely, and at this point you don't have a formed charge. Just check out With Clusters' synopsis, the cavarly dismounted, and were overcome. The cavarly's main strength lies in speed, movement, sudden oblique attacks on unprotected flanks while infantry is otherwise occupied to the front, reforming beyond lines and attacking again from the rear (sometimes), sabering fleeing foe, as long as the cavarly are otherwise unmolested. In short, the cavarly have a great use, but are fragile. They can not stand toe to toe with an infantry formation, period. And those were nearly always in the locality of a battery.

11B10, You are a very lucky man! I would love to play my daughter, but I'm afraid of getting beat by a player that can't reach the keyboard yet. Will

Tick, tick, tick

Joe, You are quick! (Sometimes, when you are thinking, do you hear a ricochet?) Will