Lindan
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Quit stalling already. You can't fool us. We KNOW you use the sample setup. :cool:Originally posted by John Kettler:KR, no problem. I have plenty to do.
Ace Pilot & Lindan, check your in boxes.
Shock Trooper, am still wrestling with the sprawling, complex map, not to mention pondering the merits of the default deployment vs. my own ideas. Then there's the little matter of the men, who are very hard to see (blend in well), even with their bases switched on. Am more accustomed to having my forces at the baseline, seeing who's got what, then deploying them to carry out the battle plan. I hope to get my setup to you NLT tomorrow.
Regards,
John Kettler
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Quit stalling already. You can't fool us. We KNOW you use the sample setup. :cool:Originally posted by John Kettler:KR, no problem. I have plenty to do.
Ace Pilot & Lindan, check your in boxes.
Shock Trooper, am still wrestling with the sprawling, complex map, not to mention pondering the merits of the default deployment vs. my own ideas. Then there's the little matter of the men, who are very hard to see (blend in well), even with their bases switched on. Am more accustomed to having my forces at the baseline, seeing who's got what, then deploying them to carry out the battle plan. I hope to get my setup to you NLT tomorrow.
Regards,
John Kettler
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Setup? You mean we were supposed NOT to use the standard setup? Oh well.....
(just joking)
At least OPFOR seems intimidated enough to not send me something back. Take heart! I'm well known to even lose vs. the AI. Just "group select", press "f", point to the other end of the map, "klick" and hit "go". Everything will be fine.
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Setup? You mean we were supposed NOT to use the standard setup? Oh well.....
(just joking)
At least OPFOR seems intimidated enough to not send me something back. Take heart! I'm well known to even lose vs. the AI. Just "group select", press "f", point to the other end of the map, "klick" and hit "go". Everything will be fine.
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Setup? You mean we were supposed NOT to use the standard setup? Oh well.....
(just joking)
At least OPFOR seems intimidated enough to not send me something back. Take heart! I'm well known to even lose vs. the AI. Just "group select", press "f", point to the other end of the map, "klick" and hit "go". Everything will be fine.
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A very good battlefield commander and tactician but sorely lacking on a higher level. (strategy)
When Tobruk was taken Rommel went to great lengths to have things his way. Everything was ready for Kesselrings assault on Malta. Rommel even flew to Germanny to personally convince Hitler that his plans to pursue the Brits are right and the supplies and Luftwaffe support for Herkules should go to him instead.
He should have listened to Kesselring, as he was a better strategist.
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"Recon by explosion"
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I was in the ill-fated "RoW Overflow" tourney and hope to get a place among the regulars this time.
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Wow! This had to be a huge effort on your part!
I don't understand a single word of Spanish of course, but I bow my head to you nonetheless.
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Wow! This had to be a huge effort on your part!
I don't understand a single word of Spanish of course, but I bow my head to you nonetheless.
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Wow! This had to be a huge effort on your part!
I don't understand a single word of Spanish of course, but I bow my head to you nonetheless.
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One of my grandfathers served the whole war as a flak gunner in the Ruhrgebiet. He had several pictures of him posing in front of his 88. Don't know much else, but he still believed in the Nazi ideals of his youth and had a Hitler bust standing in his room till the late eighties.
My other grandfather was quite the opposite. He was apolitical in his youth and nearly failed his apprenticeship as a mechanic, because he couldn't answer the question about Hitlers birthday. ("Hitler was an idiot" was the quote he used most when talking about his youth). When war came he was drafted into a Luftwaffe support unit as a truck driver. France, Balkans and then Russia. Assigned to Army Group South after Barbarossa, he went all the way through Russia ("unbelievably large") down to the Caucasus. ("very,very hot there") Late in the war, some officers went around looking for soldiers to serve as infantry. You could choose between Infantry or Fallschirmjaeger. He chose Fallschirmjaeger but mentioned several times, that there was a field on that paper he had to sign, reading "Available for jumps: YES/NO". He crossed out "NO" as big as he could. ("I'm not TOTALLY STUPID, getting myself shot in the air while I'm hanging on one of those things!")
He said there never was a feeling of belonging to an elite. It was always "us" (meaning the people just drafted into the FJ to fill the ranks) and the "real" Fallschirmjaeger. (of whom he described several as the "craziest SOB's I've met in the whole war". ) In Winter 44 he got captured and put into a French POW camp. He said he only survived because one cook gave him something extra from time to time, as many others were starved to death or fell victim to a Polish security patrol, who deliberately shot a handful of prisoners every night they were on duty.
It wasn't much he told about the war, mostly funny episodes and an occasional tidbit of tragedy (execution of a partisan woman who hurled a handgrenade into a room filled with officers, Comrades committing suicide on the long retreat in 44, pulling the pins from their grenades while walking).
Most of the stories he shared, dealt whith the time before the war and the adventures he lived through in the late thirties, together with his friends. Almost all of the stories ended with: "He later fell in XYZ".
As a resume he felt that Hitler had robbed him of the best time of his life, his friends and his home. "There was nothing for me. When I had finished my apprenticeship and was ready to start living, the war came and took it all away"
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One of my grandfathers served the whole war as a flak gunner in the Ruhrgebiet. He had several pictures of him posing in front of his 88. Don't know much else, but he still believed in the Nazi ideals of his youth and had a Hitler bust standing in his room till the late eighties.
My other grandfather was quite the opposite. He was apolitical in his youth and nearly failed his apprenticeship as a mechanic, because he couldn't answer the question about Hitlers birthday. ("Hitler was an idiot" was the quote he used most when talking about his youth). When war came he was drafted into a Luftwaffe support unit as a truck driver. France, Balkans and then Russia. Assigned to Army Group South after Barbarossa, he went all the way through Russia ("unbelievably large") down to the Caucasus. ("very,very hot there") Late in the war, some officers went around looking for soldiers to serve as infantry. You could choose between Infantry or Fallschirmjaeger. He chose Fallschirmjaeger but mentioned several times, that there was a field on that paper he had to sign, reading "Available for jumps: YES/NO". He crossed out "NO" as big as he could. ("I'm not TOTALLY STUPID, getting myself shot in the air while I'm hanging on one of those things!")
He said there never was a feeling of belonging to an elite. It was always "us" (meaning the people just drafted into the FJ to fill the ranks) and the "real" Fallschirmjaeger. (of whom he described several as the "craziest SOB's I've met in the whole war". ) In Winter 44 he got captured and put into a French POW camp. He said he only survived because one cook gave him something extra from time to time, as many others were starved to death or fell victim to a Polish security patrol, who deliberately shot a handful of prisoners every night they were on duty.
It wasn't much he told about the war, mostly funny episodes and an occasional tidbit of tragedy (execution of a partisan woman who hurled a handgrenade into a room filled with officers, Comrades committing suicide on the long retreat in 44, pulling the pins from their grenades while walking).
Most of the stories he shared, dealt whith the time before the war and the adventures he lived through in the late thirties, together with his friends. Almost all of the stories ended with: "He later fell in XYZ".
As a resume he felt that Hitler had robbed him of the best time of his life, his friends and his home. "There was nothing for me. When I had finished my apprenticeship and was ready to start living, the war came and took it all away"
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One of my grandfathers served the whole war as a flak gunner in the Ruhrgebiet. He had several pictures of him posing in front of his 88. Don't know much else, but he still believed in the Nazi ideals of his youth and had a Hitler bust standing in his room till the late eighties.
My other grandfather was quite the opposite. He was apolitical in his youth and nearly failed his apprenticeship as a mechanic, because he couldn't answer the question about Hitlers birthday. ("Hitler was an idiot" was the quote he used most when talking about his youth). When war came he was drafted into a Luftwaffe support unit as a truck driver. France, Balkans and then Russia. Assigned to Army Group South after Barbarossa, he went all the way through Russia ("unbelievably large") down to the Caucasus. ("very,very hot there") Late in the war, some officers went around looking for soldiers to serve as infantry. You could choose between Infantry or Fallschirmjaeger. He chose Fallschirmjaeger but mentioned several times, that there was a field on that paper he had to sign, reading "Available for jumps: YES/NO". He crossed out "NO" as big as he could. ("I'm not TOTALLY STUPID, getting myself shot in the air while I'm hanging on one of those things!")
He said there never was a feeling of belonging to an elite. It was always "us" (meaning the people just drafted into the FJ to fill the ranks) and the "real" Fallschirmjaeger. (of whom he described several as the "craziest SOB's I've met in the whole war". ) In Winter 44 he got captured and put into a French POW camp. He said he only survived because one cook gave him something extra from time to time, as many others were starved to death or fell victim to a Polish security patrol, who deliberately shot a handful of prisoners every night they were on duty.
It wasn't much he told about the war, mostly funny episodes and an occasional tidbit of tragedy (execution of a partisan woman who hurled a handgrenade into a room filled with officers, Comrades committing suicide on the long retreat in 44, pulling the pins from their grenades while walking).
Most of the stories he shared, dealt whith the time before the war and the adventures he lived through in the late thirties, together with his friends. Almost all of the stories ended with: "He later fell in XYZ".
As a resume he felt that Hitler had robbed him of the best time of his life, his friends and his home. "There was nothing for me. When I had finished my apprenticeship and was ready to start living, the war came and took it all away"
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Simple. Steve and Charles are simply not interested in the PTO.Originally posted by superdreadnought2001:Why would they not do a Pacific war game? I would think they would pass on Korea and Vietnam because there was not much war of maneuver, or large amounts of tanks. I could maybe see a Gulf Wars game (but the advance stuff like TOWs might take something out of it).
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I didn't mean to offend. I just wondered why the swastika needs to be modded in. Does it really add to the game? I don't think so. The flags are just abstract indicators for possession, and surely don't detract from any "historical" correctness. You want them? There you go. No reason to get agitated over it.
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The obsession with nazi-symbols eludes me.
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The AI is a sparring partner, not more. Try playing a human opponent for a whole different experience.
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Cool idea. How many threads about "Chance Encounter" were there, back in the Beta-days? 100?
*sigh*
the good ole time!
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Ok, did I win something?
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this deserves bumping!
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I used the sencario editor to fiddle around with units and setup zones, but the problem persists: if I click on the last or last unit in the roster the game crashes. :confused:
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Strange:
when I skip through my units (Russians) using the +/- keys the dreaded "Ping" sound comes up and CMBB crashes. (other things will crash it too, but mostly when selecting units and giving orders. It only happens in that scenario and I have no clue why. I'm on 1.03 of course.
any suggestions?
PS: the German side seems to work fine.
[ October 12, 2003, 05:58 AM: Message edited by: Lindan ]
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