Conhugeco

Just reborn

Oh yes I will

I will win it

Its eye pops off and it asks if you have a needle and thread. Dick

Haven't done any PC flying in quite some time. Can anyone fill me in on the current state of WWII flying sims? Thanks, Dick

Totally off topic, but just how does that baseball term work? I'm guessing you mean just over half, but what is the formula? Why don't they use 55.34% or whatever? cheers </font>

Nice! I once modified the Paris scenario in CMBO with about 40 extra artillery spotters for the French. Big stuff. Really big stuff. They leveled the town, but it took too long, so I reset the time to June 1944 and added the really really big stuff, if you know what I mean. Much better! [ June 19, 2003, 10:11 PM: Message edited by: Conhugeco ]

The detailed account of my plot is as follows: 1. Completely waste your artillery barrage by plotting smoke in the town. It doesn't really matter where in the town as none of it will arrive in time to save anybody. 2. Give every unit on the board the "n" command to pick a target. Most won't have one, but do it anyway. You can also give some of the Maxims on the ridge area targets to try to deny the Germans lanes of reinforcement, but since the German won't be moving this is an entirely optional waste of ammunition. 3. Do not move the units that are already in the town. They will do good work with the "n" command. 4. Give the poor suckers outside the town an advance command into the nearest building. Or was it human wave? I don't remember, but it hardly matters, at least you can say you tried! 5. Prepare to be slaughtered. :eek: Dick [ June 19, 2003, 06:57 PM: Message edited by: Conhugeco ]

Richard, I'm pretty sure I don't have such a file, and I'm not even sure how I would save one. Is this something that you can do when playing via email that you can;t do when playing via TCP/IP? Dick

Richard, Files are on the way to the address in your profile.

Anyone who wants a copy of the saved game files for the "Mad Minute" can e-mail me at the address in my profile.

420, Big thunderstorm yesterday evening knocked out all power to the Conhugeco castle. The generator ... well, there is no generator - it's an old castle. Power still not available this morning. Will have to send the files when power returns. wbs, Yes, I saved the first turn too, although as we discussed it only saved the fires and moves that I had plotted. Re the passwords, it seems odd but I was able to get into the German side (hot seat) using the same password I used as Russians. I'll check again before I send anything to 420, but to be on the safe side maybe you should post here any passwords that you have, or are ever likely, to use.

420, I'll e-mail two files to you this evening when I get home from work - the setup save and the first turn save. You will need to follow wbs' advice re targeting, since the save only "captured" my orders to the brave but doomed Soviet troops. You'll want to open the game as hot seat, I'll send you the passwords too. Conhugeco [ June 12, 2003, 03:28 PM: Message edited by: Conhugeco ]

wbs wrote: Not forward ... sideways. Which in the second battle translates into forward. What a mess.

--- POSSIBLE SPOILER ----- I was wbs' opponent in the action described by him. For the record, there were five rifle companies just outside the town, and one rifle company and one recon platoon with approximately four attached maxims "infiltrated" into the town. Two ski companies were in reserve, and the remaining maxims and artillery spotters were deployed on or behind the main ridge outside of town. Judging by the shape of the setup zones I took a chance that the Jerries were not deployed on that edge of the town. I was wrong and it was a massacre. This is a screwy operation. The initial deployment is diagonal to the edges of the map, but the second and subsequent battles reorient the deployment to a more traditional side-to-side setup. The result was that in the setup for the second battle I had been awarded a toehold in the town, even though I hadn't gotten within 400 meters of it in the first battle. I would have had an even bigger toehold had I merely thrown out a platoon to my far left flank(still in my setup zone!) in the first battle. Sorry wbs, we will not be finishing this one. Edited to add that wbs was using the oldest and slowest computer on the network. [ June 10, 2003, 10:17 PM: Message edited by: Conhugeco ]