Desert Dave
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All the best to your Grandfather,Originally posted by Moonslayer:Cheers, Dave, and you are quite right, of course; there are many vets still around and most are suffering still. I was referring to WWII vets specifically as one of the two last ones I know personally died recently... only my Grandfather is left now (he was a tail gunner in a Wellington).
As for band of brothers I will look out for it on the movie channels (Wouldn't want Normal Dude to quit making mods!).
He served in one of the few
"Good Wars."
Haven't had many of those since,
Exceptions being
Gulf War I,
And Afghanistan
(... from American perspective, and
ONLY in my opinion - who else's should
I have?).
ALL the others, and
I DO mean... every other one,
Were notso good.
My point was, and remains, that
Our fat-*ssed politicos
PROMISE these kids - MOSTLY
Poor, with not enough "connections,"
And so - unable
To "buy" their way out of it,
Yea verily, they
Get out the jingoistic, chavaunistic
Flim-flam and sham machismo rhetoric
To promise those
Great! War glories, and yet,
Once maimed or O/W ripped all apart,
Well,
They just can't seem to find enough $$$$$
To pay for the rehabilitation necessary.
THAT's the crime
I was referring to, and, IMHO,
We should see LOTS of our past
AND current politicos
Wearing prison garb.
In a REAL prison, not enny Country Club,
So - that way they can REALIZE
The extent of their crime,
And,
Like the pot-smoker caught with
A couple joints,
Do the time, eh?
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Come to America M8,but there are precious few veterans left these days so to lose one is sad indeed.Take a tour of the VA Hospitals here,
LOTS of Vets,
From old and new wars - torn all to shreds,
Physically, mentally,
Or worse,
Living and dying on the street,
Nope - don't get much
Accomplished medical attention, as,
RE: recent developments revealed
About Walter Reed there in D.C.
Like in that Movie,
Which I'd recommend you see,
Once or a dozen times,
Don't matter,
You'll get the PIC, M8.
"Coming Home"
With Jon Voight
And that true,
Red white & blue American
(... who is great enough
to admit past mistakes, unlike WAY
too many who cannot - EVER get over it)
Jane Fonda.
Every week I see 'em,
When I go out there,
Help out a little, as I can,
And,
Ride on out in the Gov't Van
Friday or Saturday night,
Sometimes when it is below freezing,
TRY to talk them... home, come in
Off the street.
Some still in fatigues,
Beaten, weary, drug-stricken,
Carrying bad memories
Like empty ammo clips
Hanging off their ragged clothes.
Cartoons are one thing.
What it IS, brother,
Is... another.
Fat, tired old men
Who NEVER were in any war,
Nor their own sons neither,
Sending the young ones
Off to do their insanely
Inspired - dirty work.
It's a crime, a shame.
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Couldn't agree more, Jeff,More randomness is good in my view... the more random the better. War is random and so should games be.And I will continue to work diligently
With manifold suggestions
For more random/variant events,
Rest assured.
Within reasonable "historical framework,"
But of course,
And,
Also work to eliminate as many
Of those - yet existant - "gamey exploits"
As possible.
There IS a huge difference between
Random and Exploit,
Literally or figuratively.
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Cold as Ice.Myth das ist Terif:Nevertheless bad luck can have a huge psychological influence, especially on how you continue a game (aggressive, passive, with rage in your stomage... ). But as long as you don´t let yourself throw off track, random effects only change the strategies under which you can or should choose, not the outcome of the game .
To the devil!
With the suprising!
Sides of the dice.
I'll internalize the scripts,
Will - tantalyze - the Lion
With a dazzle
Of mein whips,
With... the... gift
I was lucky enough to get, IE,
A sweet & complete set of brains.
That other - yip & yowl Cat?
He can do the back & forth flips.
LOL,
Well, it's as I've ever surmised:
Terif wins - since the other guy
Chooses to lose.
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And,Liam:Instead of a pure focal point on Mediterreanan supply on Gibraltar and Malta, how about Eastern Med supply from Crete??? It was bitterly fought over for that purpose, and could abstractly make the Mediterreanan war a little more intrigueing...
So that the Allies could not base
Long-range heavy bombers
On Crete so to smash to smithereens
The Ploesti oil-fields.
I agree... could have a "Crete Effect"
(... similar to, but less effective
than "Malta Effect")
And I have supported that very idea
For a couple years now.
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Bill... IF you are using a Fleet script (... and not a "naval loop script) similar to the one that follows:- (Bug?) Once Egypt falls, there is a message that comes up after MOST turns: "Naval Units Proceed to South Atlantic"There is an AI event to evacuate Allied naval units so that's probably what you're seeing. Multiple units would take a couple of turns, generating a message each time.
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; UK evacuates fleets from Red Sea
{
#NAME= UK Evacuates Fleets from Red Sea
#POPUP= UK Evacuates Fleet from Red Sea
#FLAG= 1
#TYPE= 2
#COUNTRY_ID= 1
#TRIGGER= 100
#LEVEL= 0
#SIZE= 1
#BUILD_LENGTH= 0
#LENGTH= 10
#GOAL_POSITION= 123,40
#GOAL_POSITION= 36,33
#GOAL_POSITION= 44,17
#GOAL_POSITION= 52,11
#DATE= 1939/09/01
; Set friendly positions:
; 1st Line - Glasgow Port
#FRIENDLY_POSITION= 61,13
; Set variable conditions:
; 1st Line - UK politically aligned with Allies and not surrendered
#VARIABLE_CONDITION= 1 [2] [100] [0]
; Set tactical conditions:
; 1st Line - Jerusalem not tactically threatened (dummy condition)
#TACTICAL_CONDITION= 119,34 [3]
; 1st Line Set activate position (Axis unit in Alexandria)
; 2nd Line Set activate position (Axis units approach Cairo)
#ACTIVATE_POSITION= 111,34 [0,0] [1,1] [1]
#ACTIVATE_POSITION= 114,37 [1,1] [2,2] [1]
; Set dummy cancel position (single neutral unit at position 0,0). This is not possible as no
; unit can occupy tile 0,0 so event will not be cancelled due to #CONDITION_POSITION
#CANCEL_POSITION= 0,0 [0,0] [1,1] [0]
}
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THEN - what you have to do is "instruct" the evacuating fleet (... which would NOT appear when FOW is off since it has already gone)
To go BEYOND the 2nd Goal Position.
IE, send it up towards mid Atlantic, or as in the above example, near Ireland.
What is happening is this:
There is no "transit DELAY" so the ship is immediately and constantly going back & forth in a loop.
Try that and it should work... it did for me.
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While yer at it,
How about?
The long-barreled 75mm PzIV
Without "track skirts?"
As is,
They look too much alike, can
Hardly tell 'em apart,
Like it was in the old-days funny papers
With them - Katzenjammer kids!
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Ack and alack! :eek:
Out-voted 101 to 1!
[... here, as in Beta, Hubert gets 100 votes
to each of our one]
However, I STILL say the Panther
SHOULD arrive before the Tiger.
(... which was a "birthday TOY" for A Hit,
who gushed over them rush-job wonder weapons,
the un-holy, evil-dreaming - fool!)
BECAUSE:
1) It was in service and effective
FAR MORE than that lumbering fast flash one
and done done! crash-machine, AKA: Tiger.
2) Agree that it was, for the most part
THE best Tank, oh, until the mid 1950's,
AND ipso - should be ON the battlefield
sooner than the Tiger.
I say again,
Panther should be ON the battlefied
by July 1943 at the latest... if it remains
at L-5, it may not even be available
in most games to help turn aside the red tide
at Orel/Kursk,
[... especially for TaoJah, who NEVER has
ANY luck! Seems impossible, but,
he insists...) and so
Da-Da Cabaret in Berlin will be demolished
and turned into a humm-drum
Soviet tractor factory
too much sooner!
Well,
No big deal, I've been out-voted MANY times.
Last time,
It was 7 billion to one.
See,
I had proposed a World wide requirement
That ALL humans (... and a couple animals)
Might ONLY use 1963 Schwinn 3-speed bike
For transport to & fro upon the earth.
[... no need to rely on dinosaur sediments!
and too, Ozone layer will remain somewhat intact,
thereby reducing 'em horrendous skin cancers!]
THIS time I only lost by 100 votes!
But it's not over 'till it's OVER,
What does ennybody else got to say?
Panther first, or that... fast
Flash & crash machine?
[ April 11, 2007, 05:00 AM: Message edited by: Desert Dave ]
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GErman tank production during WW-2:
Panzer I... 1,500
Panzer II... 1,000
[Czech T-38... 1,400]
Panzer III... 15,000 - primary tank from 1940-42
Panzer IV... 9,000 (Guderian recommended many MORE)
Panzer V ("Panther)... 4,800 - 1st used at Kursk in July 1943
Panzer VI ("Tiger")... 1,400
Panzer VII ("King Tiger")... 500 - 1st used May 1944
Whichever sprites are used (... Fernando's are the best by far, IMO), the Panther should - whether by date or number produced,
**PRECEDE the Tiger on the battlefield.
T-38's could very well be omitted altogether. Instead, I would combine I & II,
Then - III, IV(early & late), V and VI,
In that order.
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BTW: Shouldn't this thread be over in the "mods" forum?
[ April 10, 2007, 11:38 AM: Message edited by: Desert Dave ]
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Some things never change.Modern Times, more dangerous than any worn out 1890 IdeologyThe closed eyes you are born with,
The surprised eyes when you
Die.
First knowing not.
Perhaps, happy day, knowing how.
The fraction was Creation.
The Golden Age of Greece.
Charlemagne's Gual.
The Beast in the labryinth,
A myth received - about Crete?
And,
Not least,
You,
A leap-for-joy school-boy,
Released,
In a bell-ringing hall.
That was the day - recall?
1511,
1622?
1733?
1890? ANY date and, all,
Is... now!
Nope, some things just
Never change.
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A couple strange days later,Originally posted by John DiFool the 2nd:I think the phrase "WTF?" :confused: applies here...
It still applies.
It's not always what something is WORTH,
It's what it does to your soul.
Sometimes a fetish is a fetish
IS a fetish, and can
Lead to really weird dreams.
Yeah,
I used to see that kind of stuff
When I lived in Germany.
Down broken cobble-stone roads,
In hidey-holes where there were cobwebs
In all 4 corners of the narrow window, or,
Poor German kids from poor families
Would ask me if I would like to have
Such & such a thing.
For a price.
Not knowing what else to do
About this new intrigue,
I had asked my Old Man about it.
He said that if I brought ANY of that
Trash into the house,
He would throw it - and me,
Should I insist on clutching it - out.
Collecting is alright, but, personally,
I think I'll stick to old
Baseball cards and comic books.
To each their own sort of totem
I guess is how I'd say it.
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My favorite Comic,Originally posted by AZGungHo:Hey Dave,
Ah - Kid Colt! I remember him well - not to mention the Two Gun Kid!
There sure were a lotta kids running around the old west shooting people weren't there??
I couldn't put it down hardly! :cool:
Well,
STILL are folks shootin' each other
All over the place,
Only now,
Some gangsters and punks
THINK usin' an Uzi is cool.
Gone are the days
Of straight-shooting,
Each man with equal
Chance at - slap-holster
And fastest draw.
Liked it back then,
A WHOLE lot better.
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Lookin' out my gaming-room window
About now,
This is darn near
Dead-on what I see...
Yep, WAY too
CROWDED, but,
You can walk a few miles in any direction
And set yerself - free.
Better have sturdy
Worked pliant boots,
A scarf of some sort,
Broad-brim hat,
And - a snake-bite kit
Though; nope,
It's no easy as
Apple-pie! Go.
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Used to, old hand,Originally posted by Canuck_TAR:DD.........you ever write a complete sentence??
In high school and Army tour
And at University, but,
Time went by,
Fast!
As you probably full well realize, and
Time got... COMPRESSED, so to speak,
And so,
Decided to CONDENSE things
A little more.
On forums anyhow.
When I'm tendin' the Garden,
I'll speak with the shrubs & trees
And the Yucca and Gila Monsters
And Road-runners and what-not,
In more, ummm... flowery prose.
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This is that great Comic I was
Talkin' about...
Guess I'll have to look around on e-bay
(... yard sales would be one in million
chance I suppose)
And see if any are still out there.
Usta trade 'em back & forth,
Same as the baseball-cards,
Wish I would've kept a couple
Of these, tho.
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I'll respond over here, maybeAs originally proposed by SM:Wise words DD and what fun you can have creating that "man".........ehh? :cool:
No objections?
(... could be? some ain't liken
'at great Gestalt - is Daffodils
before the torrents of Spring?)
Since THIS thread seems
To have run outta steam?
I reckon we'll see on that
There, but,
My words ain't enny iota "wiser"
Than what you've mentioned
Over these many years, yep,
I ALWAYS read yer posts, SM,
No matter WHAT is tropic or topic,
Nuts & bolts,
Or - RE: "Kid Colt"
(... do you happen to remember
that FABULOUS Comic Book? I can't find
NOBODY who does! :confused: )
O/T even, or maybe a bit about
Them Alamo kind of Guys,
Travis, and Bowie, and Crockett,
Who'all, IMO,
VERY LIKELY learned stuff
For themselves, as well.
Can't imagine enny a' them
Plainly American
Pioneer sorts of Cats,
Then the going got awful
Wrack & ruin tough,
Twistin' 'round - backwards,
And askin', forlorn-like: "Hey,
What do I... do... NOW!" LOL!
[ March 21, 2007, 08:04 AM: Message edited by: Desert Dave ]
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Skip it then.Originally posted by tunatamaker:What?! I am sorry, i dont see how that helps me!
Wait for something you like better! :cool:
BTW, WRT the topic at hand,
I would do this:
Learn things MOSTLY for yourself.
Trial and error.
Play and play and play.
That way,
You are your OWN man,
Not somebody else's creation.
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_______________AH darn...good all SC1. Damn do I miss the days or what...The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
--- O Khayam
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Hey, Life,
She just ain't fair ; sit
Beside me - here,
And relieve your weary
Writing-wrist, and compare
The following pair:
One is pummeled with a cudgel,
Often, woe, often - and for no
Apparent reason; an other
Fares better - and some would insist!
It's surely due to wile & grit,
A sturdy, brute, dilligence, and,
That brawn, or wit, you are born with.
But, it's
Mostly - just... being - a lucky duck!
Nothing to do about that,
Except - simply, exist - under
The mid-day sun, enhuddled
In nocturnal shade and - yes! Refresh!
In a gifted drifting of mist.
--- the newly bloomed Daffodil!
on the hill-side in my back-yard
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That's Lizard King, jjr,Originally posted by jon_j_rambo:The Lizard Man is the dead one, Jim Morrison.
Not Lizard Man
Nor Lizard Dude,
Or Lizard Wizard
Has got sulphrous talons
'Stead of only bony fingers, neither
Either, eh?
My kind of abnormal Cat, @-Man :cool:
I had the - ummm, pleasure of knowin' 'im
(... sort of, say, in the way
you ken actually
KNOW a Bengal Tiger, for instance)
When he lived in my neighborhood
Here in Desert City,
And also out at Big LA's
Whiskey A Go Go
That one time, LOL, he was not
So far ripped out and gone, baby, gone!
You could NEARLY understand
'Is X-tremely lively jive kinda
Mad-hatter patter.
Yep, jjr, MORE flat-out charisma flyin'
Every witch-a-way offa
That ACTUAL Bad Cat than ANY
Person I've ever known, uh huh,
(... tho, Bobby Kennedy had that same
outrageous stuff, only different,
whiter, so to speak)
It was akin to... standin' alone
In midst of mighty ferocious thunder
And lightning storm!
BTW... once did a 40 page research paper
For an Abnormal Psych class
On - WHY In tarnation!
Are the really great "Show-Folks?"
[... as you coulda been, IF only... ]
Almost always... umm,what is ordinarily
Considered by the crowd, as - freaks,
Clowns,
No good-niks,
Slap 'em 'n smack 'em sorts of
Anti-social disordered dudes?
IOW,
Crazy *ss flakes, man, and too,
Drivers of rods or
Moto bikes - ain't got no brakes! :eek:
Anyways,
This here "thesis" included
A couple other back alley Cats
That you would know:
Jimmy Swaggert,
And Ted Turner.
[... I only considered characters from
roughly, oh, 1963 to 1983]
I would send you a copy of the treatise,
Except,
You had PROMISED me
One a' them there Camp Rambo
T-shirts,
Only I never did get it.
Maybe IF I should join?
One a' them there tree-house clubs?
THEN I'd finally get mah cut-off T? :confused:
(... gettin' closer to "The End," here,
so not to worry O/T dis-liking Kin )
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Well Liam,It is possible to believe white American's could have partaken in such a past time. It's in their blood...I'd have to say it's notso much
"In the blood"
(... though I think I understand what
you are intending)
As it is,
In the brain.
That ancient... Lizard Brain.
The kind you find in this old creature
Common hereabouts
Where I live.
Covered over with sheerest veneer
Of ol' Huck Finn's
Adolescently despised - "Civilization."
And, IMHO,
It ain't limited by skin colour,
As Conquistadores and Idi Amin
And Genghis and recent blood feud
Between India & Pakistan
Among VERY many other "races"
Has amply vampirely proved,
Over and over and over,
All throughout the Ages.
Whole clans have gone "mad."
Are now.
Will again.
Though, I am optimistic.
One day... a kind of "collective
epiphany" shall occur.
A "common and unspoken" agreement
To QUIT!
All the scratch and snatch & grab,
That "base" sneer and ice
Cold command.
Proof of that?
Have none,
Empirically speaking.
Instead,
I'll say... it NEEDS to happen, and
Fair soon.
Perhaps that is the ONLY impetus
Necessary?
[ March 15, 2007, 06:50 PM: Message edited by: Desert Dave ]
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Hi-ho, vveedd.P.S. Hello to Desert Dave. It is me again. Are you happy to see me?What you say?
Sure,
Given my isolated place and state,
I am - once in a while,
Happy to see almost ANYONE.
The Beggar Man,
The Tax Man,
Flim Flam Man,
Mad Max the anti-cop,
Rag Man in 'is fly flop shoes,
Pale Rider on plodding
Plow Horse,
And, of course,
Even - this guy
Who is,
THIS time... I soon find out, savage!
As a crazy radio talk-show host,
And toting a sawed-off shot - e's after
My 19 and 56 model... washer machine!
Turns out 23 straight payments!
PRECISELY - on time,
Ain't gonna cut it.
... I had asked for - 3 day
extension?
They say - NO way Jose!
[... BTW, my name ain't Jose, they
seem... a bit flippant, eh?]
The TidePool
Mega-Corp (... which is based
in Bermuda, like so VERY many another
USA - USA - USA!
Kind of Corps - so to avoid paying ANY
Taxes - hey what! Lucky ducks!)
Anyway,
They have NO interest
In... EXCUSES,
They are like Saint Peter
At the Gate, in that way,
Oh say,
As in THIS case - due to exorbitant
Cost of gasoline - driving
The (... coughing) VW Kamper Wagen
Across Desert City
So to visit a dying
Friend... from days of Old,
When it was
We'd tripped the kaleido-light
Out of sight... clear to Death Valley
California,
April of '69 it was,
In search of Fool's gold,
Well, why ever not?
We ain't around for very long
After all, as many right here
Will soon enough learn, and so
TidePool MegaCorp sent Repo
Dude
So to yank the in/out-flow hoses,
which he did proceed to do
With a mighty crass alacrity!
It's alright,
I got this crick? Runs across
The gulley-wash back yonder.
Couple times a year
I carry the heap on down,
Then it rains a spell up
In them Watermellon Mountains,
And there's a couple flat rocks
And!
A Lime deposit close to hand, so,
Knock-knock on green wood!
All's right with the World,
I am good!
To go!
You?
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One of the critical featuresThe map is done, just need to do the unit placement, balancing and scripting.Of the board game
Was the "drift" of the Para units
(... ack! Even into the Sea!)
And the size of the landed troops.
I guess you'll have some of the "engineers"
At reduced size... what would be
True cool,
IF we had a script
Where AB would become incapable
Of further Air Assaults
(... perhaps - "AI instructions"
of some kind or editable ability to ONLY allow
Air Ops within certain time frame?)
Which would allow you to use the right sprite
Throughout the game. :cool:
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Have played the Avalon Hill
Board game many times,
Quite a challenge
For Axis player, but great fun!
Your early version
Is lookin' good! :cool:
**Should you need any help with testing
(... you may not and would
prefer to get it mostly done
yerself, and that's Cat's Pajamas)
O/W... post up
When it's ready.
You'll likely get plenty of offers
To lend a hand,
Myself included.
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I have these,
Even with VERY latest patch,
But,
ONLY on the far right side of screen
Where the Xtra row of half-tiles are.
They go away when I right click
Anywhere on the screen.
Ronald Speirs dead
in Strategic Command 2 Blitzkrieg and Weapons and Warfare
Posted
Never will.
I'd recommend:
Cabaret and Night of the Generals.