Desert Dave
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Valid points Diced Ice,If you want to avoid civilian casualties, don't go to war in the first place. If you do go to war, expect that you will hurt innocents. That may not be decent, but at least it's honest.And yet I would finally add this:
Where is it written?
In what book,
Military, Sacred or the one
You keep deeply secret
In your fertile mind,
That JUST BECAUSE the status quo
Is, presently, such & so,
We must,
Like lemmings headed over the cliff,
CONTINUE to "follow" any of those? :confused:
You may suppose, I don't actually know,
That I dwell in some un-real, surreal,
Sloppily pseudo-intellectual... Dream World.
Fine by me,
I NEVER mind what somebody else imagines,
It's... ALL to the good.
What I AM saying is this:
There had better be some alteration
In HOW we interpret so-called
"Received histories & other
Myths, superstitions and tell-tales"
Else,
We just ain't gonna make it,
As a species.
My opinion merely.
I start from the first,
With the basics, if you will, IE,
No more senseless slaughter.
Seems reasonable to me.
Then,
As that will hardly be enough,
[... there ARE legions of deranged folks such as
socio-paths and ignorant "MY bible ONLY"
or usually useless chest-thumpers, I appreciate]
I hope and, yea, pray
For that liberating day,
When the "collected consciousness"
(... no, this ain't merely the province
of it's originator, Carl Jung, BUT
the common everyday will-full ability
of EACH human to reach way the hell down
in heart & mind & soul, and
arrive at... a most ecstatic,
and commonly UNDERSTOOD "epiphany")
Has one a' them JOLTS,
And throws over all the haters & dolts,
Why,
Sure enuff,
The "right stuff" will get done. :cool:
The "old order" rapidly over-thrown,
Like it wuz... magic.
NO verbal exchanges,
NO babel of lingo differences impeding,
As ALL will just... KNOW
What is... NOW required.
Call it what you choose.
I say... it's not fantasy,
It IS... quite likely to occur.
IMHO.
**May it be... before the nasty boys
Destroy our Earth, what
With 'em Self-enlarging play-toys.
[ July 17, 2006, 10:49 AM: Message edited by: Desert Dave ]
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Yea indeed TK,Yep, the things most of us have been doing with the editor have been good, but it seems this kind of mod is what HC ultimately envisioned as the fruits of such a device.And here's the gist of what I am ALSO
Saying, albeit somewhat clumsily.
Once Hubert gets back from WELL deserved
Vacation time,
He's gonna do some Mojo Magico
With a LOT of those troublesome scripts, AI,
And O/W.
What I can foresee, and actually,
HOPE to see,
Is that you, and others inclined,
Will THEN work off of that,
So to augment the eventual "Gold Standard"
For default game and scenarios,
Which he will surely, absolutely implement.
I do NOT mean to suggest, and,
IF I have, I apologize,
That what you guys are doing is lesser
Or, notso valuable.
It surely IS... wait and see what V 1.03
Brings and that will, no doubt,
Inspire you to even greater heights,
I'm fair confident.
Then,
Perhaps?
Some of your latest & greatest!
Stuff can be implemented so to provide
Expert variations
In MODS such as this F&F one,
And others to come, as well. :cool:
[... my own, included! Have been working
on it for 6 or 8 months now, and WHEN
Hubert does his brilliant thing, I may well add in
some of YOUR innovations, too!
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Now who was it?
One must wonder?
Kept on a'saying that Editor!
QUIT!
Bringing up and mentioning
That unprecedented! Editor!
Superior and inspired work,
Frederic & Fabrice,
[... I originally suspected as Inspectre C,
that you were "Fantomas" in disguise!
] And great self-less offer of assistance
Etienne! ... ah, the French,
NEVER discount their elan and aplomb!
You guys are living proof
That Hubert
Did the right thing,
In providing an Editor
So that "creative Artists" could
Make something innovative & grand,
And so, you are now doing. :cool:
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I would suggest that ALL of these "bug" reports go in the appropriate forum, set aside so that Hubert can address these without having to read through countless posts... he MIGHT just miss something, though,
We the testers usually repeat/report these bugs in the Beta thread designed for that purpose.
But, not ALWAYS, since we are not perfectly vigilant... so best to write these up over in "tech area."
Iron Ranger has suggested a "sticky" for bug reports, which is not a bad idea. :cool:
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What the hey? :confused:Attacking non-combatants began in the Age of the Mastodons, not the Flying Fortresses. The first time that Joe Neanderthal killed Jim Neathanderal, and grabbed Jane Cavewoman as booty, meant that civilians would be in the firing line.Only dreamers, armchair generals (most wargamers belong to that pseudo-martial category) and techno-fetishists could believe in clean war. Maybe in outer space, but not on Earth, where conflict inevitably means someone's crops will be trampled, their livelihood curtailed, their way of life disrupted.
Perhaps that's not such a bad thing. It means that modern war is democratic. All of us are involved, so we can't fold our arms and cry, "It's not MY war. It's THEIR war."
Diced Tomato
In above example, Jim N has the opportunity
To DEFEND himself and whosoever else
He should prefer to... faithful
Jane, perhaps.
I repeat:
WW-2 witnessed the VERY FIRST en masse,
Cap-T... "Terror bombing."
Bombing implies the use of AIR craft,
At least it did then,
Aside from the rocketry anyhow;
En Masse means WHOLE neighborhoods
In one blistering swath.
The kind of places with trees got swings
Dangling from ropes?
Got victory gardens?
Got some are fat, and some
Damn near starving to death?
Like it's always been?
So, anyway,
Joe N, he The Man, the pilot.
His buddy is sighting, and each
Of the crew doing their part, as
Good ol' pub-crawling pal... is releasing
The bombs.
Maybe muttering,
Possibly even - shouting!
Bombs Away!
Upon:
In Dresden, it is Hans.
In London, it is Sean.
In Tokyo, it is Yan.
In America it was... well, anyway,
All of whom are... 3 years old.
Riding a motor scooter, the kind
You push with one little leg?
Maybe even a lever he or she can work it
To ring the bell - look out World!
Ecce Homo, in miniature I am!
On my way to being Great!
Just being antic, having SOME fun.
(... kids are amazingly intuitive and KNOW
when the parents, the back-yard, the neighborhood
is in trouble, so not as MUCH fun as
during times of, let's say,
an honorable peace, I will grant you that)
None of 'em 3 can fold their arms
And say - hey!
Adult who should know better?
Adult who CAN and SHOULD make
The WHOLE built-environment... BEST possible?
How about acting like you were, oh,
Let me consult me Story Book, ummm,
How about?
A "Chivalrous Knight!" who
LIVES for old honor, and
As far as I know - and that ain't much, me?
I am merely - 3 years old,
Going on 4!
Yep, a Knight-like and stalwart Hero
Who,
NEVER roamed the countryside slashing & slaying
Women & kids,
Elderly & sickened,
Merchants & nurses like Nightengales,
Nor song singers or artists,
Or those who labor tirelessly,
All the day and all the night long
To put out fires,
Remove wrack of debris, and
Rescue kids and dogs from early entombment
Due to random, senseless,
Truly insane bombings.
Did they?
I WRONG here?
**Now,
I repeat for the very last time,
If any of those 3 kids
Or - ANY kids in ANY war
In ANY time, way back then, right now,
Or in future,
(... should we have one, and, well
You REALLY gotta wonder)
Are evaporated in fire
Or explosion by adult... cowards,
Who kill from high above,
In some Air Craft,
I - personally, consider it
A war crime,
And WHOMEVER is piloting, or aiming,
Or in some manner directing that annihilation
Of a child and/or any "non-combatant"
(... IE, they have not elected to participate
in these latest acts of mindless madness)
IS, ipso in actual facto, a war criminal.
Should be cuffed up
And stuck in the dock.
Should be punished.
Maybe even... hung from the neck until dead.
See what I mean, sans - that sleight obfuscation
You've introduced, Diced Ice?
[ July 17, 2006, 07:12 AM: Message edited by: Desert Dave ]
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Conscious decision by the "peace makers,"Would that it could be so. But what about those who build the devices, or pay to buy them?Which, one hopes,
Will soon enough out-number the thugs.
IE, don't buy them.
Naive?
Probably,
But having helped run a very successful
Business for over 10 years,
I do know this much:
Nobody buys yer stuff,
You shutter the doors and make something
That is appealing.
Self defense is ever justified.Or do we get out of that conspiracy by saying that we're all combatants...Determining exactly how that applies
Is another matter.
Simple when some goons break down yer door
And brandish weapons
And demand their brutal due.
Knock 'em down,
HOWEVER you got to.
It wasn't until WW-2 that this whole notion
Of "terror" from the skies commenced.
Once Pandora's Box
Hath been opened, well, next time
It is MUCH easier to rationalize,
And in the process,
Come up with clever yet awful euphemisms
Such as: "collateral damage."
A return to Code of Honor,
Among men,
Among Nations,
Would be ideal.
Gonna happen?
Now, these ever more (... apparently)
Desparate times?
Probably not.
Well, Cary,But you're right, we've gone far wrong if we can't stop to listen to that point -- at least to wonder at our laminate rationalizations.I am right ... for me.
What you, or the next guy deems righteous,
Is not for me to say,
UNLESS,
Their credo or "book of instruction" impinges
On long-standing,
Hard-earned tenets of "law & order."
Who wants Chaos?
Return to the Jungle?
Really?
We have evolved to this point
Mostly due to refinement
Of the Cerebral Cortex.
We can only continue to evolve, IMHO,
With apt integration
Of BOTH the "religious impulse"
AND the "rational" didactum.
Neither, all alone,
Will do, though, as now,
Far too many suppose that one or the other
Is enough.
It isn't,
Won't EVER be.
BTW, greatly appreciate your documented
Sourcing,
Your elegant use of the language
Especially,
Not to mention some
VERY original & creative thinking.
[ July 16, 2006, 10:18 AM: Message edited by: Desert Dave ]
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The history of us,
Is an almost unfathomable tapestry.
We are each one stitch thereon.
How on Earth
To make great sense of it... all?
It is not to be precisely located
In ANY History Book,
No matter how well documented.
Anecdote,
Wive's Tales,
What is told by an Idiot,
A rampant animal etched on a coat
Of Arms.
Go with yer gut, intuition,
What occurs to you in dreams.
Things are never, ever what they seem.
Very nice (... apocryphal? No matter)
Story, Diced Ice. :cool:
There are two quotes I have
Written on my gaming-room wall,
Verbatim, quite literally.
The first, by a man I greatly admire,
Have read over & over again,
A Hero for the Ages:
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"How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life."
-- Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor
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The second, also a man of honor
And much wisdom, IMO:
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"In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me - and by that time no one was left to speak up."
-- Pastor Martin Niemoller, Dachau, 1944
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Well, everybody has their own inspirations.
Each is equal to anybody else's.
And so it goes and goes.
[ July 16, 2006, 09:59 AM: Message edited by: Desert Dave ]
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Scapegoat of the day
Is, it would seem? Catholics,
Again?
LOL.
I remember when I was down
At North Fort Polk, Loosianner,
Circus 1966 it was,
Doing my AIT,
For God and Country,
You know how it goes?
Ah, "Tiger Land"
It was AKA,
Where you'd go to the Armorer each day
(... he was an irascible Puerto Rican,
if that means anything? THEY been
scape-goated of late? LOL!)
And he'd grudgingly hand out
That dulled black plastic
M-16 Mattel Toy, and then
You'd thrash around them forested swamps
All the foetid day long,
And at last, turn that practise MG in
Once done with the exercises?
Anyway,
One night I got loose from the Cats
What wore them Smokey Bear hats?
Had black & orange slashed Cav patches?
Were usually about 20 or 22 yrs old?
Just me on leave,
And... my Canon camera, in case
I should want
Some priceless item for - rembrance
Of things past,
A'la Proust sans the padded room,
[... actually I grew up mostly
down South, so I already KNEW the lay
of the land, the way of the unforgiving]
And so,
I came upon this huge old antebellum
Sort of house by side of the road,
Musta been owned by a Banker
Or Politico or the local
White-lightning Capitaliser, well,
You couldn't actually see the house
From the sidewalk,
Just this long paved drive-way,
But it did have a HUGE! rolling expanse
Of deep green grasses
And fragrant shrubs
And flowers of every imaginable kind! :cool:
All tres tres charming.
Although... there WAS this
One little expertly printed sign
That bothered me, oh,
For about... 20 seconds, since I don't
Actually worry much over what somebody
Else,
Says is dogma,
Or believes to be de rigeur. .
Anyhow,
Firmly staked-out Sign said:
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"All Yankee soldiers,
And Black Cats,
And Pope-lovers,
And Dogs also,
KEEP OFF THE GRASS!"
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True story, I got the PIC
In a box here to home.
Ya just gotta luv it, ain't ya?
How we can be, here in America,
Land of the mighty
Brave & Free,
Then they safe at a distance,
Anyway,
And yet... don't seem to me
Things have changed all that much
In the 40 years since them
Ragin' 'Gator Days, nope,
Different medium, is all.
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LOL, ah,To sum it up; you were a hippie in the 60's and now 40 years later you came to the conclusion that you think I'm a real stud?Kafka's K Redux,
Nah, I warn't no hippie.
Just a guy dropped out of college
While my pals were claiming 2S status,
So to become - first, a citizen soldier.
Then,
Iconoclast who never belonged
To ANY group larger than... 2.
The other most usually being,
One a' them beautiful whores
Who likes to walk in the rain.
See?
BTW, quit ragging me all to hell
About playing yer scenario,
It just ain't gonna happen.
I done told you I'd take you to school
On '39 Campaign once V 1.03 is released,
And, BTW,
Having tested it for awhile,
It ain't bad!
And, best - gonna get much much better
Too!
This I know! :cool:
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Far better, Skando Kafka's K,It's your call mister. If you can't stand the challenge you can leave your old guard uniform at Sailor Heaven's Pub, San Franciso Harbour. Ask for Immer Etwas.You'd inquire after that Cool Old Shade,
For ever known as Herb Caen,
Columnist for The SF Chronicle,
Circa '40s -> ~ '80s,
And inventor of "3-dot journalism," IE,
Liberal (... ooops! 'at 'er's some
nasty bad word these dis-honorable
days, I realize!)
Use of ellipses (...like... this...),
Not to mention the very first!
To use the term... "beatnik." :cool:
[... like most of the rest of the established
Comfortable Classes, he hadn't really ANY clue
of what he was talking about, in this
regard anyhow]
Who once mentioned that SF was like
A beautiful whore walking lamp lighted streets
All night in the fog & rain or,
Some such wry aptness.
Now,
I don't have the EXACT quote and really don't care
If I do wacka do, and won't
Be bothered, now, to search for it,
But,
There you have the essence,
Based on avid readings of 40 odd
Years ago.
Close enough!
I liked SF well enough in the late 60s,
Haight and People's Park and what-not, though
Moreso, I spent time in Big Sur & Sausalito,
Well, to each their own.
Lately, however, we have some true tremendous!
Hate-mongering, foul-lip Wrongo's
Plying the air waves, as, witness:
(... from a column authored by Joe Conason
in Salon.com)
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July 14, 2006 | While Melanie Morgan debates with Ann Coulter about whether the executive editor of the New York Times should be killed by gas chamber or firing squad, the institutional forces behind the San Francisco radio host deserve to share in the national spotlight now focused on her. Morgan's brand of authoritarian extremism is brought to her radio listeners every day courtesy of the Disney Corp., which owns KSFO-AM -- a station that functions as a mouthpiece and fundraising mechanism for the Republican Party.
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Innocent little Disney Corp!
Sponsoring, condoning such vile vitriol
And actual!
Callings for some Editor's head!
Imagine that there!
Why,
All them cute & spry cartoons and that
White Castle!
In Fairyland!
I usta watch as a kid, gee,
My... my.
Other matters:
Well,No question. There are a number of people who talk about Dresden or the nuclear bombings without knowing what they are talking about, and I can understand why you'd find them annoying.You done brung it up again,
Pointilleux Cognoscenti,
Whoso apparently espouses
Midwest sort of rolling-shoulder
Comedie Noire,
And so I say it once again:
As said in the past - ANYONE who bombs
Non-combatants,
With ANY kind of explosive, incendiary
Or other death-dealing device,
SHOULD be prosecuted as a war criminal,
NO exceptions.
I must ask you: how is it
That I don't know what
I am talking about? :confused:
How is it?
That YOU know what I do NOT know?
Or,
What I do ken or nary reckon?
Amazing! langoureux legerdemain,
All the way from hallow halls @ Chicago U
Clean down to the Sun-slammed high desert!
You know these things!
Can't quite get over that!
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As for the rest:
1) Too many humans chasing fast diminishing
resources, at least, those... now KNOWN.
2) Too many War Profiteers,
My gut guess? More!
Than EVER before, here in America (... largest
supplier of annihilation devices
of any nation on earth)
And, in Europe & Asia & Arabia too.
Other places also - wherever stocks
And ill-begotten gains
Are traded for human sweat,
For... human life.
3) Ego-centric world views will inevitably
Lead to these sorts of selfish & avaricious Apprehensions.
4) Palestine deserves their own State, yep,
and this ends with a PERIOD.
5) Russia DID in fact suffer FAR more than any Other Nation in World War II, what's
The big argument?
Whyso or who deserves what
Doesn't change one essential thing.
Millions upon millions upon millions
Of humans died all over the damn place,
Which brings us to:
6) Approximately 30,000 deaths last year,
Minimally deduced,
Due to alcohol-related car accidents, which is, Incidentally - for all 'em claiming to value
ALL of life,
10 times! the number killed @ Twin Towers.
And so, just gotta ask?
Where the outrage there? :confused:
Or, RE: 100s' of thousands NOW starving to death
In them so-called 3rd World countries?
LOL, gotta laugh how SOME life, I'd gather,
Is worth MORE than other's lives,
Go figure.
Well,
Alcohol and tobacco are the single most Destructive drugs now on market.
Hey! Why are these legal?
And some other less offensive stuff,
Such as that recently derided "weed"
And peyote/mescaline and
"Ecstasy" and even, dreaded old "lsd"
Are illegal?
VERY strange law-makers we got,
Especially of late,
What with this spying by telecommunications
Corps, and 'em satellites in the sky
And the old fashioned way too!
RAT out!
Yer neighbor, LOLOLOL!
(... all them above mentioned drugs used within context of supervised and fully controlled religious or psychiatric purposes, but of course!)
**Now, how about them XXXX (... insert yer very own favorite Sports team!) this year!
Got 'em a good shot at the ultimately
Useless! title?
Though, as group catharsis, I suppose it's better
Than... waving around fists & personally
Preferred epistles and received histories,
Which,
As we certainly appreciate,
Have been LOST! Baby, lost,
In all them many & myriad (mis) translations!
LOL!
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Thanks for the encouragement Curry.Dave, played a game of it today against the ai, really enjoy the mod. Good job.Question - what is rain? is it mud?
"Rainsqualls" in this scenario are the same as "rain & mud" in the default game, though, it is often referred to as merely mud. Can't have one without the other, eh?
The AI will improve as we go along, and I have some more time to enact better AI scripting.
I have played Allies on Intermediate +1 against Axis AI and had one heck of a time holding back Rommel's desert toughened forces... in fact, he managed to destroy all my fortifications in and around El Alemein before reinforcements, and Montgomery HQ arrived... barely in time to push 'em back to Bardia.
As I said, any comments, suggestions or ideas that would make this scenario better, don't hesitate to let me know. :cool:
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Good point JG,And infantry at level 3 AT can exact a toll on tanks, especially on the attack, as Blashy is demonstrating against my level 4 German armor in the game we have going.The game has just not been played ENOUGH
To fully realize all the possible permutations.
When you play Blashy you gotta be ready!
For anything! :eek:
Another month or two,
Some more detailed AAR's and suggestions
Based on MANY and varied reports,
And THEN we'll know a lot more
About what needs tweaking, and
What is best left alone.
Too powerful Air Fleets, or Bombers?
Well,
How about researching your OWN interceptors
Right from the get-go
(... since you know your opponent just loves
to bring the hard rains down)
So that they can inflict great harm
On those over-flights?
Or, AA for that matter, it doesn't cost
All that much.
The U-boots, true,
There could be some additional
Assistance for them... and yet,
Rambo has "lucked out" and managed, somehow?
To decimate the RN?
Rest assured, their are roughly 50 +
Suggestions in Beta Forum covering
Very nearly EVERY concern expressed
By this time.
Then, as per usual, Hubert will decide
What, if anything, should be adjusted.
Time.
We got it.
No need to rush around and implement
"Quick fixes" BEFORE there is
Better, more complete datum,
So we won't be "re-acting" to
Those "outliers" on the game graph, eh? :cool:
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LOL, well Skando M,Just use the editor.You sure SEEMED to have a real good time
When you made yer Russian Campaign,
Using that unprecedented Editor, true?
You keep repeating this, it's
Hard to tell you truly mean
What you say, or
Simply are being facetious?
I give you the benefit,
I assume you think it is a fantastic tool,
That's cool, and so
Eventually somebody else will make
France 1940,
Or perhaps?
The Med Theatre,
Start to finish?
Now there's one I'd like to see done! :cool:
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Could be, DH,I m sick of all the whiners...You are getting "sick" because you worry
TOO MUCH
About what somebody else is saying?
How about?
Leben und Leben, zulassen, Ya?
One Cat's "whining" is another's
Genuine concern
To have the game - they'd prefer?
C'mon, lighten up.
You been around quite awhile
And have made many great contributions.
Let everybody else make suggestions
Comments, or even tell little stories,
Without crashing down on 'em
All the time, eh? :cool:
[ July 12, 2006, 08:01 AM: Message edited by: Desert Dave ]
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Curry & SM,
"Sand-storms" have the SAME effect
As does "snow."
I don't believe it was discussed
Whether or not to have scenario-specific
Notations in the Manual.
I'll ask about it,
WRT to all these smaller scaled sets,
See what Hubert has to say.
As I've mentioned in the "designer notes"
IF you have ANY
Suggestions or comments
WRT this scenario,
By all means post 'em up
Or send EM to me.
You get to that point, or
Anybody does,
I'll provide EM address... O/W
You could get it from SeaMonkey.
Speaking of which,
I owe you a turn don't I?
Pardon, I been on this "forced fast"
For an upcoming Test @ VA,
So,
I've been "out of it" awhile now,
Hallucinating? Even?
[... ack! don't everbody agree at once!
]**Here is the rule from the Manual
Which, in effect, applies to BOTH
Snow and Sandstorms, though,
As you likely already know,
Neither Amphib nor Op moves
Are allowed in this scenario:
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Operational movement is allowed, but re-basing of air units is restricted
Attack values halved for any unit type
No AP penalty for crossing snowed enemy river tiles
No amphibious loadings from a snowed port tile
No amphibious unloading to a snowed coastal tile
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And as it goes,Originally posted by Dragonheart:With 10 ontopic posts and 100 offtopic crapposts i wonder why this tread is still open. Seems that moon or madmatt is on holiday.
Your post makes - number... 101,
LOL!
Old Eastern Saying:
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He who would assume
The heart of a Dragon,
Needs undertake the journey
Of the everyday ordinary Hero,
Occasionally, anyway,
At least.
Back & forth to Hades you'd go,
By foot, or in a peasant's hay-cart
Or,
Should you be wary, weary
Or merely leery,
Carried quite merry in
An old Euro King's
Battle-wagon.
Or,
Consider this - you just might
Take that inner-hipster trip
Completely - in your... mind. :cool:
Then!
You'll finally find,
I'd imagine,
That... it don't actually matter,
Comes right down to
The jive & jin of it,
Who says, or,
Acts-out what.
Because YOU - the one who - claims!
To have that great
Beast be beating heart,
Keeps safe,
Their OWN sorta tough begotten learning,
Close, close.
And so,
In the end, then
You can't suck-up the tiniest breath,
No! Not even then,
Doth yer wisdom - do depart.
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Either that there
Sitzen shinola, or:
What say, let's giv good ol' American Noir
A shot:
Ain't no Gunsel that I can see, see,
Holdin' enny Heater to yer head,
Makin' you read
'At 'ere scat-O-logical stuff
Instead!
Of ALL that REALLY right on topical
Grab-*ss and guff,
Is there?
Nope, SM,That little lovely of yours didn't go by the name of Suzie Creamcheese by any chance?I never did knew Suzie
Like, hmmmm... apparently,
YOU knew Suzie, LOL!
The only lithe lovelies
I got to rap
Around with,
Had witchen names like:
Rainbow,
High Sky,
Moon-Glow,
And, sure, what else?
Double-Dose.
LOLOL!
Was at last, as this:
I only went back to Laurel
Just the one more time.
Z requested - a mite too nonchalantly,
You should ast me - to giv the heave-ho
To a wild bunch of Oakland Chapter
Hell's Angels, oh, 'bout
8 or 11 of 'em
All told.
Well, I looked around
And nowhere was my brother
(... much, MUCH tougher than me)
To be found.
To have my back, since,
Lo & behold!
The rest of them "hippie" Cats
Were cloistered in a tight circle
Going - ohm, om, O - my!
With 'em lassies of the night,
And thus & so,
I did the most prudent thing.
... gathered up my git,
Kit, and 'at cool cold long-neck
And... hit the road,
Ne'er to return,
You know?
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Since we're all goin' a little cuckoo clock
Here,
I gotta finish my own tick-tock
With this...
LOL,mpaac:I'ma shoot
I'ma smoke
I'ma walk up on yo ass and bust yo ass in the eye
I'ma roll this blunt up
I'ma I'ma
I'ma ride 2 da end (end)
Ball till I fall (fall)
I'm on the hunt for tha paper
Gimme s'more
I gotta get mine (hey)
All about the currency (yea
Well,
You ain't quite got the drift,
That there great Galactic SHIFT
In warped apperception
Which occurred
A VERY short while it was,
Mid to late 60's or thereabouts.
You know,
Reading all about it in Time or Newsweek
Ain't near the same thang.
**[... fair warning, enny ain't cotton
to 60's tales told by admitted Idiot,
stop! right here,
thatta way, no back-handed complaints
later, eh?
]___________________________________________
For one instance,
I used to go to these mad hatter happenings
Up in Laurel Canyon,
Back then I wuz auditionin'
For B-movie parts (... lost one real rasty role
in a biker movie to ol' D Hopper, that
fast-action, show stopper)
And I kinda accidentally got to know
Frank Zappa.
Yep,
Once the meet was over and done,
He'd call me up on the rotary phone
As we had back then, oh,
Down in Venice where I lived,
If you want to call it that, LOL, in a 3 room
Shack that set me back, oh,
'Bout 90 smacks per month,
Utils incl, what a sweet deal!
And anyway,
He'd juke around a bit and then
Drawl it on out:
"AD? Gonna get down tonight,
here at the ranch,
can you make the scene, Man?"
I'd ponder, respond:
"What's the ratio - gone be?"
He'd pause, thinking 'er over and say:
"60-30-10, but, AD, it's that 10 I got problems with, as you sure enuff know, dig it?"
I knew.
I could dig.
Well, "AD"
Was short hand for "Army Dude," see
I had wandered into one of his blow-outs
A lusty lively summer night
In Levi cut-offs and unlaced jungle boots
Carrying my usual long-neck
Bottle a' Bud,
And sure,
Wouldn't you know, some
Ruined through & through fruit-loop dudes
Had been botherin' and
Pesterin' the "hippie" chicks,
You know?
[... I puts hippie in quotes cuz ONLY
the Dumbell Media used that term, NOBODY
I knew EVER did, LOL!
]Had Zodiac rings on 3 or 4 fingers,
And come-hither bo-jangle bells
On they bare-foot toes?
Long, ironed-straight hair w/shower of flowers
Like honey-suckle & clover woven
In purest innocent faith, in there?
And anyway,
Zappa was pretty "straight" in many ways
But... 'e had this inside light gleaming,
And, a'times - screaming out,
Like some Magic Lantern
Deep down in 'is gut, always weird aglow,
[... as an aside, my old lady from
High School days back in Desert City,
Well now, she played in this all-girl
Rip rock band, even, ironically,
Went on tour with ol' Frankie Z,
Up to Alaska,
Where she did a tiny Mickey tab
And damn near slid off the edge
Of an ice-cliff, well, I had TOLD him
Before they hit the road,
"Look here Z machine, don't be messin' with
my special girl, see?"
And he'd looked me in the eye longest while,
And finally flat out stated:
"Ain't no come-on, in me; she floats & flits
on the Boone's Farm, well, then we just gotta
play it as it lays, wait and see."
I stared back and then shrugged,
I knew the way of it,
How the "free-love apples"
Fell easy off the tree]
Far out, at's how it had to be.
So,
As our Story goes,
That particular eve,
I got just disgusted enough, these
High hard & wasted kind of Cats
Harassin' and hasslin'
Them dream-away lovelies,
And I'd run a couple right on out,
Told 'em to get their kicks down on Sunset,
With all the rest of them sold
'Ere mean-old-soul, psychotic
Sorts a' hang-around 'causin
Nuthin' but cap-T trouble,
Freaks.
Ever since that occasion,
He'd ever now & then ring me and giv
That - "hey AD we could use you" sort of
Grok-talking, fire-lighted
Lantern kinda jive.
IF
He had plenty those Flower Childs
Gone be listenin' to Sitar, there,
I'd - maybe, stir it up and go.
O/W, just
Wander the beach, oh, didn't matter,
Balboa, Venice, Manhattan, Hermosa,
All the same to me, see, I had that
Long-neck to keep cool company.
Long story shortened... you had
To a' been there, man,
No use grindin' & groanin' over what you
Didn't see or didn't get,
How you missed out
On that big bad Moon
A'risin' over right raucous
Laurel Canyon sorts of places
All over!
Captain America, ah, well,
It's how folks can be these days - revisin'
The hell out of what it WAS, man.
Without the slimmest dimmest clue
As to who was a Head,
Who a' actin' aces Cat,
And who a get down, stand up
Kind of... Dude,
Like in the picture show, see
What I mean? :cool:
[ July 09, 2006, 07:49 AM: Message edited by: Desert Dave ]
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Yep,Lars,... seemingly? Far afield, in a stream of altered consciousness?:Some days you eat the bear, some days the bear eats you.
As that Tumbling Tumbleweed Hay-Seed
Hollywood sort-of-a Cowboy
Had said to The Dude,
Jeff Bridges how he put it on, once upon a time, eh? LOL!
Only, he'd said - "B'ar," and not - Bear
I like that surreal dream sequence,
Trismegistus only knows what
Was mixed in that drink,
And I couldn't guess... well,
Actually,
I could, but that was LONG ago
In another, much more interesting Dementian. :cool:
But anyhow... here's the song that accompanied that there Coen Bros rendition of... almost like it really was, man:
______________________________
(Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in)
I woke up this mornin' with the sundown shinin' in
I found my mind in a brown paper bag within
I tripped on a cloud and fell-a eight miles high
I tore my mind on a jagged sky
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
(Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in)
I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and then I followed it in
I watched myself crawlin' out as I was a-crawlin' in
I got up so tight I couldn't unwind
I saw so much I broke my mind
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
(Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in)
Someone painted "April Fool" in big black letters on a "Dead End" sign
I had my foot on the gas as I left the road and blew out my mind
Eight miles outta Memphis and I got no spare
Eight miles straight up downtown somewhere
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
I said I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
Yeah
yeah
oh-yeah
-- Music & Lyrics by Kenny Rogers
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**[... exceptionally odd to me that KRog would come up with somethin' digger 60's such as that little ditty... Lou Reed, or Ry Cooder, maybe, I can see it]
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Neither do I, Yogi,I see no reason we can't have both a great editor and a great game "out of the box".And here pretty soon you shall indeed... have it.
Hubert is committed to making
The "out of box" game as good as it can
Possibly get,
And so,
I wouldn't worry about that.
It WILL happen. :cool:
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Bill and I and Blashy (... and another 1 or 2 who may one day make themselves known) do NOT add anything.What I fear will happen is that Blashy, Desert Dave and Hubert will keep adding "historical" features that will only break the game. It's like putting a golden roof on a wooden shack.We, just like you, make suggestions.
Hubert makes ALL the decisions.
So, Diced Ice,
What would you do, quite specifically, and in detail, to make the game... how you'd prefer it?
See, I keep repeating myself, but... there needs be some more elaboration on these suggestions.
Now, there are a few who HATE to hear about the Editor. :confused:
Which is X-tremely strange indeed, considering the FACT, that, you can make almost any kind of game that you'd like.
I have MY own MOD, which is very, VERY different than ANYTHING I've seen thus far.
[... needs updating, which I'll do once Patch V 1.03 is out, but... I am happy as can be, because some "historical imperatives" that I personally like, are all in there, such as one I put in long time ago... Crete going over to UK control, with consequent "Crete Effect" IF GErmany should take it... one among countless other changes I have made]
If I can do this, ANYBODY can do, I'm tellin' ya. :cool:
You CAN have less luck-driven tech, for instance, there are, oh, about 10 ways to finesse it.
Hence, I am able to play EXACTLY the kind of game I prefer.
It ain't so hard, it's possibly just "intimidating" to those who haven't even ATTEMPTED to do it, is all.
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For my part, I wouldn't mind seeing a more complete list of your suggestions.Lars, patient:There are others, but I'm willing to give it time to mature.
And, what you have thus far mentioned could use a bit more elaboration.
Some rationales as to WHY it should be different than what it currently is.
So, how about #1-10 in order of importance, one of these days?
This is what Hubert REQUIRES us to do as play-testers. He surely doesn't just take a one line opinion what's been tossed into the wind, and say:
"Hey, that, like Betty Grable of yesterdays, has got some really shapely legs!"
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That first one was indeed an absolute horror, Boardwalk Raconteur, that's fer sure.-- To state the Russian Winter isn't so bad, in light of WWII and Napoleon's invasion seems very strange to me. It is a key factor, perhaps the most important single factor in waging war in that part of Europe.[... I hear yer writings have been going grand, accepted as outstanding... I congratulate you! :cool: ]
You know, IF I were a betting man, which I'm not ordinarily
(... all these Powerballs and Casinos on Reservations... merely a way to "tax" those who can least afford it, IMHO, IE, those most desperate who will wager rent monies and even, I've heard tell, their last pair of walk-the-road Moto Boots :eek: ),
Well, anyway, I would - perhaps, bet on some "tweaks" to this here Russian Winter issue.
Merely my opinion... which has now & then been disproved, if not attacked and smacked all up & down, over these 50 + years. LOL!
'At's alright, I'm thrilled when taken to task; how else would I ever learn nothin'?
And so, like I mentioned, it WOULD be cool if some SC Cats would "mod" some different zones and weather percentages and the like, so to sufficiently ILLUSTRATE their points.
You do need MANY plotted points on the graph, and not just the one or two possible outliers.
Can't hardly draw in ANY kind of accurate "sine-sign line," eh?
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LOL, it IS kinda funny, ain't it!"Semi-freakish"??? Damn man I live not far from Russia and you don't. And you have the nerve to come and talk to me about this crap from some desert in the US???Man what a joke! :eek:
Question?
How many game-designers that you know of live in Arctic conditions?
My best guess... most of 'em live it out in comfortable quarters and have NEVER been to Fort Lamy, HQ for the Free French there in Central Afrika, NOR to Murmansk to test the waters on a daily basis to determine WHEN the Port is inaccessible... have they?
Likely, they go by historical references, and common knowledge and, not to omit, their very OWN "take" on what should be included in a game, and what not.
Seems reasonable to me. THEY take the risks, they have EARNED the right to stick into THEIR game whatever they choose.
Now, here you have a guy, Hubert, who is, IMHO, without doubt the BEST at listening to, and implementing Forum Members commentary and suggestions.
Could be he will once again, WRT to weather, who knows, other than the Shadow?
BTW, I got enough nerve to have survived this long, Skando Mondo, and I ain't much a'fearin' enny yer or any other's words, nor the surely impending mutational dis-eases comin' our way, neither.
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GlPT,I must say I to was very dissapointed. I waited three years and what did I get? A game with an AI like **** and if you say it on this forum all these idiots say "use the editor" "take a mod" but that wasn't why most of us bought the game.Then, simply wait for patch #3... which, as Hubert has mentioned already, should be out in August sometime... maybe September if need be, and anyway -->
THEN!
You will have quite accomplished AI schemes and other new! features and will NOT have to use one of the many MODS now out there.
Good as they are, and all deserve great credit for experimenting... so to offer all sorts of interesting "suggestions," they are NOT the default game.
THAT will, sooner than later
(... assuming you have some small modicum of patience, as is required for just about EVERY computer game made, these last several years, eh?
)Be... THE Gold Standard. :cool:
Reload??? I know you guys have already did this once. :)
in Strategic Command 2 Blitzkrieg and Weapons and Warfare
Posted
Mans... still standing,
Or kneeling or reeling
Or sprawled all across
The cold cactus grit
An' dirt.
At the OK Corral, pal.
And,
One of them others - can you
See 'im 'ere, Dude?
Over there! in the gloaming,
Dreaming schemes of dire and doom? :eek:
It is... Fast Draw McGraw,
Hah hah, ah
Hah hah hah hah hah,
And his hands!
What magic hands, you
Oughta see 'em!
Like skeins of bleeding white
There in the nearing night.
Yah, get ready, Idaho Hombre,
Get really ready,
I'd advise,
To FINALLY learn
How to... reload!
LOLOLOLOL!
BTW: If you miss 'im, or, perchance,
'E misses you
(... this is chance, REAL deal
chance, and not like folks
wringing and wranging over weather-whims
in SC-2!)
Not to worry, see,
There's ALWAYS somebody, some where,
Who is... strapping it on,
And... coming.
Who is... faster than you.
Faster than Buffalo Bill Cody
With 'is awful wild, light
Blue, bad-bully eyes,
And, faster even!
Than yer
Much remarked, wildly admired
And oft ballyhoo'd Nemesis, yep
Faster than... Yodl,
Too.