Nidan1

Colorado.....Utah.....schmoootah, neither state has contributed anything significant to our great nation. Don't know why you would waste your breath argueing over them. Shaw argues about everything, and reverb is just an SSN and deserves nothing but contempt.

Well, er....no, not really....since 9/11 there are snipers posted in hidden areas of the Stadium. People who run out on the field, whether clothed or not, are immediately taken down. The crowd then has an opportunity to cheer as the body is dragged away by golf carts equipped with chains and meat hooks. Such is the state of things, since the War on Terror began.

Bin Laden was living at Abbott's house.!!!!!!

Yes, but the humor is rated for mature audiences.

I can't afford that, and anyway it would be cheaper to just club him to death like a baby harp seal once he steps foot on our shores. Peng and I then plan to go out for a nice meal and a night on the town, using Stuka's credit cards of course.

ooooooh! the shock waves in BO were soooooo.......well er, year 2000.

I guess after chewing on wind-blown sand for years, anything else would be a proper diversion.

Who could have guessed that you were a genuine geezer!! Ha, I'm tickled.

We must get together.....email me your itinerary. (so I can set up the proper kill box)

Took you over three hours to respond? Lose the key to the root cellar?

Helicopters didn't just land in the midst of firefights to pick up casualties unless called in by commanders on the ground. At least that was the way it was in units I was with. Also we never had helicopters flying around us giving orders and such. The first time I ever saw anything like that was in the movie "Hamburger Hill" I dont know how true that was, having the battalion commander flying around above the action, micro managing every move. Hollywood usually has an agenda.

Right, also HOF GAP and 5th Corps were the other components. Hof Gap came out in a boxed version. BAOR and 5th Corps were included in the monthly magazine. It came out in 1980. Maps are still beautiful to look at.

Never went to a Saturday thing, but in their monthly magazine/w game included, they always had surveys and questionnaires, trying to find out what the readership wanted as far as new games. They were into everything back in the 70s and 80s, no genre was too tough to tackle. It was heady stuff, especially since "Panzerblitz" and "Panzerleader" were just coming out as well. As the TRS80 and Commadore64 became popular loads of people could see they were perfect platforms for boardgames. CMBO was the game I had waited for most of my life.

Sorry I don't remember GrailQuest...if it wasn't a non-fantasy war game I wouldn't have played it. Did you write games for SPI, or for their magazine issues? The one game I always wanted to play was "Highway to the Reich" It was so huge that all the maps when put together covered my basement floor. I could never get anyone to play it with me. I loved the map. I used to just push the pieces around by myself, and try to play solitaire. Another one of their great games, was "Central Front", another huge game. IT came out in three or four seperate games, or you could put them altogether for a campaign game. I still have that one.

No, kidding....IIRC the SPI offices were on Park Ave, downtown? I used to drop in there from time to time as well. Jim Dunnigan and Redmon Simonsen were always around testing out new games. I'm 65 and I worked in Manhattan when SPI was in its heyday. I also own original copies of AH Gettysburg and Tactics II and of course SL and ASL. Ive been playing wargames in one form or another since I was 15.

You just don't get it do you? The art of the subtle is completely lost on you. Perhaps if you were not living in the "Outback of North America" and were exposed to proper cultural and intellectual stimili you would be able to understand. What horizons can you possibly aspire to when most of you life is spent cringing in the root cellar. Hoping the next storm does not blow you back to Oz.* *(Not in any way should this post be construed to be poking fun at the unfortunate folks who are recovering from recent tornados in the south. This post is limited strictly to poking fun at Boo Radley) **Post completed in 13 minutes.

Yes indeed, the right star can be quite flattering.

Hackworth just probably made an intuitive observation based on the incident he was describing. He got into a lot of trouble with the Army late in his career, as well as while working as a military expert for cable news. A fine soldier, no doubt. His unwillingness to play the political game, and his outspokeness, ruined him. I have seen dead men on their stomachs and on their backs, I have seen wounded men on their stomachs and on their backs. I don't think there is any formula for determining their state by looking at them from the air.

A rare, recent photo of Boo Radley blushing.

Wodin, can you quote from the book the actual way he describes this ability? This is sounding more and more like urban legend stuff to me. I have never in all my years of reading about Vietnam heard of such a thing. Now Bahnsen was certainly a flamboyant character, and an agressive combat leader, but those qualities have never made a person immune to telling slightly embellished war stories. Flying in a gunship at high speed and low level, and perhaps taking ground fire at the same time would make these kinds of observations difficult at best.

I see you have met King Buzzkill . Don't add the "-" nose part when you make your smilies with the keyboard and they should work.

Not having read this particular book, or being familiar with the exploits of this obviously experienced helo pilot, I will accept the observations he has made in the book. I can only go by my own experiece. Anyway, since no one from BF has said it one way or the other, I dont think that we can safely determine the status of a pixel soldier just by looking at his pose in the game.

I don't think this is true in real life. As far as the game is concerned, if a pixel soldier is wounded, he may still try to crawl away hence his avatar would appear face down. A game expert would probably have to confirm this.

and U 2 should just sod off !

A wonderful idea....