John Osborne

Kind of afraid to post on the site. Due to stories of people getting pretty hot and talking bad about other people. But what the hell. The question is has anybody besides myself have read the book titled “Rommel as Military Commander” by Ronald Lewin? I think it is a good book. But there will be people who will say other wise.

I'm trying to find and play a scenario that is mostly tank battles for CMBB and CMBO. Which ones are the best and where to find them? Red 6

ROW III, Section 3-3. Red 6 Status: Rear Guard Action: Red 6 vs Flammenwerfer, Turn 11 Hosszupalyi: Sripe vs Red 6, Turn 6 The Xmas Battle: Red 6 vs Jaws, Turn 5 King of Debrecen: Shock Trooper vs Red 6, Turn 3 The Beast: Joakim Ruud vs Red 6, Turn 2 As you can see TB. I'm moving along ok.

ROWIII, 3-3 Rear Guard Action vs Flammenwerfer - turn 20 Hosszupalyi vs Sripe - turn 7 The Beast vs Joakim Rudd - turn 5 The Christmas Battle vs Jaws- turn 10 King of Debrecen vs Shock Trooper - turn 5 So as you can see were moving along rather fast. Keep this up and we wont have anything to do later. Red 6

Just sent out my turns to: Joakim Ruud Sripe Shock Trooper Flammenwerfer Jaws Why am I getting this feeling that these scenarios are better then the ones for ROWII

Hell, CompUSA is selling it over the internet at there web site.

Dam, It did the same to me also :mad:

ROWIII, TourneyIII, SectionIII We have all made contact through email. Foresee no problems at all Were just ready to get it started Red 6

Let me be the first to say as a player from ROWIII, TourneyIII, Section III I'm ready to rumble Lets get it on Red 6

Hi Treeburst155, Will you be posting the sections soon? That way I can setup my email with the address and get any problems out of the way before the games begin Red 6

Yes, 455KB/sec

I figure I would ask here and see if I can get any answers What are some of the thing's that a person who is going to host a multiplayer game be aware of? What were some of the issues from the previous CPXs that a person needs to know so that it won't happen again? Also I'm reading 15.4 Multiplayer Teams Network Game from the TacOps manuel. It states "The practical limit for Internet play is around 10 players". Has the game been done with more then 10 players? And does that count the umpire as well? Red 6

Game By: Red 6 When: Sat, Jan 18 2003, 1700 GMT Title: Operation Hintertür Details: Custom US Army on map130c Map130c will be posted at TacOps Map Room shortly. Primary IRC Channel, #tacops on www.combatmission.com, port 7000 Fallback IRC Channel, #tacops on schlepper.hanse.de, port 7024 I will start to take names for both sides. But will not send out any OPORD, OOBs until Jan 3, 2003. You will then have two weeks to plan with your Commanders and other players. Everybody is welcome, Newbies and Veterans.

Guys, it looks like that I will have to wait until January to do my CPX. Sorry Henk, I'm one of many GMs for the CMMC2 and I need to spend allot of time working on the German OOB and work on the Intel rules. We are trying to get it started as soon as possibly. I've finished the map and the OOB for the units that will be involved in the CPX. Just need to write up the OPORDs for each side. Red 6

I'm doing a survey on what is the best time to do a CPX. It was brought to my attention that a large amount of players may be going on vacation between Xmas and New Years. I would like to know what is the best day and time to do this CPX. I was thinking on the time should be 1600 GMT if possibly. And I was thinking on after New Years if everybody think that is the best day. Or I can do it sooner if I get enough results from the survey I have finished my map and as soon as I can get in touch with Rikki to get it loaded into the TacOps Map Room. And I will send out a scenario description on what it will be by this Friday or sooner And see what the results will be. I will also like to do it with two weeks in advance for the commanders and players to work on their plan. This is to wet your appetite CPX players:) Excerpt from CAPT. Johnson's Reports and Letters from "The Battles of Striker Brigade" 0730,18 September,West Germany As I sit in the mess hall drinking a cup of Army coffee and talking to my XO, Lieutenant Richards. I start to write home to my wife. Dear Debra, It has only been three months since the War in Cuba and we still haven't seen any replacements arrive from Frankfurt. Maybe my replacement will get here soon. I can't wait to get back home. I'm thinking of resigning my commissioned and get a civilian job. We've been on alert since the people behind the Iron Curtain started to riot against the Soviet regimen. I guess they think because the Soviets didn't have the stomach to fight over Cuba. They can do the same against the Soviet government. I hear over three hundred people died at East Berlin alone. The East German Army closed all the routes into Berlin and East Germany. I hope nothing stupid happens. That's all we need is another war. As Capt Johnson reaches for his cup of coffee. Sirens start to go off on base. An MP runs into the mess hall and yells "The Russians are attacking, we're at War". Also these countries will be involved: United States, West Germany, Netherlands against the Soviet Union and East Germany. Red 6

Hi Steve, I'll give it a shot.

Hi Krinks, It worked for me. As soon as I quite playing CMBB. I will post here how to do it. Or send me your file for your names and I will look at it josbornesprint11@earthlink.net

Got it at Colorado Springs. The Pony Express was right on time

Oswald and Binglesh, Thanks, I will be sending to you guys questions about using layers to make an overlay for TacOps. I will also send what had happen when I tried to copy-merge the layers

I hope this will help. I got this from James Sterret. Tacops Umpire Download from: http:// www.mirc.co.uk/ Installation: should be a self-installing program (download it, double-click it, watch it go) Initial startup: fill in the “Name”, “Email”, “Nickname”, and “Alternate” boxes. Do not worry about passwords and the like. Your nickname is the name IRC will display; the alternate is automatically used if somebody else has already taken your primary nickname. To put in the server: In the Options screen (click the second icon from the left, if it does not come up automatically), click “Add” and fill in: Description: Red 6 TacOps server [or anything you prefer, only you will see this, no one else will] Server: irc.netlink-irc.org [not optional, has to be there] Port: 6667 Ignore Group and Password. Then you can log in using the relevant button on the options screen or the small lighting bolt icon in the upper left. After it logs in. mIRC should pop up with a channel window. [Third icon from the left brings it up also.] All IRC channels begin with a #. Thus the TacOps channel is #tacops. Type #tacops as the “name of channel to join”. Hit “Add” if you want to save yourself typing it in the future, and then hit “join”. You type text and hit enter; it heads out into the world. Text proceeded by a / will be treated as a command by IRC. To join another channel from the TacOps channel, type “/join #channel name” (without the quotes); for example: /join #blufor-chat [ September 21, 2002, 12:43 PM: Message edited by: Red 6 ]

Is there anybody out in TacOps land that has Photoshop? I have allot of questions on the use of it

This is for the new TacOps v4 players. I would be more then happy to help you run the two player or a multiplayer game. You can reach me here on the TacOps Forum or you can email at josbornesprint11@earthlink.net Hell, if you just want to do a PBEM, I can do that also

Hi Redwolf, How I came to like modern units? It all started when I was a kid and played with those little green army men. You know the ones that you sat on fire John

What is that you have as a wallpaper on your screen Love to get my hands on it Red 6

As a TacOps player, there is never a waste of time asking questions. If you have anymore questions ask away. John (Red 6) Osborne