Lumbergh
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What are you smoking? Since when is thinking "outside the box" represented by "a company of SMG infantry and 10 scout cars in open terrain against hordes of PZ-IIs"?Originally posted by PeterX:The generator could used some tweaking but, IMO, still creates more plausible forces. Autoselect encourages the player to scramble and think outside the box. IMO.
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Plausible is not necessarially playable. You could have a plausible 1944 force mix and have a understrength German infantry battalion up against a Soviet Tank Army.
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Why not just pretend an offboard mortar module is the indirect machine-gun fire? Similar reaction time, similar effect, non? Or was indirect machine-gun fire so common it should be explicitly modeled?
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You should hotseat yourself. It's a bit of a wank but it is better than playing the AI in an ME. Especially with a big map and lots of toys.
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You should hotseat yourself. It's a bit of a wank but it is better than playing the AI in an ME. Especially with a big map and lots of toys.
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Bump. For the love of V-Notch Charpy impact resistance, bump.
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Yes but casba has a much cooler melon associated with IT.
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I dunno - makes perfect sense to me. I've always found Keegan very readable, but a little ... umm ... lightweight? Superficial? Something.Originally posted by JonS:</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Lt. Kije:
...I relish that final, exquisitely unreadable, phrase. Forgive me, but I must repeat it,
"...to sinicise the semi-nomads whose natural home the inter-zone was".
Now THAT is bad writing...
Regards
JonS </font>
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Wow, were they riding on an Su-100??
Still, look at the pictures of the "hand to hand combat"...looks like a bunch of guys playing nerf-wars.
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Captured soldiers? What are those?
You must not be playing enough Stalingrad battles.
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Ok, well, you clearly want to have your cake and eat it too.Originally posted by BulletRat:Prebuilt scenarios are for playing against the AI as far as I'm concerned, QBs offer that random map where each battle has to be thought out individually.
I consider buying KV-Is gamey when buying them in a small points battle - knowing that theres a very slim chance your opponent has a chance of knocking it out.
Personally I like to buy my own units, and I try to keep them to reasonably realistic guidelines. To those naysayers who whinge about my buying 2 150mm guns, they can be killed - and both were, one by a 45mm AT gun, the other by the KV itself.
IF you want historical accuracy, then you play a historical scenario. Bam, there it is, pure and simple.
If you play a QB and wish to limit yourself to more realistic units, then find an opponent who will agree to play under your rules. Why not say "nothing over 25% rarity"?
If you play a QB against a random schmo, yes, of course they are going to pick a KV-1, they want to win!
As an aside, I don't see why you are anti-scenario. The best 2p experiences I've had have been scenarios...they allow the designers to introduce problems that would never crop up in a QB. Each unto their own though!
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Attacked by German mine-lemmings.Originally posted by Andreas:Assuming this tank wreck was not the result of a collision with a reindeer, I guess the answer is 'yes'.
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Well technically nothing's gone off the old drive--you just broke the mechanism of getting it off of the platter.
You should be able to retrieve the data, if you spend some money. A pain, but better than a corrupted disk (like the aforementioned IBM Deathstar ).
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They couldn't.Originally posted by GaryC:If the Panther VD 75/70 was really like that, I
wonder how the Russian could possibly survive
in open ground armor battles.
The Panther is a nasty, nasty opponent at range. It has very heavy frontal armor, good optics and an excellent gun with high rates of fire.
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Since when does the Red Army have an 858 area code phone number??
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Just met a 251/16 for the first time (I think, FOW is tough).
:mad: :mad: :mad:
Absolutely OBLITERATED a tank-hunter team in a light building. That and the platoon of PZ-IVs and MG-34hmg firing on it.
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Thanks for sharing! Very interesting...
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SPOILER
Thanks.
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Does this op run better on a mac? I've got a hunch.....
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Why don't you try students? They have every day off.
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...depends on how much propellant you got too buddy!Originally posted by Schoerner:...and the longer the gun, the higher the muzzle velocity.
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Especially with the AI playing the Soviets. It will probably drop all 15 barrages on itself on turn one and surrender on turn 2.
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You need some sort of link in your signature since you keep making me thirsty!Originally posted by WineCape:wine wine wine sip sip ahhhhhh
I've got truckloads of it and you have none. Don't you wish you could have some?
I'd guess that you could probably convert half of the non-French forum types to SA wine...of course, BFC might put the kibbosh on selling wine on their website, but you could always send them "incentive" in the post....
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Verrry interesting Matt, thanks for the post!
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Slide rule haters, of course. Every few months another one appears, talking about the wonders of the latest IBM hole-punch machine, a smaller Babbage-engine, or whatever. </font>Originally posted by Tarqulene:</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Yes. You have an irrational hatred of slide rules.
Frankly, your kind isn't wanted here.
Whose "kind", I wonder? New CM customers to spread the word on a great game? Enthusiastic new players with common sense?
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