Kobal2

@stickysumtink : Sadly, our own scum has learnt much from your lawyers...

WhatdoyoumeanI'veneverbeenthereinmyentirelife, EVER. I may have to sue you for your attemps at sullying my Honor.

Look at my profile. It says "uni student". And in Paris, to boot. Which basically means I have to make a living out of a 4 square meters flat, on one meal a day - or even one meal every other day (and one tin can pasta meal, mind you). As to alcohol, I have to go on loathsome Heineken (if you ever need something of a comparison, is like canned-piss Budweiser, only *lighter*) and Gros plant wine, which is basically "whatever was left in the keg after the real wine was put in bottles". Being a student in 2004 Paris is a lot like being an upperclass citizen in 1941 Poland, yeh ken ? [ June 05, 2004, 08:58 AM: Message edited by: Kobal2 ]

That, or use effective tactics, like strapping the git with TNT while he sleeps or sumssink.

Yep, like they said, kills are not *that* important. I just did the "Petracholi Ridge" scenario as the Germans, and used two HMGs in a trench, and a flanking force to lay supprseive fire on them and stop the whole Allies attack in their tracks, then followed up with an Arty strike (those 81mm mortars, i.e. the lowliest Arty you can get, ever) to damage and, more importantly, rout them. Afterwards I got some reinforcements and sent in a StuG to finish them off, and realised that most of the squads that were painfully retreating were not *that* heavily damaged - they'd just got one hell of a shelling, and their morale was beneath the Earth mantle, so the StuG just moped up, lobbing HE shells here and there to get the stragglers running back. This example just to show : you don't have to obliterate the ennemy assault to win, just to deny them any kind of progress whatsoever.

Gaullists I can deal with . You just have to watch and wait, and they'll stumble upon their own feet. Now, nearly fascist regimes with an omnipresent Milice, that's another kettle of fish alltogheter, innit ? [ June 05, 2004, 07:50 AM: Message edited by: Kobal2 ]

I've used it once, very successfully, to assault an ennemy position with two MG squads. The building was held by a HMG and two rifle squads, which were promptly slaughtered by my boys.

Oh, also, depending on the weather, they may not come at all : fog, rain, snow equal lost points. But with all their problems, planes can be very usefull, especially when you don't have any armor. It's a quite reliable tactic to use an all infantry force with a couple of green antitank planes (if you don't have tanks, they can't shoot them, can they ?) That, and they see the whole map, so unlike arty that has to be timed well and is unreliable at best when fired beyond LOS, they can blow up the ennemy before it has a chance to do anything.

You don't "call air support", it just...happens It's the main difference between arty and airplanes : arty you target just like any other unit, airplanes just roam the field, coming in at random (and shooting at random too just kidding, but they're quite prone to friendly fire when they're not experienced)

I was walking the streets of Paris tonight, going back home after dining with my parents, when I stumbled upon a group of old geezers with funny little hats with medals on. Curious, I got closer, and saw they all wore nametags, so at first I thought they were just tourists, but then I saw that, under the names, they all had "90th Infantry" written on them. My grand-fathers, who were both resistants, excepted, it was the first time I was in the presence of WWII vets. I don't know why exactly, but I felt I had to go and shake their hands, which I did. Now, I do many things on such instincts, in the spur of the moment as it were, but afterwards, I wondered why - you have to understand that I'm the most pacifist, anti-violence guy ever. I've been hit and hurt many, many times during my youth, yet never fought back. I dodged the compulsory military service. If there ever was a big war in which France was involved and had to draft again, I'd desert on the spot, without a single doubt, even if faced with prison or a firing squad. Yet, I had saluted, and respected those vets, and I wondered why. I think now it's because you just have to admire how noble (and how dumb, of course, but still...) it can be to volunteer to go and fight to liberate a country you don't give a rat's ass about, and to free us French not only from Zee Djermans, but from our own f*cked up collaborationist government. I don't think any of us youngsters can imagine, let alone understand, what these guys have been through, and even though we may hate America today (and believe me, we do most of the time), you've just got to respect what it was these days, and what it's done for us. I just don't know, and don't want to imagine what France would be like if the Vichy Government had stayed in place... I'd have to imagine being born and raised in a society with values and morals and opinions that are so completely alien to me (or to anybody for that matter), with prejudices and hatreds and narrow-mindness, and most importantly, I'd probably have embraced them, not even begun to understand how wrong they were. I don't know about you, but this thought alone scared me sh*tless, when it occured to me in the subway. I just had to share that. OK, now, back to throwing bricks at you stupid Americans.

Some kind of local reenactment for the 60th anniversary ? And no, we're not tidy. We'd live in pig shacks if we thought we could get away with it. You'd have to see my flat to understand . On the other hand, we're greedy. Got to get that wheat money rolling fast, y'know ?

Lars, you better have fallen off that boat and drowned slowly if I don't have me turn when I get back from the restaurant. I miss the fireworks, I do.

Would love to be able to somehow induce misIDs in my troops sometimes, via PCP probably. "No Comrade, this is *not*, I repeat, *not* a fascist Tiger. It's a mere Panzer 1. With no ammo left. NOW GO TO ITS FLANK AND SHAKE THAT MOLOTOV, HOP IT YOU KULAK !" [ June 04, 2004, 01:35 PM: Message edited by: Kobal2 ]

(why should he be ashamed to post this on a public forum ? Oh I get it. Harry Potter, right ?)

I wouldn't love myself for a big clock, let alone you bunch of looneys.

Sergei, you realise you sound very, very disney fruity, don't you ? That, or you only imply that Dorosh ought to be gayer than a tree full of monkeys high on nitrous oxyde. Oh and Skellen ? You're not supposed to fight on skis. It's hard enough to use the bloody things as it is. Consider them like personnal, very very lightly armored APCs for your troops. That disappears when you don't need it anymore. And doesn't cost you any point. And make you look somewhat silly.

*** looks around sneakily *** *** walks in like he owns the place *** Feh. Why are we still bothering with SSNs these days ? *** looks around with a flash of guilt passing across his features, then resume his contemptfull posturing *** What ?

Yep, I figured that out, and payed closer attention to that afterwards. Though it seems much more prevalent when playing the Allies : US and Russian troops often mistake light tanks for III's and IV's, and IVs for Panthers or Tigers, but the Germans seem to guess more accurately, and even if not giving you the exact type, I've never seen them mistake a light tank for a medium etc... They do however sometimes mistake HTs as tanks, but as sound contacts only, and I never pay much credence to sound contacts, as they always seem both inaccurate in type, but terribly when it comes to location : I've seen many times sound contacts that were supposed to be on the left appear on the far right and vice versa. [ June 04, 2004, 06:04 AM: Message edited by: Kobal2 ]

Sewer movement is just what is says : moving inf units through the sewers Exists only in CMBB, and even there has restrictions : only possible from one big heavy building to another, very slow, and 10% chance of death for each squad member. You don't get shot at, though.

Yep, accidents like that crop up every year too. Maybe two or three a year tops, but don't believe that "it only happens to the others" I recall a particular story of one idjit-and-a-half. The man was a peasant, and will plowing one of his fields he unearthed an unexploded mine. Instead of calling in the Gendarmerie as is advised, the genius brought it back home and tried to open it with a handsaw "to see what the inside looks like". Turns out, the paramedics didn't have to open him up to see what his insides looked like.

Yep, seen that too - I had been replaying a scenario in which I knew the Germans had only Panzers 38(t) and a couple of StuGs. The StuGs were easily identified, but out of the 5 or 6 light tanks, 2 were ID'd as Panzer IIIs, one as a Panzer IV. At first I was stunned, like "what the....CHEATER ! WHEN I PLAYED THAT FROM THE GERMAN SIDE ALL I HAD WAS CRAPPY LIGHTIES !" while my own light tanks were all retreating en force. Then I understood what it was all about, and killed that "Panzer III" with a hail of ATR fire

Lars sports impressively precise arty strikes. Mind you, there's not a Kraut in a 200m radius of his shellings, but I've always been a sucker for fireworks and pyrotechnics.

Wouldn't baffle you so much if you were German in '43. Hindsight is always 20/20, but at the time they really believed Nazi B.S. regarding the "Osten" people - that they were degenerate barbarians, little more than a nuisance to the German Kriegsmaschine, something like Poland with money. The fact that in the early war Russians died in droves, charging MGs yelling URAAAAA ! and other such nonsense reinforced them in this opinion. Like JasonC said in one of Sergei's links, they really, really believed that the 6 or 7 million soldiers they had killed already were the core of the Red Army, and that they were fighting remnants, shards of a force, and couldn't imagine that Russia probably fielded more tanks and men in '43 than in '41, despite their tremendous losses. Or that they could let their frontmen die while regrouping a huge army in the rear for the Stalingrad counterattack. But your average Russian, he's a wily old bastard, he is. It's all those winters spent playing bloody chess

@junk2drive : if I'm not mistaken, cajun (and Acadians for that matter) speak French/are descended from French immigrants, right ? Cause that shortening makes sense, in French. "un acadien" (pronouced as if there's no space between the two words - it's called a "liaison", it's done in French when a word that ends with a consonnant precedes a word that starts with a vowel) can quickly become "un 'cadien" when spoken fast, and to elude the liaison (many occurences of such shortenings in Quebequese French, people in Quebec regard liaisons as prissy and precious). Add a little bit of "Englishman trying to sound French but failing miserably" and it becomes "unh cadjune" - and there we are.

Thanks Sergei, much much to learn in there.