slysniper

At least she did not cost you as much as a ex-wife would have. I still am waiting for someone to confess that the game did their marriage in.

How many gamers have been divorced since getting hooked on these games, that would not be to surprising!!! I like the notion of setting up the town I am living in also. Thanks for the input, I will be mapping it also. Can not wait to see that baby go up in flames.

And to just make you all twitch, Dinga 44 looks like he might make a run at this in the second round.

This will be the final standings post location

Round two results Match #4 Germans vs Americans 55/42 U8led vs fiaros 41/54 Walker vs K.A. Miles 40/58 melb_will vs Bertblitzkrieg 37/58 Warhammer vs Mikado 37/63 Ozi Digger vs Major Tum 22/78 Gort vs Dinga44 Germans U8led 3 points, (1.5 point weak side) (.5 point upset) Walker 2 points, (2.5 point upset) Melb will 1 point American Dinga44 3points (.5 point upset) Major Tum 2 points Mikado 1 points Match #5 Norrey Germans vs Canadians 71/29 K.A. Miles vs U8led 70/30 BertBlitzkrieg vs Gort 58/42 Fiaros vs melb_will 58/42 Dinga44 vs Warhammer 41/50 Major Tum vs Mikado 10/90 Ozi Digger vs Walker Germans K.A. Miles 3 points BertBlitzkrieg 2 points Fiaros 1 point Dinga44 1 point Canadians Walker 3 points (1 point weak side) Mikado 2 points (1 point weak side) Warhammer 1 point Melb will 1 point Match #6 Ghost among the fog Germans vs Americans 52/38 Melb_will vs Major Tum 45/50 K.A. Miles vs Ozi Digger 39/54 Bertblitzkrieg vs Warhammer 39/61 Fiaros vs Gort 37/56 Mikado vs Walker 34/66 U8led vs Dinga44 Germans Melb_will 3 points (1.5 points for weak side win) K.A. Miles 2 points Bertblitzkrieg 1 point Americans Dinga44 3 points (1 point upset) Gort 2 points (1 point upset) Walker 1 point [ January 09, 2006, 05:33 AM: Message edited by: slysniper ]

This is the points that can be awarded for underdog upset victories, keep in mind you must win with the weaker side or do better than advr. with the strong or weaker side. Also we still have the bonus points for the weak side winning, 1.5 points if only 1 winner from the weak side. 1 point for each if 2 players from the weak side win. Match #4 Germans vs Americans Ozi Digger vs Major Tum (1 point) (1.5 point)melb_will vs Bertblitzkrieg (0.5 point) U8led vs fiaros Gort vs Dinga44(0.5 point) (2.5 point)Walker vs K.A. Miles Warhammer vs Mikado(0.5 point) Match #5 Norrey Germans vs Canadians BertBlitzkrieg vs Gort (1 point) Fiaros vs melb_will(1.5 point) K.A. Miles vs U8led(1.5 point) Dinga44 vs Warhammer (0.5 point) Ozi Digger vs Walker Major Tum vs Mikado Match #6 Ghost among the fog Germans vs Americans Melb_will vs Major Tum(1 point) K.A. Miles vs Ozi Digger(2.5 point) Bertblitzkrieg vs Warhammer (2 point) U8led vs Dinga44(1 point) (1 point) Mikado vs Walker Fiaros vs Gort(1 point) [ January 03, 2006, 05:49 AM: Message edited by: slysniper ]

All matches are in and updated scores are here at the front and posted normal entree also [ January 09, 2006, 05:20 AM: Message edited by: slysniper ]

Match #1 The last road out Americans vs Germans Bye Ozi Digger vs Gavlong Bye Mikado vs Zweihorn (submitted but no score could be awarded) 80/20 K.A. Miles vs melb_will 69/31 Gort vs U8led 69/31 Walker vs BertBlitzkrieg (modified score 2% for Bert, challenged game award of a flag – Bert can show it in a after action report) 68/23 Warhammer vs Major Tum 61/39 Dinga44 vs fiaros Americans K.A. Miles 3 points Gort 2 points Walker 2 points Warhammer 1 point Germans Fiaros 3 points U8led 2 points BertBlitzkrieg 2 points Major Tum 1 point Bye Ozi Digger/Mikado 1 point Match #2 The bloody stream Germans vs British 84/16 K.A. Miles vs fiaros 78/6 Ozi Digger vs Zweihorn 70/30 Walker vs Major Tum 69/31 Mikado vs melb_will 50/50 Warhammer vs U8led 30/50 Dinga44 vs BertBlitzkrieg bye Gort vs Gavlong Germans K.A. Miles 3 points ozi 2 points walker 1 point British BertBlitzkrieg 3 points +1 bonus (weak side victory) U8led 2 points melb_will 1 point Bye Gort 1 point Match #3 What were we thinking Germans vs Americans 81/19 Dinga44 vs Major Tum 76/24 K.A. Miles vs BertBlitzkrieg 71/29 Gort vs Zweihorn 65/35 Walker vs U8led 63/37 Ozi Digger vs melb_will 52/44 Mikado vs fiaros bye Warhammer vs Gavlong Germans Dinga44 3 points K.A. Miles 2 points Gort 1 point Americans Fiaros 3 point Melb_will 2 points U8led 1 points Bye Warhammer 1 point

The final standings are Miles 13 points Walker 12.5 points Dinga 44 11.5 points U8led 10 points Melb_will 9.5 points Bert 9 points Fiaros 7 points Gort 7 points Mikado 5 point Warhammer 3 points Major Tum 3 points Ozi 3 points [ January 09, 2006, 05:45 AM: Message edited by: slysniper ]

It is time to close this thread and open the final thread for this tournament. So it is also time to start looking forward to who we will crown as the "Gen. Patton" of CMBO. Will it be Miles or shall we have someone rise from the ranks to be victorious.

Of course that last statement could be wrong if enough Germans hit a buzz saw, but from the post I have read, sounds more like some poor defensive set ups have given the germans wins on this map. Good news for any British player that has done well here.

Considering I show you playing warhammer the Norrey battle - You already have me confused. But as the German, you will have needed to snatch the town most likely to be successful. If the British manage to hold the town, I have a hard time believing you will post a score that will benefit you.

Just your comments have made me want to play this one, Some of us out here are looking for something to give us a whoopin, sounds like this scenario can hand out some humble pie.

[ This is not so uncommon, I have been amazed at how little many gamers pay attention to the briefings. Many of my wins in PBEM come because the other fellow did not catch the information needed out of the briefings that is important. I have sent out files and forgot to send a briefing before and no question was asked until after we were playing the game. It was a accident, but why would anyone setup without asking where is a briefing. I know some might not provide them, if that is the case, it is not a scenario, it is trash, might as well play a good quick battle then. I also know from playing others creations, how many scenarios are written that intentionally lead the player into incorrect decisions. I think this is totally wrong and poor game design. I do not want to hear how this is like real life either. If the designer has to try to fool the player into a poor choice, That is plain crap! A good design is to create a situation that is challenging but always gives the player some options, so the player is the one that makes the choices that leads to success or failure. So if a designer writes a briefing that will lead someone that follows it into a poor position, there should always be somewhere in the briefing a line that gives the player the option to make the changes in tactics as he see its. This can be done in many ways. This is a pet peeve of mine, I take the briefings just as real orders and weigh what is being said. So believe me, I know how poor some are written. So I understand why many player might not value them because of it. In real life from my experence in the service, most information passed down was correct, might be outdated at times. If it was not knowledge, then it was most time directly stated that it was a assumption in one way or another. This would normally bring questions on how that assumption was made and that information was sometimes shared. It was seldom a problem getting totally incorrect information. The problem was how the infomation was used by those in command.

I will disagree with the disagree, I mention in the briefing to the Germans to be agressive. Your right about guns but I normally reward those that listen to commands in the briefing. Taking your time in this one I believe rewards the allies. If you follow the briefing as the germans, You gain more time to clear the town since there is ground you can grab easily. Also when you do hit them anti tank defences you can take them on without the help of the reinforcements the allies receive. During playtesting the Germans paid heavy in tanks to break through the anti tank defence normally, but this would give them the advantage against the allied reinforcements if done quick enough because the germans could normally become somewhat the defender and cut off the allied reinforcements from supporting the town if they had pushed forward far enough. The best test is to see who is the most successful playing the Germans when scores come in. I hope the aggressive German playing will be the rewarded person. (Of course it takes more than just aggressive play to be awarded, poor tactics with aggressive play in this one will find the German losing to many tanks and game points to ever have a chance at producing a good score. (Can you tell I really do enjoy designing these scenario's )

You are getting the same game, the retail version comes with a bunch of scenarios and that is about the only difference. Battlefront never seems to drop their price much, but if you do buy from them, they will normally send you a new disk if you wear the old one out. But at this point I see the interest changing from the orig. 3 combat mission games to the next generation in about a year. Will lose many players once the newer games get rollin.

The title is "Panzers in the Peel" this is Kingfishes. I like it also, even though I have only played it once, it was a challenge that I will not soon forget, I might not be doing as well as you.

You might be far enough into the second round that you can post which of the 6 scenario's is your favorite, I would be interested in hearing from you all, which ones you like. It seemed that out of the first three, "What were we thinking" had a lot of good comments, But I would like to hear the take from you guys.

In "Ghost in the fog" It is very hard to control your troops unless you know the secrets of infantry play. If you have them in the open, they will normally seek cover once they are fired on. If they start moving, they are much easier to kill. So one trick is to not have them in open terrain, even if it is night, foggy and there is a flag there. The second thing is, if you have a set position and do not want your main body of troops to be surprised by incoming fire, you must set up half squads as listening post in front of your troops to try to get the enemy units to pop up so that maybe you can get the jump and first fire with your main group on them. Thus the reason for the title, Ghost in the fog, I am sure, many will experience troops dieing or running away from unknown enemies. Just posted it, since one in the group was pulling his hair out because of how he is losing men to unknown things out there.

I have just finished playing my first scenario since buying CMAF. Played "2 pounders vs Tigers." Set in December 42. It was just great to see the rounds just bounce off them tanks, gives you the feel that the allieds had during this time frame of the war. Desperate tactical problem being out classed so badly. The one question I have is what is causing this game to take so much longer to Calc. a turn over CMBB, I did not know the changes had tasked the computations that much.

I have just finished playing my first scenario since buying CMAF. Played "2 pounders vs Tigers." Set in December 42.

Pretty nice, I can only imagine what type of computer I will need to run that game when it comes out. Also no question in my mind that the game industry will take it to that level the second they can.

You need to settle down with the comments. Now I am blushing. I knew kingfish would provide something worth playing because I have played enough of his work to know his skill level on scenario design. My Scenarios are actually my first that I have released out beyond my personal use, I have tinkered with designing since I have had the games.I know I can make something that works well for my desired standard of what I want in a Scenario, but as far as meeting others standards, I expect to get mixed reviews. I am just Glad you enjoy them.

Erm second from last then - talking of the man mikado he has contacted me but he doesn't have any briefing notes from you? I have tried the different addresses, they are not bouncing back, I do not know, but it appears that he is not getting stuff or have I seen one thing from him. At this point I do not know what to do to get stuff to him.

Actually, you are not in last, Mikado holds that position with the revised points, I did not post zero.