Urchin

I'm looking for some PBEM games too, I downloaded that PBEM helper and I'm installing it. Any kind of game is OK with me, I would like a QB or a scenario with some TDs or anti-tank guns in it though, I need to learn how to use them right. I am pretty sure my email is in the profile, if anyone wants to do a PBEM email me

Sergei was prolly sleeping with the FT guys old lady... you don't want to mess with FT guys...

No objection here.. as someone else said I'd try to learn from it.

Do I have to have ***spoiler*** here? The best I've ever done was two knocked out K.T.'s with my T-34 untouched. I got the first when he sped down the road and stopped at the bend (why?).. that took only 2 shots. One went through the rear hull, the other went through the rear turret and 4 of the 5 crew were dead. The second was a lot tougher, except the AI made a stupid move. I actually got shot at by this one (he had moved off into the field "north" [i think] of town, and I was sitting between the two start buildings waiting for him to blunder into my sights). Well, a'blundering he went, but my T-34 didn't kill him with the first two shots. Wisely, the T-34 backed up and moved behind one of the buildings. The stupid K.T then proceeded to the road not 20 yards from where the first one died, and stopped. He was at a slightly different angle (showing his side instead of his rear) but my T-34 shot him about 7 or 8 times before the crew bailed. The last K.T just sat on the road and wouldn't move, I ran out of time trying to manuever my T-34 over to kill him. Usually my T-34 targets a K.T. misses, misses, and dies, so that was a fun run through for me.

Tree, check your mail.. I used my home address so it is different.

Ok, I'll be waiting for it Tree.

Oh, ok. Well, PBEM is OK with me. I think the main problem is your "Half Squad Herders" don't really care to much lol. I think it'd be interesting to come up with a way to defeat that tactic. I think the most valid way to play it would be to switch sides and play it twice. That would minimize the "skill imbalance", if you eat my lunch with the halfsquads, and then I turn around and do the same to you, you'd have a valid point that half-squads have a serious advantage in an infantry fight. If not, I wouldn't really say the advantage is insurmountable. What kind of fight would you like to do? I've only done "random" battles so far. I like that, but I hate getting stuck with stupid units (for example.. my CMAK game I played I had what looked like a mechanized company of Rifle 40... complete with 20 Bren gun carriers. And that was it lol.

Regarding #4.. it may seem that way but they really don't. What happens is some other unit sees your guy, then the tank is automatically made aware of it.. If it is just the tank, they are dead easy to sneak up on with infantry. I played a scenario in CMAK that was a remake of a CMBO scenario. Tiger with infantry vs Sherman firefly with infantry (1 each). Well, my main body got into a pretty nice firefight with his main body right about down the center of the map (there was a road there). The AI moved the Tiger up to support his infantry. I moved my Firefly around the Tigers flank (had some woods I could run behind).. and was moving my poor guy up not 30 meters from the Tigers ass when "whoosh, bang... boom" Panzerfaust gets the drop on my tank. I was a little peeved. Anyway, I moved a platoon around the flank with a PIAT. Cleared all the infantry out from around the Tiger, moved the PIAT up and took out the Tiger with that. Took 3 shots to the side at pretty close range, but the Tiger had no idea where my PIAT was.

So do you want to run this test now Tree? I've got some time today if so.

Yea, I've been following the thread. I'd still like to try it out.. maybe we can switch sides after one game and run it again. If the half-squads win both games, you know player skill didn't have much to do with it (cause I'm the first to admit.. my player skill isn't very high). Get in touch with me tommorrow though, it is bedtime for me now. But tommorrow I'll have all day to play, so we could do TCP/IP and get it done quickly-ish.

I'll play you if you want. Want to do PBEM or TCP/IP? It is 1 am here now though, probably be better to do it tommorrow. If you want to send me the setup now that'd be OK though. Email is in the profile.

Wow.. my first post ever.. hehe. I'd recommend trying to strengthen up your lower back muscles, like most of the other people did. Well, I'd recommend that after going to a doctor to make sure your spine isn't messed up anyway.

Ordered CMAK & companion book back on the 25th of December, emailed Matt (did a search on the forum) to ask where it was back on the 8th of January. He said he would look into it, haven't gotten any game or any other response yet. Just curious how much longer I can expect to wait.