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baneman, how exactly do you do time elapsed? just set camera in same position and shoot screeneis and then in paint shop set transparency and overlap on top of each other? or just a more rudimentarety cut and paste? I thought i saw some faint cut and paste lines on some screen shot... Your one scout team is out of 9mm? And were they the same guys that pillaged the kubelwagen? Those must be some burning hot weapons.... GO BIG GREY!

" It's a wasted trip baby. Nobody said nothing about locking horns with no Tigers."

I had a couple beers and forget, are they mixed mines or strictly AP? A lesson learned for me on my 1st PBEM, Next time I only use AP mines on these likely infantry routes. I did a rough test and squad after squad went through with the mixed mines. But for the AP mines it was snack crackle pop. Lots of ugghs and arrggs.

Bil, NAI? Dang! If only Custer woulda had you at Lil' Big Horn. Mighta worked out a bit different... Sincerely, you ratchet up the seriousness of this game and I think this AAR is your best so far. GO BIG GREY!

Excellent...Case of beer to the ATG crew if they get that stuart!

These bloody icons are messing with my head. That is the symbol for a scout/recon team? Sorry, it looks more like origami. I'll have to go into the "suppository" and see them closer. Carry on Hauptmann!

Thanks for doing this DAR! Please select your level of peanut gallery feedback: none, light, medium, heavy, "wife-like".

Morthomme, Earlier in the AAR thread, Bil explained that he purchased one specialist team "Propaganda Kompanie" detachment. A kubelwagen with 2 German soldiers, each with a Leica camera with 2 rolls of film. If one gets killed you do buddy aid and try to recover some of the unused film. If you buy veterans, then the pictures turn out really nice, like these. Don't ever buy green or conscript PK or in the pictures you mostly see their thumbs or the inside of the lens cap. ;-)

stick-with-the-plan (aint that what Hans Gruber said in Die Hard?) BUT TINKERING IS SO MUCH FUN! Thanks again for the AAR

The blind leading the blind! You should gather up with an experienced PBEM player to show you the ropes. Take me for instance, why, when I finish this current battle, I will have played, ohhhh. Let me think. One PBEM battle, yep. Just kidding, please go for it. I am playing my very first PBEM battle on the new macisle bocage map and it is a blast. Time-wise it is incredibly drawn out compared to firing up a battle against the AI. Maybe be prepared for only 1 turn a day unless you guys are single, no big job, no demands, etc. You don't need H2HH right away to get started. Set-up a dropbox account and a shared folder and then start, anyway, fire away with questions and I can TRY to help or much more smart folks will step up to steer you right. have fun! Don't hesitate to get started on that first PBEM battle. I will play you if you need an opponent anytime. can you tell I am excited?

Baneman, Whadya think it was? 81's? 105's? So, your ATG ammo bearers are carrying some extra ATG ammo but are away from the gun? I guess you don't think it will live very long? Or am I confuzificated? You've got 2 batteries of 81's and 1 battery of 120's? So, 4 81 tubes and 2 120 tubes? Like 200 rounds of 81 and 60 rounds of 120? +/-? Or just 2 81 tubes and a single 120 tube?

The wind is coming from the south right? Drop a small linear smoke barrage and it will head into his direction. Then as he is blinded, move in your AT assets and take out a tank. He is probably bunched up and ripe for some mortaring too... GO BIG GREY!

Ask not what your forum can do for you but what you can do for your forum. Give it a try! Human allies vs Axis AI.

Well, I was always playing against the AI due to whatever reason but now I am finally in a real H2H battle. There are pluses and minuses. Playing the AI is always quicker and much easier to make happen. Playing a human can take a long time. Maybe 1 or 2 turns per day! But the focus is incredible. In battles against the AI , I would/could drift off and lose the big picture. In a fight against a human you can be more focused and really think things out like a chess game. Please pm me if you want to organize a QB as a small or tiny battle.

Macisle, Mmmm, have you obtained written permission from this actual RL village for cybernetic destruction? If they only knew....

wake his a$$ up with some 81 mike mike.

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ok, $hit, now the plot thickens, this one half-squad of conscripts was "surrendering" for many turns, i dunno, 5 or 6, then I see the white flags, then maybe a turn later I see one effer out there doing a medic, he unsurrendered and I wasn't able to ever even get near him, I had been thinking of a rescue plan since they had some good weaponry but enemy activity prevented me from pressing forward. So, I think I did probably diminish his local enemy activity. Could that get him the unsurrender?

Grab a case of 80Shilling and your laptop and take a flight out here to TEXAS. ASAP. I have a nice guest house and we can have a blast. Could you maybe slip in a bottle of Glen Fiddich in your luggage? Or of course whatever scotch I SHOULD be drinking instead.

Your troops have M16's? Wow, I thought they didn't come out til Vietnam! ;-)

here is photo of one of the guys

Michael Emrys...oh, I hate to always say this...is right. We have some great beers. I am in Texas and "Shiner" is awesome. However, this is one of my usual PBEM accompaniments. Sierra Nevada Torpedo, a respectable 7.2%

I had a conscript squad that eventually went "hande hoch" and "surrendering". All the while it seemed that I could see what they were seeing.

whoops I didn't see you put the manual quote in there! Did you maybe edit it in or I am losing it? Don't answer that! I need better glasses or need to drink weaker beer.

Great AAR, that is a good overhead system, color coded and simple, the "Banemanian method"? TM I only see one small recommendation, make your side and his side text different colors maybe? For your particular skill levels of FO and mortars what does it show is your best lead time for mortars? 3 minutes to TRP's? Maybe set up a linear mission now and you might have it dropping by the time they are there? You can get the nice orange diamond of perfection even as far away as 50m from a TRP. Of course you probably know all this already... Or are you even more devilish and will go with the 5 minute delay and it rains down on his follow-on squads/sections and you make mincemeat of the shaken or rattled enemy trapped under fire on YOUR side of the linear mission line? GO BIG GREY!!! OK, OK, I will simmer down and try and be patient and see how you do things....