Fionn Posted November 11, 1999 Share Posted November 11, 1999 New AARs of an ONGOING game between Bryan Corkill and Peter Tyson of Last Defence have been posted to the CombatHQ. I have also posted the MOVIE FILES and the passwords you will need to see them. Only five turns are posted so far but I will be posting 1 to 2 turns a day from now until the game ends so be sure to go back every day. ALSO I will be posting the first 2 or 3 turns of an AAR I wrote of a PBEM game against Lee Contini in which I was the US defender TOMORROW at Combat HQ. I will be including the movies and my password also so you can watch them. I will post at least 1 new turn report from that particular game per day also. ------------------ ___________ Fionn Kelly Manager of Historical Research, The Gamers Net - Gaming for Gamers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOS was 71331 Posted November 11, 1999 Share Posted November 11, 1999 Could your post please include a URL I can click on? I'd like to read these AARs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donan Posted November 11, 1999 Share Posted November 11, 1999 http://combathq.thegamers.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest John Maragoudakis Posted November 11, 1999 Share Posted November 11, 1999 Click here: http://combathq.thegamers.net/aartemplate.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest John Maragoudakis Posted November 11, 1999 Share Posted November 11, 1999 Watching other peoples movies is so much fun. You don't have to do any work. Just sit back and eat popcorn . I really hope the feature to see the whole movie gets in. You will get a much better sense of tactics when you see it all in one shot. Would be nice if the creator of the movie can type in notes,(by pausing his playback), so that when others see the movie, notes can scroll at the top, telling the player's point of view. Movies take AARs to a new level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Marks Posted November 11, 1999 Share Posted November 11, 1999 Fionn, thanks for all the work in putting the AAR's up. They are very interesting. However, I unfortunately watched some turns yesterday and they were saved over the game I was playing. I had saved my turns to the autosave file and didn't realize playing the movies would effect my game. It is no big deal. I stopped banging my head against the wall in my computer room after about 15 minutes, and I think I stopped bawling like a baby about 10 minutes after that. So as you can see I handled it very well. I was playing Last Defense as the Americans and in my last turn I had knocked out the Tiger and 2 Stugs with my Hellcats. Oh well, at least I learned a lesson. One question, with the new AAR format should I just highlight the PBEM movie text and save it or do something else? I noticed that saving the page created a TGN folder in my Combat Mission folder. Thanks again for the hard work. Larry [This message has been edited by Larry Marks (edited 11-11-99).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fionn Posted November 12, 1999 Author Share Posted November 12, 1999 Ok, while I did the pages on the site I am NOT an html expert... I just use the idiotbox that is FrontPage Simply "Save as". That's the easiest way. More AARs will be going up tomorrow and I think the Bloodbath Bend battle shows an interesting approach to defence in Last Defence which some others have hit on also. ------------------ ___________ Fionn Kelly Manager of Historical Research, The Gamers Net - Gaming for Gamers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim crowley Posted November 12, 1999 Share Posted November 12, 1999 Fionn I can't access any of the new (CM) stuff at TGN. Clicking on the three new buttons or the 'go to battle reports' line doesn't achieve anything; it seems to be loading-up, but then nothing! All the earlier entries, up to and including the Demo line; no problem. Any ideas? Cheers Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomm Posted November 12, 1999 Share Posted November 12, 1999 How much better the www would work WITHOUT Java ... *sigh* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preacher Posted November 12, 1999 Share Posted November 12, 1999 I can't seem to DL the movies. When I click on the link, a text file opens with the title "Play By Email Data Follows This Line." Then there is a bunch of nonsensical characters. How do i do this?? Preacher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fionn Posted November 12, 1999 Author Share Posted November 12, 1999 Java. Bloody java ! Ok to DOWNLOAD the PBEM files you need to hit SAVE AS... I'm what is know as CRAP at html so you need to bear with me until Panzershark and John Morris make a new site this weekend (which will take into account various browsers etc).. Now the pressures on boys, I've told them you'r doing a site.. Now THAT's what I call motivational technique To access the AARs go to http://combathq.thegamers.net/aartemplate.htm To access the names go to http://combathq.thegamers.net/names/names.htm That should help those with java disabled. ------------------ ___________ Fionn Kelly Manager of Historical Research, The Gamers Net - Gaming for Gamers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest John Maragoudakis Posted November 12, 1999 Share Posted November 12, 1999 I had no problems with ie5. I used save target as... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Charles Posted November 12, 1999 Share Posted November 12, 1999 Sorry to be an idiot here, but where do I save the movie file? I saved it to my desktop and it opened a text file. Maybe I need to put it in my Combat Mission directory? Right? ------------------ Not THE Charles from BTS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Charles Posted November 12, 1999 Share Posted November 12, 1999 Duh! I figured it out. For those of you who have not played a PBEM game (like myself), save the movie file in the scenario directory. Launch CM, and click on Load Email. Viola! Click on the file and you are all set. ----------- Not THE Charles from BTS [This message has been edited by Charles (edited 11-12-99).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard III Posted November 24, 1999 Share Posted November 24, 1999 What happened to these? Watching them beat out most war movies.... It would even be nice to see just the PBEM files posted somewhere without commentary. Pass the popcorn! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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