Guest Robert/1 Posted May 21, 2000 Share Posted May 21, 2000 BTS,will the campains be based on real seares of events or are only some based on reality? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ol' Blood & Guts Posted May 21, 2000 Share Posted May 21, 2000 Com'on dude, lets get with the program in your spelling. "Campaigns," not "campains". No it doesn't hurt to say "campaign". "Series," not "seares". We're not going shopping here. You know the department store SEARS?? And once again, CM doesn't have campaigns as such. It has Operations which consist of a series of scenario-sized skirmishes that take place on one large map, with fluid or dynamic front lines. Win a battle, gain ground. Lose a battle, lose ground. Between each skirmish, you will be able to receive replacements, rest, and/or recover and repair damaged vehicles (if they haven't been "brewed" that is). [This message has been edited by Ol' Blood & Guts (edited 05-21-2000).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Richlo Posted May 21, 2000 Share Posted May 21, 2000 It's "c'mon" B & G, not "com'on." What goes around comes around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pham Posted May 21, 2000 Share Posted May 21, 2000 A) English in not the primary language of everyone who frequents(or will frequent) this board. (No idea if this is the case for the original poster, but way to pointlessly nit-pick OBG) B)With the gold demo and final product coming out, more new people will access the board to find out what the fuss is about, and with questions they have. Not all will search, not all who search will find thier answers, and not all will be up to your grammer standards. Way to make them feel at home. C) You didn't even answer his question. It wasn't "Are there campaigns", nor "How do operations work", but (as he stated pretty clearely), "Are they based on factual, historic encounters, or just made up what-if's." Robert/1, I don't have definitive answer, but I believe that some are based on actual events. Even if they weren't judging by some of the posts here, people will be using the editor to re-create thier favorite battles and will presumably put them up for download over at CMHQ(or here, if BTS opens a section for user created encounters). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pham Posted May 21, 2000 Share Posted May 21, 2000 Just looked at the FAQ, and here is the info(which may be slightly outdated, but I'm guessing is correct): ------------ However, we are planning to have at least one scenario from each of the following battles: Breakout from the beaches (early D-Day battles) Breakout from Normandy (Cobra, Falise, etc.) Race to the Rhein (improvised combat) Stalemate (Huertgen, Aachen, etc.) Market Garden (Paras and Monty's Drive) Bulge (lots of possibilities) Drive into Germany (Ruhr and scratch battles) We will also toss in some fictional battles as well. It would be cool to see some Pershings go up against King Tigers, wouldn't it? One thing we are pretty sure won't be in CM is D-Day beach combat. This type of massed infantry slaughter doesn't translate well into CM's squad level of simulation. Picture being the US and losing 10 out of your 20 units in the first 2 turns, a further 5 units during the next 3, and then just sit and wait for the scenario to end. Does this sound like fun? We don't think so, but that is how it would likely happen if we treated it realistically - and that's how we always do it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ol' Blood & Guts Posted May 24, 2000 Share Posted May 24, 2000 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Richlo: It's "c'mon" B & G, not "com'on." What goes around comes around <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I beg your pardon, but an apostrophe is used to stand for omitted letters, so therefore in "Com'on", I use the apostrophe to stand for the omitted letter "e". Now as you say, "C'mon", you are using the apostrophe for an omitted "o", leaving the second part of "mon" which is still missing "come's"..."e" and so "mon" is not really a word fragment. So who's the fool now? ----------------- And Pham, since Robert/1 is from B.C., Canada, he should be well versed in English. ------------------ "When in doubt...shell." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Robert/1 Posted May 24, 2000 Share Posted May 24, 2000 Sorry about the spelling but I am not vary good at it as you can tell. Robert/1 [This message has been edited by Robert/1 (edited 05-23-2000).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JonS Posted May 24, 2000 Share Posted May 24, 2000 Don't know what school you went to OBG (don't care either), But I suspect it was a US one. Anyway, EVERYtime I have seen "come on" abbreviated it has been to "c'mon". Well, everytime until now that is ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorak Posted May 24, 2000 Share Posted May 24, 2000 Hell Robert, I'm dyslexic. You don't see me worring about bad spelling. You just have to make up for it on the battlefield Lorak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
von shrad Posted May 24, 2000 Share Posted May 24, 2000 No need to apologize here. We all understood what you were trying to say. Keep posting with the assurance that we all know that we cant spell everything right. I never gave it a second thought. Read through alot of these post. There are alot of mis-spelled words here, many by me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pham Posted May 24, 2000 Share Posted May 24, 2000 Gotta go with JonS & Richlo here. It's "c'mon". And, Robert/1, don't sweat the spelling. He knew what you meant by the misspelled words, but just chose to be a jerk about it. The odd thing is that OBG knew which words you meant, as he told you the correct spelling for them, but didn't understand the overall question. I'll give him a B+ for grammer & spelling(would have been an A, but for the "Com'on" problem), but I've got to fail him on reading comprehension. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiwiJoe Posted May 24, 2000 Share Posted May 24, 2000 a lot is two words. Unless you are talking about an allotment or to allot (distribute or divide). That is -2 to your speeling bee score Von Shard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JonS Posted May 24, 2000 Share Posted May 24, 2000 and its spelt "spelling", so -2 for you also KiwiJoe Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ol' Blood & Guts Posted May 24, 2000 Share Posted May 24, 2000 Well, looks like none of us can spell. ------------------ "When in doubt...shell." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
von shrad Posted May 24, 2000 Share Posted May 24, 2000 I missed the spacebar......twice.....hey, it could happen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorak Posted May 24, 2000 Share Posted May 24, 2000 and monkeys may fly out of my butt.... Lorak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JonS Posted May 24, 2000 Share Posted May 24, 2000 You pressed "l" instead of " "? - yeah, that could happen. Suuuurrrreeee it could. Yup, happens all the time. ALL the time ... Quick, someone grab the keys to the van, that man isn't safe to drive - he can't tell the difference between an "l" and a " " - how could he then tell the difference between high beam and indicating a left turn? Jon [This message has been edited by JonS for a SMALL typo (edited 05-23-2000).] [This message has been edited by JonS (edited 05-23-2000).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Beman Posted May 24, 2000 Share Posted May 24, 2000 Sheesh, Lorak. First you get into a car accident, and now you're dyslexic! Talk about bad karma! DjB (who knows what dyslexia is, and realizes how serious it is, but could NOT resist making that comment, and didn't feel like using a ) [This message has been edited by Doug Beman (edited 05-23-2000).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Beman Posted May 24, 2000 Share Posted May 24, 2000 Whoops. I used one anyway. DjB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorak Posted May 24, 2000 Share Posted May 24, 2000 LOL Doug, Learned not to worry about it a long time ago. "ain't nothing but a thang" Lorak P.S. "ain't" and "thang" are like that one purpose. I'm not that bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
von shrad Posted May 24, 2000 Share Posted May 24, 2000 JonS, your right. It could happen all the time. As a matter of fact, it happens alot. OOPS! You see. Funny how some of these threads go a little off topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
von shrad Posted May 24, 2000 Share Posted May 24, 2000 And Lorak. You should really have that monkey problem checked out. I had a friend with a simular problem and he............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JonS Posted May 24, 2000 Share Posted May 24, 2000 VS, in that sense "your" is spelt "you're" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
von shrad Posted May 24, 2000 Share Posted May 24, 2000 I do learn so much on this board. Another couple of months and I'll be ready to be re-inserted into the population again. von shrad, A REAL product of public schools Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moriarty Posted May 24, 2000 Share Posted May 24, 2000 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Robert/1: Sorry about the spelling but I am not vary good at it as you can tell. Robert/1 [This message has been edited by Robert/1 (edited 05-23-2000).]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Don't sweat it, Robert. Your ideas and questions are more important and that is especially true for our friends from other lands for whom English is a second (third, fourth, fifth) language. BTW OB&G "c'mon" is the only accepted spelling of the informal interjection for "come on." Richlo was correct. You, too, were correct OB&G that the apostrophe "in general" represents missing letters. In this case, however, the phrase is a phonetic spelling of the entire phrase and the apostrophe does not represent specific missing letters. OK, enough of this s**t, let's get back to gaming. ------------------ I'm drinkin' wine, I'm eatin' cheese and catching some rays, you know. — Oddball Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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