Mid_Knight Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 Hello all, Well just wanted to say hello to everyone, I'm new around here. Just purchased CMBB and I'm absolutely loving it, although with not much past wargaming exp. I'm getting my but handed to me quite often. Now to the subject of my post. Funny thing happened while I was driving to work last night. As I'm driving looking at the terrainI frightingly starting thinking to myself "hmmm, that hill would be good for an 88, those trees over there would be great for an MG42" Well I quickly snapped back to reality. Don't think I can ever look at a walk in the park the same again Great game, keep up the good work! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auggy Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 Ah, a sign of true addiction. [ March 02, 2003, 05:45 PM: Message edited by: Sir Augustus ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KursruK Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 You must be in the country somewhere. I find myself doing this to great dysfunction when I visit my family in the mid-west. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
depawel Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 When CMBO first came out, there were several threads which said the same. Welcome to the community. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 After a very immersive TacOps multiplayer session on map 541c I went shopping with a girl. Clothes. Tightly packed women's clothes department. I kept walking and waiting on the walkways, not following her to the sides, until she asked what the hell was wrong with me. "Bad tank country" sounded like a totally appropriate answer to me [ March 02, 2003, 09:47 PM: Message edited by: redwolf ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParaBellum Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 Hehe...when driving to the CMBB preview and seeing a farmer on a field I cried out:"Oh my god! Look, he's destroying the DOODADS!!" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolloff Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 I believe that´s related to the fact that Mannheim is darn close to BASF. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eden Smallwood Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 It's one thing to muse over terrain, it's another to have instinctive reactions... I was walking down the sidewalk, turned a corner onto my street, facing oncoming traffic. Just at the moment I came around, a car which was parked by the curb, facing me, started backing up, and although it was clearly unrelated, I had the feeling that my "sudden" appearance, which one might think oh-so-slightly threatening, was what caused him to backup. (Remind you of anything?) I *almost* yelled at him to "Quit Chickening Out, you B*st*rd!!". Not a good thing to yell, in my "hood". Eden 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasyCo Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 Wow..Thank goodness..I'm not the only one! Over, EasyCo 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneymaxx Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 I live near the Dutch border (near the area where Operation Market Garden took place, Arnhem) and once visited the Netherlands with my girlfriend telling her how flat the country was and where one could setup an ambush with an AT-Gun. Can´t say that she was very interested . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snarker Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 Originally posted by Mid_Knight: Don't think I can ever look at a walk in the park the same again Yeah, avoid the paths and use the terrain to skirt the obvious fire lanes, sprinting to cover. Oh, never forget to low crawl along the gutter through open areas or you may be ambush meat. Others may laugh and point, but once that '42 does open up, who's the genius? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbertles Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 Automatically scanning a peaceful bucolic country scene for lanes of fire, masking terrain, good ambush sites, etc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkiviadis Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 I do it all the time, ADDICTION. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebalance Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 i have done that when driving through fog. it gives me realization of what fog can do to a battlefield... :eek: [ March 03, 2003, 01:13 AM: Message edited by: stevebalance ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 oh yes When I was first introduced to CMBO I had a few days with it and then (unfortunately) I had to go on a two week vacation....to France. One of the weirdest feelings I ever had was when we drove into a small French village and I had an overwhelming feeling of Deja Vu and misgivings. It was only later that I realized the village looked like one I'd had a tough (level 1) tank vs infantry fight in CMBO...chilling. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 HA! Yea, I do that all the time now. My wife does not find it amusing. I always tell her where the commanding ground is. Just today I was watching Gettysburg before we drove to the in-laws house. I noticed a hill and turned to my wife and said "General, give me one regiment and I will take that hill." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawk Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 Originally posted by V: I noticed a hill and turned to my wife and said "General, give me one regiment and I will take that hill."And still she said nothing? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manchildstein (ii) Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 this same sort of thing happens to paintball players too... and a variant happens to first person shooter addicts as well... anyhow yes, i've definitely 'scoped out the terrain' or noticed how 'life imitates art' when some part of a landscape jumps out and reminds me of the scenario editor... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG-42 Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 What it's NOT normal to do this?? :eek: I do this all the time I'm afraid I do a lot of hillwalking and often scan the landscape with my binoculars to see kout possible vantage points and possible enemy positions. My wife thinks (and I completely agree with her) that I have finally "lost the plot" Kindest Regards MG 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefly Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 It's not just CM players, a few years ago I read the memoirs of a guy who as a young man drove a tank in the 7th Armoured Division in North West Europe. 40 years after the war, when he was successful antiques dealer, he bought a house in the Cotswolds and invited a wartime friend to visit. They took a walk in the hills and stopping to admire the view his friend remarked 'You could find some pretty good hull down positions around here.' 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogdan Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 Originally posted by depawel: When CMBO first came out, there were several threads which said the same. Welcome to the community. It's funny to notice that many forums about CM have this kind of threads Continue that way, it's a very good method, in my opinion, to create good maps and correctly have in mind the topography of the battlefield. Welcome ! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juju Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 Oh! The horror! Mid_Knight, you bastard! You've made it all come back! There have been times I couldn't drive around the countryside without doing that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 Originally posted by Hawk: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by V: I noticed a hill and turned to my wife and said "General, give me one regiment and I will take that hill."And still she said nothing? </font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Radley Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 Whenever I play Golden Tee Golf, as I do a flyby to check out the fairway, I'm always on the lookout for hull down StuGs. And whenever anyone posts a picture from CMBB or CMBO in one of the threads, I'm always moving my mouse around, trying to change the perspective. [ March 03, 2003, 01:13 PM: Message edited by: Boo_Radley ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeatEtr Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 Hehe, i do the same damn thing. Got 15 acres out in the country and ive scoped out every inch. I think to myself "ok, now, mg42 position right here will have great field of fire, supporting infantry on right and left flank, 75mm AT gun over there in woods, ok, everybody hide for ambush, rgr that." How bout this, just yesterday i was working on the shed and a plane flew over, i immediatly stopped and was thinking what would be a good position for a flak gun. Thank god im not the only one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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