stikkypixie Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 Yacinator and JPS it's been a while since I have heard anything from you guys. Have you received my emails? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPS Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 I am back in action in group one; all waiting turns returned. No turn from Yacinator, though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spanish Bombs Posted March 3, 2005 Share Posted March 3, 2005 GSX has substituted for PittPanther, and has been sent all the info on the games, including email addresses. Please let me know if those games don't get started back up soon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malakovski Posted March 3, 2005 Share Posted March 3, 2005 Painless AARs I've exchanged a few emails with Ace Pilot about AAR style and he asked me to post some of contents on the thread. I don't think I have anything new to say, but i's also probably worth repeating. In ROW IV, my first, I dreaded the AARs, put them off to the end, and found doing them at the end, from memory, dreadful indeed. I recall that it had been suggested to me, by one of the organizers, to keep up with them, at least in the form of notes, during the course of the tourney, but being bent on winning glory on the ROW field (I didn't), the advice was ignored, and the writing was a painful chore, both for me and for anyone who actually read my AARs. This time, I decided to follow the advice, and found that it not only rendered the AARs painless, but actually enjoyable to write and, I hope, more engaging to read. Here is the method I have been using: After setting up, but before sending the first file, I tab out of CM and create the document. I then summarize my plan, and often reconsider and refine it in the course of describing it. Now, although you can write the whole thing in terms like "in the third ridge from the right, by the second clump of heavy woods next to the river..." it's a lot easier to take a screenshot and make a few notes on it with a simple graphics editor. As we know from the numerous enquiries on the subject, taking a screenshot is a difficult and technically demanding operation: Actually it's not. At all. No harder than using the search feature of the forum, but just in case anyone doesn't know, in the game, you just press the Print Screen key, and that copies the contents of the screen to the Windows clipboard. You then tab out of CM, open up Windows' built in paint program (or other program of your choice) and PASTE the image. Voila. Screenshot. Add a few notes and lines on the map, and describing a setup and plan becomes very easy. Here's an example. This, if I recall, is GreenAsJade's defense which led to an embarrassing defeat for me in Frontier Firefight: It's simple, but easy to understand and thus to follow the AAR. After the battle starts, I write a paragraph every time there is a really eventful turn, or several uneventful turns, summarizing the action, my thoughts at the time, and any changes in plan. Once again illustrative screenshots are worth a thousand words. Then at the conclusion of the battle, when it's all fresh in my mind, all I have to do is write a conclusion, note lessons learned, and make some scenario notes for the designer. I cannot urge doing the AARs concurrently with the battle more strongly. It turns something miserable into something easy and, I found, enjoyable. While it's hard to even remember the action months after the battle started, it's easy to record at the time, and I quickly found myself digressing, speculating about the enemy's intent, musing on plans and options, and so on. I think it will be of much more interest to know what was going on in the commander's head as the battle developed than just get the hindsight at the end. That's my two cents. I hope some find it useful. The rest will be convinced after they try to write their AARs from memory... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfish Posted March 3, 2005 Author Share Posted March 3, 2005 And I should add that it is not only the designers who benefit from this, but the community as a whole. A well written AAR is sometimes all that is needed to bring another player into the fold. Case in point, go back 5 years in time and there I was surfing the net, bored, and looking for some new demo to d/l and try out. I really had no idea what to look for, or where to find it. Then I stumbled upon this and the hook was set in this fish 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted March 3, 2005 Share Posted March 3, 2005 Shame the pictures have disappeared from that . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malakovski Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 Originally posted by GreenAsJade: Shame the pictures have disappeared from that . Yes, do they still exist anywhere? I remember that site fondly, but it looks like it hasn't been updated for over a year... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfish Posted March 4, 2005 Author Share Posted March 4, 2005 The screenshots are lost to history, but you can recreate new ones from the same scenario (kinda). "Going to Town" is available at the depot in the CMBO form, while a CMAK conversion by the Desert Fox can be d/l from Der Kessel. I did a slighly modified version that has the battle taking place in Tunisia, which you can d/l from Boots and Tracks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spanish Bombs Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 pk has replaced PeterK in group 4. He has been sent files, and should be ready to go. Please let me know if there are any problems getting those games going. Updated replacement list to follow. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 lum dee dum dee doo.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg Bonz Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 GreenAsJade : lum dee dum dee doo.... I like the rhythm. You can dance to it. The lyrics are da bomb. I would buy the 78 rpm single. Dawg off to French Dinner Dancing … moves latter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangerousdave Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 Group 11: Has anyone made contact with GSX (PittPanther sub)? I sent him an email and game file, but have received no response at all. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PK Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 Hi all new guy here. Just sent new files off to everyone but one and started my aars. Can't promise the aars will be that riviting but, I hope, usefull. Do we get marked down for bad grammer and crap spelling.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platehead Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 Dave, Sent him game file as well. Haven't heard anything back yet, but expect to before the weekend is out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg Bonz Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 For my Evil Bridge Adversary… Yo Cuzn… Dat BIG City Park Lagoon Cat Fish … He is on da Bridge & coming to Snap You Up! Be Afraid… Be VERY Afraid! Dawg Baiting da hook Fishy ROW V moves afta tonight’s Fancy French Disco Dancing moves. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spanish Bombs Posted March 6, 2005 Share Posted March 6, 2005 Current replacement list: On Deck: Ron In the hole: McEvilly And then: > KTN > jdsu > zveroboy > Redrobin > JC_Hare > Bootie > David Chapuis > Bulldog > Wunsche > BDW > ng cavscout > Michal Roszkowski 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stikkypixie Posted March 6, 2005 Share Posted March 6, 2005 I seem to have lost the briefing for the Maleme scenario, can anyone post a link or something? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 Highlanders: finished Maleme: finished St Edouard: on turn 18/35 (on hold while opponent is travelling) Moltke: on 18/28 Wet Triangle: on turn 7/24 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 I just tried to email a couple of AARs to Acepilot, but got a delivery failed return message. What gives? Is a yahoo address really a goodplace to be sending large AAR files to? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melnibone Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 It's oh so quiet...it's oh so still.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 Originally posted by Malakovski: Painless AARs Here's an example. This, if I recall, is GreenAsJade's defense which led to an embarrassing defeat for me in Frontier Firefight: It's simple, but easy to understand and thus to follow the AAR. ... not that anyone else would know, since this AAR isn't posted yet... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malakovski Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 Originally posted by GreenAsJade: ... not that anyone else would know, since this AAR isn't posted yet... I thought this was from a batch I pulled off the web, but I guess it was the copy you sent me, your unfortunate opponent. Why are so many of the AARs still unposted? I am happy to help convert to PDF or HTML or whatever format is needed if that will help things this time around. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Pilot Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 Originally posted by JonS: I just tried to email a couple of AARs to Acepilot, but got a delivery failed return message. What gives? Is a yahoo address really a goodplace to be sending large AAR files to? JonS, I've sent an email to the yahoo.uk account listed in your profile and to the net.nz account listed for the tournament. Did you receive either? Ace 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walpurgis nacht Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 Just a reminder. Do NOT surrender even if things are going very poorly for you. I had an opponent surrender with 1 turn to go! This bumped my score up significantly, when 1 turn longer and it wouldn't have been well . . . not quite as bad for him anyway. Remember these scenarios might well be designed to be unfair, so even if you're losing you should still play your best. [ March 07, 2005, 09:07 AM: Message edited by: Walpurgis Nacht ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melnibone Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 Surrender with 1 turn to go! Quitter :mad: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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