DocMcJansen Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 Nonsensical postings? this morning I was late to my study/lesson and so I couldn't get the yummy coffee in the canteen and had to buy one of this automat coffees...baaahh how on earth can they screw up coffee sooo badly? well had to buy and drink it...need my daily amount of caffeine! but later I enjoyed a really nice cup of canteen coffee in the sun out on a bench on the campus...weather was really nice today...too nice to get back inside and listen to the professors...but well...you got to do, what you got to do... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VCENTS1 Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 Thanks for filling in for me Doc.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocMcJansen Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 sure thing mate...always in for writing some totally nonsense stuff... (but sadly it is true...yeah...had to drink this screwed up automat coffee indeed..) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finalcut Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 All you Lurkers just showing your faces remember the first rule of this Forum.Stay clear of that Michael Emrys guy.He isn't right in the head. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vetacon Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 My name's Vetacon and I'm a lurker. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenris Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 Back when it was recorded I was member number 169 I believe, so I started early. Most of my posts were made back in the CMBO hey day. Since then I've definitely lurked, checking in maybe once a month. The forum has stayed on my shortcut bar for all those years, across maybe 3 or 4 computers. Now we're back to WW2 I'm posting more often and refresh monkeying again. Good to be back 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chops Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 All you Lurkers just showing your faces remember the first rule of this Forum.Stay clear of that Michael Emrys guy.He isn't right in the head. Emrys was once a Lurker until he attended Lurkers Anonymous. Now look at him, over 15,000 posts and counting. I suggest you Lurkers ask Michael for an internship. The folks you really need to stay away from are those vile vermin over in that loutish Pang Thang. Oh wait, ......uh....Emrys is one of them. Hey, hold on a second here. How come Emrys gets to post on the Outre Boards and in that Pang Challenge? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrine Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 I was a lurker but come out of hiding the last couple months. My post count was 19 I think in January this year. My post count is still less than the number PBEMs played. A most of those PBEM were big and included the monster ops. It can be hard to contribute unless you have played heaps of PBEMs and read about the same number of history books. Finally getting there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finalcut Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Emrys was once a Lurker until he attended Lurkers Anonymous. Now look at him, over 15,000 posts and counting. I suggest you Lurkers ask Michael for an internship. The folks you really need to stay away from are those vile vermin over in that loutish Pang Thang. Oh wait, ......uh....Emrys is one of them. Hey, hold on a second here. How come Emrys gets to post on the Outre Boards and in that Pang Challenge?They let Him out on once in a while to gather imformation and recon the other boards.Then he reports back to them on the activities of us Normal types. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Carwash Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Great idea for a thread Thomas, I've finally been inspired to post here after the better part of a decade lurking around these parts. Long story short, I've plunged myself neck-deep into the CMx1 games for various long stretches over the years, moving on at times and then eventually coming back. I guess I never felt compelled to post because (a) just about every question I've ever had could be answered by digging through past threads and ( my WWII knowledge is dwarfed by many of the members here. Spent a lot of hours, though, reading through the quality discussions and occasional flame wars featured here. Like some others here, modern settings aren't really my thing, so I never got into CMSF. Seeing the news about CMBN recently, though, whetted my appetite again, and I've been re-immersing myself in to CMBB and CMAK while awaiting my pre-order. So, I figured this was as good a reason as any to make my belated introduction to a forum I have long found cool, and by cool, I mean totally sweet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macisle Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Fellow longtime lurker here. Hello all! I recently posted in the How did you find out about Combat Mission? thread. -My first post in years. I'll repeat it here: When I was a kid, I bought the core Squad Leader module, but was too young to completely grok the rules and had no adults around that were interested. Love for the game and the desire to play it stayed with me through the years, despite my not evolving into a full-blown wargamer with other titles (owned some though). Years later, I bought Close Combat III and it certainly traveled part of the way to satisfying that lingering desire left by SL. Then, a couple of months after its release, I stumbled on Combat Mission. By the end of my first demo game, I was hooked and the CC series seemed hopelessly obsolete. I played the heck out of CMBO and also got CMBB and CMAK, though I played them less. Amazingly, I later stumbled upon my old copy of SL in storage and that led me to discover ASL. I got into that for a few years and it replaced CM for me. However, a few years ago, I took up music as a hobby and my gaming went down to nothing, due to time and brain cell demands (if you don't play often, the ASL rules tend to leak out of the ol' noggin). When CMSF came out, my rig was too old to run it. As fate would have it, I upgraded this Xmas (core i7-950, 6 gigs and a GTX-470!). I tried the demos of CMSF and CMA. SF is great, but I'm not into modern. I really enjoyed the CMA demo, but won't be getting that one either--but only because I can't afford the time. I'm quite the forum lurker and have kept an eye on development throughout the years and have read many of the threads--particularly the ones debating the whole design for effect vs. engineered thing. For my part, I think Battlefront is headed in exactly the right direction for this medium. I will definitely being trying the CMBN demo and will almost certainly buy it. The continuing (pre-modern) CM series may be the only games I ever buy going forward. I still don't really have the time for gaming, but I'll make an exception for this. I can't wait to dive in! This time, I have to try human opponents. for CMx1, I only played against the AI. All the best, Macisle 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrine Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 I can't wait to dive in! This time, I have to try human opponents. for CMx1, I only played against the AI. All the best, Macisle You do. You can still go back and play single player after playing PBEM/IP games but human players are obviously much better. The AI never does and probably never will use tanks effectively. You will only truly realise this after going head to head with another person. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boresite Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Lurker - guilty as charged. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macisle Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 You do. You can still go back and play single player after playing PBEM/IP games but human players are obviously much better. The AI never does and probably never will use tanks effectively. You will only truly realise this after going head to head with another person. Yup. I can totally see that. A few times, I experimented going Hotseat against myself in CMx1 and even playing both sides, it was way harder than the AI. It's gonna be (painful at first, but) great! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vcents Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 I'd just like to publicly state that Moon is an allright guy. Now...the nonsensical postings can REALLY begin. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneAge Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Been around a long time just not a lot to say! As you can see from the sig played a lot of ROW games and even made it to the finals once. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrine Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Yup. I can totally see that. A few times, I experimented going Hotseat against myself in CMx1 and even playing both sides, it was way harder than the AI. It's gonna be (painful at first, but) great! Just need to be more careful in everything you do. Unless you are really bad and just happen upon someone seriously good you will be fine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeW Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Another lurker here. Played CMx1 alot and have been waiting for CM:BN to finally get here. The countdown has finally begun. lee 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris talpas Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 I too qualify as a lurker having joined the board back in the CMBO beta days. I've purchased every Combat Mission game and am eagerly awaiting CMBN which I have pre-ordered. Chris 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theFightingSeabee Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 It's great to see all you lurkers chiming in! I know there's some of you who are reading this right now and still not posting... come on in out of the shadows! Hopefully some of you guys will stick around and chat for a while. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasZ Posted April 7, 2011 Author Share Posted April 7, 2011 there does seem to be a large number of us *Grin* 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimerik Kukka Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Me exist too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarmo Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Still in hibernation/dead, considering getting reanimated soon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 My name's Vetacon and I'm a lurker. Best post of the thread! Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 How come Emrys gets to post on the Outre Boards and in that Pang Challenge? I am God to them. Well, that's setting the bar pretty low, but still... Michael PS: It's Peng. Idjit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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