Dipping a toe into the Dark Side.

[petercooman]

Nope, youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJdxEXCdLWA






I did research it first though, but the video on youtube just shows it best.

[petercooman]

By the way, i just popped the cossack disk back in.

And if my wife says something about it, i'm blaming you!!

[Westmarcher]

By the way, i just popped the cossack disk back in.

And if my wife says something about it, i'm blaming you!!

Blame me if it helps.

[btw, is your wife a scary woman?] 

[petercooman]

Not really! And very tolerant,since she can put up with me 

[bigjackmac]

I'm not watching the videos, I have too much to paint, base, game, and write-up!

Having said that, I did download Battle Academy; not my thing...

V/R,
Jack

[Techno]

I'll stick to Call Of Duty on the PSP. (Only a FPS game, though.)

Like that lots...Though I haven't played it for ages.
Like all the 'missions' except the 'being a gunner' on a bomber.....Can barely hit a blanking thing on that one.
Only finished that one once, and I used so much ammo I didn't get an award. 

Cheers - Phil

[petercooman]

Well shooting a moving thing from another moving thing tends to be difficult i think 

[Tawa]

I always thought Close Combat: Invasion Normandy was the best of the series

[petercooman]

I always thought Close Combat: Invasion Normandy was the best of the series

Was that the one where you could pop coloured smoke on a target and watch the navy blast it to bits (in one of the beach fights)?

[bigjackmac]

Yeah, I think CC Normandy was the first one you could call in air strikes too.

Man those were fun!  My father and I used to play head-to head via the internet, so many tense battles, and the campaigns were fantastic.

I think now that that is where I got a lot of my ideas on how to run campaigns on my tabletop; I was always sneaking into the 'stats' pages to see how many kills a guy/team/vehicle had rung up, who had gotten what medals, etc... 

It's certainly a lot cheaper than miniatures gaming

V/R,
Jack

[petercooman]

I think now that that is where I got a lot of my ideas on how to run campaigns on my tabletop; I was always sneaking into the 'stats' pages to see how many kills a guy/team/vehicle had rung up, who had gotten what medals, etc... 

It's certainly a lot cheaper than miniatures gaming

V/R,
Jack

Yes i loved that, Looking at the post game stats! (And looking at who had the most 'acts of cowardice') 

[bigjackmac]

"And looking at who had the most 'acts of cowardice'"

Oh?  I didn't even know that existed.  You see, none of MY troops EVER acted cowardly 

V/R,
Jack

[petercooman]

You could look at the other side too you know 

[bigjackmac]

Well played, Sir 

Certainly when you had a guy/team/crew that racked up a lot of kills, won a lot of medals, you started treating them a bit better, a bit more careful.  'Why don't you guys go sit over there and have a picnic, while these guys go and close assault that machine gun nest.'

V/R,
Jack

[petercooman]

Yes, support duty as we call it 

[Tawa]

Was that the one where you could pop coloured smoke on a target and watch the navy blast it to bits (in one of the beach fights)?

That's the very one. The airstrikes were a bit "meh" as sometimes you'd get a tanker load of bombs from an A26, and sometimes you'd get a pretty useless strafe from a P51.......

Well played, Sir 

Certainly when you had a guy/team/crew that racked up a lot of kills, won a lot of medals, you started treating them a bit better, a bit more careful.  'Why don't you guys go sit over there and have a picnic, while these guys go and close assault that machine gun nest.'

V/R,
Jack

That always made me giggle. I once had a Stuart tank with over 300 kills (Infantry), 3 MoH, 2 Silver Stars, 5 Bronze Stars and about 12 Combat Badges between the crew. Admittedly it was part of the force I sent to seize the airfield, but still..... 
The cheeky little bugger even killed off a PzrIV at one point!

[bigjackmac]

Tawa,

Yeah man, I had no problem with the Stuarts in those games.  They were fast as hell, and could take anything out from behind.

I remember that there was nothing worse than hearing the 'ka-choof' of a panzerfaust being launched.  You had just enough time to look around and think 'I don't even see any German infantry' before one of your Shermans blew up...   

I can recall playing CC2, thinking 'man, I wish the maps were bigger.'  Then they made the maps bigger starting with CC3 (East Front), and it was cool, but it was never as dramatic as those tiny little maps in CC2, with Tigers and King Tigers dragging up the street, and me trying to sneak a PIAT into a building.  Man those were fun.

V/R,
Jack

[Tawa]

I remember that there was nothing worse than hearing the 'ka-choof' of a panzerfaust being launched.  You had just enough time to look around and think 'I don't even see any German infantry' before one of your Shermans blew up...   

Or the sudden explosion next one of your tanks rom a hidden AT gun  Usually right in the bottleneck of a couple of hedged lanes.....

[petercooman]

OR looking at the status of your bazooka team when it just missed it's target.

Loading loading  come on!!!!

Loading loading loading Come on!!!

Loading    taking cover 

Loading loading loading

Firing 

Crater in the ground 2 meter in front of the target

Loading loading loading   


Just send in the flamethrower

[Last Hussar]

Close Combat is the top down one with the coloured pins?

I had the Arnhem one, but couldn't get on with it - it seemed too much micromanagement.  Was I doing something wrong?