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General Discussion / Re: When release day comes...
« on: 27-07-2009, 07:07:40 »
I think someone should definitely ask, "What map is the Maus on?"

It's good to see folks are still posting to ask what the release date is. Ah, some things never change.....

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General Discussion / Re: "FH1 wins"
« on: 27-07-2009, 06:07:07 »
I had to say it...is it me,or there is more people playing FH1 than FH2?
In jumlandia they are......

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Off-Topic / Re: Don't feed the Trolls. Please.
« on: 01-07-2009, 06:07:51 »
This must be a huge subject because it seems to require a huge amount of text. I would distinguish it from a Jummangian Mega Post, since the original portion of the above Tub O' Text is, alas, minimal. I've done my share of that as well. But I must bow to a new master.

So we have a post, oops, I mean four posts, a veritable freight train of connected cars carrying countless tons of literary tank cars. That is some job of painting and pasting. My rough measurement, conservatively made, is 120 inches of pasted text. That's 10 feet. At least. Just the pasted text, not the captions or original content. 

Do you really think anyone will read that?

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Gaming / Re: Battlefield 3
« on: 11-06-2009, 02:06:57 »
And in 18 months we're going to be waiting for FH3 to come out, bitching about how DICE somehow managed to make a crappy engine three times in a row. 

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Great 'rama work. I am amazed at how incredibly devoted to the sma;;est detail the diorama builders can be. The result can be some stunning work. I've particularly seen a lot of good building come out of Russia for some reason.

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Off-Topic / Re: A Duel!
« on: 07-06-2009, 07:06:22 »
Not that many FH1-ers left out there in MP land.

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Let me change the mood a little a tell you something that happened concerning the D-Day the observance. This just blows me away.

Obama took a party pf D-Day vets with him to Normandy to be part of the presidential party. They're all around 85 or even older now. One was Jim Norene, who jumped with the 502nd parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101 Airborne Division. This was Easy Company's regiment in Band Of Brothers IIRC. Yesterday Jim Norene once again went to the US cemetery there to see the friends he lost on D-Day and in the weeks after in the battles in the hedgerow country of Normandy. Afterwards he returned to his hotel and eventually went to sleep to rest up for the big day today.

After his visit to his buddies, Jim Norene died in his sleep last night...in Normandy. He has joined his brothers in arms who rest a short distance from where he died.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23430.html

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Off-Topic / Re: A Duel!
« on: 05-06-2009, 16:06:12 »
But Schneider is right.

Now, about this FH1 business: I still play....just, uh, not with people.

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Off-Topic / Re: Left 4 dead 2 announched
« on: 05-06-2009, 16:06:18 »
I'm usually not too interested in announcements about new games unless they're supposed to be groundbreaking (e.g. Crysis...and btw, has it fallen off the earth?), but when I saw L4D2 referenced at a news/current events site I paid attention. So I saw some trailers, and all I can say is:  :o
That's pretty incredible graphically speaking.

And, uh, graphically speaking, I know I haven't been paying attention, but is the gore factor in L4D2 on the extreme end of the broad genre of combat games, or have I just fallen really behind?

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I saw that and was truly knocked out. Oh, the fun.....

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Off-Topic / Re: A song for jum jum...
« on: 01-06-2009, 23:06:26 »
Well, it was sandwiches or something. I have proof dammit! It's written on some paper here someplace. If I could just find it for all the damn cats....

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Off-Topic / Re: A song for jum jum...
« on: 01-06-2009, 06:06:40 »
Heh. But I am having a party tomorrow (today?), Moday, June 1st to thank those for kind words to me. (Okay, over at FF I'm now an Advanced Member, which means absolutely nothing but that I now have some italics in my name and access to some Secret Forums Full Of Delights For The Senses.)

There will be food and drink. This is an opportunity for all my young friends who enjoy the "I like cake" threads (Fuchs? Are you listening?) to come and pig out. Post to your stomach's delight. I'll start with pork BBQ and beer and banana pudding and see where it goes from there.

It'll be Monday, June 1, at 5:00 pm (17:00) Eastern Daylight Time, 4:00 pm (16:00) Central Daylight Time. 3:00 pm (15:00) Mountain Daylight Time, 2:00 pm (14:00) Pacific Daylight Time. I believe this will be 11:00 pm (23:00) Greenwich Mean. Hell, I don't know.

Here is the address: http://forums.filefront.com/fh-off-topic/400303-jumjum-will-have-party-tomorrow-uh-today.html Get as drunk as you want but don't puke on the shag rug. AND NO ONE IN THE BEDROOMS. Last time I had to wash sheets, blankets and coverlets for days.


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Off-Topic / Re: what you think about General Patton
« on: 31-05-2009, 08:05:50 »
I don't think they were.  Remember, they placed all their top divisions facing Monty for a reason.  The main thing they prob feared was that they didn't have the reserves to deal with an overly aggressive general such as Patton like they had done with the russians in 42 and 43 under Manstein.

As for the 20 men, he was a tank, right?  That means 5 men per tank, so 4 tanks, and that's only if everyone in each tank was killed.  So if you put it at say, 2-3 men kia per tank...that's a lot of tanks for a town.

The 20 men Mr. Clark talked about being lost on average ( I assume he meant killed and wounded), they were the infantry accompanying the tank or the tank platoon that was sent in. Now he also thought they lost tanks uselessly when advancing on towns, mostly from hidden AT or occasionally armor, because the weren't allowed to thoroughly scout the towns before they advanced. Occasionally they lost some tanks in towns from close-range handheld AT weapons. He agreed with having a tank supporting infantry in a town, but not the other way around, where the tank leads the probe. He thought infantry should lead, and bring tanks up from behind to knock out mg nests and fortified positions; not for them to get out front and then have a 'faust come from a ground-level window of a cellar that hadn't been cleared.

As for the better units facing Monty, IMO in Normandy that was more a function of the terrain, with Caen being key to the region, and the obvious breakout path being where the British were positioned. After the breakout,I assumed Monty usually had the shortest, most direct routes to Berlin. I'm also betting that OKW generally knew what the respective roles of the Allied army commanders was. I'm betting they knew Patton was not going to be permitted to drive on Berlin.

This is something I should know and don't, but, outside of Normandy, did Monty consistently face superior-quality German units? If so, was it because of Monty? I know the Germans considered him capable but overcautious and very, very slow to move. I'd like to know about the opinion of OKW and corps-and-higher commanders' opinion of Monty vis a' vis after he reached Holland and then got into Germany.

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Off-Topic / Re: A song for jum jum...
« on: 31-05-2009, 07:05:31 »
What the hell? I'm here. At least daily. It's just that I can't get up for some of these threads guys. That's not a cut - they're perfectly fine. It's just I don't have anything to add (Okay, I can already hear the comments: "Never stopped you before", "So?", etc. ) And yes, I do hang more at FF.

I deeply appreciate the thought, truly. It's very nice of you. I'm here...luuuuurking

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But what if Germany and Russia changed sides, and it was Russia, japan and Italy (?!) against Germany, the UK and the US?

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