Testify!

[Major Banned]

My name is Don Shafer, and it has been 12 hours since I made my last move in ACOW. I even had to go out and mow my yard to find something to do. But while I was mowing, it gave me time to consider what the most effective way to mow, and defend myself from a counterattack from the evil grass forces.
I yelled at my secretary yesterday, because I thought she had engaged in "gamey" tactics by using her AA/AT units in minimize losses (supported by artillery of course) to attack my armored forces.
Do I have a problem?
:confused:

[Saber]

:clown: You know there are 12 step programs for this syndrome. Medication and therapy can help you through this. :nofear:

[Wolfe Tone]

Will COW now have to carry a health warning?

Like ' Playing COW can seriously damage your mental health ( but it's great fun anyway! ).'

[ALF]

Now... I thought that was being sane! :)

[Siberian HEAT]

Speaking of crazy. I have to share a statement from Jamiam after he and I spent most of a Sunday playing perhaps the worst scenario ever used in a tournament (India vs. Pakistan for the Blitz tourney). We both hated it, and with every turn we sent to each other we said how much we hated it. This is what he wrote after it was finally over late that night...

>>>

LoL...wife asks her husband "What did you do all day today, honey?" He replies "I just sat around and played this terrible, terrible game." She says "Well, why did you do that, if it was so bad?" He can only answer "Because I *had* to..."

The last thing he sees as she's headed to the phone to call the Psych Ward is her sadly shaking her head...

>>>

If you have ever been roped into a bad scenario you will know exactly what he is talking about. :gas:

"Go sell crazy somewhere else, we're all full up here" :banana:

[Major Banned]

Originally posted by Siberian HEAT
Speaking of crazy. I have to share a statement from Jamiam after he and I spent most of a Sunday playing perhaps the worst scenario ever used in a tournament (India vs. Pakistan for the Blitz tourney). We both hated it, and with every turn we sent to each other we said how much we hated it. This is what he wrote after it was finally over late that night...

>>>

LoL...wife asks her husband "What did you do all day today, honey?" He replies "I just sat around and played this terrible, terrible game." She says "Well, why did you do that, if it was so bad?" He can only answer "Because I *had* to..."

The last thing he sees as she's headed to the phone to call the Psych Ward is her sadly shaking her head...

>>>

If you have ever been roped into a bad scenario you will know exactly what he is talking about. :gas:

"Go sell crazy somewhere else, we're all full up here" :banana:

No kidding. That scenario is a real stinker! :gas:
Iain and I are trying to get through that scenario also. We've been at it for a month and are only at turn 6, cause neither of us can stand to open it. It's kind of like eating Play-Doh.

[Wolfe Tone]

I take it this is Indo/Pak V2.1 we are talking about?
If so I thought it was a great scenario!
For both sides there are so many units to think about, attacks to be made, places to defend, the naval war, the air war, the chopper war, the rocket war, and the Nuke option. Why did you guys not like, because it was a massive slugfest?
It is over most of the map, but in the Thar the front opens out and in Kashmir there is limited room for maneuver.
The one thing I came away from this game thinking was that if all wars are nuts/insane then a current war between India and Pakistan would win first prize for stupidity given the huge levels of poverty in both countries.

[Siberian HEAT]

No!!! This is NOT Daniel McBride's IndoPak War 2002 scenario. This is something COMPLETELY different. I think it is called India vs. Pakistan v.1.2. Not sure who it was by, but it needed to be playtested much more before it was submitted as a tournament scenario.

[ER_Chaser]

Major, comparing to my experience .....

There was once I was playing MMVII (by 3DO, if anyone played as well)... the damn graphics engine or my damn computer just kept on crashing ---- showing me an "all-color-dots" screen... sothat I have to restart it again and again, and it showed me again and again ... (why didn't I stop? well, come on, I just bought the game!) ..... so many times that, I got a severe headache the next day even in my office. And the pretty girl that I liked very much that day happened to wear an "all-color-dotted" skirt... and sadly when I ran into her, this caught up my mind: "oh damn it, it crashed again ... " ...

[JAMiAM]

Hello, my name is James Mathews and I have an addiction to TOAW. I'm not sure exactly when I lost control, but in the last 2 days, I've played over 12 hours of TOAW. I would have played more, but my wife threatened to leave me. At least I think that was my wife, as she seems to be in the house a lot and looks familiar.

Anyhow, as I was saying, I'm not sure when the playing got the better of me. It started out innocently enough, a few single player scenarios to get a feel for the game, then I played Luzon '42 on the CoW disk and got my ass handed to me by the PO as the Japanese. It was a rush...I hadn't had a good pimpslapping from a computer game for a while, and I guess in my own sick way, I thought that was kind of thrilling.

I posted about this new kick, that I had found on another website, and was met in reply by a friend who had also played the game. He hadn't played much at that point either and we decided to take the plunge and do it together...we agreed to play the WWII Eastern Front scenarios from the CoW disk in chronological order, with me as the Axis. To be fair to him, I shouldn't mention his name, but his initials are Fistandantilus. How was I to know that the addiction would be so much more complete with the social aspect of it, and the circle of degenerates that I was to later fall in with...?

For some time I was still in control of TOAW. In fact Fist's and my game was on extended hiatus, and our turn by turn AAR languished on that other site, as it went down the tubes in a blazing inter-forum pissing match and over-zealous intervention by the web-mistress...but that is another sordid tale, only peripherally concerned with this one. [editorial comment: in spite of JAMiAM's denial of the importance of this meltdown of the unnamed web-site, it did lead to his wandering the mists of the internet in search of a new place to call home. Thus, the meltdown must be considered the catalyst to his discovery of WarfareHQ in June of 2001]

Anyway, as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted...one evening, I was lost in the mists of the internet (gee...that term sounds familiar) and noticed a plug on some forum for this site, by some dude named Panzerfaust. I think it may have been the old Talonsoft boards that I first saw it on, but I can't be certain - Panzerfaust [edited: Panzertruppen] was more prolific in his droppings throughout cyberspace than a diarrhetic Doberman in a city park.

Finding this site was the worst possible thing that could happen to a recovering TOAW addict. I met several people that took up my challenges, and luckily for my record they weren't very good at the game. [editorial comment: luckily most of those early players are no longer affiliated with the site, or they would likely hunt down JAMiAM and beat him senseless. Nevermind, too late on that count] As I wracked up a decent win:loss ratio my euphoria increased. I was on a constant high, playing winning, occasionally getting beat, but just like hangovers, they exist to remind you of how much fun you had the night before.

As my experience grew, I found the gonadial fortitude to talk one of the drug lords into allowing me to enter the production area and I found myself surrounded by the most ecstatic [editorial comment: obviously here, JAMiAM is suffering from delusions as his description can, at best, and with the greatest charity, be categorized as allegorical. What he did was persuade Daniel McBride, through bravado and bluster, that he would be a good candidate as a DnO playtester.]

Okay, okay, I'm alright now...lemme finish the damned story!

Daniel had me working the Axis through the opening moves of DnO through several iterations of his magnum opus. It was like ****ing mainlining dude. I was hooked for good. Seeing the things that the system was capable of in those games, working an army across the map was like conducting a symphony that would respond flawlessly to each little twitch of that silly stick the moustached old men wave about. Sorry, but the only musical instrument that I ever became proficient at was the radio. Anyway, as I was saying I was ecstatic playing that scenario. Unfortunately, my pursuit of happiness soon turned to gluttony. I took on a ver 2.01 game as the Soviets against Richard. I had to see what it was like from the other side. I thought I was safe enough with that. Then, during a slow period, I thought I would have time to take on another game of it, and I took up Ryan88's challenge to play with him as the Soviets in ver 3.0. Oh man...I was back in the driver's seat barrelling down the road at 130 mph. Well, that seems bad enough to lock me doesn't it?

It gets worse...

Daniel had turned me on to a taste of a more potent version when he asked me to playtest ver 3.3. After a few turns, his attentions were turned to some of his projects that were languishing, and I was left wanting that most new thrill, but without any player that would take me on. I noticed an upcoming player at the Blitz was looking for some games of TOAW and that his record spoke of competence and a love of playing the Allies. I talked him into playing a game of version 3.3 with me once again the Axis. I told myself "This time is really the last time, at least until you get one of these games finished, or at least close to being finished, or aren't in any tourneys, really!"

Well...dear reader, you can probably guess what happened. That's right, version 3.4 came out! Noticing that one of my friends here had mentioned he was down to only one game, and needing to know that I was facing the top of the dogpile in terms of opponent skill, I couldn't pass it up. Wish Siberian HEAT luck guys...in a few months he'll be in here, eyes red-rimmed, confessing his addiction, and weeping for sympathy and understanding.

[Heinz57]

Um...I haven't left my chair since Friday morning...well, except for the usual messy kitchen, latrine (it's actually clean), sleep and coffee. Last weekend, my neighbor was cleaning his 45...drunk...and it went off, putting a hole through his refrigerator, his wall, my wall, and yet another wall...didn't phase me much, it was only barely audible over the TOAW background sounds blaring from my speakers. Ever since though, everytime I sit down to play ACOW I don a flack jacket and kevlar helmet. It's even better than biting into a York Peppermint Patty...

Working on the OpFor Tourney, Braunscheig, Decision in the North, Italy 43, Tannenberg 14, Five Weeks in France, plus a bunch of EF II's...I just can't help it...

Battle ON!!!

[Richard]

You guys make me feel normal

I have maintained a two year addiction while keeping a wife and a healthy relationship with my daughter.

I have twice crashed cars through inattention due to extreme fatigue

I hardly ever make it to work on time (come to think of it I wasn't any good at that before TOAW)

Can't stop and chat- three turns to play

Cheers

Richard

[Saber]

Touche' Jam If this is madness let us all drink another glass!

[Siberian HEAT]

The madness is spreading. I printed out the DNO player notes (about 50 pages worth!) while at work today. Then, during a boring meeting I was reading them instead of paying attention to what was being said.

When I sat down in bed to read tonight my wife looked at the DNO notes and stated mater-of-factly "Reading about war again huh?" to which I could only reply "yulp." TOAW keeps a firm grip on me...despite my half-hearted efforts to stay the beast!

[Stauffenberg]

Originally posted by Siberian HEAT
The madness is spreading. I printed out the DNO player notes (about 50 pages worth!) while at work today. Then, during a boring meeting I was reading them instead of paying attention to what was being said.

When I sat down in bed to read tonight my wife looked at the DNO notes and stated mater-of-factly "Reading about war again huh?" to which I could only reply "yulp." TOAW keeps a firm grip on me...despite my half-hearted efforts to stay the beast!

Quite amusing (and gratifying) reading the "testimonials" from you lot I must say. I was tempted to write here, gloating about a nefarious plot to lure hapless innocents from the recreational imbibing of lighter TOAW aperitifs, into mainline addiction to grognard, borderline unplayable, monster hard stuff...

But I will resist the temptation. I can relate to TOAW addiction although, as far as competitive playing for ladder points goes, I can honestly say "I tried it but I didn't inhale".
No, my addiction is far more insidious, with the first symptoms of demiurgic megalomania and an inflated sense of Historical Significance, having crept into my quotidean at first unnoticed.

Yes, I am referring to TOAW Design Addiction (TDA). Things for the unwary to look out for in spotting the onset of TDA:
--a study with high shelves stacked to the ceiling with maps, including hundreds of carefully put together xeroxed topographical maps.
--other shelves stacked with books, an inordinate number of which all seem to have the keywords "war", "battle", "campaign", "blitzkreig", or "study", on the spines. Also noting that the selection of fiction in the study fought and lost the war, having since regrouped for a last stand in the living room.
--stacks of notebooks and files with lables like "Drang nach Osten", "Götterdämmerung", "Braunschweig", "Operation Mars" and the like (one friend noticed the last and said "ah ha--a science fiction fan?" My response, "ehhhhh, no its even worse than that....")(if he had looked at the stack of CDs, Holst's 'Mars Bringer of War' on the top might have tipped him off sooner)
--interminable email exchanges with fascinating people in Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and ex-Yugoslavia, over the number of men in a 1944 German infantry squad, or number of T-35s actually used by the Soviets in the war.
--noticing the spouse had a special exec type lable glued to the door reading "War Room"; seriously contemplating putting a red studio light outside with a switch on the desk to indicate when I am busy (said spouse, when told this, replied I might as well have the light go on automatically when the door closes).
--A serious compulsion, so far resisted, to regress back into my teens and start buying models again. I keep walking past this hobby store salivating over this model Soviet TB-3 bomber from the '30s, the one featuring an open main cockpit and irretractable landing gear.
--having my spouse (French from Paris) eye me weirdly one morning over coffee, saying "you were barking out something in German last night in your sleep did you know that? something like 'durchbrechen!'"
--noting a new talent in being able to read and comprehend all German tactical signs at a glance, as well as Russian unit abbreviations on Soviet situation maps. Wondering if I could somehow teach a course on this somewhere.
--having an old German man a few years ago flash his lights behind me and pull me over, walk up to me on my BMW motorcycle, and ask "why have you zis big white 'G' on the back, hein?"
--having another old German doctor in Germany, conducting a physical, and me quizzing him about the war, finally have his jaw hit the floor when I correctly identified what division he was with, and its commander, based purely on the location he mentioned in passing (south of Stalingrad, and I guessed 16th Mtz--"the Greyhound div"--under von Schwerin: not such an incredible stunt, really, as I was working on Winttergewitter at the time). He quizzed me for half an hour and could not believe that a) I had all this detail in my head when I wasn't even born then and, b) my family is entirely Irish/English, not German.

Anyway, I finally came to realise that with TDA the "hobby" is actually an obssession, and that--pacifist that I am--I am at last liberated, guilt-free, and reconciled in my motivations with this peculiar pastime. When the mind finally dims and I am no longer able to master all the minutae of design, and when I head for that desert isle named Dotage, I will go quietly, with DnO under one arm, and Götterdämmerung under the other, unrepentant and, I dare say, well pleased with it all.;)

D.

[Don Maddox]

The overindulgences of the members of this forum can be understood and forgiven, at least for the most part, but the sins of the mad scientist who runs it all are so dark and insidious I dare not reveal too much...

Most of you suffer from acute Grognard Deficiency Syndrome (GDS). You were likely infected in your teens or early 20s and so are not fully responsible for your actions. The mad scientist, on the other hand, knows what he is doing and yet continues. Many have been the night that inane babble could be heard coming from his computer stronghold as the endgame reports flowed in from around the globe. The mad scientist ever stirred the pot and cackled with glee as he set the PhD wielding historian from Toledo against the grocer from Latvia in another bloody battle of conquest. Like a jaded Caesar he howled with insane laughter as his subjects poured it all out in the arena below. :freak:

He notes every battle however bloody, and no detail escapes his attention. Like a great eye, lidless, and wreathed in flame...wait wait wait!! The pains are coming back.....

[Cheetah772]

Hello everybody!

My name is Dan Nemeth, and I am a Gallaudet University student. I am currently a senior and about to graduate next year! Where do I start? Well, let's start with me. The reason I was so addicted to TAOW is because I am deaf, and thus unable to join the US armed forces. If I were a hearing person, then I would definitely join US Navy or at least US Marine Corps. This deafness didn't really hinder my interest in the military history, prephas it's out of my fantasy world, but that's for my psychologist to analyze! :D

Anyway, during one of my breaks in college, in a computer lab, I decided to break the lab rules by downloading a demo of TAOW II, a scenario about Korea '50-'51. This got me interested, but for lack of money and no time to play, I forgot about it for about a year. Just last spring, I finally managed to buy ACOW, actually, it was in a game bundle. I threw away two other games, but kept ACOW. I rushed home, and installed this game on, pretty soon, I was hooked on.

Unfortunately, I was living off-campus, and didn't have a cable modem, which made my Internet connection prone to shutdowns and slow speed (no thanks to a lousy ISP and 56k modem!). That's why I didn't bother to play PBEM games, but then I didn't know where to find good opponents.

It was not until this August 2002, that I found this website through Oleg's website, or Holger Wilck's website, or wargamer.com. All of the websites I mentioned were found in the same month as this website. I was vacationing at my parents' home, and my parents had a cable connection. That's what made me go out and search for an opponent to play with.

I decided to post a message on this website for asking somebody to play with. Raver, Jason Raven, was the first opponent I ever played with PBEM games. The first PBEM scenario was Blitzkrieg scenario, a very tough one. I got my ass handed to me, Raver rolled over me! But that didn't stop my interest or my addiction from taking over me!

Just as Raver and I wrapped up the Blitzkrieg scenario, OPFOR tourney came around, and I immediately signed up, eager for more combat and diving into my strange and twisted military fantasies! If I were to consult a shrink, I think she or he would have a field day with me! :D

I was so aborbed in playing ACOW that I pretty soon forget about my homework this Fall 2002. My friends were shocked at me changing into an insane person, hell bent on destroying anybody who dared to tell me to stop playing ACOW. Right now, I am playing mostly PO just to get a feeling for scenarios.

I usually stay up until 3:00 or 5:00am in morning just playing ACOW games, even just a couple of hours before my classes start! I love this game to dead. As of right now, I have absolutely no social life except this game and my computer!

I try to get my deaf friends interested in this game, but they wouldn't have any of it...they abhor at the thought of killing an enemy soldier in the name of our country! And they insist on having a social life...

JUST what is a social life???? :confused:

My addiction story is a sort of an ongoing experience...and I am relieving this minute by minute...I love this game no matter what anybody says!!!!!

Let me get back to my shell and hide within, then play this game to dead.......

[ALF]

Sounds like my university days in a nutshell... (or was that nutcase?)... only the game differs, TOAW wasn't around back then. :D

[Heinz57]

Mad Dog has it right on the money. We are sick. We need help...bad. But...we don't want help. Yeah...and verily...anyone trying to help me out of my addiction will be blasted out of my apartment by sounds of virtual 155's (the real function of a sound blaster).

Seriously, for all of those times in my early youth coming home to take in a new AH game and never finding opponents...this is fair and just compensation. Social life...here, we get to learn a thing or two, interact with others all across the world, drink coffee, eat pizza and have fun.

Wargames Without End!

[Don Maddox]

I agree with Heinz57. Before PC wargaming came along, I don't remember how many times I got all my ASL stuff out and set it up, re-read the manual to make sure I understood the special rules I needed, then sat and wondered what it would be like to actually play ... :cry:

[Mantis]

Hello, everyone, my name is Shane, and I'm an TOAW-aholic.

It started a couple years ago, innocently enough. I joined the war newsgroups, and bumped into Dan, and played my first ever PBEM game; we played High Command, a brilliant little beer and pretzels game that unfortunately falls short because the patch was never released that would have fixed some easily corrected bugs.

Dan later suggested playing EA. I'm into the campaigns, I'm not a scenario man; I looked at the map, dabbed at the tiny stream of saliva that was escaping down the right side of my face, and with a shameful blush, quickly put the open CoW manual on my lap.

After about 30 turns in with Dan, I fell in love, and started up 5 more games in the next few months. With the lone exception of Dan, all these players deserted the game at a certain point (Dan and I are still going at it, turn 103 sent to him tonite).

My recent playlist is Ming, Dan, Kerry, 2 with Raver, and the OPFOR tourney.

I realized how bad it was a couple months ago. I worked about a zillion hours last year, and my wife worked from home, and we paid off our house. We bought it 3 years ago. I got laid off awhile back, and my wife got a job that she really enjoys. I find myself a stay-at-home dad.

I get up, see my wife off, look at the replay of my turns, and then feed my 3 kids, all the while pondering what I just saw and considering my strategy (as I absentmindedly make my oldest son his lunch for school consisting of a peanutbutter and diaper-rash-cream sandwich).

I wander over to the school bus pickup, slightly annoyed because my brain keeps interrupting my war-thought-processes to ensure that my children are all still with me, and this seriously slows down performance.

I open my mail, and generally try to keep it on all day, doing my turns, sending them out, and Outlook set to ping my mail server every 60 seconds. I've bounced 20 turns once in a day, with the same player.

When I go to bed at night, my wife has commented to me that I seem distant and distracted; she's asked me if I'm thinking about another woman...

Uhhhhnnnhhh.

deep

deep,,, deep penetrations... uhhhhnnnhhhh.

Oh, that's it, oh ya, that's it, uhhhnhhn...

Baku, baby...


Oohhhh, OHHHH, LATE WAR PANZERS ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....

The truth would kill her.

I remain silent.

[Martin Schenkel]

Hello, my name is Martin, and I have a problem.

It's monday, and silently I curse myself for not accomplishing anything of note over the weekend. What the hell did I do all weekend that left the sink overflowing with dirty dishes, the bathroom emitting a peculiar odour, and a strange square-like image burned into my eyes? :crosseye:

I walk into work, and someone asks: "What did you do this weekend?" Do I dare tell them that because of my bold counter-offensive, the Allies have been stopped west of the Rhine? Or that I left Grossdeutschland in the line a week too long? Would they be impressed if I told them that I managed to shorten the front line by 10 hexes, thus freeing those forces for a crucial counter-attack? Instead, I reply: ".....uuhh.....stuff.....", and then move on, mumbling softly as I decide what to do with the 362nd Infantry Division arriving in only 2 more turns... :freak:

Note: Above experience is repeated weekly.

You might be a TOAW addict if...

Eating and sleeping are major time drains.
The sound of a typwriter causes flashbacks of "Moscow reduced to ruins".
Someone asks you "What's wrong?", and you reply "I didn't get enough reinforcements last turn".

[Major Banned]

Originally posted by Mantis
Hello, everyone, my name is Shane, and I'm an TOAW-aholic.

It started a couple years ago, innocently enough. I joined the war newsgroups, and bumped into Dan, and played my first ever PBEM game; we played High Command, a brilliant little beer and pretzels game that unfortunately falls short because the patch was never released that would have fixed some easily corrected bugs.

Dan later suggested playing EA. I'm into the campaigns, I'm not a scenario man; I looked at the map, dabbed at the tiny stream of saliva that was escaping down the right side of my face, and with a shameful blush, quickly put the open CoW manual on my lap.

After about 30 turns in with Dan, I fell in love, and started up 5 more games in the next few months. With the lone exception of Dan, all these players deserted the game at a certain point (Dan and I are still going at it, turn 103 sent to him tonite).

My recent playlist is Ming, Dan, Kerry, 2 with Raver, and the OPFOR tourney.

I realized how bad it was a couple months ago. I worked about a zillion hours last year, and my wife worked from home, and we paid off our house. We bought it 3 years ago. I got laid off awhile back, and my wife got a job that she really enjoys. I find myself a stay-at-home dad.

I get up, see my wife off, look at the replay of my turns, and then feed my 3 kids, all the while pondering what I just saw and considering my strategy (as I absentmindedly make my oldest son his lunch for school consisting of a peanutbutter and diaper-rash-cream sandwich).

I wander over to the school bus pickup, slightly annoyed because my brain keeps interrupting my war-thought-processes to ensure that my children are all still with me, and this seriously slows down performance.

I open my mail, and generally try to keep it on all day, doing my turns, sending them out, and Outlook set to ping my mail server every 60 seconds. I've bounced 20 turns once in a day, with the same player.

When I go to bed at night, my wife has commented to me that I seem distant and distracted; she's asked me if I'm thinking about another woman...

Uhhhhnnnhhh.

deep

deep,,, deep penetraions... uhhhhnnnhhhh.

Oh, that's it, oh ya, that's it, uhhhnhhn...

Baku, baby...


Oohhhh, OHHHH, LATE WAR PANZERS ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....

The truth would kill her.

I remain silent.

Peanut butter and diaper rash creme sandwich sounds good, except I don't like peanut butter.
:D

[Dan Neely]

Originally posted by Mantis

I open my mail, and generally try to keep it on all day, doing my turns, sending them out, and Outlook set to ping my mail server every 60 seconds. I've bounced 20 turns once in a day, with the same player.


who with? I know we bounced an inordinate number of turns one day last spring, but I don't think it was that high.

[Mantis]

Originally posted by Dan Neely


who with? I know we bounced an inordinate number of turns one day last spring, but I don't think it was that high.

A guy from the old board named Jerry.

We did manage quite a few the odd time as well, although I think you're correct we never got to the 20 plateau.

[John Paul]

My name is John Paul and i find myself slowly being sucked into multiple games.at first i turned to friends,family,even the authoritys trying to get help.Though now i realize i don't need help,i am perfectly content sliding down this long slippery slope:D

[Tex]

My name is Andrew and I have a problem. Including the OPFOR Tournament I'm involved in three games at the moment (Italy 43 & EA). No, my problem is not keeping up with these three games. Quite the reverse. I have so little going on at the moment that three games are not keeping me occupied so I'm looking to add a fourth game. :o

[Major Banned]

Originally posted by Tex
My name is Andrew and I have a problem. Including the OPFOR Tournament I'm involved in three games at the moment (Italy 43 & EA). No, my problem is not keeping up with these three games. Quite the reverse. I have so little going on at the moment that three games are not keeping me occupied so I'm looking to add a fourth game. :o

Yep, that's one of the signs. That's how it started for me, just a couple of games, then a couple more to fill in a little more time. Next thing you know, you'll have this empty feeling whenever you open your e-mail and don't have a turn available to play. It's a disease.
While duck hunting this weekend, I was giving serious consideration to installing a wireless attachment to my laptop so I could receive turns between flocks coming in. After shooting a particularly fine looking wood duck, I caught myself doing that banana dance. :banana:

[John Paul]

Originally posted by Major Catastrophe


Yep, that's one of the signs. That's how it started for me, just a couple of games, then a couple more to fill in a little more time. Next thing you know, you'll have this empty feeling whenever you open your e-mail and don't have a turn available to play. It's a disease.
While duck hunting this weekend, I was giving serious consideration to installing a wireless attachment to my laptop so I could receive turns between flocks coming in. After shooting a particularly fine looking wood duck, I caught myself doing that banana dance. :banana:

Oh god!I'm already gone when i come home from work or wake up and find no turn i do get that empty feeling:eek: when i am at work i find myyself planning my next move and wondering if my last was good enough,even to the point where flirtations from my female co-workers become bothersome because it interrupts my chain of thought:confused:

[JAMiAM]

Originally posted by Major Catastrophe


After shooting a particularly fine looking wood duck, I caught myself doing that banana dance. :banana:

I guess it's a good thing that the mallardus decoyus were plentiful that day. That way, he didn't feel obliged to blast any of those big, fat ones with the bright orange feathers on their breasts...:laugh:

[Heinz57]

For a number of years now, I've been playing EF II and other wargames, most recently ACOW - all on a Pentium 120 Mhz system. I always considered it a perfect simulation -- like I could hear my computer seriously straining to get those King Tigers to move...well...okay, it strained even getting kubelwagens to move...and each time they moved, I smiled.

Enter new system...a quantum leap forward in system capabilities...files open like a breeze, infantry sprint forward challenging the records of Carl Lewis...Tigers burn rubber (and steel)...

...and now the Lexington Police are being held at bay outside my apartment intimidated by the sounds of virtual gunfire and explosions; a 155 went off right by my ear, so I had to crank it up a little louder to hear all the other sound effects...and drown out the rapp from across the street. Pretty sure I can withstand any close assaults on my new pillbox, I get a +20 on defense right?

Okay...so I'm just kidding...mostly...but, I'm left wonderin'....

How come there aren't any wargames featuring "cowboys & indians"???

In a state of euphoria...pay no attention to me....ha...unless of course you're up for a game!

Heinz57
An Addicted ACOW Player

[Palantir]

Originally posted by Heinz57
Okay...so I'm just kidding...mostly...but, I'm left wonderin'....

How come there aren't any wargames featuring "cowboys & indians"???

Just to let you know, for "Age of Rifles"- you can play several versions of "The Little Big Horn."

Ah, nothing like dragging the Gattlins in for a twist on things!
Kerry

[Dan Neely]

There was a game about the Little Bighorn several years ago. IIRC it was called Custers Last Command.

[Major Banned]

Originally posted by Dan Neely
There was a game about the Little Bighorn several years ago. IIRC it was called Custers Last Command.
I tried that game a few times. I didn't care for it too much, but it was an interesting game concept.
There is a Steel Panthers 3 scenario out based on the Little Big Horn, except 7th Cav and the Indians both use M1A2's. It's good for a laugh.
:D