WordPad is a pretty basic word processor; it’s more sophsticated than NotePad, but much less sophicticated than Word.  It may not have fancy underlining options.

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@Der:

USA by far. Andrew Sisters, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland - game over!

I’d have to agree completely, but you left out Swing, Jazz, Jive and Big Band.

Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Glenn Miller, etc. that music still works.

France had Edith Piaf, but otherwise I don’t think many would choose Wagner over The Duke.

Tipperary was WWI.

I knew that various WWII special forces carried daggers or stilettos, such as the famous Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife, but the type of stiletto with which the above-shown, er, soldiers are equiped aren’t a particular weapon category with which I was previously familiar.  The closest equivalent I can think of is Betty Grable’s legs, photographs of which boosted the morale of American GIs in WWII to such an extent that they probably had a significant impact on the course of the war.  I think that at one point 20th Century Fox went so far as to insure her legs for 1 million IPCs…um, I mean dollars.

Well I bought the game and played till 4.40 this morning. I can just about deal with the crafting to get all the other stuff.

Contrary to my expectations naming stars, planets and animals is rather fun; I found one ugly big misshapen beast on my home planet and named it Imperious Leader.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f5t-xjKwjM

I find these types of marker rather unimaginative as control indicators.

My version of Conquest of the Empire combines control markers with “Governors”; i.e. instead of placing a generic faction marker you place a piece of your player colour with a name and portrait of an official representing the new governor of that province, who might have variable stats e.g. +1 combat/die re-rolls to be applied when fighting in defence of that province.

A similar system could be used in modern era games with the governor replaced by a “General” who is considered in command of friendly forces in the tt. This character can take command of forces moving from that area into hostile tt, and if successful a new commander is taken to replace him. Generals captured in battle might score victory points. Naval commanders can be used to be placed in control of fleets “at sea”, though I don’t believe ships should ever be considered at sea between turns.

Conversely, I’d move towards always having to have an infantry unit present to continue control of occupied tt. If you abandon an occupied area a native general/infantry unit is generated to take back control.

That’s all three big battles in the show (Blackwater, The Wall & Bastardbowl) decided by a third army showing up in the nick of time and saving a losing force from being wiped out.

Jon Zombie Snow is a truly woeful military commander, why do people follow him? Sansa should be proclaimed Queen in the North and marry Sweetrobin.

Why didn’t Ramsey have scouts looking out for the Vale army (or any other reinforcements)?

Where was the Bolton cavalry (and archers) when the Vale Knights attacked?

Why didn’t Sansa tell Ramsey the Eagles were coming; she could have negotiated a deal where they got Rickon back alive and Ramsey slunk back to the Dreadfort.

The Maesters will have to cook something up to take out the dragons next season.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xSeUl66rXM

@P@nther:

What a game, incredible!

Congrats, Portugal, well deserved in the end  :-)

They did to France, what France did to Germany.

Congrats Portugal, U were the best. Pepe is the best player of the tournament.

The best coach, no need to ask hehe :)

Rui Patricio is the best goalkeeper too.

Croatia is placed 9th in the end.

This was a nice EURO, I expect best WC ever in Russia. :)

Quite right Marc. It was an awful performance.

lol… good one DK.

@Young:

@General:

Sorry I was so late sending my payment.

I would like to echo that apology, sent mine today… sorry for being so late. Next year please set up email transfer with your bank, you won’t regret it.

No problem YG.

Yes, I will look into that. I know it is less than convenient for you guys that are a couple hundred miles (+) away.

…now did this book also include blitzing, strafing, infantry push mechanic, deadzones and shuck shuck ?

James will never be a Laker and actually nobody good wants to be a Laker.

@wittmann:

Wxxker!

Was that you remembering what they call people who watch Eurovision?

No wonder I was mislead! :wink:

Not sure how many of you guys are interested in or aware of this, but I posted a while back about a Jalopnik website called Foxtrot Alpha. It was the best website I had ever come across in terms of current defense reporting, intelligent military/policy commentary, military journalism with connections and simply very fun, interesting and meaningful content. That was entirely due to the blog’s principal author Tyler Rogoway.

Probably in light of a bit of Gawker Media cost-cutting, Rogoway departed for the Time website The Drive, where his content should have a similarly uncharacteristic, but successful fit with a predominantly automotive parent site.

I cannot emphasize enough how abnormally great Tyler’s writing, insight and depth of content is for a non-subscription journal website. His writing is fresh, pertinent, entertaining and thoughtful. If the only place you get your defense news is Fox or MSNBC, you are living in the dark ages. You really ought to try out Tyler’s new blog (and even look up some of the still amazing content leftover on Foxtrot Alpha).

Foxtrot Alpha:  http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/

The War Zone (new home):  http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone

Tyler’s focus is predominantly aviation, but he has done excellent articles, features and small pieces on every other imaginable military element from ships, subs, tanks, defense spending and policy, special ops warfare, drones, etc… Some of his best articles are those written by ex-military members detailing their stories from time in service. Extremely fascinating. Here are just a couple must reads from back on FA:

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/godspeed-rogoway-1771288681
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-air-force-initiative-to-replace-the-a-10-warthog-is-1771018719
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/just-because-lockheed-says-they-can-build-a-mach-6-jet-1765367071
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/navy-carrier-built-for-f-35s-is-done-being-rebuilt-so-t-1766741771
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/that-time-an-sr-71-made-an-emergency-landing-in-norway-1765436508
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-distinct-voice-of-the-f-a-18-hornets-bitchin-betty-1764527531
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-fact-that-none-of-the-2016-presidential-candidates-1762222982
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/need-an-f-4-phantom-get-on-down-to-cals-bargain-used-f-1760770835
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/watch-these-62-ton-m1-abrams-tanks-drift-trough-the-fri-1759785734
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/this-is-what-a-full-broadside-from-a-ticonderoga-class-1759358448
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/blast-across-the-desert-floor-and-launch-off-a-carrier-1758297224
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-unlikely-struggle-of-the-family-whose-neighbor-is-a-1741346156

There are many, many more.

Here is today’s latest from The War Zone:

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/3383/what-it-was-like-flying-and-fighting-the-f-16n-viper-topguns-legendary-hotrod

@cougar24:

I’m sure someone posted about this before, but where can I play the game online? I used to use game table online, but the site no longer works. Thanks in advance!

Welcome to the forum, cougar24  :-)

We use a software called ‘TripleA’ to play online. Just check out these links:

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=18278.0
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=27127.0

and browse through the “Play Boardgames”-subforum with it’s child boards

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?board=40.0

to get an idea about it.

There is either “play by email/play by forum” or live games in the so-called “Lobby”.

Don’t hesitate to ask your TripleA related questions in the Software-Subforum.
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?board=53.0

HTH :-)

@Private:

If I post this YG I will be up to 2622 posts. That’s over half your number of posts. But, sadly, only a tiny fraction of the value you have brought to this forum. Your contribution is widely appreciated.

Fortunately for my sanity I do not aim so high and am here merely to enjoy myself! Objective achieved!

Thanks Private P, although I’m sure you can reach 5000 and have fun doing it, however, I have been known to get crazy from time to time.

……and we got a winner  :-D

@Colt45:

I suppose I have been a little spoiled because the only thing I have rode is my '15 with ABS and it rides very smoothly

No prob… They CBR was pretty smooth, you just have to be careful with the power at your fingertips.

This might be late, but I feel like I could contribute.

If you don’t want to reroll the question is simple. The question is: “Which result was rolled by which unit?”. There are several ways of doing this I will first describe the simple and then the longer (Which will give the same result).

Simple: Since most of the result where misses, they are not interesting, the only question is where to assing the 3. There is 1 in 4 units that could have been the unit rolling a 3, terefore it is 1 in 4 chance that unit was the artillery.

Longer:
In basic uniform probability, we first start with the assumption that every result is equally likely. Every string of lottery numbers have the same odds. all we have to do then is to count the number of outcomes we like, and compare that to the number of possible outcomes when assigning the results. I will call your units I1, I2, I3 and A. There will be 24 ways of assinging the dies, and 6 of them will assign the 3 to the art. The ways of assigning them are:

A: 3 I1: 6 I2:8 I3:9  = 1 Hit
A: 3 I1: 6 I2:9 I3:8  = 1 Hit
A: 3 I1: 8 I2:6 I3:9  = 1 Hit
A: 3 I1: 8 I2:9 I3:6  = 1 Hit
A: 3 I1: 9 I2:6 I3:8  = 1 Hit
A: 3 I1: 9 I2:8 I3:6  = 1 Hit

A: 6 I1: 3 I2:8 I3:9  = 0 Hit
A: 6 I1: 3 I2:9 I3:8  = 0 Hit
A: 6 I1: 8 I2:3 I3:9  = 0 Hit
A: 6 I1: 8 I2:9 I3:3  = 0 Hit
A: 6 I1: 9 I2:3 I3:8  = 0 Hit
A: 6 I1: 9 I2:8 I3:3  = 0 Hit

A: 8 I1: 3 I2:6 I3:9  = 0 Hit
A: 8 I1: 3 I2:9 I3:6  = 0 Hit
A: 8 I1: 6 I2:3 I3:9  = 0 Hit
A: 8 I1: 6 I2:9 I3:3  = 0 Hit
A: 8 I1: 9 I2:3 I3:6  = 0 Hit
A: 8 I1: 9 I2:6 I3:3  = 0 Hit

A: 9 I1: 3 I2:6 I3:8  = 0 Hit
A: 9 I1: 3 I2:8 I3:6  = 0 Hit
A: 9 I1: 6 I2:8 I3:9  = 0 Hit
A: 9 I1: 6 I2:9 I3:8  = 0 Hit
A: 9 I1: 8 I2:6 I3:3  = 0 Hit
A: 9 I1: 8 I2:3 I3:6  = 0 Hit

In total. That is 6 possible hits, of 24 possible scenarios. Which is 1 in 4.