Posts made by MrMalachiCrunch

I usually play the Axis.  What is the most difficult to defend is a combined US and British force near Germany.

American fighters with no land forces means all you can do is add defense and pose a threat against navy, since there is no german navy and Japans navy is out of range you are on defense only.  Picking off lone infantry with a stack of fighters is expensive and should only be done to spring allied tank forces.

With US navy help the British get going faster and spend more on land forces and less on navy to defend transports.

The 1-2 punch of the allies is something you have to account for on every territory the allies can hit.  The brits might get hurt softening up a target but then the US hits it and knocks out what is left.  So you as Germany now are on a leash, get your forces to far away from Germany and you are in trouble.  You have to always keep enough back to prevent a beachhead from forming.

Since the allies with have much airpower only a few land forces can do much damage.  3-4 tanks with 4-8 air units can take out 6 land units easily and at an attrition expense the allies can afford.

It does take a bit of time to set up your supply chain so work on slowing down the axis until this happens or playing conservatively until the US can come in to save the day.

The thing to do with any country is to ensure you can threaten alot!  You might never carry out the attacks but threaten EVERYWHERE you can to force your opponent to defend alot of places.  The allied navy can hit 3-4 spots Germany controls so they either trade those spots or defend them heavily enough you cannot attack.  If Germany defends 3 places you are leveraging your force by a factor of 3 in tying up Germanys forces so they are not on Russia’[s doorstep.

But how could the south have started it if it is called the “War of northern aggression”?  mock innocent expression

Thanks again for more tidbits from the history bin!  Always interesting and educational!

I agree with BJCard, I think some people confuse Taliban with Al Qaeda,  although I would not include Hamas, their activity is pretty much limited to Israel, although some Egyptian security forces have been killed by smugglers with probable Hamas connections in that little border skirmish last year.  I think it was GG who mentioned the three the Taliban has bombed, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran.  If other countries have been bombed by the Taliban its news to me and I would require citation of this in order to believe the accuracy of those other claims.

Garg, at least Canada had a part in those bombing missions, I am sure we made some components to those weapon systems.  My buddy machines parts for hellfire missiles and another machines parts for landing gear.  Talk about vicarious glory……

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/04/06/death-of-wwii-flying-ace-buzz-beurling-still-a-mystery

Typical that on his death his body was unclaimed

Diplomacy, now there is a game!

University of Stanford, that is where they teach in history that Hannibal Barca was born in Turkey not Carthage.  I have it on very good authority that is the case….

I suggest not building a factory in Asia as the US.  I would suggest reviewing how others play the game by going over old game threads here and see how that fits into your groups playing styles then shake things up!

rjpeters70, sounds reasonable to me.  I’m sure somebody can find something to argue with that, perhaps usage of the word ‘the’?

Try building an IC in China or Sinkiang against forum players here or on tripleA and report back how well it works against those players.

Harold Ballard created the playbook for the modern leafs, it goes like this:

Leaf nation will ensure the AC is sold out every game no matter what therefore…

Replace plausible winning team with a team of broken legged monkeys and maintain cash cow that is the leagues most valuable team, oh I meant the leafs.  They could finish the regular season 0-82 and still sell out the next year.

Maybe with the new agreement we will see another team in the GTA to force the leafs into being a competitive team.  Until then I can only hope one day a Canadian team might win it just to prove its not a conspiracy!

100 reasons why Kirk was better than Picard.

http://www.comedycorner.org/12.html

My personal favs are:

91. Diplomacy for Kirk is a phaser and a smirk.
71. When Picard was 37, he was only Captain of the lowly freighter, Stargazer. When Kirk was 37, he was Captain of the flagship Enterprise.
46. Picard’s middle name isn’t tough or awe-inspiring like Tiberius is.
42 Picard hasn’t fathered any children; Kirk – probably millions.
37. Kirk once made a cannon out of bamboo, sulphur, potassium nitrate, charcoal and then fired diamonds into the hearts of his enemies. (Need we say more?)
31. One Word: Fisticuffs.
30. Kirk’s name is hated throughout the galaxy.
22. The Klingons didn’t have a word for surrender – until they met Kirk.
18. Picard allows cats on board, while Kirk beams away even really cute things, like Tribbles.
6. Three Words: Flying Leg Kick
4. Kirk traveled through The Great Barrier, met God, and wasn’t even impressed.
3. Kirk’s bedroom is a passion pit with electric sheets.

Hear hear.  A good buddy of mine spent 21 years in the RCN, retired, then got bored and rejoined.  The Canadian navy size wise is pretty small, but they do excel in anti-sub warfare and did well with subs in war games against the USN with our old diesels.  BJCard is very right in that diesel subs are very quiet compared to nuclear subs, US nuclear subs are fairly quiet for nukes but nothing is as quiet as not having to run circulating pumps for a nuclear reactor like batteries and perhaps fuel cells.

Remember North Korea managed to sink a modern anti-sub ship with a very old diesel sub.  Yes it was a surprise attack but it still occurred.

They can however gain local sea superiority (especially with shore based aircraft) to invade Taiwan.

As was mentioned, the DF-21 is specifically designed to keep the US carrier groups well away from where they would be most effective.

Every always plans and excels at fighting the last war.  China is being forced to be innovative, lucky for us, innovation is a hallmark of the West.  Lets hope China does not get too innovative in the field of modern warfare.

A mass produced swarm of cheap networked robotic weapons and sensors will be the future of warfare.  Gee, I wonder who is the master of producing cheap electronics?

Commando Brado, there are some threads in regards to the new version of spring 42 moves.  There are a few historic games on this forum you can review as well.  I find reviewing historical games is a great way to learn!

Another great posting witt, be careful tho as it does sound a bit political…. wg

Spread your assets around.  I would never live in a rental and put all my wealth in one bank account.  It still sucks having your savings account taxed but it would really suck if you were a pensioner with all your wealth in that one account.  Why you and not the property owner next door?

Nice piece of history Witt, on the other hand…. Are you sure that is not political?  wry grin

Garg, I remember using BBs services.  I thought my 300 baud modem was the cat’s azz!

BJCard, point to point connections on the BBS were way way before the internet and TCP/IP protocols were used.  You could used packet forwarding services using a BBS system but it did not use TCP/IP so was not interent.  Internet and TCP/IP are pretty much one and the same and did not hit mainstream until late 80s.  I mean the first web browser did not exist in the early 90s and the WWW standard is about circa 1990 ish.

I can remember my dad bringing home a PDP-8 from Inco to program.  32K of non-volatile magnetic core memory and that only cost the plant $50, 000.  Not for the computer but for the memory cabinet!

You are responding to this thread….this thread is created by me.  You IL in fact were the first person to post in this thread so how can you be claiming to be responding to Garg when you were the very first poster complaining that this thread was political?  This is MY thread, MY topic. Do me a favour IL, if you see a thread created by me, just don’t post in it or stay on topic if you just can’t resist posting in my forum topic threads because you can’t resist me for some reason.  I have asked the moderators to ask you to do the same thing.  We have a negative history and we should just avoid each other.

It was a well done Garg post I thought……

That was my first computer!  Under 300 my ass!  First one we got was 400 plus 100 for a cassette drive.  In 1981, that was some serious dough.  It was an early production unit and the sound and video was terrible, poorly shielded RF cables.  We exchanged it for a different unit at a different store, $399.99 for both the computer and drive.

3, 583 bytes free if I remember correctly.  Almost all computers have more than 3, 583 megabytes > a million times improvement.

The CPU was a 8 bit 6502 running at 1 megahertz.  No multiply or divide on the chip and most machine code operations took 4-5 cycles so you would get about 200, 000 8 bit operations per second and would be lucky to do 2000 complex integer 32 bit multiplies and 64 floating point operations per second?  Well you code write a program to accomplish it and it would probably do a few per second compared to giga flops now available on a graphics card.

One thing about the ad was true.  Since there were no games at the time available and exchanging pirate software was done with the sneaker net you really did have to learn to write your own games.  I was a paid published author of a computer program by the time I was 14.  I think I made just enough money all told to get an electric trolling motor for the family canoe!