03-07-2007, 06:34 AM
03-07-2007, 06:40 AM
What is Vith? - Axis Turn one.
And were off, out of the traps. It's Scorched Earth vs Fritz in
a fight to the death. Herr Hitler has demanded breakfast at Tiffanys with hot crossants and the Fuhrer Begleit brigade is happy to oblige :-)
Early indications suggest that Allied forces were not asleep as reported as minor casualties for the Axis reveal a wealth of targets, armed to the teeth and ready for action :-(.
We press on and seize an objective which Private Parts (U.S. Army - (Unless Supplied Awol)- left un-attended....
Keep tuned folks....
Hee Hee, quick draw mcgraw strikes again...
And were off, out of the traps. It's Scorched Earth vs Fritz in
a fight to the death. Herr Hitler has demanded breakfast at Tiffanys with hot crossants and the Fuhrer Begleit brigade is happy to oblige :-)
Early indications suggest that Allied forces were not asleep as reported as minor casualties for the Axis reveal a wealth of targets, armed to the teeth and ready for action :-(.
We press on and seize an objective which Private Parts (U.S. Army - (Unless Supplied Awol)- left un-attended....
Keep tuned folks....
Hee Hee, quick draw mcgraw strikes again...
03-07-2007, 09:32 AM
"What is Vith?." wrote Scorched Earth
Were the "Vith" the bad people in the most recent Star Wars movie?
How did Star Wars get mixed in with the CS series?
Am I sounding like Guberman?
Were the "Vith" the bad people in the most recent Star Wars movie?
How did Star Wars get mixed in with the CS series?
Am I sounding like Guberman?
03-07-2007, 04:59 PM
10km east of St Vith, somewhere in the Ardennes
General Grabung sat on the rear seat of his mud spattered schwimwagen, reading the plastic covered map that had been passed down from Corps headquarters. His brigade had been ordered to secure the town of St Vith and he sat pondering just how he was expected to go about this. He was no longer an idealistic young Colonel leading a tank regiment that he was in 1940, when he last went crashing through the Ardennes, sweeping all before them, but a weary battle hardened veteran, who had perhaps go a little used to the soft life of the occupation forces in France. How annoying for the Allies to make him leave that chateau in Rennes and sit in some dreary bunker for months on end behind the 'safety' of the impregnable Siegfried line. Now he was being asked to participate in this great crusade to retake Antwerp, in this weather, the mud the drizzle and the bitter cold. He could only manage a sigh as his adjutant broke the silence and spoke to him from the front seat
"Sir what time to we start" he inquired
"In about an hour", the General replied. He finished looking at the map and gazed at the printed order of battle of his brigade.
As a whole he seemed to have a good spread of forces...tanks, assault guns tank destroyers, artillery, machine-guns, bicycles...bicycles..what happened to the motorcycles he had asked for...he looked up and almost as if on cue, several soldiers passed by on bicycles being towed by a Hetzer...and what was the deal with the truck drivers he had been given..a low morale bunch of ring-ins from Eastern Europe..Ahh well it was all he was getting so it would have to be enough, though on these roads it would probably take an eternity to get up to the frontline anyway.
"We will have the element of surprise" was all his Corps commander had said when he had objected to this attack. At least he had been allowed to get scouts forward to reconnoitre the enemy forward positions. Surprise aside if the weather got worse, it would be difficult to get the tanks to be in a position to exploit any breakthrough..but St Vith had to be taken, that was all that mattered.
Tapping his adjutant on the shoulder, "lets move it up closer to the front". The Schwimwagen engine roared into life behind him as he placed the maps and papers back into his briefcase. He had looked at them long enough. Enough planning had taken place, it was time to fight..
Matt ~Digger
General Grabung sat on the rear seat of his mud spattered schwimwagen, reading the plastic covered map that had been passed down from Corps headquarters. His brigade had been ordered to secure the town of St Vith and he sat pondering just how he was expected to go about this. He was no longer an idealistic young Colonel leading a tank regiment that he was in 1940, when he last went crashing through the Ardennes, sweeping all before them, but a weary battle hardened veteran, who had perhaps go a little used to the soft life of the occupation forces in France. How annoying for the Allies to make him leave that chateau in Rennes and sit in some dreary bunker for months on end behind the 'safety' of the impregnable Siegfried line. Now he was being asked to participate in this great crusade to retake Antwerp, in this weather, the mud the drizzle and the bitter cold. He could only manage a sigh as his adjutant broke the silence and spoke to him from the front seat
"Sir what time to we start" he inquired
"In about an hour", the General replied. He finished looking at the map and gazed at the printed order of battle of his brigade.
As a whole he seemed to have a good spread of forces...tanks, assault guns tank destroyers, artillery, machine-guns, bicycles...bicycles..what happened to the motorcycles he had asked for...he looked up and almost as if on cue, several soldiers passed by on bicycles being towed by a Hetzer...and what was the deal with the truck drivers he had been given..a low morale bunch of ring-ins from Eastern Europe..Ahh well it was all he was getting so it would have to be enough, though on these roads it would probably take an eternity to get up to the frontline anyway.
"We will have the element of surprise" was all his Corps commander had said when he had objected to this attack. At least he had been allowed to get scouts forward to reconnoitre the enemy forward positions. Surprise aside if the weather got worse, it would be difficult to get the tanks to be in a position to exploit any breakthrough..but St Vith had to be taken, that was all that mattered.
Tapping his adjutant on the shoulder, "lets move it up closer to the front". The Schwimwagen engine roared into life behind him as he placed the maps and papers back into his briefcase. He had looked at them long enough. Enough planning had taken place, it was time to fight..
Matt ~Digger
03-07-2007, 11:34 PM
Big Dawg Wrote:"What is Vith?." wrote Scorched Earth
Were the "Vith" the bad people in the most recent Star Wars movie?
How did Star Wars get mixed in with the CS series?
Am I sounding like Guberman?
It's a bad German accent, after we liberated some bottles of bad Belgian wine....
03-08-2007, 07:38 PM
Cross of Lorraine, Stryker vs Tank Killer, Allied first turn...
The very first thing the Allied side did.... the VERY first.... was to move a rifle platoon and an MG platoon one hex to the side of a ridge.....with the sound of a German MG firing, the pop-up box shows.... reduced by 2 retreated.....what a stupendous start. :hissy:
Needless to say, everything I hit the blighter with after that resulted in "no effect".. then he disrupted another rifle platoon and showed us the finger....... :(
It's going to be a long scenario.... :rolleyes:
The very first thing the Allied side did.... the VERY first.... was to move a rifle platoon and an MG platoon one hex to the side of a ridge.....with the sound of a German MG firing, the pop-up box shows.... reduced by 2 retreated.....what a stupendous start. :hissy:
Needless to say, everything I hit the blighter with after that resulted in "no effect".. then he disrupted another rifle platoon and showed us the finger....... :(
It's going to be a long scenario.... :rolleyes:
03-08-2007, 09:07 PM
Calling Fritz. Are u out there?, just in case u did not receive the turn, post here and i'll re-send it.
cheers
Robert
cheers
Robert
03-08-2007, 10:13 PM
Calling Hobie
Are u out there your email is hidden on this site, I have sent u personal message but received no reply as yet.
Please contact me so we can start this round
Cheers,
Gordon
Are u out there your email is hidden on this site, I have sent u personal message but received no reply as yet.
Please contact me so we can start this round
Cheers,
Gordon
03-09-2007, 05:14 AM
Hi Mark or Houston, we have a problem. It's the shortest game ever as Fritz admits defeat - only joshing, but seriously his WF disc is deader than a Dodo after it's being squashed......, so we cannot continue the game.
Can u come up with an alternative EFII game we can play?
Sorry to throw this at you.
cheers
Robert
Can u come up with an alternative EFII game we can play?
Sorry to throw this at you.
cheers
Robert
03-09-2007, 04:56 PM
Robert et Fritz
....Or I could just send you a modified WF.exe that I made that dispenses with the need for any of the WF CD's
send me an email on [email protected] and I can send you the files required along with instructions on how to install it.
Considering the age of this game and the inability to actually buy the Cd's anymore my EFII and WF cd's are far too valuable to be swapping in and out of DVD drives
Matt ~Digger
....Or I could just send you a modified WF.exe that I made that dispenses with the need for any of the WF CD's
send me an email on [email protected] and I can send you the files required along with instructions on how to install it.
Considering the age of this game and the inability to actually buy the Cd's anymore my EFII and WF cd's are far too valuable to be swapping in and out of DVD drives
Matt ~Digger