Refuse to retreat

[marquo]

I for one am very thankful for the change; I had a beautifully constructed corps under Longstreet purse a Union stack from Manassas to Montgomery County then next to Alexandria where it blindly attacked itself to death against the dug in defenders....


Ridiculous...

[BattleVonWar]

I for one am very thankful for the change; I had a beautifully constructed corps under Longstreet purse a Union stack from Manassas to Montgomery County then next to Alexandria where it blindly attacked itself to death against the dug in defenders....


Ridiculous...

Had a player show me some mercy...

I got caught in a siege learning the basics... unit inside not outside... 1st battle
I had stalemate...the siege was not lifted...they became locked with my entire Army in the West in a war for nothing(1 other division sat outside the besieged city unable to help, I tried several losing battles or methods to attempt to extract my teeth, all got eaten). The player and myself agreed on a Gentleman's agreement to let my units out. If the same happened to him I would in turn give the same quarter. If a unit has no place to escape I can see, no place to run. I was fighting in the Springfield region. This region would be about the size of a small Eastern State. 5,000 or 10,000 men could slip in and out of there with a lot adjacent friendly areas without an issue. So if my troops had been pinned due to a larger force it would probably require a lot of men to pin 5,000 under a good leader in such a region. Even my Cavalry and fast units could not escape. Pinning troops in a region where they are not fixed to a location is difficult to decide on. I can see exploits with this as well... tiny little provinces that are more like mini-cities would be more easy to pin. Larger ones would be impossible... This is the mechanics of terrain. This is a complex item! I don't know enough about this game yet but as I learn more I hope see understand the full pain both ways. Also to offer my opponents a fair shake not an exploit to escape a bad decision.

[RickInVA]

With regard to RickInVA's post, it starts out already with an accusation of my not putting an effort into trying to understand ifailmore, which is simply not true.

Captain, Actually the begining of my post was a lighthearted jab at you, because in a post showing your frustration with incorrect and incoherent English, you proceeded to do so yourself. Time not well spent is a waste. The area of your body above your hips and below your rib cage is your waist. Hence I was jabbing that you should make sure you were using proper English before railing at others for not doing so. It was only a mild jab, hence the smiley.

[khbynum]

Come on, Sir_Bear, everyone on the forum respects your knowledge of the game and values your advice. But sometimes, you act like a bear with a toothache. There's no need to insult people because they write poorly; you often misspell words, use constructions that are less than clear or submit posts that seem not to have been proofread. Nobody points them out because we know what you mean and perhaps because you are a respected member of the forum. You sometimes pounce on people for not knowing the answer to their own question, even though it's been discussed in the forum. Well, a lot of people are new. If you don't want to repeat your own excellent advice, just don't reply. Newcomers need help, not scorn.

Respectfully,
khbynum

[Captain_Orso]

Captain, Actually the begining of my post was a lighthearted jab at you, because in a post showing your frustration with incorrect and incoherent English, you proceeded to do so yourself. Time not well spent is a waste. The area of your body above your hips and below your rib cage is your waist. Hence I was jabbing that you should make sure you were using proper English before railing at others for not doing so. It was only a mild jab, hence the smiley.

Well, having a poke at my waist is certainly not an easy target to miss

Come on, Sir_Bear, everyone on the forum respects your knowledge of the game and values your advice. But sometimes, you act like a bear with a toothache. There's no need to insult people because they write poorly; you often misspell words, use constructions that are less than clear or submit posts that seem not to have been proofread. Nobody points them out because we know what you mean and perhaps because you are a respected member of the forum. You sometimes pounce on people for not knowing the answer to their own question, even though it's been discussed in the forum. Well, a lot of people are new. If you don't want to repeat your own excellent advice, just don't reply. Newcomers need help, not scorn.

Respectfully,
khbynum

It's an easily confirmed fact that I often enough use the wrong spelling of homophones. I'll not deny that in the least. My frustration with ifailmore's post was not 'poor writing', but a complete lack of effort to write comprehensibly, as evidenced by a text of 85 words, some run together, without a single punctuation mark. This is in my eyes insulting. And you're right. I should just skip over such posts and ignore them, where by when I say "such posts" I honestly cannot remember having read such a post in the forum until now, and I include the many post from non-native English speakers who use incorrect grammar, but still make an honest attempt at being understood. I have not seldom politely requested clarification if I were not certain of their meaning.

If I appear to "pounce" on new gamers for not knowing something, that truly makes me sad. I can only guess that you mean when I say that something has already been discussed in the forum. That is not meant as a "pounce", but as a tip that there is more in the forum to be found on the subject, if one wishes to search for it. I am sure that I also answered the poster's question in addition to my misunderstood hint.

I appreciate these critiques greatly and will take them to heart.

I apologizes for my previous caustic posts and the misunderstandings I have caused.

[DrPostman]

FWIW Capt_Orso I had trouble comprehending him too, and he claims to
be an Aussie, so his command of English ought to have been better. I've
been playing the game since early beta and never ran into what I think
he was describing.

[Straight Arrow]

A warning for forum members about bears.

A number of years ago, I lived out in the bush in Alaska.

In early spring, bears come out of hibernation. It's a touchy time of the year to be around them. They are lean and mean and other then roots, and an occasional caribou calf, there's not much for them to eat.

Perhaps Captain_Orso is suffering from this very natural seasonal event. The forum could reduce the snarling and keep him from raiding garbage dumps by posting nice juicy tidbits.

So feed the bear!

[Stauffenberg]

Perhaps Captain_Orso is suffering from this very natural seasonal event. The forum could reduce the snarling and keep him from raiding garbage dumps by posting nice juicy tidbits.

So feed the bear!

The inimitable Orso was, and remains, the resident AACW Mentat for myself and others I am sure. After a few years away from this it is good to come back and see the bear still in action.

As I do a fair bit of online editing these days I suppose I have become inured to lazy, informal blurts that cry out for punctuation, if not a complete reexamination of what is trying to be said in the first place. The irritation is minimal at this point and I'll cut the person some slack and move on; that said however, if the post had been in the form of a paper to be marked I would have come down on it like a ton of bricks, as Orso did. It's ok to get irked I think, and the fact that ifailmore seems to have taken it in stride bears that out.

Keep up the good work Orso I learn something with almost every post of yours.

[marquo]

Some time ago I went to a Tillercon featuring PzC and ACW computer games; the computers were set up in a large meeting hall in Mechanicsville, VA. It was a bit surreal to connect faces and names with Cyber Avatars and having real conversations with fellow players. I was very struck by one individual who was wheelchair bound and aphasic after suffering a stroke...still managed to play yet speech was all but unintelligible...damn good player.

Cheers

[bommerrang]

So....the hot fix still didn't address this problem? That's what I read on the other thread.

[BattleVonWar]

This reminds me of my Paradox Forum buddies, we played EU2 for almost 4 years on and off. We would spend 4 or 5 hours some wed night 400 year Marathon Games. So much detail, editing, and contributing. All that is gone now and I haven't heard from anyone, we played a few Age of Empires matches back in '08 and HOI2 as a family reunion. Though some of us lived in New Zealand so I doubt meeting was ever a possibility. Had similar families on Battlefront and other places.

Great thing about the family and player devotion is they want to beat you big time when you fight them : ) ... and play with a bit of integrity. Of course as far as I was concerned if it fell with the rules of integrity I still want to beat the living crap out of you. Or die a good death...

This is wonderful to have here. I am facing major illness ... always been an outlet psychological, war gaming. : ) I'd rather a passionate player who cares about his game then a player who is like, c'est la vie. :P

Some time ago I went to a Tillercon featuring PzC and ACW computer games; the computers were set up in a large meeting hall in Mechanicsville, VA. It was a bit surreal to connect faces and names with Cyber Avatars and having real conversations with fellow players. I was very struck by one individual who was wheelchair bound and aphasic after suffering a stroke...still managed to play yet speech was all but unintelligible...damn good player.

Cheers