Comments on: My First Combat Jump http://gdmike.statbuff.com/2007/07/29/my-first-combat-jump/ News, opinions, articles, tips & tricks on game development with an Indie twist. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:49:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Peter Roehlen http://gdmike.statbuff.com/2007/07/29/my-first-combat-jump/#comment-23024 Peter Roehlen Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:14:45 +0000 http://gdmike.statbuff.com/2007/07/29/my-first-combat-jump/#comment-23024 National Socialism (Nazi) was a political party. Many ordinary Germans were members. Many weren't. It's offensive to label every German soldier with that tag. I couldn't play the game, let alone the Axis side, if I thought I was playing "a Nazi". National Socialism (Nazi) was a political party. Many ordinary Germans were members. Many weren’t. It’s offensive to label every German soldier with that tag. I couldn’t play the game, let alone the Axis side, if I thought I was playing “a Nazi”.

]]> By: Linnon http://gdmike.statbuff.com/2007/07/29/my-first-combat-jump/#comment-22794 Linnon Sat, 04 Aug 2007 19:15:58 +0000 http://gdmike.statbuff.com/2007/07/29/my-first-combat-jump/#comment-22794 Battleground Europe: Battle for Ciney August 2nd. The Allies were pushing hard with numbers to retake the "crossroads" town of Ciney. It is a city where many roads meet and inevitably the Axis and Allies fight bitterly over it. The Axis had held out but their supply and manpower was in jeaopardy. Within minutes the city would be in Allied hands, however this was not the end.. the Axis began moving in from positions behind the frontline to stage their immediate counter attack. I quickly entered the scene as a specialized French infantry unit known as a "sapper" (engineer with demolition explosives capable of destroying enemy tanks.) Stalking enemy tanks is deadly business. They have extremely deadly machine guns and powerful optics for spotting threats. If nothing else, they will run you over with their tracks! Moving into position the first Axis Panzers begin to apear on the hillcrest that I have chosen to defend. First a Panzer 3h. I moves toward me unaware as I'm concealed in thick hedges. He passes by me and rolls to a cautious stop to scan for targets. Luckily I'm fairly close and quickly sneak to his position creeping up quietly beside. I place the charge in a particularly deadly spot with a "click." Within seconds his tank is a flaming heap of scrap metal. As this is happening another panzer can be heard approaching, unaware. Quickly moving to cover I wait. Amazingly he stops less than 100m away..presumeably to scan for danger and possible targets. This is a Panzer 3f..an early WWII tank but not to be underestimated. It could slice me to bits in seconds with its dual mounted machineguns. I repeat my pattern, moving closer, quietly until.. "click" I race away from the charge to avoid being blown to bits by my own explosives. Within seconds his tank is flaming. Soon other vehicles are moving past me. Trucks, halftracks, armored personnel carriers, tank destroyers. They can be destroyed but these targets are out of range. Soon a "232" (German scout vehicle) and a STUG G tank destroyer move near me and stop. They assume they are safe as the others have passed through this area untouched. I move to the 232 first, placing a charge on his engine. Then racing as fast as possible to the nearby STUG G I place my final charge. "BOOM.... BOOOM!" Two more kills Back to back! The relief of a fourth and final kill put me at ease..but I relax too soon. As all this was going on a german rifleman has spotted me and moved to a concealed position. I move toward cover only to hear the distinct K98 rifle fire.. I fall to the ground.. dead in my tracks, but not without taking a few of the axis with me first! Battleground Europe: Battle for Ciney August 2nd. The Allies were pushing hard with numbers to retake the “crossroads” town of Ciney. It is a city where many roads meet and inevitably the Axis and Allies fight bitterly over it. The Axis had held out but their supply and manpower was in jeaopardy. Within minutes the city would be in Allied hands, however this was not the end.. the Axis began moving in from positions behind the frontline to stage their immediate counter attack.
I quickly entered the scene as a specialized French infantry unit known as a “sapper” (engineer with demolition explosives capable of destroying enemy tanks.) Stalking enemy tanks is deadly business. They have extremely deadly machine guns and powerful optics for spotting threats. If nothing else, they will run you over with their tracks!

Moving into position the first Axis Panzers begin to apear on the hillcrest that I have chosen to defend. First a Panzer 3h. I moves toward me unaware as I’m concealed in thick hedges. He passes by me and rolls to a cautious stop to scan for targets. Luckily I’m fairly close and quickly sneak to his position creeping up quietly beside. I place the charge in a particularly deadly spot with a “click.” Within seconds his tank is a flaming heap of scrap metal. As this is happening another panzer can be heard approaching, unaware. Quickly moving to cover I wait. Amazingly he stops less than 100m away..presumeably to scan for danger and possible targets. This is a Panzer 3f..an early WWII tank but not to be underestimated. It could slice me to bits in seconds with its dual mounted machineguns. I repeat my pattern, moving closer, quietly until.. “click” I race away from the charge to avoid being blown to bits by my own explosives. Within seconds his tank is flaming. Soon other vehicles are moving past me. Trucks, halftracks, armored personnel carriers, tank destroyers. They can be destroyed but these targets are out of range. Soon a “232″ (German scout vehicle) and a STUG G tank destroyer move near me and stop. They assume they are safe as the others have passed through this area untouched. I move to the 232 first, placing a charge on his engine. Then racing as fast as possible to the nearby STUG G I place my final charge. “BOOM…. BOOOM!” Two more kills Back to back! The relief of a fourth and final kill put me at ease..but I relax too soon. As all this was going on a german rifleman has spotted me and moved to a concealed position. I move toward cover only to hear the distinct K98 rifle fire.. I fall to the ground.. dead in my tracks, but not without taking a few of the axis with me first!

]]> By: gdmike http://gdmike.statbuff.com/2007/07/29/my-first-combat-jump/#comment-22739 gdmike Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:23:56 +0000 http://gdmike.statbuff.com/2007/07/29/my-first-combat-jump/#comment-22739 Thanks for posting that. Anyone unfamiliar with the game will have difficulty with some of the terminology, but I think it still gets the point across :) Anyone else with stories from the game, do feel free to post the short ones here, or post links to longer ones. BTW, when posting links on any Wordpress blog (and most blogging platforms, actually), use HTML anchor tags, not [url] tags. Also, use complete URLs. I was going to fix it for you but the URL you used is incomplete. Thanks for posting that. Anyone unfamiliar with the game will have difficulty with some of the terminology, but I think it still gets the point across :) Anyone else with stories from the game, do feel free to post the short ones here, or post links to longer ones.

BTW, when posting links on any Wordpress blog (and most blogging platforms, actually), use HTML anchor tags, not [url] tags. Also, use complete URLs. I was going to fix it for you but the URL you used is incomplete.

]]> By: Allibone http://gdmike.statbuff.com/2007/07/29/my-first-combat-jump/#comment-22729 Allibone Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:52:59 +0000 http://gdmike.statbuff.com/2007/07/29/my-first-combat-jump/#comment-22729 good to hear you enjoyed your experience with WWIIOL this time around. i am in a strategic bombing squad and fly fighter escort for them on bombing raids to the German factories, I actually posted my own AAR in the games forums last night about our last mission, so if you don't mind i will also post it here to give people a chance to see what other types of gameplay are available. Wow that was an amazing flight, best in a while. We had 5 DB7 bombers with 1 P38 + 2 Spit IXc escorts. We had 1st contact with a 109 about 25klm from monchen gladbach who was at grey circle range behind the flight. Juvenal one of our Spit IXc escorts broke off to intercept, he was able to make a pass but unable to shoot the 109f down, by this time hte 109 was much closer tou the flight so I dove in at very high speed and was able to get a few cannon hits on his rear before pulling up again. By now there was a further 109f below the flight and climbing and a Fw190 was also in the fray. We managed to harrass the EA, making multiple passes at them but keeping speed and kept them off the flight, we succcessfully got bombs on target taking MG to 72% damage. As we turned to RTB and headed west, there were 3 EA behind the flight and more also coming in from the south, by this point only Codguy in a P38 and me in my Spit remained to escort, we lost Juvenal during the fight, he was shot down by Ishi***a in a 109f. On our way back it was a melee, there were about 5 EA behind the flight and 1 109f managed to dive in from alt and got amongst the flight whilst I was still keeping an eye on the trailing EA. He managed to take Ma's DB7 apart before Codguy who had alt to burn, dove in on the 109f who was by now taking steady chunks out of Hiiamben's DB7 ( Ben's cries of get him off me guys!!! really didn't help ) Codguy sprayed the 109 but was too fast and only got 1 pass on him before I was able to catch but the 109 was evading like crazy and also trying to follow ben's DB7 and I could never get an effective solution on him, and managed only a few cannon hits. he eventually went into a spin and I left him behind as I tried to regain the flight. i was now 15klm behind the flight with 2 EA below me I headed back to brussels and made 1 pass on a Fw190 managing a few hits before he rolled to evade. I regained alt for safety and headed back home. As belgar and Main4ce were circling to land at brussels a 109 managed to sneak up and send main4ce crashing to the ground in flames. Upon despawn i had 7 damages and 4 kills, which I was more than happy with after a gruelling flight I was just happy to be alive! S! to the Luftwaffe interceptors, hope you guys enjoyed yourselves aswell and gave you a taste of what thr RDP airwar can be like. [url]http://csr.wwiionline.com/scripts/se...=125235&page=1[/url] good to hear you enjoyed your experience with WWIIOL this time around. i am in a strategic bombing squad and fly fighter escort for them on bombing raids to the German factories, I actually posted my own AAR in the games forums last night about our last mission, so if you don’t mind i will also post it here to give people a chance to see what other types of gameplay are available.

Wow that was an amazing flight, best in a while. We had 5 DB7 bombers with 1 P38 + 2 Spit IXc escorts. We had 1st contact with a 109 about 25klm from monchen gladbach who was at grey circle range behind the flight. Juvenal one of our Spit IXc escorts broke off to intercept, he was able to make a pass but unable to shoot the 109f down, by this time hte 109 was much closer tou the flight so I dove in at very high speed and was able to get a few cannon hits on his rear before pulling up again. By now there was a further 109f below the flight and climbing and a Fw190 was also in the fray.
We managed to harrass the EA, making multiple passes at them but keeping speed and kept them off the flight, we succcessfully got bombs on target taking MG to 72% damage.

As we turned to RTB and headed west, there were 3 EA behind the flight and more also coming in from the south, by this point only Codguy in a P38 and me in my Spit remained to escort, we lost Juvenal during the fight, he was shot down by Ishi***a in a 109f.

On our way back it was a melee, there were about 5 EA behind the flight and 1 109f managed to dive in from alt and got amongst the flight whilst I was still keeping an eye on the trailing EA. He managed to take Ma’s DB7 apart before Codguy who had alt to burn, dove in on the 109f who was by now taking steady chunks out of Hiiamben’s DB7 ( Ben’s cries of get him off me guys!!! really didn’t help ) Codguy sprayed the 109 but was too fast and only got 1 pass on him before I was able to catch but the 109 was evading like crazy and also trying to follow ben’s DB7 and I could never get an effective solution on him, and managed only a few cannon hits. he eventually went into a spin and I left him behind as I tried to regain the flight.

i was now 15klm behind the flight with 2 EA below me I headed back to brussels and made 1 pass on a Fw190 managing a few hits before he rolled to evade. I regained alt for safety and headed back home.

As belgar and Main4ce were circling to land at brussels a 109 managed to sneak up and send main4ce crashing to the ground in flames.

Upon despawn i had 7 damages and 4 kills, which I was more than happy with after a gruelling flight I was just happy to be alive!

S! to the Luftwaffe interceptors, hope you guys enjoyed yourselves aswell and gave you a taste of what thr RDP airwar can be like.

[url]http://csr.wwiionline.com/scripts/se…=125235&page=1[/url]

]]> By: Sres http://gdmike.statbuff.com/2007/07/29/my-first-combat-jump/#comment-22728 Sres Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:28:24 +0000 http://gdmike.statbuff.com/2007/07/29/my-first-combat-jump/#comment-22728 Have played this game for a long time and enjoy it a lot. Have played this game for a long time and enjoy it a lot.

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