When did you first become interested in Warbirds?

cheddar cheese · 01-08-2005, 07:30 AM

That book of "Panzer Battles" looks like its been thrown at the screen in anger

the lancaster kicks ass · 01-08-2005, 07:42 AM

or the gnome was having a good read and dropped it.................

plan_D · 01-10-2005, 05:52 AM

We'll say the gnome was reading it, it's more interesting. In reality though, I just chucked it to pick up my beer then thought what a perfect scene...and took a picture...then picked up the beer.

The Jug Rules! · 01-10-2005, 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by plan_D

On my computer screen is waiting for an online game of Blitzkrieg. And the garden gnome, is a farting gnome which I just use to hold the mouse lead.

And I took that picture before I had been drinking, that's why there's no beer cans.

What's Blitzkrieg???

cheddar cheese · 01-10-2005, 10:01 AM

I dont know what the game is, but in WW2 is was the tactics used by the Germans to invade lots of countries in a short space of time...it means "Lightning war"

plan_D · 01-10-2005, 10:08 AM

In it's most basic form, CC.

Although the term Blitzkrieg was coined by an American editorial in New York Times in 1941.

Blitzkrieg is a World War 2 strategy game. Here's a screenshot. It only shows my infantry capturing a town (and a '88') but in the game you control artillery, armour, air and infantry.

cheddar cheese · 01-10-2005, 10:10 AM

Ah, so its a sort of WW2 interpretation of the Command and conquer: Red alert series?

plan_D · 01-10-2005, 10:13 AM

No. You don't get supplies, or collect supplies. You get given a certain amount of equipment and you have to do the mission with what you've got, or can capture.
Your tanks run out of ammo, get imobilised, there's line of sights, it's quite realisitc.

cheddar cheese · 01-10-2005, 10:16 AM

Cool, it looks fairly god. Might have to invest...

plan_D · 01-10-2005, 10:20 AM

Notice in the screen, troops are coming both sides of the village. I completely surrounded it, and destroyed a lot of the German supply trucks trying to resupply the two StuGIIIs that were in there.
I also got to capture the 88 which supplemented my two 40mm Bofors, for AA cover. And a lot of those craters were done by Wellingtons, but I lost all four of my Humber Mk. I armoured cars in doing the job.

That's in France 1940.

cheddar cheese · 01-10-2005, 10:21 AM

Cool

plan_D · 01-10-2005, 10:26 AM

Here's one from the Narvik mission, just at the start. I sent out a Hurricane to provide air cover, since you don't get any AA cannon. Just three 25 pdrs and 6 squads.

cheddar cheese · 01-10-2005, 10:46 AM

Nice...why does it say Birch Tree at the bottom?

plan_D · 01-10-2005, 10:48 AM

Because I had my cursor over a Birch tree, and it feels the need to inform you what everything is. If I had it over a man, it'd say British Lee-Enfield .303. Then have the armour values (for a man, 0) and penertration and damage values.