Hmmmmm

[UglyElmo2]

LOL

I can't see going back for long either Annie. Though, I will for Tomisama and the Hunters, to be used as a practice dummy for them to beat up on. :)

I have to contend with my kids, so the limited time I have I check my email, respond, do a bit of foruming, but nothing online at the moment. I am playing several different PBEMs: CivIV, M2TW RetroFit, Combat Mission Barbarossa to Berlin and Afrika Korp. and a couple of games of GO.

Other than that, I let the kids use the PCs to do their homework, and chat with their friends.



It's great to see all these old veterans still around. I miss the days of old, when we challenged each other almost nightly to improve our game.

Who here remembers my vanilla MTW1, All-Missile Army of Doom? Or my original ElmoHead faction army? woot! hehe

[pevergreen]

Is...that...Elmo? I've been waiting so long for this!

Elmos back!

[UglyElmo2]

Hi Pevergreen! I remember when you first joined here! Glad to see you stuck it out.

[pevergreen]

I was waiting for you to come back

I still remember the discussions we had on Mario Kart

[UglyElmo2]

LOL You should play the new Wii version of the game! My son and daughter kick my butt every time. SIGH I love the steering controls the Wii uses for the game.

[pevergreen]

I should play it? I own it Getting Super Smash Brothers Brawl tomorrow!!!

[UglyElmo2]

I wasn't as impressed with the Smash Bros. for the Wii. My kids like it, but I felt the gamecube version had more control. The Wii version seems to have a bit more lag, and I don't find the maps as well done. It may be because of the size of the characters, which now seem larger than the gamecube version. :)

My favorite Wii game of all is Tiger Woods 2008. The Wii was made for such games.

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

LOL

I can't see going back for long either Annie. Though, I will for Tomisama and the Hunters, to be used as a practice dummy for them to beat up on. :)

I have to contend with my kids, so the limited time I have I check my email, respond, do a bit of foruming, but nothing online at the moment. I am playing several different PBEMs: CivIV, M2TW RetroFit, Combat Mission Barbarossa to Berlin and Afrika Korp. and a couple of games of GO.

Other than that, I let the kids use the PCs to do their homework, and chat with their friends.



It's great to see all these old veterans still around. I miss the days of old, when we challenged each other almost nightly to improve our game.

Who here remembers my vanilla MTW1, All-Missile Army of Doom? Or my original ElmoHead faction army? woot! hehe

My Swiss Army with my Castle 2_5_2 Will take care of your armies!!

[UglyElmo2]

Is that the castle that had the balista towers and 3 walls you had to penetrate before even reaching the majority of your troops? :) Even in MTW1, it would be hard to beat.

Now, a nice bridge battle, I think I remember how to attack those. I was an expert at one time.

[t1master]

an expert on turning your furry red arse and running....

[UglyElmo2]

LOL Woot! True. Very True!

But I routed with flare and purpose!

[t1master]

indeed.

i cannot remember how many army's followed you into the maw of our trap... too much fun, it makes me sad at times that the new stuff is not as complicated as the simple graphics of stw/mtw...

[NimbleNota]

Hello Elmo

[tibilicus]

Hi elmo,

you were the same elmarkofear I rember don't you. Or was a bateling for a different completly unrelated cause for elmarkofear and your unrelated.

Sorry but it has been a long time my memory evades me.

wow this could be embarasing if im wrong...

REALLY embarasing...

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

Is that the castle that had the balista towers and 3 walls you had to penetrate before even reaching the majority of your troops? :) Even in MTW1, it would be hard to beat.

Now, a nice bridge battle, I think I remember how to attack those. I was an expert at one time.

Yes It Was! Up For One?


Bridges I was expert on, but lost my touch on them. Team Bridges Always was Fun on VI. I remember in July of 04 or so, A Buddy of mine and I was doing a castle game on VI, and he told me about Castle 2_5_2 while I was using my Swiss Army (never changed, kept the same one!), and I used the Castle ever since. Good Castle to Defend, Bad For Attacking

[UglyElmo2]

I remember attacking one of those larger castles, and my enemy ended up with less kills than me, since most of his were from ballista and arrow towers. However, he still won the battle, since my poor guys were steadily depleted while he stood his ground with his spear units, allowing his towers to do their thing. hehe

T1: I remember some of the players wondering how they could have gotten beaten by a team with me as one of its members. Especially after I charged their frontlines by myself and routed so easily. hehe

Though, after awhile, some learned not to pursue when my men routed, and not leaving their nice defensive positions to avoid being slaughtered by my waiting teammates. Those who chose to believe my routing was not part of an overall plan, normally found out they were mistaken in their beliefs. I never got many kills, but my routed men normally could be rounded up and used to help cover my teammates' flanks and distract enemy units long enough for my teammates to do their thing.

Those type of tactics don't work in the current game engine unfortunately. I think it is because the morale/fighting penalties from fatigue and other factors like height, being outnumbered, etc were modified to not have as great an effect on the outcome of the battles as they used to. Which is another reason I didn't play M2TW MP as much as Shogun and MTW1.

I hope this next game engine brings back those factors to increase the learning difficulty for advanced players, while keeping the game mechanics simple so new players will stick around long enough to learn the nuances of the game. Experience meant a lot in Shogun and MTW1, while unit selection meant more in RTW and M2TW.

Now that CA has a much larger market of experienced players, they could increase the difficulty level up to the old Shogun/MTW1 levels with no detrimental effect.

[Swoosh So]

:D nice to see some old farts still visit the forums if not play the game, havent been intotthe tw community in a while but planning to start playing single player again, anyone know of a good completed mod for mtw2?

[UglyElmo2]

Retrofit. It also allows for MP hotseat play. :) Good to see ya Swoosh, how is your ugli self doing?

One of these days, I will get the ole Ugli site up and start gathering the old gang together again.

[Ricochet]

Who here remembers my vanilla MTW1, All-Missile Army of Doom?

Hi Elmo long time it has been...