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Signs You Might Be Addicted To This Game - 9/5/2001 8:36:00 PM

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Hello fellow gamers, After my girlfriend was surprised last night when I shouted "CRAP!!" into the phone (playing SPWAW while talking to her) when one of my T-34's was exploded by a StugIIIG, I thought of a little list that might indicate you are addicted to this game...not as if that is a bad thing, or even that a wargamer has any powers of resistance to this game, however. LOL. 1. You constantly refer to distances in # of hexes. 2. You refer to your house as a "single hex brick structure" 3. You can't remember your significant other's birthday to save your life, but you know the penetration values for a Panther G with AP ammo at 15 hexes. 4. You have calculated front, side, and rear armor values for your car/truck. 5. You are reluctant to drive into a dense urban area without "heavy infantry support" 6. When 9 of your friends are out somewhere, you invariably appoint a "squad leader." 7. You've mapped out your neighborhood in the map editor, and pre-registered your artillery on annoying neighbors' houses. 8. You can't go anywhere without assigning an "objective." 9. When asked "how's the weather?" you respond with "visibility 3, rain." Hope you liked those heheh. When digging through old posts, I found a thread about things people always say while playing. Here's mine: "Is everybody and their MOTHER shooting at me?" When a tank/AT gun scores a hit and the enemy vehicle explodes: "WOHOO!!" (while pumping fist up and down) After congratulating oneself after taking out 2 Tigers by a careful, multi-turn approach only to see another platoon of them come into view: "Geez, how many of these bastards do they HAVE?" When your 75% shot misses and the enemy kills you with a 8% shot, despite moving in the same turn: "WHAT THE HELL!!??"
Ciao,
-Tim

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- 9/5/2001 9:08:00 PM

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re#5...I've often wanted infantry support when in dense urban areas and it had nothing to do with SP

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- 9/5/2001 10:01:00 PM

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I would like to add: 10. When driving to work, you take note of the defensibility of terrain (Would my AT guns see everything from that hill? I could hull down my tank in that ravine)

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- 9/5/2001 11:12:00 PM

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11. After playing a Wild Bill scenario you are afraid to even mow the lawn for fear of stepping on another &%@&!!! Mine.

Hey you never know. Alvins

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- 9/5/2001 11:29:00 PM

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AHAHAHAHAHAAH
you guys !!!!
LOLOLOLOL
15) When your girlfriend invites home new wonderful nice new friend and you suddenly think you would try to "infiltrating behind enemy lines " 16) You now understand that your dog has always been a pack mule 17 ) When sitting in your chair you always dug-in

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- 9/6/2001 1:21:00 AM

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18. When watching war movies, you find yourself nodding and saying to yourself, "Yes, the machine guns on those German half-tracks sound correct."

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- 9/6/2001 1:44:00 AM

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19. When driving to work, you take a moment to note and admire the nice sloping angle of your front windshield 20. Your first thought after a rock chip glances off said front windshield is; "Whew.....the armor held." 21. A case of sweaty palms develops along with the urge to write a last will and testiment before starting the latest Wild Bill scenerio 22. You argue a point made by another poster (on other boards) about a specific tank's characteristics and base the seat of your argument from data gleaned off the SP:WAW OOB's.

[ September 05, 2001: Message edited by: Nikademus ]

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- 9/6/2001 2:38:00 AM

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lnp4668, I knew this game had soaked deeply into my brain one day when my wife was in the car with me. I pointed out that a certain area of terrain, with the right weapons would make the road we were on impassable. She looked at me as if I were Jesus appearing before her. She told me the game had to go. I just hid it on another hard drive on my computer under a folder named Cabs. She never looks in folders that sound like they have something to do with the operation of the computer. Dasvadanya.

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- 9/6/2001 3:22:00 AM

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quote:

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lnp4668, I knew this game had soaked deeply into my brain one day when my wife was in the car with me. I pointed out that a certain area of terrain, with the right weapons would make the road we were on impassable. She looked at me as if I were Jesus appearing before her. She told me the game had to go. I just hid it on another hard drive on my computer under a folder named Cabs. She never looks in folders that sound like they have something to do with the operation of the computer. Dasvadanya.

I am glad I am not the only fanatic around here

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- 9/6/2001 4:44:00 AM

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23... Show up for work on Monday morning, hair messy, white stuff in the corners of my eyes, I stink like a weasel.
The guys there are winking at me, saying things like "Looks like Brad got LUCKY last night!!" and "Hehe, did you wear yer rain-gear?"
I reply, "Lucky? Yeah, I sure was, came through whole session with hardly a scratch."
"OH, she is not a screamer, she is a SCRATHCHER, eh? (nudge nudge). Boss says, "What do you have to say for yourself? You look terrible!"
I mumble "Katyushas 'n Stukas."
He says, Fine, but I will need a letter from your doctor, okay? Take the rest of the day off."

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- 9/6/2001 5:01:00 AM

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Looking through my window; "Great distances. Lots of view to the empty streets" If i just had a sniper rifle or a lmg and it would be a war here... Not to mention thered be som room for ATG in our balcany which has a great 90 degree view downwards to shoot tanks. Its just that artillery fire might break it too easily. The roof isnt that good. [ September 05, 2001: Message edited by: Zakhal ]

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- 9/6/2001 5:56:00 AM

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Was adding some PVC sprinkler lines to the front yard a couple weeks ago so I sketched out a quick layout on graph paper to bring with me to Home Depot. After several changes it started looking sloppy and I actually considered attempting to try doing it with the Map Editor. I can hear the guy at Home Depot now: 'OK sir, you 'll need 8 ten foot sections of PVC, three 90 degree elbows, and....what's a Maxim HMG??'

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- 9/6/2001 6:20:00 AM

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quote:

Originally posted by ectizen:
18. When watching war movies, you find yourself nodding and saying to yourself, "Yes, the machine guns on those German half-tracks sound correct."

--------------------------------------------------Yes! Exactly! I can't stop myself. During "Saving Pvt Ryan": Are those real Tigers?
-or mock-ups? Aha! no forward drive sprockets!
They're in the back! Bogus! t-34 with a cosmetic
hull! Hmmm. Not bad, though.

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- 9/6/2001 7:11:00 AM

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It's been mentioned before than SPWaW fans are approaching the level of Star Trek fans for their loyalty. The hard core Star Trek fans are called "Trekkers", as we all know. What do you call the hardcore SPWaW fans? How about "World at Warriors", or "Panther Grenadiers", or "Spwawns (yeah, try to pronounce that)". Got any ideas? We could make it a contest , maybe.

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- 9/6/2001 7:23:00 AM

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OK, here it is. I've even got a code name. We call ourselves the "SpWaWns", but for simplicity, we say "Swans". We oughta use that . The Swans meet in springnext. Sorry, guys, I dived into cheesiness there.

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- 9/6/2001 8:18:00 AM

parusski

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KG I go for SPAWNS. We are after all spawns of the great SPWAW.

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- 9/6/2001 8:27:00 AM

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OK, parusski, I like Spawns. How about that, guys?

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- 9/6/2001 8:45:00 AM

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Sound Good...

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- 9/6/2001 8:53:00 AM

parusski

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Oh the joy. For once I have contributed something useful to the forum.

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- 9/6/2001 9:13:00 AM

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You might be a SPAWN if .... all you can think about is that one pbem move you wished you could take back.

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- 9/6/2001 9:47:00 AM

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You look at your boss and say, "It's late due to operational necessity. I am going to wait three turns until my Fallschirmjager land. Then we'll advance upon those four victory hexes." troopie

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- 9/6/2001 1:21:00 PM

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In an effort to take a break from the game, you find yourself making another map (with more difficult terrain), and/or you find yourself creating more OOB's just for the fun of it!

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- 9/6/2001 2:21:00 PM

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Behind a wargamer there is an homourist!

Really appreciated yours posts guys!

By the way, does someone know armour of a citroen Sax�, especially rear armour!

Regards.

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- 9/6/2001 2:57:00 PM

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SPAWNS. nice code name. sounds good

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- 9/6/2001 7:31:00 PM

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quote:

Originally posted by ectizen:
18. When watching war movies, you find yourself nodding and saying to yourself, "Yes, the machine guns on those German half-tracks sound correct."

Hehehhe Ive done that!!

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- 9/6/2001 8:16:00 PM

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Lol i love SPaWns

Did you ever notice that most 'Tigers' in US WW2 films are just M24 Chaffees with german markings

Ok i'll be back to work as soon as i finish cleaning the 6 hexes of garden

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- 9/6/2001 10:13:00 PM

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quote:

Originally posted by O de B:
Lol i love SPaWns
Did you ever notice that most 'Tigers' in US WW2 films are just M24 Chaffees with german markings Ok i'll be back to work as soon as i finish cleaning the 6 hexes of garden

The "tigers" in "the Battle of the Bulge" Looked an awful lot like pershings to me!!
The US tanks that opposed them appeared to be chaffees.

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- 9/6/2001 10:32:00 PM

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The "Tigers" in Kelly's Heroes were dolled-up T-34s...didn't look half-bad I thought

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- 9/6/2001 11:02:00 PM

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quote:

Originally posted by lnp4668:
I would like to add: 10. When driving to work, you take note of the defensibility of terrain (Would my AT guns see everything from that hill? I could hull down my tank in that ravine)

I remember this from when I was a kid, way before SPWAW (Must have been the Panzer Leader). I never told anyone, figured I was crazy.

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- 9/6/2001 11:46:00 PM

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LOL - love this stuff!! Here's another: When your spouse wants to get romantic and you say "As soon as I see what's over this next hill". Then 2 turns later you find she is asleep. The scariest thing ever said to me was "If you wake the baby up AGAIN - you will be breast feeding him"!! I got real quiet!! Figmo

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