Lazarus_Long

Thanks guys, sorry about the profanity! I really had to vent or my head would have exploded. So long.

Well this sucks major fucking ass... My unit is mobilizing, I'm officially on active duty again as of tomorrow at 1200. Â They are shipping us overseas off to god knows fucking where! Â (I have a good idea where)... You can be sure that things are looking pretty bad when the government decides to activate a little hodunk light infantry unit like mine! Â They didn't even avtivate us during Desert Storm! Â We are just a bunch of college kids and a few crusty old timers who should have retired a long time ago. Â Very few people have any previous active duty service. Â This is majorly fucked up. Â My whole college plan just went down the drain. My graduation date will have to be pushed back another year if I'm even still alive! Â If they send us into combat we are dead meat! Â Our CO is a fucking retard! Ok, the reason for this post is not to really make an announcement of my deployment but rather a last opportunity for me to make a public "fuck you statement". Â Here we go: Fuck all you mother fuckers who voted for that war mongering money hungry oil sucking shit bag in the White House. Â Fuck all you fucking arm chair generals who supports his insane crusade. You'd be singing a different tune if your own ass was on the line! Â Fight your own fucking wars if you had any fucking balls! Â Fuck Saddam Hussein, Fuck Osama Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda, Fuck Iraq, and Fuck the entire Middle East!! Fuck North Korea and... who did I forget. Anyway, If you'll excuse me I have to get back to spend some time with my wife and my 16 month old son before I leave. I hope you war supporters are happy! Your shit storm you've been begging for is about to come true! Happy fucking New Years!

Yes you guys need to be careful with the airstrikes. Just like in real-life, the bombers may not drop their payload exactly at the coordinates you intended, especially if they are too close to any enemy installations such as the VC mortars position that you are supposed to neutralize. Also keep in mind that the napalm will completely destroy anything within a 55m radius. There is no way to hide from the flames. These kind of mistakes happened more frequently than they should in real life during the Vietnam War. Many US service men lost their life this way.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (MrMilli @ Dec. 26 2002,18:34)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">A lot of people are missing the point about this exercise. What else were they supposed to do? pat the guy on the back and go home for tea and medals? then there would be another article up here about how the US wasted $250m on a useless exercise that didn't even get off the ground.<span id='postcolor'> I agree, training is training. You have to try to get the most out of it once it's rolling. It would be considered "waste fraud and abuse" to just end it once you failed. If things go to shit and the opfor's get the upper hand, you call a time-out, figure out what went wrong, then try the excercise again until you get it right. This is what all military services do. Many lessons were learned from Van Ripen's initial successes, and you can bet your boots that many people got a major ass chewing for it. Reading about Van Ripens tactics, I also found them a bit unrealistic, so I understand why some of the Navy brass complained. This is what training is all about. Finding weaknesses in your own tactics. When you realize you've made a fatal mistake, you go back and correct it, then do it again until you make another fatal mistake, and so on. As far as scripting, there is nothing wrong with that either if you are practicing for a specific situation. You have to this in order to prepare for certain situations. Most of our enemies are not going to be West Point graduates so you have to train according to what you most likely have to deal with in the real world. There probably are some old school type generals and admirals out there still who still train like we may be going to war with the Soviet Union, but it is in exercises such as these that the weakness in their tactics is shown. At the end of the day, even flag-officers have to answer to their superiors. I for one do not doubt for a second the abilities of the US Navy and Marine Corps.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">And folsk here wonder why these looloos can't have nukes just like everyone else. <span id='postcolor'> LOL

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Maybe J'm not good in english but very good in the game , hey why is word bug funny to you ?<span id='postcolor'> It was the "bag" that I found funny, you know bag, as in grocery bag! - Nevermind, it doesent matter.... I wasn't trying to insult you.

Holy crap! I just browsed through the DPRK website... It's hair raising. Â These guys are completely insane!! </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"> While visiting the museum, the servicemen and the working people vowed to glorify the era of the army-based policy led by Kim Jong Il, the great and illustrious commander born of heaven, bearing deep in mind the great pride and honor of making the revolution guided by him. <span id='postcolor'> Born of heaven?... </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">The president's immortal revolutionary career and exploits are shining century after century thanks to Kim Jong Il's noble moral obligation to carry forward his idea and exploits 100 per cent. Â Â The Korean people are now devoting their all to their struggle to glorify the president's idea and exploits forever. Â Â Kim Jong Il's wise guidance is found in glorifying the exploits of the revolutionary forerunners, leading all the people to live and work as they did, making the whole society replete with comradely love and obligation and cementing the single-hearted unity of our revolution as firm as a rock. <span id='postcolor'> What's with this Jong? It sounds like he thinks he's a god or something. Â Is this really the kind of stuff the North Korean govenment is telling their people? Â I find it very hard to believe that anyone would be stupid enough to broadcast such garbage... I mean who do they think is going to believe such crap? Â Are the people of North Korea a bunch of suckers? Â I doubt it. I wish I knew more about their history and culture. Â These glimpses I'm getting are shocking to me. This is the 21st century for christs sake. Â This Jong Il lunatic is making Saddam look like a decent guy.

I suspect that this guy is just plain stupid so I'm not going to try to argue against his dumb ass conclusions. He's too wrong on too many points. I felt like vomiting when I read that crap. What a waste of 2 minutes.

I bought Falcon 4 back when it first came out, but I never really played it. I fiddled around with it for about a week but I was never able to figure out how to work all those avionics. Too damn realistic for my dumb self I guess. Falcon 4 has been sitting on my shelf ever since. Next time you guys are in Florida, stop by my house and I'll give it to you. WW1 air combat is my absolute favourite. Stick, Throttle, Pedals, and perhaps one or two gauges, speed, and altimeter. Thats flying... These modern flight sims with all that fancy pants complicated avionics systems takes all the fun out of air combat. Youre flying along, then poof youre dead. Shot by some inferior aircraft from a hundered miles away.. Pfft.. One of my favourite WW1 sims was "Flying Corps". It came with several paper maps that you had to use for navigation as there was no in game map. The missions were linear but it was still great. I eventually switched to Red Baron 3D with it's awesome dynamic campaign modes. I loved the whole career thing, you could request to transfer into other squadrons who had better airplanes, or you could be invited by famous aces to join their elite squads. You could follow your fellow pilots careers, while struggling to keep them alive. It had such an incredible depth. I haven't seen any WW1 flight since! I played some CFS2 WW1 unofficial mods, but its not the same. I need a new really cool WW1 game just like Red Baron 3D, but with all the bells and whistles that our new computers can muster.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">(full of bags)<span id='postcolor'> bag = bug? Now I get it... I was wondering what you meant by "(bag, bag, bag...)" in the previous post. I'm not making fun of your English skills, It just sounded really funny!

Kermit... *rolls eyes* can't you at least try not to be so rude all the time. There's new stuff for OFP coming out all the time, official, and non-official. If you are wondering about OFP2 then well... It will get here when it gets here. We are all awaiting any news from BIS on that one. Go to Avon's FAQ if you want to read up on the latest rumors!

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (David Shipley @ Dec. 25 2002,00:42)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I just downloaded it, and I personally think it's a fantastic map! One of the most fun I've played. :-) Good job, man.<span id='postcolor'> Thanks, I'm glad you like it! Â I've fixed a few things like the fleeing NVA's at the end. Â The mission now ends like it is supposed to without having to comb the jungle for fleeing stragglers! Â The helicopter problem seems to have went away... Wierd, It must be a random bug. Â I wish I could figure out what causes it. Updated link: 1st Air Cav - Welcome to the Shit!

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (smogmorph @ Dec. 24 2002,23:29)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Well, you didn't give credit to "David Berka" Â <span id='postcolor'> Ooops. I forgot the explosion script. Â Its so simple... I use it so much that I almost took it for granted. I'll try that command. Thanks for the help.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (smogmorph @ Dec. 24 2002,23:22)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I had no problem with the landing, it was as smooth as a baby's buttocks  Problem comes when you have to defend the objective against a couple of counter-attacks. I've killed all gooks in a 2000m radius and the mission still doesn't end. I had 4x time on for 15 mins  Anyway, fun mission  <span id='postcolor'> Hmm... I've noticed that some of the NVA's seem to flee back across the river where they came from. Their presence prevent the end trigger. Shame, I worked hard on the end cutscene. Thanks for bringing this up... I'll see what I can do.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (smogmorph @ Dec. 24 2002,23:12)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Did you make any of the scripts by yourself ? Â <span id='postcolor'> The scripts used are a medly of a bunch of different scripts I found at OFPEC. I wish I could take credit for them, all I did was modify them slightly to work for my own purposes. I'm pretty sure I included everyone in the credits. If you feel like I've missed someone, let me know.