Seeing Bootie's post in Der Kuenstler's thread, made me think back and fondly remember my first ever CM game against a human opponent.
It was a CMBO QB against Dev -- which I actually WON by being all sneaky with a Hetzer!
But that was probably the last victory in a long learning period of being bludgeoned by then seasoned CM vets like Mike Abberton, RedDevil, Phil Davies, Nort, fridericus... and at times I wonder if I actually learned much of anything since then...LOL.
Since then I've veered off into tourney design etc... ladder play not so much a priority anymore...
One doesn't really forget one's first time, right?