The Biggest Challenge of the 21st century : The battle between POS & ????

[Kelen]

:soap: Now I may be being a bit niave here, but how can a scenerio be rigged against you POS when the designers don't know what side you are going to be?

Surely it's simply a case of someone designs a scenerio, they send it to 2 experienced members to check for balance, you then get the OOB and get to decide which side you want to play, and THEN you and your opponent get sent the file. That way neither you or your oppoent knows the battlefield in advance, the scenerio designer has to ensure balance because they won't know what side you are going to pick, AND you get to pick the side. Can't see how you can get fairer than that.

Oh, and by the way, by implying that anyone here would 'cheat' is doing the whole Blitz community a big dis-favour. In my time here the one thing that I can say about the Blitz is that cheating is taken very seriously, (just look at 101Paratrooper for example). If you are playing against another opponent you have to take a lot on trust, (trust that they are going to return moves, trust that they say if they have played a scenerio before, etc). If you are saying that you don't trust the people here well maybe you should go elsewhere.

Actually on that note, you say that 'people' are going to rig the scenerio against you, and in the next breath you say that YOU are going to design a scenerio and then challenge everyone to play you at it. Sorry but how much more rigged a game do you want than one you've designed yourself?!! OK the forces might be balanced but having intimate knowldege of the battlefield and the forces involved is going to give you one hell of an edge against any opponent whose plays it for the first time.

3 losses out of 15 games for YOUR Fireflys vs Tigers scenerio on face value looks reasonably good, but it's YOUR scenerio!!! (This is why it is normal for tourney designers NOT to entire their own tourney if they've designed the scenerios - unfair advantage).

Now unlike some I don't tend to post here very regularly, and I'm a strong believer of the saying, 'empty vessels make the most noise', but hasn't this gone on long enough? Koen asked you a very simple question and has laid out the terms of the challenge, so no trying to change the parameters, no squirming or trying to change the subject; will you taek him up on his challenge or not? Easy, 'Yes' or 'No'?

At the end of the day POS you've got nothing to lose. If you take him up on the challenge on his terms and you win then it will go some way to justifying all those medals that you keep showing for yourself, (not quite sure why you keep showing medals and titles earned elsewhere on this site but hey, I've got a gold medal in swimming but you don't see me showing it here).

If you lose however, (and surely with the stats that you keep telling everyone how can you?) well then you can say that the game was rigged and you were set up to lose.

Looks to me that you are in a win/win situation.

So come on POS, are you going to take up the challenge as it stands or not? Either put up or shut up.

[Copper]

Very good point you have there Kelen.
hell, we even did not see that ourselves :rolleyes:

His complete behaviour has a lot of symptomes for Borderline disorder.
If you keep saying to yourself and in public that another guyy is bad or does/say bad things, you can look at yourself in the mirror and say:
Hey I am good.
I dont fall either for his firefly tiger crap......
Iinstead I also offered to play in my Clervaux scenario but he never accepted that either.
And that one has a lot of veteran tanks in it
So no challenge for me:hissy:
But I will kneel in submission:bow::bow:
Against so much selfproclaimed knowledge no one of us simple earthlings can standup:(

[PoorOldSpike]

You are telling lies about me and the Onion wars and its moderators,players, umpires...
You were given a small battle,

That's exactly what I said Charlie, I joined OW and told my team leaders -"I specialise in lightning armoured assaults, so just keep assigning me to battles in critical sectors and i'll give you the enemy capital within weeks"
But they assigned me to a tiny backwater battle off the main axis of advance where my superhuman talents were totally wasted, and I therefore lost all trust in my team leaders and walked out, and they still haven't captured the enemy capital 3 years later, ha ha ha.. :)
http://www.funlol.com/funpages/laughingcat.html

[PoorOldSpike]

So come on POS, are you going to take up the challenge as it stands or not?

If the scenario dumped on me is a useless monstrosity i'd be so bored out of my skull that I'd have to rush out to buy myself a straitjacket.. :)
So the only way for me to check that the scen won't be boring is if I see it first so I can examine it in the editor to make sure its FUN and WELL-BALANCED.. :)
My opponent can examine it too, then we can play it, no problem.. :)

[PoorOldSpike]

His complete behaviour has a lot of symptomes for Borderline disorder.

Funny you should say that mate, as a kid I overheard my dad saying to my mam about me - "He's nutty! No don't laugh, I really do mean it, he wastes all his pocket money on silly plastic model aeroplanes then hangs 'em on string from his bedroom ceiling in full view of the street, I dread to think what the neighbours are saying about him, I wish we'd had him aborted.
He's up there now building a bleddy great Superfortress, God only knows how much that cost him, when's he going to start saving his money instead?"
I got my own back though, I filled his radio with sand from a builders yard down the road and enjoyed his bewildered expression when he tried to tune in the Clay-Liston fight but all he got were electrical crackles and splutters. He he he :)
Then the sand began pouring out in torrents like an Indiana Jones temple and he freaked, "I don't believe it!" he yelled, "its full of bleddy sand, how the hell did that get in there?" Needless to say, I innocently denied all knowledge of it..
He's been dead now 25 years but I wonder what he'd say if he knew I still buy models, I got Amelia Earharts red Lockheed Vega last year and have currently got my eye on a cool B-25 Doolittle Raider down the model shop..

[Kelen]

So come on POS, are you going to take up the challenge as it stands or not?

If the scenario dumped on me is a useless monstrosity i'd be so bored out of my skull that I'd have to rush out to buy myself a straitjacket.. :)
So the only way for me to check that the scen won't be boring is if I see it first so I can examine it in the editor to make sure its FUN and WELL-BALANCED.. :)
My opponent can examine it too, then we can play it, no problem.. :)

So I take it that's a 'No' then? :whis:

Shame that you seem to have missed my point about 'trust'. :rolleyes: If the scenerio has been designed by an experienced designer I would have assumed that they would have designed one that was going to be interesting and 'fun' to play.

If said scenerio was then sent to 2, (or more?), experienced members to check for playability and balance then I would also have assumed that as experienced members that they would do that.

2 assumptions I know, (and before you say it I know what to 'assume' does), but as I said, you have to take these things on trust. Shame you can't seem to trust anyone apart from yourself. Sad really.

As has been said already, you can't make a bold sweeping statement such as, 'I will never turn down a challenge from anyone!' and then when it comes to the crunch start trying to qualify that statement by saying, 'I will never turn down a challenge from anyone! (but only If a) I get to see the scenerio first, b) if I think it is going to be 'fun, and, c) preferably If I've designed it!).' If you do, (as you have), how can anyone 'trust' a single word that you say?

If you throw out that kind of challenge then you are expected to stand by it and to take whatever is thrown at you. If you are not willing to back up what you keep boasting about retract it and keep quiet and then everyone will be happy.

So again, are you willing to show eveyone that you are man enough to back up what you say and except the challenge as it stands?

No caveats, no trying to change the ROE, no trying to smoke screen by going off at tangents. Simple 'Yes' or 'No'

[Copper]

I am to tired to quote you, but your recent statement about OW simply shows that you do not see how it works.
With 1 battleturn every month and a lot of battles evolving out of those turns it takes a lot of time.
You said it yourself, if its to big you have to buy a straitjacket.
Well I fought battles with 2bn worth of infantry and 1 bn worth of armor with lots of firesupport.
With you ahead of our main force we would have ended the campaign in 1 turn with a total victory for the enemy.
You can encounter mines, fortifications, abstracted actions by umpires and many more FOW things that can happen in real life fighting.
Oh did I say you dont get to see your opponents OOB, so anything played by you would prove to be disastrous.
You do not, I repeat do NOT know anything else than playing QB's.
It takes more than QB players, and without your own parameters you are not even up to the standards we require.

And please stop with those simple pictures of silly aircraft and metal tanks and those boring same old moviepictures each time again and again.
Make something worthwhile like 1/15 Tamiya tigers.
The question was simple:

STEP FORWARD ACCEPT THE CHALLENGE AND FIGHT.
If you dont dare to, please return to your niche stone back in the garden and hide again under it.
Than the cm community can do again what we used to do befor you entered us, making battles(worthwhile) and play games.

[PoorOldSpike]

please stop with those simple pictures of silly aircraft and metal tanks and those boring same old moviepictures each time again and again.

Alright mate, perhaps you'll like this one better..:)
My whole childhood was one long running battle with my dad, and even when I left school he used to bang on my bedroom door at the crack of dawn shouting "Come on get out of bed and look for a job, they're crying out for people at the glue factory!"
But I just turned over and went back to sleep.
I mean, we holy men don't do 'glue factory".. :)


THE GLUE FACTORY

[PoorOldSpike]

Make something worthwhile like 1/15 Tamiya tigers.

Too expensive for me mate, my dole wouldn't stretch to it..
So I stuck to the 1/35th Tamiya range and had 60 models at one time including an M60A1 powered by an electric motor, I used to send it rolling down the garden to overun our sleeping cats and rout them in panic..
But eventually I got fed up with all my models so I put them hulldown at the bottom of the garden and let fly at 'em with my air rifle, there were bits flying everywhere..
I heard my furious dad shouting to my mother back in the house -"What's he doing?? All the neighbours are looking!!
See I told you he was nutty!! When's he going to get a bleddy job??"

PS - Stoffel mate, I see you've only just joined Blitz and have the rank 'Recruit' and have made 3 posts.
I joined 6 months ago and have made an astounding 800 posts and have risen to the rank of Colonel, so please address me as "Colonel", or don't they teach you to respect your superiors in the Dutch Army?
Ha ha ha.. :)

[Copper]

Silly, pathetic, worth nothing to society, completey respectless, unemployed and I can go on for hours, worst thing is that you seem to be very content with that too.
I give up.

Oh I forgot to say that you are the biggest chicken I have seen.
I dont know any other "holy" man avoiding a battle.
To most people you have showed your true monstrous face.
This battle might give you some respect........but.
Run forest run :)