How Come

black_feather · Post by **black_feather** » Thu Mar 21, 2002 12:41 pm

I'm playing the normandy campaign as the British and I found I can buy elefants

how can I turn this off?

Thanks

Warrior2 · Post by **Warrior2** » Thu Mar 21, 2002 5:43 pm

Turn off your purchasing finger. In other words, don't buy them.

panda124c · Post by **panda124c** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 6:28 am

Originally posted by black_feather
I'm playing the normandy campaign as the British and I found I can buy elefants how can I turn this off?

Thanks

Are they Afican Elephants or Indian Elephants? If they are African just don't buy them, Indian Elephants maybe they are with the Indian Commonwealth Units. They are great for moving those AT guns around.

Sorry my humor go the better of me.

Bernie · Post by **Bernie** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 10:17 am

Originally posted by pbear

Are they Afican Elephants or Indian Elephants? If they are African just don't buy them, Indian Elephants maybe they are with the Indian Commonwealth Units. They are great for moving those AT guns around.

Sorry my humor go the better of me.

You know how those British are...never throw anything away. I'll bet they're African elephants mothballed (and don't ask how to mothball an elephant...it ain't pretty) from the Boer Wars...

Iñaki · Post by **Iñaki** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 10:49 pm

Never mind about the presence of your own elephants (both, indian and african know their duty). Your problem will begin if you face those evil German Mice Squads. Only one coul rout all your attacking elephant company.
Sorry, couldn´t stand temptation.

Bing · Post by **Bing** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 11:34 pm

"Are they Afican Elephants or Indian Elephants? If they are African just don't buy them, Indian Elephants maybe they are with the Indian Commonwealth Units. They are great for moving those AT guns around. "

Which one has the bigger ears? I always forget - you want the one with the biggest ears because they can hear the mice coming farther off.

P.S. I once knew a tool and die man named Klaus. I always thought he was in the wrong busines: He should have been making small habitational gear for rodents - that would be "Klaus Maus Haus".

Bing

Bernie · Post by **Bernie** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 12:00 am

Originally posted by Bing
"Are they Afican Elephants or Indian Elephants? If they are African just don't buy them, Indian Elephants maybe they are with the Indian Commonwealth Units. They are great for moving those AT guns around. "

Which one has the bigger ears? I always forget - you want the one with the biggest ears because they can hear the mice coming farther off.

P.S. I once knew a tool and die man named Klaus. I always thought he was in the wrong busines: He should have been making small habitational gear for rodents - that would be "Klaus Maus Haus".

Bing

Did you hear the one about the mixed company of Panthers, Tigers and Elephants commanded by Col. Klauns? Every battle they were in turned into a real three ring circus. I think his dad was part of Richtoffens squadren in WW I

Svennemir · Post by **Svennemir** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 12:04 am

The African ones are the biggest and also have the biggest ears. (I think)

Remember to use ALT+O to overrun.

Bernie · Post by **Bernie** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 12:29 am

Originally posted by Svennemir
The African ones are the biggest and also have the biggest ears. (I think)

Remember to use ALT+O to overrun.

Yes, but those mice have the melee command, which is Afrikannas for "bite the elephants toes"

Bing · Post by **Bing** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 1:40 am

Oh, my God! I never even thought about overrun with elephants - if someone can do an appropriate sound file I WANT it.

Ammo canisters for elephants = Duece and a half of peanuts? Who carries the shovel?

Bing

Fallschirmjager · Post by **Fallschirmjager** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 1:47 am

This thread has turned into a Romans worst nightmare.

Bernie · Post by **Bernie** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 3:23 am

Originally posted by Bing
Oh, my God! I never even thought about overrun with elephants - if someone can do an appropriate sound file I WANT it.

Ammo canisters for elephants = Duece and a half of peanuts? Who carries the shovel?

Bing

Your wish is my command! One elephant stampede WAV file coming up. (Thanks to the folks at SoundAmerica.com for the two files I blended to make this.)

Hmmm...okay, I can't attach a WAV file here. I'll change the extension to .TXT and you'll have to change it back to .WAV when you get the file.

Bing · Post by **Bing** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 4:11 am

Originally posted by Bernie

Your wish is my command! One elephant stampede WAV file coming up. (Thanks to the folks at SoundAmerica.com for the two files I blended to make this.)

Hmmm...okay, I can't attach a WAV file here. I'll change the extension to .TXT and you'll have to change it back to .WAV when you get the file.

Bernie, you are a genius. Now: There is only one elephant trumpet in the sound file - get at least one more in there. Then: Combine the elephant sound file with the screams of the overrun file and we really got sumpin'. Yoiu are on a solid track to the WAW Hall of Fame (or is it "Infamous"?).

Download worked fine, as did the renaming to .wav extension.

Who got the peanuts?? Who got the shovel??

Bing

Bernie · Post by **Bernie** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 11:29 am

Originally posted by Bing

Bernie, you are a genius. Now: There is only one elephant trumpet in the sound file - get at least one more in there. Then: Combine the elephant sound file with the screams of the overrun file and we really got sumpin'. Yoiu are on a solid track to the WAW Hall of Fame (or is it "Infamous"?).

Download worked fine, as did the renaming to .wav extension.

Who got the peanuts?? Who got the shovel??

Bing

Okay, ask and it is done. Sorry it took so long (been working on something related for about 5 hours now) but I think this will fit the bill.

Oh, and that other thing I mentioned I was working on...? Well, when you get a guy with a weird sense of humor, and 80,000+ WAV files in his collection, started on something like this well... You'll just have to hear it to believe it I think. Too big to put up here so I'll have to u/l it to my own server and you can get it from there. Try www.occoffice.com/overrun.wav when your curiosity gets the better of you.

(Fair warning...the file on my site is 2.5mb)

Sheesh...I should know better than to try to FTP with the flu. I mistyped the filename when I uploaded it to my server. All fixed now. Just crank up your volume, click the link up there and enjoy a 2 minute sound file of a serious elephant overrun attack.

Belisarius · Post by **Belisarius** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 6:35 pm

Bernie, you are amazing!!

first one was OK, but in the last version you can REALLY imagine the chaos of stampeding elephants and men running in all directions!

It's a 10 on a 1 to 10 scale

parusski · Post by **parusski** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 6:53 pm

Warriors wit wins for best answer. Purchasing finger-hmm-my purchasing finger is sort of like my credit card-overused.

Bing · Post by **Bing** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 7:58 pm

Bernie - You are the recipient of the "Young Tom Edison Award".

Now, that and $2.00 will get you on a CTA bus, all the same the second stampede file is a work of pure genius. Er ... couldn't you get those guys to yell louder??

Just kidding, this has been the most fun we've had since the hogs ate my little brother.

My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, if I had a brother he too would thank you.

Bing

Charles2222 · Post by **Charles2222** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 8:04 pm

We seem to have a propensity for animal jokes around here. And to think we haven't even had any focused on animal cruelty. I was a veteran of the AAA-laden donkey Taliban forces thread, so I thought I'd stay away a bit from this one, especially how everyone has ignored the real question asked, but, on 2nd thought I'll add soemthing.

Firstly and most importantly black_feather may want to delete his steel.prf file, reset his preferences and try again. Other than that I've never seen a game which allowed me to pick forces from another nation. bf might want to look out for having accidently hit the 'nation' key, and then having Germany as the nation selected, instead of then backing out, but if that were the case I would've thought he would've caught on and would've complained that instead of one German unit mixed in, he would have nothing but German stuff.

On the sound file, to really add the entire experience, and folks, this would be a first, since we don't have any sound files where the supply boys are given their due, such as a Tiger file with it fueling up (go to gas station and record some fueling, or to be more realistic to record it coming out of Gerry cans), moving a bit and then firing a round, but along the same lines, you could record the sound of a bag being opened, then the sound of someone eating something which we might imagine sounds like an Elephant eating peanuts (maybe the sound man eating Doritos) and then proceed to the overrun sounds).

Bing · Post by **Bing** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 8:29 pm

Charles - Ma foi! - You sound like a supply man! Moi too -
Charlie Battery, 75th AAA MIssile Battalion, Waldorf, Maryland, SIR!!! VIP outfit - waxed and buffed concrete floors every day.

Hey - no beans, no bullets, no war.

Bing

Charles2222 · Post by **Charles2222** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 8:54 pm

Bing: Nah, though I am a mainframe computer operator who uses self-serve pumps, and being keen mostly on strategic games, I do tend to think in terms of supply more. Games without the possibility of supply being threatened can get pretty mundane after a while, eye-splitting graphics or not. My current supply on-the-job consists of Pemmican hickory-smoked beef jerky, perhaps being elephantile in nature.

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