If You've Seen One Mega Campaign...

Wild Bill · Post by **Wild Bill** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 11:21 am

You certainly have not seen them all.

Soon you are going to see one that will take you to a theater of war that you have never fought in with a Mega Campaign, using units you've never used before, seeing map features you never seen before and following a system of play you've never used before.

So, no, not all mega campaigns are alike. This one is going to be VERY different.

Wild Bill

ZeroAntipop · Post by **ZeroAntipop** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 11:40 pm

Something to do with China perhaps?

Goblin · Post by **Goblin** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 11:54 pm

WB, you tease.

Goblin:p

Voriax · Post by **Voriax** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 11:55 pm

Originally posted by ZeroAntipop
Something to do with China perhaps?

Nah, it's about Swiss Marines.

Voriax

Wild Bill · Post by **Wild Bill** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 12:37 am

If Yki had anything to do with it, we'd all be wearing thermals and parkas and peeing on our guns so they would shoot!

Yeah, Goblin, I think with this fine team and now that we have you shanghaied, we'll be pleasers as well as teasers!

Boyah! What a campaign!

WB

Bernie · Post by **Bernie** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 5:30 am

Originally posted by Wild Bill
You certainly have not seen them all.

Soon you are going to see one that will take you to a theater of war that you have never fought in with a Mega Campaign, using units you've never used before, seeing map features you never seen before and following a system of play you've never used before.

So, no, not all mega campaigns are alike. This one is going to be VERY different.

Wild Bill

psssssttt! Bill! I got that info about the taxis... NYC taxicabs didn't start being painted all yellow until well after the war... So any colors are fine.

tracer · Post by **tracer** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 5:40 am

Originally posted by Voriax
Nah, it's about Swiss Marines.

For me, its about Swiss Rolls...two of those with a cup of coffee gives me the sugar/caffeine boost necessary to accomplish my MC 'duties'. :p

I read that Bernie's DOC (drug of choice) is Krispy Kreme donuts...maybe I'll 'score' a 1/2 dozen of them tomorrow.

tracer · Post by **tracer** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 6:03 am

Originally posted by Wild Bill

Yeah, Goblin, I think with this fine team and now that we have you shanghaied,

WB

Funny: when I hear folks saying 'Welcome aboard', the term you used above is what crosses my mind.

chief · Post by **chief** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 8:01 am

The new MC is 38 scenarios long and covers the battle of ATTU and Kiska islands (Alaska). It took the CIA to get this from our mole in MATRIX. A cold, foggy and damp battle it was too. Get your mukluks and parkas and keep the Japanese away from the mainland.

:rolleyes:

Wild Bill · Post by **Wild Bill** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 8:04 am

Yeah, that's kinda how we do it, Goblin...but then you already know that..

WB

AbsntMndedProf · Post by **AbsntMndedProf** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 8:49 am

Tracer posted:

I read that Bernie's DOC (drug of choice) is Krispy Kreme donuts...maybe I'll 'score' a 1/2 dozen of them tomorrow.

I wish they would hurry up and get one here in Beantown! They sure get a lot of word-of-mouth publicity.

Attu and Kiska, eh? (I think I recall posting a thread suggesting that as a possible scenario/campaign a while back.):D

Eric Maietta

Wild Bill · Post by **Wild Bill** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 9:19 am

Well, I envy BW even more. Donuts and he is lean and mean. Wish I could get away with that

KG Erwin · Post by **KG Erwin** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 9:23 am

Our crack sound effects team has been combing thru old NFL films footage to get John Facenda's voice as part of the soundtrack to..."The battle on the frozen tundra of L...". Then we get WB to dub over "...eutian Islands". Clever edit, huh?

Jeez, we've been trying to tell you guys all along it has something to do with, uh, soldiers and stuff like that. What more do you want ?

AbsntMndedProf · Post by **AbsntMndedProf** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 9:23 am

Wild Bill posted:

Well, I envy BW even more. Donuts and he is lean and mean. Wish I could get away with that.

I know what you mean. I gain a pound just by walking by a donut shop! :p :rolleyes:

Eric Maietta

(Now if they could only come up with carrots that tasted like donuts and cellery that tasted like chocolate, I'd be all set!)

AbsntMndedProf · Post by **AbsntMndedProf** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 9:26 am

KG Erwin posted:

Our crack sound effects team has been combing thru old NFL films footage to get John Facenda's voice as part of the soundtrack to..."The battle on the frozen tundra of L...". Then we get WB to dub over "...eutian Islands"

How about the promo voice-over for The Wide World of Sports, 'The thrill of victory and the agony of de feet!'? Sounds like it would fit this MC.

Eric Maietta

Bernie · Post by **Bernie** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 10:57 am

Originally posted by Wild Bill
Well, I envy BW even more. Donuts and he is lean and mean. Wish I could get away with that

It's easy Bill, just do what I do every day... carry bundles of shingles up to a second floor roof, lug 90 lb bags of cement, hoist 16' 2x12's into position for a top floor balcony, dig a 100' long electrical trench through rocks and tree roots, and then frame out a garage. Oh, and do it on days when the temps are over 95... That'll keep you thin!

Two weeks ago I stripped a shingle roof (four layers!) on a 16'x20' garage, by myself, when the temp was 98. I drank three gallons of ice tea doing it, and didn't need a bathroom break all day...just sweated it all out. When I got home and weighed myself on the bathroom scale after my shower, I was seven pounds lighter than I was that morning.

There's pictures of the job on my website, for anyone who's interested. Just look in the "Before & After Galleries" section and click "Garage"

Wild Bill · Post by **Wild Bill** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 11:31 am

I think I'll just skip the donuts, Bernie...Wow!

WB

Bing · Post by **Bing** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 6:53 pm

I know what would have happened to me if I had followed Bernie's regimen: Strong as an ox, dead at age 35.

Am into long distance sitting, per Mike Royko. Horray for doing nothing, as often as I like.

Bing

Les_the_Sarge_9_1 · Post by **Les_the_Sarge_9_1** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 8:16 pm

I remember slugging furniture all day in 87, we were having a major heat wave that year.

My co worker and I were drinking about 5 gallons of water a day it seemed, which we never saw any need to remove through washroom breaks.

God it was horrible though the closer you got to Hamilton.

Today I am very happy to do my sweating in a small town. Cities and their lousy air quality just don't do it for me.

RolandRahn_MatrixForum · Fri Jul 18, 2003 5:36 pm

Originally posted by chief
The new MC is 38 scenarios long and covers the battle of ATTU and Kiska islands (Alaska). It took the CIA to get this from our mole in MATRIX. A cold, foggy and damp battle it was too. Get your mukluks and parkas and keep the Japanese away from the mainland.
:rolleyes:

Hmmm....
Attu and Kiska?
Kiska was, AFAIK, evacuated by the Japanese after the fall of Attu.
Or does the MC covers the *Japanese* capture of Attu and Kiska?
The American forces on Attu (when the Japanese invaded on June 3rd, 1942) were one elderly schoolteacher and his wife.
He managed to commit suicide, his wife failed and was deported to Japan.

BTW, Wild Bill spoke of units never used before in an MC, and due to MCWT I think we can rule out Attu/Kiska.

Hmmmm.....
Other interesting possibilities:
- Remilitarization of the Rhineland 1936 (as in OTL without enemy intervention)
- Italian invasion of Eritrea (Err, no, we have already seen Italain troops in MCDF)
- the allied capture of Iceland

So I think it's between the Rhineland and Iceland.
(:D )

Roland

PS: Seriously, I think it could be a very interesting play if someone would try a small campaign covering the allied recapture of Attu.

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