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RE: Operation Modes for Headquarters

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 11:21 pm
by geofflambert
Everyone who disagrees with me, be it in this thread or any other, is ... :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQzk09j2lZ8

RE: Operation Modes for Headquarters

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 11:43 pm
by btd64
I haven't seen that intro since, well forever....GP

RE: Operation Modes for Headquarters

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 11:52 pm
by geofflambert
The music is John Williams, believe it or not.

RE: Operation Modes for Headquarters

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 11:54 pm
by geofflambert

RE: Operation Modes for Headquarters

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 12:09 am
by Dante Fierro
Watching that I feel young again. [:'(]

RE: Operation Modes for Headquarters

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 12:29 am
by Zorch
Danger Will Robinson!
It was so bad, with men in monster suits chasing people around and Dr. Smith being evil.

RE: Operation Modes for Headquarters

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 12:34 am
by boldrobot
Wait, so how exactly does the Reserve command work? I am relatively new (have had the game for a little over a year) and have never actually used Reserve.

RE: Operation Modes for Headquarters

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 12:37 am
by geofflambert
You know the idiom "off-beat"? This music by John Williams is "off-beat" from the get go. It doesn't even require on-beat music to be present to demonstrate how off-beat it is. Some of Ennio Morricone's music is very much like this. I don't really understand this, I don't understand music at all, but somehow, sometimes, I really like some of it. Someone who constructed a beat, or rhythm, in order to deconstruct it, is (was) Phillip Glass. Another, who rejected beat without seeming to do so, was (is) Michael Nyman. Listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbFcMnr ... rt_radio=1

RE: Operation Modes for Headquarters

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 12:43 am
by geofflambert
ORIGINAL: boldrobot

Wait, so how exactly does the Reserve command work? I am relatively new (have had the game for a little over a year) and have never actually used Reserve.

In an offensive situation, where you are confident or feel it is likely your target will retreat, or try to, any LCUs you have in "Reserve" mode will pursue, sometimes decimating (check the Latin for the real meaning of that word) the retreaters and following them so they really aren't free even though they've moved a whole hex. Also interesting is after such an event, no one owns any hexside. How different!

RE: Operation Modes for Headquarters

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 1:43 am
by Zorch
ORIGINAL: geofflambert

ORIGINAL: boldrobot

Wait, so how exactly does the Reserve command work? I am relatively new (have had the game for a little over a year) and have never actually used Reserve.

In an offensive situation, where you are confident or feel it is likely your target will retreat, or try to, any LCUs you have in "Reserve" mode will pursue, sometimes decimating (check the Latin for the real meaning of that word) the retreaters and following them so they really aren't free even though they've moved a whole hex. Also interesting is after such an event, no one owns any hexside. How different!
How would a unit of Gorns decimate? They can't count that high because they don't have enough digits. [8D]

RE: Operation Modes for Headquarters

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 2:57 am
by geofflambert
So we only have nine talons. Do you happen to know which paw has five and which four? We have a base nine mathematic. Can you calculate in that?

RE: Operation Modes for Headquarters

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 3:09 am
by geofflambert
I knew you had no idea. So from now on you will know. Male gorns have five talons on their right paw and four on their left. Female gorns are the opposite. Male gorns count from left to right. That's why nothing they come up with ever adds up. Female gorns also count from left to right. That's why, when they're done, there's never anything left.

RE: Operation Modes for Headquarters

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:31 am
by Zorch
Do Gorn books go from right to left?

Gorns should use DEC PDP computers - they used 9 bit bytes.

RE: Operation Modes for Headquarters

Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2019 10:17 am
by LeeChard
ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Everyone who disagrees with me, be it in this thread or any other, is ... :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQzk09j2lZ8
I'm going to disagree with you more if the result is I get a clip like that [:D]

RE: Operation Modes for Headquarters

Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2019 2:09 pm
by wegman58
ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Everyone who disagrees with me, be it in this thread or any other, is ... :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQzk09j2lZ8

DANGER Will Robinson!

I'm old enough to remember that being new.

And I think Bill Mumy is the only one in Star Trek, Lost in Space and Babylon 5.