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[mikemike]

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

I'm sure that you kept warm in Glenfiddich... though that warmth may have come internally. [;)]

Well, I should have said the Glenfiddich Distillery which is near Dufftown-on-Spey. As for keeping warm - the sample that was part of the tour was impressive, but they don't sell stuff younger than 12 years, and the price starts off with 35,50 Euros for delivery to Germany - about 55 Dollars. If you'd like to buy the 40 year old stuff - that's 1450 Euros - about 2500 Dollars. I don't know what the stuff costs in the U.S. - I guess it won't come cheaper. In view of those prices, you generally find some other way to warm up. This is more like an investment, not a mere drink. But if you ever visit Scotland, this is a very polished and professionally managed tourist attraction, not just a working distillery. Just look at their website.

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Wasn't even aware that "berum" was a word in German... Never used it myself, and I live next door to them...

No, it isn't, and I'm a German, so I should know. But Americans have sometimes strange notions of what is German, if you believe movies or TV shows, we say things like "gerblunden" or "Ras, ras". But I'd be content if at least the actors playing German characters wouldn't speak broken German with an English accent so thick you could grasp it.

[Terminus]

That's called Gestapo English. Live with it...[:'(]

[Dixie]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

That's called Gestapo English. Live with it...[:'(]

Ve haff vays of making you tock...

[Terminus]

Or my favourite,

Ve haf vays of makink you screem in agony...

[DaveB]

Ach, for you Tommy ze vor is over!
 
Grus Gott, verdamnt Englander Schwein! (Imprecation usually hurled at Matt Braddock VC, Sgt Pilot and all round good egg, shortly before his latest uncannily aimed bomb sinks another sneaky Hun...)

[mikemike]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

That's called Gestapo English. Live with it...[:'(]

Seems I'll have to ... [:(]

And now for something completely different: Danes have endeared themselves to the German public by the cute accent they have when speaking German. Though as the sentiment was originally triggered by people like Ann Smyrner, Vivi Bach or Gitte Haenning, there may have been other mechanisms at play ...

Although it's noteworthy that the Swedish Chef from Sesame Street is Danish in the German language version (singing "Smoerrebroed, Smoerrebroed, roem poem poem poem" ['oe' should properly be an 'o' with a slash through it, but I don't think the internet will transmit that correctly] ).

This mechanism also works for Dutch or English persons to a slightly lesser degree, so much so that several entertainment people who are able to speak a pretty unaccented German actually put on a "stage accent" when appearing in public.

[CaptDave]

ORIGINAL: DaveB
Actually, even stranger - our hire car last year had N Carolina plates, and when they heard our accents people would ask "where'd you come from?"  - 'Scotland' we'd reply...despite being English and sounding so. The next question used to throw us - 'So what's the weather like in Carolina at the moment?'.

It seems your accent, appearance and answers count for nothing against a license plate.

Dave

Actually, Scotland Neck is a town in North Carolina. Maybe you actually ran across the only people outside a 15-mile radius who knew that! (No, I didn't; I looked it up in a very incomplete atlas, because I know that at least one state has a town called Scotland.)

[LargeSlowTarget]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

That's called Gestapo English. Live with it...[:'(]

*in voice of John Cleese*: "Saetz not fonnie!"

[ny59giants]

Nice to see ALL those new screenshots. [&o][&o]

[Weidi72]

The Admiral’s Edition expansion is currently scheduled for an early Summer, 2008 release.



Still in time? [&o]

[HansBolter]

ORIGINAL: Shark7

ORIGINAL: DaveB

Look. let's stop arguing spelling and stick to the weighty, important matter of making sure I get what I want. (Hmm, that might come over a teensy bit self centred) ... err, pretty please? Look, I have Carriers at War here, and I've not played it since running the demo bit on download day (there will not be a contest to guess why).... now, let's have a modicum of consideration here at the very least - what sort of a message does it give the average browsing possible customer type to hear that Matrix couldn't be bothered to launch AE on my selected choice of day, probably forcing me to play CAW as a stop gap, after I went to the trouble of travelling all that way and buying a PC just to play it?

Dave
(...and let us not forget that ox cart).

Wait a second there. You are flying 8 hours then having to drive through Orlando traffic and complaining about an Ox Cart ride?! Um, maybe its just me, but I think I'd pick the Ox Cart over Orlando traffic. [:D]

Yep, Orlando traffic is a bitch....especially during the height of tourist season with all teh Canadians coming to Mickey Mouse Land! [:D]

[DaveB]

I'd just like to point out that
1) I have been here in Florida for 5 days now
2) I bought a PC and got it online on Tuesday
3) AE still hasn't been released.
 
Frankly Matrix I consider this a very poor show, I gave you 2 months notice and STILL you make me wait. I suppose you realise I have no excuse and must now take the family off to meet the mouse repeatedly? (Braving all those canadians, as Hans pointed out). I have temporarily fallen back on Steel Panthers and a copy of Guderian's 'Panzer Leader', and I blame Matrix for that.
 
Dave
 
Harumph.

[bradfordkay]

July in central Florida. I pity you, Dave.

[DaveB]

Well it's a bit on the rainy and thundery side,
but unlike Scotland it's occasionally sunny and the rain is warm - so on the whole an improvement.
It's sunny in the morning for the pool, and I have a lot of toys out here....the mouse stuff IS wearing a bit thin though, I'm beginning to enjoy a visit to Walmart more.....[:)]

[LTCMTS]

I've been away awhile. See "Apollo11" is still living in his "Croatian Navy" dream world. Somethings don't change.
 
Question #1 - Is the limitation on numbers of devices that can be assigned to ships or aircraft eased or eliminated. This feature was obviously carried over from PacWar. The result was all IJN ships carrying 24" (61cm) torpedoes carried Type 93's when many should have been carrying Type 90 or Type 8's even as into late 1942. The result was to give the IJN an unreasonable edge in surface combat. Other probelsm were combining 20 degree elevation 15"/42 Mk.I (26,650yds w/1938lb APHE) with 30 degree 15"/42 Mk.IN (33,550yds w/1938lbs APHE), 16"/45 Mk.1 & Mk.5 combined with 16"/45 Mk.6 and so on.
 
Question #2 - Are the merchant ships revised to include ALL known IJN and Allied merchant ships and Naval Auxiliaries and to expand the types of merchant ships so that carry capacity, cruising speed and range and size are better match to historical ships?
 
Question #3 - Any adjustment of protection for angles of attack due to sloped armor or quality of armor (KNC versus VNC or JVC of USN Class "A" armor aboev and below 7.5" in thickness)?
 
Question #4 -  Adjustment of IJNAF types, ie. while the USN used dive bombers as scout bombers (SBD, SB2U, etc), this was not the case with the D3A "Val". When there weren't enough floatplanes, the IJNAF used the B5N/B6N as scouts/recon. How about the "Swordfish" and the "Barracuda" as TSRs with dive bombing capabilities.
 
Question #5 - Have air groups been adjusted? HMS Hermes carried only Swordfish TSRs and USS Long Island carried F2A-3s and SOC-2/3As.
 
Question #6 - Has participation in major landing operations been limited only to those ships capable of carrying landing craft?
 
Question #7 -  Has the game allowance for IJN subs carrying mines been eliminated?
 
Question #8 - Will the AI stop running computer managed convoys through enemy controlled (especially areas within strike range of enemy a/c) areas?
 
Just some questions.
 
For those that need to know, SMS K u.K "Viribus Unitus" was laid down (1910), launched (1911) and completed (1912) at Trieste DY, an Italian port then administered by the Kingdom of Hungary within the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary. The name is Latin and refers to an Empire unified from a number of ethnic, national and religious factions by loyalty to the King-Emperor. On 1 November 1918, she was handed over to officers of the Royal Yugoslav Navy at Pola, a port on the Adriatic which had been a major shipyard of the now defunct Autro-Hungarian Navy. She was sunk by charges placed on her hull by Italian operatives on 10 Nov 1918. There is some question as to whether the port was considered as part of Croatia, but Croatia did not exist as a seperate political entity until after the occupation of Yugoslavia by the Germans, Italians, Hungarians and Bulgarians in May 1941 and was subsumed back into the State of Yugoslavia in 1946, not becoming an independent entity util after the death of Tito and the dissoultion of Yugoslavia in the 1990's. Thus there was never a Croatian Navy during the time in which the SMS "Viribus Unitus" was in existence.

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: LTCMTS

I've been away awhile. See "Apollo11" is still living in his "Croatian Navy" dream world. Somethings don't change.

For those that need to know, SMS K u.K "Viribus Unitus" was laid down (1910), launched (1911) and completed (1912) at Trieste DY, an Italian port then administered by the Kingdom of Hungary within the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary. The name is Latin and refers to an Empire unified from a number of ethnic, national and religious factions by loyalty to the King-Emperor. On 1 November 1918, she was handed over to officers of the Royal Yugoslav Navy at Pola, a port on the Adriatic which had been a major shipyard of the now defunct Autro-Hungarian Navy. She was sunk by charges placed on her hull by Italian operatives on 10 Nov 1918. There is some question as to whether the port was considered as part of Croatia, but Croatia did not exist as a seperate political entity until after the occupation of Yugoslavia by the Germans, Italians, Hungarians and Bulgarians in May 1941 and was subsumed back into the State of Yugoslavia in 1946, not becoming an independent entity util after the death of Tito and the dissoultion of Yugoslavia in the 1990's. Thus there was never a Croatian Navy during the time in which the SMS "Viribus Unitus" was in existence.

Ahm... since I was directly mentioned I think it is fair to respond...


As always I offer several links for "Viribus Unitis" of KuK (and her sisters) - just read it:

Austro-Hungarian Tegetthoff Class

History of the Tegetthoff Class Battleships


BTW, the "Royal Yugoslav Navy" part made me laugh so much that I almost fell of my chair... (Yugoslavia as name only appeared in 1929 and "royal" Serbia never ever had any sea and thus never had any navy)... [;)]

Also Croatia existed as political and territorial entity for more than 1000 years... it was independent at first in 7th / 8th / 9th / 10th century but after it was part of Hungarian Kingdom and later Austrian kingdom and empire... Croatia was as old or older as Czech republic which shared the same fate in same kingdoms and empires for hundreds and hundreds of years... [:D]


Leo "Apollo11"


P.S. [Edit]
Sighted typos fixed.

[rhohltjr]

Question for you Erik Rutin perhaps.    I noticed that the new Matrix game "Watch on Rhine" went gold on Oct 22 and then was available for sale/download on Oct 28th.   So,  after the glorious day AE goes gold why would we have to wait a number of weeks/months for release? [;)] I Can't remember where in these threads I read that info.
Is it a problem of scale?  Documentation? 

[Crimguy]

Gold is getting to be more of a term of art these days. If there is in fact a gold master that needs to go to the presses, that can take weeks. However, in the age of digital downloads, that can more accurately mean the file needs to get to digital river and be added to their library, which if I recall WBTS was a matter of a few days.

[ltoot]

This is just someones hobby, right? It will never be perfect. Look at the chages/mods to WIP. Quit diddling and get it on the street.

[princep01]

The below, unfortunately, turn out to be grossly over optimistic.

ORIGINAL: Weidi72

The Admiral’s Edition expansion is currently scheduled for an early Summer, 2008 release.



Still in time? [&o]