Russia's most famous - and glamorous - female bodyguard killed...

[Lucifer Box]

So how do you get the initial points to start to build your forces? is it so many to start with & then extra per turn... when you have accumulated enough you go to war?

If it's a pre-written scenario (landing at Omaha Beach, say), you have the forces chosen already.

Alternatively, you can just decide yourself how many points you have depending on how big a battle you fancy fighting. It's not necessarily the case that equal points on each side give equal battles. For example, if you're assaulting a city with dug in defenders, prepared defences and so on, you would need about a 2-1 advantage to have any chance of success.

On top of that, there are the campaign games (North Africa 1941-1943, say), where a lot is pre-written for you, but you select a force to take with you through the campaign. After each scenario within the campaign you will get more points (the amount depending on how you did) to buy reinforcements, repair existing units or upgrade existing units.

If real time rather than turn based is your bag, then I recommend Close Combat - Cross of Iron. There's also a modern version of this called Close Combat - Modern Tactics.

[Lucifer Box]

Dear Mr Devil Box,

I am acting on behalf of the very famous and estimable author Martin Amis.

Mr Amis is greviously annoyed that you have, on a public 'website', disclosed the titlle of his latest work 'The doings of squirrels'.

Unless you retract and remove your comments re. 'The doings of squirrels', Mr Amis may be forced to instruct his solicitores (Messrs Poopkin & Floater) to 'sue your ass off'.

Good day

Primola Flanger
BBB & P MEDIA

Bogey, you da man! (to use the vernacular).

I was getting confused with Christopher Tolkein's latest opus based on the notes of his late father, The Dark Lord's Doings.

[bogeyman]

I was getting confused with Christopher Tolkein's latest opus based on the notes of his late father, The Dark Lord's Doings.

Dunno why Chris doesn't just exhume the old bugger and stick a pen in his hand.

Would probably make more interesting reading.

[PAH]

Mailman, is that you?

Nope. Got sacked from the Royal Mail for posting fake letters to my neighbours, including various blackmails and exposés to liven the place up. Some people have no humour.

Maybe the final straw was the photo of one guy's wife with a photoshop of another neighbour in bed with her, instead of me as the original clearly shows.

Well if they will put poncy names on their addresses instead of the actual number, it's their own fault if the stuff goes to the wrong house!

[Pondlife]

AndyW, Judge Fred, Bernard Common, Let Me In, Smee Again....

is that you?

[PAH]

AndyW, Judge Fred, Bernard Common, Let Me In, Smee Again....

is that you?

Nope. The mods will be able to verify that I'm actually one of the few on here who has just one ID (shocking isn't it), and apart from a slight detour a year or so ago, has always been using this ID and no other.

That's got to be worth some sort of prize?

[Lucifer Box]

Nope. The mods will be able to verify that I'm actually one of the few on here who has just one ID (shocking isn't it), and apart from a slight detour a year or so ago, has always been using this ID and no other.

That's got to be worth some sort of prize?

You're Spartacus, aren't you?

[PAH]

So that's fair game then, is it?

Feeling a bit vulnerable in your porker are you?

Dont' worry, Porsche is no longer a premium brand here nowadays. It's barely above BMW in it's slow decline into chavdom.

[bogeyman]

Feeling a bit vulnerable in your porker are you?

Dont' worry, Porsche is no longer a premium brand here nowadays. It's barely above BMW in it's slow decline into chavdom.

What you on about, you twit? I don't drive a Porche.

[PAH]

You're Spartacus, aren't you?

Sadly I'm not that handsome. If only I'd been born before eyesight evolved, I'd have had plenty of fanny, women are so shallow these days.