The F---!!!! moments thread

[Krauter]

HOI3, USA on Hard,

Finally getting a handle on things in southern Italy, and trying to capture Taranto and link up with the trapped US 3rd Corps and 4 divisions (after already losing a motorized unit trying to capture Salerno...)

In the Pacific I've finally sunk Kaga, Akagi Hiryu and have just found out where the Shokaku and Zuikaku are located.. and.. you guessed it.. CTD.

[CaptainMattJ.]

Left For Dead 2. Playing dark carnival on expert, got all the way to the end, get in the chopper, me and everybody else, and here i am assuming this is going to be the first ever expert campaign ive completed.

BAAAAAM! tank hits me with a rock right before win cutscene, insta-incap, dont get achievement progress

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU UUUUUUUUUUU-

Not to mention all the times in ETW where ive lost multiple 2nd rates and heavy first rates to a fleet of sloops in auto-balance. And in one case a first rate getting essentially 1 shotted by a sixth rate in battle, broadside from the 6th rate lights it on fire, munitions explode --------_________--------

[Lord_magerius]

Ouch, that's got to hurt

Just had one the other day on FS2004, coming in on final approach pretty much everything failed all at once. Electronics, both engines and most of my hydro systems. Not fun after a four hour flight

[CaptainMattJ.]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Rage-quit material right there.


*goes back to read the 400 page manual*

Which game is that?

but i just started playing HOI3 and am stumped by how easy it is in battle. finland got crushed, romania got crushed, and 90% of the battles i lost 0 men. that would be my only complaint, because how exactly does no one die in a 30,000 vs 3000 man battle and i still win?

[Raptor1]

Originally Posted by CaptainMattJ.

Which game is that?

Gary Grigsby's War in the East.

Originally Posted by CaptainMattJ.

but i just started playing HOI3 and am stumped by how easy it is in battle. finland got crushed, romania got crushed, and 90% of the battles i lost 0 men. that would be my only complaint, because how exactly does no one die in a 30,000 vs 3000 man battle and i still win?

Usually by retreating before any meaningful combat takes place due to low organization, though I don't think I've seen more than a handful 0-casualty battles. Which expansions and patches do you have installed?

[CaptainMattJ.]

Originally Posted by Raptor1

Gary Grigsby's War in the East.



Usually by retreating before any meaningful combat takes place due to low organization, though I don't think I've seen more than a handful 0-casualty battles. Which expansions and patches do you have installed?

Out of the box vanilla.

[Raptor1]

Originally Posted by CaptainMattJ.

Out of the box vanilla.

Well, it's a good idea to at least patch it to version 1.4, since that fixes a ton of problems with the stock game. Getting the expansions (and patching them too) is a good idea as well, since they fix even more problems with the game and add quite a few nice features as well.

[TBear]

last night.

Tracking enemy (player)submarine in multiplay. Sitting with headset 100% focus. Then my 5 year old daughter slams me on the back and yels at me..

I get a huuuge shock jumping up hitting the table with my knees..result...coffee cup falls, mouse go down to the floor. in panic i try to save everything from the coffe flood resulting in hitting second monitor that falls down on a plant that falls so the soil is all over the place mixing it up with coffe.....

On top of that i now had a 5 year old crying her eyes out because, well daddy gave her a shock....

Then mom comes in asks what is happend and give me a overhauling because i made my daughter cry...

That is the most recent WTF moment for me involving puter games

[CaptainMattJ.]

I feel like such a noob, but i started playing Men of War for the first time, and last night i constantly failed the first mission in the soviet campaign. I took the village and the hill, but i simply couldnt beat back all those infantrymen on the supply line

It was always a terrible defeat for me. Sometimes id get a track blown off and in a hurried attempt to fix it my crew member repairing the tank got blown away. Most of the time i would try focusing on the armored cars and panzers but ended up not being able to stop the infantry from throwing a grenade that blows off my turret or destroys my tank entirely. So what i ended up doing was simply getting off the hill and backing up near the river. I was able to keep the infantry away from me and the tanks destroyed. So i eventually FINALLY won the mission after about 30 tries, and went to bed. mind you i was playing on hard and my tank had little ammunition to begin with after taking the hill, so i really had to tweak my gameplay styles.


I come back today and APPARENTLY the save files are corrupted, so now i have to replay the mission over again >.>



I also have somewhat of a rant/question. in HOI3, i play as the soviets. Its 1939 and Germany already started the war with poland. So i decide to join in. I blow through the poles, and capture maybe 40-50% of the country including warsaw. But Poland doesnt surrender, they keep fighting. And germany owns the other half of poland. Ive been waiting months and months and nothing has happened yet. Poland hasnt gone to either side, nor given up the "fight" (they have no troops left and still show up as a faction). What the Heck! I cant tell if this is supposed to happen or not. Because i still dont own the territory i conquered, niether does germany with its land, and poland doesnt seem to be officially surrendering? What do i do?

[Krauter]

Originally Posted by CaptainMattJ.

I feel like such a noob, but i started playing Men of War for the first time, and last night i constantly failed the first mission in the soviet campaign. I took the village and the hill, but i simply couldnt beat back all those infantrymen on the supply line

It was always a terrible defeat for me. Sometimes id get a track blown off and in a hurried attempt to fix it my crew member repairing the tank got blown away. Most of the time i would try focusing on the armored cars and panzers but ended up not being able to stop the infantry from throwing a grenade that blows off my turret or destroys my tank entirely. So what i ended up doing was simply getting off the hill and backing up near the river. I was able to keep the infantry away from me and the tanks destroyed. So i eventually FINALLY won the mission after about 30 tries, and went to bed. mind you i was playing on hard and my tank had little ammunition to begin with after taking the hill, so i really had to tweak my gameplay styles.


I come back today and APPARENTLY the save files are corrupted, so now i have to replay the mission over again >.>



I also have somewhat of a rant/question. in HOI3, i play as the soviets. Its 1939 and Germany already started the war with poland. So i decide to join in. I blow through the poles, and capture maybe 40-50% of the country including warsaw. But Poland doesnt surrender, they keep fighting. And germany owns the other half of poland. Ive been waiting months and months and nothing has happened yet. Poland hasnt gone to either side, nor given up the "fight" (they have no troops left and still show up as a faction). What the Heck! I cant tell if this is supposed to happen or not. Because i still dont own the territory i conquered, niether does germany with its land, and poland doesnt seem to be officially surrendering? What do i do?

In effect you control their land (the areas with the lines going through it). However, they now have a government in exile. Also, you gain no "cores" (provinces which are historically german/russian have cores on them). Because you're "occupying" their land" you can't annex them until you defeat GB and destroy the Allies (and their government in exile).

[CaptainMattJ.]

Originally Posted by Krauter

In effect you control their land (the areas with the lines going through it). However, they now have a government in exile. Also, you gain no "cores" (provinces which are historically german/russian have cores on them). Because you're "occupying" their land" you can't annex them until you defeat GB and destroy the Allies (and their government in exile).

well that blows for me. Cause now i have germany with their massive heavy tank divisions right on and in my territories, and not enough AT to beat them back effectively when war comes.

Also, for anyone who plays men of war, i simply CANNOT beat the 5th mission in the soviet campaign, the penal colony, where you take the hill and defend it. I made a very sloppy mistake when i tried taking the hill, my only t34 got one-shotted by a pak i didnt see, and so when i captured the hill i had only the 2 paks and 3 AA guns left and 9 infantrymen (armed to the teeth with as many At grenades they can carry).

And after a few tries i finally held the hill with men still on top and defending when the timer hit 0. but I STILL lost the mission. I dont know why either, i held the hill. Am i supposed to attempt to protect the last stragglers of the armored convoy? Or can there simply not be germans on the hill when the timer goes down? Or am i supposed to eliminate them all before th e timer runs out?

Because ive tried twice, succeeding both times in defending the hill and i STILL cannot win the mission.

[Krauter]

Bleed them out as happened historically.

[CaptainMattJ.]

Dont you hate it in men of war when a single valentine snipes 3 Panzer III Ausf Gs , taking fire from 2 of them and having all the shots bounce? yea me too...

Not to mention all the panzer III Ausf Fs i lost to instant one shots through the frontal armor by a valentine...

[Arclight]

British tanks are invulnerable, unless you are using them yourself.

[Biggles]

I hate cheating AI...it's more and more common these days...having the enemy AI on the highest difficulty doesn't make them smarter, they just get endless resources and unrealistic luck.

Just had a game on COH with Blitzkrieg mod. A Sherman takes out my Jagdpanzer from the front in one shot. Not a Firefly mind you.