2nd Ranger

^ Just made The List.

Sort of like Black Hawk Down then. Sort of. Who is in it? Bruce Willis..?

Exactly. Although, in his fiction book Liberation Day he did go into rather alot of detail about how his character was going to pull off a job. While he actually knew what he was talking about and that it does take a long time to plan things... I was just hoping he'd hurry up and get to the job. I thought the same of Rainbow Six. I was enjoying it from the start (when three Rainbow guys plan and execute a quick takedown of plane hijackers by communicating with simple hand gestures such as touching their earlobes etc), but after the second job it began to bore me. Mind you, this was o

Meh, I find it amusing. Anyway, he writes like he's talking to a bunch of SAS squaddies who know what he's talking about, and we all know what he means anyway, and I think it's more believable that way. I mean, he doesn't describe everything down to the last detail, because you don't do that in the kind of situations he's been in. Clancy has the luxury of using his imagination to describe things, and while that doesn't mean that McNab has no imagination, it adds to the belief that he'd done everything he writes about. In my opinion, anyway.

Yeah, it's alot more cinematic than GR, like when you're playing Sp on Gr, the Ais are basically only there so you can use their guns. No interaction, no help, nothing.

'Spose there isn't much call anymore, what with an actual BHD game out for purchase.. So if they haven't received much of a warm welcome then they can't of been that good (I assume)?

Blast, I was going to say that. Anyhoo, being a poor old Englander, I haven't heard squat about this movie yet, but have heard the title being thrown around. Quick synopsis please?

Clancy doesn't do suspense. He does boredom. And I will agree, he's very good at it.

^ Polite enough not to say "n00b"

That's surprising. OFP is the perfect game for a BHD mod (especially with the whole chopper thing...), becuase the limitations of the GR engine can only take a BHD mission so far.

I thought those first ones were photographs with which to compare the models.

I find Tom Clancy books to be waaaaay too descriptive, especially of the weapons and firefights, which is rather a big sign that he's never shot at anyone in his life. Example; He raised the barrel of 9mm MP5 sub-machinegun and lined up the glowing green tritium sight with the man's head, set the selector switch to three-round burst and squeezed the trigger... When compared with the writings of a real veteran like Andy McNab, whose accounts run something like this; I shot him.

Just finished Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity 2/3 of the way through Marl Bowden's Black Hawk Down (again) While reading The Secret Hunters by Sir Ranulph Fiennes; Apparently a half-fictionalized account of the story the Author himself found in a journal in a remote Antarctic outpost, written by the book's narrator. About hunting escaped Nazi war-criminals. Thrilling.

^ Fans the flames of WAAARRRR...

Damn straight. Bryan Adams - Summer of '69 Staaaandin' on your momma's pooorch, y'tooooold me that it'd last foreeevuh...

If you start shooting or throw a frag and then hide somewhere, they generally come out to investigate.

Current track: Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits. Groovy.

Fast-roping, eh... Any BHD scenarios in there?

A duck's quack does not echo, and no-one knows why. You're all off to squeeze some ducks now, aren't you.

Well good, because I'd download it just for the models.

^ Got me thinking about cakes. Mmm...

Sorry, sorry; Is this a TC or just new skins, models and weapons?

^ Appears to be from Scotland. Yes, I'm very perceptive.

^ Kills 'em all and lets God sort 'em out. (according to sig)

Yeah, I figured as much. Oh well, I'll just cut out the shape of a rear sight on some black paper and stick it on the screen. No, not really.