| From: | Joe Sommer <anvilus9-at-adelphia.net> |
| Subject: | simply discussing the weather |
| Date: | Thu, 26 Jun 2003 08:52:29 -0400 |
| Reply-To: | tanks-at-rctankcombat.com |
Dear Steve, I sure hope that the weather is nice Saturday at the Battle for Middle Maryland. ******************************************* activate the Cone of Silence ******************************************* Now that Tri-Pact cannot hear through the Cone of Silence ... We are pleased to report that the first field trial of the Anvilus Projection Cloaking Device (PCD) was a complete success. Anvilus commandos infiltrated a recent Tri-Pact live fire training exercise and used the PCD to superimpose a ghostly image of a T-34 over Frank Pittelli's antiquated Tiger #T001. (This was somewhat difficult because Tigers are so ugly and T-34s are so cool.) Although we have not yet been able to project color images, the white overlay completely fooled John Pittelli's PzKw IV #T012 and Will Montgomery's Panther #T017. Dazed and confused by the sudden appearance of a white T-34 cloaked image where the Tiger had been sitting, the PzKw IV and Panther requested instructions from the Tri-Pact BattleStar Management System. Anvilus commandos intercepted the BattleStar reply, and replaced it with orders to fire on the projected image. In the words of Vern Dernberger, the destruction "was accomplished in a matter of minutes". The commandos were surprised that it took so long to destroy such an antiquated Tiger, but the PzKw IV and Panther had to reload at least three 40-shot magazines each (240 shells) and clear several gun jams before they were able to get 4 hits on the cloaked Tiger. Following this debacle, secret Anvilus surveillance cameras hidden within the Tri-Pact BattleStar, transmitted the attached photo of Tri-Pact General Buck Turgidson vainly trying to explain to Dr. Von Huppel why two Tri-Pact main battle tanks (MBTs) destroyed their only other operational MBT. The elusive Paul Pittelli, Director of the Tri-Pact BattleStar Management System, was out to lunch and is not shown in this photo. ******************************************* deactivate the Cone of Silence ******************************************* I hope it does not rain. Joe ********************************************** Joe Sommer 2378 Nantucket Circle, State College, PA 16803 814.234.4773 anvilus9-at-adelphia.net http://users.adelphia.net/~anvilus9/
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