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WoodrowSkillson posted:Do you have a sword yet? What kind would you want/have based on your motley approach? Edit: One of those little Finnish daggers might be cool, though. Edit 2: See, the thing is that as anyone who has seen me irl can attest, I look dago as all hell. Nobody will buy me as German, Bohemian, Swedish, English, Scottish, Finnish, or even French, so I figured I'd go with a bunch of Spanish and Italian stuff. I might be able to do "Balkans" though. HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Aug 4, 2014 |
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HEY GAL posted:Not one of my own, and although I have a belt knife I don't have a proper dagger. For a dagger I'd like a stiletto if I can find a reproduction, and for a sword possibly something like "The Renaissance Rapier With A Cirrus Basket" here (doesn't look like I can link to it in particular, so just wordsearch for that phrase): http://www.swords.cz/enbestof.html The basket on that sword is insanely cool.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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PittTheElder posted:The basket on that sword is insanely cool.
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HEY GAL posted:Not one of my own, and although I have a belt knife I don't have a proper dagger. For a dagger I'd like a stiletto if I can find a reproduction, and for a sword possibly something like "The Renaissance Rapier With A Cirrus Basket" here (doesn't look like I can link to it in particular, so just wordsearch for that phrase): http://www.swords.cz/enbestof.html That's a cool looking sword. Was there any consistency in the swords used by pikemen? I know they all had one as a sidearm since things going to hell in a handbasket was par for the course in the 30 years war. I know all kinds of swords were knocking about until militaries all shift to sabers in the later 1700's. Old longswords, rapiers, sideswords, backswords, broadswords, messers, etc.
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PittTheElder posted:The basket on that sword is insanely cool. I'm a sucker for blades with really ornate baskets or hand guards too.
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WoodrowSkillson posted:That's a cool looking sword. Was there any consistency in the swords used by pikemen? I know they all had one as a sidearm since things going to hell in a handbasket was par for the course in the 30 years war. I know all kinds of swords were knocking about until militaries all shift to sabers in the later 1700's. Old longswords, rapiers, sideswords, backswords, broadswords, messers, etc. The "proto rapier" is where it's at, in the civilian and military worlds. I don't know if the Scottish have that basket-hilted thing yet.
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HEY GAL posted:The "proto rapier" is where it's at, in the civilian and military worlds. I don't know if the Scottish have that basket-hilted thing yet. Awesome, those are my favorite swords from the period. Pretty much a slimmed down longsword blade with the cool basket hilts.
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The only stipulation about my weapons I've ever heard is that you need to wear your sword or dagger in such a way that you can reach it with your right hand when you curl your right arm over your left arm in the position "charge against cavalry." Number 16, center of the bottom row. Edit: Even in a diagram, these things are awkward. The little diagram-dudes look like they're about to knock into one another in one or two places.
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HEY GAL posted:Edit: One of those little Finnish daggers might be cool, though. I have a 40 year old puukko from my dad :P
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JaucheCharly posted:I have a 40 year old puukko from my dad :P So that's what happened to the knife...
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Oh...you...I have to return some videos.
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Communist Zombie posted:I remember in a thread on SA (this thread?) where someone posted records from Soviet supply depots in the middle of Siberia or something. Things of note were how the units stationed there had to oil smooth bore cannon balls to keep them ready, and that the only thing of value in the actual depot for the officer to take was some silk rope. Hemp rope. Also axes. But yes, the dreaded "store forever" stamp exists on far too many things that it shouldn't go on and not enough things that it should. Pornographic Memory posted:I kind of love that Ensign Expendable's blog of translated Soviet military documents started so he could troll people on the World of Tanks forums by blindsiding them with citations from primary sources that they literally would have had no way of obtaining or reading before Ensign posted them. They would if they'd read my blog  Although I've actually gotten some of the less drooling idiots to go and at least look at DTIC for relevant documents, so I guess that's a gain for history.
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my dad posted:So that's what happened to the knife... 
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Are you familiar with his posting? Motherfucker loving camps threads like this, waiting for someone to give him an in. He could be in one of your threads right now. Watching.
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Just like my dad.  Ensign Expendable posted:They would if they'd read my blog Or they just accuse you of being biased and being an employee of wargaming.
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SeanBeansShako posted:I'm a sucker for blades with really ornate baskets or hand guards too. WoodrowSkillson posted:Awesome, those are my favorite swords from the period. Pretty much a slimmed down longsword blade with the cool basket hilts. (2) Look at these pictures, oh my godddddd 
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Would a soldier actually have all their gear in the style of their home country? Or would they start that way, then pick up replacements from wherever?
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HEY GAL posted:Are you familiar with his posting? Motherfucker loving camps threads like this, waiting for someone to give him an in. He's like The Bible, or God, etc. Gimmick accounts made to pick up on stuff like that. Hell, I was "The Entire Universe" before I changed my name.
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FAUXTON posted:He's like The Bible, or God, etc. I actually make username jokes fairly rarely. Gimmicks get boring fast, but a surprise zinger once a month ensures maximum comedy without running the joke into the ground. edit: I still can't believe that nobody made this username for 12 years. "my dad" is the gimmicky username with the highest potential for comedy, due to context it's usually used in. my dad fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Aug 4, 2014 |
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I was gifted some thick summer reading and would like to know how much of a critical eye should I bring with me before diving in. The Balkans, Nationalism, War and the Great Powers, 1804-1899 - Misha Glenny The Fall of the House of Hapsburg - Edward Crankshaw
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BurningStone posted:Would a soldier actually have all their gear in the style of their home country? Or would they start that way, then pick up replacements from wherever? my dad posted:I actually make username jokes fairly rarely. Gimmicks get boring fast, but a surprise zinger once a month ensures maximum comedy without running the joke into the ground.
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my dad posted:edit: I still can't believe that nobody made this username for 12 years. "my dad" is the gimmicky username with the highest potential for comedy, due to context it's usually used in. That would be Literally Hitler.
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Some WW1 battlefields 100 years later. I want to see more pictures of old trenches 'cause that's really weird to see.
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It really does go to show that erosion is a very slow event in most places.
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Phanatic posted:"Each kit represents the personal equipment carried by a notional common British soldier at a landmark battle over the past millennium."
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On the 29th of July, the British forces were ordered into a "Precautionary Period", rather like the runners in a race coming under starter's orders; something very close to, and in preparation for full mobilisation, but not quite. Part of the Army at home had gone on immediate standby to be dispatched to resist invasion; the rest of it was sent to guard various points of interest around the coast. One of them was a young private in the Rifle Brigade, stationed near the port of Felixstowe (currently playing host to the cruiser HMS Amphion and its attendant destroyers), whose six days' stint of incredibly dull guard duty was about to get considerably more interesting.quote:The day after August bank holiday, I was on sentry from ten o'clock to midnight, on the seaward side of the oil tanks. It was a still, still night with no wind at all and the sea was like plate glass - the sort of night when sound travels for miles. Eerie, really. Just you and the stars and the sea and the sound of your own feet, soft on the grass. Suddenly, I heard this tremendous roaring noise coming from across the water - cheering and shouting. I couldn't work it out at all. Then I decided that it ust be the crew of the big ship cheering at the end of a deck concert. It was ages before it died away.
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quote:"Sir, I have the honour to report that as from eleven o'clock, a state of War exists between Great Britain and Germany."
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HEY GAL posted:This evening, while I was walking home from work, a bell on the Neustädter Markt started ringing and didn't stop. I thought that was a quote for a moment. Must be eerie, that same bell probably rang 100 years ago for the same reason.
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MA-Horus posted:I thought that was a quote for a moment. And dude, living in Dresden is like living over a grave. It's eerie all up in.
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MA-Horus posted:that same bell probably rang 100 years ago for the same reason. Probably not. Assuming it survived WW2 intact the Russians were pretty active in grabbing church bells (well, pretty much anything large and metal) to melt down for scrap as part of the immediate post-war reparations.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Probably not. Assuming it survived WW2 intact  it's just across the river from the city center. That would be "no."
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HEY GAL posted:
Actually, yes and no. I just looked it up (hooray wikipedia!). I'm assuming you're talking about the bells in the Dreikönigskirche? If that's the case they actually melted during the bombing/burning of the city in 1945. No specific mention is made, but I'm guessing being a puddle fuzed to whatever foundation of the church was there got them overlooked by the post-war Soviet scrapping parties because the melted lumps of bronze were re-cast in the 70s into the bells that hang there today. So, in a way, it kinda was those bells in 1914, just not in the precise form that they're in today.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Actually, yes and no. I just looked it up (hooray wikipedia!). I'm assuming you're talking about the bells in the Dreikönigskirche? If that's the case they actually melted during the bombing/burning of the city in 1945. No specific mention is made, but I'm guessing being a puddle fuzed to whatever foundation of the church was there got them overlooked by the post-war Soviet scrapping parties because the melted lumps of bronze were re-cast in the 70s into the bells that hang there today.
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 Jesus Christ, the bells melted? Oh. You're in Dresden. That kind of puts the fire-bombing into better perspective.
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I remember watching a documentary where someone spent some time wandering around Dresden, and thinking "jesus, the entire city looks like a horrific 50s council estate, how did that happen?" ... "OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH that's what "firebombing" means"
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Cyrano4747 posted:Actually, yes and no. I just looked it up (hooray wikipedia!). I'm assuming you're talking about the bells in the Dreikönigskirche? If that's the case they actually melted during the bombing/burning of the city in 1945. No specific mention is made, but I'm guessing being a puddle fuzed to whatever foundation of the church was there got them overlooked by the post-war Soviet scrapping parties because the melted lumps of bronze were re-cast in the 70s into the bells that hang there today. 
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Trin Tragula posted:I remember watching a documentary where someone spent some time wandering around Dresden, and thinking "jesus, the entire city looks like a horrific 50s council estate, how did that happen?"   Dark stones are original, pale stones are not. It's a patchwork city now. And scratched onto one of the walls of this thing you can read, in Russian, THERE ARE NO LANDMINES HERE. Edit: The church I was talking about is a perverse thing, they rebuilt the interior in a modern style, into the bare white walls of which the surviving bits of baroque stone are set like jewels. The entire thing used to look like that reredos. The new building was intended as an anti-war memorial, and if the idea was to mess with my head they succeeded.  It includes a Dance of Death: 
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Trin Tragula posted:I remember watching a documentary where someone spent some time wandering around Dresden, and thinking "jesus, the entire city looks like a horrific 50s council estate, how did that happen?" A horrific council estate is one of the best descriptions I've heard of for soviet style flats.
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That is pretty cool, in an incredibly morbid kind of way. Which describes most of the stuff in this thread honestly.
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Koramei posted:Some WW1 battlefields 100 years later. The crazy thing for me is the sheer number of what appears to be shell craters. Why did stick grenades (the kind that the Germans and Soviets seemed to like) fall out of use and now we have these weird peanut/grapefruit shaped things?
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