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Girls und Panzer is an accurate depiction of WW2 small unit armor tactics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtrwEve88Gk
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Polyakov posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdXG_fKkJI4 I just saw a clip, and suddenly I'm filled with ideas Fox needs to make a TV show about a bunch of hot women trying to start a new business venture, only really its everything that happened during the WOT. And it will be really wacky and funny!
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I was going to go "Yeah like that" but we got to the punchline and gently caress this amazing bad show.
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Polikarpov posted:Girls und Panzer is an accurate depiction of WW2 small unit armor tactics Looks about right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnSoxqLHbD8
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Know what subject doesn't seem to get much a look at? The Ottoman army of the 19th century.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Know what subject doesn't seem to get much a look at? Does it have an anime about it?
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When they discoverer the rumours of debaucery and homosexuality that dogged that army in that era, It is only a matter of time.
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So long as we're talking bad WW2 anime, I gotta bring up Pumpkin Scissors. It's a WW2 analog that manages to get everything possible wrong, from an anti-tank corps armed only with pistols to double-ended cavalry sabers to the concept of using scissors to cut a pumpkin. I mean look at this poo poo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGu_84pg_Pg
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SeanBeansShako posted:Know what subject doesn't seem to get much a look at? Excuse you I totally nerded out about the Ottomans in the 1800's over the summer and read their WHOLE Wikipedia page plus played a game of Vic II as them so I'm basically an expert.
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SlothfulCobra posted:So long as we're talking bad WW2 anime, I gotta bring up Pumpkin Scissors. It's a WW2 analog that manages to get everything possible wrong, from an anti-tank corps armed only with pistols to double-ended cavalry sabers to the concept of using scissors to cut a pumpkin. the tank looks kinda cool, ngl I wish more fantasy series made tanks that look like tanks rather than spiky boxes with guns all over them.
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Crazycryodude posted:Excuse you I totally nerded out about the Ottomans in the 1800's over the summer and read their WHOLE Wikipedia page plus played a game of Vic II as them so I'm basically an expert. Woah, look at this Pasha.
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First Squad is a hilariously bad anime that has a magical NKVD schoolgirl fight demons with katanas. There was also an official rap music video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUXnvhOmLkg
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Ensign Expendable posted:First Squad is a hilariously bad anime that has a magical NKVD schoolgirl fight demons with katanas. I liked First Squad. I think the live action bits are interesting. Also it's the only anime that depicts the Soviet Union or the Russian side of the WWII occult fiction. You hear about nazi moon bases, nazi cultists, nazi black magic, supernatural stuff, all of this appears in comics or graphic novels and even anime (Hellsing) but we never get the Soviets in anyway*. *Not counting Cold War era published DC/Marvel comics that I'm not old enough to have read.
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Raenir Salazar posted:I liked First Squad. I think the live action bits are interesting. Witch Vasenka is alright.   
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The historians of the far future are gonna be confused as gently caress.
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FrozenVent posted:The historians of the far future are gonna be confused as gently caress. Insert the PBF comic here once more.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Insert the PBF comic here once more. Frankly, it should just be embedded in the first post of every page.
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spectralent posted:I was going to go "Yeah like that" but we got to the punchline and gently caress this amazing bad show.
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Well What Now posted:Frankly, it should just be embedded in the first post of every page. Or the OP at least.
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a kitten posted:Izetta is the best (currently airing) WWII anime show. Get this poo poo outta here
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I mean, just doing a spam reference is a gag I didn't expect to see in GUP but keeping the vikings is wonderful  Ensign Expendable posted:First Squad is a hilariously bad anime that has a magical NKVD schoolgirl fight demons with katanas. Ensign Expendable posted:There was also an official rap music video.  Also as I said I liked that Izetta had the pimply glasses kid running for his life. Not something you see a lot.
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I've been going over my Moscow trip photos (finally!)        
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"Igor what do you see?" "I see your seems and they're coming undone, Boris!"
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Boiled Water posted:"Igor what do you see?" That's the French 
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Following more dumb age of sigmar stuff, I've kind of been left wondering what the role of skirmishers vs formations was in practise. Like, if hitting a flank is as big a deal as it seems to be portrayed, wouldn't skirmishers and light cav muller stuff by ramming them in the rear end repeatedly while everyone's trying to marching-pivot around them, or is this a deal where you have, like, screening skirmishers of your own to keep the other dude's off your back? Or is it just not a big deal if you're not also in a square for some reason? EDIT: I mean, I assume testudo and stuff are basically impregnable from any side, but presumably peasant levy in the middle ages or pike squares aren't quite the same thing? spectralent fucked around with this message at 11:53 on Nov 24, 2016 |
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Xerxes17 posted:That's the French That explains Jaque sleeping in the chair whilst his comrades in arms are busy inspecting their clothes with magnifying glasses.
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spectralent posted:Following more dumb age of sigmar stuff, I've kind of been left wondering what the role of skirmishers vs formations was in practise. Like, if hitting a flank is as big a deal as it seems to be portrayed, wouldn't skirmishers and light cav muller stuff by ramming them in the rear end repeatedly while everyone's trying to marching-pivot around them, or is this a deal where you have, like, screening skirmishers of your own to keep the other dude's off your back? Or is it just not a big deal if you're not also in a square for some reason? Skirmishers and light cav are probably lighter than whatever you want them to ram and thus wouldn't fare well. Regular rear end skirmishers are supposed to break up formation a little and maybe protect your skirmishers from doing the same. Or something along those lines as far as I understand. No fucken clue about light cavalry.
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Boiled Water posted:That explains Jaque sleeping in the chair whilst his comrades in arms are busy inspecting their clothes with magnifying glasses. Sorry no excuse. Give us your fancy hat card and get out. Also, I am still in favour of some weird Milhist Fiction thread where we can obsess over media and keep it seperate from the thread discussing fact. Look, I just want somebody fluent in Italian to tell Italy to translate Sturmtruppen already gently caress.
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JcDent posted:Skirmishers and light cav are probably lighter than whatever you want them to ram and thus wouldn't fare well. Regular rear end skirmishers are supposed to break up formation a little and maybe protect your skirmishers from doing the same. To expand on this if you're talking the gunpowder era skirmishes are often a company (or whatever) in their own right and join the line for the main battle. Before poo poo kicks off they harass the enemy formations and keep enemy skirmishes from doing the same and then get in line with everyone else when it's time to line up and volley at each other.
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spectralent posted:EDIT: I mean, I assume testudo and stuff are basically impregnable from any side, but presumably peasant levy in the middle ages or pike squares aren't quite the same thing? The testudo can get owned by cavalry easily enough, as proved by the Parthians at Carrhae.
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Kemper Boyd posted:The testudo can get owned by cavalry easily enough, as proved by the Parthians at Carrhae. Man can you imagine that violation of security? you think your nice and safe under your scutum and then BAM large chainmail horse out of nowhere. Also you are dead.
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Boiled Water posted:That explains Jaque sleeping in the chair whilst his comrades in arms are busy inspecting their clothes with magnifying glasses. That's Napoleon.
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Those officers are clearly scoping out a restaurant / bordello / winery while their shlubby pal sulks because they won't take him along due to his severely subpar hat / gilding situation. SeanBeansShako posted:Look, I just want somebody fluent in Italian to tell Italy to translate Sturmtruppen already gently caress. I had all those in German and they def helped make me the total weirdo I am today. Can't believe someone else remembers them. aphid_licker fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Nov 24, 2016 |
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gently caress all of you rank amateur retards that can't recognize Napoleon.
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loving goons and anime, what is it with you people anyway, to move this thread in a tolerable direction: yesterday I went to an antiques mall and stumbled on a trove of Popular Science magazines from WWII. They were $3 a piece and they are AWESOME. They're....so similar to contemporary magazine/clickbait articles, but they're so about WWII stuff...it is fantastic. Here's some uploads of the more interesting things. From May 1941. The magazine is pretty bellicose despite the fact the war was still 7 months away. http://i.imgur.com/T9BV9mk They were seriously concerned about air raids in CONUS: http://imgur.com/a/Uo93P The A-24 "Dive Bomber" is incredibly good http://imgur.com/YgftGB9 An overview of infantry weapons just before things kicked off: http://imgur.com/a/4q8zK Life as pilot in 1941: http://imgur.com/a/8ZuEl 1942: The war kicks off, and our poo poo sucks, and we're getting our asses kicked, but you wouldn't know it based on this magazine: lovely stupid Axis weapons: http://imgur.com/a/AODYV "Ideas", Planes, and radios. The comparison of the Zero and the P-40 is my favorite thing. "Flies like a baby carriage" vs "Hard to fly" http://imgur.com/a/pVtF5 1943: we're starting to see the evolution of stuff; I'm shocked a lot of this stuff was publically releasable. Cover: referring to AP Seversky and his understanding of air power long before anyone else: http://imgur.com/a/39YFw NEW AND BETTER GUNZ http://imgur.com/a/HvYKy New planes. Note the "low altitude mustang"(it refers to the A model), and the "self sufficient bomber that needs no fighter escort": http://imgur.com/a/Atg90 1944: the war is won, now we need to start planning for the future! Awesome thing on the P-51: http://imgur.com/a/Neee0 New planes like the B-29 are going to really take it to the Nips. I'm also pretty shocked they have a relatively accurate sketch of a V-1. http://imgur.com/a/YzsmN Second favorite thing: the postwar plan, particularly the description of how vulnerable the US is. However, note that the main diagram essentially describes the plot of Red Dawn almost word for word to include correct geographic location. http://imgur.com/a/1u6nl Since we're pretty much done with the war, how about a discussion of TV? This is actually an incredibly prescient article: http://imgur.com/a/SO1SL Finally, the back page ads on all 4 magazines: http://imgur.com/a/Y9qsC ....seems about right. bewbies fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Nov 24, 2016 |
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