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May 2, 2018 00:23
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ponzicar posted:Here's a great quote from Sniping in France by H. Hesketh-Prichard: Jesus christ Canada
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May 2, 2018 00:35
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zoux posted:Jesus christ Canada that strikes a very deep patriotic chord with me - a people who will occupy most inhospitable territory in the history of the world and will mostly find it boring? and of course complain about how cold it is
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May 2, 2018 00:51
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Lying in wait to knife a bunch of guys to death for the lovely mud of France. Really tickles the patriot bones.
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May 2, 2018 01:04
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A tale as old as time. 
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Ensign Expendable posted:A tale as old as time. i never knew how much i needed a battle isetta, but welp, there it is
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Ensign Expendable posted:A tale as old as time. True as it can be... 
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May 2, 2018 04:07
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drat they even taught the kids to pose like tankers
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May 2, 2018 05:40
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:drat they even taught the kids to pose like tankers impossible, none of them are making GBS threads/vomiting over the side of the tank
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May 2, 2018 05:48
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zoux posted:Jesus christ Canada The Harry Reid of nations
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May 2, 2018 06:43
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zoux posted:Jesus christ Canada Canada in WW1 is kind of like Dustin Hoffman in Straw Dogs. At first it's cool to see the nice guy grow a a backbone and start kicking rear end, but then he gets much too into it, and it gets really creepy really fast.
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May 2, 2018 09:13
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augustine von fritsch enjoyed his war
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HEY GUNS posted:hot take, nobody in the 19th c can lance good anymore Bengal would like a word
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Those guys can lance but man are they bad baby and house sitters.
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May 2, 2018 14:09
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Cessna posted:True as it can be... Those look like they run in which case where the gently caress do I get one of those T-55s in the middle.
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May 2, 2018 20:20
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A dude named Jörn Leonhard just put out an absolute tome of a book on WWI, over 1100 pages, called Pandora’s Box. Anyone know anything about the guy? Christopher Clark of Sleepwalkers fame gave a glowing review for what that’s worth. Yes I bought it.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:A dude named Jörn Leonhard just put out an absolute tome of a book on WWI, over 1100 pages, called Pandora’s Box. Anyone know anything about the guy? Christopher Clark of Sleepwalkers fame gave a glowing review for what that’s worth. I've had that in a shopping cart for a week wondering if I could justify ordering yet another book I don't have time to read. I guess the answer is yes.
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It's exactly the sort of thing that needs an English translation. I'm a fair way in and if nothing else it's refreshing to read someone whose thoughts for e.g. describing the political and military background of the long 19th century reach first and most comfortably to figures like Moltke the Elder and Bismarck instead of Disraeli and Lord Raglan. It's mostly generals-and-politicians, but ones who simply haven't had enough English-language attention. (Along those rebalancing-the-score lines, also check out Jonathan Boff's "Haig's Enemy", about the career of Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria.) Trin Tragula fucked around with this message at 21:44 on May 2, 2018 |
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May 2, 2018 21:40
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It just got an English translation by the fine folks at Harvard Belknap Press.
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Trin Tragula posted:It's exactly the sort of thing that needs an English translation. I'm a fair way in and if nothing else it's refreshing to read someone whose thoughts for e.g. describing the political and military background of the long 19th century reach first and most comfortably to figures like Moltke the Elder and Bismarck instead of Disraeli and Lord Raglan. It's mostly generals-and-politicians, but ones who simply haven't had enough English-language attention. Fun fact: Crown Prince Rupprecht probably would have had a real shot at restoring the monarchy after WW2, if the thousands of people shouting „Vivat Rex!“ at him at his return to Munich in 1946 (iirc) were any indication, but the Americans wouldn’t allow it
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System Metternich posted:Fun fact: Crown Prince Rupprecht probably would have had a real shot at restoring the monarchy after WW2, if the thousands of people shouting „Vivat Rex!“ at him at his return to Munich in 1946 (iirc) were any indication, but the Americans wouldn’t allow it edit: every saxon i have ever talked to is both more-or-less still communist and a loyal adherent of the Wettin dynasty. They love the Electors of Saxony down there HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 22:24 on May 2, 2018 |
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May 2, 2018 22:22
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System Metternich posted:Fun fact: Crown Prince Rupprecht probably would have had a real shot at restoring the monarchy after WW2, if the thousands of people shouting „Vivat Rex!“ at him at his return to Munich in 1946 (iirc) were any indication, but the Americans wouldn’t allow it Is this a thing you can do in Hearts of Iron 4?
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i just read a diary from the 30yw in which the dude writing it says that after a big campaign the army starts to hold parties and weddings, as though they had been waiting until the period of great effort was over it may also be that only after they have taken plunder do the common soldiers have the money to do this. military weddings can be expensive: peter hagendorf's second wedding cost 40 gulden. his father-in-law paid for it
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May 2, 2018 22:35
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Cessna posted:True as it can be... That's just crushingly cute Maybe intermural tank combat could be a thing...  So, I've been reading a bit about Operation Baseplate. Is the rationale the same as everything else on the German side, IE "if this doesn't work we're totally hosed anyway, who cares?"
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System Metternich posted:Fun fact: Crown Prince Rupprecht probably would have had a real shot at restoring the monarchy after WW2, if the thousands of people shouting „Vivat Rex!“ at him at his return to Munich in 1946 (iirc) were any indication, but the Americans wouldn’t allow it You mean specifically the BavarIan monarchy not Germanys right?
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FishFood posted:i never knew how much i needed a battle isetta, but welp, there it is 
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May 2, 2018 22:50
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Mazz posted:Those look like they run in which case where the gently caress do I get one of those T-55s in the middle. Is that what they are? T-34 at the front is on point but those turrets don't look nearly rounded enough. 
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May 2, 2018 22:50
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feedmegin posted:You mean specifically the BavarIan monarchy not Germanys right? Yeah. Bavarian federalist and even separatist sentiment has always been strong, and especially so immediately after the war. It honestly was a commendable achievement of everybody involved to keep Bavaria within the Federation (even though the state hasn’t formally accepted the German constitution to this day)
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May 2, 2018 22:51
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feedmegin posted:You mean specifically the BavarIan monarchy not Germanys right?
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Nebakenezzer posted:That's just crushingly cute Anime has you covered, my dude
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System Metternich posted:(even though the state hasn’t formally accepted the German constitution to this day)
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May 2, 2018 23:00
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This is an XCOM/Fallout parody, right?
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feedmegin posted:Is that what they are? T-34 at the front is on point but those turrets don't look nearly rounded enough. They had to make design compromises in order to make it 1/3 scale and still able to cram a 12 year old in the TC hatch.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:This is an XCOM/Fallout parody, right? One of my favourite Cold War tidbits is that some believe the U.S.S.R. would have survived better a nuclear war because they tended to build big, spacious and deep shelters that were open to the public, whilst the U.S. encouraged people to build their own (lovely) shelters and kept the good ones for government types.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Is this a thing you can do in Hearts of Iron 4? Nah, you can restore the Kaiser (or potentially his son as Wilhelm III) as an option for opposing Hitler. One of the options going forward is to basically literally have WW2 be a rematch of WWI (including getting Austro-Hungary back together), while the other is a democratic constitutional monarchy. I feel like (similar to Hungary's having an option to choose their new king to decide they new direction), maybe there should have made it so you can choose between the Wilhelms or Ruprecht as you choose the path your nation takes. Edit: Or as a comedy option, have the option to install him as a puppet king of Britain, since at the time he was the current Jacobite heir to the throne. Yvonmukluk fucked around with this message at 23:46 on May 2, 2018 |
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May 2, 2018 23:43
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Jesus christ, every person there has this look like they are going to tough it out in their bomb shelters, maybe eat some hard tack, and then kick hitler in the balls. It's an entire family of  , if was more angry and scowl-y
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May 2, 2018 23:47
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Yvonmukluk posted:Nah, you can restore the Kaiser (or potentially his son as Wilhelm III) as an option for opposing Hitler. One of the options going forward is to basically literally have WW2 be a rematch of WWI (including getting Austro-Hungary back together), while the other is a democratic constitutional monarchy. I feel like (similar to Hungary's having an option to choose their new king to decide they new direction), maybe there should have made it so you can choose between the Wilhelms or Ruprecht as you choose the path your nation takes. Apparently you can also end up with that one princess who is all over the internet for looking pretty good wearing a death's head on her fluffy hat running poo poo, but it's a BIT of a chain of events.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:This is an XCOM/Fallout parody, right? Given that the odds of a major air raid on the American mainland were slim to none, I feel like that whole pamphlet has some psychological value in terms of helping people not panic and feel like they’re contributing and can be prepared for ill-defined dangers. Actually, WERE there any false alarms during WW2 about air raids on the US mainland? Someone starting a rumour that spins out of control because he mistook an eagle for a bomber, style of thing?
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