LRADIKAL posted:

(40 dollars for the steel panthers game?!!!)

Milo and POTUS posted:

Let's see what my copy of surivivng edged weapons says

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/BiodegradableSolidBighornsheep-mobile.mp4

Huh. Not sure what that has to do with anything

Would it be the same for a spear? Would the (typically wooden) haft be furniture?


e: that post could be misread as me being an rear end in a top hat I was just referencing surviiving edged weapoins because it's funny to me ty

Randarkman posted:

Did Hitler give a single poo poo about Germany's former colonies? IIRC he was dismisse towards the notion of giving any priority to getting them back.

e: Also basically envisioning that Italy could have British and French possessions in Africa.

Gerhard Weinberg posted:

If Italy was to occupy Northeast Africa, Germany herself would acquire a vast colonial empire in Central Africa. That empire was to include the former German colonies of Togo and Cameroons in West Africa as well as German East Africa, now to be joined into a huge contiguous Central African domain stretching from the South Atlantic to the Indian Ocean and rounded out by the inclusion of the British colony of Nigeria, the French colonies of Dahomey and French Equatorial Africa, the Belgian Congo, Uganda, the southern half of Kenya, and perhaps the northern portion of the Portuguese colonies of Angola and Mozambique. Former German Southwest Africa (now Namibia) might either be reclaimed from the Union of South Africa in exchange for the British protectorates of Bechuanaland (Botswana), Swaziland and Basutoland (Lesotho), or, alternatively, it might be left to the Union in connection with the partitioning of the Portuguese colonial empire in Africa. In either case, Germany expected to enjoy good relations with a South African state ruled in this vision by the extreme nationalist elements among those Afrikaaners who had opposed the Union’s entrance into the war in 1939 and who were and remained devoted admirers of both National Socialist ideology and its German practitioners.

LRADIKAL posted:

Above comments tell me this was the place to find what I'm looking for.

I also like dnd sort of turn based combat, too, like Knights of the Chalice, which i thought of when I looked at the link to Shrapnel Games. (40 dollars for the steel panthers game?!!!)

I'm grabbing Partisans, it's 8 bucks on steam right now, should I get the similarly discounted DLC stuff?

Gorson posted:

I'm looking at U-Boat loss maps by year:

https://uboat.net/fates/losses/

From 1941-1943 there are almost no losses in the immediate area of the UK, indicating that area being off limits because of all the British patrols. I know that sub captains were specifically told to go around the North Sea route and avoid the channel. However in 1944-45 the losses start piling up both in the channel and within 30-50km of the English coast once again. Did the German doctrine change or did the Allies just get better at spotting and taking out subs enroute to their patrol areas?

ChubbyChecker posted:

they have free versions too. no idea what the full price versions have, maybe better graphics? but good graphics aren't the grognards' way

LRADIKAL posted:

Hey all, I know this is the right place to ask. I want to play a cool turn based or real time tactics or a strategy PC game.

I've really liked stuff like Battle Brothers, XCOM series, Advance Wars, (there was a ww2 sci-fi squad game that started normal, but then there were mechs, can't figure out the title). I've also played a bunch of RTS and World of Tanks in my day.

I sort of searched around for some kind of tactical cover ww2/cold war game like these, and came up short. Any suggestions?

Hyrax Attack! posted:

Nytimes had fascinating interview with 97 year old B-17 pilot who later made it big in artificial Christmas trees.

In February ‘45 he had to make an emergency landing in Poland after a raid on Berlin. They were confined by the Soviets but treated ok but the Soviets weren’t in a hurry to send them home.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/17/nyregion/bomber-pilot-christmas-trees.html

Nenonen posted:

Now I'm thinking what the Hollywood version of Soviet bomber forces would look like...

"One bomber gets machinegun, the next one gets the bombs! Attack!"

"URAAAAAAA!!!"

"No... we can't take this flak anymore... must turn back to base..."

*from clouds above dives a formation of NKVD fighter planes and shoots down the retreating planes*

FPyat posted:

Has suicide ever been a serious source of casualties for a military?

PittTheElder posted:

I'm sure someone would show them that picture of like 100 PPSh's on a pallet for air dropping, and they would be using that poo poo for CAS in no time

FPyat posted:

Has suicide ever been a serious source of casualties for a military?

PittTheElder posted:

Are modern soldiers not typically issued sidearms?

Acebuckeye13 posted:

It's an old series now, but I absolutely loved the Brothers in Arms games back in the day. It's an FPS rather than an RTS, but the bulk of the gameplay is really about commanding your squad to utilize fire and maneuver tactics. Really solid game.

PittTheElder posted:

Are modern soldiers not typically issued sidearms? Have video games lied to me??

PittTheElder posted:

Are modern soldiers not typically issued sidearms? Have video games lied to me??

PittTheElder posted:

I'm sure someone would show them that picture of like 100 PPSh's on a pallet for air dropping, and they would be using that poo poo for CAS in no time

The Lone Badger posted:

VostokProgram posted:

It's actually a form of takeoff assist for short runways. Gives you a nice boost into the air

Tomn posted:

You joke but this is, apparently, theoretically possible.

quote:

The gun was noted for its high (often uncomfortable) vibration and extreme noise. The airframe vibration led to fatigue cracks in fuel tanks, numerous radio and avionics failures, the necessity of using runways with floodlights for night flights (as the landing lights would often be destroyed), tearing or jamming of the forward landing gear doors (leading to at least three crash landings), cracking of the reflector gunsight, an accidental jettisoning of the cockpit canopy and at least one case of the instrument panel falling off in flight. The weapons also dealt extensive collateral damage, as the sheer numbers of fragments from detonating shells was sufficient to damage aircraft flying within a 200-meter radius from the impact center, including the aircraft firing.

Fuschia tude posted:

I like how the most propulsive gun was this Russian thing so powerful it tended to damage both the aircraft firing and any plane within 200 meters of impact. And it's been in continuous service for 46 years.

Xiahou Dun posted:

From that wiki entry :

For some reason the radio getting messed up is the bit that gets me. Once I actually engage the parts of my brain that think about physics it makes perfect sense, but until that point my dumb lizard-brain thinks somehow there are so many bullets that the radio-waves can't get through or something.

Xiahou Dun posted:

From that wiki entry :

For some reason the radio getting messed up is the bit that gets me. Once I actually engage the parts of my brain that think about physics it makes perfect sense, but until that point my dumb lizard-brain thinks somehow there are so many bullets that the radio-waves can't get through or something.

LRADIKAL posted:

Thanks for the thread suggestions, but I wanted "this thread" kind of recommendations. We don't have to derail on these games anymore if it's too far off topic.

FMguru posted:

Weren't old-style radios full of glass tubes and other fragile elements? I can see how something from before everything was a block of solid-state transistors would be vulnerable to vibration from guns/engines/maneuvering/etc.)