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my dad posted:and you read them all gently caress off nerd, go post in your nerd thread with the nerds (flicks cigarette butt)
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Empress Theonora posted:Seeing a Sherman being used by the Nazis makes me really sad in a way I'm not sure I can justify regarding a piece of inanimate military equipment. The fact that you said this about the Sherman and not the T-34 is why you're going straight to the gulag when the revolution comes, comrade.
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What if that Sherman was a klan member who defected?
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100 Years Ago 27 July: The South African Prime Minister tries to work out why they haven't put German East Africa to bed yet (spoilers, that rotter Lettow-Vorbeck won't stand and fight like a gentleman). The BEF turns Longueval and Delville Wood into a fine paste and then occupies most of the ground where they used to be; the Blockade of Germany continues slowly tightening; Oskar Teichman's men at the Suez Canal are starting to get restless; Lt-Col Neil Tennant sails to Basra by way of Muscat in Oman; Evelyn Southwell is heading south, towards the Somme; and Maximilian Mugge watches draft after draft of men head off to the front. 28 July: One day I will have many more rude words to say about General Haig's failure to rein in one Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough once it is well and truly clear that the man is only suited to an army command in a very particular set of circumstances; today is not that day. Suffice it to say that the Chief is busy blaming the Australians for something that his mate Gough is foisting on them. Oh, also, the Germans are sending a lot of planes to the Somme. In the Caucasus General Yudenich must now pivot to face an actual threat for a change; Britain, France and Russia are now plotting to stitch up the Romanians, and it serves them bloody right too; Louis Barthas tries to find some water; Lt-Col Fraser-Tytler socialises with the French again; E.S. Thompson receives another issue of Railway Magazine; and Maximilian Mugge weighs in on matters of theological importance. Also, HEY GAL posted this early in the old thread and it clearly still belongs here because it makes me giggle like a complete idiot 
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Empress Theonora posted:Seeing a Sherman being used by the Nazis makes me really sad in a way I'm not sure I can justify regarding a piece of inanimate military equipment. Ok, now imagine if this got together with this And you've got another example of a captured Sherman.
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Splode posted:The fact that you said this about the Sherman and not the T-34 is why you're going straight to the gulag when the revolution comes, comrade. It's more like "the Sherman is literally the only tank I can identify by sight because I'm a WW2 equipment dunce", actually. edit: are there, like, ww2 tank flashcards or something. i'm kind of embarrassed i can't even tell a t-34 from a....... well, that's the only tank i can name. Empress Theonora fucked around with this message at 00:43 on Aug 2, 2016 |
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In addition for using these for training, the Germans were so hard up for aerial transport that many captured B-17s/B-24s ended up serving as such, alongside Junkers Ju 252s and Ju 290s.
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Empress Theonora posted:It's more like "the Sherman is literally the only tank I can identify by sight because I'm a WW2 equipment dunce", actually. Let me tell you about the Tiger tank. The unequaled best tank ever made. Ever. It would murder modern tanks. Post your favorite "the tiger is the best" lines you've ever heard.
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Splode posted:The fact that you said this about the Sherman and not the T-34 is why you're going straight to the gulag when the revolution comes, comrade. if Stalin is any indication you probably get sent there with him anyway
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Empress Theonora posted:It's more like "the Sherman is literally the only tank I can identify by sight because I'm a WW2 equipment dunce", actually.  Bask in it. It also has a second version with a fat turret but it's not as aesthetic. also an early version with a pointy turret, also not aesthetic
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For a little while, I saw that the old thread was locked, and there was no new thread. I felt like I had no purpose in life anymore. I literally did not know what to do.
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Aug 2, 2016 01:06
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Raenir Salazar posted:What if that Sherman was a klan member who defected? Heeresgruppe Süd wird wieder steigen!
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Aug 2, 2016 01:06
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why does it have an eagle on it? i thought those were always associated with nobility/ monarchy
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Aug 2, 2016 01:09
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I always thought firefly tanks were cool
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Empress Theonora posted:It's more like "the Sherman is literally the only tank I can identify by sight because I'm a WW2 equipment dunce", actually. The T-34 is easy to distinguish because the turret is pretty far forward.
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Ice Fist posted:Let me tell you about the Tiger tank. I prefer the IS-2. Picture to assist the newbie to tankchat. 
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Koramei posted:why does it have an eagle on it? i thought those were always associated with nobility/ monarchy That would be a polish eagle! The polish eagle did have a crown on which was far too bourgeois for the soviets, so that got taken off, but the heraldic icon was still an eagle.
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How do you capture a B-17? Did they belly land somewhere and were in a repairable state?
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Empress Theonora posted:It's more like "the Sherman is literally the only tank I can identify by sight because I'm a WW2 equipment dunce", actually. Being a dunce for obsolete equipment that you'll never have reason to identify without the aid of a plaque is a pretty good type of dunce to be, imo.
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Aug 2, 2016 01:17
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Raenir Salazar posted:Should we go about compiling (a) a list of notable posters and their contributions We already have one. Also, I sent a goldmining request to Grand Fromage.
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:A tank:  Dat shot trap.E: Holy gently caress it's nuclear powered and it floats. PittTheElder fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Aug 2, 2016 |
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Koramei posted:why does it have an eagle on it? i thought those were always associated with nobility/ monarchy It's a Polish T-34 (Should be, anyways.)
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Saint Celestine posted:How do you capture a B-17? Did they belly land somewhere and were in a repairable state? Basically, yes. You force a B-17 to land, capture the crew, and then use parts from various other captured examples to repair one (or more) to flying condition. Then you test it intensively to find weaknesses in the design, turret/gunner arcs, etc. 
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Notably, several B-29s ran into trouble operating against Japan that led to them making emergency landings in Soviet territory. Since the Soviets were officially neutral in the Pacific, they interned the planes in keeping with international law. They also took the opportunity to produce the Tu-4, a nearly exact reverse-engineered copy of the B-29.
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Empress Theonora posted:It's more like "the Sherman is literally the only tank I can identify by sight because I'm a WW2 equipment dunce", actually. There's always googling up "ww2 tank profiles"  Or buying books that are literally "Recognition Guides" Although, you do end up with this stuff once in a while...  "Main Battle Tank"
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Aug 2, 2016 01:53
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Sounds like this
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spectralent posted:
The hull MG mount is making me cry a little.
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PittTheElder posted:
Might not have mattered, as everything of worth was meant to be inside the turret pod. Still looks like a bad sci-fi show prop.
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Aug 2, 2016 02:24
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:Sounds like this If it wasn't such a lovely outrage-bait kind of story, I would almost feel bad for the amount of scorn and mockery whoever wrote this probably received. But it's probably a tabloid, so they deserve whatever they get.
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Yo, Raenir, wrt questions + last thread... https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/50002/check-your-6-breaking-luftwaffe https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/160418/wing-leader-victories-1940-1942 https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/5614/achtung-spitfire https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/83092/303 There are a bunch of other ones on boardgamegeek if you search for Flight/Aviation -> Category: WW2 -> Mechanic: Hex-and-Counter How far you go vis-a-vis Realism/Fun might be a little tricky, good luck!
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SeanBeansShako posted:THE TIGER TANK IS UNDER THE HOUSE! This, but with unexploded ordinance.
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Plan Z posted:One of my favorite war games is the Brothers in Arms series. The first one really stands out for me in that instead of the "fight five battles over 6 years" formula in most similar games, it's a series of engagements over 8 consecutive days as your squad gets ground down and de-moralized. The sort of side-plot about the one suicidal soldier was kind of lame, but a lot of good humanizing moments came out of the story, which is incredibly rare for a war game. It also tones down the head-popping insanity of CoD and MoH by focusing on a "suppress and flank" mechanic using fire squads so that you don't feel like you're liberating France entirely by yourself. Man, when you put it like that, it would be cool if someone revisited this with any country.
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Splode posted:Is it the panther or the tiger that's gears break before it runs out of fuel. I can never remember. I recall an instance within a German pocket, (possibly demyansk?) they were running low on ammunition but they had captured a bunch of soviet munitions. So instead of flying in ammunition for their German weapons they flew in captured soviet weapons which could use the stockpile of ammunition that they had.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Because it broken down, got stuck in the mud and for some reason somebody built a foundation around it. They were experimenting with concrete armor, but got slightly carried away.
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I want to troll some wehraboos: buy one of those fancy model kits for some obscure nazi tank and paint it up as captured by the Soviets. Panther or tiger?
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Yo, Raenir, wrt questions + last thread... Thanks! I'll bookmark these!
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Monocled Falcon posted:I want to troll some wehraboos: buy one of those fancy model kits for some obscure nazi tank and paint it up as captured by the Soviets. Do one of the Leningrad Tigers A.K.A. the first ones that saw combat and where one was captured by the Russians because it bogged in swampy terrain.
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I moved your old nerd poo poo thread to the dumb goldmine for nerds to read, spergs. 
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Grand Fromage posted:I moved your old nerd poo poo thread to the dumb goldmine for nerds to read, spergs.  m'mod
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