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TheLovablePlutonis posted:Man I really hope that they use not only Attilla and Rome and do the other TW games for this. Including yes, Warhammer. If they could get a decent loving framerate out of Attila, it'd be pretty great.
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Japan did extensively use chemical and biological weapons against the Chinese in WW2.
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david_a posted:That's actually one of the (many) reasons I don't own a Mosin. I would be creeped out having one in the house if (based on the dates and wear) there was a fair chance it was used to kill someone, so I completely empathize about the Serbian bag even if that's a much milder case. Didn't the Soviets shoot a lot of deserters? I sympathize with someone being uncomfortable about owning a weapon that may have killed someone. Different people can have different views, but I hope that people that feel that way can have some kind of appreciation for people who take care of such weapons to preserve them. My Enfield was the first C&R I own that certainly saw action, but when I saw the thing collecting rust in some Gomer's poorly-maintained shop, I'd rather something that was a part of history be treated with dignity and not end up in too awful shape to even display in a museum in the future. Soviets shot deserters like anyone else, and going by records they didn't really do it more than anybody (by percentage). If you're asking about the common misconception about them having Enemy at the Gates-style blocking detachments mowing down retreating friendlies, then no that wasn't a thing. As far as the statute of limitations goes, not a lot of people think of guns the same way they do of antique blades or bows or something. Lots of countries currently destroy relic firearms, and people who don't know what they own here in the US regularly give them away in buybacks that result in the same thing. There are varying opinions, but I'd rather see a gun deactivated and donated to a museum or educational program than have it completely scrapped. I just don't want us to be a few decades down the line and not have certain important firearms just because of political arguments of a certain window in time.
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Come to think of it, do any of the modern armies have like military designation names for kitchen equipment like pots or are they finally able to control themselves in that regard?
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Dec 18, 2016 19:46
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SeanBeansShako posted:Japanese sexuality has been it's weird thing way before some white dude showed up. That and he gets blamed for Japanese prudishness and censored porn by Weebs, when the laws that affected that kind of stuff go back to something like 1906.
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Dec 28, 2016 17:11
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Looking for some movie identification help. I recently got into History Buffs, a channel that analyzes historical movies. In his Last Samurai video, he shows clips from a movie that look pretty interesting that start around this part. Does anyone know what movie those clips of the Japanese soldiers attacking the castle is from? It looks interesting.
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Jan 1, 2017 21:13
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SimonCat posted:Logic! Had it out with one of those guys at a museum job. The curator was a good guy but he didn't know dingus about armored warfare and told us as much. When he and I got there, it was Ronsons and five-to-ones and diesel/gas and all of that poo poo, and the guy who wrote it was the textbook definition of the modern closet fascist Wehraboo who trusted every forum post he ever saw.
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Rodrigo Diaz posted:Ah man that video I posted is fine but this one is even better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QgXuhv7-54 I saw that it was a black and white army video about WW2 guns and their "effects" and I thought it was going to be "That Video."
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:The answer is yes, with qualifications. Usually when it came to certain times of his life and other factors. Like his idea that the machine gun would be an incredibly important part of the tank's firepower, but not to the point of sacrificing cannon power and throwing 10 machine guns onto every tank.
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Jan 24, 2017 06:46
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So in a few of Zaloga's books, he mentioned at least one M24 Chaffee forced into service during the Bulge. Does anyone know if there's any info on their service out there, or is it the information just limited to "it happened?"
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For years I've been hearing and reading that the British tank crews suffered relatively heavy casualties because of this and that in WW2, but the one that's bothered me the most is the claim that they didn't wear helmets. I know that the British Army adopted and produced helmets specifically for tank crews. I know you mostly see pictures of Brit tank crews wearing berets, but the majority of those are also all posing for pictures, so I naturally assume they'd wear their caps instead of helmets in pictures and many would just pop their helmets on when they needed to. I feel like there'd be better reasons like particular theatres, bail-out training, ammo stowage, the random whims of the numbers, and lots of others to explain the supposedly higher casualty rate. The helmet one just kind of struck me as too easy and ignored too many factors, but does anyone know if it's actually true or not?
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Ensign Expendable posted:Isn't there a mission where you fight a Tiger with a Firefly? Naturally, you must get point blank and shoot it right in the rear to kill it. You killed "Richter" in one of the Polish tanker missions, who they called the "Black Baron" so basically a legally safe Wittman. I think he drives a Tiger 2. Yeah, come to think of it, games love doing the "BUT BOTH SIDES" while never really showing Nazis doing bad things besides executing a person here or there. I remember CoH 2 being the flat-out worst about it with its depictions of pleading/crying Nazis being executed and not a single Soviet shown killed by a German (while plenty are killed by their own side). CoD:WaW is a close second that conists of about 3 hours of Gary Oldman screaming at you to execute surrendering Germans, while the Japanese are portrayed as shitheads. I think one problem is that games are afraid of depicting stuff like the holocaust or mass genocide as they may not handle it well, so ironically you get a situation where the Allies are the only ones shown as executing German prisoners or some such. I can think of two games that depicted concentration camps, one of them being New Order (where you see healthy, muscular people just doing lever-pulling labor and ends with a stompy robot combat section), and Valkyria Chronicles (which I shouldn't need to qualify when I mention how stupid it is to even bring it up).
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Apr 27, 2017 17:06
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Ensign Expendable posted:People are incredibly quick to accept any kind of weird nazi frankentank no matter how impossible. A lot of the popular ones are straight up fiction that some guy made up and it just kind of took off. A paper shredder at Wargaming's studio, running day and night, only stopping for repair or maintenance.. On the side in Russian is written "Requests for Krokodil."
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Apr 27, 2017 17:47
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Cyrano4747 posted:It's almost like this is a mass product for a general audience that doesn't know or care about geeky mil hist poo poo beyond "I shoot the nazis and my gun goes ping" I mean yeah. I'm actually interested in a CoD game for the first time since 4 because CoD games are at their best for me when it's an affordable version of a Hollywood action movie. I just hope they don't have mandatory onscreen messages consisting of "PLEASE RELOAD THIS 5-ROUND WEAPON" or "YOU HAVE BEEN SHOT DONT STAND IN THE OPEN" that you can't loving get rid of ever.
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Apr 27, 2017 20:03
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chitoryu12 posted:War of the Button Mushrooms. Criminean War.
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Ensign Expendable posted:These roads were also few and far between. Passing tanks would tear them up and make them unusable for wheeled transport. Soviet I commanders cursed that they'd rather have no armour support at all than have it gently caress up their road. Same thing for the US/Western Allies. You regularly see commanders pretty cheesed that the constant shelling made roads unusable. Plan Z fucked around with this message at 06:56 on Oct 6, 2017 |
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Author question: I've read a few of Antony Beevor's books, and am I wrong to be particularly wary of the guy? His stuff on the Soviets speaks in such broad strokes and I find enough snippets to be just flat-out wrong or worrying (like the methodology he used to estimate the number of Soviet rapes in Germany). I rarely see any criticism of him while I see plenty on other authors I like such as David Glantz. The only criticism I see comes from Eastern European countries banning his books for apparently political reasons so that simultaneously makes me suspicious of everyone.
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