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HEY GAL posted:pappenheim already has a nickname, it was "scarface" (balafré) scarface would be a pretty good name for a movie
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Tevery Best posted:I have extracted whatever posts of mine from the old thread I think had value and put them in a Google Doc for easy access. I've even edited some of them. I can't believe you put finshing grad school and getting a job ahead of internet posting
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On the subject of the Bayeux Tapestry , the Overlord Embroidery in England is pretty great
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:I think there's a real argument for a screwball comedy about rear echelon insanity, but i don't think that's Hollywood fare. This is like 90% of Generation Kill
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The Germans also experienced huge shortages of pork during the war Because the pigs all joined the Wehrmacht 
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Nenonen posted:From playing Pike and Shot, I can tell you that early tercios are immune to flanking and rear attacks but late tercios can be charged from the rear! But they do get a combat penalty the more dudes they're engaged with at one time, so hitting them from multiple sides still sorta works
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bewbies posted:
and take selfies of themselves invading the Ukraine
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Cyrano4747 posted:It helps a LOT that Africa was the cleanest campaign from a public point of view. Yes, there was some lovely things with bedouins wanting to help the Nazis based on some mutual feelings re: Jews, but for the most part it was fought in a loving wasteland away from population centers over purely military objectives. It's the dashing chaps with the Desert Rats trying to outwit the Desert Fox and everyone's quite decent, did you hear about that time a dude was captured and the Germans radioed his unit so his mum would know he was OK? See also Hans-Joachim Marseille
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Was Marseille not cool though? -played jazz music in front of Hitler to piss him off -constantly grounded because he spent his nights drinking and getting laid so yeah
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Plus when you think 'Nazi war crimes' it's not just shooting/bombing civilians it's deliberate genocide of millions of people
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Is HOI 4 any good? It looks bad. HOI4 is at least as good as DH, it does need some AI fixes tho. Also Kaiserreich is in development for it and the mechanics of 4 should be a lot better fit
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Also, for tactical level stuff based on WW2 and without having to worry about massacring civilians (for the most part) or killing prisoners (sometimes) you should totally get Advanced Squad Leader. Wasn't there an official scenario for the Warsaw Ghetto uprising cause uhhh
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EU4 is the best paradox game and has all the pikes and Napoleonic warfare you'll need
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HEY GAL posted:brother, i bump into doorways on my way across the room the first step is admitting you have a problem
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Hey Disinterested that Operation Typhoon book looked interesting, it should be pretty approachable for a layman right?
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HEY GAL posted:there was a remarkable quantity of things inside other things/things that turn into other things in that exhibition Are you sure this wasn't the Bloodborne museum
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HEY GAL posted:i have, in fact, no idea where you keep an ex-pope's internal organs We do have a decent idea where Benedict's are, though
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Hasn't Colombia more or less gotten FARC to sign a peace deal?
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Cyrano4747 posted:Yeah. Check out how long it took them, and what tactics they used to finally undercut support for them. Not saying it wasn't a massive effort. Do you or anyone have any particular knowledge about the war? I picked up a little from playing Andean Abyss.
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Arbite posted:Also, what would :HRE: look like? 
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Probably a controversial question, but how hard did the Axis minors (Hungary, Romania, Finland etc) buy into Nazism?
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What was going on with Hungary's peace deal? I'd forgotten about that.
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JcDent posted:Actually laughed in the street I mentioned Dracula to an old Hungarian lady once and she went off on a twenty minute tirade about how vampires aren't actually Transylvanian and Bram Stoker just set the story there for convenience
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WoodrowSkillson posted:
I can't find it right now but someone in GBS got 'Caro Package' scrawled on a Ukrainian artillery shell. War in the Internet age is weird and terrifying.
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bewbies posted:Nuclear torpedo detonations weren't that big, right? Like, big compared to a regular torpedo, but a fraction of the size of a detonation in the atmosphere. Well I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed...
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:It's not exactly H.M.S. Gay Viking, but I found the best U.S. Navy ship name of the Second World War. My favorite is still the carrier USS Shangri-La
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Oct 14, 2016 18:01
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There's only one thing that I fear when fighting for the Eagle I won't get me no lager beer when I go to fight mit Siegel!
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Agean90 posted:lol @ you guys assuming trump know anything about them other than WW2 general and looks manly the strategic vision of Patton, the geopolitical deft touch of MacArthur, the humility of Montgomery, the ethics of Zhukov, and the competence of Chaing Kai-Sek
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Oct 21, 2016 14:33
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Mass Effect has some really cool space combat fluff that gets totally ignored by the actual game
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Oct 21, 2016 19:21
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Or Indiana's Kay-rho
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WoodrowSkillson posted:BF1 is a really really really good battlefield game, and thankfully multiplayer is not a simulation but instead pulls every experimental gun around in 1918 and doles them out so you can have a fun game in the setting. It also does a pretty good job of creating situations analogous to reality. just yesterday me and my friends spent 5 minutes defending a capture point while hunkering in a trench, getting shelled and gassed, and fighting in close with shotguns and melee weapons as the attackers stormed the trench. is the SP not poo poo cause I tried BF3 SP once and it was an awful mistake
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4 wasn't bad but it was all downhill from there
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Agean90 posted:It's dumb as hell and flat compared to the bad company games that came before it (420 invade a neutral country for mercenary gold erry day) This and also it started off in a subway car and got more linear from there
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eeUYE1XNO5E "How much RippedFuel have you ingested?" "I'm on it like a motherfucker, Brad."
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PittTheElder posted:Oh yeah, there's loads of this going on. Also the idea that Nuclear Technology in America is considered a "born secret", so that if you happened to independently discover how to build a thermonuclear weapon all on your lonesome, it's still considered classified, and the government will likely prosecute the hell out of you to make you keep it to yourself; see United States v. Progressive, Inc.. On the other hand that law has never been tested in the Supreme Court, so https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadline_(science_fiction_story) During the Manhattan project there was a sci-fi short story published in America that described an atomic weapon and got the attention of military intelligence
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Technically mortars also recoil they're just braced on the ground
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Raenir Salazar posted:To be specific, its usually the argument that it was the "nasty Russian winter" that saved the Soviets and that this was somehow Hitler's fault. Did the Germans deliberately choose not to supply the forces invading the Soviet Union with winter uniforms? Was it actually the case that they couldn't? I am away from my computer and can't post Nazis.txt where they not only refused to send winter clothing because it's defeatist but straight up murdered a factory of Jews who were making winter clothing for the troops
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Show him a copy of Korsun Pocket sometime And to actually engages the Germans did come close to Moscow but that would end up with Stalingrad with subways and theres no guarantee that would even end the war
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Well yeah the Hungarian s weren't good fighters, they were too infected by Jewish defeatism because Horthy didn't hand over the Jews to the SS :nazisay:
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Jobbo_Fett posted:It takes a lot of "What Ifs" to make Germany absolutely 100% guaranteed to win World War 2. That is shifting goalposts a little but good points. There's also the perennial 'gay black Hitler' argument- a Hitler who was rational enough to keep winter supplies with his troops may have been a Hitler rational enough to not invade Russia in the first place. David Stahel, 'Operation Typhoon: Hitler's March on Moscow, October 1941' posted:While Bock's troops did their best to provide for themselves, there were almost two million men in Army Group Center on 2 October (and over a million more in the remainder of the Ostheer) and there was simply no way of adaquately equipping them all in time for winter. The army command had prioritized fuel and armamant shipments over bulky winter clothing. The idea was to end the war in the east in one final all-out effort, and no resource was to be spared in pursuit of that goal. Requests for winter clothing were not only refused but, according to Guderian, the subordinate armies 'were instructed not to make further unneccessary requests of that type.' The idea that precious transport capacity be reserved for winter clothing was seen within the high vommand almost as an admission of defeat and a resignation that a winter campain had become unavoidable. The result was a steadfast refusal to acknowledge the scale of the problem or to do anything substantive about it...
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