Ainsley McTree posted:

I enjoyed the Brothers in Arms games because they were as much about pointing and shouting as they were about actually shooting anybody. I liked SWAT 4 for the same reason. More FPS games need to be about pointing and shouting, in my opinion.

Also, tankchat caused me to remember that the KV-2 existed, which in my opinion looks like one of those tanks that probably ought to be fake (or at least a goofy prototype that never saw combat) but I guess nope, it was out there.

HEY GAL posted:

never go to d&d

SeanBeansShako posted:

Nope sorry, you are wrong.

Cossacks 2 is the only game that can actually do Napoleonic musketry right. It's such a shame they decided STARFORCE was needed to fight piracy though for those games.

Disinterested posted:

my dad posted:

How often do you run into the Soviet or Allied equivalent of wehraboos? Like, people who are so incredibly into a myth about some Soviet tank's/ship's/weapon's quality that they go frothing at the mouth at the mere mention of one of its flaws?


I unbookmarked it after reading one too many "genocide is OK if it's being done to people I don't like" post for my sanity to endure. So I'll have to disagree.

Koramei posted:

From playing the Wargame series, it seems like you get that about the Soviets all the time.

There's this weird thing with the Soviets in online communities (in my experience) where people go gaga for Nazi stuff and think everything Soviet during WW2 was terrible, but as soon as you transition into the Cold War it flips to Soviet stuff being the best ever.

StashAugustine posted:

Probably a controversial question, but how hard did the Axis minors (Hungary, Romania, Finland etc) buy into Nazism?

Endman posted:

My mistake, we're talking more recently.

In that case, I've got a friend who was in the German paratroopers and the experience he felt encapsulated his time with them was when his G36 melted.

IM_DA_DECIDER posted:

Don't take my word for it, this is coming from my entirely subjective experience of seeing the same people who support Russian politics online also being completely convinced of the invincibility of its military hardware (which happens to be almost entirely Soviet).

JaucheCharly posted:

You cannot expect these people not to have the same issues. The difference might be that the german leadership actually cared in one way or the other for the wellbeing of their men, even if it's in terms that you can't carry out the task with them being raving alcoholics, going insane or killing themselves in unacceptable numbers. The decision to move to other methods than shooting came after Himmler visited the Mogilev area in fall '41, he pulled the strings pretty fast after that to make other methods of extermination happen.

MikeCrotch posted:

A few pages back, but Toblerone Triangular admitted they were a long con troll and not actually libertarian, and were giving up on that posting schtick because it was beginning to seep into their real life and affecting the way they thought in a bad way.

Boiled Water posted:

But as posted above they were uniquely awful. Except possibly for Finland. Is there nothing bad to say about Finland? Clean Finn-magt?

my dad posted:

Or Trin for being English?

Wikipedia posted:

In the Royal Navy, the use of impressment to collect sailors resulted in the problem of preventing escape of the unwilling "recruits". The receiving ship was part of the solution; it was difficult to get off the ship without being detected, and most seamen of the era did not know how to swim

Nebakenezzer posted:

poo poo I'm reading - 30 Years War, a European Tragedy
Actual consequences a little vague; castles are lost in Hungary, and Transylvania and its strategic Vampire supply is lost to the Ottomans.

Tias posted:

Interested, I tried to google if the US military could seize power from a dictatorship. Never again..

Tias posted:

it's something else allright. But seriously, are there any way to enforce the "enemies domestic" part of the oath? When would the U.S. military actually consider a civil leader a dictator, and would they mind?

grover posted:

George Beurling, "The Falcon of Malta", a Canadian Spitfire fighter ace with 32 kills, was trotted around to sell war bonds, but got himself fired from that due to a tendency to get a little too graphic...

George Beurling, in a press interview, posted:

"I came right up underneath his tail. I was going faster than he was; about fifty yards behind. I was tending to overshoot. I weaved off to the right, and he looked out to his left. I weaved to the left and he looked out to his right. So, he still didn't know I was there. About this time I closed up to about thirty yards, and I was on his portside coming in at about a fifteen-degree angle. Well, twenty-five to thirty yards in the air looks as if you're right on top of him because there is no background, no perspective there and it looks pretty close. I could see all the details in his face because he turned and looked at me just as I had a bead on him. One of my can shells caught him in the face and blew his head right off. The body slumped and the slipstream caught the neck, the stub of the neck, and the blood streamed down the side of the cockpit. It was a great sight anyway. The red blood down the white fusilage. I must say it gives you a feeling of satisfaction when you actually blow their brains out."