John Kettler Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 (edited) Forgive me if this has been posted before, for my memory is poor at best when it comes to such things,. Penal unit members wore regular uniforms, so that makes these guys zeks aka Gulag denizens. Uniform problems are tiny compared to a much bigger one. My Russian is microscopic, but I did pick up "snaryad" (projectile) in the TCs speech to his men. The tanks look good, too. Regards, John Kettler Edited January 8, 2018 by John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMS Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 No, no, they are German prisoners. German use them to train their tankmen. Yes, craziness! A lot of real events, real heroes, and they show low quality fiction. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynaman216 Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 Many modern Russian movies about war fall into the mold of the comic books "Sergeant Rock" and that one about the Stuart tank haunted by Stuart... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c3k Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 19 hours ago, Dynaman216 said: Many modern Russian movies about war fall into the mold of the comic books "Sergeant Rock" and that one about the Stuart tank haunted by Stuart... That was a GREAT ONE! Especially when the ghostly Stuart had a sabre duel with the German ghost guy...and saved the US tank guys. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted March 8, 2018 Author Share Posted March 8, 2018 (edited) Ghost Stuart vs Stuka at mere tens of feet altitude. Otherwise unmakeable shot obtained by driving up a railroad embankment. Stuka gets gut shot and crashed spectacularly! As for Russian Sergeant Rocks and such, get a load of this. Makes "White Tiger" look like a rigorous dissertation defense by comparison. No idea what this is from, but I found it in a question someone raised regarding how he might implement this is in the CoC system for wargaming with minis. Regards, John Kettler Edited March 8, 2018 by John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kozlice Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 @John Kettler That clip is from "Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen", more of a martial arts film than a war movie. Still funny in this context though 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted March 8, 2018 Author Share Posted March 8, 2018 Kozlice, If I haven't done so already, welcome aboard! Thanks for the information on the film. Are the bad guys supposed to be Japanese? If not, who is the enemy in what I wrongly thought to be Stalingrad? In looking at it, I could but think of calling it combat parkour. Found the pace of the action, not to mention some of the actor's movements (such as the 9 G near circle while under fire) almost dizzying to watch. Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kozlice Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Thanks! I've only seen bits of the movie here and there myself, but I guess the bad guys in that clip are WW1 Germans, the Japanese appear later on. Now that you say that, it somehow does look like a typical Stalingrad scene. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted March 8, 2018 Author Share Posted March 8, 2018 Kozlice, Shows you how my brain works, for it never occurred to me at all that this might be WW I. If it is, though, then the helmets for the bad guys are wrong. This is the correct WW I pattern. Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Somehow I don't think historical authenticity was a high priority with this movie company. Michael 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vergeltungswaffe Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Despite their Asian appearance, they're clearly Finns. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kozlice Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Surprisingly, it's more or less "historical" in that regard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Labour_Corps 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warts 'n' all Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 I don't think that the Labour Corps got involved in Kung Fu fights with the Germans in 1917. But, you never know. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kozlice Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 I was referring to them being Chinese irl (rather than Finns), but you never know indeed. You sound like you know a few things about Kung Fu in WW1 though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynaman216 Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 On 3/7/2018 at 10:24 PM, John Kettler said: Kozlice, Shows you how my brain works, for it never occurred to me at all that this might be WW I. If it is, though, then the helmets for the bad guys are wrong. This is the correct WW I pattern. Regards, John Kettler Considering the clip as a whole the fact that they got the helmets wrong pales into insignificance. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletpoint Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 On 8/3/2018 at 1:12 AM, John Kettler said: No idea what this is from, but I found it in a question someone raised regarding how he might implement this is in the CoC system for wargaming with minis. Pour out a whole bucket of dice. All have to come up six. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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