Falaise Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 Hello it will be a year now that I discovered CMBN and this forum and is time to intervene to say thank you I'm not the only one to do it but the repetition is good Since my childhood I have a dream, a desire, to see with my eyes this battle that has rocked my childhood, imagining to travel the battlefield like a drone. I was born in Falaise in 1970 and my family suffered the battle : 4 killed, the house bombed, the exodus on the road, the strafing of the bomber fighters, the artillery, the fighting but also after the battle, the destroyed houses, the burning vehicles and corpses littering the battlefield were all family meal conversations. Here in Normandie this was an important trauma. It always impressed and interested me, in a word: fascinated. I constantly asked for clarification and to question civilians or soldiers who had experienced these events. All the film reports on the subject, I watched them. I think I have seen ¾ images known from the battle. I never stopped walking the battlefield, collecting vestiges and remaining some hours to imagine the events. I used every means to immerse myself in this battle and the battles of the second world war in general. Movies, books and even games Squad leader then Close Combat that I practiced a long time. But although this battle has become my daily life because I have made it my job (I am a guide of museum and even considered as an expert of fighting led by the Poles during the Battle of Falaise pocket), the time passing my imagination has declined. and little by little the image of these fights in my mind was becoming more and more abstract. I ended up consoling myself by telling myself that if I go to paradise there I will can achieve this wish i was not counting on CMBN What a shock and even if it remains a game, my imagination work and as in my childhood events come to life in my head. After a year of practice my enthusiasm is not blunted my dream is somehow realized. So for that: thanks for this formidable game thanks to the moder who improves even more are aspect, thank you to persons who animates this forum thanks to the battle designers (for the anecdote I live on a map of the game !) I'm begining to smoke again and to say some nastiness on my neighbors, paradise has lost its appeal !!! 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Canadian Cat - was IanL Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 Cool, great post. We'll call it your first and declare you the all time fist post winner! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heinrich505 Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 Very nice post, Falaise. There have been many times where a historical battle came to life for me while playing Combat Mission. I would be starting out a battle and suddenly realize that I'd read about that very encounter in a book. The mapmakers really immerse you in the physical location as well. It is, in many ways, an amazing experience more than a game. Heinrich505 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hister Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 Yeah, being born in the places where battles took place and interested in these things..., the two together amplify each other. I was born in North-Western part of Slovenia where "Isonzo battelfield" took place in the first world war. We still have an unexploded Italian granade under our doorstep for example and the area is full of trenches and metal. I even found remains of a dead Austro-Hungarian soldier in the collapsed cavern high up in the Alps as a kid. Happy for you that the game reignited your vanning passion. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger73 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 Tres bien!!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletpoint Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 20 hours ago, Falaise said: I ended up consoling myself by telling myself that if I go to paradise there I will can achieve this wish I think you need to take the elevator down, not up, if you want to spend the afterlife in a warzone 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c3k Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 The +rep to #post ratio is high with this one. Welcome to the world of CM. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falaise Posted January 28, 2018 Author Share Posted January 28, 2018 Bonjour Thank you for your answers exact Bullet point I had not seen this like this !!! Yes Hister, when you live on the battlefield just look down to find traces Here is besides the discovery of this week made in Chambois lost by the Poles, I made the demining man come Wednesday 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hister Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 Erm, shouldn't you like not touch it and move it around? LOL 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falaise Posted January 28, 2018 Author Share Posted January 28, 2018 yes never touch it's the demining man on the picture ! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hister Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 Aaaaah ok then! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warts 'n' all Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 Interesting pair of pictures. Thanks for sharing them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger73 Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 8 hours ago, Falaise said: yes never touch it's the demining man on the picture ! It's probably good that he lives where there is government health insurance then. Private health insurance costs for Explosive Ordinance Removal professionals is likely a high cost business expense! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hister Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 In Slovenia demining is paid by the state. Do parcel owners where ordinance is found have to pay for deminers themselves? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falaise Posted January 29, 2018 Author Share Posted January 29, 2018 in France also there are deminer in each region which depends on the state happily I have them come almost every year There are several tens of tons of shells collected every year throughout France, as well as gas shells in the east on the battlefields of the First World War. there is also a serious service of the German to the soldiers of the German soldiers, planting strawberries I enclose a photo of a body that I made collected, it was discovered in the ditch along the road near the memorial of Montormel in 2009 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falaise Posted January 29, 2018 Author Share Posted January 29, 2018 3 hours ago, Falaise said: in France also there are deminer in each region which depends on the state happily I have them come almost every year There are several tens of tons of shells collected every year throughout France, as well as gas shells in the east on the battlefields of the First World War. There is also a permanent commission of the German war graves charged with collecting the corpses of German soldiers I enclose a photo of a body that I made collected, it was discovered in the ditch along the road near the memorial of Montormel in 2009 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletpoint Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 On 29/1/2018 at 10:49 AM, Falaise said: There are several tens of tons of shells collected every year throughout France, as well as gas shells in the east on the battlefields of the First World War. there is also a serious service of the German to the soldiers of the German soldiers, planting strawberries I'm not sure what you mean.. planting strawberries? Is that a symbolic gesture? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warts 'n' all Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 No, I didn't get the bit about strawberries either. Perhaps it's a language thing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falaise Posted February 2, 2018 Author Share Posted February 2, 2018 I mean that my wife found one in the garden by planting strawberriesbut as i have bad english i check with google translation and it has totally modify the sentence I wanted to edit but I did not find the order of or the following post identical 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hister Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 Your wife found remains of a German soldier in the garden? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim1954 Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 I think he means his wife found some material, war related when planting strawberries. He on the other hand found skeletal remnants in a ditch. Probably not in the same place. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hister Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 That would make more sense yes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falaise Posted February 2, 2018 Author Share Posted February 2, 2018 Sorry my english is very bad no Hister have right my wyfe found human remains in the garden that can seem weird but watch this picture of the way in front of my house in 1944 and you understand and the first picture show an other discovery 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 Ah... looks like a Saturday night outside my dorm at Uni... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim1954 Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 Animal House 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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