Stalins Organ
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All up and working over the weekend (despite the shakes down here!) - it'll often take 2 or more tries to get a connection - sometimes it connects 1st time every time for a while, then 10 minutes later it might take 5 or 6 tries to get a game.
So back into total time wasting again!
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As I said - post hoc blaming the EQ hours afterwards doesn't count. Before hand you blamed everythign else in the world except earthquakes.
And of course they are still going here (aftershocks up to 5.1) without any further word of complaint from you.....nor have you apaprently had any problems with any of the other quakes around the world of over 5 magnitude in the last few hours.
So, to recap....my Bravo-Sierra detector is registering full max now, in anticipation of your next post. Your earthquake detector only becomes apparent after the event, and only for famous ones.
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Perhaps she needs to lose weight??!!
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He did. Check the WW2 tech thread.
Because 12 hours after the event he said he had one at the time?
Sorry...post-hoc evidence doesn't rate in my book - as JonS says - let's hear him tell us it _before_ it happens!
Yep none of mine injured & relatively minor property damage in the scheme of things - my parent's house will lose a loo apparently - but they have 3.....
The flooding is from broken water mains, so is expected to clear up once they isolate those sections. We used to get that much water occasionally when I was a kid - JonS may be old enough to remember he wreck of the Wahine in about 1968 - there was a hell of a storm across the country & the street was similarly flooded then.
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Wonder why JK didn't get a headache??
Anyway - at about 1.28 in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SifN3RP8PMMis my parents' house - towards the bottom left corner for 5 or 6 seconds - the streets around it are awash & not far from there a new-ish (15-20 yrs old?) subdivision has been wrecked by liquefaction. The Avon river is in the bottom left corner of the shot.
We're all relieved no-one was injured - there used to be a couple of BFC-ers who live in Chch but I'm not aware of any now (but then I don't frequent the boards as much as I used to).
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We're "still living off technology we stole from the Germans"?
Yep - and again the relevant question is "So what?"
Technology has never been the sole preserve of any 1 conutry, civilisation or peoples. The Romans "stole" mail armour from the Celts, their sword from the Spanish, their shield from Italian tribes and their Pila from the Etruscans. Plus their Gods from the Greeks.....
Everyone "stole" gunpowder from the Chinese, the English "stole" the longbow from the Welsh, who possibly "stole" it from Vikings.
Germany "stole" heavire-than-air flight from the USA, and lighter than air from the French.
For every bi of original German technology that is part of the world today there are probably 100 bits of technology that were originally developed elsewhere.
No flying saucers required to explain any of it sorry John.
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JK - as I said, I don't care whether the "Basic Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee (B.I.O.S.) and Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee (C.I.O.S.) Reports" have mention of the "technologies" you mention or not - they are old, obsolete, and anything they claim that has not been supported by later research is just fairy dust as far as I am concerned.
By all means provide something that can't be blown away by a soft breath....
As for the links you provided - "disc aircraft" and ROBS are both bravo-sierra, the others are uncontroversial and so what?
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John those old intelligence reports covered everything and anything that _might_ have existed. Mention in them means little or nothing now.
Execution of staff doesn't mean anything either - except the executioner was an a-hole.
As usual you are inventing motives and reasons to suit your pre-existing conclusions.
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It was going for a while (3 turns of BoB campaign), but I must have used up all it's allowance of something 'cos it's down again
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I doubt it - I'm pretty sure and future discussion will concentrate on real stuff.
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Stalin's Organist - those accounts are all pretty lopsided and misleading.
The Brit commentators essentially never understand the French military system they are describing, and are frequently just plain bragging (in highly selective ways), not analysing tactics.
The main point your comment ignores was half the subject of my previous post on the subject - the general uselessness of just trying to maximize the number of men firing.
<intersting math deleted>
And yet the British accounts, "lopsided and misleading" are what actually happened.
The French did not have several hours to skirmish with the British at Bussaco as they did with some of the Prussians at Jena, for example - the link gives an account of Grawerts Division, which suffered exactly the fate your math predicts.
Why then the difference?
The French, as I said, did not spend a lot of time skirmishing with hte British at Bussaco - they thought they were attacking weak points due to few or no troops being visible, so their columns were effectively surprised/ambushed at short range by massed volleys.
This was a result of British doctrine - specifically the Duke of Wellington's tactics which he was stille developing but which he consciously adopted after Bussaco - of hiding troops behind crests.
the fate of many other armies with good infantry stands in contrast to the Hodge-podge allied army at Waterloo for many reasons - but one of them is undoubtably the DoW's personal penchant for deploying just behind crests to minimise expoure to skirmishers and artillery.
Where he failed to do so - eg Talavera, Albuera - victory was still achieved but at much higher cost.
Other armies never cottoned on to this - the Russians, Prussians & Austrians all adopted columns and clouds of skirmishers on the French model, but never so well, and invariably on the front slopes of terrain in full view of the French, and suffered accordingly.
The British too adopted clouds of skirmishers - as you pointed out a very large proportion of the British army could be in specialised light infantry units - up to 25% including light companies. IIRC there was one battle where the French "broke through" the skirmish lines thinking they were the main line of battle...and yet again were surprised by the formed troops they had not seen behind - alas I do not recall which battle that was - quite late in the war I think.
I'm not sure what you mean about the Brits not understanding the French doctrine - whethe they understood it or not is irrelevant to what they described, which is usually substantially what actually happened.
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I am not remotely convinced by any of the explanations offered. The point that some of this is propaganda strikes me as the soundest one made - the small forces that succeeded are heralded, the ones that didn't are passed over in silence, etc - but it is frequent enough that this can't be the whole story. Nor does it vary enough with terrain to fight the later explanation - it happens in sweeping campaigns across open steppe, in forest regions, in developed and well settled areas with a full road net, etc.
IMO, given the number of combats that can occur "...in sweeping campaigns across open steppe, in forest regions, in developed and well settled areas with a full road net, etc.", a minscule proportion of the whole might still be a relatively large absolute number.
But you are right in your implication that without a proper survey or some logical reasoning to estimate numbers we'll never know.
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And food riots in Germany??
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Bump...I wonder if Dan still occasionally frequents this page........if a minor expansion was a possibility 2 years ago then I wonder if any more has been done??
Edit: I've emailed Dan via his website to see if anything is being considered for the PC game
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I'd recommend the eastern front pack anyway - it's preetty cheap still, & it adds quite a bit of variety even for local games
but still no server!
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A couple of weeks ago the UK's Defence Secretary slagged of Medal of Honour as its latest iteration allows people to play as Taliban & kill pixellated people playing the part of US soldiers.
And "Where Britain goes we go" the NZ Minister of Defence proved himself a pratt too....
I recall a long time ago there was a proposed ban of "toy soldiers" here in NZ on the basis that they glorified the Nazi regime - needless to say it didn't proceed, but it was a bit of a worry for boys with toys at the time!
I also have a vague memory of "Combat Mission" receiving some poor press along teh same lines but I can't find it in the archives - does anyone recall something like that?
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Happycat there is a dedicated WW1 strategic game available & has been for a couple or 4 years now - Guns of August - at a bit of a different level to GC tho - a bit higher strategic with more abstracted naval & production, food etc.
might be of interest to you - and in any case would be of interest by way of comparison.
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Also troops tend to mass for the attack, but spread out on defence - the defender usually has advantages in terms of selecting terrain and visibility.
Also of course your "sample" has what is known as "observation bias" - it ignore those cases where the smaller force was walked over with no trouble at all...or was defeated after a lesser fight. You don't hear about those so much, but I wouldn't be surprised if careful stufy revelaed many more poccasions where that was what happened rather than heroic sucessful defence against the odds!
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Still no server......
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Apparently he is - note that the down in flames site isn't actually a BFC address.
but yeah - it's an old game & chances are they aren't going to spend any money to "cut it free" either.
Shame - I reckon it is still "valid" as a game - there's nothing else quite like it in terms of ease of play, short games, campaigns, etc.
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Operations Research is a good note - even if not strictly invented in WW2 it was certainly developed then - the wiki article has some fascinating applications of it.
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This was 1942 - and the Wirraway was slower than the Battle!
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re Wirraways - I think sometimes the gap is best left for a while.
Desperation stuff...but not exactly technological innovation. Nor is the other NZ tank "design" from WW2....
Technology in WW2
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Of course the Nazi flying saucer wasn't really quite as much a war winner as some might wish.....
(offering odds that JK won't tell us this is disinformation.......)