Hakko Ichiu
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Fionn:
Joe,
I don't know.. Maybe we should examine the TYPE of dust and compare it with dust in Thermopylae and THEN extrapolate from that the type of dust present at the correct date (taking into account irrigation factors and global warning).
Until such time I'm sorry to say that I'd have to say Ethan's modelling dust is flawed and, as such, he should be taken out and shot (or speared if we want to stay true to the timeline).
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FLAWED!?!? FLAWED?!?!
You wouldn't know the dust of Thermopylae if it came up to you, handed you a business card reading "Dust of Thermopylae, 480 B.C.E.", then kicked you in the shins.
Besides, there was no dust at Thermopylae. It was forested terrain. And it was muddy because it had rained that morning. I know. I was there. In a previous life. I can still smell the sweat and stink.
My head hurts where they put in the implants.
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Ethan
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Yes, I too have lost communication with Germanboy. I had only just sent him my CE setup. Could it be that he realized he was already defeated?
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Ethan
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Joe Shaw:
I've said it before, I'll say it again
You're not really a grognard 'till someone else calls you a grognard. It's not a title that is self awarded (inflicted?) but rather one that is earned by constantly harping on minor issues (... the dust under the toenails is the wrong color for Thermopalae) or unimportant issues (... you spelled Thermopalae wrong) <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
That's "Thermopylae", you Theban dog.
Ethan
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Black Sabot:
Sara,
Ask the nurses to have a computer with CM installed in his room. Trust me, it will help in his recovery
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>No don't. Otherwise, he'll have no incentive to leave the hospital.
I wish him a speedy recovery.
Ethan
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Big Time Software:
You have to be very close to the wall to get the protective benefit. IIRC, it's about 7 or 8 meters, max. So that MG gunner definitely wouldn't get it.
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What about spotting (or anti-spotting bonus)? if a unit is in open terrain but in a foxhole behind a wall (e.g., a la LD), does it harder to spot initially than if the wall weren't there?
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I really hope we can get the word out to Mac users about CM. If you are able, please try to talk it up on the net. Word of mouth is what sustains us.
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I sent Games Domain a news headsup on the Demo, and they have posted it along with a link.
Party on, S&C. You've written the computer game that board wargamers have waited for since 1978.
Ethan
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I'm a family man, and can't stay up all hours waiting for people to stop refreshing. My wife has needs, you know.
So, I woke up this morning and downloaded the demo (2hrs 26mins using 56K modem). I've received my first PBEM set-up from Andreas "Germanboy" Biermann, and now I have to go out all morning. Then conference calls in the p.m. And I thought working from home was supposed to allow me to bunk off whenever I liked.
Shame on S & C for not consulting me about my schedule before releasing the game. I bet they haven't even included the Churchill 'Marigold' with compact u-tube and Instant Hot Tap, not to mention the really cool yellow color scheme.
Ethan
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Germanboy:
Actually, everybody knows that the captured Eierlegende Wollmilchsäue were the prototypes for the Lookheed Starfighter, and played a major role in putting Americans on and over the moon. The US just kept it low.
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The depths of your ignorance never cease to astonish me. Anyone with half a brain knows that the Lockheed Starfighter was based on the Small Green Alien Foo Fighter that was captured at Roswell. Furthermore, the fact that you are gullible enough to believe that an American actually "landed" on the "Moon" pretty much proves my argument beyond the possibility of refutation.
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Obersturmbahnrohrleger Arschlitz has been exposed as a curtain-ring salesman from Springfield, In. who was employed by the CIA to confuse the Soviets and keep them feeling safe. I thought that was such obvious general knowledge that it does not need mentioning.
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That is merely what the CIA want you to believe. In fact, Arschschlitz was part of the secret OSS operation "Pipe Snake" to resettle German plumbers in the United States in order to help bridge the WC gap with the Soviets.
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>From 'Memoiren eines Volkssturmmetzgers' (Memoirs of a Volkssturmbutcher): "Während der letzten Tage des Krieges wurde ständig eine neue Sau durchs Dorf getrieben." p.98,785, para 98 line 34. Now if that does not convince you, I am afraid I won't be able to break your ignorance.
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That was a typical Goebbels propaganda trick. It was the same sow every time. See Hayseed and Lambs, p. 1254 para. 5, line 12.
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>They are still using the EWMS in Area 51 to this day, and there are rumours of their use in the Balkans.
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Who told you this? What do you know? How did you get this information? Where are your sources? Oh my God, have They gotten to you too? Someone remove the implants!!!!
Ethan
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Germanboy:
Don't even get me started on the Volksklospüle, that unique combo weapon derived from the Eierlegende Wollmilchsau (Sdkfz.999 Ausf.W).
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You are way off base here. Please quote your sources in detail because all my extensive research on German plumbing and animal husbandry refutes your groundless implications.
According to Wilhelm Arschshlitz, Oberhauptsturmbahnrohrleger of the 352nd Installateurabteilung of the 116th Volksklempner Division, no Volksklospülen were made available to Wehrmacht plumbing units on the Western front. [see his memoirs, "Men of Lead", (Edina, MN: Drano Press, 1953)]. Furthermore, the only Eierlegende Wollmilchsauen reported by Allied troops in WTO were prototypes captured at various V-Molkereien in Holland. [see especially, Clem Hayseed and Roger Lambs, "Axis Nazi V-Cattle of the German Wehrmacht Army during World War II (The Big One), 1939-1945" (Brattleboro, VT: Sheep Shag Press, 1969)]
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Still no sign of it at www.matrixgames.com/spwaw/downloads.asp . Am I looking in the right place?
Ethan
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Big Time Software:
OK, the official poop...
The marker is in the form of a soldier on his back with one leg up, arms to either side... <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
What, no 'x's through the eyes and tongue sticking out??
I guess we'll have to wait for CM2 to get the soldier angel floating up to heaven playing a harp.
Ethan
PS -- but seriously, I would have preferred the "helmet on rifle" marker, but I can understand that having the graphic non-modifiable serves a purpose.
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So that's a grenade? I thought it was a very tiny Borg cube.
Ethan
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Just to get complete closure on this question: do units that are "embarked" on tanks gain any cover from frontal fire? I would think that the change in status (i.e., to "embarked") would allow for this w/o the CPU hit of tracking LOS effects of live vehicles.
Mucho obligado to whoever provides the definitive answer.
Ethan
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by CoolColJ:
I Stumbled upon this game that is being sold just like CM, ie on internet only. But it plays and looks just as good as any FPS, but its more cerebal
Think of it has a hacker/net game in the future, with first person 3d graphics - um hard to explain but its really fun! Reminds me of the Matrix! Check out the demo! Its a game geeks would love
You get to upgrade your computer buy new software and then hack into systems etc <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Sounds like the adventure game adaptation they made of Neuromancer back in '91.
Ethan
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I would say that wargames are analagous to a job, specifically a job that one really enjoys doing.
For a small minority of wargamers, as for clinically diagnosed workaholics, their hobby has become an addiction; these persons need professional help, but they are really a very small number. For the rest of us, wargames are one of many choices we have for our leisure time. Different individuals will make different choices as to how they allocate that time between spouse/family, wargames, bungee jumping, dwarf tossing, etc.
Sometimes a new game comes out that is powerfully attractive (Civilization comes to mind) and capable of devouring large amounts of time, although I would guess there is usually a pretty rapid fall off over timein hours played. This is analogous to a major project at work, except it doesn't pay as well.
With regard to relationships, if you know that your intended/S.O./current life-companion devotes a large proportion of his leisure time to playing wargames before you make things legal, chances are that he will not change his behaviour after your nuptials. The only major exception to this is if and when you have kids, and even that is not guaranteed.
[Dr. Laura mode]
Do not fall into the trap of believing that you can change him. You can't, but you can sure beat your head to a metaphorical pulp trying. The only person who can change him is he himself.
If there's something you don't like now, chances are very good (barring major life-changing event,e.g., religious epiphany) that you won't like it after the wedding. Either live with it or don't.
[/Dr. Laura mode]
Ethan
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Agrow:
*** Ah well I was actually told women are far crueler then men that's why it is best we stay out of war... no mercy
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"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains
And the women come out to cut up what remains
Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
And go to your Gawd like a soldier."
-- Rudyard Kipling, "The Young British Soldier"
Ethan
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Major Tom:
French Colonial troops fought better than history has recorded. Especially after 1942, when the majority of troops in the French Army were from North Africa, they were considered an elite shock force. They had the same reputation in WWI.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
More than that, according to John Keegan they fought better than most native French troops. For instance, Vietnamese fortress troops on the Maginot Line performed excellently, and only abandoned their positions after the general surrender.
Ethan
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Hakko Ichiu is a Japanese phrase that translates literally as "Eight Corners, One Roof".
The eight corners are the eight directions of the compass.
The one roof is the benevolent Greater East-Asian Co-prosperity Sphere of the invincible Japanese Empire.
At the center stands the supporting pillar: his divinely resplendent, glorious Imperial Majesty, the Tenno.
Kinda makes you want to disappear into the Phillipine jungle for 30 years, doesn't it.
Banzai, y'all.
Ethan
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Username:
It looks smaller than it is in that picture because the tanker seems to be standing on the bogies on the oposite side.
Lewis
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The specs elsewhere on the site list its height as 5' 8.5". Anyway you slice it, that's pretty small for an AFV. Lower than your average SUV.
Ethan
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Das also war des Pudels Kern! -- Goethe
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Pak40:
Hey Ethan,
What's the armor angle on those ballistic tests?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Don't know, as it's not quoted on the site. They do give a reference, however, which is from Bovington. I would imagine that it's the standard Royal Arsenal protocol, but I'm not enough of a grognard to know what that is off the top of my head.
Still, even if it's at 0 degrees, it's pretty good for an air-mobile pop gun mounted on the equivalent of a Mustang convertible
Ethan
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by killmore:
I never thought they made tank so small!
The British outfitted the 37mm guns with an extruder adapter (squeeze-bore) that reduced the projectile from 37mm to 30mm increasing velocity to 4000 ft/sec from 2700 ft/sec.
I wonder what it could penetrate...
http://pwp.starnetinc.com/croberts/m22.htm <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
According to ballistic tests ( http://www.robertsarmory.com/ ):
100m 500m 1000m 1500m
118mm 85mm 59mm 46mm
Not bad for a pop gun.
Ethan
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Neutral Party:
The Dutch or Belgians or Danes - not really. Resistance was pretty ineffectual - but the Dutch helped hide their Jewish fellow citizens.
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Anne Frank was hidden by sympathetic Gentile neighbors, as were many other Jews in every occupied and Axis country in Europe, but I believe you're thinking of the Danes. They smuggled approx. 90% of their Jewish population across the Skaggerak (sp?) to Sweden. The Danish King protested the imposition of the Nueremberg Laws by wearing a yellow Star of David in public, and many Gentile Danes followed his lead.
The Dutch, though not as enthusiastic in rounding up their Jewish population as the French, were very punctilious in turning over their census records to the Nazis, thereby identifying who was Jewish and who was not. IIRC, the Dutch Jewish community was as much at fault as their fellow citizens in that they turned over their membership records as well. I'd have to check Davidowicz's "The War Against the Jews" to get corroboration on that however, and my copy is not readily available.
Ethan
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by s bakker:
I notice that the french always get critized on their resistance, why not on the dutch, belgian, polish ect ect resistance? And they all did a decent job considering the circumstances as i recall.
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Def was talking specifically about France, and not those other countries, so why should I mention them? Over all, resistance movements in Western Europe were largely ineffective, i.e., they caused little inconvenience to the enemy -- in the East, things were very different. This doesn't mean that members of the [insert Country Here] Resistance weren't brave or even down-right heroic.
The fact that significant Maquisard activity didn't begin until late '43 is simply that: a fact. It is also undeniable that Maquisards of all stripes (i.e., Communists and non-Communists) played up their own exploits after the war for political reasons. It's also true (as it was in many other occupied-countries) that Communist and non-Communist resistance groups spent a lot of time fighting each other rather than the Nazis; sometimes one group would cooperate with the Nazis in order to betray the other. As in so many things to do with the war, it simply can't be viewed in black and white.
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And remeber, it easy to think 'you certainly would join a resistance force if your country became ocuppied' but it wasn't that easy!
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I never said that. Please do not put words in my mouth. Many of my family were in an armed resistance movement, and I know what sort of sacrifices it requires.
Ethan
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Black Sabot:
getting back from a 3 day road trip ready to try out some new tactics and the wife is hogging the computer, playing on-line Scrabble no less!
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>I get mad when I come back from a three-day road trip ready to try out some new tactics and my wife says she's too tired.
Ethan
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by DEF BUNGIS:
What the hell is up with everyone slamming on the French? The French under ground was alive and kicking the whole war.
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Only in the movies, Def. The Maquis were a lot less effective than post-War French propaganda would have you believe; ever notice how every 75 year old baker, waiter, or striking trucker in France is a hero of the resistance? And they didn't mount any serious counter-force ops(as opposed to intelligence ops) until late '43, IIRC. And HumInt was not that valuable to the war effort compared to SigInt -- not by a wide margin.
'Allo, 'allo,
Ethan
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Das also war des Pudels Kern! -- Goethe
You're not really a grognard 'till someone else calls you a grognard. It's not a title that is self awarded (inflicted?) but rather one that is earned by constantly harping on minor issues (... the dust under the toenails is the wrong color for Thermopalae) or unimportant issues (... you spelled Thermopalae wrong)
Am I turning into a Grognard?
in Combat Mission Archive #2 (2000)
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Joe Shaw:
And if you think it was muddy at Thermopylae you must have forgotten that morning at Waterloo. You looked funny as hell when you slipped under Neys horse just as it took a dump.
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Wrong side, Joe. I was the one who picked up Uxbridge's scotch egg after the Froggies shot it off.
Uxbridge (to Wellington): By God, Sir, I've lost my leg.
Wellington: By God, Sir, so you have.
Me: No, guv, I've got it right here. Ooh, this'll cook up nice with a bit of bacon and some horseradish.
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Das also war des Pudels Kern! -- Goethe