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"After that war the Allies didn't hesitate to use torture and other means to make their German prisoners 'confess' everything they wanted to hear." "No, I didn't imply that those generals were tortured," ?

BOOK REVIEW – TAPPING HITLER’S GENERALS: TRANSCRIPTS OF SECRET CONVERSATIONS, 1942-45 "This is a good book and an important one aimed at a mature academic, rather than populist, audience. For those interested in the German officer corps, the war in the East and the Third Reich it is required reading." Well this book seems to pass muster with the reviewers. You seem to believe some of transcripts* were made up/made under duress for 'propaganda stunts' rather than for gaining intelligence insights. Surely most of the 59 German Generals were released at somepoint after the war so is there any indication from any memoirs that they were tortured in captivity at Trent Park? Funny enough reviews of the Helen Fry's The M Room book on an anti-Semite website (I won't link to it as it contains a graphic image of Chilean torture) dismisses it for similar reasons >> "...Jew lackeys... Vindictive Jews involved in bugging and torturing of German POW in England during WW2" * I seems the some of the information gleaned was used in Prosecution of war crimes but indirectly: "While much evidence was gathered on Nazi atrocities, none of these secret recordings were used by prosecutors – meaning some war criminals never stood trial for their crimes against humanity. “If the transcripts were used, it would have revealed that it was common practice to bug the prisoners and that would have jeopardised the operation – which continued long after the war ended,”explained Fry. “But they did feed the information to the prosecutors, in a bid to get the Germans to confess to their crimes without knowing they had been secretly recorded.”"

"Secretly bugged mansions with captured German generals? Wouldn't be the first propaganda stunt by British intelligence." The M Room: Secret Listeners who Bugged the Nazis in WW2 The Nazi prisoners bugged by Germans Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying: The Secret Second World War Tapes of German POWS Tapping Hitler’s Generals In one section a passage attributed to Reimbold reads: 'In the first officers' prison camp where I was being kept here, there was a really stupid guy from Frankfurt , a young lieutenant, a young upstart. 'And he said: 'Oh, we caught this female spy who had been running around in the neighborhood. 'First we hit her in the t**s with a stick and then we beat her rear end with a bare bayonet. Then we f***** her, and then we threw her outside and shot at her. When she was lying there on her back, we threw grenades at her. 'Every time one of them landed near her body, she screamed.' 'And just think, there were eight German officers sitting at that table with me, and they all broke out laughing.' As for why not many Wehrmacht soldiers were prosecuted for rape: Hitler gave an order May 13 1941 which forbade persecution of German soldiers for "actions committed by members of the Armed Forces against enemy civilians".

What of the Jewish women who were raped througout occupied Europe? Or women forced into German military brothels or the ones in the contentration camps?

"add in the modelling of fatigue to gun crews - so as to see crews progressively become exhausted from say 0 to 100m depending on size of the gun.| If you have that then it would have to also take into account the number of crew - as after testing even if crew is cut (by careful application of a sniper) to two they'll continue pushing at a normal rate of knots without getting exhausted from being handicapped. Also the only movement speed currently employed for ATGs is the general 'move' order - there's no option for slow, hunt, quick or fast movement orders which if also implemented would necessitate different rates of exhaustion depending on how the movement was tasked. .

Yup its a sticky wicket this. As previously mentioned there were deliberate compromises made to do with gun depression, and for AFVs reacting to close assault* - making them less uber - i.e. all seeing and all powerful in response etc. *IIRC primarily from crunchies, but the code changes to allow this could be imapacting armour in close proximity with armour as well making them both more sluggish . The tricky job is differentiating from this existing AI programming tangle is what you percieve to be right and wrong, what you think and can show from evidence that it should be and in what circumstances. As a change in AI code her can have unforeseen impact somewhere unintended - hence why BF are quite conservative in implementing changes for changes sake as it can open a can of worms.

While a human player could possibly mitigate against hard coded gun depression limits etc. handling tanks with the same limits is presently too prohibiltive for the AI to accommodate - hence why it is slightly fudged to allow a semblance of combat to occur. There's been a few threads on the gun depression issue and Steve has chimed in why it is what it is....

There's a difference in deployment times if they're in a building to account for reaaranging furniture etc. instead of simply plonking it down in a field. In your screenshots the 1st Team are ready and rairng to go, whilst the 2nd Section are knackered and wary. Possibly they need a quick smoke to help pull themselves togther before cracking on with the job.

I'll run some tests later - but with multiman crewed ATG getting whittled down say then it'll need new programming to account what 1 or 2 or 3 man crews are capable of moving / twizzling on a sixpence, and if it's uphill or downhill / into the wind or down wind / shielded or unshielded. Probably something that can be looked at afresh and new ideas implemented in CMX3.

"...I found that with a wind behind me the shield became a kite! Instead of being close to my body and perpendicular to the ground, the thing effortlessly rose to shoulder height and parallel to it! The tactical implications of this are obvious and only truly comprehensible via living archaeology." and if the wind had been blowing the otherway the textbooks would need to be rewritten... The videos are done on nice neatly mown parkland unimpaired and under no pressure apart from impressing an audience, I'd like to see them do it on rougher ground with rotten fruit being thrown at them. Heck if I tried to turn an ATG 180 in my my back garden, first I'd need to mow the lawn, chop down a tree branch or two, move some odd & sods out the way, kick a fence down and pump the tires up...

Brits shouting 'cover me' is either, depending on if they are Scotish or English , buying a round of drinks when they discover they have insufficient funds on their person and call for the nearest person to pay for it instead, or in the Englishmen's case simply calling for a tea cosy...

Ever considered therapy to break the bad imaginings? trading out of it? before Russia potentially ultimately ends up in a deprivation tank wallowing in its fears like North Korea?

Funny place Basildon as when I was being ambulanced in a few years back I spotted in the fields surrounding the hospital, the slightly surreal & beautiiful sight of staff in the sunshine lined up like sunflowers puffing away on cigarettes...

Shame this book wasn't available in 1944 as the war could have been over by Christmas ;-) All it would have needed was aerial spraying of rust fungi (Pucciniales or Uredinales, Basidiomycota) to take out the bocage... https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23030730-700-when-writing-natural-history-the-devils-in-the-detail/

Devon exercises were practicing beach landings (Exercise Tiger) - The primary training concern was preparing for pulling off the beach assault. Though a small village, Tyneham in Dorset, was requisitioned as a tank firing range prior to D-Day Other training for Hobart's Funnies on assulting the Atlatic Wall defences was carried out in various parts of the country i.e. Thetford Forest and Suffolk and Surrey IIRC. Not sure what follow up Divisions/Corps trained for - probably just general training with an emphasis on speeding inland as quickly as possible and hitting the ground running, not planning on getting bogged down in bocage country!

Russian shoddy w@nkers - nuff said :-)

Tass is owned by the Government of Russia In September 2014 the agency returned to its former and world-famous name for delivering news to global audiences and inside Russia - under the brand Russian News Agency TASS, shortly Tass (for Telegrafnoye agentstvo svazi i soobshcheniya).

Back on topic of Russian shodiness http://tass.ru/en/russia/808026

http://tass.ru/en/russia/790915 Putin was very very angry (because he wasn't cut into the deal?) ;-) https://spaceflightnow.com/2015/10/20/putin-blasts-mismanagement-at-new-russian-spaceport/ The door handle operative, manager & sub-contractor are probably enjoying a nice 10 year holiday in the workers vacation resort at the Kolyma gold mine...

The cover is kind of mind blowing....

Madness - Is Joseph Heller writing the plot to this war! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/25/isils-deal-with-bashar-al-assad-and-the-40m-a-month-oil-profits/ https://www.the-newshub.com/international/catch-22-who-is-bombing-who

http://www.defenseworld.net/news/13790/Russia_Delivers_Kornet_Anti_Tank_Guided_Missiles_To_Syria#.VyxWW2MdFQU (Aug 2015) Any idea how come these are finding their way so quickly into ISIS hands to be used against Turkey (who funnily enough don't see eye-to-eye with Russia)...

How did ISIS get their grubby mitts all of a sudden on Russian Kornet missiles? and have they used them against Syrian/Russian forces or just the Turkish?