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    Rambo banned!!!! Official protest thread

    in Strategic Command 1

    Posted

    Originally posted by JerseyJohn:

    Michael Dorosh

    Hey witch hunter, I know this is a great day for you and don't begrudge your celebrating.

    I was online and reading the day JJR suddenly and inexplicably got a burr up his rear end over some neutral or even sympathetic comment Michael made to him in the midst of a maelstrom of negative comments of the usual sort he had a habit of provoking in the General Forum. Why JJR latched on to MD as the one to badger and belittle out of everybody is a mystery to me, but it seems to me to have lead to his undoing here.
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    Could have Germany won?

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

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    Originally posted by Michael Emrys:

    Very good reply. There's a man who's actually done some reading and thinking.

    From a 14,000-er no less! ;)

    Anyway, just to chime in with my $0.02, this is indeed a big non-starter as, furthermore, Adm. Canaris was feeding the Spainards with the straight dope: that Hitler's vaunted war machine lacked the economic moxie behind it needed for staying power and that the mind behind it all was erratic.

    Hitler definately tried to tempt Franco into becoming a full-fleged Axis flunky, but Franco shrewdly responded with a list of demands and conditions so long that Hitler was to remark he'd rather visit the dentist than Franco ever again! :D

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    Could the Allies have defeated Germany in 1944?

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

    Posted

    *clears throat*

    VE Day was 8 May, 1945.

    The plutonium implosion bomb principle was tested 16 July 1945. A bit late, no?

    http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Trinity.html

    I don't recall when they first had enough metallic U-235 to make one gun-type bomb. But I doubt it was even in April '45.

    As it was, LeMay was asked to curb his firebombing campaign in order to leave some cities intact to drop the atom bombs on. When you think about that, the minor role the bomb played in the greater scheme of the war really sinks in. Of course, it was of great importance for everything afterwards.

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    Could the Allies have defeated Germany in 1944?

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

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    How about these two counterfactuals put together?

    1) Earlier closing of the Falaise Gap. (But just how much more complete a victory would this have been? The ramifications?)

    2) Horrocks cuts off the line of retreat of the 15th Army prior to Market Garden. I'm recalling Horrocks saying after the war that in hindsight this missed opportunity was his greatest blunder.

    I think (2) would have been of greater impact. That could have made Mardet Garden much easier to pull off and made a clearance of the Scheldt to make Antwerp usable unnecessary (and Antwerp would have been vital to fully exploiting a sucessful Market Garden).

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    Peng Challenged the World, which promptly turned it's back.

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    The Bard sayeth...

    Perhaps if this 'Ghost in the Machine' had been a little less self-absorbed, a little less self-congratulatory, a little more interactive, we'd be able to say we'd seen a triumph. As it is, we're simply subjected to the endless repetition of a failure to model human intelligence.

    If it had even been somewhat entertaining, we'd be praising it as the new 'Alice' program for the modern age.

    But we're simply seeing a more egotistical and annoying version of the standard AI/Human interaction.

    We have seen the legions of sad ghost-hacked (sock) puppets. I ask, who or what is the Puppet Master?

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    The Peng Challenge as requested by Noba

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

    Posted

    Originally posted by Mace:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Shosties4th:

    "In mathematics you do not understand things, you just get used to them"

    Yep, someone has a lot to answer for with the introduction of id, the squareroot of minus one!

    But then again, I just prefer to take out my frustrations out on my fellow cesspoolers.

    Mace </font>

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    The Peng Challenge as requested by Noba

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

    Posted

    Originally posted by Mace:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Joe Shaw:

    This ... this ... THING isn't even an SSN! No email address and no location in his profile ... YOU SHOULDN'T EVEN BE TALKING TO IT!

    Aaaaaahhhhh, but he's a mathematician! I think we should keep him so he can tell us of mathematical things like klein bottles and stuff!

    Mace </font>

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    Kuni, Rambo, Why do we post at the GF?

    in Strategic Command 1

    Posted

    JJ, you keep getting caught in the situation of coming to the rescue when things get out of hand and playing favorites when one side butts up against another. Let's not beat around the bush. SCers get the kid gloves on your fora, while CMers and Cesspoolers in particular often got the knife soon after any disagreement arises.

    If you want to play the role of Alex, you need to instill a little more discipline amongst your droogs. ;)

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