Aragorn2002

Great stuff!

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On the first picture I also see protection against Panzerfauste on the T-34. Not sure what you mean with Special Project. Was that the defence project? Not too happy with the new delay, but so be it. Getting more news on a regular base will ease the pain a little. Would also love to see some screenshots of the 234/4 and 251/22.

Cool headed!

All these goodies make my blood pressure go up quite a bit. Spectacular stuff!

Spectacular! Always wanted something like this!

This is Communist apologism, plain and simple. It caused as much misery as it's criminal cousin, called nazism and helped Hitler get his filthy claws on the European Jews. So don't play the innocent.

Goes without saying, Bulletpoint. It's trying to bully people by calling them white supremacists, neo nazis or racists. It's bound to score him some points and make him feel good about himself. It's also the death of freedom of speech and a new kind of censorship. The fact that Stalin's thugs also murdered millions and millions is just an annoying detail to someone who calls the USSR 'another socialist state'... Quite disgusting.

Germany wasn't prepared for war at all. It's ability to wage war in 1939 was far less than it had been in 1914. One of the best books about how the Germans were more or less forced into war is 'The war that had many fathers' by Schultze-Rhonhof. The decision to attack Poland (don't forget: agreed upon by both Hitler and Stalin and launched by the Wehrmacht and the Red Army and reason for Britain and Paris to declare war on the Germans, but strangely enough NOT on the Soviets) was basically a sound one from the German point of view, since Poland was a very agressive (and btw anti-semitic!) state in the 1930s, which had also profited from the Czech collapse and quickly had annexed Czech territory, a fact completly ignored by history. For the Germans it was the only way to break the iron ring around Germany, which was deliberately and for that very purpose forged at Versailles. The Germans never believed they would get away with an endless series of limited Blitzkrieg, but it was all they were capable of in 1939-1940.

I would like to recommend 'Myths and legends of the Eastern front, reassessing the Great Patriotic War' by Boris Sokolov. I'm not going to delve to deep into the contents, but he has some interesting things to say about the importance of LL ( among other things).

First Frost.... I dare you to do better, Benpark! We ALL know you can!

So not the real thing! I suppose it will take some time before we see new screenshots, so here a beautiful screenshot made with Kohlenklau's superb Winter mod (and Barbarico, Aris etc., so NOT my work in any way!). Winter is coming....

Interesting article!

Great to see the dutch lion on those shoulders, Falaise! Good news indeed!

If something seems to good to be true... You are right, Holman, they've cancelled the order. Ah, well, it was worth the try.

Must have been a sweet moment. Opportunities like that are getting more and more rare thanks to internet.

Great stuff. Pretty excited about the mod that removes some of the helmets!

Noted and on my 'to buy'-list, Blücher. Thanks. Sequoia, between 1972 and 1988 according to the description on Amazon.

Well, as it turns out we've found a similair solution. Looks like I will get my book. Thanks for helping, Blücher, much appreciated. Same for Bill and Holman. Thanks again, guys!

Thanks Holman, I will tell my wife about The Strand. Problem with ordering books at Amazon US is the sometimes absurd customs, which can make the book a LOT more expensive. I once had such a nasty surprise. Thanks, Bil. Will point my wife to this as well. Hopefully it can be delivered in time to her hotel, since whe will be travelling back (Thank God, beginning to dislike Pizzas!) at the end of this week. Definitely something to keep in mind. Thanks. Thanks, Blücher. Yeah, Paypal is very safe and very efficient when it comes to untrustworthy sellers. I've just checked Amazon, but the seller doesn't ship to Europe. Apart from that the shipment costs plus the risk of high customs would prevent me from buying it via Amazon.

Your jokes are too complicated for me sometimes. I took it as a suggestion to go and drown myself. I apologize for overreacting.

I did, Sequoia, but the prices are insane. I hope my dear wife will be able to find a copy in a dark and dusty second hand bookshop for a reasonable price, but I doubt it. But thanks for the suggestion.