xwormwood

Hubert: I don't need and I don't want a spectator-mode in the game. But if you think those 5 - 10 players are so important, well, include it. After all it is your game and your sweat, not mine. I would rather visit my dentist than spending time on watching these players on their 150237th game against each other. Just my 2 cents.

Try this next time

Nice pictures, JJ!

You are forgetting something: The 3rd Reich never used chemical weapons, even though it owned quite a lot of them.

That is not a unique feature. We've seen this before. Blablabla COS blablabla...

no, not at all. destroyers were left out of the game because the rights for the letters "wh" were so very expensive that hubert was forced cut down programming time: he needed cash and his pockets were empty (this is the reason why the pocket-battleships weren't impleted as well...) [ February 15, 2004, 09:37 PM: Message edited by: xwormwood ]

Not true: the Brits were building ships for the Turks when the war broke out, not Germans. Goeben & Breslau were regular ships serving in the Mediteranean (Mittelmeerdivision) when world war One started.

SMS Goeben aka "Sultan Yawus Selim" aka T.C.G. Yavuz Guns:10 x 11-inch, 12 x 5.9-inch, 8 x 3.4-inch History

So the turks finaly built that famous time machine!! :eek: :confused:

Linienschiff Schleswig-Holstein, WW1-veteran. At dawn of 1st September 1939, the „Schleswig-Holstein" opened fire at 4.45 hours (four 280 mm and ten 150 mm guns) in a surprise attack on the Polish post/Westerplatte, thus marking the beginning of the Second World War. "BB" Schleswig-Holstein while starting second World War in 1939... ... and while starting to a world of scrap in 1946

USS Indianapolis: nuclear weapon, subs & sharks USS Indianapolis.org What ship has such a story? Delivered death and destruction, just to suffer an nearly equal destiny on the way back home. Gruesome. Excerpt from Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia (Nice link, but unfortunatly no pictures) "The outbreak of World War II found Indianapolis in the Pacific. She was assigned to Task Force 11 and took part in operations in the waters around New Britain and New Guinea in early 1942. She saw action in the Aleutian Islands from August 1942 to the spring of 1943. Later in the year she flew Vice Admiral Raymond Spruance's flag in the Gilbert Islands (November 1943), the Marshalls (January 1944), Carolines (March and April), and Mariana Islands (through September). Later detailed to Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's fast-carrier attack force in operations against the Japanese Home Islands (March 31) off Okinawa, Indianapolis was hit by a kamikaze's bomb that exploded after passing through the bottom of the hull. She returned to San Francisco under her own power. With repairs complete, she was ordered to carry to Tinian Island the operative parts of the atom bomb destined for Hiroshima. Under Captain Charles B. McVay III, she sailed from Farallon Light to Diamond Head in a record 74½ hours. After stopping briefly for fuel and stores at Pearl Harbor, she reached Tinian on July 26. Her top-secret cargo discharged, she departed for Guam and Leyte. Shortly before midnight on the second day out, she was spotted by the Japanese submarine I-58, under Commander Machitsura Hashimoto. Hashimoto fired six torpedoes at 0015 on July 30. (Some reports suggest that manned midget submarines called kaitens were used.) One blew off the bow and the other hit just below the bridge. Indianapolis sank in about ten minutes in 12°02N, 134°48E, taking an estimated 400 of her crew with her; they were the lucky ones. A series of radio transmission errors resulted in there being no overdue message posted, and in the course of the next few days, 500 of the crew died, many of them eaten by sharks. Finally, on August 2, a patrol plane happened to notice groups of survivors drifting in the sea. Over the next six days, 316 men were rescued. As if the "routine stupidity and unnecessary suffering," as Samuel Eliot Morison described it, of the Navy's second-greatest loss of life from a single ship were not enough (only USS Arizona had more casualties), the Navy proceeded to court-martial Captain McVay for failing to order a zigzag course (a fact he freely acknowledged) and for not abandoning ship sooner. Incredibly, among the prosecution's star witnesses was none other than I-58's Commander Hashimoto. McVay was found guilty of the first charge and acquitted of the second." edit: Excerpt from www.taxter.com "Imagine though, you are one of the sailors from the Indianapolis. You are floating in the water, helpless. And beneath the water, where you can't see them, these teeth are coming for you and tear into you! Those poor sailors!" [ February 08, 2004, 07:13 PM: Message edited by: xwormwood ]

Well spoken, and here we go again: Prinz Eugen edit: radiations seems to be no problem anymore: "Frequented by divers since the mid 1960s, she was surveyed for radiation hazards, and was declared safe in 1970. In 1978, the port screw was removed by U.S. Navy salvage crew and shipped to Germany, where it can still be seen on display at the German Naval Memorial near Kiel." The Prinz Eugen- as excerpted from "In the Arms of the Sea" The "PRINZ EUGEN" Today [ February 08, 2004, 10:49 AM: Message edited by: xwormwood ]

That's the right spirit!

Bill101 made at Firebase_Bastogne an interesting discovery: the strategic command map-pictures here at Battlefront.com are not correct, everything has been moved or redesigned. But noone ever has changed the pictures at "Products: Strategic Command". Take a close look and count the mistakes :

still no burning sherman, but i just discovered the nicknames of this tank, wasn't aware of them until today: Sherman tank: nicknames

You are refering to the "Ferdinand", a heavy tank destroyer which was thrown into duty without any machinguns for selfdefense, only equiped with it's 88mm gun. Later versions got an additional mg. But this massive something is very nasty, even without a mg. At least, if you are playing Steel Panthers and you stumble :eek: with your Sherman into one of them (always a little shock). edit: while i was looking for a single picture of a burning sherman tank (all in vain, heck, is there really not a single picture?) i found this very interesting homepage (Pierre André Rinfret)which made me stop seaching, because reading all these insider comments about WW2 were just to exciting: Give it a try! [ February 02, 2004, 08:28 PM: Message edited by: xwormwood ]

some links : Short Story & Pics about / from Eben-Emael yes, that is another one Finaly the official Homepage JerseyJohn, i fear that your in 1942 written historybook might be wrong about german traitors providing blueprints to the Kaiser or the Fuehrer.

But it was developed while -the french army was praised to be the finest army of the world (proven wrong in 1940) and -every admiral would have told you that these lousy planes would never be able to sink Cruiser or Battleships (proven wrong in Taranto 1940 / Pearl & Singapore 1941) -parachutes where used to save pilots only Nice link regarding Taranto [ February 02, 2004, 08:24 AM: Message edited by: xwormwood ]

Great Link, JerseyJohn . Nice to see both a-bombs in action. But i wouldn't dare to dive near a ship which took 2 nuclear explosions, no sir.

attacking with air units, invading with an uk or us corps. When conquered, move the corps into the city and disband it. No one is an island, but Ireland is an island of no return.

Don't let john_j_rambo see how many posts you made with this one ...

Sorry, i miss this John Brown hint, probably because i know to little about the civil war and it's time. My point was not the slavery, it was the way the blacks were treated in 1940 p.e. and the attitude of some people who asked "how could the germans / the euros accept this unbelievable nazi crimes, they should have done something". While it is easy to judge people when you never were in their shoes it is quite interesting that the same people obviously gave a rats ass for their own people who were simply born with a "wrong" skincolor. IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation You should give this band / project a try, honestly

You are joking, aren't you? The RUSSIANS fought with an own ARMY (Wlassow) for the 3rd Reich, not to forget all those hiwi's serving for nearly every Wehrmacht unit on the eastern front. Even americans and british fought for the Reich: those who followed the "heim ins Reich" call. EVERY european nation which was attack by germany would have fought on if they would have had an ocean to hide behind like the US / the UK and the navy of a major power. Hitler was THE MAN in the us as well until he launched WW2. Time magazin voted him "man of the year" in the 1930ies, IBM sold him the computersystem that made the holocaust possible, everyone made pretty good business with the 3rd Reich for a looong time. And untill the 1960ies the US had some very nasty racist practises on their own (blacks are not allowed this, blacks are not allowed that), so tell me, where is the pride? Where were those brave people who fought for their own countrymen in 1940?? They didn't fight for them, and only 20 yeas later SOME did. In the late 30ies they even refused to take jewish refugees (remember the St. Louis incident?). The UK / US knew pretty soon about what these german butchers did to the unlucky european jews, but did they anything to prevent it? No, they prefered to bomb civilians instead of auschwitz or the railtracks in poland. I argue with you not to prove that the americans were evil (no, they weren't) but to "defend" those euros who fell under the shadow of the 3rd Reich. These 666 numbergames are not so important, every generation made them fit for over and over the last thousand years. Hitler and nazi-germany were extremly evil, but only a little taste of what will come above us all. But thinking too much about this is a waste of time, because the devil is excited not only about those who don't believe in him but about those who fear him too much as well. Or to say it with PETRA: What are you looking for the devil for when you ought to be looking for the Lord?"). @Liam: there are and there were some german speaking people in the LC, but that is all to say about it. Make a trip to Belgium or better Netherland, take your little LC=germanic speech and wait what happens. Go for it... Living next to these countries would help to understand this, believe this little german ass over here. edit: over 60,000 "unfit" Americans were coercively sterilized, a third of them after Nuremberg declared such practices crimes against humanity [ January 28, 2004, 12:11 PM: Message edited by: xwormwood ]

Uh-oh. :eek: :mad: Who told you this rubbish about german people in the LC??? :confused: The Kaiser went to the Netherlands because they were NEUTRAL in WW1. And they wanted to stay neutral, noone blames the swiss for taking refugees from everywhere. The LC did fight in WW2. Rotterdam paid a heavy price for this. LC surrendered quickly, yes, but is this really such a surprise? They tried to fight like every other nation (except Germany) in 1939/1940: with WW1 tactics, and because of their small countrysize there was no time to learn the new way of war, no 2000 km to retreat and there was of course no ocean to hide behind as well. Divebombers, commando-units, airborne infantry, independend tankunits and a MASSIV attack, these LC-armies got quite a lot to chew. Blame the US for Pearl Harbor , blame the UK for advancing so sloooowly (Monty) from France to Germany etc. etc., but blaming the LC for surrendering in continental europe in 1940 is laughable. Btw.: Their navy fought on, not only in the PTO. edit:short history lesson for beginners: a forgotten chapter Fall of the Low Countries and France [ January 27, 2004, 09:35 PM: Message edited by: xwormwood ]

L L! Good one, Kurt88!!