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    CM Vietnam

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    Having read Moores' "We Were Soldiers Once, And Young" twice I'm well aware of what the movie does and does not portray accurately, so please don't think I'm just some idiot who saw a war flick and wants a game like the movie. I will say this for the movie however: I became interested in the real story of the battle after seeing the film. If it had not been made I probably would not have taken the time to read the book to find out the truth about it.

    It also started an interest for me in the First Indochina war, which was later increased by some conversations with Berli and now because of that I'm reading Bernard Falls' "street Without Joy."

    So the way I see it if a movie causes even a few people to read and increase their knowledge of historical subjects then it can't be all bad, now can it?

    I'm not just some Mel Gibson crazy bimbo. Although he is nice to look at.

    Kitty

    Look i was just making a small joke, but you guys and gals don't seem to share my (bad) sense of humour, and btw that thing about drunk soviet commanders, it can be simulated easily enough if you know what i mean.
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    O TNT, O TNT, how lovely is thy molteness

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    quote:

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    Originally posted by Boo Radley:

    Dear Smeg-fairy,

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    ROFL *high fives* Hey, now he's attacking Mace in the "What is the Appropriate Punishment" forum.

    Kitty

    Hmm Ganging on me are we??? :mad:

    BRING IT ON!

    And what the hell is ROFL??

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    How come the allies won?

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    You're right, they weren't slaves as in popular myth. Well probably a small portion were but the vast majority were doing their anual service. Once the crops had been sown the government levied the people for public works. There really was no need for massive slave labor when your average citizen felt he was doing his part to serve a living god.

    Ok then quoting from my limited knowledge of ancient history, what about Rome, in it's glory days it employed many, many slaves.
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    How come the allies won?

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    Models of efficiency, every one of them. Read about SS Knight's Cross winner Remy Schrynen sometime - during one of his exploits, he assaulted enemy tanks at close range with hand held anti-tank weapons only to find that each of them failed due to being sabotaged in the factory. Not saying this was widespread, but the necessity for slave labour in the first place indicates an insufficient work force pool.

    How many millions of slave labourers worked on the Atlantic Wall for how many millions of manhours? The Atlantic Wall was effective at stopping the Allies for something like six hours, less in other places.

    How many thousands of labourers and man-hours went into building the Siegfried Line, which was also similarly useless?

    How many slave labourers worked in factories producing such necessities as breast eagles and collar tabs for uniforms? The SS had quite a deal, some of their uniform items were make by concentration camp inmates.

    Yes, foreign labour was an obvious augmentation, but they weren't as large a boon to German war production as might be suggested by their mere numbers. They, too, were mismanaged.

    well my points is that they attempted to, albeit ineffectively, increase production and that didn't just sit there doing nothing, besides when you are working in factory, concentration,... camp guarded by EVIL :mad: SS soldiers, you work hard very hard...

    But on the whole you are right of course slave labourers isn't the same as "real" labourers. Although on a completely different note, slave's did build pyramids...

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    How come the allies won?

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    The resources the Germans did have were horribly mismanaged. A million German women in 1943 were employed as hairdressers instead of in industry. Hermann Goering asked if they wanted guns or butter, then gave the people both.

    Well, i don't know much but people seem to forget that Germany also used thousands of forced labourers of occupied countries to work in their industries, ask the French, Dutch, Belgians, etc..
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    BAR question

    in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps

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    I found this on

    modern firearms

    read the whole thing to find more information, but i skimmed trough it, mostly technical stuff

    It must be noted that while being technically a very good design (typical for Browning's genius), BAR was not too successful in both Automatic Rifle and LMG role. For Automatic Rifle it was too heavy and too uncontrollable in full auto. For LMG, it lacked the magazine capacity and the quick replaceable barrel, being inferior in terms of sustained firepower to the pre-WW2 LMGs like British BREN, Soviet Degtyarov DP-27 and the like.

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