Black Jack Pershing II

Maybe it was the new girl -- never warms the pot.

To raise the insensitivity factor a bit more, are you talking about dots or feathers?

Sorry I missed it So you're saying that the Audie Murphy "To Hell and Back" routine was not SOP? I guess that's why he won the CMH. I was actually also referring to the Bow and Coax MGs, but had forgotten that they were .30s. Anyhoo, the M4 did throw off a decent amount of anti-personnel firepower.

Jason C- I agree with your analysis. One thing you do not focus on (and which I think CM models very well) is that the Sherman is an unbelievable good infantry support vehicle -- better than any tank the Germans fielded. The good speed, high ROF, fast turret, good HE ammo load and .50 cals make it a dominant force on the battlefield against infantry.

Very springy ground and/or giant trampolines might also work. You also neglect the German's pioneering work in hover-tanks which used superconductors and cold fusion to travel in the air. How do you think they got to Mars? Rockets? Nah -- the lift capacity was too small.

I would like so tune into Survivor if instead of just kicking the losers off the island, they ate them. That would be sweet.

Non Je ne regrette rien!

Ahh, good times.

I think this is more a result of the borg spotting highlighted in one of Kettler's posts. Once an AFV has KO'd its opponent it is immediately able to turn its fire on other AFV's in LOS. As I suspect you saw, once multiple guns are targetting a single AFV, its chances of KO'ing its opponents before being KO'd itself drop significantly. This then has a snowball effect (assuming all the AFVs in your test are in each other's LOS), and results in lopsided final outcomes.

John Kettler- Thanks -- I had not seen that word before.

Mr. Salt: Was bedeutet "lafette"? I am familiar with selbstfahrend or selbst angetrieben, but that one I haven't heard.

Zarquon- With all due respect, you are the one that is being illogical. You are taking my proposition that a summary execution may be morally justified in a particular instance, and drawing the conclusion that summary executions must therefore be must be justified in a wide range of instances. That does not necessarily follow. To the contrary, to be consistent, I need only admit that summary executions might be justified in comparable situations. And I think I can admit that. For example, if you (extremely) hypothetically transplanted Dachau to Alabama and substituted blacks for Jews, and KKK members for SS men, I would have a hard time seeing the injustice in a camp liberator shooting any hooded,white-robed individuals they happened to find on site. PS -- Kant's moral philosophy is banal. It took him page after turgid page to come up with the conclusion that we should live by the Golden Rule. Duh. His metaphysics, on the other hand, make him worthwhile.

Andreas: Do you have any reliable stats on the number of conscripts in the SS? Doing internet research on questions like this ends to lead to websites that I would really prefer not to have in my log. My understanding had always been that although the SS relaxed its entrance requirements as the war went on, it continued to attract volunteers. There may have been some conscription late in the war, but the absolute numbers were very low. Grimthane: I am curious what you think the purpose of a trial is, if not to ascertain facts.

I think I have been consistent, but I am quite willing to acknowledge that I have failed to elucidate my position clearly. In fact, I am. And I will reiterate, the point of a trial is to ascertain facts; if there is no dispute as to the facts, there is no need for a trial. As such, by summarily executing an SS member, admitted as such, there is no moral problem. There may well be reasons that we do not want to execute every SS member, but that does not give a free pass to everyone else.

FFKD- What is this new Soviet Union going to live off? How much food production is there from the Urals to the Pacific? The Red Army would not be consolidating toward their supply lines, they would be retreating away from them. If you want to talk historical hypotheticals, I would envision a different cold war, with the US and East Asia (and maybe England, depending on who develops the A-bomb first) on one side and Europe on the other.