Magpie_Oz

How many would be enough for beer goggles?

Given that X Chromosomes contain more Genes than Y Chromosomes that would make you a woman.

Maybe but it is what I do when I play. I, like you, am always tempted to do the quick restart but I always make myself play on and kick my self up the bum while I do it. I tell myself it makes me learn my lesson better.

Suck it up mate, the tank may have seen a single man but it could have been a whole squad for all he knows. C'est la Guerre

1/ very hard, rely on the scouts being expendable 2/ Use covered arc commands, set the CA's really short. 3/ No. Pretty sure that is Battlefront Miniatures and nothing to do with these lads

As always it is the Italians who have chic, even in baggy green. As for the Swede, kinda pointless painting your face green when you have Repunzelesque shock blond hair.

oh, I though it was just to leave us in a sense of antica-

Foster's Foster's Foster's Fall over ?

What for ? "Clearing rooms and going around corners" FFS

So FBCB2 is the system in use today? What comms link does it use? Does it go through the mounted vehicles' normal comms set up or does it have it's own setup? Is it an automated thing or is it subject to the operator sending a message ?

Yeh! I've ... heard ... of .. that .. one ???????

I think you mean the Dutch one? The Serb is actually my pick of the bunch

Obviously but on the war effort as a whole? Where the V1's and 2's anything other than a drain on resources and a bit of a psychological weapon?

Come on now Jon, don't sugar coat it mate tell us what you really think !

The modern predilection is to assert that most claims by troops on the battle field are over inflated, I can't remember the thread now but there was a considerable body of evidence presented in regards of the Allied Tactical Airforces' claims in Air to Ground Victories being way over the reality.

- sigh - How low brow of me http://thewondrous.com/48-killer-female-soldiers-from-various-countries/

I don't think that anyone is calling Barkmann a liar, nor indeed is anyone citing Hollywood as a reference. The inference was that as no tangible record of the action exists on the Allied side doubt was cast on the accuracy of Barkmann's report. Further embellishment of the action for the sake of public morale is quite likely but it in no way diminishes Barkmann's honesty.

I think that was pretty much how it was / is IRL ?

Reading on the Peenemude raids and while reasonably accurate they do seem an enormous investment for not much return? Between 300 and 500 aircraft each raid and the installation is hindered for a few weeks? Surely devastating large tracts of down town Cologne had more impact?

Couple of minor corrections needed there Mick. Drunk or not an Aussie would be always be incomprehensible to a 'Merkin at ticket window, if a brawl did ensue an Aussie would of course win said brawl but granted may be politely invited back to the station for another couple of coldies by the coppers and of course your entire basis relies on the notion that Stuka has any functional liver remaining which is unlikely. I cannot imagine even New York subway rats sinking to the level of picking over the vestigial remains of Stuka's liver.

Wow, amazing library their Jon, I want "Z Location : The Story of the 4th Durham Survey Regt" !

Can't argue with that, they might have helped a bit but probably not all that much. Even then all the U boats would have to do is wait until night.

Check the syntax of the link, I think there is a colon missing

Thing is you don't have to patrol the whole of the Atlantic, just the bit where the convoys are. To my mind tho' their time was better spent bombing the buggery out of the U-boats' harbours and the resources used to build and operate them. I think the main hurdle the strategic bomber commanders faced was Target Acquisition and Damage Assessment. Working out which targets would give the best result must have been a nightmare what is more effective bombing the U-Boat pens accurately and hoping to penetrate 3m of concrete or flattening the village where the workers in the oil refinery live? Later trying to determine if you penetrated the bunkers or did actually get the workers and if another strike was needed would have been a wild guess at best. As recent as Desert Storm BDA is still a huge conundrum.

About 2pm tomorrow I think