gnarly
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Oooooohhhhh, I have been so hanging out for your(?) animated GIFs!!!! Thank-yee thank-yee!
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Opse, maybe i shouldn't have cracked a joke in German like that. <takes notes.> Ummm my Imgur Account has everything i've done (err finished) in the last month or so.
that link is here: http://imgur.com/user/wjenison/submitted just a warning, might be some inappropriate stuff there too.
Sa-weet! Many thanks.
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Why? If I may hazard a guess as to Gnarly's confusion, it's based on the excellent character and quality of your illustrations. I'm certain no denigration was intended.
Most definitely!
I'd been off doing searches for 'Die Wurst Essen Pause', 'ww2 female anime' and a host of other such terms, to no avail... ;( Then it finally dawned on me, and I was most impressed! Is there a gallery of Bratwurst girl (and friends?) somewhere?
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On, mine, as soon as its uploaded, I press Reply or Save, and the image comes across. Note that there is a round circle icon with a 'add' cross in it, bottom left of image, with tool tip 'Insert into post'
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Ach, can't load screenshots, is there no faq post for stuff like this, total hassle.
Bottom left of the reply dialog, 'Drag files here to attach, or choose files."
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Oh to see that we are going to need your IP address user name and password
And while you are there, your bank account details....
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Bil,
Please show American capitalist winter clothing if possible. Da?
Red Army Liaison team assigned for handling German POW's.
Pure gold!
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I think this seems appropriate to quote from the http://community.battlefront.com/topic/121464-the-toe-armor-list-must-be-huge/ thread:
Here is my last vehicle art tracking list:
M15A1 M16 M20 M8 (early) M8 (mid) M21 M2A1 M3 M3 (.50cal) M3 (x2 MMG) M3A1 M3A1 (x2 MMG) M4A1 M12 GMC M7B1 Priest M8 HMC M24 Chaffee M4 Sherman Crab M4(105) (mid) M4(75) (late) M4A1(75) (late) M4A1(76)W (early) M4A3(105) (early) M4A3(105) (mid) M4A3(75) M4A3(75)W (early) M4A3(75)W (mid) M4A3(75)W (mid) (flame) M4A3(76)W (early) M4A3E2(75) (flame) Jumbo M4A3E2(75) Jumbo M4A3E2(76) Jumbo M4A3E8(105) (late) HVSS M4A3E8(76)W HVSS M4E8(105) (late) HVSS M5A1 (late) M10 GMC M10 GMC (late) M18 GMC M36 GMC M36B1 GMC GMC CCKW 2.5 ton truck Jeep Jeep (.50 cal) Jeep (MMG) Jeep (radio) Flakpanzer 38(t) Mobelwagon Sdkfz 10/5 Sdkfz 7/1 Sdkfz 7/2 Wirbelwind PSW 222 PSW 223 PSW 231 PSW 233 PSW 234/1 PSW 234/2 Puma PSW 234/3 SPW 250/1 Alt SPW 250/1 Neu SPW 250/10 Alt SPW 250/10 Neu SPW 250/3 Alt SPW 250/3 Neu SPW 250/7 Alt SPW 250/7 Neu SPW 250/9 Alt SPW 250/9 Neu SPW 251/1 Ausf. C SPW 251/1 Ausf. D SPW 251/2 Ausf. C SPW 251/2 Ausf. D SPW 251/10 Ausf. C SPW 251/10 Ausf. D SPW 251/16 Ausf. D SPW 251/17 Ausf. D SPW 251/21 Ausf. D SPW 251/3 Ausf. C SPW 251/3 Ausf. D SPW 251/7 Ausf. C SPW 251/7 Ausf. D SPW 251/9 Ausf. C SPW 251/9 Ausf. D Brummbar (late) Brummbar (mid) StuG IIIG (early) StuG IIIG (late) StuG IIIG (latest) StuG IIIG (mid) StuH 42 (early) StuH 42 (late) StuH 42 (latest) StuH 42 (mid) Sturmtiger Wespe Hummel Grille (early) Panther A (late) Panther A (mid) Panther G (early) Panther G (late) Panther G (mid) Pz IV H (early) Pz IV H (late) Pz IV J (early) Pz IV J (late) PzIIL Lynx Tiger I (late) Tiger I (latest) Tiger I (mid) Tiger II (Henschell) Hetzer (flamethrower) Hetzer (late) Hetzer Jagdpanther Jagdtiger JPz IV (early) JPz IV (late) JPz IV (mid) JPz IV/70(A) JPz IV/70(V) JPz IV/70(V) (late) Marder I Marder II Marder IIIM Nashorn (late) Kubelwagon Protz 70 Opel Blitz -
Speaking of buying stuff - did you look at the Bulge comic I recommended by Wayne Vansant for the Kindle?
Picking my copy up from the library on the way home tonight. It'll be nice to get a quick and dirty overview of the whole Bulge campaign in one reading, before I return to my slightly deeper and slower reading (but still very good) copy of Ardennes 1944: Hitler's last stand....
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Why it comes from Die Wurst Essen Pause, Page 5 of Banemans AAR for FInal Blitzkrieg. beyound that? ummm i Think Georgia-Pacific made the paper i drew it on.
Ahh, now I've clicked. The artwork is in fact yours?
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This is great (at-work) reading!
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Probably all of them were FT casualties. I think I had the FT firing for 60 to 90 seconds spread across 2 turns. There were perhaps 5-7 blasts on the building.
This is my first time using the FT HT. I did some testing earlier and it is extremely vulnerable to small arms fire. I don't think a single Allied bullet missed the gunners! So, I made sure to saturate the building/area with LMG fire prior to bringing in the HT. I think I had 3 LMG teams firing for 2-3 turns as prep.
Basically, I see the FT HT is a super-specialized weapon -- something only to be used when the enemy is completely suppressed and it is safe to close to the 30 meter range. So, only for a situation like the one in my pics--an isolated strongpoint--or something like flushing the enemy out of concealment terrain.
Super-cool when it works, though!
Many thanks for the info!
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That's quite some Allied body count.... Be curious to know how many were directly flamethrower fatalities...??
I've never used one; how long (in seconds) would the flamethrower have been used against the building? Are we talking a whole turn, 30 seconds or 10 seconds?
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That hole in the Sherman is too big for a shaped charge weapon.
http://tank-photographs.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/bastogne-m4a3-sherman-tank-belgium.html
Notice the shell hole in the side of the chassis of the M4A3(75)W Sherman Tank in Bastogne Belgium caused by a German 75mm gun.
This Surviving M4A3(75)W Sherman Tank in Bastogne took part in the 1944 WW2 Battle of the Bulge in the Belgium Ardennes. It has been restored and can be seen in the main town square in Bastogne at the junction of the Rue de Neufchateau with the Rue Joseph-Renquin.
Snow covered M4A3 Sherman Tank armed with a short barralled 75mm gun in Bastogne Belgium
The Sherman tank named Barracuda
The tank was named Barracuda by its crew. It has the serial number S48935 USA 3081532 and was built at Fisher. It served with B Company 41st Tank Battalion, 11th Armored Division. On 30th December 1944 the tank crew were ordered to attack the south flank of the 'Bulge' from a northerly position. What they did not realise was that they were attacking into a simultaneous German counter attack that was intended to. close the narrow corridor that had been opened into the Bastogne perimeter from the south.
The nearby villages of Lavasalle and Houmont were successfully liberated by Combat Command B of the 11th Armoured Division but they suffered significant casualties. Early in the action the Sherman tank 'Barracuda', commanded by Staff Sergeant Wallace Alexander, and another Sherman commanded by Captain Robert L.Ameno, had become separated from the rest of their unit. They decided to move north to try and find them and headed towards the village of Renuamont, not realising that this was German held territory.
M4A3(75)W Sherman Tank in Bastogne, Belgium. Notice the track extensions fitted to help the tank negotiate muddy and snow covered ground.
This village was held by the Fuhrerbegleitbrigade (Fuhrer escort brigade) a German armoured brigade that was part of the Fifth Panzer Army's XLVII. Panzerkorps commanded by Col. Otto Ernst Remer. When the two tanks were discovered they came under concentrated fire. As 'Barracuda' tried to turn and escape through a field it became stuck in a snow covered spring fed pond. The tank and crew were now an easy static target.
A German Panzer IV tank opened fire with its 75mm gun as well as a infantry man armed with a Panzerfaust. The tank crew bailed out but Tank Commander Staff Sgt. Wallace Alexander was mortally wounded. He died several days later in captivity. Gunner Corporal Cecil Peterman and Loader Private First Class Dage Herbert were wounded and captured. Driver Andrew Urda and Bow machine Gunner Private First Class Ivan Goldstein were uninjured, but captured.
Notice the shell hole in the side of the chassis of the M4A3(75)W Sherman Tank in Bastogne Belgium caused by a German 75mm gun.
Gunner Peterman and Laoder Herbert received medical treatment for their wounds. They survived and were sent to Stalag XIIA near Limburg, Germany as POWs. Driver Urda and Hull Machine Gunner Goldstein were also sent to Stalag XIIA, but they were not given the full rights of a prisoners of war. Goldstein had been identified as a Jew by his dog tags, and a letter in his pocket from his mother, reminding him to observe the Jewish holiday, Hanukkah. Andrew Urda was also identified as a Jew because of his dog tags.
Goldstein and Urda narrowly escaped execution. The were treated as slave laborours, brutally overworked and starved. When they were liberated near the end of the war, the two severely emaciated captives spent many months recovering in US Army Hospitals. Andrew Urda never fully recovered from his mistreatment in captivity. He died in 1979. Ivan Goldstein’s health was eventually restored. He moved to Jerusalem.
Captain Ameno’s tank was also destroyed, killing him and four members of his crew. The fifth crewman was wounded, but died in captivity a short time later. His tank was not saved from the scrap metal merchants blow torch.
Notice the shell hole in the rear of the Bastogne Sherman caused by a German infantry hand held Panzerfaust anti-tank weapon.
What happened to Baracuda after WW2?
After the war the farmer Mousier Denis refused to allow the tank to be cut up by the scrap metal merchants. He feared that the work would pollute the nearby fresh water spring that he relied upon for his own household water and water for his farm animals and crops. Finally he allowed the Belgium army to tow the tank off his land rather than letting the scrap metal merchants cutting it up in situ as was normal practice. By this time it was one of the few tanks left in tact. The Bastogne Commissioner of Tourism saw its value as a memorial and arranged for its purchase and restoration. It was placed in McAuliffe Square in Bastogne, in 1946 and enshrined in 1948.
This M4A3 Sherman Tank symbolically represents the relief of the besieged city of Bastogne by the US 3rd Army under the command of General Patton in December 1944. The city of Bastogne was encircled by advancing German tanks and troops as they made a mad dash for the port of Antwerp during the winter Ardennes Offensive that was later to be known as the Battle of the Bulge.
This tank has lots of battle scars. On its left side there a hole that was caused by a hit from a German armour piercing 75mm shell. In the rear is another more jagged hole caused by a German infantry hand held Panzerfaust anti-tank weapon that would have destroyed the tank's engine.
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You can nail ATGs with "popup" coordinated tank shoots, too. Best if the attacks can come from widely divergent directions, so the slow traverse of the gun, prior to its suppression, can't get a bead on either/any of the tanks doing the harrassing. You have to localise the ATG, then have a threat appear briefly from a direction it's not already pointing, then disappear (by reversing back into defilade) having flung some HE at the gun's general area, to be replaced by a threat from another angle (maybe the way the gun was pointing originally), throw some more HE at it, and withdraw. Generally, a handful of 75mm HE will pin the ATG to the point where it can't return fire, and you can either transfer the harrassment role to an MG which will eventually drive the crew to abandon their gun (while you go do something else urgent with your armour), or leave one tank in view of the gun, firing HE until it's destroyed. It's important that you have good eyes on the gun, and that you're aware that ATGs are often positioned in mutually supporting locations, so that your "popup" attacks might take fire from previously undetected pieces.
Good info Womble, thanks!
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Graffiti and all!
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Cobetco, completely off-topic; what is the (I assume?) manga/anime series from which your avatar picture derives?
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Brilliant little action and illustrating screenshots Macisle!
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Browsing through my library's online catalog (and reserving a few of the books listed here, many thanks again!), I found this little number, that immediately made me think of Bud_B!!!
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/one-of-historys-greatest-battles-in-comics-5da73a48adb8#.dtmv32wws
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Between this and Bud_B's graphic novel, I am on the edge of my seat!!
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I've certainly had good results with Stingers. Better it seems if multiple launched at once (from differing aspects) to (I assume the game algorithsm can handle this?) decrease the chance of pilot evasion/decoy.
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Wowsers gents! I think I am now very sufficiently armed to approach my local well-supplied library and with some luck find at least one of these tomes for some light evening reading.
And I am certain many others will derive benefit from your suggestions as well.
Many thanks to all who have posted thus far, may CM FB fill your Xmas stockings (or possibly early new year?).. ;D
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Hi all,
I'm sure that with the caliber of grog-heads and military history enthusiasts on these forums, I'll be rapidly swamped with suggestions...
Looking for a few suggestions to dig through my local library and second hand book shop for, to provide some good, entertaining reading to educ-macate me about this campaign and time period on this front, in advance of FB coming 'online'. I want to understand the game's context better, as well as it's equipment and how it was/wasn't used.
Want something that gives a good solid overview of the whole campaign, preferably with sources/references from both sides, as well as snippets/first hand accounts/stories 'from the trenches' as such. Probably asking a bit much to get a good overview and the company tactical level, but you never know!
Don't worry about obscure/academic stuff; I don't want to have to buy if I can help it.
Cheers and thanks in advance for the recommendations!
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It might help if someone went into Baneman's thread and hurried him up a bit.. he must really be second guessing himself with his unit purchase, make a decision already!! .. sigh ...
Its those flurries of heavy and then light snow at his doorstep that are really bogging him down....
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Cheers