danfrodo
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Ugh, MacArthur. Creator of the great and deadly nuclear weaponized mess we have today called N Korea. Such a shame. NK was done, over, ended. Until MacArthur provoked the chinese counterattack through his utter stupidity, ego & incompetence. having said all that, would be run to have CM korean war
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I can't imagine anyone interested in eastern front, like steve doesn't want to have the whole thing, 41-45. But takes time. As mentioned above, also have to do SF, Black Sea. And the upcoming late WW2 packages for italy & east front. And a very small crew to do it all.
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witchfinder general. Isn't that from Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett? Just finished it. Soon to be a series from amazon prime.
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22 hours ago, Sublime said:
Thank you.
My best Vietnam books are novels writtwn by vers that are really disguised autobiographies
Matterhorn is my favorite.
Closer Quarters by Heinemann was good
13the Valley by Delvecchio I loved
Fields of Fire by James Webb was great
Best DBP book I ever read was widrows The Last Valley.
The Good German was a great book IMO.
For time travelling time and again and time and time were my favs also kings 11/22/63
I could go on endlessly
I just started Matterhorn on audio. Glad to see it was top of your vietnam list.
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Howler, may I ask what mods you are using? Your screen looks so very much better than mine. I just started same scenario, didn't realize I had never played that one.
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nice pic, Howler. what scenario? An is fortress italy, correct?
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Mord, I assume that 'grimdark' means you read Joe Abercrombies fine, gritty, hard-bitten tomes?
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That's funny Mord, I got about the same distance into Wheel of Time & chucked also. If I were 12 I could've bought into it probably. Locke Lamora is worth your while. Oddly, there's no scene where the heroes are stranded on a tiny little island in a circular lake. that GOT moment really had me wondering how much alcohol was in the writers' room that day.
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Mord, best summary of genre fantasy I've every seen
. Occasionally one will be good. Lies of Locke Lamora is great. Martin will never finish GOT, I'll watch HBO just to see how it all shakes out.
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whoa, that's super cool!
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That John Oliver bit is great, especially the Churchillian speech at the end.
So maybe BFC will bring out Barbarossa for the 80th anniversary. June 22, 2021. Until then I'll take the occasional short break from CM to play barbarossa in Operational Art of War.
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I wonder if Brexit means that UK & France can start fighting again, like in the good old days. Actually, whatever is left of the UK after N. Ireland and Scotland leave over their anger on Brexit. Though Neither May nor Marcon seems ready to fill the shoes of the likes of Napoleon or Wellington.
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that's a clause in Brexit, I think. All non-English words are to be forbidden unless royalties are paid to the contributing language originator. Oh, wait, English is basically a pidgin of Germanic & Latin languages (french, et al), so I guess they'll have to pay for every word used. That should shorten speeches. But does that mean no more BBC shows for me? Maybe just more brooding to save on word count.
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13 minutes ago, Aragorn2002 said:
I'm not pessimistic about the future of quality wargames like CM. Look at the amount of serious, new books on ww2 lately. After a long time of copying each other's nonsense, a new generation of historians are publishing books that really add something new to our understanding of war and history. Not for the hoi polloi either, but still enough people who are willing to spend a lot of money on these books. Same goes for CM, I think.
Hear hear Aragorn2002! Well said. Great WW2 books from newer historians who are not just repeating stories from other books, they are doing research and greatly enlightening us and challenging myths we've grown up with.
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I think wargamers mostly would love Barbarossa. What's not to love? Not all want this, but most I am sure. Great, epic battles of encirclement and desperate counterattacks, hopeless defensive struggles where all you can do is try to take as many germans with you as possible and delay them. It's not all a walkover by the germans -- the stand in front of Smolensk in July that brought the germans to a halt. Lots of great battles w lots of goofy gear -- the semi-obsolete masses of russian tanks, the czech T35 T38, silly little pz1 and pz2. And the shock of meeting a KV tank for the first time and having nothing that can penetrate its armor. Great stuff. Lots of maneuver (well, for the germans).
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Anyone ever read A World Undone, by Meyer? Great single volume work on WW1, reads like a novel it was so engaging. Kaiser in that comes across as a man out of his depth and somewhat emotionally stunted by his upbringing & physical disability. Too bad he didn't have the strength/courage to end the pointless slaughter; would've been a brave and selfless stand but could've saved a lot of lives, tragedy, treasure. Unfortunately lunatic Ludendorff able to run roughshod over the country's direction.
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I see that two of Werth's books are available. More to add to the list, thanks y'all
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Someone just recommended Castles of Steel & Dreadnought to me, thanks for reminding me. I think I'll need to check those out. Heirloom-Tomato mentioned We Die Alone -- I gotta second that one! was great.
And speaking of Canadians, I am currently reading Mark Zuehlke's Canadian's in WW2 series. I started with Juno & now Holding Juno. Must reads for all Normandy/WW2 buffs. Well written, good narrative style (meaning not just someone rambling off facts & stats). Lots of first person pieces included. The attacks by 12SS panzer are terrifying as the canadians lose men, run low on ammo, and find themselves cut off. Currently fighing operational level Normandy campaign in Operational Art of War game, but nearly done & then back to Combat Mission where I am going to fight every Canadian battle they've got!
On audio did Caesar by Goldsworthy, very very good. I've also done both of his historical fiction series (on kindle), Vindolanda (Romans in Britain) series and his Napoleonic series, both quite good.
I looked up Island of Fire as suggested above, but it's $100 used. ouch. Looks like a good one but that's gonna have to wait. Bummer.
on the GOT thread, I read all the books. First 3 were an absolute joy. Book 4 was a dreadful, mostly pointless slog. book 5 was OK. I'd suggest reading 1st three. And HBO writers are some pretty sick dudes in the first couple seasons, with so much gratiuituos (sp?) violence and porn, but the story was just sooooooo good.
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Yeah, I hear you. The lack of troops really hits home as this goes on. Oh, hey, just like the actual campaign. Peiper was short on men and especially on supplies. And my lovely panthers, with all their wonderful sloped armor, were often getting main gun damage from sherman 75s also 57mm AT guns, rendering them relatively useless. I had several like this in my Stoumont attack. And the american artillery really becomes tough to get through also. In 2nd stavelot battle I had two of my armored vehicles knocked out by direct hits. Again, like nasty real life in that campaign.
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Those T34-85s with the enormous turrets are terrifying. Glad I didn't have to fight them as an infantryman.
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wow, that was great. I wish more stuff like that would get made. More military/historical 'adventure' and less comic book superheroes is my vote.
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I played this campaign in December, great fun. I chose the non-historical 'go faster' option. In the end, then allies retook Stavelot and I couldn't retake it, at least not w/o replaying it again now that I know where the enemy is. I might do that sometime, it's very tough. In real life Peiper was doomed and so I was expecting things to get worse & worse after the initial battles.
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Glad to hear it Ridaz
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Ridaz, I hope you keep having fun. One thing I did when I started was to give myself an edge in some of the battles. It's very easy to add units to an existing scenario, usually by just adding some pieces of units that were not turned on. Note you might need to go to 'deploy' in editor to make sure then are where you want them. Be sure to save the game to a modified name, because later you might want to go back and fight the original battle, as I have now done often. It helped me enjoy battles a bit more while I was learning, since I could have a better chance of success despite my lack of skill.
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I still like Abercrombie, but like you I much prefer history & historical fiction nowadays. Good point on fantasy. Lots of drivel, so much that I pretty much gave up on the whole genre long ago except for a very few select exceptions.