B.B.Toys Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Piles of hay stacks, perhaps by modding over the Cemetery bmps. Then I can place do-dads around my villages. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Weiss Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Piles of something anyway... Didn't they have cows in Russia? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelt Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Originally posted by Bruno Weiss: Piles of something anyway... Didn't they have cows in Russia? That would give a whole new meaning to the term "doo-dads." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichadwick Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Collectivized hay stacks, no less! According to the Stalinist theory, you can have only one hay stack per scenario and it must be placed equidistant from every building. A smaller haystack nearby represents the state's portion thereof. Further, all religious buildings must be converted into Museums of the Revolution. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 A more appropriate bmp to mod would be to scattered trees. You'll be able to get some pretty darned tall haystacks out of the deal, plus the game would reduce LOS through those haystack/trees. They'd only be able to be used on specially-designed maps though. Otherwise you'd have dozens of haystacks littering the mountainside! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirill S. Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 I don't think they would have time to make haystacks with all the Tigers around the place shooting people.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Weiss Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Trapone wrote: That would give a whole new meaning to the term "doo-dads." Poodads!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ubertracker Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Hmmm... weren't the Germans too tidy to leave unsightly hay stacks lying around littering their fields? When did people start baling their hay? Is this just a N AM thing? Any ideas? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 People ALWAYS baled their hay. As far back as animal domestication met agriculture. We're talking 8 thousand years or more. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertram Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Baling is post WW2, certainly in Europe, as it needs mechanized force to do it effective enough to make it worthwile. In the twenties and thirties some (steampowered) machines were available, but stey were huge. You could transport them from field to field, but there they were stationary, so they were only used for grain threshing and the like. In the (19)70's and 80's hay was still brought in by hand in the Balkan countries. I don't know about other East-block ones. I have got pictures of Yougoslavia. Their hay stacks are not stacks though, but long racks a few meters high, with horizontal poles (like a sideways stretched ladder) over which the hay was draped to get it dry, with a small roof over it (maybe due to the heat there, less chance of a accidental fire this way). Bertram 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Ooops, are we talking the modern tied hay bales? I was thinking of the verb to bale hay, like to bale water. The practice of baling (throwing) hay is as old as the pitch fork. And bale is an old English word for a pile. I think we're getting our terms mixed-up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Weiss Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 From the Merriam-Webster: Main Entry: 3bale Function: transitive verb Inflected Form(s): baled; bal·ing Date: 1760 : to make up into a bale - bal·er noun ---------------------------------- Main Entry: 1bail Pronunciation: 'bA(&)l Function: noun Etymology: Middle English baille, from Middle French, bucket, from Medieval Latin bajula water vessel, from feminine of Latin bajulus Date: 14th century : a container used to remove water from a boat ----------------------------------- 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sten Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Originally posted by Bruno Weiss: Piles of something anyway... Didn't they have cows in Russia? Shouldn't it then be called moo-dads? Sten 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Oxford English Dictionary: Bale A funeral pile or pyre. (Long obsolete, but used by W. Morris.) "To brenne the body In a bale of fiir." [May seem nonsensical but it illustrates my bale=pile theory.] Don't you love on-line dictionaries? [ January 31, 2003, 04:17 PM: Message edited by: MikeyD ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ubertracker Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Originally posted by MikeyD: Ooops, are we talking the modern tied hay bales? Yes we are. As in mechanical balers, rolls, etc. Sorry... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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