ErikinWest Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 Italians, Germans, Japs, Brits, or whatever. Which one you would you choose and why? Then which gun? Me: Japanese because I love the army, weapons and style! Ill go with Type 99! Cheers, Erik 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rommel42 Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 I would choose the German Waffen SS because they were the most elite fighting force in the world. The gun I would use would be the STG-44 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David I Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 Rommel, I'd take the US Marine Corps (for the same reason) but I would agree on the STG-44. Bitchin weapon to fire, either live or blank. Thank goodness the Germans didn't churn out millions of those in 43ish. I believe that the idea was for that to be the standard infantry weapon by late 45 early 46. DavidI 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikinWest Posted January 30, 2005 Author Share Posted January 30, 2005 Actually I believe it was first used in 1944 the StG44. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rommel42 Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 I think it was first issued in1943 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 Originally posted by ErikinWest: Italians, Germans, Japs, Brits, or whatever. Which one you would you choose and why? Then which gun? Me: Japanese because I love the army, weapons and style! Ill go with Type 99! Cheers, Erik They also lost the war, murdered their prisoners, committed apalling atrocities against civilians in China and thoughout parts of Asia and Oceania, and were required to kill themselves rather than surrender. Not to mention losing every single land battle after June 1942. Are you, like, retarded or something? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParaBellum Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 I'd like to join the Galactic Empire. Stormtrooper armour rocks and the heavy repeating blaster ownz all those dirty rebel n00bs. Besides, I might get the chance to kill Ewoks. Nothing beats killing Ewoks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 I would go with the Visigoths. Totally superior to their enemies, and would get to see the Roman Empire in its last days. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John D Salt Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 Originally posted by ErikinWest: Italians, Germans, Japs, Brits, or whatever. Which one you would you choose and why? In WW2, I think there is much to recommend serving in the Swiss, Swedish, or maybe Irish army. Originally posted by ErikinWest: Then which gun? Isn't there some rule that says if you're not in one of the top six armies, your rifle is a Mauser? All the best, John. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Enigma Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 british airborne with my a enfield and later a stolen kar 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone_Vulture Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 I've always envisioned myself serving in Wehrmacht, as a quartermaster of some supply dump on the eastern front in 1943. Oh, my weapons would be a Luger sidearm deposited in a trunk with the rest of effects, and a particularly sharp pencil to battle the paperwork with. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Other Means Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 Originally posted by the_enigma: british airborne with my a enfield and later a stolen kar Why would you swap a Lee Enfield for a Kar? Besides the question of which was the better weapon you'd have not trained on the Kar & wouldn't hit a damn thing. I'd for the Galactic Empire too. Damn Ewoks :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Enigma Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 because i like both rifles hehe ... id love to own both. And the question of not being trained with one? well how come you can read many accounts of british troops picking up mp40 and other german weapons and using them? about hitting anything ... thats proably true thou lol! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John D Salt Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 Originally posted by Other Means: Why would you swap a Lee Enfield for a Kar? Besides the question of which was the better weapon you'd have not trained on the Kar & wouldn't hit a damn thing.Yeah, I'm sure it takes a course of six one-hour lectures, a day's range firing and a trade test before anyone can master the difference between the Lee bolt and the Mauser bolt. All the best, John. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Enigma Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 you just slap the perviuous owner a bit until he tells you how to use it bah ha hahhaha 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splinty Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 I would be a U.S. Army tanker in NW Europe in late 44-early 45. My weapon would be a Pershing. Screw those kitties, Blackjack is on his way! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirocco Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 I would choose to command a Panther at Kursk, nursing it through it's first engagements and exploiting it's initial impact on the battlefield. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 Originally posted by John D Salt: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by ErikinWest: Italians, Germans, Japs, Brits, or whatever. Which one you would you choose and why? In WW2, I think there is much to recommend serving in the Swiss, Swedish, or maybe Irish army.</font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rommel42 Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 Sirocco, The first panther tanks deployed at Kursk were unreliable and dangerously flammable due to poor testing and inadequately armoured fuel tanks. I would choose something with better mobility and reliability: the Panzer IV 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John D Salt Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 Originally posted by Sergei: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by John D Salt: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by ErikinWest: Italians, Germans, Japs, Brits, or whatever. Which one you would you choose and why? In WW2, I think there is much to recommend serving in the Swiss, Swedish, or maybe Irish army.</font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 Not so at all, but it just is hard to imagine how one would be IN WW2 while serving in an army that is strictly out of it. Or can I claim to have been in the Afghan civil war just because I was in FDF at that time? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikinWest Posted January 30, 2005 Author Share Posted January 30, 2005 [/qb] They also lost the war, murdered their prisoners, committed apalling atrocities against civilians in China and thoughout parts of Asia and Oceania, and were required to kill themselves rather than surrender. Not to mention losing every single land battle after June 1942. Are you, like, retarded or something? [/QB]Lets see here the germans killed 7 million jews, were ruthless and was led by a madman. The Japanese though they were brutal often came in times of panic and need. They had lost communication and they were running low on food and water so they had to kill there prisoners. Though I'm not denying the other atrocities; every army commits it. Also this is a hypothetical question it doesn't mean you would actually support there cause. I just like there tactics and weapons. Cheers, Erik 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamingknives Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 Uh-oh. Here we go again... The corrupted version of Bushido adopted by the Japanese Imperial Army is well documented, as is their ill-treatment of prisoners. While every army may conduct itself poorly from a conventional point of view, some are notably more unpleasant than others. The Japanese Army in WW2 was very different from its predecessors, and from pretty much everyone else save the worst of the German SS units. As a further note, Japanese tactics were not exactly great - while their stratagey enabled them to make large gains in the early stages of the war, I've never seen any evidence of a high level of battlefield tactics. On top of that, their weapons were rubbish. nearly every small arm employed was at least significantly flawed, and their support weapons were as bad or worse. The only area in which they did at all well was in the Naval weaponry. Even then they committed themselves to some real white elephant that they could not afford. Serving in the Japanese army would only be good if you were sadistic, or suicidal, or both. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 Originally posted by ErikinWest: I just like there tactics and weapons. Cheers, Erik OH!!! I see!! You like the tactic where they sit in a cave and wait to get immolated by a flamethrower or demolition charge. Or perhaps, the suicidal Banzai charge is more to your liking? You really must tell us which comic books you are reading. Japanese "tactics" in most of the battles in the islands from 1943 on involved upwards of 90% of the Japanese defenders being killed stone cold dead. There are a few ways for you to re-enact that experience, but I'll leave it to your imagination lest I be charged for abetting a criminal (suicide is illegal in most jurisdictions around the world). John D. Salt has the right idea, no matter how much Sergei pretends not to understand his point. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David I Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 Read "The Rape of Nanking". DavidI 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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