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Mar 7, 2015 22:02
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Signing up for a French divisional command, if available. Look how happy this guy is at the thought of going into battle! 
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Mar 7, 2015 22:10
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Comrade Koba posted:Signing up for a French divisional command, if available. He's waving goodbye to ma 
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Mar 7, 2015 22:13
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Pvt.Scott posted:The town in the middle by the three large farms should be called Clustér d'Fuch This. And a couple before bed with Franglais. 
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Mar 8, 2015 00:00
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So how are units handled during the transition from one year to the next? I'm assuming that even if one side or the other gets clobbered in one round there will be some evening up of the sides over the interim as units are shuffled off the line, refits and reinforcements are brought in, etc. Curious as to what the cost/benefit will be for trying one last push vs conserving forces. I've sat in the audience for a number of GH LPs, but may as well throw my hat in this time as a divisional commander for the Allies and stick it to the Boche.
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Mar 8, 2015 00:22
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Signing up to be a British commander, I'm pretty inept at games like this and generally show little regard for the lives of my men so I think it should be historically accurate.
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Mar 8, 2015 00:23
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Put my name on the spreadsheet for an Allied Divisional Command. No preference for Brit/French, though if you happen to have a Belgian division far from home, that might be fun.
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Mar 8, 2015 00:33
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I'll sign up to defend the Fatherland from those bloodthirsty Frenchmen and Perfidious Albion.  Lower-level German unit please. Comrade Koba posted:Signing up for a French divisional command, if available. Wouldn't you be happy with a moustache like that?
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Mar 8, 2015 00:56
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Slaan posted:I'll sign up to defend the Fatherland from those bloodthirsty Frenchmen and Perfidious Albion. Mukaikubo posted:Put my name on the spreadsheet for an Allied Divisional Command. No preference for Brit/French, though if you happen to have a Belgian division far from home, that might be fun. Guys, you can enter your names and positions on your own  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bxkdvy-7MzMaAuqOhfij6tCGk-p_0O5OxOLLh1iexGY/edit#gid=0
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Mar 8, 2015 01:00
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steinrokkan posted:Guys, you can enter your names and positions on your own Yes, I know, I already had. So I posted that I "put my name on..." 
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Mar 8, 2015 01:06
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Mukaikubo posted:Yes, I know, I already had. So I posted that I "put my name on..." I hate irregular verbs 
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Mar 8, 2015 01:09
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Trin Tragula posted:Enjoying all of these. Have a few suggestions of my own. I support any naming scheme as long as at least one of the towns is called "coubarbe". Generation Internet posted:Please, share them here! This is a gentleman's war, after all A lady never asks, and a gentleman never tells!
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Mar 8, 2015 01:34
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steinrokkan posted:Guys, you can enter your names and positions on your own There is no spreadsheet linked in the OP.  If this is the kind of communication that we can look forward to, then: 
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Mar 8, 2015 01:36
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Slaan posted:There is no spreadsheet linked in the OP. Grey Hunter posted:Right, thats a long enough OP, next up, I’ll post a turn example to give people a better idea. for now, please head to this spreadsheet to to register your interest. remember this will be a long term prospect, but I will be willing to let people in after each battle phase, as knowledge of what just happened shouldn’t be too much of a problem. Slaan posted:If this is the kind of communication that we can look forward to, then:
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Mar 8, 2015 01:39
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I'm all signed up for Divisional Command on the allies side! Come on boys! Let's take that hill and we'll be home by Christmas!* Which Christmas will depend on how good we are at fighting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkAovJAzq0k
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Mar 8, 2015 02:12
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Can't sleep, had nothing else to do, apparently can still make bad puns though Hopefully one or two of them aren't too obscure
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Mar 8, 2015 02:47
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I vote one of the ridges be named Secura Ridge. Perhaps the smaller ridge/hill north of La Fourmillere I forget if French would make it Ridge Secura so I won't Frenchinate it.
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Mar 8, 2015 03:06
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Hang on, are we sure that one of those towns isn't Tokyo Bay forteresse navale?
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Mar 8, 2015 03:17
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Trin Tragula posted:Can't sleep, had nothing else to do, apparently can still make bad puns though My only request is to rename one of the forests as Forêt des Coubarbes.
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Mar 8, 2015 03:47
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There has to be a Tokyo Bay forteresse navale and a Entiwok hill dosn't there?
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Mar 8, 2015 04:10
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Comstar posted:There has to be a Tokyo Bay forteresse navale and a Entiwok hill dosn't there? The Tokyo Bay Fortress is on the map, we just don't know where 
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Mar 8, 2015 05:30
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I would like to second a vote for Cluster d'Fuch as mentioned above. Also, "Ratatouille" is always funny.
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Mar 8, 2015 05:36
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So I'll give naming chat a little longer, but to show I've not been idle. This is one French Division, 1914 roster. Two of these make a Corps.  Here they are on the map.
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Mar 8, 2015 06:29
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 Why not just call it "Decorum Ouest"? It's punny and less confusing than having two of 'em. gradenko_2000 posted:Grey, you fantastic bastard. drat right he did. And we'll gloriously crush the
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Mar 8, 2015 06:49
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Grey Hunter posted:So I'll give naming chat a little longer, but to show I've not been idle. So are things like Corps sizes dictated by the rules of the game, or modeled after actual armies in WWI? I ask because I've gleamed from my research that divisions were always being meddled with by higher-commands, especially when manpower started to run dry. The Canadian Corps, for example, was always comprised of the 4 Canadian Divisions in France. The British wanted to reduce the size of the divisions and split the force into two Corps to form an Army, but the commanding officer Sir Arthur Currie was adamant that the Canadians should keep fighting as a unified force and that the Divisions not be watered down, with the result being that the Canadian Corps was an unusually large and effective unit for a Corps size formation.
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Mar 8, 2015 15:59
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Grey Hunter posted:So I'll give naming chat a little longer, but to show I've not been idle. That's, how many guys? How many frogs per square?
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Mar 8, 2015 16:17
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From the opening post, the X tokens are 200-man companies. So, in the vicinity of ten thousand doomed frenchmen.
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Mar 8, 2015 16:24
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Ballpark: Each square is a company of ~250 men. Each row of companies is a battalion of ~1000 men, each group of battalions is a brigade of ~3000 men, and the group of brigades forms a division of ~10,000 It really depends on individual formations and nations, though, as everyone did things slightly differently and units were rarely the same strength in practice as they were on paper.
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Mar 8, 2015 16:25
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Generation Internet posted:Ballpark: Each square is a company of ~250 men. Each row of companies is a battalion of ~1000 men, each group of battalions is a brigade of ~3000 men, and the group of brigades forms a division of ~10,000 See also: my guys after the first assault, who will have approx. 2 men left per company
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Mar 8, 2015 17:23
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V. Illych L. posted:See also: my guys after the first assault, who will have approx. 2 men left per company We don't need to be cyncial, I am sure that there will be at least six men per company.
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Mar 8, 2015 17:40
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German Thread Allied Thread If you are playing, please go to your respective thread. This thread is now off limits to both sides and will act as the peanut gallery. Please refrain from posting any sensitive data for the first few posts while people catch up. Good luck to both sides.
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Mar 8, 2015 18:34
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Before I withdraw, now that Grey has accepted the names, here's an annotated gazetteer for anyone who's struggling to work out the jokes. Roughly from the top left corner: Foret des Coubarbes - A "foret" is a French forest, and a "coubarbe" is a neckbeard. Hill 69 - Many battlefield features had no local name and were referred to on military maps by their height in metres. You're on Something Awful, you know what 69 means. L'Usine de Papillion - "Butterfly mill" or "butterfly factory" River Sombre - The Somme was a very sombre place; there's also a river elsewhere in France called the Sambre. Bridges over the Sombre - These are all characters from the seminal Stanley Kubrick film "Paths of Glory"; Colonel Dax, General Mireau, General Broulard and Lieutenant Roget (which then becomes "Thesaurus" after Roget's Thesarus). Ile de Huit - One name in English for a small island in the middle of a river is "eyot" or "ait" pronounced "eight"; "huit" is "eight" in French. Chemin des Putains - there was a famous ridge with an important road on top of it called the Chemin des Dames, or "ladies' path"; "putain" is French for "bitch" or "whore". Butte de Fesse - "Fesse" means "buttock"; so it's the Butt Cheek. Farms - Most of these are Blackadder Goes Forth characters: Addernoire, Georges, Melchett, Flash[heart]. "Salopard" apparently means "sod off", which is Baldrick's first name, and "Cheri" is French for "Darling". "Godemiche" is "dildo" (it looks like one), and there were a million Dead Cow Farms on the Western Front, after their most common inhabitant. Towns - The three I named are all in homage to Tommies' charming manglings of unpronounceable foreign place-names. Fonquevilliers became "Funky Villas", so on this map we have "Froussard..." which I'm pretty sure is French for "Funky". "Mangepommes" is "Eat apples", from "Etaples"; and "Glacessui" is a mangling of "windscreen wipers", from Ypres. "Grappe des Foutres" is "Cluster des Fucks". "Dulce et decorum est" is a Wilfred Owen war poem which you should read now if you haven't. "Auberge du Beagle Volant" is the shed of the flying dog, in honour of the most glorious Sopwith Camel ace of them all. River Paisne - The Chemin des Dames overlooked the River Aisne. Bridges over the Paisne - These are named after filmmakers who made WWI films; Kubrick, Georg Wilhelm Pabst (Westfront 1918), and then the leftmost bridge I had after Abel Ganst (J'accuse). Rue de Gloire - Road of Glory. Or, indeed, Path of Glory. It goes over La Fourmiliere, The Anthill, the location where Colonel Dax is ordered to make a suicidal attack. Forets de Boronne and Kryptonne - The Argonne Forest saw some of the most brutal close-range fighting. Boron and krypton are, like argon, noble gases. Norman Angell Lane - Norman Angell wrote a book about how bloody stupid it would be for Europe to go to war. Crapouillot Ridge - A crapouillot is a little toad, and was adopted as a nickname first by the French infantry (since, like toads, they spent most of their time squatting in muddy pools of water) and then to refer to their most widely-distributed trench mortar (which was green and looks surprisingly like a toad once you've drunk enough cheap red wine). Bois de Coeur - Wood of Heart. It looks like one. Bois de Jeu - There was a wood at the Somme called Trones Wood. Google Translate tells me "Trones" means "thrones". A "jeu" is a game.
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Mar 8, 2015 19:53
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Have there been any reassignments to keep the numbers even, or am I still with the Allies?
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Mar 8, 2015 20:24
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oh man... I'm torn between wanting to play or just  and watch the hilarity ensue. who am I kidding I like watching trainwrecks 
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Mar 8, 2015 20:53
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Trin Tragula posted:L'Usine de Papillion - "Butterfly mill" or "butterfly factory" Just to add even more explanation: The 'butterfly factory' is a reference to the movie All Quiet on the Western Front, and to run the joke to ground, the idea is that the French were intentionally producing butterflies to distract young German soldiers. 'Lane' was Norman Angell's last name, which he dropped in public life. His full original name was Ralph Norman Angell Lane. Also, the other joke about the Owen reference is that in French, Decorum-Est would be "East Decorum" (hence the discussion of where Decorum-Ouest (West Decorum) might be). Kangra fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Mar 8, 2015 |
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Mar 8, 2015 22:15
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Added myself for divisional command, any nation will be do.
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Mar 8, 2015 23:25
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If there's room, I wouldn't mind getting in on this!
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Mar 9, 2015 01:38
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I've added myself for German corps command since they seemed to have the biggest shortage.
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Mar 9, 2015 03:12
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Added myself as a German Divisional Commander.
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Mar 9, 2015 03:58
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I'll stick to the French, then.
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Mar 9, 2015 11:08
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