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Aug 1, 2016 22:55
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gohuskies posted:Have you guys heard about Wojtek the bear??? Sounds interesting, please tell us more!
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Aug 1, 2016 23:44
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Raenir Salazar posted:Should we go about compiling (a) a list of notable posters and their contributions We already have one. Also, I sent a goldmining request to Grand Fromage.
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Aug 2, 2016 01:19
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Grand Fromage posted:I moved your old nerd poo poo thread to the dumb goldmine for nerds to read, spergs.  m'mod
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Aug 2, 2016 04:54
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Tevery Best posted:I have extracted whatever posts of mine from the old thread I think had value and put them in a Google Doc for easy access. I've even edited some of them. goatse mentioned, a+
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Aug 2, 2016 23:10
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P-Mack posted:The strong post what they wish and the weak read what they must.
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Aug 3, 2016 20:14
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HEY GAL posted:almost every single general of this war looks like he's going harrumph in his pictures at some point roman emperors also wanted to look grumpy in their statues
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Aug 4, 2016 00:58
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Nenonen posted:re: radios, it's again a broad question but here's a broad answer. Americans had lots of radios, everyone else not so much. In later stages of WW2 you could expect handie talkies to be found at platoon level all over the US organization. The range of it wasn't great, but sufficient for below company communicating. They also had more portable wireless sets at other levels. Commonwealth I don't know, presumably a little better than most combatants thanks to L&L. Yeah, eg. at Suomussalmi and Raate Soviets didn't even try to encrypt their few radios' messages.
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Aug 4, 2016 15:12
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HEY GAL posted:they were not pre industrialized societies, op what are you shortening to 'op'?
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Aug 4, 2016 18:27
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Wrt. folk etymologies, guns that are made only to wound, and stuff; many teachers, drill sergeants, profs etc. don't know poo poo. Eg. my religious education teacher told the class how the medieval warfare was clean and fair, because the knights were Christians. 
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Aug 5, 2016 04:06
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Aug 8, 2016 22:42
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:The anti-spall face masks are terrifying. always post pics!  
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Aug 10, 2016 00:31
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Nenonen posted:I'm just saddened that Germans never completed the Großkampfwagen. I'm sure it would have changed the course of the war had the army not been stabbed in the back! drat!
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Aug 10, 2016 01:57
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NLJP posted:Btw well done new thread. Best tank chat in a real long time! I love these threads but the refresh has done a lot of good. Thanks all How old is it? And ofc, post pics!
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Aug 12, 2016 08:16
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On milhist notes, I'm currently living in a small hamlet on a small island in southern sweden based on what used to be the residence of the official soldier of the commune.
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Nenonen posted:To be fair, Soviets had also believed that their Bistro Tanks could run through the entire strategic depth of the enemy front and crush or run circles around everything stepping in their way. But they were smart enough to drop the concept much sooner than Brits did - but this can be attributed to them actually having their equivalent of Cromwell already in mass production (it also helped that most of the ~4000 Betkas were lost in 1941). BTs are one of my favourite armoured vehicles in bideo james because they are so drat fast. M18 Hellcats too. What was the fastest armoured ground vehicle of the war?  M18 Hellcat  BT-7 Hogge Wild fucked around with this message at 08:29 on Aug 12, 2016 |
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Aug 12, 2016 08:22
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spectralent posted:That reminds me: Does the concept of pure infantry exist anymore? I'm aware infantry do still train to march and actually do marches (especially in asymmetric war where stuff like "the people we need you to attack are up this mountain, which is impassable to vehicles" happens), but if WW3 ever kicked off and there was peer-state tier conflicts going on, do we have any militaries that still envisage a significant role to walking, or is a BMP or M113 or whatever basically assumed to be standard for modern infantry? Eg. Finland has many reservist local defense units equipped with jack poo poo vehicles.
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Aug 12, 2016 08:34
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Aug 13, 2016 10:17
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NLJP posted:Not a lot of old stuff other than undated dry stone walls sadly. The walls are rad though but nothing milhist related. Might have a wander and take some pics of the rad landscape though but doesn't seem relevant to the thread. Is it closer to which one of these:  Sveaborg Fortress' Commandant's mansion house.  Soldier's croft.
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Aug 13, 2016 23:16
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ArchangeI posted:We might get criminals and slackers, but by God, they will be smart criminals and slackers! Ie. good jägers.
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Aug 13, 2016 23:17
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Kemper Boyd posted:The Finnish infantry brigades are supposed to use tractors, trucks and buses for strategic mobility though. Besides, the only thing they're good for is for being a force-in-being anyway since they have almost no AA or AT gear. Infantry Brigade 80 has tractors and trailers, but I was speaking of paikallispuolustusjoukot, ie. battalion and company sized local defense units.
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Aug 15, 2016 00:16
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HEY GAL posted:love the movie, disappointed by the battle scenes what was disappointing about the battle scenes? Hogge Wild fucked around with this message at 11:04 on Aug 15, 2016 |
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Aug 15, 2016 10:14
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SeanBeansShako posted:Well, IMO not enough of them. Same! It's one of my favourite films. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbBojWrOV2Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPd14JPA--M This one is a bit edited. e: the film isn't just about combat. everyone should watch it! Hogge Wild fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Aug 15, 2016 |
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Aug 15, 2016 15:36
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Nenonen posted:The fuel tank is pressurized by a nitrogen tank, but a hole in the fuel tank would just spring a leak or two and the pressure would be gone in seconds with some fuel sprayed to the vicinity. The worst case scenario is the operator & terrain around him catches fire. Grand Fromage posted:
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Aug 16, 2016 05:19
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Admiral Snackbar posted:What's this?! Welcome back, Admiral! And thanks for kicking this thing off in the first place. Hogge Wild fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Aug 17, 2016 |
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Aug 17, 2016 04:56
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haha I'm watching a bad but entertaining documentary about Nazi supertanks. There was a funny bit about Maus tanks. Looks like you needed 2 of them for river crossing. The one on the shore would give power by cable to the one underwater.
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Aug 18, 2016 19:01
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chitoryu12 posted:In case anyone hasn't seen it, here's the Panther videos by Nick Moran that we were talking about earlier. It's kind of marvelous how awful the ergonomics of this tank were. How did their awfulness compare to other tanks of the same era? I've understood that Sherman was one of the few that had good ergonomics?
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Aug 18, 2016 19:34
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david_a posted:Some of the recent chat about 'horses' used in WW2 made me wonder if the noble mule was being lumped in with its flashier relative. A mule is a superior pack animal compared to a horse for a number of reasons (hardier, more endurance, eats less, etc) and it seems like the better choice for dragging your gear around. From a quick search it seems that most countries used a mix of the two (the US used mules in some of the awful terrain in Italy, for example). Gebirgsjägers in Finland at least used them. Maybe it was more of a thing for them, and rest of the troops used draught horses?
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Aug 19, 2016 10:35
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OwlFancier posted:Well more I figured that it might be true because it's a contemporary source, and also because it's exactly what I would do if I was a mercenary being asked to fight other mercenaries for money. I've read the same thing too about the mercs just pretending to fight. I wonder who wrote about it in the first place?
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Aug 19, 2016 10:37
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Foul Fowl posted:is there a good book to read about these mercenary armies? and also about italian city state politics during that period? The Prince. 
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Aug 19, 2016 17:07
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Mr Enderby posted:There are contemporary reports of Borderers slacking off, or switching sides, during the Anglo-Scottish wars, particularly during the Rough Wooing. Of course, those weren't professional mercenaries, and the wars were being fought over their lands, so it's not really surprising that they were just out for loot and survival. wild asses were used to pull early chariots i guess that mules are slow and have attitude problems, otherwise someone would have used them probably someone has experimented with most of the animals, but only very few of them are useful eg. swedes and soviets tried to raise moose cavalry sorry for the bad links: http://stockholm.headsaflamemedia.com/2014/03/08/in-the-1700s-the-swedish-cavalry-experimented-with-moose/ http://onpasture.com/2013/12/02/once-upon-a-time-we-farmed-moose/
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Aug 19, 2016 18:38
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aphid_licker posted:Are we just posting MAJOR HUNKS now? haha Lieutenant Laaksonen would be proud  .
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Aug 20, 2016 11:56
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Here's the rest of the story: http://www.warsawuprising.com/witness/schenk.htm
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Aug 20, 2016 16:08
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Owlkill posted:Sorry to bring something up from a couple of pages back... This is a history thread, we don't mind.
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Aug 20, 2016 20:43
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HEY GAL posted:hello Nordic friends! have you heard of this guy? Wikipedia's 30YW articles have a slight Swedish bias. Some bad photos from the Finnish Cavalry Museum:  A painting of Stålhandske.  His coat of arms (stålhandske = steel glove)
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Aug 21, 2016 18:30
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Kemper Boyd posted:He's buried in the cathedral in my hometown. His tin casket has been put on display there, along with his armor. I usually give a tour to people consisting of "this wrought iron fence is 700 years old", "here is the only queen that's been buried in Finland", "Åke Tott was a big deal and probably The Biggest Deal in Finnish history and boy did he marry well" and "Torsten Stålhandske was one of the best commanders of cav Sweden ever produced and boy did he marry well." Didn't he die childless? Do you have good photos of his mausoleum? What does the text on it say? 
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Aug 21, 2016 20:48
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Kemper Boyd posted:Should have clarified, not direct descendants because the noble side of the family has died out. But apparently some people related to him. A tour guide told me this when I wondered about a vase of flowers in the chapel. cool
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Aug 21, 2016 21:04
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Was it common for 17th century generals to be childless (or just having illegit kids) because they spent all of their life campaigning?
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Aug 21, 2016 21:22
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HEY GAL posted:anecdotally, i really think so. off the top of my head, Gustavus Adolphus with one daughter Christina and one bastard son Gustav, who was raised to a count by his half-sister. Btw, the cavalry museum I mentioned is in a town that was chartered by Queen Christina. And the aforementioned Stålhandske. Kemper Boyd probably knows more. Hogge Wild fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Aug 21, 2016 |
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Aug 21, 2016 21:36
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HEY GAL posted:...best queen? 
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Aug 21, 2016 21:40
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Kemper Boyd posted:itym best king What about Genghis Khan?
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Aug 21, 2016 22:10
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