One of the best films of the year. Easily.

<t> The Greek force at Thermopylae numbered about 8000-10,000. On the third day Leonidas ordered the allied Greeks to retreat while his Spartans fought a rearguard action. 700 Thespians refused to leave, and died along with the Spartans and roughly a thousand Helot slaves.<br/>
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I just checked, Hermes was about to be decommissioned.
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Britain was in a bad situation in regards to her economy and even in pride. The Falklands War did a lot to revive the spirits of many there and most of the veterans love Thatcher for holding firm.

<r> They wouldn't have had Invicible neither. From Wiki's article on the Invincible:<br/>

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On 25 February 1982 the Australian government announced that it had agreed to purchase <I><s>[i]</s>Invincible<e>[/i]</e></I> for £175 million after several months of negotiations. The ...

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<t> I've never ever ever heard of somebody complaining that their warship was sunk by the enemy and calling them cheaters. That 'exclusion zone' stuff was a load of bollocks to begin with.<br/>
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Hell, the Argentinians sunk a british cargo ship outside of the 'exclusion zone' but I don't hear ...

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Smart people can also make stupid mistakes - just look at the McCanns (if their story is true) leaving their three children alone in a house while they go out for dinner. Sympathetic sure (again if their ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>..nooo, of course not.. <br/>
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..errr, noooo, the Falklands war began when a Facist (sooooRRyyyy) Conservative mad -person*, elected only because of a flawed electoral system, decided to rig a war with an easily defeatable opponent for who-the-fk-knows what reason.. <br/>
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<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Argentina maintains to this day that on the last day of the war a successful exocet attack was launched against (I think) carrier ¨Invincible¨ <br/>
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<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>GreyFox...British veterans will testify the Argentines fought very hard up <br/>
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Oh I know and respect them for it. My ire is reserved for those who bombastically proclaim there going to fight to the death and never ...

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Yes, they're staged. Perhaps I didn't spell that out clearly enough above. Very many WW2 "combat" images were staged.<br/>
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<r> Well I do know that at the start of WW1 a submarine was not allowed to sink a commercial ship bearing thee enemy flag (be it freighter or passenger liner) until the crew and passengers aboard had been given a certain time period to abandon ship. This led to instances off the coast of America in ...

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the Argentinian edition of the 1907 Hague convention, published May 1982, chapter 56, verse 29: "Any British warship that sinks an enemy combatant is guilty of a war crime".

<t> What the conflict was about: A military dictatorship needed to distract the people with a good war&nbsp;and so stoked up an obscure claim that because they once owned the Falklands for a seven year period between the Spanish and British ownership, they should have it now.<br/>
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<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>If the British had not taken Mt Kent and bombarded the defensive positions around Stanley, almost down to their last shells, then the Argentinians would have been victourious, the fact is the Argentinians surrenedered one day to soon - Thank God. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>1) All I remember from the time was that the media portrayed it as a foregone conclusion from the moment the task force sailed. Reading about it afterwards though, the war could have been a much closer run thing, and was potentially ...

Denmar is a playable faction, yes.