I was hoping for a "Band of Brothers" from the German perspective. But this is great too. It will be another "must have" when it's available on DVD.

Any word on when the miniseries will be ready?

<r><QUOTE><s>[QUOTE]</s><I><s>[i]</s>Originally posted by U2 <e>[/i]</e></I><br/>
<B><s>[B]</s>Ah I can see why you are wondering:)<br/>
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It's just because I am in love with the English language and have been so since I first came into contact with it. I love to write/speak/read (I buy all of ...

<r><QUOTE><s>[QUOTE]</s><I><s>[i]</s>Originally posted by U2 <e>[/i]</e></I><br/>
<B><s>[B]</s>And so do I when my Finnish opponents ask if we should write in Swedish. However there are people with not good enough english abilities in all four contries and I was thinking of them <E>:)</E> <e>[/B]</e ...

<r><QUOTE><s>[QUOTE]</s><I><s>[i]</s>Originally posted by Losqualo <e>[/i]</e></I><br/>
<B><s>[B]</s>Helping Joki to get more posts? <E>;)</E> <e>[/B]</e></B><e>[/QUOTE]</e></QUOTE> <br/>
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Well thank you for doing me the same service, he, he...<br/>
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To avoid spamming the thread: a toast ...

<r><QUOTE><s>[QUOTE]</s><I><s>[i]</s>Originally posted by joki <e>[/i]</e></I><br/>
<B><s>[B]</s>Then I have to pick upp some speed and write some more... <E>:)</E> <e>[/B]</e></B><e>[/QUOTE]</e></QUOTE> <br/>
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Hey joki!<br/>
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During my military service I knew swedish fellow named Joki. Is ...

<r><QUOTE><s>[QUOTE]</s><I><s>[i]</s>Originally posted by msaario <e>[/i]</e></I><br/>
<B><s>[B]</s>And then I wouldn't have to pay that 30$ shipping fee to get it <E>:)</E><br/>
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--Mikko <e>[/B]</e></B><e>[/QUOTE]</e></QUOTE> <br/>
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Hei Mikko!<br/>
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No need to order overseas, at ...

<r><QUOTE><s>[QUOTE]</s><I><s>[i]</s>Originally posted by Voriax <e>[/i]</e></I><br/>
<B><s>[B]</s>Nyrkki, slept during history lessons? <E>;)</E><br/>
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During Winter war US gave quite substantial loans to Finland, the money was used in buying weapons and other material from US. For example ...

<r><QUOTE><s>[QUOTE]</s><I><s>[i]</s>Originally posted by Snigbert <e>[/i]</e></I><br/>
<B><s>[B]</s>I read somewhere that Finland was the only European country to pay back it's debt to the United States after WWII, which should be a point of pride.<br/>
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Also, the excellence the Finnish Army ...

<r><QUOTE><s>[QUOTE]</s><I><s>[i]</s>Originally posted by Hades <e>[/i]</e></I><br/>
<B><s>[B]</s>thanks for geting this stuff to me its been a real help doing this project has really caused me to like Finland and maybe just maybe Ill come visit it sometime. <e>[/B]</e></B><e>[/QUOTE]</e></QUOTE ...

<t>Mannerheim never was a great speaker. He grew up in a swedish speaking family and spent a major part of his life abroad. As a result his finnish was far from perfect and sounded quite funny (Mannerheim's bad finnish is still a joke in in Finland). <br/>
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So Mannerheim is not remembered so ...

<r><QUOTE><s>[QUOTE]</s><I><s>[i]</s>Originally posted by Hades <e>[/i]</e></I><br/>
<B><s>[B]</s>Im doing a report on your country and I need some help. I need to know if Finland as a national bird, flower, and/or tree. thanks in advance <e>[/B]</e></B><e>[/QUOTE]</e></QUOTE> <br/>
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Off course ...

<t>The kind of behaviour you see in AoW is found all over the net without strict moderating. It seems that people don't put any restrictions on them selves, when any insult they can think of will go without retribution. <br/>
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Where I live we have a few fenced in areas where dogs can run free ...

Well, there are a few women in the military, why not in wargaming? Even tough never encountered women in eihter, I allways wonder what it would have been like to have a female drill sergant during basic training.

Anyone here with experience?

Nyrkki

<t>Besides daydreaming, that was the actual point I was trying to make:<br/>
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Using hexes work quite well, even if it is an abstraction of reality. It simply does't seem worth the hassle to create a more accurate system (which still would be an abstraction). If I was a top programmer ...

<t>Most people here tend to be content with hexes, or at least not discontent. This is propably the reason game developers are using them. Producing computer games is a financial risk and from a business point of view it doesn't make any sense to add to the risk by making design decisions that the ...

<t>My greatest merit in this field is teaching one of my friends to use his computer, so that he can play Steel Panthers by e-mail against me. He's a very experienced wargamer with a pretty impressive wargame library, but a total computer illiterate. <br/>
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A few days a go we were about to ...

<t>"Porilaisten Marssi" (The March of the Soldiers of Pori): The hononary and victory march of the finnish armed forces.<br/>
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Our boys, members of the heroic people, Which gave their blood at the battlefields of Poland, Lütz, Leipzig and Narva, Still Finland has its forces, And one can cover ...

<t>Now this is a good example how you can distort history for your own purposes. I it suited better, you could also argue that the English lost the hundred year war, "mostly". The English definitely lost the war of American independence and if I remember my history lessons correctly Britain and ...

<t>This getting a bit off topic, but if we take ishockey as a measure for Canadians will to fight I have to agree. And I'm not only talking about willingness exchange head punches, I mean the hole attitude to the game. <br/>
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You can never sitt back and relax when your team is playing Canada. I ...

<t>Yes, every finn is packing a cell phone! Seriously, I don't think that a high density of cell phones and internet connections are the only reason for so many finns on different wargame forums. <br/>
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The population in Finland is about 5 million. If it's true that 5 million finns can rally as ...