<t> [>:][8|]Its hard to imagine why the Art of Wargamming Forum was closed down and moved. <br/>
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Anyway, KG, to your point I think in this day in age there are not enough men who are good friends. I think many men are associates and have a few things in common, but they are not truly a "Band ...

Hmm maybe he lost two of them somewhere? As of right now he only has two.

Man I think he's farther away than he realises.

[:D]I was beginning to wonder the same thing myself.

Did that link work for anybody?

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>To our Amrican friends across the old expanse of water commonly referred to as "the pond". <br/>
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I've had the blessing of experiencing one once with all the food, trimmings, beer and American football that is the tradition of Thanksgiving. <br/>
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May you be ...

<t> I've always wanted to see BH 1942, Their Finest Hour: Battle of Britain, and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe slightly touched up and updated graphics. The SWotL campaign function was one of the best I have ever seen. It would be nice to see air craft that could fire six bullets at once instead ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>WTF is Areana Football.??????<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
woops Arena not areana.....Raverdave, this is basically a modification of traditional football. No its not soccer or Australian rules football. It has a 45 yard field (50?) no sidelines just walls. There is a net behind ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>quote:<br/>
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ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd <br/>
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Love you sig, Scott - the minesweeper bit. <br/>
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How are the Denver Broncos doing? I know John Elway (the most profound "last minute turn around" Quarterback EVER) is retired, but does he still keep his hand in ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>I'm looking for two now I can't find at a store (I've seen them on the web for sale) ... Halls of Montezuma (richard widmark i think) and The Sand Pebbles. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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The Sand Pebbles is a fantastic film! I am not sure why it won so many nominations back ...

15 pounds ehh? IIRC, wasn't that the same price as one Borat feature at the movie theatre there in Colchester? [:D]

Hey OT but do you guys call pounds quid for slang like we call dollars bucks?

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Maybe it's because the comedy was a little on the weird side, but the british already knew the character. There's also another element to all this. If you take something like the horrendous bloodthirsty ravings he managed to stir up at the rodeo, the point isn't so much ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Yet going into the Great War the US army seemed fixated upon the offensive and the massive charge,and the bayonet.There was very little difference in the tactics she used during the Civil War and what she used in WWI.There was very little excuse for it as she out of all of ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Years later, in August 1936, Churchill, then an ordinary Conservative member of the British parliament, gave an interview on this matter to mr. William Griffin, editor of the New York Enquirer2), who stayed in London at that time. "America should have minded her own business ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Sorry.Going past his earlier writings you will find much less idealism against the nature of war and more understanding in the hows and whys of campaigns of battles.Early Keegan is temepred by idealism and the belife that all wars are wrong...Latter Keegan tries to ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Sherman..As much as i respect and enjoy reading Keegan.He seems to have his own biases in disecting battles and coming to conclusions in his earlier work.I often wish that he would update his pre-80's work with the eye of experience and further study.He is one of Britians ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Yes, but unlike in WW2 (where German Panzergrenadiers, Russians, and even American Inf troops used to use tanks as protection during the advance), where the tank's engines used to be able to put up decent speeds, tanks in WW1 used to be extremely slow, thus providing a lot ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>When the US troops arrived on the western front they proved to be green and lacking in tactical abilities in comparison of other Allied troop and the Germans. That is why they suffered that much casualities in a short period of time. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s> don't beleive insubordination and self inflicted wounds were particularly comon in the AEF, there of course will always be cases of that in every army in history - but to put it at the "problem" level indicates a general dissatisfaction, and the beginnings of real trouble ...

<r> Big B. to further your casualty list in the book the <I><s>[i]</s>The Face of Battle<e>[/i]</e></I>, John Keegan wrote this, Counting the fighting infantry of a division at 10,000 and the number of British, French, Italian, and Russain divisions engaged against the Central Powers as 60, 110, 45 ...

Good info Big B. [8D]

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>No - actually I'm pretty sure France has always had a bigger population that GB, but French casualties in WWI were notably higher than GB's. Here is the list; <br/>
Belgium 45,550 <br/>
British Empire 942,135 <br/>
France 1,368,000 <br/>
Greece 23,098 <br/>
Italy 680 ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>US forces only had limited (mostly insignificant in terms of numbers) exposure/effect during the early part of the Kaiserschlacht that started in late March, the only real period where there was a chance of defeat on the western front. Maybe I'm confused about the timeline ...