Patton 360

[mikul82]

ORIGINAL: SS Hauptsturmfuhrer

Carthaginian archives just recently declassified confirm that Hannibal personally accounted for at least 20,000 of the Romans butchered at Cannae. 

I hear he killed them all with a donkey's jawbone at that.

[mikul82]

ORIGINAL: Joe D.

ORIGINAL: mlc82
Ha I agree with the end, the whole show's "roid rage" effect is just silly. If you thought THAT was bad, you should have seen Hanninbal screaming while wielding dual falcatas and slaying Romans left and right- in the loincloth he apparently crossed the alps in.

LOL -- "roid rage" sure sums it all up.

I saw HC's portrayal of Hannibal and his men crossing the Alps -- I would have been very cold wearing sandals in the snow.

And somehow I doubt that, even back then, a commanding general had the time to give orders while routinely go hand-to-hand w/the opposition; Battles BC has portrayed Caesar et al as if they were action figures, not commanders directing entire armies.

Despite myself, I've actually found the show pretty interesting in regard to much lesser heard of (in depth of any sort at least) battles, such as those of Joshua or David, so long as I just listen to it while doing something else and try to not actually watch any of it.

Watching Caesar or Hannibal get the "300" treatment is just more than I can bear though, turns me into an instant elitist I guess.

[decaro]

ORIGINAL: mlc82

... Watching Caesar or Hannibal get the "300" treatment is just more than I can bear though, turns me into an instant elitist I guess.

Other posters have said the same; it looks like the HC is just using the wrong venue to present its material, i.e., Patton (360) makes a poor stand-in for the Enterprise.

[RedArgo]

I finally watched the 2nd episode of Patton last night. I liked it, but like others have said between the commercials and recaps it is probably a 35 minute show at most.

One question I have is where is the Allied air power? Was is really not present or did the program just not show it? They showed the German dive bombers, but not one allied plane that I remember. Another question I have is how effective were tank destroyers? It seems like without a turret it would be hard to aim at a moving target.

The Battles BC show is just unnessarily gory in my opinion. It doesn't add anything to the show and I won't let my kids watch it even if they wanted to.

Bill

[decaro]

ORIGINAL: RedArgo

... One question I have is where is the Allied air power? Was is really not present or did the program just not show it? They showed the German dive bombers, but not one allied plane that I remember. Another question I have is how effective were tank destroyers? It seems like without a turret it would be hard to aim at a moving target

There's Allied air power in the Tunesia episode; in fact, Truscott's troops get on a WW I destroyer to raid and capture a French airfield so that Allied fighter-bombers can operate in the AO.

My dad was w/the 643 TD Regt; those primitive TDs w/the gun mounted on a half-track were state-of-the art compared to the towed French 75 dad had after D-Day.

It wasn't til after the "Bulge" that the M-10 and Hellcat TDs were deployed in theater; I recall that the latter was eventually fitted w/a 90 mm gun: it was very effective, even at distance.