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Originally posted by Easy8
"It IS a disappointment, because that means there are three of you that like those crates! (WhiteRook, Jess, and you) Alas for you, Easy8, repent and like thine Big Cat! Thanks about the tag lines!"

Buy American!

Easy8 -An Easy8 ls made in the USA

So is a Ford Pinto

I just had a mental image of a platoon of Pintos (with full gas tanks, natch) being used as a suicide mine clearing force...

Paint them OD green and they look just like shermans, and lite up just like them too!:D

Do you guys think I can just let this M4 bashing slide by with out some sort of.......WAIT....whats that?....a Panther Tank! traverse right!

"FIRE!"

Wooooooooooosh..................................

KABLAMM!

now as Easy8, Whiterook, and myself was saying....

Made it America Baby!

Welcome Easy8 to the Kill'n club!

M4 Jess- M4 is gonna start a club

Originally posted by Don Doom
Paint them OD green and they look just like shermans, and lite up just like them too!:D

Didn't they refer to Shermans as 'Ronson Lighters'?

Originally posted by Don Doom
Paint them OD green and they look just like shermans, and lite up just like them too!:D

ROFL! Touché!

Where's the Pinto plt in the US OOB?

Originally posted by Sturmpionier
My old screen name was Sturmie, but I had to get a new one and went to Sturmpionier. Both are products of my WWII reenacting group, the 43. Sturmpionier Bataillon. Our unit mascot is a worm with a stahlhelm and kleinspat coming up out of the ground. Hence our nickname, the Squirmie Sturmies.


"Better dirty than dead!"

Whoa. That's interesting. I believe the concept of reenactment groups are so much more common in the US than over here..

Question: Does the group have any hardware, and if so; authentic or replicas?

I'd love to have a 251 on my driveway... :p

At one time my screen name was Grenadier, before that it was Intrepid. I used Intrepid before joining the Raiders way back on the OLD TGN forum and mailing list for SPWW2. When the Kunel asked me to join the Raiders he suggested Grenadier as my focus was on the Germans. I registered on the matrix Forum about 3 weeks after it started as I was too busy finishing scenarios for SPWaW version 1 and writing the FAQ and manual. By the time I got around to registering, Grenadier was taken. I tried contacting the person who has it to get it back but no luck, so I stay with my name. I have considered changing it to something like GFM which Don Doom and Rocking Harry aleways call me or General der Panzertruppe as I call myself sometimes to the Lost Victories team as GFM seem to high and pretentious a rank. For now I will stick with my name

Mine comes from my all time favorite show when I was a kid.
Combat - yes I am that old now I guess!
When Sgt. Saunders was out in the field with his squad and if they happened to have a radio with them. When ever he would call back to the platoon c.p. it went like this:

Checkmate King2 this is WhiteRook over!

Over 30 years latter and I have never forgotten that line! so
when I started getting into forums online I chose this without
even thinking about it.

Most people that feel like they know me just call me Rook.

Goblin - A Goblin looks good under a Sherman's Trac's

Originally posted by WhiteRook

Checkmate King2 this is WhiteRook over!

Over 30 years later and I have never forgotten that line! so
when I started getting into forums online I chose this without
even thinking about it.

Wow - it's been closer to 40 years for me since I heard that line.

Brings back memories ...

Where's the Pinto plt in the US OOB
See Staff Car

There's no way I'm gonna go down the "Which tank was better" road. Thats been hashed and rehashed here too many times.

I played "Kittens" for years, still do from time to time, but the first time I killed a Tiger with a bottom hit from a .50 cal AAMG, I fell in love with M4's:)

awwww Easy8!

I wuv you too!

M4 Jess;)

Love just might be too strong a word for this board:)

Easy8 - Easy ain't THAT Easy

This is getting me sick!

Any of you ASL or even Squad Leader hard core types remember Sgt Kelso?

That's where I got the 9-1 part from.

Kelso was a German Squad Leader counter whose rating was 9 morale -1 leader modifier.

Man I did some awesome things with Kelso. My buddy and myself, we always had to have Kelso involved if we were the German player in a game.
If something happened to Kelso the battle was surely doomed.

We just never got attached to any of the other counters over the years.

Originally posted by Les the Sarge 9-1
Any of you ASL or even Squad Leader hard core types remember Sgt Kelso?

That's where I got the 9-1 part from.

I used to wonder what the "9-1" was.

Even after reading many of your postings about ASL I never clued in ..



(Pehaps if you were "Feldwebel" instead of "Sarge" ...)

Originally posted by Les the Sarge 9-1


We just never got attached to any of the other counters over the years.

And I thought you were 9-1 instead of 10-3 just to avoid all the snipers around here...

What is the SAN of the forum btw?

As in Sanity?

As in Call of Cthulu?

Baaawaahahahahahahah:eek:

Easy8 - Easy always fails his SAN rolls!

Tricky question that San bit....

Depends on the Forum I think.

And yes 9-1 seems about right for me.

I have the grit of a Sarge or Feldwebel, but heaven forbid I should ever become tainted and wears officers rank (shudders at the thought).

Hey I worked for a living heheh:D

I just thought the old political cartoon was hillarious. Alas, I've only been able to find ONE image of it on the web: