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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 8:26:56 PM   
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the vast majority of servicemen that lost friends and colleagues or were injured in the war are still alive today


Yes we are.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 8:28:14 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Terminus

In other news, I'm getting well acquainted with Steel Wolves. Like Brother Dixie said, once you get to know the rules, they make good sense, and the turns flow well (I'm about half-way through the fifth weekly turn, first week of October 1939).

In the first four weeks, 33 enemy ships totalling 162,000 tons have been sunk for the loss of one U-Boat. The biggest prize was the British carrier HMS Courageous, sunk by Otto Kretschmer in the North Sea.


So the game forces those stupid offensive ASW patrols on the Allies? I can't think of another reason her her to be there.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 8:28:50 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Terminus

In other news, I'm getting well acquainted with Steel Wolves. Like Brother Dixie said, once you get to know the rules, they make good sense, and the turns flow well (I'm about half-way through the fifth weekly turn, first week of October 1939).

In the first four weeks, 33 enemy ships totalling 162,000 tons have been sunk for the loss of one U-Boat. The biggest prize was the British carrier HMS Courageous, sunk by Otto Kretschmer in the North Sea.
Warspite1

NOOOOOOOOO!! The game is broken. Kretschmer didn't sink Courageous, that's impossible


If I sink Warspite, shall I keep it to myself?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 8:29:18 PM   
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Deadly German secret weapon could change the course of the war!


A radar no less, deployed in Norway. Of course.


It's where I'd deploy my new secret ground-breaking deadly weapon/radar. Because hiding it in Germany surrounded by the elite of the German army is too obvious. I'm impressed that they managed to make a deadly radar technology (sinister music).


Perhaps it also fires death rays?


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 8:30:27 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Terminus

In other news, I'm getting well acquainted with Steel Wolves. Like Brother Dixie said, once you get to know the rules, they make good sense, and the turns flow well (I'm about half-way through the fifth weekly turn, first week of October 1939).

In the first four weeks, 33 enemy ships totalling 162,000 tons have been sunk for the loss of one U-Boat. The biggest prize was the British carrier HMS Courageous, sunk by Otto Kretschmer in the North Sea.
Warspite1

NOOOOOOOOO!! The game is broken. Kretschmer didn't sink Courageous, that's impossible


If I sink Warspite, shall I keep it to myself?


Perhaps it's just as well the Bismark can't be sunk. Or at least doesn't appear (I assume).

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 8:32:13 PM   
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Really? Falklands Islands with some Obama-bashing on top? That's what we're doing? Bored, much?



Not bashing, just saying he signed up to an OAS demand that the UK start negotiations over the Falklands aligning the USA with Cuba and Venezuala. The UN right to self determination must have slipped his mind.

He also declared “We don’t have a stronger friend and stronger ally than Nicolas Sarkozy, and the French people.” Good luck with that.

Oh Christ...he said that?

Personally, I thought returning the Churchhill bust so soon after being in office was an unnecessary affront.


Oh yeah. That one was quite a while back, actually.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 8:33:01 PM   
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Therefore, to even contemplate given up the Falklands is a momumental act of utter betrayal.


Neither T nor I suggested that.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 8:33:27 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Terminus

In other news, I'm getting well acquainted with Steel Wolves. Like Brother Dixie said, once you get to know the rules, they make good sense, and the turns flow well (I'm about half-way through the fifth weekly turn, first week of October 1939).

In the first four weeks, 33 enemy ships totalling 162,000 tons have been sunk for the loss of one U-Boat. The biggest prize was the British carrier HMS Courageous, sunk by Otto Kretschmer in the North Sea.
Warspite1

NOOOOOOOOO!! The game is broken. Kretschmer didn't sink Courageous, that's impossible


If I sink Warspite, shall I keep it to myself?
Warspite1

No need - unless the game is doubly broken, Captain Crutchley VC just ain't gonna let that happen.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 8:34:28 PM   
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ORIGINAL: warspite1


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ORIGINAL: Terminus

In other news, I'm getting well acquainted with Steel Wolves. Like Brother Dixie said, once you get to know the rules, they make good sense, and the turns flow well (I'm about half-way through the fifth weekly turn, first week of October 1939).

In the first four weeks, 33 enemy ships totalling 162,000 tons have been sunk for the loss of one U-Boat. The biggest prize was the British carrier HMS Courageous, sunk by Otto Kretschmer in the North Sea.
Warspite1

NOOOOOOOOO!! The game is broken. Kretschmer didn't sink Courageous, that's impossible


If I sink Warspite, shall I keep it to myself?
Warspite1

No need - unless the game is doubly broken, Captain Crutchley VC just ain't gonna let that happen.


Then don't look at The World's Worst AAR (tm)

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 8:37:07 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Terminus

In other news, I'm getting well acquainted with Steel Wolves. Like Brother Dixie said, once you get to know the rules, they make good sense, and the turns flow well (I'm about half-way through the fifth weekly turn, first week of October 1939).

In the first four weeks, 33 enemy ships totalling 162,000 tons have been sunk for the loss of one U-Boat. The biggest prize was the British carrier HMS Courageous, sunk by Otto Kretschmer in the North Sea.
Warspite1

NOOOOOOOOO!! The game is broken. Kretschmer didn't sink Courageous, that's impossible


If I sink Warspite, shall I keep it to myself?


Perhaps it's just as well the Bismark can't be sunk. Or at least doesn't appear (I assume).


No German surface ships. You play the BdU (Befehlshaber der Unterseeboote, Boss o' Subs).

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 8:40:14 PM   
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Therefore, to even contemplate given up the Falklands is a momumental act of utter betrayal.


Neither T nor I suggested that.
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Three things:

1) I can't spell giving

2) I never suggested either of you did. I was pointing out that T's earlier comment was out of place. Boredom and/or Obama bashing has nothing to do with the strength of feeling over the Falklands.

3) The act of betrayal would come courtesy of our spineless buffons in Westminster, "persuaded" by a US administration keen to get South America on side.


Edit: I can't spell spineless either

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 8:41:07 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Terminus

In other news, I'm getting well acquainted with Steel Wolves. Like Brother Dixie said, once you get to know the rules, they make good sense, and the turns flow well (I'm about half-way through the fifth weekly turn, first week of October 1939).

In the first four weeks, 33 enemy ships totalling 162,000 tons have been sunk for the loss of one U-Boat. The biggest prize was the British carrier HMS Courageous, sunk by Otto Kretschmer in the North Sea.


Sounds promising. I'll have a few questions when you've had a bit more time to get used to it.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 8:42:12 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Terminus

In other news, I'm getting well acquainted with Steel Wolves. Like Brother Dixie said, once you get to know the rules, they make good sense, and the turns flow well (I'm about half-way through the fifth weekly turn, first week of October 1939).

In the first four weeks, 33 enemy ships totalling 162,000 tons have been sunk for the loss of one U-Boat. The biggest prize was the British carrier HMS Courageous, sunk by Otto Kretschmer in the North Sea.
Warspite1

NOOOOOOOOO!! The game is broken. Kretschmer didn't sink Courageous, that's impossible


If I sink Warspite, shall I keep it to myself?
Warspite1

No need - unless the game is doubly broken, Captain Crutchley VC just ain't gonna let that happen.


Then don't look at The World's Worst AAR (tm)
Warspite1

Sprior, I hope that doesn't mean what I think it means

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 8:46:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		All this talk of the Falklands reminds me of the story of the three commandos who had been wounded in action in the 1982 war but for some reason their decorations had been overlooked - so to make up for it Her Majesty's Government offered a lump sum payment... 

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 8:50:44 PM   
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Sprior, I hope that doesn't mean what I think it means


'Fraid so. I lent her to the USN and they broke her. An IJN BB went down with her though.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 8:56:57 PM   
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Sprior, I hope that doesn't mean what I think it means


'Fraid so. I lent her to the USN and they broke her. An IJN BB went down with her though.
Warspite1

Oh good god man Just tell me it was Yamato or Musashi?.......please

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 8:59:50 PM   
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Sean Bean shot them off with his Tommy Gun...


Sean Bean is a roughie-toughie:

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/local/sean_bean_stabbed_protecting_model_1_3483211

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 9:00:26 PM   
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Sprior, I hope that doesn't mean what I think it means


'Fraid so. I lent her to the USN and they broke her. An IJN BB went down with her though.
Warspite1

Oh good god man Just tell me it was Yamato or Musashi?.......please


Sadly not, Nagato iirc.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 9:14:34 PM   
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Sean Bean shot them off with his Tommy Gun...


Sean Bean is a roughie-toughie:

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/local/sean_bean_stabbed_protecting_model_1_3483211
Warspite1

I've found out what the comment was - and yes it was a very serious insult, although it was not directed at Bean's latest squeeze.

Apparently the guy said to Bean "Ere, I know you, you're Danny Dyer"

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 9:15:24 PM   
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Sprior, I hope that doesn't mean what I think it means


'Fraid so. I lent her to the USN and they broke her. An IJN BB went down with her though.
Warspite1

Oh good god man Just tell me it was Yamato or Musashi?.......please


Sadly not, Nagato iirc.
Warspite1

Stupid Boy.....

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 9:22:27 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 9:46:12 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 9:48:17 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 9:48:31 PM   
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Hi all,

Oh my... just look at the aircraft markings...


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What happened to the Stuka's undercarriage? Why is Danny Dyer still making films?
Warspite1

Good call re Danny Dyer and who is the girlie commandette third from the left?

Wondered who the moistened bint was myself. And why she's carrying the Halberd. And why, if it's a firearm, she has the poor arms discipline to be 'sweeping' the right column's heads with the muzzle of her weapon too.

I wonder too much, methinks...
Warspite1

Moreover, why has she got her right trouser leg rolled down - from the top? And where's her make-up? The woman needs to sort herself out

You git ()-she's got her trouser leg down, bunching up about her high boot top. There appears to be dried blood or rust streaked in rivulets down her trousers, however. What a mess. I can't believe that unkempt uniform conforms to British cleanliness standards. Ten demerits!


that's a girl? i thought it was just a young english lad...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 9:49:41 PM   
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that's a girl? i thought it was just a young english lad...


oh dear. is therapy required?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 9:50:49 PM   
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that's a girl? i thought it was just a young english lad...


oh dear. is therapy required?


you know...kinda like The Young Prince?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 9:52:02 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 9:53:08 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 9:55:12 PM   
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that's a girl? i thought it was just a young english lad...


oh dear. is therapy required?


you know...kinda like The Young Prince?
Warspite1

No KEM, it is definitely a girl - her name is Private Bob Parkhurst - a.k.a Kate (which is short for Bob).

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/17/2011 9:57:27 PM   
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Let me put it another way, Bob. You are a girl. And you're a girl with as much talent for disguise as a giraffe in dark glasses trying to get into a polar bears-only golf club

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