@thrasher1 I saved my Christmas money in 1995 and bought Axis and Allies.
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RE: How many players from the 80s and 90s have we here?
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RE: What are you reading
@ABWorsham4 Currently I’m reading False Flags, Disguised German Raiders Of World War 2.
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RE: How many players from the 80s and 90s have we here?
@thrasher1 If I remember correctly the 2nd Edition Axis and Allies cost me around 60.00-70.00 dollars. At age 16 that was a lot of Christmas cash.
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RE: What are you reading
@The-Pripet-Martian said in What are you reading:
@ABWorsham4 The more I read, the more I learn that American neutrality pre-Pearl Harbor was extremely nuanced, to say the least. Very interesting stuff.
No doubt, escorts were taking an active role in the Battle of the Atlantic. American made jeeps, trucks, tanks and planes were operating in North Africa, firing munitions fabricated in the States.
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RE: Favorite Christmas Gift
@general-kromwell I have a Christmas like that. My mother had became single and been disabled. We had a tree and no gifts underneath. I went to bed hoping that Santa would come.
In the morning I had two ninja turtle action figures. I was so excited, I had been preparing myself for no Christmas.
Years later my mother told me the story, of how that came to be.
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RE: What are you reading
@ABWorsham4 I’m currently reading George Marshall, Defender of the Republic.
I finished Hitler’s Secret Pirate Fleet by James Duffy. Also I read a 1955 classic, The Secret Raiders by David Woodward. These two books finished my quest for knowledge of German Commerce Raiders.
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Washed up WW2 history in Texas
Here is a great story of some World War II history that washed up on the Texas coast.
https://news.yahoo.com/rubber-bales-wwii-era-german-162559834.html
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New Netflix WW2 documentary
World War Two: From the Frontline
This documentary is trash. Example: Poland, Germany invades, no mention of the Red Army invading from the East.
This documentary makes the B.E.F out driving Bren gun Carriers as main battle tanks.
This is high definition rubbish.
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Pick your Battle of Britain fighter
I have started building WW2 models. It’s got me researching weapon systems.
If you had to choose your TOP pick and LAST choice in fighter aircraft that participated in the Battle of Britain, which aircraft do you pick?
Spitfire
Hurricane
Me-109
Me-110
Defiant
Fiat G.50 Freccia
Fiat CR.42 Falco
Bristol Blenheim
Gloster Gladiat
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RE: Canada as the 7th ally
@Caesar-Seriona We play a homemade version of A&A that has Canada as it’s own nation, allied with Great Britain. The British Far East and ANZAC are Independent. The Communist in China are also represented. It’s a fun game.
The game also rolls for French territory and Navy units after the fall of Paris. With a D-20 dice, 1-4 goes to Allies, 16 -20 goes Germans, 4-10 is scuttled, 10-16 goes to Vichy France.
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RE: MOVIES 2019
@Wittmann I took the family to watch the film. It was great.
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RE: What are you reading
@ABWorsham4 I’m currently reading H.W Schmidt’s With Rommel In The Desert.
It’s a great read. Its interesting to see the war in the desert from a staff officer and company commander’s view.
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World War Two plastic models
Do any of you build plastic war models? I’m picking up the hobby.
I’m trying to get my paint knowledge better. I painted an Oscar (Ki-43 Japanese Army Fighter) that ended up looking like a FW-190. I was disappointed.
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RE: What are you reading
@The-Pripet-Martian I have read two books concerning Atlantis, The German Raider Atlantis and Ship 16. I’ll look for this book.
False Flags doesn’t cover Atlantis much. It covers the lesser known raiders and supply ships.
I didn’t realize the US Navy actively hunted for the raider Komet. The raider entered the Pan American Zone in the Pacific near the Galapagos Islands sinking 3 Allied vessels.
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Bob Dole Dies, another WW2 veteran gone.
Bob Dole’s death is a reminder that our World War Two veterans are quickly departing our lives.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bob-dole-dies-at-98-170812702.html
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RE: On this day during W.W. 2
@captainwalker Thanks for posting. It’s my father’s favorite chapter of WW2.
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RE: What would an Axis and Allies movie look like?
What if the movie played like the Jumanji movie, where a player makes moves and then there is live action scene played out.
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Have the actual events of World War Two have been the results of an Axis and Allies game.
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RE: What if japan invaded the Soviet Union (alternative history scenario)?
I recently read a book on the Battles of Khalkhin Gol. This fact left me in deep thought about this question: before the battle of Khalkhin Gol, the IJA brought as much artillery rounds they could find in China and Korea, the IJA had 100,000 rounds for the operation. Meanwhile the Soviet Army had 100,000 rounds each day of the fight.
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Carl Weathers
It was a gut punch hearing that Carl Weathers passed away today.
What role comes to mind when you think of his characters?