Posts made by Makoshark13

When told he was the only union corp commander without a monument on the battlefield, Sickles replied, “The whole battlefield is a monument to Dan Sickles.” Sickles was an idiot who jeopardized the entire Union position.

If the “combat tuxedo” is for surrender, you should give tuxedos to the entire French army.  :-D

I tried Canada as a separate power once. I was playing a 1942 set up and I used the French pieces. Surprisingly, Canada became fairly powerful and was a major force in North Africa. It was tough for UK in Europe for a while, but it ended up in an allied victory.

@Zooey72:

A sad story that I had heard when I was in college taking a WW2 class.  As the war continued to go badly for Japan food shortages because a big deal (obviously).  There was a show elephant at the Tokyo Zoo that the government decided would not be fed any more.  They did not want to spare the large round (or chemicals) to kill it.  They just let the thing sit there and starve to death.  The trainer was an older man who couldn’t fight (hence he didn’t find himself at Iwo Jima or some other such place).  Every day he would pass the Elephant and it would start to do tricks on its own, begging for food.  Eventualy the trainer killed himself because he couldn’t stand the sight of what was happening to his Elephant.

This story will haunt me from now on whenever I see an elephant.

@ABWorsham:

Another odd fact of WWII, was Japan’s balloon bomb program intended to bomb the U.S by use of the jet stream. The plan was to cause wide spread panic and wildfires across the U.S.

A Sunday School class was the only casualties to these light bombs.

To stop the bombs, the army took a sample of the sand in the ballast. Then they matched it with an earlier scientific study that catagorized sand. (I feel sorry for the scientist in charge of that) They matched the sand to beach in Japan and sent in some bombers to blow up the factory nearby.
Geology- saving lives since 1944

I play with Canada as a temporary capitol, but I don’t let them build outside of Canada.

Because that would be too easy.  :-D It depends how many troops that would be landed. With a large army supply lines become a major problem. Even at Normandy, right on England’s doorstep, it was tough supplying the troops. In WW1, with neither side having clear naval supremacy, logistics would have been a nightmare. Besides, after the catastrophe at Gallipoli, neither side was eager for a repeat. It would most likely it would result in another bloodbath, with no clear winner.

Is this for 1914?

Send in the kamikazes! Then send everything for in invasion of America. For the Emperor!

How about a bunch of historians who already know what’s going to happen? “By the way, you might not want to do that attack at the Somme.”  :-)

Yes! I would definately play D-Day on this, the whole time uncontrollably giggling.

1000 Maginot lines stretched all over France.  (Or Germany)

@eddiem4145:

Transports=4
Subs=5
Destroyers=7
Cruisers =10
Carriers =13
Battleships =18
*Improved shipyards should bring that cost down more

Until transports cost as much or less than the infantry they are transporting? Let’s be realistic.

That is the weirdest conspiracy theory I have ever heard.

British troops on American transports is a little sketchy.

How many different arguments do you guys have going on at the same time?  :?

@rjpeters70:

And ABWorsham–my apologies to you for my part in derailing a very interesting thread.

Tried a couple times to steer it back, but… failed.

Accusing people of being British? It doesn’t seem like you were trying very hard.

@CWO:

WotC seems focused on selling complete games, so for them the concept of selling individual sculpts would literally be a case of thinking outside the box.

That depends on your definition of “complete”.

Excuse me while I throw myself off of a tall building.

@Gamerman01:

Thank goodness he didn’t post a picture of an army of goose-stepping Justin Biebers wearing only underwear!!!

Garg if you get your hands on that, you should be able to complete said conquest.

Noooooo! Must get the image out of my head!

@Gargantua:

@empireman:

my….eyes…there burning! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE GARG?!

Congratulate me for weaponizing pixels into internet tear gas!

We can only hope North Korea doesn’t get a hold of this.

@wittmann:

You deserve the Nobel prize for Peace, for inventing the ultimate deterrent to war: that picture. Who would risk war knowing images of that could be flashed before your eyes at any minute?

You have become Death, the destroyer of my ability to sleep at night.