Posts made by Obergruppenfuhrer

I’m pretty sure Goliath bombs need line of sight to their target, don’t they? It says instead of your assault, to pick a soldier or vehicle on the field and roll 2 dice. I’m assuming they need line of sight but that isn’t mentioned. Can anyone clarify this for me please?

I’m about as blown away this thread is still going, let alone Hitler is winning! Lol! ….but um, yeah. It’s all a hoax. Every vote. This is WAY amusing.

@Audacity:

Very interesting.  Can you direct us to published material about this?

I certainly can. My best source is “THE SS, Hitlers Instrument of Terror” by Gordon Williams. It was actually Himmlers idea to incorporate Muslims into SS units as an experiment. They used their new power to quickly murder “religious infidels” including Jews and were eventually given only police authority because of their lack of obediance to SS order. They had their own special collar tabs but were never issued an SS Honour cuff on the sleeve. Himmler had these units engaged in the Balkans, around Greece and a few other minor battles. They were actually fought VERY poorly and were taken off the front lines. For the rest of the war, the units that weren’t disbanded were used for anit-partisan activities and were “attached” to another SS unit but did not have the title SS.

It was a brief experiment that elated Himmler. Hitler has little to do with it as far as I know.

PS – thanks for all the Karma while I’ve been out sick for the last month. You guys rock.

@Gewehr:

Think of all those SS troops guarding those camps, they could’ve bin just one more platoon of elite soilders that could’ve hold off the allies for a few days. It’ didn’t take many SS to scare the living crap out of any allied soilder. 6 million died. Thats 6 million more people that couldv’e bin torward to the war effort. And if Hitler had the sense to not kill them off, then he also might of had sense to other situations. Like Battle of Britian to keep bombing military and not switch to civilian.

Lets say it prolonged the war for 3-4 months. Think of the ME 262s and all the other amazing german enginiering that could’ve bin put into service in mass. Trains are sending troops and supllies to the lines instead of inocent to their death, contracters and builders reinforcing fortifications instead of building death camps, women, men, old, young who died, could’ve bin building more tanks. Even if it was only 1000 soilders, which I doubt,  that could’ve won Bastgone The Allies would still win, but they’d be getting a real pounding all the way to the end.

That’s a really good point. Hitlers bad decisions, pride, and lack of a cognitive central leadership within his armies would have lost him the war regardless. Oh – and people that deny it ever happened are just ingnorant. What pisses me off even more is how much greater the atrocities were in Russia with at least 21 million murdered and we’ll never really know the whole story. The NKVD units were never brought to justice. All that ever gets talked about is the holocaust. That’s good because we should NEVER forget it but Russias own mass murders and death camps are all under the rug. I know, I know, …they were our allies. But seriously, where’s the memorial for those poor 21 million???

NICE post AB. I’m back at the front as per your request.

I voted for the Fock Wulf 190 and the Corsair. The Fock Wulf a-4 and a-5 are my all time favorite fighters of the war. I love the beauty of it and love the bravery of the men that flew that plane up against insurmountable odds in the ending years.

The Corsair does not get enough credit. While the Hellcat has the highest kill ratio for the US, (19-1; I believe) it was a short range fighter. The Corsair had to do all the long range dirty work. I’ve talked at length to Corsair pilots and the love they have for that plane is unbelievable. GREAT range, amazing manueverability and an excellent engine. They didn’t even complain about carried landings being difficult. One guy’s corsair went down after he completed his sorties. Another pilot had to bailed out of it. He actually cried and mourned the loss of his former plane for a year.

The last pilot I spoke with talked about him and his wing man were offered flight instructor postions taking them out of combat during the heat of the Pacific air war. They were both already aces and turned down the promotion. He said they loved flying that plane and wanted to keep “getting their feet wet in the thick of it.”

Unfortunately most 190 aces were killed in '44 to '45 mainly because the thunderbolts & P-51’s were everywhere and superior technologically.

The 190 had a cramped cockpit. The Corsairs was beautiful. The later versions actually had a friggin ash trey in them. Now that’s style! Love the way the wheels retract.

OMG. I could go on and on. Much love to Erich Hartmann however who flew the 190. Highest scoring combat ace in history. EVEN with an outdated plane he managed to take out a few Mustangs.

I love the rules and state for the Vals but 10 points is WAY steep if you ask me. I’d rather invest that into MG42 teams, commanders like the Oberleutnant or Haupsturmfuhrer that help out my front line men. Paratroopers are great if you can deploy them in multiple teams.

My most recent example is I played Japan VS the US. I don’t have that many Japenese men and I HATE PLAYING JAPAN. So I thought it would be a short war.

Then I came up with the idea to utilize snipers and foot soldiers and 2 mortars with LT’s. I put the rest of my points into 6 paratroopers.

Sure enough, at turn 6 we were being decimated and the US held the town adjacent to the objective.

“What’s taking you so long to move?” my opponent griped.

Well, I deployed the para’s in 3 groups (2 each). One on each side of the town, having my remaining infantry rush him. This turned his battle into a 3 front war and In one turn, all his commanders, his quad 50 and other elite troops were gone except one. His last soldier made a run for the objective and was killed by a sniper that survived the town rush.

My point is this: My opponent said “Your goal was to decieve me and that, you did. I thought your army looked a little light.”

So if your playing a huge point battle and can afford to divide up your Airborn units into at least 2 groups, you can seriously cause chaos in your opponents movements and even divide his attention in critical areas where he needs to concentrate.

@italiansarecoming:

who ever edited it to me thankyou i have received it from many people and i will control the language that i dont think is unappropriate but because i want to stay
i apologize and say that i will try my best to not say those things i said ad ill restate the reason why i chose hitler i chose him because in his early years he a rallied up and showed the world power (thank god the allies won id be 1 of the rebels) (hope thats very apropriate answer) want the person who edited em to answer!

also this is why my karma has gone many negitives at the moment

Don’t worry so much about Karma. Just say what you have to say. I have no idea who keeps taking mine and I dont care either. I just care about giving positive Karma to everyone here that demonstrates non biased, introspective view points. Also friendly people. I love friendly people.

@Half-Track:

I love the beatin… looks like a bad football game 42-17

We’ve got you up to 26 now. We’re working in shifts.

And there is no facing for planes right? You can attack another plane directly behind you IF that situation ever came up?

@Motdc:

@Obergruppenfuhrer:

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay was the roleplay I gamemastered for a period of 4 years. It was brilliant. One book. That’s it. No compendiums, bestiaries or rule revisions. It was all on the Gamemasters imagination to create something new within the rules. I had a huge group. I spent hours in my notebooks which contained full blue prints to every building they would ever enter, full bios on characters they would meet and detailed maps of their every surrounding. I even had many different random generators I designed for when they entered huge cities. These detailed what specific buildings looked like and what they would come across. I spent my life in those notebooks and my gamers were totally hooked. That was one of the most fun games I’ve ever played where my writing and imagination could really shine and make everyone have fun.

Of course, like every roleplaying game, there comes a time to retire players and quit or start over. The cool thing is the one magician in my group worked for 3 years to get his character to a place of power. During the 4th year he became powerful enough where no enemy or entire army could stop him so we retired his character. What was cool is his journey to get that powerful took 3 real years.

Props to the guy with the magician.  I’ve played WFRP (I have all the old books and some of the new ones) and every adventure we’d lose 20% of the characters.  And a starting Wizards Apprentice in Warhammer was about as touch as the Rat Catcher’s (Small But Vicious) Dog.

YES!!! That’s aweseome. I can’t believe you have those books! I never even heard of the new one. My book was ancient and I hope it’s still around somewhere. Yeah – Bloody game. I loved how in battles your body parts would just shatter or your eye could even get hit and explode in your own head. That game was ruthless and I had characters that had to just keep trying.

@Der:

Yeah I was on the rise with the Karma until some Douchebag smited me and ruined my perfect score, for no good reason.  It was about 1 week after I dropped like 150 edited images and the xml’s for the mapview program.   Some thanks I got for my contribution to our online gaming community.   I put him on the 8 hour drip and that’s pretty much why he’s so upside down.   Douche=HT

YES DUDE! LOL, OK okokok. That made me laugh. You actually knew who did it? You are the man!.. and I hook you up every time I see you around.

This is a good little support group. ::Raising hand:: I …um. HATE …Wells Fargo. There I said it. I hate them.  :-)

Oh god imperious, those company names you mentioned make me shudder. BAD memories of fighting those devils off the poor.

@Audacity:

At 43 years of age I’m doing a university undergraduate degree in psychology.  Last night I dropped by the campus gaming club.  They thought I was administration there to kick them out of the room the had not properly booked.

Though there is the “classics gamers” (ie not computer side) they are Warhammer 40,000 guys.  I’ll introduce them to AAM if I can but I too don’t really fit their crowd.

Audacity–-that is HILARIOUS. Lol!!!

Warhammer started out as a great game. I was more on the fantasy side but I played 40k as well. There are just too many rules. A&A, while it’s rules are not nearly as clear (that why I love this board and you guys that always help me out with understanding) its beautiful in it’s simplicity, yet there are a disproportionate number of complicated tactical things you can do. You can demonstrate tactical brilliance in this game with ease.

Warhammer had to change it’s whole rule book and it wasn’t because of new units being added. It was becuase their system is flawed and still is in my book. I remember having a huge Orc/Goblin army and my friend playing the Skaven was totally killing me because of all these magic abilities with no rules to trump them. So in essence, he had units that were INVINCIBLE. The magic phase began to take precidence over any other combat in the game. Skirmishes would occur between units and casualties would take place yet in the magic phase, entire battalions would be wiped out by summoning demons and whatever else. It was just ridiculous. It turned into a sad version of “magic the gathering” which I’ve never played for the record.

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay was the roleplay I gamemastered for a period of 4 years. It was brilliant. One book. That’s it. No compendiums, bestiaries or rule revisions. It was all on the Gamemasters imagination to create something new within the rules. I had a huge group. I spent hours in my notebooks which contained full blue prints to every building they would ever enter, full bios on characters they would meet and detailed maps of their every surrounding. I even had many different random generators I designed for when they entered huge cities. These detailed what specific buildings looked like and what they would come across. I spent my life in those notebooks and my gamers were totally hooked. That was one of the most fun games I’ve ever played where my writing and imagination could really shine and make everyone have fun.

Of course, like every roleplaying game, there comes a time to retire players and quit or start over. The cool thing is the one magician in my group worked for 3 years to get his character to a place of power. During the 4th year he became powerful enough where no enemy or entire army could stop him so we retired his character. What was cool is his journey to get that powerful took 3 real years.

I love this game. My passion for WW2 history coupled with the love of models, miniatures and strategy.

@Motdc:

I recall reading that the Poles (I think…maybe it was the French) would cut the wires of the Goliath to defeat them before they detonated.  They were remote controlled, not radio controlled.

Wow! I had no idea about this technology and I study the Reich all the time. Looks like it’s back to the books for me.

@Imperious:

The worst was countrywide. no question. Crook company. They had no shame and no problem with throwing out old ladies who were a day late or an hour late paying what could have saved their homes. And that company was run like a Jim Jones Cool-Ade stand. Thank god it went under and got its just reward.

Countrywide is the EXACT company I battled for 2 years doing loans and trying to help old and middle age people save their homes from foreclosure and get them out of debt. The 30/60/90 day late hits on their credit report Countrywide would do for being even a day late. They did that so they could pin them up against a wall by harming their credit. Countrywide would stall on giving us paper work they were required to provide by law, then call my clients up and use scare tactics to try and keep them in their awful situation. I literally was at war with those people for 2 years. I’m so glad I don’t do that anymore. (I’m broke) but who cares. I don’t have an ulsur. Peace of mind was something all the money I was making never gave me. People were so screwed over by that company, they’d call me at every hour on my cell, even during Christmas to see how their refinance was going. I felt so strongly for them I never took a day off from work really. I’d go to their houses at any hour with coffee to talk to them about a plan to help save their homes. It was SO stressful.

@Cmdr:

And let Fannie/Freddie go under.

I fought with those companies for 2 years doing mortgages. For larger mortgage companies, they were involved in some of the shadiest paper work and most hidden fees I’ve ever seen. It took our President 3 days to finally get an explanation from them for a 7000 fee they were trying to hide from a homeowner I was trying to bail out. Let their ships sink at last. They should have been done SO long ago it’s revolting.

@Cmdr:

I think that is a bit misleading, CC.  Real Estate does not factor into GDP.

As for the government making a profit on the land, I would have slightly less problems with the government offering a prime +2% mortgage to anyone who can muster 30% down on a home and if they want better terms (and those terms kinda suck if you have even moderately good credit) you can go to a private bank.  This way at least there is a safety net for people who screwed up when they were younger, but it’s also a halfway safe bet for the taxpayers.

ST, I’m glad you made insane profits on your home.  I did too (purchased in 2001, currently worth 125% what I paid for it.) But that does not mean it is right.  The housing market CORRECTION bringing prices back in line with reality of their actual worth, not their speculative worth, can only be a good thing for people.  As housing prices return to normal, more families will be able to afford them, more families living in owned homes mean they will slowly build up equity instead of “pissing into the wind” their income on rents.

This is especially important because of the false promises of the New Deal which, in essence, was a statement from the old government that government will be your mommy and your daddy and take care of you in your old age and this will pay you back dollars for the pennies you put into the system. (ie Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.)  Unfortunately, we are liable for them now, we promised, and the fools actually think they are collecting THEIR OWN money back, not pilfering the pockets of their grandchildren.

As these programs go into bankruptcy (latest estimate was 2042 according to Money Magazine last June, before then it was 2015 but some legislation was changed extending the time) and with Switch’s very good point about boomers (who won’t get what they thought they were going to get in Social Security) plundering their 401k plans, and other mutual funds and stocks driving the stock market down, homes will be the only form of retirement savings.

I, for one, plan to pull my assets out of the market in Jan 2013 (I need them for the end of the world party debts I’ll have when the world does not end in 2012!).  FDIC savings accounts, even at a mere 0.0005% savings return, will pay better than the market at that time and we’ll have a REAL depression on our hands. (Maybe I’ll invest in pawned gold instead….)

I could have sworn I loathed seeing your posts at one time. Not anymore. Especially after reading your quote. But I won’t even use the “P” word in this forum.

I have to agree with Cmdr Jennifer on multiple points here. Companies that gambled need to go under and their assets divided among those that haven’t. The government is bailing out too many companies here. The LAST thing we need is our taxes wasted on bailing out corporate idiots that deserve the grave they dug. That goes to back up our currency value and national debt as she mentioned.

After a couple major recessions, the government is quick to react soely out of fear when they think another one may be coming. This countries economy has an incredible ability to bounce back into the stratoshpere from the depths of hell. Being a former Senior Loan Officer, I’m all too familiar with these trends and how they affect the market. I can’t believe AIG is going under, (if I’m correct there). I’ve worked with them so many times. Fanny Mae deserves the slow death along with any other company that has relied on gambling and greed above client retention for so many years.

I don’t know how to explain this countries buoyancy. I could guess that in a nation where consumerism is SO powerful, money pours like rain and then dries up. When it rains, it pours though. I’m beginning to think we are digging a grave we cannot fully come out of. That’s my fear at least.

I’m so suprised the Ju-88 and Mitchell are tied. We clearly have voters here that appreciate not only an effective bomber, but a beautiful one at that. The Mitchell was so far ahead in terms of firepower and could kick way more ass in my opinion while the Ju 88 was so manueverable, it served as a fighter on many occasions. Not the greatest fighter, that’s just an example of how manuverable that thing was. In fact I believe this got started by the RAF in the Battle of Britain and carried over to our pilots. Thunderbolt, spitfire and hurricane pilots, probably all of them stationed in England that served as bombing escorts, reffered to any twin engine plane in the air as “Meat on the table.”

Source of refferance for that one was

“Spitfires, thunderbolts and warm beer”
The story of Lee Gover.

Very good book. Lee flew spitfires for the RAF as a volunteer before the US got involved. The English were so wonderful to the VERY few American and Canadian pilots who came over to risk their life when they didn’t have to. I believe one of the transports in Lee’s convoy on his way over was torpedoed and there was no survivors. And they had destroyer escort!! The cool thing about this book is what an amazing first person portrait of the times it is and what it was to be a pilot and see all the aircraft we’ve talked about, in action.

Lee was the only pilot in his squadron to return from Dieppe. He transfered to the Thunderbolt when the US came over and made him switch squadrons. He was not an ace, but that’s what gives the book part of its candor. Lee was an amazing pilot landing damaged aircraft all the time and was a brilliant trouble shooter mechanically speaking when something went wrong in the air. You get a look at how many pilots were actually killed in accidents.

God bless all those men.