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biguk
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Not for me in afraid. Join up for ww2. bought all my kit, not really up for the extra expense of something i'll only use once.

Sorry guys


 
Posted : 27/11/2008 7:00 pm
Chomley-Warner
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like the idea of game just using Rifles and pistols,

Yes twotone, most certainly is do-able and the idea been floated already. Hell, CiA's Bryansk game had a single shot only evening game in the woods and it worked very well, chaps enjoyed it immensely. (It wasn't even planned - our written scenario went out the window when we realised how buggered the players were, so we made it up on the spot almost!)


 
Posted : 27/11/2008 7:30 pm
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Warsaw uprising would be one scenario I'd be really uncomfortable with.


 
Posted : 27/11/2008 7:40 pm
HeadShot
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Walsall Uprising then? ;)




 
Posted : 27/11/2008 8:10 pm
CHThree
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Well I'd play if someone organised it.

Ken Loach's Land & Freedom is a great film on the subject.


 
Posted : 27/11/2008 10:10 pm
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most nations of the world sent volunteers to aid one side or the other (i believe George Orwell fought in it).

If my general knowledge of literary factoids is correct I believe he got shot in the head in it.

Something about being a foot taller then your average Spaniard. :lol:


 
Posted : 27/11/2008 11:50 pm
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Nothing will convince a Spaniard, at least a young Spaniard, that
fire-arms are dangerous. Once, rather later than this, I was photographing some
machine-gunners with their gun, which was pointed directly towards me.

'Don't fire,' I said half-jokingly as I focused the camera.

'Oh no, we won't fire.'

The next moment there was a frightful roar and a stream of bullets tore past
my face so close that my cheek was stung by grains of cordite. It was
unintentional, but the machine-gunners considered it a great joke.


 
Posted : 28/11/2008 8:39 am
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Warsaw uprising would be one scenario I'd be really uncomfortable with.

Not an argument but I don’t see the problem, Warsaw was bigger than just the ghetto and the Jews though they where in the thick of things, I'm not saying we should have the Germans executing prisoners or anything sordid you could have the poles beating the Germans on the day so long as it's done as a "what if" and not taken seriously it could also be seen as "lest we forget"

Actually the Ghetto Rising and the Warsaw uprising are two distinct events. The Ghetto was cleared by the time of the Warsaw Uprising.

I always get a raiesed eyebrow at objections to the warsaw uprising being played, or gamed in wargaming circles.
Just play the opening shots against the regular Germans (I can't spell weheremeachkedt without looking it up) before the arrival of Dirlwenger (can't spell that one either, but there is no other way of saying it.)


 
Posted : 28/11/2008 8:45 pm
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I am well up for doing scw games. should be able to pull in 3-5 POUM members if it ever happens. Kit is easy for most sides. 8) Great for a games if you want multiple teams! :?


 
Posted : 19/12/2008 1:24 pm
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Warsaw uprising would be one scenario I'd be really uncomfortable with.

Not an argument but I don’t see the problem, Warsaw was bigger than just the ghetto and the Jews though they where in the thick of things, I'm not saying we should have the Germans executing prisoners or anything sordid you could have the poles beating the Germans on the day so long as it's done as a "what if" and not taken seriously it could also be seen as "lest we forget"

Actually the Ghetto Rising and the Warsaw uprising are two distinct events. The Ghetto was cleared by the time of the Warsaw Uprising.

I always get a raiesed eyebrow at objections to the warsaw uprising being played, or gamed in wargaming circles.
Just play the opening shots against the regular Germans (I can't spell weheremeachkedt without looking it up) before the arrival of Dirlwenger (can't spell that one either, but there is no other way of saying it.)

Hmm... not really convinced. To me, the German army's behavior all across Poland is something to be ashamed of.


 
Posted : 19/12/2008 6:41 pm
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For kit try looking at the Osprey book number 74 Spanish Civil war. Includes the Star smg.


 
Posted : 26/12/2008 6:35 pm
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I always get a raised eyebrow at objections to the Warsaw uprising being played, or gamed in wargaming circles.
Just play the opening shots against the regular Germans (I can't spell weheremeachkedt without looking it up) before the arrival of Dirlwenger (can't spell that one either, but there is no other way of saying it.)

Hmm... not really convinced. To me, the German army's behavior all across Poland is something to be ashamed of.

To me the German army's behavior all across Europe is something to be ashamed of, invading it and all that. :rofl:

Though what has always interested, amused and sometimes irritated me is that people will wargame a Viking rape and pillage game with a few bears and a laugh, and think nothing of building a Warhammer 'beastman' army of daemons out to destroy all life, but will balk at playing a wargame set in the Warsaw uprising. Please note I am not decrying the other options, my friend's beastmen army is wonderfully modeled up around Dionysian legend and looks truly amazing, I just find it an incongruity.

Is it being divorced from actuality? Fantasy isn't 'real' and Vikings were a very long time ago? How far do you have to go back before all is fair game? Or is it simply the desire not to be the 'baddy'?

Strange how the Warsaw uprising seams to hold such a unique place in memory that makes it a taboo subject as a whole in such regards, whereas games involving say Russian partisans do not have the same taboo. Both 'theaters' involved heavy, brutal and atrocious counter measures from certain German units, but in the Russian case these are generally able to be 'ignored' for the sake of a game involving less contentious areas of the 'theater'.


 
Posted : 05/01/2009 12:43 pm
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Yes I know what you mean, there isn't really a logic to it. I suppose it's just that Poland didn't really get to reap the rewards of being on the winning side - they just exchanged one lot of tyrants for another and all their suffering, sacrifice and death seemed to be a little pointless.


 
Posted : 05/01/2009 1:02 pm
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