Wiz Kids at it again..!!! from land and now Sea....!!!!!
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Mr Evil said:
Evil, you better skip your Russians for WW2 naval fights. They just didn't have their "stuff" together until the Cold War, dude. I'd suggest you take a look into what the Imperial Japanese Navy had back in WW2. Now there is a first-rate naval power! Hooyah! :wink: . Either that, or wait until Mongoose updates VaS to the 1980's so that your Russkies can have a fleet. You would be in even more trouble if you went back in time as the Japanese sank the Russian Navy (both of them!) in 1905...
captainsmirk
Mongoose
They still had the Black Sea fleet left, the Japanese only sunk the Pacific and Baltic fleets...
And beat the vastly numerically superior Russian army on land, repeatedly...
Nick
And beat the vastly numerically superior Russian army on land, repeatedly...
Nick
captainsmirk
Mongoose
OK who laid those mines?
Own up.
No one's going home until we find the culprit.
I can wait all day...
:lol:
Nick
Own up.
No one's going home until we find the culprit.
I can wait all day...
:lol:
Nick
captainsmirk
Mongoose
The Russian were very careless with their admirals throughout the war...
Although Rozhestvensky's desperate, yet ultimately futile, efforts to not rendezvous with Nebogatov's "Self-sinkers" always amused me...
Always found Tsushima a very interesting battle, the only true Nelsonic victory (more "Nelsonic" in fact than Nelson himself managed), the culmination of a century of attempt emulations, yet 5 months later the Dreadnought was laid down, the aeroplane had first flown two years previously, and the submarine was entering service in ever increasing numbers. A pretty dramatic end to an era of warfare.
And most interestingly I find that when Admiral Togo visited Rozhestvensky in hospital, he was accompanied by one of his officers from the battle, a young Lieutenant Isoroku Yamamoto...
Nick
Although Rozhestvensky's desperate, yet ultimately futile, efforts to not rendezvous with Nebogatov's "Self-sinkers" always amused me...
Always found Tsushima a very interesting battle, the only true Nelsonic victory (more "Nelsonic" in fact than Nelson himself managed), the culmination of a century of attempt emulations, yet 5 months later the Dreadnought was laid down, the aeroplane had first flown two years previously, and the submarine was entering service in ever increasing numbers. A pretty dramatic end to an era of warfare.
And most interestingly I find that when Admiral Togo visited Rozhestvensky in hospital, he was accompanied by one of his officers from the battle, a young Lieutenant Isoroku Yamamoto...
Nick
BuShips said:
contrary to american text books the russians had an emense warfleet that prevented gernamy attacing most of northern euorope AND PREVENTED ALL PLANS OF AN INVASION OF SCOTLAND.
also the patrols of the black sea also severly hampered russian advances, and also the patrol of the far eastern empire meant many russian ships never saw battle.
Mr Evil, it wasn't American textbooks as the info is from anybody's textbooks or the web. You are talking about a different war. What you are saying is all fine, but that was in the "Great War" of WW1, around 1914-18. The Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05 was a bad time to be a Russian sailor. Trust me, as I'm sure it's a lesson that's even in the Russian history books. :wink:
Evil, maybe your comment was meant as a reply to an earlier post, as I now think you might have meant WW2 and not WW1. Fair 'nuf. If it was WW2 though, the Germans had far less than they did in WW1 and only had a chance against England by mass building of U-boats. Hitler messed up big time, as he had a large plan on the books for a rebuilt German fleet and was planning for war around 1946 or so. He bit off more than he could chew, and miscalculated that war would not be declared over Poland.
Lowly Uhlan said:
Yeah, well kind of. I've never been a fan of allowing one company to swallow up all others in its own arena. To me, it stifles the industry. To its credit, Hasbro has made quite a lot of games. This is a bit just like when only a few major banks own all of the others, whether you know it or not.
A list of the companies "Borged" by Hasbro-
Avalon Hill
3M Games (acquired when Avalon Hill was bought)
Milton Bradley
Parker Bros.
Wizards of the Coast
TSR (acquired when WOTC was bought)
Of course others I'm not aware of.
Is it any surprise that Hasbro owns the game of Monopoly (R) ?
In their defense (devil's advocate), it might be necessary to buy out the competition in a changing world in which fewer and fewer of its customers buy non-electronic games. It's just that in a world full of many possible colors I may want to choose something other than grey, but grey might be all that is offered. That's why I say- Go Mongoose Publishing!
Wulf Corbett
Mongoose
Monopoly is an interesting case. Aparently an American court has already decided that Parker Bros. can no longer clain TM & C on Monopoly, as they simply used the basic rules & setup of an existing older game. Monopoly is public doman! Hasbro, however, continue to make threats to anyone using the name, despite having no legal backing. I was once pointed to a website containing the full legal ruling (boring but educational...), after commenting that a joke version named Necronomonopoly (the game of Lovecraftian Property Development) might be taking a risk.BuShips said:
Wulf
Lord David the Denied
Mongoose
If Monopoly is in the public domain and Lovecraft's stories definitely are, it'd be no risk at all. It'd also be awesome... 
