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Re: Keren express
« Reply #15 on: 05-02-2012, 19:02:27 »
Yeah, just put AT mines on the tracks!  ;D

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Re: Keren express
« Reply #16 on: 05-02-2012, 20:02:02 »
The interior lighting is simply stunning on that station, one would never believe this is done on a soon-to-be-7-years-old game.

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Re: Keren express
« Reply #17 on: 05-02-2012, 21:02:55 »
And looking at the killed and injured soldiers the poor Italians failed miserably.

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Keren was as hard a soldiers' battle as was ever fought, and let it be said that nowhere in the war did the Germans fight more stubbornly than those [Italian] Savoia battalions, Alpini, Bersaglieri and Grenadiers. In the [first] five days' fight the Italians suffered nearly 5,000 casualties – 1,135 of them killed. [Lorenzini][1], the gallant young Italian general, had his head blown off by one of the British guns. He had been a great leader of Eritrean troops.[19]

The unfortunate licence of wartime propaganda allowed the British Press to represent the Italians almost as comic warriors; but except for the German parachute division in Italy and the Japanese in Burma no enemy with whom the British and Indian troops were matched put up a finer fight than those Savoia battalions at Keren. Moreover, the Colonial troops, until they cracked at the very end, fought with valour and resolution, and their staunchness was a testimony to the excellence of the Italian administration and military training in Eritrea


Not that you said something disrespectfull=you said something VERY disrespectfull........
be ashamed..
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Re: Keren express
« Reply #18 on: 05-02-2012, 23:02:02 »
Not that you said something disrespectfull=you said something VERY disrespectfull........
be ashamed..

I didn´t mean to offend anybody but in the end they didn´t hold their ground and had high losses. That doesn´t mean they weren´t tough and brave fighters. I respect what they did. What I meant to say is that the operation was a failure.

I wont go into any detail here, but guess yourself what I think about you and your statement that "I should be ashamed".
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Re: Keren express
« Reply #19 on: 05-02-2012, 23:02:26 »
And looking at the killed and injured soldiers the poor Italians failed miserably.

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Keren was as hard a soldiers' battle as was ever fought, and let it be said that nowhere in the war did the Germans fight more stubbornly than those [Italian] Savoia battalions, Alpini, Bersaglieri and Grenadiers. In the [first] five days' fight the Italians suffered nearly 5,000 casualties – 1,135 of them killed. [Lorenzini][1], the gallant young Italian general, had his head blown off by one of the British guns. He had been a great leader of Eritrean troops.[19]

The unfortunate licence of wartime propaganda allowed the British Press to represent the Italians almost as comic warriors; but except for the German parachute division in Italy and the Japanese in Burma no enemy with whom the British and Indian troops were matched put up a finer fight than those Savoia battalions at Keren. Moreover, the Colonial troops, until they cracked at the very end, fought with valour and resolution, and their staunchness was a testimony to the excellence of the Italian administration and military training in Eritrea


Not that you said something disrespectfull=you said something VERY disrespectfull........
be ashamed..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvalj7YKU8g

yep...


they still failed miserably.
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Re: Keren express
« Reply #20 on: 05-02-2012, 23:02:09 »
Looks like the British/Indian troops had artillery superiority and air superiority; and in the third battle, they managed to capture a key terrain point from which to direct arty early on, which the Italians tried to counterattack for ten days straight, and nearly succeeded in that. Also, good luck trying to stop a company of Matildas without the 90mm guns. Yes, the Italians lost, with horrific losses, but they did give a good fight they could have won, soaking such casualties in the process that lesser opponents would have fled long ago.

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Re: Keren express
« Reply #21 on: 06-02-2012, 00:02:29 »
I remember reading that the Italians were almost unmovable in their defenses until an artillery shell happened to land on their water supplies, effectively forcing them to retreat.
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Re: Keren express
« Reply #22 on: 06-02-2012, 16:02:00 »
At the end, who fights better is not determined by the discipline of the troops or which soldiers are better skilled, but who wins the battle.

Sure, there may have been an oversimplification of the battle by the victor, but its theirs to do... they WON.

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Re: Keren express
« Reply #23 on: 07-02-2012, 00:02:20 »
There is still no chance to make the train push another railway-waggon, is there?

I usually imagine my own sounds with it, like `tjunk, tupdieyupdiedee` aaa enemy spotted, ratatatataboom

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Re: Keren express
« Reply #24 on: 12-02-2012, 14:02:07 »
Then it would become a train sim  ;D

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Re: Keren express
« Reply #25 on: 12-02-2012, 23:02:41 »
Train station is absolutely beautiful. 8) Keep up the splendid work.

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Re: Keren express
« Reply #26 on: 28-03-2012, 15:03:51 »
I know there has been a discussion wheter a Carcano sniper should be added. The answer of the devs was no, because it was to rare. Which I can understand.

So will the Italians have no sniper at all or will they get the K98 ZF? giving the K89 ZF makes no sence historicaly (As far as I know). But no sniper for the Italians at all would at least be sad if not unfair.


P.S.: Great looking map, eventhough only Italinas :P

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Re: Keren express
« Reply #27 on: 28-03-2012, 15:03:32 »
I think they get a pattern 14 kit actually.

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« Reply #28 on: 28-03-2012, 15:03:23 »
Oh what a nice surprise! Where did the Italians get Pattern 14s from? Did they buy them when in pre facist times or are they captured?

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Re: Keren express
« Reply #29 on: 28-03-2012, 15:03:11 »
Captured I guess.