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Gaming / Re: Screenshots of games you play [big pics, 56k warning]

« on: 11-04-2009, 09:04:12 »

i outta try out that mod. i basically play vanilla HoI2 Armageddon with a few graphic mods (SKIF icons, Color Improvement mod).

what graphic mods are u using torenico? are those updated SKIF icons? Never seen that one for the Panzer III.

i started playing HoI2 again and my current game in Germany 1936 scenario, im gonna try and take out France in 1939 right after poland and take out england. and maybe a June or July 1940 Barbarossa.

funny i built my comp to play top of the line games like crysis. yet i still find myself playing HoI2 (which i can play on my Pen III rig) cause its a hell of a strategy game.

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Gaming / Re: Screenshots of games you play [big pics, 56k warning]

« on: 11-04-2009, 08:04:37 »

Empire: Total War

Resistance and Liberation mod for HL2

Left 4 Dead

Hearts of Iron 2

BiA Hells Highway

My guilty pleasure: CSS Zombie Mod

Crysis

Far Cry 2

Hitman Blood Money

Zombie Panic Source Mod for HL2

World in Conflict

IL2

FH1

Gmod

GTAIV

i play DH too but i dont have any screenshots. i also have Soldiers Heroes of WW2 and Faces of War. im gonna get Men of War as soon as i get the money.

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Off-Topic / Re: Picture of the Day

« on: 07-04-2009, 03:04:13 »

A US Marine using a flamethrower on Tarawa

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General Discussion / Re: The complete and utter history of the mod we all love???

« on: 05-04-2009, 08:04:51 »

Quote from: Cpl. Mallard on 05-04-2009, 06:04:15

But as for FH42, it's like an old man in a nursing home that nobody visits, like a ghosttown. It's a beautiful mod yet no one plays it anymore...

thats not entirely true. the Pixel-Fighter server and sometimes The Damned Priest server, which is both in Germany is populated. i was just playing on it maybe 2-3 weeks ago with about 30-35 people on it.

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Off-Topic / Re: Picture of the Day

« on: 05-04-2009, 08:04:54 »

2 Marines in a foxhole with a orphaned Okinawan Child on Okinawa.

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Off-Topic / Re: XWW2 strikes back

« on: 05-04-2009, 02:04:38 »

XWW2 on BF1942 was pretty fun. Of course i never liked it as much as FH1 but it was fun none the less and had some good maps.

looking forward to their release on BF2

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Off-Topic / Re: The Book Club

« on: 04-04-2009, 14:04:08 »

Quote from: Fuchs on 04-04-2009, 10:04:42

Also question to the people here: I've once read something about an alternate history book focussed on WW2 only. Some points that I remember: Patton doesn't slap the soldier but thinks about his own boys during WW1 and sits next to him and starts to talk to him that everything will be alright, makes him an hero and he gets the command over Operation Overlord and Bradley leads the decoy army. The assassination on Hitler is a success and Rommel lives, now Rommel and other generals manage to convince that the Russians are the real threat and Germans together with the invasion force march to the Ostfront to fight there.
Anyone an idea what I'm talking about?

Don't know what book your talking about either. but if you find out the title, im all ears. sounds very interesting.

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Off-Topic / Re: The Book Club

« on: 04-04-2009, 04:04:15 »

I like reading military history books too, mostly from WW2 era of course.

Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose.
Great read on individual soldiers' accounts of the Western Front from the point of view of the US Army.

Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose.
'Nuff Said.

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E.B. Sledge
Probably the best book I've read on the Pacific War from the point of view of a US Marine.

Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War by William Manchester
Another good Pacific War memoir from the view of a US Army soldier.

Panzer Leader by Heinz Guderian
Very good read on the beginnings of the Panzerwaffe and their use in the early war campaigns in which Guderian personally lead a few Panzer divisions in combat. And later insight into the German High Command.

Patton and Rommel: Men Of War In The Twentieth Century by Dennis Showalter
Haven't really gotten into it but its a good read so far.

I read WWZ as well, i really liked it as a zombie-genre fan. And I was thinking about buying Generation Kill book after seeing the miniseries on HBO.

*edit*

Hmm...Axis of Time sounds interesting, might have to take a look at that one. If your interested in the alternative history genre then i suggest Harry Turtledove's books.

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Off-Topic / Re: Picture of the Day

« on: 04-04-2009, 03:04:37 »

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Off-Topic / Re: Picture of the Day

« on: 03-04-2009, 13:04:39 »

One of my favorite pics of WW2 (besides the one in my sig):

American troops marching down the Champs Elysees

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Off-Topic / Re: Picture of the Day

« on: 02-04-2009, 12:04:57 »

Quote from: Cadyshack on 02-04-2009, 06:04:52

Weren't B-17s around those times equipped without a tail gun?

I'm not sure.

Quote from: Cadyshack on 02-04-2009, 06:04:52

And I don't really remember many Japanese fighters with razorbacks like that, so is that a captured Wildcat or early P-47 everyone's crowded around? The tail, wing shape, and size are really throwing me off.

~~I think its a wildcat~~

nevermind, i didnt read the above post, apparently its a Dutch aircraft.

*edit*

now another interesting pic from my collection:

A US Army soldier wearing US Marine Corps camouflage in Normandy. If memory serves me the caption for this pic is some units in the Army actually used the Marine Corps camouflage. But soon after Normandy many of them that used the camouflage went back to the Army O.D.s because the camo was too similar to the Waffen-SS camouflage uniforms and there were too many friendly fire incidents.

BTW the USMC used this camo uniform from 1943 til 44 but in 1945 i think they went back to their old uniforms that are similar to the army's O.D.s because the poor dye used in the uniform would actually start to turn white in the hot pacific sun after many a days of combat and they would of course stand out and be exposed.

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