Blather, Waffle and Poppycock!

[fsn]

Now that's what I call camouflage!

[FierceKitty]

I understand Nelson fell in the dining car.

[d_Guy]

When you see them in dry dock (as above) they look supringly different.
Pullman class destroyers?

[Fenton]

Maybe it's one of the Royal Navies training ships

[Westmarcher]

Tokyo Express?

[DFlynSqrl]

Just out of curiosity I had to go look it up.  Here's the wikipedia link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_42.  I read the first paragraph and then started getting glassy-eyed [just like my wife does when I talk about military history].

[Fenton]

Thanks for the link. At least the original picture makes sense now

[Orcs]

Hey! Wait a minute! I'm risking my life eating an out of date sausage roll and all you're interested in is why I'm watching an updated version of a Kubelwagen? 

Your probably risking your life eating a sausage roll - out of date or not.

[fsn]

Yesterday I decided to take my US Marines out for a spin. I put together an island for them to invade. Beaches, palm trees, couple of huts, and the Leathernecks stormed ashore.

Over 8 moves, they failed to find a single Japanese.

It was one of those games where as the Marines advanced, I diced to see what happened. On 0-7 nothing happening. There was a 16.78% chance of nothing happening over 8 moves.

I have reset the battle from the Pacific to the Aleutians.

[FierceKitty]

I think Wargames Illustrated once published a "wrong beach" scenario where the marines are put ashore on the beach at a tourist Riviera, and have to make their way past sunbathers, ice-cream vendors, beach bullies and 97-pound weaklings, and news crews. There is a single hostile sniper in one of the hotels.

[Westmarcher]

Yesterday I decided to take my US Marines out for a spin. I put together an island for them to invade. Beaches, palm trees, couple of huts, and the Leathernecks stormed ashore.

Over 8 moves, they failed to find a single Japanese.

It was one of those games where as the Marines advanced, I diced to see what happened. On 0-7 nothing happening. There was a 16.78% chance of nothing happening over 8 moves.

You should have kept throwing the dice - you would have eventually found them. 

https://mikedashhistory.com/2015/09/15/final-straggler-the-japanese-soldier-who-outlasted-hiroo-onoda/


Some more interesting links on that subject ....

http://www.wanpela.com/holdouts/registry.html

http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/6-soldiers-who-refused-to-surrender

[fsn]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sugru-Mouldable-Glue-Black-Pack/dp/B007VXJM58/ref=pd_ys_ir_all_24

On another topic ... Amazon have suggested I might like some Sugru mouldable glue. Apparently it turns into rubber. Has ayone used this product for wargaming/modelling purposes? If so, for what?

[fsn]

1996 members of the Forum!

When we reach 2000, will we go up a level?

[d_Guy]

I think we become a senate.

[fsn]

That doesn't bode well for Leon on the Ides.

"Et Tu, BKC?"