Drinky-poos time.

[Techno]

Enter if you dare Phil
WE HAVE DREMELS!

So have I.....Bet mine has got more bloodstains on it. 

Congrats Phil.
Remember, as a Field Marshall you are expected to commit suicide rather than let yourself be taken prisoner ... but if you're not about to be taken prisoner you need to be careful around livestock, power tools and sharp implements!!

Pah !.....Health & Safety is for wimps. 

and MRS T !!

Hah !......She doesn't scare me......Much

Well done that gentleman 

Thank you, Paul.....Nice to see there's at least one other gentleman in the bar this evening. 

Cheers - Phil

[Tawa]

Bloody hell, that's a lot of posts...... 

[petercooman]

So have I.....Bet mine has got more bloodstains on it. 

That's the catch actually, ours have not been blunted down with flesh and one 

[FierceKitty]

Coo. What next? Mine's a large one!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Keg of Stella and Stella for me....corse you cant retire now.

IanS

[Luddite]

Next rank...

Grand Poobah; First Lord of the Treasury, Lord Chief Justice, Commander-in-Chief, Lord High Admiral, Archbishop of Titipu, Lord Mayor, and Lord High Everything Else.

[petercooman]

Would be cool if the next rank would be for example:

'patton'
'rommel'
etc

[FierceKitty]

Wot, a Yank and a loser?

[petercooman]

I wouldn't call Rommel a loser , just on the wrong side of things 

[FierceKitty]

I wouldn't call Rommel a loser , just on the wrong side of things 

You were BORN a spin doctor!

[fsn]

Rommel had a bit of talent, it has to be admitted, but has he been overestimated in the public imagination as much as say Patton, who as far as I can see lacked any real talent apart from going all out.

[petercooman]

You were BORN a spin doctor!

Not relly, just stating the facts, there were MUCH worse tacticians around at the time!

[toxicpixie]

In the land of the blind the one eyed man is King?

I often think that, looking at military "genius". Then you look at the people who weren't genius, and they're so much worse. I see it replicated currently, in many places. It's not that company X is actually good, or has a good product, it just happens to have the least worst product etc etc.

[petercooman]

Rommel had a bit of talent, it has to be admitted, but has he been overestimated in the public imagination as much as say Patton, who as far as I can see lacked any real talent apart from going all out.

Patton was a bit like the russian generals.

Just throw as much at them as you can lol

[toxicpixie]

I think that description of Russian operational art is a little from the German "They cheated! We won, really! Well, we shoulda won if only..." handbook that we used post war to "understand" the Eastern Front fighting...