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Thought so. The makers of Trench Crusade...I think they are taking stuff that can't be legal...

Have you taken a look at the quite new tabletop game "Trench Crusade"? The premise is batshit, The ideas are batshit. The artworks are batshit on crack. It's Warhammer turned to 11, which in turn is fantasy/scfi/space magic turned to 11.

I wonder if it would fit here.

An eminently sensible, rational and straightforward approach, which has much to commend it for the likes of our own world. On Dark Earth, there are more than enough hints and suspicions that threats may be more than simply natural asteroids, although one could hardly call the threat of an asteroid ...

Regarding the interception of the asteroid, I'd love it if you added a reaction a week or so later in which a West German astrophysicist - or even better, a naval officer (maybe my expy?) sardonically explains on a conference, publicly, that he has a much better idea, more elegant: Landing spacecraf...

Look at Jan‘s fact file about fixed defences in TLW. He keeps mentioning The Pause(tm) [tm added by yours truly] in that one. It seems to fit the 'new' chapter quite handily. There was also mention in a fact file of NZ armored formations serving in Germany. And you have to train those on their new t...

Oooookay…so we are still in The Pause(tm), am I reading this right, with the fixed defences on both sides of the demarcation line (referring to your fact file from a few years earlier)?

If so, then I have a few ideas already sprouting. Good.

James1978 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 30, 2026 8:08 pm What about the Narwal mini-sub?
Would it have been a one of a kind, or the first of several?

Half a dozen of them would have been a decent thing to have, provided the crew would be two, not one.

In @ 2017, the 13th Special Forces Brigade was reorganized, beefed up from about 600 to 1,000 px, and tasked with decapitiation mission(s) into the North and renamed 13th Special Mission unit or Decapitiation Unit. Decapitation missions as in 'infil directly into Pyongyang, do not pass Go, do not co...

DON‘T YOU EVER GIVE ME SUCH A SCARE AGAIN, MISTER! :evil: :mrgreen: Just kidding. Will this be a multi-part epilogue? There is so much that hasn‘t even been touched upon. Like what happens to Die Zone ? I would not be averse to writing a short story about a heliborne air assault by Fallschirmjäger o...

Thanks, Jotun, I'll fiddle around with it. I've been a fan of Blind Guardian since 2002, and saw them in 2024, even getting a picture with them; they likely have it hanging on their wall. ;) My thinking on Herz aus Stahl was to lift the title of the German version of the Manowar track straight up, ...

Germany Hauptmann Deutschland Hauptmann Berlin Black Eagle Schwarzer Adler Blitzkrieger Teutonia Phantasti scher Phritz Wulf N. Stein Eisenritter Konrad Super Jaeger Viktor von Hammer Feuerwalz e Spandau-Tänzer Schutzwall Herz aus Stahl Stahlherz or Stählernes Herz Rheintochter Puppenspeiler Blind ...

warshipadmin wrote: ↑Sun Jul 26, 2026 10:09 pm Great book. Funnily enough Bill Gibson knew little about computers when he wrote it.

Back then, it was easier to fake it, I guess.

FINALLY! They are putting the genre defining novel to film! It "only" took 42 years... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g79GPZSQHBk Looks great at first glance. Molly especially. Some dolts are (of course) are complaining it looks too clean, but a) a lot of the novel plays in corporations a...

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Tue Jul 21, 2026 9:27 pm I have no idea what Lupita Nyong'o has said, but she was very good, IMVHO, as Helen.

She holds a Master's degree in Fine Acting from Yale. She spoke like a half educated activist.
She is a good actress but an abject idiot.

I will certainly not waste my money on seeing this in a cinema I certainly wasn't a rabid detracor of the movie, but certain choices and statements rubbed me the wrong way. Lupita Nyong'o holding forth about the supposed shortcomings of Homer and the Iliad and Odyssey - while having stated to never ...

Lordroel wrote: ↑Tue Jul 21, 2026 6:06 pm So will we have to wait 21 years until we reach chapter 800 going by your 21 year progress to advance 35 days into the war.

Please no. I'd be five years into retirement by then

So the name change back is ALSO a middle finger toward Moscow the size of Ostankino Tower...

Quick response, so first, thanks, everybody. Now, I have a question for you all. What official name did General Jaruzelski give Poland and what was the country known as during the Communist period? The translation app I used showed "Republic of Poland" several times. IIRC, that was Poland...

First and foremost, congratulations on chapter 400! Things are going to be quite exciting in Poland. That was my attempt at Brit style understatement… 8-) :mrgreen: Seriously, the Soviet countermeasures (sending Alpha Group and other SOF plus certainly paratroopers for a bit of regime change) are so...

Before the F123 "Hedwig Holzbein" or "Sophie X", there was the destroyer Schleswig-Holstein (Type 101 or Hamburg class, 1964-1994). And before the TLW Deutschland, there was the Type 440 training cruiser Deutschland (1963-1990). So, nothing new… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ger...