History, Politics And Current Affairs

With thanks to Matt Wiser. * D+100 * Extract from the President's Daily Brief. Southern Africa Angola The situation in Angola is currently unstable. The withdrawal of all Cuban and most Soviet forces coupled with the severe losses that the Angolan armed forces have suffered has left something of a ...

That was the wargame where they apparently replayed it several times to try and get a German victory. First (IIRC), by deleting the RAF; the Germans still lost. Second, they removed the RN; same result. They finally removed the British Army and still the German lost! Now, that may be apocryphal, but...

Ace Rimmer, eh? What a guy!

I see a sneaky reference to Squadron. The whole series is on YouTube.

As an aside, what caught me by surprise was the very, very bad blood between him and Tom Kratman and how Kratman expressed it. It originates from the original iteration of the board. Kratman joined and started a thread that argued that in 1940 the UK could have been conquered by German paratroopers...

There are a few differences between the RN MCM force and its RAN counterpart. Firstly, the RN MCM force is generally doing its job outside of the view of people on shore. Secondly, it has not taken anything like the number of casualties that the RAN force has. There are no regular examples of dead b...

Have made some minor updates to the Norwegian torpedo entry, James. Thanks.

Appointed them to administer the army?

DRAFT * AUSTRALIA BL 6-inch gun Mark VII Two 6-inch guns installed in Fort Scratchley in Newcastle, NSW, were found to be in near operational condition, having been restored in 1991 when moved to Fort Scratchley Museum so as to be able to fire ceremonial salutes. When the army took the fort over ag...

Africa is still interesting. In the Chinese sense? ;) What British Army formations are being stood up? - 9 Royal Tank Regiment (forming) - The 1st Welsh Horse Yeomanry (forming) - 1st Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment (reforming after being lost in W. Berlin) - 5th/6th Battalion, The Parachut...

Zen9 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2026 1:01 pm Sparta didn't debase their currency.
Sparta kept faith with their religion.....

And eventually declined. Partly because they decided that citizenship could only be inherited through blood.

A great deal of the Spartan mindset will get one sent to prison!

Looks like they updated it.

Indeed.

Highlights of the New Border A NATO Guide (Brussels August 2005). SECRET The Kiel - Lübeck Salient The Salient is the largest area of the Federal Republic of Germany ( Bundesrepublik Deutschland ) still under enemy occupation. The Deutsche Demokratische Republik (commonly known as 'East Germany) ha...

Other Allied Countries & Neutrals.

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Soviet and Warsaw Pact Countries

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