gadge
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Post by gadge on Jun 4, 2010 3:49:37 GMT -5
Thats awesome! We had a couple if lads over here who were head to toe pea pattern including the non existant helmet covers etc but on the whole its not so bad. When i started doing heer i was a bit of a bugger for it. I had a zelt, camo smock and splinter helmet cover in my first impression until i discovered less is more  |
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Post by kaiser on Jun 4, 2010 13:32:44 GMT -5
I pondered doing a heer artilleryman actually but I really wanna do a 2nd LT as I already finished the rottenfuhrer.
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gadge
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Post by gadge on Jun 4, 2010 15:05:32 GMT -5
The point is though turning up as an officer with less than 20 other blokes in the group looks lame as...
If nobody does the private solider you just end up with a group of officers and ncos which is just ridiculous.
take our group last weekend, we did a platoon HQ with a some attached company runners so we had
Yith - Officer
Me - platoon Sgt
John - Cpl
Craig - Pte
Ranj - Pte
Chris - Pte
Nige - Pte
James Pte
Thats pretty correct historically, the show before that we had ten of us, i was a Cpl, John was L/cpl and everybody else was a private.
You see for many of us its very frustrating that everybody new to the scene feels the need to cover themselves in rank and awards rather than putting in some time as a grunt with a group.
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Post by kaiser on Jun 5, 2010 14:51:02 GMT -5
I think I understand, for myself the reason why I wanted to do an officer first was that the uniform itself felt very nice(plus I do a IJA Captain), though I'm actually sorta happy I started off as an Rottenfuhrer, get to do alot more stuff and I get dirty very often. Can't imagine doing that in a 2nd LT uniform. Although when I don a IJA officer, I'm very use to getting it dirty and messed up.
Yet now that I've finished the rottenfuhrer I'm trying my hand at a 2nd LT artillery officer or an AA one.
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madmanmex
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Blitzkrieg the Amerikaneers!
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Post by madmanmex on Aug 13, 2010 22:09:37 GMT -5
.... hey guys, im planning on making an SS impression though i have no idea where to get the gear and what periods of the war go with what uniforms. nor do i know of any german units who had hispanics in it so im screwed on that front as well. but mainly id like to know where to find gear. oh and what pistol did the SS use, im guessing the luger but id like not to be epicly wrong when i do get a luger and it turns out that was not so.
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Adler69
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Post by Adler69 on Aug 13, 2010 22:21:11 GMT -5
Blue Division , a Heer unit made up of volunteers from Spain , they wheren't SS , but some Spaniards did fight for the SS , also a few from South America did.
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Post by kaiser on Aug 16, 2010 4:20:25 GMT -5
how could you not like the blue division?! They have a pretty strong career and they have a nice patch.
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gadge
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Post by gadge on Aug 16, 2010 8:09:15 GMT -5
They also had an appaling reputation for taking unnecessary casualties when shelled as if was thought 'effeminate' to dive for cover when mortared... apparently real men shoudl nonchalantly stand there and get cut to shreds...
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gadge
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Post by gadge on Aug 17, 2010 12:55:04 GMT -5
I've only really read the Osprey title on the Blue Division but that aside they seem to have aquited themself well in the field.. even if there dress standards infuriated whermacht officers!  (By this i mean it wasnt quite Prussian Discipline) |
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kalbs
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Post by kalbs on Aug 18, 2010 8:31:34 GMT -5
Threaded cleaned.
As you were.
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