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I am loving the new feel of combat so far, have only played Sengoku . It is only 4 turns per year and is starting at 1545, not 24 turns from 1570. Have I bungled something?

Downloading and installing now, can't wait to give this a try.

Bran, I wanted you to know that these submods for Darth are the reason Empire is still installed on my rig after all these years. Very Tight formations with mass fire=bliss.

This. I have always loved books with illustrations and overviews of subjects in history, they truly are a guilty pleasure of mine and have been since I was 8 years old. However once I started getting...

Correct sir! These are destroyers from Taffy 3 laying a smoke screen. If anyone is interested in reading about an amazing feat of naval guts, this battle is a must research.

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They look to have the Springfield M1903, which would make them Marines. The army landed with the new M1 Garand if I remember correctly. Next battle coming in a few hours.

Landings at Guadalcanal.

A large part of the 'retro future' was the result of the 'old world' being dropped into the nuclear age over night. At that time people still didn't know the limitations to this new power so of...

The Huns get a 17 page chapter in Warriors of the Steppe.

History of the Byzantine State by George Ostrogorsky. More of a text book than an micro analysis, since he does cover nearly a thousand years of history. However he covers it very well.

The...

Battle of Blenheim.

To this day, one of my most memorable moments in PC gaming has to be fighting through the parliament chambers in the Reich-stag, and bursting out onto the roof just in time to see them waving the...

German "Dopplesoldner" "double pay" in mercenary companies of the Renaissance period used them to help break through pike formations. This is disputed though, and while I have read plenty of...

Correct sir. US Marines taking up positions around the airfield at Peleliu. Can someone please rep vikior it won't let me.

All are good guesses but incorrect. The year is 1944.

Tis an airfield. But where?

That is incorrect, I am afraid. Think of places with buildings.

I will give a hint, these are US Marines.

I study history to find the stories of those who lived it. I feel that those who came before us did great things, and their story is worth the telling. I am a big believer in telling things as they...

To spice things up, I would not only like to hear the battle or operation but also which phase/location this picture is from (if you know the battle then the visual clues should immediately tell you...

Battle of Mitakagahara, 1573

Every day if you play War of the Roses :D

But seriously, as Edelfred stated above if there are, it will be weapons like naginata that don't have a significantly heavy business end.

I can only study the Civil War for short periods, I get really overwhelmed with emotions its embarrassing. Just finished Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat volume I and am taking a break before I...

Excellent. If I had dug into my German AFVs of World War II encyclopedia I would have seen this, laziness on my part.

I have a myth I would like cleared up, or simply enlightened. Last year when...

Germans loved the KV-2, and converted many into the Sturmpanzer KW II (r) by adding new lighting and a commander's cupola. They were hoping to use them as assault vehicles when planning the invasion...

I've debated going back and doing just that, expanding and going back while still sticking to the propaganda aspect (the solely 'German's are simply evil' thing gets over done a bit). People have to...

As stated above, Battle Cry of Freedom is a must have. Another good book is Southern Honor, Ethics and Behavior in the Old South by Bertram Wyatt-Brown. It delves deeply into the code of honor and...

As I reread while uploading this I cringed each time I wrote the word 'brutal' :) I think it was partly to do with the words 'brutalization' and 'monster' being tossed around almost constantly in...

I have a strong standing army because I have a strong, centralized government. I have a strong, centralized government because I have a strong standing army.

The only two thesis seminars available the semester it was my turn were Propaganda and History of the American Railroad. I missed The Roman Military Machine and History of Law the previous semester....

Here is my senior thesis for my BA in History I wrote in 2007. Please bare in mind I was going to school full time during the day and working nights full time at an Amazon fulfillment center, getting...

http://www.collegehillarsenal.com/shop/product.php?productid=1036 It appears to be the same, visually anyway. Has a nice write up with it. They do suspect they were Belgian made, and were simply...

You are correct sir! repped

Longstreet becoming Catholic and leading an almost entirely black army of militia to quell unrest in New Orleans after the war set him up perfectly as a vessel for the movement to channel its rage.

Well the developments between the wheel lock and the flintlock saw about a dozen different types of snap systems, all differing in varying minute ways but all achieving the same idea. It seems that...

http://i1273.photobucket.com/albums/y420/kentuckybandit1/naval_zps86898140.jpg

Storming of the redoubt at the river Alma, Crimean war

The term miquelet usually pertains to the snap lock and snaphaunce mechanisms. Excellent gif though, I ran across it earlier in my manic internet search for better explanation of the wheel lock. I...

Another issue here is the state of war itself. You are using the AK-47 in Vietnam, the Stinger in Afghanistan and the IED in Iraq as examples of "the weapon" making the difference, but these were not...