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I don't know if anyone has posted this before... (I'm in the middle of my exams and don't have time to read a 9 page thread)

But this is what I would do:

I would try to isolate their market....

Well frankly, I was kinda hoping for this reaction, my last post was even a bit tricked into making you say this :smile:

In Belgium Leopold II had no real power, he would only sign some documents...

These handymen weren't all Belgian citizens. The majority were mercenaries from random European nations. And a majority of the expeditions in Congo was done by foreign enterprises, they only had to...

You clearly haven't been reading the posts in between. It wasn't Belgium that was a brutal empire. The Belgian nation had nothing to say about Congo. You make it seem that we were some nationalistic...

The Belgium empire... now that's a laugh :laughter:
We only had Congo as a colony since 1885...

And it wasn't even our colony! It was the personal possesion of Leopold II, the Belgian people had...

I've been reading a lot about the Rwanda Genocide lately. Rwanda Hotel and the recent trials here in Belgium over the killing of those 10 para's got me interested.

I'm going a bit off topic here...

Perhaps not the greatest of all time but I do admire his achievements:

Themistocles

He saw that after the Greek victory over the Persians at Marathon the Persian beast would come back fiercer...

Albert Speer.

A mere architect who worked his way up the chain and organised the nazi-party meetings, and those were impressive to say the least.

Also with Germany on its knees he took over the...

We in the West watch worldwide conflicts through the media. This media has a huge role in making up our mind. We don't like to see our own boys tortured to a horrible death. The government often use...

Thermopylae...
It's the mother of all last stands. Knowing it's not a crucial battle and that they're only there to gain time those spartans and thespians kept their ground knowing it would seal...

I have the Hobbit, just forgot to add it :P
I don't have the History of Middle-earth series, I hope it contains some new material. But it might be hard to find because all the bookshops and...

I'm going a bit offtopic here, but since most of you guys are Tolkien fans could you help me out here?

I have the following Tolkien books:
Lotr trilogy
The Silmarillion
The unfinished tales...

The best strategy always depends on the terrain.

Example: (one of my prefered tactics)

You've got open grounds with some bushes on your left flank. This is perfect for hiding your cavalry in to...

I enjoy the game but I'm not pleased with the overall progress of the TW series.
RTW was a great game, bringing lots of innovations to the genre. Ok it had its flaws but we have a great modding...

Germany wouldn't need a strong navy to invade Britain. In order to guard the English Channel the Royal Navy would have to move in closer. In range of the Luftwaffe.
If I remember correctly the...

I recently read the book about Winston's bodyguard and watched the BBC series based on his book. Attempts were made on Winstons life. He was a man that looked for danger rather then avoiding it.
But...

I wish M2TW had done more with the desert. I would have loved to see an influence of nearby water. So that you can stalk an enemy army and exhausting it by blocking them from accessing nearby water.

Well if Germany had waited until 1943 the USSR would be much harder to conquer since Stalin was improving his army drasticly. They had to go in june 1941 or it would be to late. If the winter would...

I would dismiss Göring and spent more resources on the Luftwaffe. The Luftwaffe was the most powerfull airforce in Europe but by constantly switching tacktics they neutralized themselves. In 1940 the...

Nice report. You're in a simular situation I'm in with the English. I'm just able to keep the Turks from taking over Jerusalem but without some fresh European blood over there I won't hold out much...

Well more sad news from over here:

Today the 2 girls who had been missing for 2 weeks have been found.
Both murdered and dumped near a railway, one in an drainage channel covered with steel...

Well, somewhat related:

This week an 51 year old traindriver (?) was beaten to dead on his way home.
He was sitting in a public bus, that was crowded, and asked 6 boys who were arguing amongst...

Yeah this suprises me too. The funny thing is that there's a campaign running to gather illegal guns. Only recently 5000 illegal firearms were gather in the province West-Vlaanderen and destroyed....

Well this could be expected.
Problems with immigrants keep on rising so it was only a matter of time when a native would snap and go on a killing spree.

I myself travel to Brussels each day by...

That report is not 100% correct, I'm from Belgium and have visited Eben-Emael a couple of times. It's a great fortress on an excellent location. It's located on a hill near the meuse river (maas in...

lol erik you should start living in the present...
I don't think christianity has caused that great riots in the past 50 years...

mmm well funny that the nice dutch people get shot for expressing their opinions then...
Remember Van Gogh?
oh and wasn't it Pim Fortuyn's political party that gained so much popularity considiring...

I find it strange that people come out when a cartoon is drawn of their prophet but not when people dive planes in buildings, blow up hotels, behead innocent... in name of that same prophet.

You literally owned us? You guys got kicked out by peasants in 1830...
If you can tell me where you owned us you should tell me, you defeated the spanish with help of the belgians...
Personally I...

In father Damian's time there wasn't much known about the disease,
so to compare him with people that help leperds today is quite insane...
I laugh at you who find none of the belgians that...

You lucky *****,
in belgium we've got the same thing. (noemt hier gewoon 'Eindwerk')
Thing is, we can't pick a subject. And the only interesting thing the history teacher gave us as a subject was:...

There have been numerous threads about this.
And the answer is you just can't compare them because they didn't lived in the same age. The only thing you can say is that one was the best of his time.

But still they want to come close to realism without spoiling the fun...
They don't make up locations... And it would be strange they just invented some spot close to omaha.
Yes, I played ofp and...

It's le Point-du-Hoc, look at the cliffs, the ropes...
So if Infinity Ward has any sense for realism...

Seeing it are Rangers it should be the Point-du-Hoc, explains the cliffs...
Screens are pretty astonishing..

MiG-29 Fulcrum, just because the killer-look :D

Italy tried... and failed...
I'm not going to vote for Italy just because they tried ...
It has always been my opinion that the Italians did too few with their resources...

The Americans had good men,
the attack of the 2nd Battalion Rangers on the Point du Hoc was amazing.
They suffered great losses when landing on the beach and climbing the cliffs. (Most of the...

Well the Fallschirmjagers should be the best Germany has to offer. But the division holding Carentan were boys of 17 year old, badly equiped and isolated.
And if you look at Carentan you also have...

Speaking of the Brits, their soldiers were not that great.
They instantly surrendered when being surrounded.
And they just stopped the fighting when it was time for their tea.

Said that, they...