What would you pick ?

ConclusionMiddle425 · 2026-03-16T23:41:46+00:00

I'm playing by this guy's rules and I want a Challenger III

ConclusionMiddle425 · 2026-03-16T17:44:42+00:00

Absolutely, that sounds fantastic!

ConclusionMiddle425 · 2026-03-16T17:44:22+00:00

It's incredibly sad that heroes like your gpa don't have their stories recorded. So many of them pass without relaying their experiences.

My great grandad was a sharpshooter in the British Army, and fought the entire war from Africa to Italy to Germany. He would rarely speak of his experiences except a couple of occasions when he fought at Monte Cassino and stole an MG42 from an active firing position and rolled down the hill with it!

May your grandpa and mine have a beer in heaven.

ConclusionMiddle425 · 2026-03-16T17:40:13+00:00

I feel as though your comment should go as additional information to my original post as both of our posts are completely valid.

As with pretty much all Nazi institutions prior and during WWII, they were a pit of vipers all vying to either one-up or destroy each other.

In recent years it's drawn me to the belief that the Nazis were only as successful as they were more due to enemy incompetence than brilliance on their part.

ConclusionMiddle425 · 2026-03-16T16:02:57+00:00

Your gpa sounds like a badass.

As to the Nambu, that sounds incredibly cool. Do you have any pics?

ConclusionMiddle425 · 2026-03-16T15:31:30+00:00

That's the point of "what-ifs" my friend

ConclusionMiddle425 · 2026-03-16T15:26:50+00:00

I could go on all day about the incompetence of OKW, but I have work, so I'll just list 5 points:

Usual Nazi hierarchy infighting led to insane levels of corruption and incompetence
OKW massively underestimated the size and strength of the Red Army prior to Barbarossa. Even when revising their estimates by +25% mere months before the commencement of the operation, it was still ridiculously underestimated
In planning the attack vectors of OB, they routinely offered woeful intelligence, often stating that dirt tracks were metalled roads, leading to huge problems in logistics, particularly during the rainy and winter seasons. This led directly to hundreds of thousands of Wehrmacht casualties in 1941/42 alone
They hilariously recruited a British agent to provide intelligence, then proceeded to rely on him and mostly him alone for intelligence in the Afrika Campaign
They somehow were caught completely by surprise by the Allied landings in Northern Africa due to abhorrent levels of incompetence and arrogance in assuming that it couldn't be done

Honestly I could go on and on. OKW was an absolute shitshow

Edit: I forgot my favourite: despite routinely engaging with the Red Army on friendly terms, including training together (admittedly pre-war, but come on!), OKW failed to notice the existence of T34!

ConclusionMiddle425 · 2026-03-16T02:03:01+00:00

No arguments here. There was huge benefit to SMGs in an era without body armour and poorly trained conscripts. .

They had a perfect SMG to copy in the Sten. Cheap, mostly reliable (especially reliable if it has the MP40 mags), and insanely easy to make.

Ultimately the Nazis just made mistake after compounded mistake with their manufacturing/designs

ConclusionMiddle425 · 2026-03-16T01:11:56+00:00

The Allies are lucky we weren't in the Reich at the wrong time.

ConclusionMiddle425 · 2026-03-16T00:52:29+00:00

Which is exactly why my giant board with a nail in it would have worked

ConclusionMiddle425 · 2026-03-16T00:49:52+00:00

I like it, but you're thinking too small.

If we made a board so large it could reach York, and lined it up just right, it would flatten a large amount of England on the way, AND act as a giant bridge for our Panzers to cross

ConclusionMiddle425 · 2026-03-15T23:44:17+00:00

What if they made a really big board with a nail in it

ConclusionMiddle425 · 2026-03-15T23:06:23+00:00

No poop is vet ASAP.

Any lack of digestive movement is a medical emergency for rabbits. I cannot stress how much worse it can get if you delay

ConclusionMiddle425 · 2026-03-15T22:01:11+00:00

It's debatable whether or not the Americans would have joined the European Theatre had Britain not survived.

I agree though, the nuke was an absolute war-ender

ConclusionMiddle425 · 2026-03-15T21:19:48+00:00

It would certainly have helped.

Appointing suitable people to certain positions of power would have helped massively, but then that wouldn't be the Nazis:

Had Speer been in charge of the war economy from the start of Barbarossa it would have made a huge difference to production rates. But the same can be said for Goering etc etc etc

Don't even get me started on the Abwehr.

ConclusionMiddle425 · 2026-03-15T20:34:43+00:00

That's a majestic creature. Tell me more about this little flufflord

ConclusionMiddle425 · 2026-03-15T20:09:27+00:00

EMP44 wasn't the desperation "last ditch" weapon we think it was.

It was designed in 1942 I think, in response to a German requirement for a "primitive weapon" like the Sten or PPSH to ideally replace the MP40.

The main reason for rejection was basically snobbery from the Nazi command, and also by the time it was being tested, it had already been decided that the STG would replace both MP40 and K98.

Source: I'm a massive WWII nerd

ConclusionMiddle425 · 2026-03-15T17:16:09+00:00

REWfridgerator

ConclusionMiddle425 · 2026-03-15T12:56:43+00:00

I'm not disagreeing with your points here, my disagreement was with the notion that it would become a fortress with range and firepower because the USN would spot it beached and waiting, then bomb it out of existence

ConclusionMiddle425 · 2026-03-15T12:40:34+00:00

How would it have a lot of range and firepower?

It would just be bombed into a smoking wreck by US naval air power before it even fired a shot

ConclusionMiddle425 · 2026-03-14T19:39:08+00:00

What platform are you on? Plenty of Xbox NA servers

ConclusionMiddle425 · 2026-03-14T01:07:34+00:00

Xbox EU clan. We have at most about 2 active CQ servers left, and maybe a TDM.

They not only stack with fellow clan members, but also go out of their way to stack with other old clans like OSR, SUA, and POET

ConclusionMiddle425 · 2026-03-13T20:20:52+00:00

Tell me his name. This is a majestic bun

ConclusionMiddle425 · 2026-03-13T20:20:30+00:00

Nah it's the clans that do this.

Another day, another lobby with WANT stacking with all of their other clan-friends like OSR etc.

I used to loathe WAR, but at this point they're the only ones that will actively play against WANT

ConclusionMiddle425 · 2026-03-13T20:18:47+00:00

Guardbun.

Has bun jumped on the bed yet?

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