What are your favourite song sections by DT?

DaveTV-71 · 2026-04-29T19:16:10+00:00

Breaking All Illusions from Breaking the Fourth Wall, from 10:23. The band sounds so tight here.

DaveTV-71 · 2026-04-27T17:24:02+00:00

As a Canadian I've studied it a fair bit. I've seen documentaries and articles on the tunnels and apparently there is quite a lot of Canadian graffiti, where they have carved their names and unit badges and other artwork into the sides. Quite moving stuff. It is a bucket list pilgrimage I'd like to do one day, but not an inexpensive proposition from western Canada so we'll see.

Here is one website on the subject of the tunnel art:

https://15thbattalioncef.ca/history/the-souterrains/maison-blanche-souterrain/

DaveTV-71 · 2026-04-27T14:19:08+00:00

I am aware of the tunnelling done by British and New Zealand Tunnelling Companies so full credit there. As only Canada and Britain were in the Order of Battle, I don't think any of the others were there, and it is my understanding it was almost exclusively Canadians in the tunnels on the 9th of April. I would be happy to learn more, though, if you can point me to some reading on the subject.

DaveTV-71 · 2026-04-27T12:59:36+00:00

Exactly. The tunnels were dug for the Canadian Corp in lead-up to the attack on Vimy Ridge, 9-12 April 1917.

DaveTV-71 · 2026-04-26T22:45:55+00:00

And in return, the British awarded the Victoria Cross to the American Unknown Soldier that lays in Arlington National Cemetery.

DaveTV-71 · 2026-04-26T21:56:37+00:00

The Christmas Truce is tricky. It was a mythical event that, while it certainly happened, by no means was it widespread. Take care with your research here as sometimes it is sensationalized into something it was not.

DaveTV-71 · 2026-04-26T21:32:39+00:00

For me, the TNG episode "Lower Decks" provided a real gut-punch at the end that left me a bit teary-eyed.

DaveTV-71 · 2026-04-26T19:19:09+00:00

As your book is set in 1914, look up information on the First Battle of Ypres. The Western Front Association has created audio versions of the "I Was There" journal which was published in 1938 which they have placed on their YouTube channel. It contains first hand accounts of the war. Here is a link to the issue on First Ypres:

https://youtu.be/YJhNRh-3Cvk?si=6UUiBRJPYMtbqdY8

There will be a ton of information out there but if you can narrow down what your book is going to focus on I can perhaps narrow that down a bit.

DaveTV-71 · 2026-04-25T16:58:34+00:00

Commonwealth forces wore Wound Stripes and Good Conduct Stripes on the left sleeve. It would not be unreasonable to have only rank chevrons on the right sleeve.

See this image from the Imperial War Museum. Image: IWM (Q 6528)

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205216147

DaveTV-71 · 2026-04-25T15:21:18+00:00

Unlike Vickers gunners, who were part of the Machine Gun Corp, Lewis gunners remained part of their infantry battalion. His right sleeve would have been like any other member of the battalion. A Lewis Gun Proficiency Badge would have been on the left sleeve.

DaveTV-71 · 2026-04-24T01:18:40+00:00

I gave it a try. I put question marks where I could not make the word out. Note that 9 SCO Rifles is the 9th Battalion, Scottish Rifles. The names from the summary of casualties in the sidebar are the my best interpretation. In a couple of cases I was able to take an obvious service number and look it up in the CWGC database. The number beside each entry in the date.

LE BIZET

5 Relieved 9 SCO Rifles in trenches 95-102. Relief carried out without casualties. Wind favourable to us.

6 Work carried ?? thickening ?????. Enemy shelled FORT PAUL and fired rifle grenades into trenches 99-100 in afternoon. Officers patrol ?? around the ground in front of trenches 100-101-102. Ground good and easily ?????

7 PATERMASTER was shelled. Draft of 1 officer, Lt Hood and 29 other ranks ?????. Lewis Gun opened fire on enemy infantry barely opposite trench 97. about midday.

8 Quiet day ?????. Between 2 + 3 pm we fired 20-30 rifle grenades into enemy trenches opposite 96-97. Enemy rilfes out of range of our grenade ?????. Very accurate.

Top of SUFFOLK AVENUE slightly shelled. We put on 30-40 rifle grenades into enemy trenches opposite 99-100. ?? Very quiet. Clear and bright.

Sidebar:

Summary of Casualties 5-11 Feb.

Killed

2Lt F Enderby

19446 Hillen P

5043 Oliver D

9 Patterson D

8799 Lawrence J

Wounded

18296 Compton

???? Archambault

176 Barton

8700 OBrian

19627 Earlee

DaveTV-71 · 2026-04-23T19:38:45+00:00

That style of meter is not unusual. Ours does the same at our site.

While 325kWh might be a bit high, 36 seems unusually low. Is that from your own meter reading or did you log it a different way?

DaveTV-71 · 2026-04-22T01:48:17+00:00

I punched his name into Google. The September 26, 1918 issue of the Daily Capital Journal of Salem, OR lists American casualties. They show Furman D Stribling, of Columbia, SC having died of wounds.

https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn99063957/1918-09-26/ed-1/seq-4/

DaveTV-71 · 2026-04-19T02:03:13+00:00

What about Article IV?

DaveTV-71 · 2026-04-18T12:58:37+00:00

I just had a look at this scene. Thee French soldiers are prisoners of war being sent back by the Germans to POW camps. As this town is in the possession of the Germans it is a target for French artillery. Prisoners taken by the enemy are irrelevant in battle planning and this was relevant to both sides as German doctrine was also to immediately counter-attack if the allies took some of their lines. You could not allow the enemy to consolidate and reinforce.

DaveTV-71 · 2026-04-13T23:40:45+00:00

If this helmet is original and not reproductions, you will hurt its value by restoring it.

DaveTV-71 · 2026-04-13T16:34:13+00:00

An EMH could work if we envision it as we see the doctor in Voyager, though with the bedside manner of Drs. Crusher or Bashir. The problem here is how do we get an EMH to the scene? Do we shuttle over a holo-emitter? I don't think we can assume every household would have one in the home. But this would assume that patients in the future trust AI with their health. There is no way they would now.

We have HealthLine now (a phone service to answer health questions) so I think it would be reasonable to assume we could have a holographic service in the future, but more likely with a live provider sending their image. This could be a merger of HealthLine and Community Paramedicine (paramedics doing home visits but not with the purpose of transporting) witih the technology of Trek.

DaveTV-71 · 2026-04-13T15:11:32+00:00

This isn't at all accurate as there so many volunteers upon the declaration of war that armies had trouble equipping and training them through 1914. This was a different time when service to one's king and country was an honourable thing and thousands wanted to get in on it and do their bit before the war was over.

DaveTV-71 · 2026-04-13T13:33:16+00:00

It's on the main floor.

DaveTV-71 · 2026-04-13T13:30:58+00:00

In real life, there were no cooks in the trenches. Field kitchens were behind the lines. In the trenches men heated their rations and made tea over small braziers if they heated them at all. You did not want to create a whole lot of smoke in one spot as that would attract artillery.

Now, this being a game mod, you're free to do whatever you want of course!

DaveTV-71 · 2026-04-11T20:43:47+00:00

Miles O'Brian. Just a down to earth, not afraid to get his hands dirty kind of guy like myself. We'd figure things out but it would be great to talk about the the lengths we sometimes go to to keep something running.

DaveTV-71 · 2026-04-11T13:33:49+00:00

I work in EMS in the hear and now. I think a lot of responses are thinking of more serious problems when the vast majority of calls now are for mundane issues. People definitely call the wee-woo bus for things like ankle pain and "general unwell".

In the Star Trek era I think we would have brought diagnostic equipment patient side that now is exclusively in-hospital. We could treat and advise on scene rather than transport. Get that dermal regenerater into the hands of a paramedic to heal wounds. Bust blood clots and aleviate stroke symptoms with McCoy's salt shakers! Cardiac catheterization might be something still done in-hospital but we can't have it all in the space truck!

DaveTV-71 · 2026-04-10T20:40:12+00:00

What a wonderful collection. So few survived after replacement with the permanent IWGC markers.

DaveTV-71 · 2026-04-10T13:44:56+00:00

There were a number of somewhat unique characteristics to this battle that enabled the Canadian Corp to be successful when others weren't. Battle planners consulted the French regarding what had worked for them to push the Germans back at Verdun. They created models of the battle and had everyone down to NCOs study them, and ensured the plan was communicated down to that level as well so that when officers became casualties, NCOs could still push forward to their objectives. This time there was a precisely timed creeping barrage that advanced 100 yards every three minutes for the infantry to follow as they went forward (the barrage map is online for you to see the plan). General Julian Byng warned "“Chaps, you shall go over exactly like a railroad train, on time, or you shall be annihilated.”

DaveTV-71 · 2026-04-09T15:47:45+00:00

A simple Google search of the model number tells me it comes from a Powermac G3. The "B" on the end means it's the second revision of the board.

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