Why are the majority from the U.S. oN here?

[Lusche]

That's a crappy thing to say!

Better say more militaristic.

Germany has a fundamentally different outlook on military themes & issues.

For example, there are no such shows like "dogfights" in Germany. Neither any other shows about any war "heroes".
Only very few documentaries about today's German military and they are very different from American ones (almost completely devoid of any patriotism).
A game equivalent to "Americas Army" produced by the Bundeswehr would result in a public political outrage.

Documentaries on WWII are much more likely to concentrate (or trying to, quality isn't guaranteed ) on true history instead of telling rather simple tales of battles and courage. And of course there is a good reason for that.

[angelsandair]

usa has 2.53 times as many people as all four.

And still a whole lot more room than most.

[DaveJ]

You should!  Because that is just crap!

Don't worry, it was an honest mistake. It's edited- once again I meant violent video games, not violence in general. I'm American too so yes I know how offensive you can take that.

[BnZ]

Better say more militaristic.


Documentaries on WWII are much more likely to concentrate (or trying to, quality isn't guaranteed ) on true history instead of telling rather simple tales of battles and courage. And of course there is a good reason for that.

This is one of my buttons, regarding how history is presented and over-intellectualized...the simple experience of an individual who was there IS "true history"...often more so than an attempt at a broad and over-intellectualized overview, often by an individual with a theory to peg everything into.

And the experiences of A. Galland are just as valid and interesting as that of B. Anderson. Something wierd: I'm an American. I had relatives killed fighting with Germans. Yet many times I feel like I have less ill will towards the German people in general and old German soldiers in particular than, well, the Germans themselves.

[Brooke]

I have never drawn a single drop of blood in a game.

You just aren't getting into it enough!    (I must have at some point, through overzealousness, drawn a drop of my own blood.)

[Lusche]

This is one of my buttons, regarding how history is presented and over-intellectualized...the simple experience of an individual who was there IS "true history"...often more so than an attempt at a broad and over-intellectualized overview, often by an individual with a theory to peg everything into.

This isn't exactly what I meant, but that's another discussion more suited to Oclub

[Threeup]

I found AH11 completely by accident, googling for something along WW2 aircraft, there's no advertising for AH11 in Oz and the site is stumbled upon. It's only when you get into it that you realise most are from the U.S.. It's quite a surprise to find other Aussies on line -easily recognised by our ability to appear not to give a @#$% and seriously make fun of ourselves. From chatter I would think a more relevant question would be the demographic spread of your USA combatants. Most crew are from the southern belt from Texas eastwards - I hardly ever hear Californians or north east coast accents - is that taken into account?
That's all irrelevant for 2 reasons.
Just as you can wing a 109 with a typhoon country of origin is meaningless.
At rookland we now have ltmanny who will lead us to victory

[BaldEagl]

From chatter I would think a more relevant question would be the demographic spread of your USA combatants. Most crew are from the southern belt from Texas eastwards - I hardly ever hear Californians or north east coast accents - is that taken into account?
That's all irrelevant for 2 reasons.

I started a squad last year.  Of 7 of us at the time we were from Florida (2), Connecticut, Ohio, Minnesota, Arizona and Idaho.  That's pretty geographically spread out.  Don't forget, almost 2/3 of the country lives east of the Mississippi.

[Xasthur]

Better say more militaristic.

Germany has a fundamentally different outlook on military themes & issues.

For example, there are no such shows like "dogfights" in Germany. Neither any other shows about any war "heroes".
Only very few documentaries about today's German military and they are very different from American ones (almost completely devoid of any patriotism).
A game equivalent to "Americas Army" produced by the Bundeswehr would result in a public political outrage.

Documentaries on WWII are much more likely to concentrate (or trying to, quality isn't guaranteed ) on true history instead of telling rather simple tales of battles and courage. And of course there is a good reason for that.

That's a damn shame. After reading some of the stories I've read in a few books lately Germany should be very proud of their fighter pilots.

(I say fighter pilots only because that's the area I've been reading about in particular)

Sure, Nazism wasn't so great... but it's easy to draw a line between the political and the brave young men and kids placing themselves between their families und die dicke autos.

Alas, I digress. Nevermind.

 

[mipoikel]

Motorcycling is all year around no matter where you live. All you need is spikes.

I would find plenty to do in Finland, Winter is Ice Speedway then Autumn,Spring,Summer great expanses of forrests and tundra for dirt/adv riding.

 

<S>...-Gixer

My recent ride. Pic taken today. 

[mipoikel]

nothing...

[Borsuk]

I only got into the game after visiting TalonII while working in Texas, had never heard of it back in the UK.

[Brooke]

My recent ride. Pic taken today. 

Nice!  You should have moved the motorcycle out of the way, though, so that we could see it better.  (Just kidding -- very nice.)

[Gixer]

My recent ride. Pic taken today. 

(Image removed from quote.)

On ya! Enjoy the ride mate. 


<S>...-Gixer

[Connery]

$15 is alot to us Americas or to the rest of the world? I cannot even drive 50 miles on $15 anymore, makes this game seen like a no brain-er!

Buy a reasonbly sized diesel.