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Title: The Empire Strikes Back! Rangoon '42 by LGM Films
Post by: Kermit de frog on August 22, 2008, 12:33:09 PM
Tomorrow, Saturday, August 23, 2008.

Rangoon '42  Frame 4.  The Last Frame for this senario.  Be there!
3pm EST
12pm PST
Show up at least 30min early!

Last chance to fly.

Click on picture below to download the movie, to see what you have missed and what to expect in the battle over Rangoon tomorrow.
(http://lgmfilms.net/Rangoon/RangoonFilmSS1.jpg) (http://lgmfilms.net/Rangoon/Rangoon42.zip)

Download (http://lgmfilms.net/Rangoon/Rangoon42.zip)

If you see any funny errors, it's probably because I made this video last night.  <S>

Hope to see you over Rangoon tomorrow!


-Kermit
12th Sentai
Rangoon '42
Title: Re: The Empire Strikes Back! Rangoon '42 by LGM Films
Post by: SuBWaYCH on August 22, 2008, 12:45:53 PM
oh oh!

I wanna see all your bombers go down! I wanna watch!
 
:lol

Downloading it now.

Title: Re: The Empire Strikes Back! Rangoon '42 by LGM Films
Post by: SuBWaYCH on August 22, 2008, 12:55:23 PM
Its showing in 3 different colors. Green, Blue, Red, and its not right. I dunno if something happened with the download but i'll re-download it and see what happens.

Re-downloaded, still doing it.
Title: Re: The Empire Strikes Back! Rangoon '42 by LGM Films
Post by: sethipus on August 22, 2008, 01:04:46 PM
I think the times when it's showing with a red cast is on purpose.  It's part of the ambiance. 

Great video Kermit!

ps:  we can use all the walk-ons we can get on Saturday.  Come help the Japanese fighters cut a path through the Allied horde so we can put our bombs on Rangoon!  3pm Eastern/12 Pacific in the Special Events arena.  Go Knight and report for duty.
Title: Re: The Empire Strikes Back! Rangoon '42 by LGM Films
Post by: SuBWaYCH on August 22, 2008, 01:10:29 PM
I think the times when it's showing with a red cast is on purpose.  It's part of the ambiance. 

Great video Kermit!

ps:  we can use all the walk-ons we can get on Saturday.  Come help the Japanese fighters cut a path through the Allied horde so we can put our bombs on Rangoon!  3pm Eastern/12 Pacific in the Special Events arena.  Go Knight and report for duty.

no, no, i"m talking that I can't hardly even see the opening title. Its in a light-green back round, the letters are in a light gray, and surrounding the letters is a red, sorta static looking dots, and they are all around the letters.

I"m sure its a great video Kermit, but I can't even watch it.
Title: Re: The Empire Strikes Back! Rangoon '42 by LGM Films
Post by: Kermit de frog on August 22, 2008, 01:13:24 PM
Subway, you unziping the file first, before playing the video file inside the compressed folder?

Try using windows media player to watch it.  update your windows media player.

It's your end subway.  I'd first try to restart your computer.  See if that helps.


Thanks Seth!  :salute
Title: Re: The Empire Strikes Back! Rangoon '42 by LGM Films
Post by: 1pLUs44 on August 22, 2008, 01:13:54 PM
Hopefully, I can get kill #5, 6, 7, and 8 here :D
Title: Re: The Empire Strikes Back! Rangoon '42 by LGM Films
Post by: Redlegs on August 22, 2008, 01:24:40 PM
 Very Nice Kermit!


Oh and that was my SBD you were firing at, 5:53
Title: Re: The Empire Strikes Back! Rangoon '42 by LGM Films
Post by: SuBWaYCH on August 22, 2008, 01:31:45 PM
Ok Kermit, re-downloading, hopefully I can get it to work this time.
Title: Re: The Empire Strikes Back! Rangoon '42 by LGM Films
Post by: Twizzty on August 22, 2008, 02:02:06 PM
Ya Subway...sounds like you need a Windows media update...<S> Kermit, that was VERY well done!
Title: Re: The Empire Strikes Back! Rangoon '42 by LGM Films
Post by: Mak333 on August 22, 2008, 02:09:19 PM
Wow Kermit!  I haven't ever watched any of your films before, but this introduction and overview about the last frame of Rangoon '42 was amazing.  Very nice video effects and musical score.  I haven't ever seen a style quite like that, and I loved it!  Hopefully I will be able to join up on Saturday.
Title: Re: The Empire Strikes Back! Rangoon '42 by LGM Films
Post by: 007Rusty on August 22, 2008, 02:16:17 PM
      :aok   great work sir  :salute
Title: Re: The Empire Strikes Back! Rangoon '42 by LGM Films
Post by: trotter on August 22, 2008, 02:26:05 PM
Kermit didn't do any editing.

The actual scenario is that dramatic. Not sure what the allied gaijin see, but it sure is fun for us.

Fly Axis tomorrow!
Title: Re: The Empire Strikes Back! Rangoon '42 by LGM Films
Post by: Geophro on August 22, 2008, 02:29:56 PM
Very impressive.
Great work!
 :aok :aok
Title: Re: The Empire Strikes Back! Rangoon '42 by LGM Films
Post by: shegotya on August 22, 2008, 02:40:31 PM
Great job!  :aok
Title: Re: The Empire Strikes Back! Rangoon '42 by LGM Films
Post by: Roscoroo on August 22, 2008, 03:16:54 PM
sweet film  . this should be here on the htc home page. (but who knows if any of it has copywrites ect)

Biggy <S>
Title: Re: The Empire Strikes Back! Rangoon '42 by LGM Films
Post by: betty on August 22, 2008, 09:21:14 PM
very nice once again froggy! now i under stand the "train" bein needed so badly :)
Title: Re: The Empire Strikes Back! Rangoon '42 by LGM Films
Post by: gpwurzel on August 22, 2008, 09:30:08 PM
Excellent film Kermit, top notch.........

Hopefully will be available for the final frame........



<S>

Wurzel
Title: Re: The Empire Strikes Back! Rangoon '42 by LGM Films
Post by: Brooke on August 22, 2008, 09:47:45 PM
Well done, Kermit!  :aok
Title: Re: The Empire Strikes Back! Rangoon '42 by LGM Films
Post by: Hedworx on August 23, 2008, 01:35:55 AM
Mak333,

If you liked this one, then you should also watch "The Doolittle Raiders" that Kermit put together.




Title: Re: The Empire Strikes Back! Rangoon '42 by LGM Films
Post by: Stixx on August 23, 2008, 08:46:08 AM
As always, excellent work Kermit :aok
Title: Re: The Empire Strikes Back! Rangoon '42 by LGM Films
Post by: Kermit de frog on August 23, 2008, 07:20:39 PM
[THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK!

In the words of a very energetic bomber pilot, "W0000000000000000000000000!"

Thanks to all the Axis pilots and Leaders that succeeded in making this happen.

Thank you Allied pilots, Leaders and CM Staff for making this Senario, a hard earned, hard fought battle.

<S>

Bearkats, I'm sure you did like the part where we died.   :lol
I laugh at the part where we are eating our snacks.. funny stuff in the context it's being shown in.

I'll take a look at what I can do for a frame 4 film.  It may have a surprise ending...

GREAT SENARIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for all the GREAT compliments!  There's about a million things I would have polished if I had more time.  Never enough.  I actually didn't sleep that night, just to make this thing.  It was worth the time put into it.

<S> and thanks for watching.
Title: Re: The Empire Strikes Back! Rangoon '42 by LGM Films
Post by: Kermit de frog on September 02, 2008, 10:56:27 PM
If you have seen the film, there are a few things I have to clear up about some of the propaganda I used.


  Japan's Nationally owned train in Manchuria, China, was not attacked by Chinese troops.  It was attacked by their own troops, made to look like the Chinese had done it.  They lied about it to the League of Nations so they could invade Manchuria on "justified reasons".  They did setup a government for Manchuria, but it was a puppet government, which they had full control over.

  Once Japan officially left the League of Nations, they held a military exercise on the border of China.  In the past, they would notify China of these exercises, but on this one night, they hoped to have "an accident" and get a few Chinese troops to fire upon them.  It worked.  Despite the pleas from China to seize fire, Japan did not.  Japan's reason for a full invasion had come.  With massive amounts of troops already on the Mainland in Manchuria, it was an easy invasion.

  All of the other information I used was true.  I hope to clear that up before you all start to think Japan was too innocent. :)  Japan was ruthless, yet were not much different than the rest of the world, when it came to acquiring land.  They just happened to attack a L.N. memeber.  The U.S.  Britain, Denmark, France and other nations had owned most of South east Asia.  Japan felt the need to quickly grab the rest before it was too late.  Korea was not enough and so the northern part of China was a good place to start.  Once they had Manchuria (approx the size of Texas), they wanted China, a country weak and lawless, sought after by many world powers at the time.  You may find the situation with Russia and Georgia to be very similiar.  :noid

For more information about why Japan went to War, I'd recommend you start reading some books! 

 :salute


here's a map of what SE Asia looked like in ~1930
(http://lgmfilms.net/aceshigh/SEAsiaJapmap.jpg)

A map of Burma
(http://lgmfilms.net/aceshigh/tigers06.gif)