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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: beet1e on June 13, 2003, 01:59:35 AM
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Last night on C5, I watched a nice movie about the ground campaign in Africa. Cast included Rock Hudson and George Peppard. Rommel and his PNZRs were getting ready to invade Egypt, and an air campaign had failed to have an impact on his forces. So they sent in a bunch of British GVs with both British troops and some German jews to sweep North to pork the fuel at Tobruk. It was a campaign fraught with risk - Suicide fuel porkage - LOL! See, it DID happen. ;)
What I also noticed in this film was how much the terrain looked like our own Pizza map. The resemblance was striking, with rocks, dunes, and those little shrub things. There came a time when they had to fire mortars on some German tanks to initiate a battle between them and an Italian division that had parked nearby. For that, they used a range finder - wish we had that in AH, where it's largely trial and error. The other hazard in that desert was the presence of mines. Rock Hudson used his bayonet blade to feel for a buried mine. Then came the order for the gunner to fire on the mine, causing a chain reaction of mine explosions.
The other thing I noticed was the vulnerability of the pintle gunners on the British GVs.
A good movie, and they did manage to pork the fuel in the end, saving Egypt from capture. The Germans had modified fuel bunker "hardness" - by placing them under ground.
Hehe, I wonder if Rommel ever called for fuel porkage to be banned under the Geneva Convention - LOL. It certainly spoiled his fun, and limited his choices! :D
I wonder if we'll ever get mines in the desert on the Pizza map...
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We used to have mines - hit a white rock, a boulder, or a tree and your vehicle would blow up - but then Tigers started dying that way and there was a lot of complaining.