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CrashbotUS

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  1. This was here in Texas. Apparently it was at Mullins Jeep Parts (company the restored WII vehicles) in College Station for some WWII reenactment a few years back.
  2. Yep. I do HEMA sword and buckler, among other types of competitive period combat.
  3. I've had MMA guys that have taken up HEMA show up at events thinking that those skills would have some sort of relevance in I.33 based fighting. My 175lb middle aged self was able to control them quite easily.
  4. My wife would shoot me out of a cannon if I paid that much for a book. It does look interesting though.
  5. I'm doing some research on cold war era Soviet artillery doctrine and was wondering if anyone had any actual Soviet resources. No need for translations, I can read Russian. Right now I have the FM 100-2.1 The Soviet Army:Operations and Tactics from my Army days and some NATO books that really only talk about what we knew from "observational reports". I also have some Soviet artillery survivabilty manuals and Soviet artillery order of battle data but I'm have some trouble with actual artillery unit manuals and the like. Anyone have a good source?
  6. It only starts out small. Once it feeds on your madness, it grows..and grows....and grows....
  7. Queue was so high last night I didn't get a chance to play my Arkansas. Kind of fun starting at the bottom again though.
  8. Taking up a hobby that allows for a healthy outlet of aggression help.
  9. I'm going back to Ukraine in August to visit family. Maybe I'll do some tank surfing.
  10. I was stationed in Germany for 3 years and have traveled back and forth often over the years. Other than the obvious cultural differences (the do and don't kind of things) and different electrical outlets, it wasn't much different than living in a large city over here in the US. Most of the Germans I knew/know had something to do with the military, so their attitudes on firearms differed from that of the general public.
  11. I find being an intolerable curmudgeon keeps everyone, including ne'er-do-well types away.
  12. Movies have kind of given us this impression that sword combat is a couple guys standing 2 feet apart clanking swords together while landing the random slash until the epic death blow is delievered by our hero. The real thing would be much less exiting to watch. Two combatants at distance, fighter A moves in with a fluid shield bind to fighter Bs' weapon arm and a simultaneous thrust to the throat ends the fight. Maybe B can counter, maybe not but it's usually game over pretty fast. You can see how sharp weapons would handle blade contact by just taking a couple of steak knifes and drawing them across each other. They'll bind. If you smack them together, they'll chip.
  13. The funny thing about the sword on sword breakage is that blade on blade contact with enough force to break the weapon would be rare. With the exception of certain parries, binds, and blocks, you tend to not want to smack your blades together.
  14. I do HEMA, I.33, Talhoffer based competitive steel fighting. I primarily use the Petersen type H broadsword and 32" round shield, but I also fight sword and buckler, one and two handed spear, and Dane axe. My main focus is on the period between the end of 8th through to the mid 11th century and specifically Viking age living history. I'm pretty familiar with this period and the fighting styles, what the average guy on the ground used, line tactics, and general period related things.
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