"The Teens" Becoming Greatest Cluster of all Time!!

[Huntasan]

Not in football

I dunno, we came in 2nd and 3rd in the past two world cups, so apart from the squad of foreign import Germany plays with we're pretty much performing better than most

Not the first time Germany has rolled over everyone.

In soccer perhaps, but their World War record is horrible.

[Rafen]

What is they say? Third times a charm.

Wait

Third Reich, Third world war, Third times a charm.

CONSPIRACY.

[Super Grover]

Not the first time Germany has rolled over everyone.

In soccer perhaps, but their World War record is horrible.

what's a soccer?

[GundamMerc]

I dunno, we came in 2nd and 3rd in the past two world cups, so apart from the squad of foreign import Germany plays with we're pretty much performing better than most

Not the first time Germany has rolled over everyone.

In soccer perhaps, but their World War record is horrible.

Their World War record involves all of Europe ganging up on them just for equivalency. And the Second World War included the US in that bargain...

When it takes most of the world to stop you, you're doing something right.

[Huntasan]

My apologies, but you can blame the Brits for that one. They are the ones to first start calling it Soccer to differentiate it from Rugby football.

[Huntasan]

We (USA) got in on the first one too. Didn't want to, but when somebody keeps using military subs to take out civilian merchant ships you gotta smack that *beep*.
If your doing something right the whole world won't stop you... they will copy you.

[JigokuShoujo]

dubble post would be lalloh kahd 4me.

in any case what sport name have to do with awesomeness of teens?

[GundamMerc]

We (USA) got in on the first one too. Didn't want to, but when somebody keeps using military subs to take out civilian merchant ships you gotta smack that *beep*.
If your doing something right the whole world won't stop you... they will copy you.

*notes how every major power had subs after WWI and uses armored divisions in the same vein as Germany's after WWII, as well as the US and Soviet Union having a race to see who could grab the most German scientists after WWII* Hmmm... I don't see any copying being done there. *sarcasm*

The US technically joined the war in 1917, but didn't really have a true presence until 1918. So basically we at most became a giant reserve army for Britain and France.

[Winchester]

Eh, the bit about German scientists is both true and a red herring. On the one hand, guys like Wernher von Braun were brilliant in their own right, and we wanted that for ourselves. But on the other hand, it was as much a matter of keeping whatever value they had from getting into the hands of the other side. We wanted to stifle the Soviets as much as possible, so that meant snatching up German scientists just in case they helped the Soviets.

As for the rest, it's arguably that military science was already moving towards things like submarines and armored divisions, and that the Germans simply got there first. That isn't to say that the Germans weren't brilliant when it came to warfare - well, for the most part - but rather that it isn't as clear a case of emulation as you make it out to be.

[GundamMerc]

Eh, the bit about German scientists is both true and a red herring. On the one hand, guys like Wernher von Braun were brilliant in their own right, and we wanted that for ourselves. But on the other hand, it was as much a matter of keeping whatever value they had from getting into the hands of the other side. We wanted to stifle the Soviets as much as possible, so that meant snatching up German scientists just in case they helped the Soviets.

As for the rest, it's arguably that military science was already moving towards things like submarines and armored divisions, and that the Germans simply got there first. That isn't to say that the Germans weren't brilliant when it came to warfare - well, for the most part - but rather that it isn't as clear a case of emulation as you make it out to be.

Agreed on the scientist part.

On military science, armored divisions weren't a sure thing leading up to WWII. During the first years of it, Britain and France were very much in the school of Infantry Support Tanks (building heavy, slow and well-armored vehicles that were divvied up among the infantry forces), with Britain also dividing their limited resources into developing "Cruiser" tanks in the style of the old cavalry. America was even worse off organizationally and materially at the start of the war regarding tanks, but I'll not get into that can of worms. The only other country I can name that was forming similar forces was the Soviet Union. Unfortunately for them, a combination of factors, including the officer purges, lead to the Soviet Union not being well placed to take advantage of this at the beginning of the eastern front fighting.

The thing the Germans had going for them at the beginning of the war was leadership (Heinz Guderian, Rommel, Hoth, Manstein, Rundstedt, etc), and the panzer divisions which both provided combined arms in the form of tanks, motorized infantry, and artillery (eventually SP artillery); as well as providing localized concentration of tank forces, allowing them to be able to overwhelm enemies that had the same number of tanks, but divvied up among individual units.

[Rabid Parrots]

Which guild is World War I Germany? I don't get it.

[Cloud NiiNe]

CURa I guess?

[Karsus]

We need to start doing IQ tests before allowing to post.

just a captcha would work for a lot of posters here

[Dr. Fappo]

Hardly anyone is posting here.

[Cloud NiiNe]

I'm just simming more CVs under the false impression it is an actual fleet spec.