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Post by RedsandRoyals on Aug 1, 2009 15:48:32 GMT -5
The bombing of Dresden happened in the late days of World War II. (13-15. February 1945). With 4 bombing runs the USAAF and RAF destroyed almost everything in the city of Dresden, killing somewhere between 18.000-25.000 people. But it is true, these days the USA wouldn't do something like that anymore as media and all the other nations would rip them apart in media and diplomacy Before this degenerates into mud slinging over WWII, let's just say the Germans didn't exactly stick to civilian targets themselves, and leave it at that. The Air War in Europe is a complex thing, and I'd be happy to discuss it with anyone interested via PM, but let's focus on Gaunt's Codex, shall we? Reds
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Post by Helmian (M.I.A) on Aug 9, 2009 16:26:03 GMT -5
However once your firearm armed troops get into a CQB with a guy with a sword the Grunt is gonna lose badly, Modern forces hardly ever use bayonets simply because of the brutality needed to use one against another Human, whereas in the middle ages this was the standard way of killing someone. Your clinical Grunts would suffer at Close Quarters, and there are certainly ways of forcing you into a CQB engagement. Like hiding in a city, you can't bomb it because of civilians so your grunts go in and their guns become less useful in the confines of Urban warfare. As do your tanks. Where a Horse is able to pick its way through rubble strewn streets a tank would struggle with small gaps, fires and large piles of rubble. I do not believe the grunts would suffer in CQB, sure, the guy with the sword might kill one off them before he's gunned down, no medieval armour can protect you from a modern bullet. Also, the man with the sword needs the element of surprise, if he doesn't have it, he's screwed. Also USMC martial arts training www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybRcpaowbt0
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