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CCIP · 12-08-06, 11:00 PM

I'm personally in it for that whole 'feel'.

And I think it's too simplistic to say something along the lines of '

' or '

' about U-boat crews. You have to realize that they were people called up to fight in a total war. There was a lot of good and bad guys on all sides of the war, but in a battle 'good' and 'bad' is simply a matter which side you happen to be on. A U-boat sinking your ship is as bad as a ship sinking your U-boat.

I'd never be particularly interested in war were there not a sharply controversial humanistic aspect to it. I hope this isn't taken the wrong way, but I'm fascinated by people pushed to the limit - and not in the sport-like sense of it, either - but totally in a life-and-death sort of way. And the Battle of the Atlantic certainly did that. It's one thing to judge war sitting at a desk at home, and another thing to judge it with your finger on the trigger of a weapon aimed at an enemy.

I'd never confuse a game with reality, of course, but things like that are always in the back of my mind when I play wargames. Likewise, some imagery in SHIII is amazing food-for-thought for thinking about the conditions as they really were.

12-08-06, 11:00 PM	#5
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	I'm personally in it for that whole 'feel'. And I think it's too simplistic to say something along the lines of '' or '' about U-boat crews. You have to realize that they were people called up to fight in a total war. There was a lot of good and bad guys on all sides of the war, but in a battle 'good' and 'bad' is simply a matter which side you happen to be on. A U-boat sinking your ship is as bad as a ship sinking your U-boat. I'd never be particularly interested in war were there not a sharply controversial humanistic aspect to it. I hope this isn't taken the wrong way, but I'm fascinated by people pushed to the limit - and not in the sport-like sense of it, either - but totally in a life-and-death sort of way. And the Battle of the Atlantic certainly did that. It's one thing to judge war sitting at a desk at home, and another thing to judge it with your finger on the trigger of a weapon aimed at an enemy. I'd never confuse a game with reality, of course, but things like that are always in the back of my mind when I play wargames. Likewise, some imagery in SHIII is amazing food-for-thought for thinking about the conditions as they really were. __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)