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(This image was created by Nathan Koga from the NSF forums, featured here, but NBC saw this image and put it in one of their articles. Just so you know.)
 
Codz said:
Rewatching Band of Brothers. It's still a fantastic series, and I always thought it might be interesting to see a similar series take on the war from another country/participant's perspective. It'd be interesting to have something accurately portray a German, or Soviet, or Japanese unit's perspective.
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About the Japanese, you should try "Letters From Iwo Jima".

Not so sure if there is anything like that about German units.
 
Urwumpe said:
About the Japanese, you should try "Letters From Iwo Jima".

Not so sure if there is anything like that about German units.
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I watched that awhile back. Excellent movie. The closest I've been able to find for German/Wehrmacht units was Stalingrad.
 
Codz said:
I watched that awhile back. Excellent movie. The closest I've been able to find for German/Wehrmacht units was Stalingrad.
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Yeah, but then I think "Das Boot" is still the better movie, though it does not depict an army unit, but the crew of a submarine.
 
Urwumpe said:
Yeah, but then I think "Das Boot" is still the better movie, though it does not depict an army unit, but the crew of a submarine.
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Oh, right! Can't believe I forgot about that one.
 
Or Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas in English). My personnal favourite war movie.
 
RisingFury said:
*Ahem*

-2134 * 10^6
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Well, "far, far away" means that you need time for light (and thus, technology) to travel to us poor Humans. If my mathemagic is right, 2143 is the year that will see TIE fighters, X-wings and lightsabers being army standards for war purposes.

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mojoey said:
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The F-16 looks nothing like the Viper.

Now...a Sabre OTOH...
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mojoey pls ... I'd like to do some research here! :lol:
 
Why are we trying to explain Star Wars physics? I always assumed Star Wars physics was just a lot of handwavium?
 
I've always thought that Star Wars isn't sci fi. It's fantasy in a space opera setting.
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And SPace Opera is... well, what on earth is it really? Star Wars was a completely crazy idea and has its root in a genre that was back then considered science fiction by the broad public, namely the kind of science fiction that showed up in Pulp-magazines (Though even science fiction icons like Asimov and Heinlein had their starts in those same magazines).

All Lucas did was take all that camp and excessive cheesiness and managed to find someone crazy enough to put big money into it. That was the core of his premise: We take this cheap crap and make it awesome. And he did.

As such, I consider Star Wars as much scifi as for example E.C. Tubb's novels or Perry Rhodan (not well known to english speakers, I'm afraid). And I totally love that kind of thing every once in a while.
 
Mainly just the shuttle-like part. But the whole rocket might be pretty awesome. Almost N-1 ish.
 
Hmmm, I have the blueprints around somewhere, but not the time.

It was heavily inspired by the NOVA, which von Braun planned as the successor of the Saturn V. I'm a bit surprised that there isn't a NOVA add-on, really.
 
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