Why are we so fascinated with things that kill people?

[Odin]

I think the reason men are fasinated in millitary weapons is that in hunter-gatherer societies the men were the protectors of the tribe, a like of weapons were ingrained in the male mind by natural selection.

[Lefty Scaevola]

"We are we so fascinated with things that kill people? "

Because we wants them, my precious.

[Sirotnikov]

Nazis are cool.

Most definitly.

Everyone likes to be an evil maniac with super-cool guns and uniforms.

Black /grey uniforms look so much nicer than the drab green ones, and they fit the image better.

What can one do? The nazis had a whole image thing going on for them. Black colors = fear, death. Red = blood. White = ..erm.. looks good with black and red.

The Allies had: ... drab green. biege. brown. ...yay....

The soviets were also cool: red and gold. Though their drab olive green uniforms, and the uniforms figure and cut, were horrible. They still were cool because they were an empire.

The allies were always just too damn nice and pluralistic to get attention.

[Cruddy]

Originally posted by Lonestar


How can you look at this and feel disgusted?

Because Fearless' engines were so FUBAR it frequently had to sail on its own - a naval ship that sends smoke signals isn't welcome in a fleet.

The "accomodation" usually consisted of 6 people in a cabin designed for 2. If you were really unlucky you got to sleep on a bookshelf.

The fumes inside the embarkation area were so bad that troops frequently passed out before even getting on the landing craft.

Seaworthiness was crap, meaning that in rough seas the inside was coated with vomit.

Need I go on?

[Pekka]

Well maybe we can take it a little back and say they appeared cooler than others... Surely there's nothing cool being a nazi. But Wermacht was cooler too. THe officers uniforms were top notch. They really looked like soldiers in them, I mean put Jay Leno in one of those officers uniforms and he'd look good. Only thing that didn't look so good was those salutes. I think they were boring, like they had some kind of illness. It looked pretty retarded to my eyes.

btw, does that make us cool too, since we had some German weapons and same helmets too? YEah, we were like nazis without that screwed up ideology and urge to be crazy.

[Lancer]

The Nazis are cool until they're banging on your door at 3 AM...

My favorite warriors are the Israelis, though as people I don't see them as any better or worse than anyone else. Better or worse boils down all the way to the individual.

The Israelis have fought at truly impossible odds and won, again and again. Some of the battles are just unbelievable.

Gotta love em.

[Zero]

Actually Confederates are Quite popular. Goto Civil War re-enactment. Confederate sides are filled with enthusiastic re-enacters while north lacks the enthusiasm the south side has (in general)

I had a friend who bought all sorts of Confederate antiques and had big fat confederate flag hanging on his wall.


Nazis are cool cause they look so damn futuristic for their time. They are like what American army is now.. except they werent the biggest force in the world.

oh and one more thing. This is froma quote from a friend that summs up pretty well on why nazis seem so cool.

"Its gotta be the gloves. That black gloves just gives a finsihing touch to the bad ass image". (obviously referring to ranking officers)

[Zero]

another fact: Take a killing game and dont change anything except the fact your killing WW2 era german conscripts and nazis.

fun factor soars at least by thousand folds.

and if u can be on the axis side... well.

[Pekka]

Yes, even when they appear cooler, they're also the most fun targets! It's fun to shoot them and mumble 'I hate fng nazis...' BLAM BLAM!

[Zero]

My favorite german words are from wolfenstein

Such disappointment that RTCW did not have classic lines of "Mein Laemen(?)" and "Shutze" and etc.

[Al B. Sure!]

Pekka:

Only thing that didn't look so good was those salutes. I think they were boring, like they had some kind of illness. It looked pretty retarded to my eyes.

those salutes (raised right arm stretched out at an angle with a downward palm and the raised palm) were the ancient Roman salutes that the germans adopted. if you ever notice in gladiator movies, the gladiators do the 'nazi' salute when they say, "we who are about to die, salute you," etc. so blame the romans

as an aside, those salutes represent peace. the open palm is a sign that shows you are not carrying a weapon and thus are saluting in peace whereas the alternative clenched fist is the salute of militancy.

[Pekka]

Albert Speer, I knew that, except I didn't know it represented peace though. Thanks for educating me. Shaking hands is also old thing representing you have no weapons.

[Al B. Sure!]

Pekka:

and also how many catholics pray with their palms out...

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Ecthelion
why what did you do?

I choked a chicken.

[Dis]

yeah I liked the Israeli's as well. Of course they couldn't have done it without great american hardware

But they had/have good pilots (except the one's that shot up an american ship)

Taking on so many countries at once and winning is an impressive feat. In essence they are the underdogs. Ya can't help but root for them.