@axis_roll Or the optional escorts and interceptors rule.
Movies to watch while playing AA
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More Zulu’s come! Mahahaaha :evil:
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I run a game group and we try to do themes. Eg: We play Samurai Swords (shogun) and have Saki and Japanese strings in the background.
When it is my turn to pick a game I set the AAA theme with WORLD AT WAR doc running on the TV (mute) and a mix of 40’s music and GI JIVE radio broadcasts.
I know it sounds strange but it makes for a great game day.
FYI: if you want to find these old wartime radio shows check here:
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=GI%20Jive%20AND%20mediatype%3Aaudio -
When Lions Roard
This movie lets you see and feel the struggles the Allies had to put up with in WWII.
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FYI: if you want to find these old wartime radio shows check here:
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=GI Jive AND mediatype%3AaudioMan this is great! its perfect for playing. I feel like a regular GI.
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The Green Berets with John Wayne
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You keep mentioning “Zulu” but you leave out “Zulu Dawn”? which shows the battle just before Rorkes Drift that the Zulu’s actually “won” even though it cost them greatly.
In the end though “Kelly’s Hero’s” is number 1 in my book, you don’t have to actually watch it since just hearing the lines is enough to get me laughing.
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My god you guys rock!
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Zulu dies…. 120 take his place… Lets see you fire again.
BANG!!
“Don’t you throw… that ruddy spear… at me!”
*Runs Zulu through with sabre while reloading service revolver one handed… using special technique taught to a few high ranking English officers…"
Just like a Zulu, bringing a spear to a gunfight……
120?
Actually I believe they were only outnumbered 40 to 1… so that leaves 38 to deal with :-D
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How about COMBAT, the old TV series?
Grew up watching that one every week!
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I watch that twice per day 5 days a week on ALN.
Sgt. Saunders is the best!
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I prefer Stalingrad, Thin Red Line, or Das Boat.
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I’m surprised no one has mentioned Downfall.
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I would think only allied players would prefer Downfall right?
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Sorry, but my friends and I have a policy of never to mix movies and games. Watching a movie and playing a game always turns into watching a movie.
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One of my favourite Second World War-era documentaries is “Attack in the Pacific.” I’ve seen different dates attributed to it, but it would seem that the film was assembled in the spring or summer of 1945: the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa are mentioned as having already happened, but the narration makes it clear that final victory over Japan has not yet been achieved. The film highlights naval operations in the Pacific Ocean, and deals at length with the process of planning and conducting an amphibious invasion.
CWO Marc
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Sometimes we’ll put a movie on in the background…
Memphis Bell
Hunt for Red October
Saving Private Ryan
Master and Commander
U-571
The Bridge over the river Kwai
The Great Escapeany others?
enemy at the gates, of course!
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Everyone should watch a Russian film called “Come and See” about partisans in Belourussia. Extremely graphic, it is published by KINO and is available through Netflix.
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Patton- as mentioned above an Obvious choice.
Tora, Tora, Tora! A bridge too Far, Midway, The Longest Day……All good choices.Kinda surprised no one suggested Red Dawn (fiction and not ww2 but still). They Were Expendable and Operation Petticoat are a couple of good old time movies. Who doesn’t like the Duke or Cary Grant? For that matter what about Father Goose? Nothing wrong with a little laughter with the roll of the dice.
Sometimes a good movie is actually a kids/disney movie to acquire the addition of kidlets so grown ups can play. While I dearly hope my kids will like AandA as well as other board games, trying to persuade a 3 year old not grab die and the board is rather difficult. He looks with wonderment at what we are doing but his idea of fun is the toddler nuclear war…
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Try Pink Floyd the Wall.
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That ‘Come and See’ is amazing; I have it on dvd.
What about ‘Stalingrad’ or ‘Cross Of Iron’? Two of my all-time favourites!
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