Atlantic Friend said:Hmm...apples and oranges ?
I actually had a brain fart, and thought the Abwehr was the name for the German high command.
Atlantic Friend said:Hmm...apples and oranges ?
Kurt_Steiner said:As somebody told me once: the Channel is a bitch body of sea to cross.
Barges... my gosh. I have, by the way, a brand new ship, big, fast, quite capable of carrying a lot of ships. Tell Adolf that I can buy her to him, quite cheap. Her name? Titanic.
trekaddict said:How dare you? She was a failure, true, but still one of Britannia's engineering marvels. One does not sell those to the boche.
Faeelin said:I actually had a brain fart, and thought the Abwehr was the name for the German high command.
El Pip said:Which is never a good thing for a story, constant success does sap the tension somewhat. Unless of course you aspire to be the new Tom Clancy *shudder*
The two are fairly different, the requirements of a good tank commander or staff officer are not those of a intelligence officer.Atlantic Friend said:Come to think of it, it IS odd, though, how a system that basically produced good to very good officers could not develop a reliable instrument for military intelligence.
TheHyphenated1 said:Kurt_Steiner (2) - Or the Mary Rose...
Jealousy will get you nowhere sir.Kurt_Steiner said:Another fine example of Britannia's engineering marvels, indeed
El Pip said:Jealousy will get you nowhere sir.
I counter with a suitable Spanish failure, alas Spanish industry never progressed beyond new and inventive ways to be cruel to animals.Kurt_Steiner said:I admit, however, that the Hood was better than the Mary Rose and the Titanic together.