Razwald

I would have lost the bet on the 2nd video.... NO WAY....   The first video is the basic hey we found an upside down Russian tank in a mudhole. I think this video has been around some years.... but the second one...  well...  you have to see it to believe it. I am still not exactly sure that there was a lot more going on behind the scenes but don't want to ruin it.
 

Ran across this.  I didn't learn anything new, but I laughed my but off and the animations are well done.  So enjoy.
 
 

I find this video amusing the player does the opposite of the game narrator.  What's amusing is the narrator will point it out and the game will railroad him into doing the right thing even if the player doesn't want to. Iy is really showing how games force the player to follow the right path.
The developer's new content room is pretty funny also.
 

Ran across this channel with some good content.
 

Pulled out some old music this weekend.  I was totally addicted to this song when it first came out.

Gilmour...  Great
 

I was not aware of it.  Must be a sign.

I read Bernard Cornwell's "Agincourt" which I thought was good.  At some point I would like to read his Sharpe series when I find some time. 

'Like Crécy itself, this book is a triumph and the tale it tells gives an old story new life.' BERNARD CORNWELL, bestselling author of The Last Kingdom series

A groundbreaking new study of the battle of Crécy, in which the outnumbered English under King Edward III won a decisive victory over the French and changed the course of the Hundred Years War.

The battle of Crécy in 1346 is one of the most famous and widely studied military engagements in history. The repercussions of this battle were felt for hundreds of years, and the exploits of those fighting reached the status of legend. Yet cutting-edge research has shown that nearly everything that has been written about this dramatic event may be wrong.

In this new study, Michael Livingston reveals how modern scholars have used archived manuscripts, satellite technologies and traditional fieldwork to help unlock what was arguably the battle's greatest secret: the location of the now quiet fields where so many thousands died.

Crécy: Battle of Five Kings is a story of past and present. It is a new history of one of the most important battles of the Middle Ages: a compelling narrative account of the battle of Crécy that still adheres to the highest scholarly standards in its detail. It is also an account that incorporates the most cutting-edge revelations and the personal story of how those discoveries were made.

Hi Pilots, 
1st: There is an IL2 sale running, much of the content (even the latest collector planes) are on discount => good chance for some new pilots to grab some items 🙂
2nd: Seems IL2 Development is really not dead, there are some very interesting plan(e)s, take a look on the current development blog:
Dev blog #342 / IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles (il2sturmovik.com)
They plan to add towable gliders!!!! Specifically the American Waco CG-4A..... => that adds the possibility of some very interesting missions... 🤩
Salute
Etzel

Hogan's Heroes
Showing on Freevee TV, Part of the Amazon Prime package.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058812/

 
Wheels

Picked this one up yesterday. It is 190 pages and filled with pictures.  So many that a person could finishing the book in one sitting.  So if you are looking for an in-depth book about MvR I would skip it. I grabbed it for the pictures. Something I can pick up from time to time and day dream of WWI aviation.

I was not aware of it.  Must be a sign.

Picked this one up yesterday. It is 190 pages and filled with pictures.  So many that a person could finishing the book in one sitting.  So if you are looking for an in-depth book about MvR I would skip it. I grabbed it for the pictures. Something I can pick up from time to time and day dream of WWI aviation.

For DCS, your inputs folder.
X:\Users\[name]\Saved Games\DCS.OpenBeta\Config\Input For IL-2 / FC:
X:\Program Files (x86)\1C Game Studios\IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad\data\input  

Another book on Yamamoto and the mission to Intercept him. This one was written in 1993.

 
Links to other books on the subject I have posted at Mudspike:
Post # 1 at Mudspike regarding this subject has research pdf's and several websites regarding the mission.
https://forums.mudspike.com/t/what-are-you-reading-right-now/12949/27?u=wheelsup_cavu

Post # 2
https://forums.mudspike.com/t/what-are-you-reading-right-now/12949/34?u=wheelsup_cavu

 
Wheels

Prisoners of the Castle

Consider it a solid read. I liked how the author summarized each of the major individuals lives after the war up to and including their passing in the last chapter.
Wheels
 

Well done April Fools prank by The Operations Room using the premise from an extremely popular movie.
Soviet Nuclear Submarine Defects to the United States, 1984 - Animated
 
Wheels

Ran across this.  I didn't learn anything new, but I laughed my but off and the animations are well done.  So enjoy.