I get it from my grandfather... 6th Ranger Battalion, famous for pulling off the very stealthy prisoner rescue at Cabanatuan.

Sadly, no tales to tell. To my knowledge, he never talked about the war, and died in 1967.

Toonstruck is one of the silliest, most ridiculous and dumbest games I've ever played.

I LOVE IT. :-)

My grandfather died before I was born, most of what I know is what my grandmother told me. I know he never used to like to talk about much of it, especially as the fatality level for the Commandos was very high, so I guess it was too painful for him to relive. I know he went all over and did some very impressive things, but I am no too sure on the details. My mother has his war diary somewhere, but she is not keen on me reading it.

Did your grandfather also have a Fairbairn–Sykes commando knife? I know when England was helping the US to train and establish the Rangers, that they were given our commando knife. But I am not sure if the US later switched to use their own knives. I think the OSS used the knife as well.

So would you consider it the ideal game for this thread?

Also, you put a big smile on my face knowing that you love it, so thank you for that. *big hug*

I would say it fits perfectly here. :-)
Glad you got a smile out of it. ;)

One of my grandfathers was a truck driver for the Wehrmacht in South-East Europe. He only would tell about the war after a few drinks. He didn't see much actual fighting, though he escaped fighter-bombers a few times, having to witness the mess that a bomb makes of a truck full of people... When I got melancholic, he would tell about his POW time in Serbia - tough stuff. When he was drunk enough he would go on and on about the great time in Greece, with the wine and the women... at which point Grandma would leave the room (not amused).

No, it's just insane. :-)

Glad you like it.

And now please everybody throw a round of +1s at ddickinson, because she just gifted me Train Fever!

And she did it, because, though I'm currently buried in games, I mentioned it was one I could play with my kids.

The only stories that he ever told anyone were about training in Hawaii. I don't think he ever wrote anything down.
I don't think he had a Fairbairn–Sykes knife. Other than the standard (M1 I think?) bayonet, he had a couple of machetes that he used to cut through thick trees and bushes in the jungle. We have them in a trunk in our house.

When I was studying for my history doctorate I did a large part of it on the two world wars (I read a lot of books about it even now, my little home library is filled with history books, many about the two wars), and it's quite sad when you see how people suffered, not just on the allied side but on the Axis side as well. I think many from Allied countries do not always realise that the average German soldier did not even really want to go to war, let alone be part of the Nazi regime.

One time during my course, we had a German guy come to talk, it was only a small group of us, as it was not actually part of the course, but he had worked for the SS during the war. I don't think he was actually in the SS, but he was attached to work with them. He had such a haunting look when he talked about it all, especially how the German people had been misled and lied to by the Nazis, and how they were pretty much forced into fighting. He told us that his brother had been one of the many Germans who opposed Hitler, and that he was executed for it. The last thing he said before he left was that he was thankful it was execution, and that he was glad his brother was not sent to a death camp like many others.

Lichdom: Battlemage looks right up your alley Ms DD. ;)

Don't tell everyone. I don't want them putting on high alert or I won't be able to sneakily ninja gift them. :-)

I hope you all have lots of fun on the game. I think it says it comes with a free DLC as well.

It supports 64bit OS only so be sure you can run it before you download. ;)

Interesting, I will go have a quick look at the game now.


Also, has anyone seen Owl today?

Not yet but she's been very busy at work lately.

Another grandfather used to tell the story, how he was in the resistance. He even was wounded in the shoulder - shot at by GeStaPo, making him an invalid. He was a medium-high ranking member in the Unified Socialist Party which granted him and his wife quite some privileges - including, ironically, visiting the evil imperialistic West Berlin. He even got a (small) allowance of West German money to do so.

Only after he died I learned the resistance story was all a lie. In fact he was an opportunist, making friends with higher ranking Nazi members which allowed him to avoid conscription, doing cozy office jobs in Berlin. He was wounded during an air raid. I don't know if he himself believed the resistance story in the end after telling it over and over.
His wife knew the truth however, and when he had died she told my dad, who in turn told me only a few years ago.
I've gone 64bit years ago, so no worries. :-)

Today is the day she has to travel all day with her boss.

(I said "day" a lot in that sentence... Oh well...)