Czar Nicholas II Rehabilitated

[xeoran]

Deserved it?.  It was considered a practical necessity.  To let them live could and probably would have resulted in more people rallying to the White cause and thus to the deaths of countless more red soldiers and civilians.  On balance better they should die than us.

Bad things happen in a war as the civilian populations of any town shelled or bombed in the Twentieth Century can testify.  The only argument that makesd any sense is that of military necessity.  Sometimes, like Dresden, its just revenge.

On purely humanitarian grounds of course the Reds should have attempted to achieve their political and social objectives through peaceful and preferably legal means rather than by direct violent action from which only war could result. I rather worry to imagine a world where 'necessity' was the only reason we needed for taking human life away. I don't think its particularly controversial to say I'm not much a fan of the actions or attitudes of the historical Reds or Whites and would much rather mess around with their BoB versions than the realities.

To choose a more interesting and somewhat more relevant point here's something I was previously unaware of: in the 1904 Russo-Japanese war there were high casualties from barbed wire defences- because they were electrified! I wonder why nobody did this in WW1?

[Plynkes]

Because of the leccy bill you'd get if you tried electrifying a fence from Nieuwpoort to Basel.

[twrchtrwyth]

Wonder how you would represent electrified wire in a rules system? Equivalent to being hit by a grenade?

[xeoran]

Wonder how you would represent electrified wire in a rules system? Equivalent to being hit by a grenade?

Personally I'd get one of those little shocker things and just shock my opponent when he isn't expecting it.

In game terms if he doesn't howl then the miniature survives. Any noise and captain crispy's snuffed it.

[Derek Beaufort]

Much as I would like to emulate Derek's rant by telling him what a prick he is I don't think this forum is the place for either him or me to debate our political preferences.  I find Derek's reactionary garbage depressing as I sure he would my revolutionary sentiements.  Neither belong here.  Can the moderator scrub this thread clean please?

Indeed, you never know how we might get carried away if he start talking about who deserves what.

The execution of a "tyrant" is not a communist prerogative. Nicholas II wasn't the first/last ruler put to death by the (put an ideology name here) revolutionaries.
Ah, and the anticommunist kill the communist tyrants too.

True. But I don't see them praised all over the web for that.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Ok, guys, I won't delete any entries but I close the discussion now. Thanks!