Did I miss something in history...?

[Sturmbock1]

This screenshot was taken during a Quick Mission in England on the Normandy map near Dover.

[6./ZG26_Loke]

It's Lt. Gruber and his little tank. 

[343KKT_Kintaro]

Is'nt this a "Leichter Panzerspähwagen" ? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leichter_Panzersp%C3%A4hwagen )

 

EDIT : Yes, I think it is a "Leichter Panzerspähwagen" (as named in Wikipedia) or a "Sd.Kfz.222", the version as it was named in a game update last year. Alles Gut  

Edited October 14, 2022 by 343KKT_Kintaro

[Eisenfaustus]

I think he‘s referring to German army units in the UK…

 

Quick missions are designed for action not authenticity. If you find Panzeraufklärungskräfte north of the channel in career something might be off

[343KKT_Kintaro]

1 minute ago, Eisenfaustus said:

I think he‘s referring to German army units in the UK…

 

 

Yep, I got that part of the OP and this is why I found funny that joke with Lt. Gruber's little tank. I poorly know the set of available AI vehicles in the Great Battles series and I was wondering what this German vehicle is. End of the off topic, apologies.

 

 

[MAJ_stug41]

2 hours ago, 6./ZG26_Loke said:

It's Lt. Gruber and his little tank. 

It vas very cold and lonely on ze eastern front

[Trooper117]

The nearest Gruber got to the Eastern Front was Rene's Cafe in Nouvion!

[dbuile]

"You mean that wasn't the ferry to Guernsey?!"

[tattywelshie]

5 hours ago, 6./ZG26_Loke said:

It's Lt. Gruber and his little tank. 

The world doesn’t have enough Ello Ello references! Good moaning! ?

[Trooper117]

I think you mean 'Allo, Allo' surely?

[343KKT_Kintaro]

42 minutes ago, tattywelshie said:

The world doesn’t have enough Ello Ello references! Good moaning! ?

 

 

I'm sorry tattywelshie, I missed the pun. What is "Ello"?

 

 

[percydanvers]

Shhhhhh!! It's a very sneaky little tank

[BOO]

31 minutes ago, 343KKT_Kintaro said:

 

 

I'm sorry tattywelshie, I missed the pun. What is "Ello"?

 

 

"Ello" is a sort of shorthand traditional English way of saying "Hello" 

 

We had a comedy farce show in the UK called "Allo Allo" that Tattie mistyped. It was inspired by a rather dark BBC tale of the reistance called Secret Army.  The reference to "Good Moaning" comes from a character in the show Officer Crabtree (an undercover english agent pretending to be a French policman). The contrive is that when the characters are speaking in french, its outragiously overdone, same for english, German and Italian. So the character who the line is attributed to is an englishman speaking "french" but mispronouncing certain phrases which then become double entandres or similar. 

 

I hated it at the time - only now do I realise its utter genius. 

 

 

Edited October 14, 2022 by BOO

[R33GZ]

Listen very closely I vill say zis only vonce ?

[343KKT_Kintaro]

10 minutes ago, BOO said:

"Ello" is a sort of shorthand traditional English way of saying "Hello"

 

 

Didn't know that! Thank you...

 

 

10 minutes ago, BOO said:

We has a comedy farce show in the UK called "Allo Allo" that Tattie mistyped.

 

 

That bloody Tattie! ? I know the TV series "Allo Allo", it has been exported to the two countries were I've lived in, France and Spain.

 

 

10 minutes ago, BOO said:

It was inspired by a rather dark BBC tale of the reistance called Secret Army.  The reference to "Good Moaning" comes from a character in the show Officer Crabtree (an undercover englisg agent pretending to be a French policman). The contrive is that when the characters are speaking in french, its outragiously overdone, same for english, German and Italian. So the character who the line is attributed to is an englishman speaking "french" but mispronouncing certain phrases which then become double entandres or similar.

 

 

Yep, I more or less remember that. The puns, the double entendres... I watched that show many years ago, although I never followed it faithfully. Thank you Boo.

 

 

[DBFlyguy]

9 hours ago, Sturmbock1 said:

This screenshot was taken during a Quick Mission in England on the Normandy map near Dover.

It totally lines up with this documentary film....

 

 

???

[MajorMagee]

England invaded? We'll quickly set things right again...

 

 

Please pardon the homage to Angela Landsbury.

Edited October 14, 2022 by MajorMagee

[danielprates]

4 hours ago, Trooper117 said:

I think you mean 'Allo, Allo' surely?

 

He did. And don't call him Shirley.

[Zeev]

9 hours ago, Eisenfaustus said:

I think he‘s referring to German army units in the UK…

 

Quick missions are designed for action not authenticity. If you find Panzeraufklärungskräfte north of the channel in career something might be off

Another post "its not a bug, its a feature", and no wonder that the "programmer" liked your post.

[Scent]

38 minutes ago, Zeev said:

Another post "its not a bug, its a feature", and no wonder that the "programmer" liked your post.

AQMB creates enemies close where you start, so if you select a england airfield and allied aircraft, it's obvious it will generate germans on england

[LukeFF]

1 hour ago, Zeev said:

Another post "its not a bug, its a feature", and no wonder that the "programmer" liked your post.

 

It's been a feature since Rise of Flight and when the Channel map was integrated over there...and the exact same (and reasonable) explanation was given then.

[senseispcc]

It is a litttle problem with distance and the mission maker on the Normandy map!

If you ask for a fast mission in the game on the Normandy map you should do it on the map when the allies are already on the French beaches so that the Germans are in France at less than the 50 milles required for the mission!

If you chose the D-day map then your ally plane begin in the British Iles and due to the 50 milles rule so do the German targets...