Mistake on civ3.com?

[Sabre2th]

In the civ of the week section, it shows the Panzer tank blowing up instead of attacking, like all the previous UUs. Is this a mistake?

[d_dudy]

Originally posted by Sabre2th
In the civ of the week section, it shows the Panzer tank blowing up instead of attacking, like all the previous UUs. Is this a mistake?

maybe dan REALLY doesn't like nazis...

[Comrade Tribune]

Originally posted by d_dudy
maybe dan REALLY doesn't like nazis...

Nazis don´t appear in CivIII; the Panzer would be used by either German Democracy or German Communism. Perhaps Dan doesn´t like Germans.

[Setsuna]

Maybe it was because the explosion animation looked cooler? Maybe?

Nah, they just hate Germans. :P

[d_dudy]

Originally posted by Comrade Tribune


Nazis don´t appear in CivIII; the Panzer would be used by either German Democracy or German Communism. Perhaps Dan doesn´t like Germans.

now i'm sure the fine german people wouldn't be silly enough to pick communism on their own free will.

[Comrade Tribune]

Originally posted by Setsuna
Maybe it was because the explosion animation looked cooler? Maybe?

Hmmm; maybe the 'F15 being shot down' animation looks cool, too. Something tells me, this is not the way the F15 will be presented next week, though.

[KaiserKiser]

whats all this anti-german propoganda???? (check the name )

[David Floyd]

Comrade: Especially because an F-15 has never been lost in air to air combat IRL

[Setsuna]

Here's an interesting post I read at another forum related to the issue at hand:

Note - this has been edited for conciseness - the original post can be found in its entirity at the following address:

http://216.203.248.212/ubb/Forum1/HTML/011713-2.html

Go into a Border's bookstore or a Barne's and Noble's and look at the German section of the Eurpoean history shelves. You'd think that Germany suddenly coalesced into existence in 1927 with the expressed purpose of being the world's villians. They then just as suddenly vanished from the earth in 1945.

Unfortunately, two world wars worth of propaganda have painted a portrait of the "Murdering Hun" in the American psyche. It is doubly ironic seeing as most of our armed forces fighting in Europe in WWII were of German ancestry. People used to joke about what side Eisenhower and Nimitz were on.

The point is that many Americans seem to dislike Germans because of WWI&II. Nevermind that every fourth person in America is of German descent..

[d_dudy]

come to missouri, where it's more like 1/2 of the people are german.

i've been called a nazi, jokingly, before by my friends though. even though i'm catholic and that doesn't really jibe well with naziism

naziism? is that what it's called? well whatever.

[Your.Master]

Originally posted by d_dudy
naziism? is that what it's called? well whatever.

National Socialism, or Nazi. The abreviation Nazi is it's own "ism".

[Setsuna]

Nope, the F-15 just drops it's payload.

I guess Firaxis is biased against Germans!