Pretty cool site on history

[Mr. P]

Check it out. :2up:

http://www.history.com/

[Kathianne]

Check it out. :2up:

http://www.history.com/

That is a great site, especially for younger people. Personally I read a lot of journals, but I like to browse on sites like that. Thank you.

[NightTrain]

History is a good site.

Try this one out :

http://military.discovery.com/games/armchair-general/armchair-general.html

[NightTrain]

Bah!

I can't get above the rank of Private in the Armchair General game... I always considered myself fairly knowledgeable about history but they really throw some curveballs.

Anyone else do better?

[Kathianne]

Bah!

I can't get above the rank of Private in the Armchair General game... I always considered myself fairly knowledgeable about history but they really throw some curveballs.

Anyone else do better?

I sucked. Private, here too!

[NightTrain]

Just got to the rank of Colonel with a score of 1811... it appears that the ranks jump from Sergeant to Colonel.

They've got some real obscure military questions in there.

[SassyLady]

Just got to the rank of Colonel with a score of 1811... it appears that the ranks jump from Sergeant to Colonel.

They've got some real obscure military questions in there.

99% of them are obscure to me!! :laugh:

[NightTrain]

99% of them are obscure to me!! :laugh:

Just got 2623, General rating!

Matt O that has all the high scores must be a robot. Either that or he's answered all of them and knows them... you get higher scores for faster answers.

[SassyLady]

Just got 2623, General rating!

Matt O that has all the high scores must be a robot. Either that or he's answered all of them and knows them... you get higher scores for faster answers.

Congrats NT!!! Are you a one star now? And that Matt character, probably designed the game and chose all the questions!


All those acronyms kill me!!!

If they ask me what this is, I can answer it.

ROFLMBO!!!

I got the answers about George Washington right!!! But, alas, I'm still a private.

[NightTrain]

Sorry for derailing your thread, Mr. P. Just realized that. :eek:

[NightTrain]

Congrats NT!!! Are you a one star now? And that Matt character, probably designed the game and chose all the questions!


All those acronyms kill me!!!

If they ask me what this is, I can answer it.

ROFLMBO!!!

I got the answers about George Washington right!!! But, alas, I'm still a private.

What gets me are the obscure questions (at least to me) about Genghis Khan and his battles. And the land mines currently in use in the U.S. Military.

[SassyLady]

So ... from the website:

What is the most expensive piece of equipment ever built and what is it used for?

[NightTrain]

So ... from the website:

What is the most expensive piece of equipment ever built and what is it used for?

I'd have to say, off the top of my head, it's the B-2... either that or one of our Aircraft Carriers.

No, wait... the Missile Defense Shield.

[Mr. P]

Sorry for derailing your thread, Mr. P. Just realized that. :eek:
Ta hell with the thread, I just need a promotion!!:laugh:

[SassyLady]

Ta hell with the thread, I just need a promotion!!:laugh:

are you stuck on private also?

[Mr. P]

Here's the description of the game...Pretty accurate I think.

Armchair General (http://military.discovery.com/games/armchair-general/armchair-general.html)
This game is specially designed to weed out the real military know-it-alls from the pretenders.
Now here's another game on the same site. Made it to level 5 before I ran out of ammo.

Discovery Channel Cannon Challenge (http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/future-weapons/games/cannon/cannon.html)
How's your aim? Test your firepower skills with our new Non-Line-Of-Sight cannons.

[abso]

Just got 2623, General rating!

Matt O that has all the high scores must be a robot. Either that or he's answered all of them and knows them... you get higher scores for faster answers.

i got 2956, couldn't beat the high score although i answered all the question correctly, not even a single wrong answer ;)


http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/1701/myscoreb.jpg


PS: i forgot to mention that i cheated, i stopped the timer completely till i searched for each answer, some question were easy to search and others were very hard.

[NightTrain]

Here's the description of the game...Pretty accurate I think.
Now here's another game on the same site. Made it to level 5 before I ran out of ammo.

Discovery Channel Cannon Challenge (http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/future-weapons/games/cannon/cannon.html)
How's your aim? Test your firepower skills with our new Non-Line-Of-Sight cannons.

Yeah, I played that a few times and think I got to level 7 before I ran out... got lucky on a few shots.

My 7 year old son has potential being a Howitzer gunner, he got to level 4 all by himself! It's amazing how fast a young mind picks up on concepts when presented in a video game.

[NightTrain]

i got 2956, couldn't beat the high score although i answered all the question correctly, not even a single wrong answer ;)


http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/1701/myscoreb.jpg


PS: i forgot to mention that i cheated, i stopped the timer completely till i searched for each answer, some question were easy to search and others were very hard.

Oh, I didn't know you could stop the timer... I was doing it the hard way.

[abso]

Oh, I didn't know you could stop the timer... I was doing it the hard way.

of course normally you couldnt, i just hacked the memory and stopped it, freezed IE, the timer on my screen stopped in each question, which allowed me to search for the answer before i stop the freezing to let the game show the next question, then freeze it again and so on, but of course the timer in the server didnt stop, thats why i got the lowest score in most of the questions, about 140 i think, if i could search more fast in one or two questions, i would have been the first in the score list ;)

[NightTrain]

Here's the description of the game...Pretty accurate I think.
Now here's another game on the same site. Made it to level 5 before I ran out of ammo.

Discovery Channel Cannon Challenge (http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/future-weapons/games/cannon/cannon.html)
How's your aim? Test your firepower skills with our new Non-Line-Of-Sight cannons.

Made it to the end of level 12 and missed the last target that's a missile that appears and disappears from it's silo. Final score of 127,700

[Gaffer]

Tried the game last night. Made it to level 9. Nice time killer. It's similar to a game called Scorch and another called Tanks.

[SassyLady]

I can't get past level six. I really need to work on that elevation and velocity thing ... and .... a couple of times I hit the fire button when I thought I was changing the velocity .... ooops!!!

[namvet]

how can I be a private??? I was in the USN :laugh2: