Right on, MAA...I agree completely.

You see so much of the same nonsense when browsing through some of the WWII sim sites and somebody talks about their experiences as playing the "German faction" (so to speak) and how that relates to their own knowledge of the strategic and tactical elements of the German war machine of the early- to mid-1940s. Unfortunately, they all too often are met with vile rants against them, labeling them as "Nazi fanboys" -- supposedly nothing more than Hitlerjugend wanna-be's that were born a generation or two late in history.

It all seems to be a bit silly to me...I'm personally fascinated by the way in which the average German soldier dealt with the experience of battle on the Eastern Front in the 1940s, and I'm now fascinated -- thanks to RTW and EB -- in a similar understanding of the Roman soldier's experiences in battles across the sands of Africa, the forests of Germania, and the steppes of Asia. Does that make me a "Roman fanboy"?? I think not!