offer things as often as is possible. People's circumstances change. For example through other trades I now really wanted that Scharnhorst the Nagato had been offering. So I took it.
I'll claim the Arkhangelsk and J.O.B.
offer Shapeways Kormoran painted by me (Contending with weeds, lol)
To you from failing hands we throw the torch be yours to hold it high. -In Flanders Fields. John McCrea
I think Germany, as a country, HAD to ban Nazi associated images. Because they were government sponsored, if the succeeding government permitted them to be used by it's citizenry, that's a level of condoning it.
It would be saying, on some level, that the Nazi party and its associated actions were ok.
This is not the place to be talking about Confederacy throw backs or it's symbolism
To you from failing hands we throw the torch be yours to hold it high. -In Flanders Fields. John McCrea
I don't think it's a matter of Germany not acknowledging or pretending the Nazis didn't exist nor the actions of WW2 never happened.
If I remember correctly, Germany was having trouble with neo Nazis in the 80's and this was a measure to help stamp it out.
I would bet large sums of money that Germany is entirely aware and conscious of the past
Well, I didn't want to get into this, but ok, if you insist.
No one believes that the Germans aren't aware of their history. However, Germany banned the swastika in 1949, not in the 1980's. The point waratsea and I are making is banning the swastika doesn't remove it from memory nor from history. To prove my point, you mention the problem in the 1980's, and it still persists today with the neo-nazis. Banning the swastika didn't stop or really change anything. My hope is it doesn't have the opposite effect.
I'm saying that they didn't ban it to try to remove it from history or memory. They banned it because it represents hatred. They also banned the solar cross of the KKK, as well as a number of other symbols and "forms of greeting"
Oh! And it is still permitted to use for art, science, research or teaching. So it would be very arguable to allow it on a model
Yeah, if they were supposed to be immune to cripple effects it'd be noted on the card
Now here's the interesting part;
Installations were made after the rule book as weeds said. So since it's a different type than "Ship" or "Submarine" it should have specific rules that would say it ISN'T immune to the effects of Crippling rather than is.
It kind of makes sense that installations would either be functioning (not crippled) or out of commission (destroyed). It's a bit different from ships that I'd say are more susceptible to limited functionality than an installation