| emckinney | 20 Jan 2015 9:52 a.m. PST |
How many can you find without looking at the captions? link |
 x42brown  | 20 Jan 2015 10:28 a.m. PST |
I've obviously done this one before as I found myself looking in the right places even if I did not really see them clearly. x42 |
 Parzival | 20 Jan 2015 12:05 p.m. PST |
Had a few solid guesses, just because I knew the sort of clues to look for, or where I'd place myself. But walking through the woods or just looking at the image without knowing someone was there, I'd never notice them.
Great stuff. Of course, we all know the importance of Not Being Seen… YouTube link
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| GROSSMAN | 20 Jan 2015 1:47 p.m. PST |
I spotted two, but I sprayed all of the photos with my MG42 and killed the rest. |
 Legion 4  | 20 Jan 2015 3:22 p.m. PST |
About 50% …  |
 Herkybird | 20 Jan 2015 3:30 p.m. PST |
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| emckinney | 20 Jan 2015 4:26 p.m. PST |
It's little things like this that could really have slowed down a Soviet blitzkrieg if the Cold War went hot. Shoot one vehicle commander, or just one soldier in dismounted infantry. Of course, Soviet special forces could have wreaked a lot of havoc on NATO as well, but it's always easier to set up lots of tiny ambushes as the defender. |
| jtkimmel | 20 Jan 2015 6:07 p.m. PST |
Yes Parzival, after the second picture I was hearing John Cleese. |
| Mithmee | 20 Jan 2015 7:19 p.m. PST |
Yes for the most part the only ones that gave me the most problems were the Rocky picture and the one where he was in the far background on the small hill. But most were quite easy to find. |
| John Treadaway | 21 Jan 2015 7:12 a.m. PST |
Got 5 out of 8. Almost impossible to spot (well for me at least) without the sort of time required to look over the scenes in enormous detail that the real wrld probably doesn't offer. But I guess thats kinda the point. As the IRA said to Thatcher, "you have to be lucky every day, we only have to be lucky once". On that basis, I'd be dead as a rock. John T |
| Martin Rapier | 21 Jan 2015 8:01 a.m. PST |
You can certainly tell the difference between the inexperienced recruits and the experts, particularly the guy who has done the classic 'hide behind the only tree for miles around'. Most impressive was the one in the rocks. |
| uglyfatbloke | 21 Jan 2015 9:10 a.m. PST |
Yup. After failing miserably with the first pic I gave myself 5 seconds with each image. I saw the guy under the Silver Birch immediately, but that was the lot.
Last month I played in a series of laserquest-type games in a forest in Scotland (Creiff Hydro) and it was pretty hard to see anybody at all in their camo overalls.
Had it not been for the red 'target' light that everyone has to wear I doubt if I 'd have seen anyone at all and that was with total neophytes rather than trained soldiers.
Made me think long and hard about wargame casualties in close country |
| RTJEBADIA | 22 Jan 2015 8:44 p.m. PST |
YouTube link ^I like to think this inspired Monty Python… the similarity in one particular scene is too great. |
| Monophagos | 28 Jan 2015 2:52 p.m. PST |
Nuke them from orbit…the only way to be sure |
looks at a multi-period building.