Those were some crazy days at the end of the Reich.
Professor Ogden Werstrom was a biter!!
Isn’t that the plot of a Bond film?
And now you know where my username came from. All that stuff about solar-powered houses was just a front. Fools! I will destroy you all!!!
[sub]Ask me how.[/sub]
Those Superman Morons thought they would need to shoot at guys further away as the Allies drew closer to Berlin? :rolleyes:
Diamonds Are For Oberth?
Yes, yes it is. And a really BAD Bond film at that.
This is just another reason why the Nazis make such great villains for movies, because even outlandish fiction can’t top the reality.
Nazis. I hate those guys.
Using a mirror to burn other cities?
How about using one to see how stupid you look in that mustache?
Um…how?
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Seriously, though … this Sun Gun sounds like a strange concatenation of “Hey, everybody looks like ants from up here” and a little boy standing over an anthill with a magnifying glass.
They ARE ants, Phase. They are ants.
The one tonne mortar sounds like a laugh, but after reading this you wonder why Starfleet named one of the weediest starship classes after him, he deserves a Death Star at least.
It’s the Illinois Nazis I hate.
Anybody remember the Far Side cartoon that depicted two ants who had climbed up a tall plant and were looking down on their friends, and one ant says to the other, “Wow, we really do look like ants from up here!”
The “Karl” siege mortar, I think. Fired an enormous projectile but with a range of a bit over 4 miles it was outdistanced by regular field artillery - so you might be able to get off a shot but every cannon in the area would promptly obliterate your position.
The rocket-firing Tiger sounds like the Sturmtiger, a modified Tiger tank that fired rocket-propelled depth charges (seriously). They built about 18 of these tanks, they were intended for use in house-house fighting in the invasion of the Soviet Union, the idea being to simply vaporize buildings rather than having to clear them out with infantry.
The list of bizarro secret weapons thought up during WW2 makes for fascinating reading.
Yep, and the Bond franchise does more recycling than American Waste Management. According to my rough calculations, the Bond franchise’s movie plots are composed of almost 30% monomaniac-controlled satellites and death beams. To wit:
You Only Live Twice: SMERSH deploys a predatory satellite that preys on USA and USSR astronauts, via the incredibly sophisticated technique of opening wide and just enveloping them (an old-school technique later duplicated on the high seas by evil Swedish shipping magnate Stromberg in The Spy Who Loved Me). No death beams of any kind are used… yet.
Diamonds Are Forever: Ernst Stavro Blofeld deploys a diamond-encrusted satellite solar collector to, erm, aim deadly solar rays, and he has enough diamonds left over for a bitchin’ collar for his Persian kitty. There’s also some nuke-warhead ICBMs involved, but I think those were actually the superpowers’ ICBMs, redirected by Blofeld.
The Man With the Golden Gun: Christopher Lee is not only the world’s most elite hit man (who uses either a gold-plated or solid gold gun), he’s also working on a solar-collector ray gun thingy. Golden guns, geddit? Drinking game: toast the phallic symbols in this movie.
Moonraker: Rogue industrialist Hugo Drax deploys his own space shuttle, stupid blond Ubermenschen, and poison-emitting plants in glass globes (or something) to kill everyone on the planet. (This is a blueprint for apocalypse that makes “mow everyone down with a solar death ray” seem downright reasonable by comparison.) Death rays of a sort do enter the picture, though, when Bond and Goodhead, in a NASA shuttle, shoot down those glass globes with laser beams.
Goldeneye: The Russians lose control over both of their “Goldeneye” satellite EMP weapons to a rogue general. This film is grittier and more realistic than its satellite- and death-beam-themed predecessors, with little camp appeal aside from Alan Cummings’ being in it.
Die Another Day: The North Koreans are stirring up trouble with some curiously persuasive plastic surgery and their solar death-ray satellite. It actually makes sense that they’d go with a solar weapon, 'cause in real life, Pyongyang can’t generate a decent electricity supply, food supply, heating fuel for winter, or anything else other than elaborate card-mosaic displays in their sports expositions.
I’ve played the simulated version of the Sturmtiger. Hell of a lot of fun. 
I never got to try out a Rammtiger, though.
…or the Ratte, or a number of other insane weapons, as Valgard said. But you don’t have to take my word for it!