A question for the creators of the mod...

[ForkHead]

I was reading a snippet of your interview with Planet Half life today and I read how you guys would like to be taken seriously (My being canadian I understand fully) but one thing had me preplexed...if you set out to create a WW2 based mod from the british point of view why would you give your mod a ridiculous name such as "ham and jam"? If you would like to be taken seriously I suggest you change the name. I cant help but laugh my ass off whenever I see an update on PHL

[Ginger Lord]

Its fun, its quirky, its rememberable and its historical.

[Pierog]

its a good title.

[Faceman]

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~njmckay/Hamnjam.htm

[crookedJ0K3R]

Its a very good name, dont question the name.

I like it.

[summit]

hahaha like the name's going ot affect the content of the mod...

think it represents the light-hearted nature of the mod quite well.

beats something like dawn of valour, or code of heros...hell all you have to do is put the same words into a machine and bingo! here comes something generically random!

[Blue]

The British have a stereotype going for understating and surgar-coating, so a name like Ham and Jam for a war game is perfect. Plus the story with the Orne bridges kind of captures the patriotism of the mod since they captured both bridges with speed and effeciency, enough to report it all with 3 words.

Good name all in all :wink:

[ForkHead]

I understand now.... I will leave. Thank you for your help.

[War Pig]

lol. Jed and I actually were discussing and laughing about the whole "wtf is wrong with the name" -questions to emerge, before the mod went "public". :lol: All in good fun. :D

[zone trooper]

well i'm british and i like the name but they could of called it tea & cumpets

[Rome]

It's the best name.

[jmc0b]

i think its a great name... very very different...

given who is involved with this mod , i think it will be taken very seriously..

i think ham and jam was the first time i actually looked up what the meaning was...

[Defpotec]

well i'm british and i like the name but they could of called it tea & cumpets

Indeed this would have amused me...

[2ltben]

I was sort of hoping for the name "Dad's Army" myself.

[Sir_Winston]

nothing wrong with the name at all, it represents the code name for one of the best british military feats of WW2 now what could be more fitting than that.

[War is Hell]

You would have to know the creators of the mod to really understand the why they came up with that name...all in all I think its a good name.

[Blue]

not really, they explained it already.

[Taffeh]

When I saw the title, I knew exactly what it was and what it was about....

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/074345068X/qid=1151659323/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/026-0646930-0563657

A worthwhile read, anyone who liked Band of Brothers will love this!

Would of loved the BBC (as they helped on BoB) to of picked this up as a 2 part-er

[2ltben]

One of Ambrose's few somewhat unbiased works, imo. He goes out of his way to sell the drama, but at least he covers both sides.

[Jed]

One of Ambrose's few somewhat unbiased works, imo. He goes out of his way to sell the drama, but at least he covers both sides.

And also makes a large number of errors of fact.

[Spartacus]

Tell us, Jed!

TELL US!

[Trp Dutch]

As a historian (*ahum* I do have a masters degree in History and Art although I have not been "in the field" doing reserach for at least 12 years) its always a surprise how much of what is considered to be "fact" is "in fact" a concoction of interpretations and popular myth. In that sense Hollywood (and books like the ones written by Ambrose et al.) have done more harm then good. I always find going to the places where "it" actually "happened" much more of an eye opener, that next to sound scientific research and critical source material analysis gives you a much better picture then reading a popular non-scientific work based on secondary literature. But hey, sitting in archives going through first hand battlefield reports and miles and miles of all kinds of papers, pictures and film is very boring to say the least ;)