Aragorn2002
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I'm not often lost for words, but this mod from Lucky Strike really takes my breath away.....What a superb labour of love this is. Yes, the ultimate landscape conversion for CMBN, that's for sure!
Can't wait for the September in the Netherlands mod!
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3 hours ago, RepsolCBR said:
If its anything like his Death of the leaping horseman then its a must buy imo...
Leaping horseman cover the deeds of the 24th panzerdivition during its Stalingrad adventure. The divition had the good fortune of being pulled from the line infront of moscow in 41 when it still was a cavalry divition. No such luck during 42 though.
This book is of the highest quality with nice pictures and some of the best maps i have ever seen.
As I understand it...Island of fire is more concentrated on the fighting in the factory district to the north...not so much on the earlier fighting in the city...
Don't forget the new Panzerkrieg series by the same author, on the panzer units that fought at Stalingrad. Stunning research and lots of new pictures. The first book has already been released.
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Since it seems that we can forget about Fire and Rubble until after the Season holidays, I suggest that this is also a good time to re-read books about the Ardennes offensive. The Duel in the Mist-series by Timm Haasler, Roddy MacDougall and Hans Weber comes to mind.
Apart from that I've started the Kampfgruppe Peiper-campaign again, which is great for this time of the year.
I'm also planning on a self made winter battle in Italy, using MJKerners great Goumiers-mod. Still one of my favorite mods.
As I always use to say, there's still so much to explore....
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16 minutes ago, Jace11 said:
Looks like state sponsored propaganda to me.
Ministry of culture and ministry of defence? Perhaps someone decided all the books by western historians detailing the Red Army’s conduct in Ukraine, the Baltic states and Poland needed some counter balance. I find reading these books pretty difficult given the amount of pages detailing the use of mass rape as a terror tactic, and often in countries who’s only crime was to be occupied by Germany. The murder and genocide I am less shocked by now, having read a few.
I agree. Few things are as disgusting as rape.
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For those interested the links of the book I've mentioned:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/1939-War-That-Many-Fathers/dp/144668623X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+war+that+had+many+fathers&qid=1607422628&sr=8-1
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Freedom-Betrayed-Aftermath-Institution-Publication/dp/0817912347/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=freedom+betrayed&qid=1607422740&sr=8-1
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7 minutes ago, Freyberg said:
I read a funny one the other day:
"Say what you like about Hitler, but he didn't go round calling his enemies Nazis."
As for the movie - my old dad used to have a go at me for watching war movies and playing wargames.
"Fun, were they?" he used to say, "Hitler and that lot? Entertaining?"
And I'd go, "Geez, Dad - it's just a movie..."
He was right of course. It is a strange addiction.
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3 hours ago, danfrodo said:
this is ridiculous. It's classic old fascist claptrap where they say "what about Stalin" when they are really saying "Hitler had the right idea" but know they can't say that out loud so do it this way. And then we have memoirs of captured german soldiers who complain how badly they were treated by the soviets -- after having killed ~15% of the soviet population. they were treated horribly and suffered terribly, but no worse than what was done to those hundreds of thousands (millions?) of soviet prisoners who the germans let die in 1941/42. So let's not play the "who was worse" game.
yeah yeah yeah, we all know Stalin was a murderous monster of unbelievable proportions. I read a book on Stalin and was shocked that he was even worse than I thought when I already thought he was an incredible monster. Which somehow gets Hitler off the hook, and also shows that the allies were hypocrites, and we should've allied w hitler to stop the commies, blah blah blah.
But all that really matters here is some russian folks made a movie that has lots of 45mm AT guns shooting at some realistic-looking german tanks, and that's all I really care about. I am not watching this for it's literary elegance or great moral enlightenment or historical accuracy (other than the gear, which has to be right). I just want some CM-looking battles on my TV. I usually fast forward through the pathetically scripted non-battle sections anyway (who can write such drivel?). So they made it into russian propaganda? who cares, everyone does that -- as if hollywood never made nationalistic, propaganda-filled war movies. Just show me some good battles.
And herbert hoover never had to make the choice of which monster to back, so it's easy for him to throw stones later. If the soviets had fallen how long before the US was facing armadas of german Uboats sinking all our commerical shipping? What choice did we really have other than to back Devil #2 to fight Devil#1?
Just read the books, Frodo. I agree that calling people with another opinion fascists will cost you less time and probably make you feel better, but from reading books you'll learn more.
Apart from that movies like this aren't just good fun, but must be seen in the context of what's happening in Russia. Glorifying war and prepare people for another, are never a good sign when used by a dictator. And you can bet movies like this are sponsored by the same propaganda machine.
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8 hours ago, Erwin said:
Well... The book seems to outline well the Soviets believed that they had to do what they had to do to have the USSR survive (they had been under attack from white forces since the Oct Revolution), and change from a rural/agrarian society to an industrial one fast or the USSR might implode. They had to suppress dissent and the only way they could get the foreign currency was to sell food - and those motivations largely caused the Ukrainian famines as well as the Pogroms and exiles to Siberia etc. (Plus there was much historical ethnic hatred between Poles, Ukrainians, Russians etc etc.)
HItler and the Nazis didn't embark on a war of survival but one of conquest and empire-building and unnecessarily created a strategy of deliberate massacre by building factories to kill millions of people that they didn't like. While the end result was similar, the intent was quite different and that is probably why history is the way it is.
I MOST strongly recommend reading The War That Had Many Fathers by Schultze-Rhonhof,it will probably change that point of view.
Freedom Betrayed by Herbert Hoover will probably do the same for your view on the Pacific War.
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1 hour ago, Sgt.Squarehead said:
Shhhh....Don't mention South Korea:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_South_Korea
Amongst so many, many others.
Homo homini lupus.
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26 minutes ago, Sgt.Squarehead said:
Hitler & Stalin hardly had a monopoly in massacre.
No, but they most certainly had a main share.
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3 minutes ago, Erwin said:
You would find interesting the book I mentioned a few months ago called "Bloodlands". https://www.amazon.com/Bloodlands-Europe-Between-Hitler-Stalin/dp/0465031471
Very readable but goes into detail re how many died and where and how in the 30's due to Stalin - before Hitler came along and decided to compete for the gold.
Actually i've read that book and many others, Erwin. I can also recommend Red Famine by Applegate. For me it's a life long mystery why these massacres don't get the same attention as those caused by the Germans.
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1 minute ago, Bufo said:
Agreed. Stalin was the single biggest traitor of Russia. For this very reason I cannot understand the Stalin lovers. For example, Putins favorite motorcycle band has Stalins picture on the wall in their "HQ".
They never learn, do they?
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Perhaps for a change a movie can be made by Russians about the tens of millions of innocent and defenceless people that died because of communism, Soviet occupation and Stalin's malice, the misery and cruelty in the unspeakable Gulag concentration camps, the blind terror of the NKVD, both in Russia and Eastern Europe that destroyed millions of lifes, the deportation of millions of Russians, Estonians, Latvians, Poles, Hungarians, Germans, Rumanians and many other nationalities, the murder by starvation upon millions of Ukrainians etc etc etc instead of glorifying a war for which the Russians themselves were for a large part responsible.
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1 hour ago, RepsolCBR said:
Or even better...perhaps the graphic artist at BFC could find the time to add such a touch to these walls while we are waiting for the release.
As long as that doesn't result in new delay...
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11 hours ago, BFCElvis said:
I'm sure that I have posted screenshots of these before but this is the new half wall,
Yes, you did. I remember that now. Perhaps in time someone can make a wall mod with bullet and grenade holes/damage, to make it look even better.
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32 minutes ago, Sgt.Squarehead said:
We have always been able to damage buildings.
Damaged walls are a new terrain tile type which is being introduced in the forthcoming module.
Buildings yes, i know that much. Used it myself often enough.But walls that can be damaged, that's pretty cool. A damaged building with walls completely intact, doesn't look right.
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On 9/26/2020 at 10:27 PM, Bulletpoint said:
Yes, there's nothing quite as terrifying as the thousand yard stare of a former CM modder.
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2 hours ago, Sgt.Squarehead said:
I believe damaged walls are a feature of the new pack.
You can create damage to building walls by Ctrl+Clicking on them and cycling through the various options.
With new pack you mean the new module? Or the new patch?
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22 minutes ago, Sgt.Squarehead said:
Ctrl+Click is a wonderful thing.
PS - Wish we had independent buildings for CM:SF2, there's a limit to what can be done with the old modular types.
It's not possible to damage walls, is it?
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35 minutes ago, Ithikial_AU said:
Thank you, Ithikial.
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2 hours ago, Ithikial_AU said:
Next up is core units. I may need to clear this next part with Battlefront before release.
We are prepared to swear to secrecy if necessary.
Great looking church btw. The damage on the middle part is superb. Is there a map on which it can be found?
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10 hours ago, Vacilllator said:
So given recent events, I would like to say 'when it's ready, it's ready'. I'll buy it.
Although to be honest I am somewhat distracted by being a gunner in a Tiger and basing what I do on a translation of the actual WW2 'manual' (which I already had from elsewhere). How could I not love that?
Indeed. You convinced me. It's quite a hefty price, but I think this is one of those games that's worth the money.
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2 minutes ago, BFCElvis said:
But, having said that........I am going to give this thread about 10 minutes before locking it up. There are at least 2 other threads where/thoughts/concerns about the time the module is taking can be commented on. No need for 3.
That's censorship, plain and simple. You might as well ban me.
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4 minutes ago, BFCElvis said:
Kept in the dark about what? What question would you like answered that hasn't been answered already? I'm happy to give it a shot. What am I missing here? I gave a release date and that date wasn't in December. Expecting it in December when a release date in January was given isn't realistic, is it?
My problem with you is that I don't have any confidence left in what you say. Too many broken promises.
You probably think you're very smart by giving a release date in January, while most people in this community hope for a pre-Christmas release and not for the first time, I might add. Don't you communicate with your boss either? Do you allow Steve to make a public announcement, while you know his promise can't be kept? In my world that would have cost you your position, without a golden handshake. You're not fit for communication as you've proved time and time again.
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No, no, no, Lucky Strike, you gave us already so much of your time and talent! Please don't take it as impatience, when I say that I'm looking forward to more. Next year September will do nicely....
Whatever I can do to help you, I will gladly do, so please let me know. But first enjoy your rest. You deserved it!