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  1. Did some googling... hard to find any specific answers to what you were asking though, hope this helps in some way at any rate... 24th January - Hitler refuses Mansteins request that Paulus is ordered to surrender. 30th January - Hitler makes Paulus a Field Marshal, an indication that he expects Paulus to commit suicide rather than be captured. The Soviets locate and surround Paulus headquarters in the southern German pocket. 31st January - Paulus surrenders himself and the southern German pocket. General Strecker holds out in the northern pocket. 2nd February - the northern pocket surrenders. The Battle of Stalingrad is over. http://www.blease.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/WG.pzf.stalingrad02.html January 9, 1943: The Soviet ultimatum to 6.Armee at Stalingrad is ignored by order of Colonel-General von Paulus, and the battle continues with unabated ferocity. http://www.feldgrau.com/january.html December 19. Manstein advances to within 30 miles of Stalingrad, asks Paulus to attempt to breakout in his direction. Paulus, fearful of the Fuhrer's wrath, refuses to budge. http://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/BARBAROS.HTML [Jan]09 The Russians waited through the whole they but no answer came. Paulus asked Hitler again for freedom of action but it was refused. Hitler told Paulus that every day the 6th Army holds out, it helps the entire front. What that meant was that as long as the 6th Army tied up hundreds of thousands of enemy troops at Stalingrad, Army Group A ,in the Caucasus, had a better chance of escaping a Russian trap (Russian Operation Saturn). Paulus refuses to surrender, committing the Army to fight to its death. [Jan] 22 After another huge Soviet artillery barrage announcing the start of renewed attacks, Sixth Army’s airstrip, at Gumrak, is assaulted by the Russians, and is soon lost, as Paulus evacuates his headquarters and moves into the city itself. (Univermag department store) He asked Hitler the permission to surrender. "Absolutely not" thundered Hitler. Manstein backed the Paulus request, but Hitler would not budge. Italian and Hungarian forces in Russia were placed under German command, their own Headquarters being withdrawn to "reoganize". [Jan] 23 Paulus added the argument that his ammunition was almost all gone, and repeated the request for authority to negotiate a surrender of 6th Army. Hitler refused again. He argued that it must fight to the last in order to gain time. (for what is not so clear), and informed Paulus of this personally by radio. [Jan] 24 The Russians again offered surrender terms. Paulus reports that his Army can only hold out for another couple of days, and asks for permission to try and save some of his men, by filtering them out to the southwest. Again, Hitler resolutely refuses even this attempt to salvage anything of 6th Army, in spite of the fact that they are literally without food and ammunition. Now, the fighting in Stalingrad is sporadic and hopeless. etc. http://216.198.255.120/diary/ [ January 21, 2003, 04:01 PM: Message edited by: Xipe ]
  2. And even if it was so, do you really think I'm such a hypocrit that I would start asking government to protect a job I obviously aren't fit to hold? Go read some Hayek, Friedman, Nozick and Rand. Once you get a hold of the moral aspect (which I think is the most important and probably should have stuck to in my argumentation) things should start clear up for you. And apart from the moral aspect it really is sound economy, too. (edited out some immature remarks of mine and added Friedman to the "to read" list) [ January 19, 2003, 11:04 PM: Message edited by: Xipe ]
  3. My sector is already under "assault" from cheaper labour in India - I still do well since foreigners can't replace me in my domestic market. And I've never claimed that everything should or will move. Some jobs are bound to stay because of higher skill, more passion (where applicable to the product) or simply through the buyers patriotism. I have still to come across a solid reason why we should limit ourselves at what we buy. If the chinese make ships cheaper and faster than our shipyards, we should protect our slow and expensive shipyards? Not with my money, thank you. If you want to save US jobs that are lost in time please do... it's your money. But lobbying for politicians to help you out is just intellectually dishonest - unless of course you're a strong proponent of that sort of stuff, like socialists are.
  4. I earn a good living through ennobling (refining, I don't know which word is more proper) information instead of standing on a factory floor ennobling/refining metal or plastics into something more valuable (i.e. a product of sorts, a stereo, car or refrigerator). I'd class the whole IT-business (of which I am a part) to the service sector - sevices needn't just be cleaning jobs you know. While we in the west might lose some jobs refining metal and plastics (etc) we will be able to get those products cheaper and new opportunities in new job sectors will open up as poorer countries take on those labours (and we get more money over to buy these new services with). The future of the west will be in making information more valuable - while the poor countries take over our laborious tasks of refining solids (meanwhile they also get more influenced by us, thus more freedom-prone and democratic). Learn more about capitalism (in a political, not economic, sense) here: http://www.capitalism.org/index.asp [ January 19, 2003, 07:11 PM: Message edited by: Xipe ]
  5. I guess that depends on your outlook, wether you're a socialist or a capitalist. I'm capitalist, as far as I am concerned we're doing them a favour - the only favour we're capably of short of invading them and shoving our ideals down their throat. If you had any economic understadning you'd see that once their production rises (and our production goes down and creates more service jobs for us so that we don't have to bother with messy production any more) their salaries will slowly go up (as their available work force diminishes) and they in turn will lose production jobs to even poorer countries (like the asian tiger economies are doing now) and in turn devlop more service-oriented jobs - while improving their overall standard. Meanwhile their close contact with us will rub off and they will start growing warm to western ideals (which I have no qualms about calling superior in the context of what their contenders from the rest of the world would be). Free trade is good in every way imaginable. Sorry if you can't see that.
  6. I have _no_ evidence, what so ever, that this actually works (except for some vague empirical observations) - but I usually cancel the movement order of the vehicle (i.e. it's bigged at the end of turn, not immobilized yet) and then give it a Reverse order... that usually solves things. Though, be adviced I've not played CMBB for that long so my empirical evidence is vague to say the least - could all be in my mind (but I haven't immobilized any bogged tanks as of yet ).
  7. Time your infantry and use "pause" accordingly - i.e. make sure your infantry doesn't enter the artillery firing zone until the end of the round.
  8. And you need to check your premises. Just because you wouldn't work for $2.50 per hour, is it slave labour when you give someone a job in a shoe factory (for $2.50/hour) when the average salary in the country is $1.50? Think about what you say.
  9. Thanks for the input, I'll be sure to check those resources you mentioned. I had heard somewhere before that Sajer's account wasn't 100% accurate. As for why I want to do it is that I have been so touched by it. For me it was as traumatizing as it was to watch the intro scene to Saving Private Ryan and realizing that war is not something that you ever want to be a part of. And I've done compulsory military service, but that service didn't prepare me for what neither Saving Private Ryan, nor Forgotten Soldier, offered me emotionally. I'll try to take any historical critique of Forgotten Soldier to heart when making the scenarios, and once finished I'll be sure to post them to Scenario Depot (fictional or not). Again, thank you for your input. PS (edit) - I'll outline some of the proposed battles/operations once I've summarized them internally. But from the top of my mind I can think of the column of trucks that are ambushed by partisans, the heavy russian artillery preceding a russian winter attack, the defence and outbreak from a russian pocket, the crossing of the Donau, and the relief of a rumanian-held outpost under attack from partisans. [ January 19, 2003, 05:38 PM: Message edited by: Xipe ]
  10. www.cmmods.com have most of the mods you want and need, and they keep record of which game a certain mod applies to.
  11. I've been reading Forgotten Soldier (by Guy Sajer - excellent book, read it!) and discovering CMBB at the same time. Would anyone be interested in a "Forgotten Soldier-pack" which simulates a couple of the battles that Guy Sajer, in Gross Deutschland, experienced during the war? The battles would be, more or less, typical retreatment and delaying battles fought by the germans on the Ost Front during their retreat. The period covered would be winter -42 till winter -44 or something like that (maybe 5-10 battles).
  12. DELETE/FORGET [ January 19, 2003, 02:25 PM: Message edited by: Xipe ]
  13. I find it ironic that while Fionn seemingly doesn't want anything to do with 90% of the forum, 90% of the forum mentions him in their posts (yes, including me ). Incidently he reminds me of some of the ARI-people, which is ok I guess. My only #1 advice is to make sure to put oneself in the position of losing, or in very close fought battles, as often as possible. Nothing breeds skill as superior/even adversity. [ January 19, 2003, 02:17 PM: Message edited by: Xipe ]
  14. Most people would probably have it that it stems from Henleins WWII experiences. I tend to fall into this camp: "Robert A. Heinlein hides a critical examination of the necessity of war in a rousing adventure novel set in the far future. While fighting a war against alien arachnids, the protaganist, Juan Rico, learns not only how to be a soldier, but also decides that while war is not desirable, it is a necessary part of the human condition. Heinlein's novel is clearly influenced by both his World War II service and his dislike of communism, but the "Starship Troopers"is still an interesting read, especially when contrasted to the post-Vietnam works of Joe Haldeman ("The Forever War") and David Drake ("Hammers Slammers")." ..and not just because I dislike communism feverishly. More about it here. A recommended read, if nothing else. [ January 19, 2003, 01:48 PM: Message edited by: Xipe ]
  15. Also, since the germans didn't have the vast manpower resources that the allies had maybe it made sense with better and more expensive tanks? American production at it's height, AFAIR, was about 25% of the global war production.
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