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  1. 16 hours ago, Lethaface said:

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    Hope you don't mind me using your diagram to illustrate the type of model we were taught some 35-40 years ago. Definitions are changing. Nobody announces these polar shifts, they just kind of show up and the masses run with it. Many Conservatives are confused they are considered right wing now. The opposite of Liberalism was Conservatism. Socialism was a response to capitalism. Heck I remember Liberal and Conservative Democrats 😉

     

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  2. 1 hour ago, Gpig said:

    Those videos DO pass the sniff test. It's understandable to not want to believe it.

    Yes, number 3 guy you can see the involuntary reflex of his foot as he is shot, and the debris in front of his knee from possible bullet ricochet on ground. So yeah AK bullet to popliteal artery, time is limited.

  3. CNN reported a group of Russian prisoners being knee capped which pretty much means they'll die of their wounds. Russians will probably have higher incentive to fight to death rather than surrender now that this is out.

    (7) Ukraine promises "immediate investigation" after video surfaces of soldiers shooting Russian prisoners (cnn.com)

    Sadly I shutter to think conditions are as bad or worse for Ukrainian prisoners. This is another ugly side to this war.

  4. In the game context I was also thinking in terms of motivation and leadership. Both soft factors for units. In keeping with the OP, would these be higher during cold war era because of political officers? I guess I got onto this kick after watching Hunt for Red October (also read it way back) and the problem Captain 2R Ivan Putin presented to Ramius because he was always looking for subversive behavior.

  5. 1 hour ago, IanL said:

    I don't think political commissars were some paragon of virtue. Where do you think corruption and inept practices came from?

    I don't think political commissars were some paragon of virtue either. Who would right? Rather I'm inquiring if they (political officers, party observers) did provide a separate layer of oversight the military chain of command had no control over. During the cold war this may have resulted in military units being equipped better and trained compared to current day.

  6. 2 hours ago, Hacketäuer said:

    Yes, it is 2022 not 1982 but a lot of shortcomings that the experts predicted throughout the cold war would hinder soviet advances, show today in the russian army. F.E. the lack of low-level initiative and leadership. Some frontline troops appear hardly aware of the situation they are in. Mission command is a far cry in such circumstandes. Just like in Afghanistan and Chechnya we see troops attacking without proper recon, tanks and APC´s bunched up without infrantry support and overall poor logistics. 

    I have to wonder with the presence of political commissars in 80's if some of the modern Russian military shortfalls due to corruption, training, or inept practices would have been prevented, or at least mitigated. 

  7. 16 hours ago, domfluff said:

    I was under the impression that none of the tanks in CM with active infrared use them actively, for fairly obvious reasons (i.e., in this kind of peer conflict, you're making yourself far more visible to the enemy than you're making them visible to you).

    From memory, the T-62's passive IR functions out to 100-200m or so, and it's not great. It's a lot better than nothing, but it's not good.

    Night fighting wasn't the doctrine of either side at the start of the CMCW period, and as such in CW, night fights are either as confused, ridiculous and random as they are in the WW2 titles, or they're dominated by the later US gear.

    I'm going to ask because I don't know. Haven't been able to find a reference for this period. But, did the soviets practice using one tank as an IR spotter, with other forward tanks firing at the painted targets. It seems to me with all this IR gear, a survivable tactic would be paint and scoot, letting a silent mate fire before before the enemy does.  I might be way off but was curious.

  8. 4 hours ago, Erwin said:

    In the games where one can promote and award medals (eg Wolves Of The Pacific) it is an additional challenge and fun to see your new inexperienced men/units gain experience and abilities.  I think it greatly helps immersion to be able to ID and "care" about certain of the pixeltruppen units.

    Recall wayback Close Combat, the Russian one? Forget, haven't played for years. But had this Pz III earn 5 stars and all the medals all through the campaign, they were ace. At some point they bought the farm, that was a sad day. I miss that.

    18 hours ago, Codreanu said:

    Two platoons of M60s destroyed in less than five minutes by the two platoons of T-64s under the command of Lieutenants Lemeshev and Schetinin near the town of Grieshof.

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    Back  to topic, I see at least one T64 scratched. 

  9. Other than the cookie cutter battle maps how much different than the Napoleon Total War mod sets that were done for that game. Granted TW has a grand strategy map is a big plus. Each man in the regiments in those games are represented by a single model soldier.  There are massive mod sets in TW that do the Civil War well. BF would do it better ofcourse, but there is much to learn from where TW got it wrong.

     

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