Lethaface

One thing I was wondering about is the perceived lack of Russian ATGM / AT assets among the infantry in relation to the anticipated Ukrainian spring/summer offensive. If Ukraine will indeed be able to have built up a decent number of mechanized/armored brigades trained good enough for large operations, combined with the proper support assets we have already seen in use, one can wonder if some of the more 'enthusiastic' members here which spoke of armored trusts towards the Azov sea might see some truth to their predictions in the end. Of course it depends on a lot more than just the Russian infantry AT capabilities, but as all CM'ers know infantry without AT weaponry (or other forms of AT capable support including artillery), suck defending against mechanized/armored forces. At the same time I don't know whether the Russian forces do indeed lack good numbers of AT assets among their infantry destined to be defending against wherever the Ukraine attacks will take place.

It does indeed explain (there have also been lost quite a couple of YPR according to Oryx, but this puts that in perspective a bit). The T-72 story how I understood is that US&NL together bought 90 from CZ and paid to have them refurbished/upgraded. I also read they were to become the T-72EA standard. How much of that is truth I don't know. Our MoD posted this picture with the infographic but I'm not sure whether that's accurate or just some picture they found fitting for the publication: At the same time most of the picture seem accurate enough. For anyone wondering what type of 'shovel' was send :

Well it's all speculation until we know more. A network infrastructure / encryption admin doesn't necessarily need access to classified stuff, but often needs elevated technical permissions which can mean that he inadvertently had access to stuff on systems which was meant to have an extra layer of protection/encryption. Or he was able to reprint stuff from the printers logbook, or just made some extra copies of documents he needed to copy for someone else. But for the moment we just don't know how he got these docs. We do know that he had some tech level function but was too stupid to realize that sharing (very) sensitive files with 'friends' is very dumb and sharing something on discord/online is even dumber. I mean he didn't even have the intention to leak it beyond his discord friends, or so they say. Something doesn't add up somewhere, I'll guess some of the specifics will soon be made public.

In my game the running score (1-3) seemed to work fine from my pov, I don't think there was any turn without casualties. The 700-0 was actually a temporary glitch, the battles weren't finished yet. The 2000-69 / 1228-476 are the final scores from the CMSF endscreen (not running score) and are correct.

On BFC forum at least you can search for members, IIRC also slitherine but not sure. I agree that a way of contact with opponents would be a good thing. On discord I read someone had issues with their slitherine account / PBEM++.

Great game. Although I got stuck at the monastery lol. Planning for years to revisit/restart but time.

Or it might just be efficient, Ukraine has enough on their hands.

A forklift I wonder what the 4 'other ships' are, some article mentioned they might me RHIBs for SOF or LST type of vessels which are being phased out.

Yeah I also didn't know it was almost 200 YPRs. The T-72 are the ones NL procured / financed to be refurbished in Czechia (IIRC it was cooperation with US, total 90 T-72, original Czech T-72B).

This was publicided yesterday, first time Dutch MoD has created a official list of the depth and breadth of the support send to Ukraine (although it's not exhaustive, opsec remains leading principe): https://www.defensie.nl/onderwerpen/oostflank-navo-gebied/militaire-steun-aan-oekraine Not much stuff there that wasn't known here, but some numbers are new I think:

Well that is why there is such a thing as enhanced screening including psychological tests / profiling.

Fitting music choice

You have never brainstormed properly

Good stuff for a novel, rather fitting for our times I guess. Some radicalized person of a marginalized minority/identity tries to leak secret documents in discord but the other users just keep posting memes and ****posts not even noticing what's in front of their eyes. Apart from the one user not engaging in much posting but downloading the stuff to sell it to on ebay to pay for their medical/energy bills.

Coming from a country where polygraphs aren't a thing (imo for good reason), I hope that these are used only as an extra not as a replacement for other types of vetting/screening.

Over here the formally required procedures are usually mainly (automated) 'desk' research into known antecedents, the higher the clearance/responsibility the more case research per case into family/friend connections etc. But positions relevant to national security will usually also include psychological screening/profiling. For example, I don't suppose 'they' give any junior sysadmin working for or with military intelligence access to top secret stuff without oversight. Nutjobs should be filtered out, but that's no 100% guarantee. Someone can stable and smart enough to pass such tests while, perhaps due to personal circumstances, at a later moment stupid enough to share sensitive stuff with their 'trusted' discord/friend group where people have known each other for years. Edit: the reported information in this case however sounds like it was a nutjob.

To be clear (maybe I wasn't): I did see the surrender screen with AAR but how I understood it is that it's supposed to keep that turn for a number of days? After I got the surrender screen there was still a last save/turn to send to my opponent, after which I think the score was updated - but no AAR/last turn saved.

My game against @meyertal (not sure if he is here) has been finished. It was a good game, his turn rate was great (there was always a turn ready in my limited PC time and they would keep coming as long as I was behind PC :)). GG! He went for an aggressive approach as both the Syrians and the US forces, while I chose to defend from the reverse slope as the Syrians and prepared for an attack into my setup zone as the US. The aggressive approach didn't work too well for his Syrians, as my Javelins took out all of his AFVs in a couple of turns. After that I could use the Strykers firepower and mobility to fix and flank his remaining infantry. On my Syrian battle I had my 120mm mortars on a harassing mission on the other side of the slopes, adjusting targets now and then. They proved very deadly (20+ casualties), especially because I had some other units on overwatch forcing his troops to hug the slope and then take 120mm airburst :). @BFCElvis the scoring issue indeed corrected itself in the end (after showing up a few times). One thing I noticed though, is that only my Syrian battle AAR is available. My US battle ended with my opponent surrendering with 5min left, after which I send the last turn/save. I had expected the AAR to come in after that?

Hehe, politicians work in mysterious ways. Although I agree with @Battlefront.com, better to reverse a policy which in the end didn't work out as intended/expected than to stick with a bad decision. The other side of the coin is that if such things happens too often, the population will lose part of it's faith in the parliament/institutions.

Sounds like your democracy is getting tuned to the EU type bureaucracy

I have only experienced PBEM++ with tournaments. The file always disappears after I send it, afaik that's how it's supposed to work? I had an issue once when other people got the login problem this week, probably there was some server issue when I send in my turn (although I didn't get an error message) as it was still there next time I logged in. But after that things went back to normal.

I would do it too if I could in CM

Isn't that just TDF pressing into service whatever heavy weapon they capture?

Just edited my previous post: I can login although the file I had already played and send at 21:00 (4 hours ago) was there again. I guess it didn't register or something, I didn't get no error message after saving it.

Worked for me just now. Edit: although the file I had already played and send at 21:00 was there again. I guess it didn't register or something, I played it around 21:00 my time (4 hours ago).