Invader_Canuck

Just make objectives smaller if possible and make a few more of them. That way it becomes easier to secure an objective completely even if the enemy while largely broken is still in the vicinity. Some of the objectives in QB's are like 25% of the map which makes an objective victory pretty much impossible even if 90% of your force is in the area and 10% of his is.

I just played a QB vs a friend where on about 4 separate occasions I had split tank hunter teams within 30 meters of a Sherman refuse to use their fausts or shrecks and instead plink away with their rifles.

Iran isn't a major regional threat. Let's just run through the points detailing why they are not. 1) Myth 1, Iran is a threat to the region. Fact - Surrounded by Sunni majority states whose opinion of Iran range from dislike to hate - End result, any overt hostile action by Iran results in a reaming from every direction. 2) Myth 2, Iran is a threat to the United States. Fact - Iranian defense budget is laughable in comparison. Iran has no ability to project power. 3) Myth 3, Iran is a hostile aggressor nation. Fact - Iran hasn't engaged in a war of aggression for centuries, 3 I believe off the top of my head perhaps even more. The Iranian threat is vastly blown out of proportion, their ability to project power is limited to whatever support they throw behind "terrorist" organizations and even then what is the difference between Iran supplying arms and the CIA supplying arms. There isn't. The reality is that Iran may buck a little bit, but they cannot take any aggressive actions that would result in the destruction of the regime and the invasion of the country. Iran getting nuclear weapons does not change this dynamic. The idea that Iran will start supplying terrorist organizations with nukes is a fairy tale. They want nukes as a deterrent against invasion because all the silly rhetoric around them continues to build and it certainly points in the direction of a possible invasion. Using a nuke directly or indirectly will result in the immediate and final destruction of their regime and most of their people. The portrayal of Iran is akin to the portrayal of marijuana use in reefer madness. It is silly. The President, nut job or not, has essentially ZERO power. This portrayal is a result of the hostage taking and the embarrassment this caused the United States. Then we have the Sunni states in the area which also hate them helping to push this agenda along.

I prefer wego, but play RT since I prefer multiplayer. At the company level in CMx1 I would almost always attack on two axis', in CMx2 I will almost always attack on one. Strictly due to the time constraints and the realities of RT. I can't be jumping between two advances because if you are not paying attention you can lose an entire attacking force at a crucial moment. You also have to be more deliberate in your movements which takes more time. Setting up most of a company for an assault will take 3-4x longer than it would in wego.

Combination of assault and quick for me. If you are attacking across a field I will get a good disbursement and then attack with as overwhelming force as possible. I'll usually run something like, 3 squads assaulting for every squad on quick. My theory behind this is, assaulting will keep my guys moving and shooting creating as much suppression as possible while I have some quick runners who will advance quickly with less regard. They arrive at the destination hopefully unmolested and then can pour on the fire at closer range while I start swapping my assault squads to quick moves. You can do this by clicking on the individual waypoints and reissuing a quick order, faster than plotting new waypoints.

Quiet! Don't give them any ideas ;p

I thought Sobel was handled in an interesting manner in BoB. He was clearly credited with whipping Easy into a tip top unit, but they portrayed him as clueless in terms of tactics and his ability to remain calm under pressure. Maybe this is true. Towards the end of the series when he gave 'Popeye' a lift back to the boys he was shown slightly better in that he helped an AWOL soldier return to his unit without dicking him over. The truth is probably that Sobel was not a great combat leader, lacked the confidence of his soldiers (Something that shouldn't be down played) but was exceptional at training the men up. Whatever the case may be, I also found it slightly off putting that he was vilified to the extent that he was, when many of the original Curahee men clearly owed him their lives for the prep work he did for them.

Haha. This is so true and this is why most school kids with no formal education at a higher level have any idea about what really happened on the eastern front. The west was fed their information on the Eastern front by German generals who had lost it and had a bone to pick.

Translation. Taki just got beaten in a PBEM and is raging at the game to explain why he lost.

Your argument is a slippery slope. There was no clean war fought by any single one of the combatants. As victors we can sit from on high and pass judgement on things like war crimes. Fact is the bombing of German cities for the specific purpose of causing panic and chaos among the civilian population is a war crime as well. Additionally, your final paragraph is fighting proven human psychology. Most people, as in the vast majority will go along with whatever the group is doing so as to not stand out. More over, Nazi Germany was a police state where public dissenters tended to vanish. Lastly, the entire argument is anachronistic. The mentality of people at the time is not what it is today. Going to war over what we now consider stupid, petty and ultimately untenable goals is not only wrong, it can be classified by law as a crime by the international community under a number of statutes. Then, it was pretty much par for the course. Holding leaders in different regard is one thing. Holding known politicized units in different regard is another. By Fall 1943 the Soviet Union was no longer fighting for their existence, Germany was. So are all these German lads who ended up fighting in the war from 1943 onwards, who were not involved in initiating the fight, but were now fighting because sooner rather than later their homes, their families, their wives and girlfriends would be in a very real danger, are they somehow worse than the Soviets, or Brits, or Americans or Canadians or Aussies or Kiwi's or whomever? At the end of the day most soldiers fighting didn't really care about the ideology, they were just trying to make it from one day to the next and they were fighting because their country told them too.

Like a boss!

Because all the manly men went to Canada where they slept all night and worked all day.

The USSR defeated the Nazi's, we sped the process up, although Bagration in late June 1944 had more to do with the collapse of German resistance than Overlord. They didn't need to send us anything because they took care of business on their own for most of the war. Of course Stalin would beg for a second front. I don't think anything more needs be said about that, it's obvious why he would. Germany was stopped on two axis' of advance before any Lend Lease arrived. The third axis was stopped ~8 months later when Lend Lease was still barely trickling into circulation. For all intents and purposes, the German impetus stopped between December '41 and August '42 before much if any war changing materials arrived to aid them. The Soviets took the impetus of the war in December '41 - November '42. If you look at Lend Lease figures, the majority of all goods shipped to the Soviet Union arrived in 1944 and 1945. By the time Kursk rolled around and with it the German failure, the ultimate winner was no longer in question. I'm fairly certain that if you combine every other front the Allies fought in, into one singular front, it still isn't even half as large as the Eastern. In terms of military deaths, the Eastern Front claimed 15-16 million lives, the Allies suffered less than 1 million between them. I don't think being accurate is a disservice to the men who served for the Allies in WW2, I personally had two grand fathers who served and 8 or 9 great Uncles who served, four of whom were killed. I'm proud as can be of those guys, however, the allies did not defeat Germany we accelerated the process but without the air campaign, without lend lease, Germany would have lost anyways. I would argue the single largest contribution the allies made to defeating Germany was the strategic air campaign which actually shifted its primary focus of disrupting German production to an ancillary goal, with the primary goal being to attrition German pilots which is was quite successful at. Finally, don't take me as a Western Front hater. I'm not and I enjoy the theater as much as the next guy. I just dislike the avoidance of the Eastern Front that tends to plague mainstream media. wanting moar Russia doesn't mean I hate the West ;p

Gotta agree with you on the Soviet Front. The war pertaining to winners and losers was long decided by the time June 6 '44 rolled around. It was more a matter of determining WHEN Germany would fall and where the Western allies would meet the Soviets. When we talk about mass appeal, I think the reason why people get fixated on the Western Front versus the Eastern front is because they know almost nothing about WW2. They believe the typical Stephen E. Ambrose point of view that the United States and her little buddies saved the world from the Nazi's and the stuff that went on in the East wasn't very important. This is the typical history of WW2 you get in the west in your high school years. Now, I am sure there are people whom are well aware of what happened in WW2 and simply prefer the Western Front, but we're talking about the masses who don't really know anything. In my experience when people are exposed to the idea that maybe us Westerners didn't save the day and that maybe the most important fighting happened in the East, they tend to become more interested, they want to know more because this contradicts everything they've been taught and have believed. So, I say, bring on the Russians to bring us some Eastern Front action ASAP!

If you reference Beerfest for your German inspired dialogue it can only succeed!