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  1. I don't want to get into the whole argument about who is right and who is wrong. Seeing this just makes me sick.
  2. This is grotesque. I know I'm supposed to be all manly and indifferent, but this is a crazy and horrible waste of life. I guess they are Russians?
  3. I hope you and @dan/california are right that it's a better place to defend than I see it. And of course UKR command has much better info than this armchair general. I just hope they are defending that place because it actually makes sense on the ground and not for political reasons. Looking at the Russian side, it does seem foolish to me that they expend so much energy trying to wipe out that small foothold. When they could just contain it and shell and drone it all day long.
  4. This is the main point of our disagreement then. To me, it seems like a bad place to defend.
  5. You could say the exact sme thing about Krynky. The Russians are crawling forward there too. But that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying they charge into the line of fire and get shot dead. Ukraine doesn't need to do that in Krynky in a position that is also bad for them.
  6. I'm not uninformed about the Russian casualties. I just don't see why the same resources Ukriane spends in a poor fighting position on the other side of a river couldn't be better put to use in other parts of the front where Russians are also charging forward.
  7. I don't see how the Krinky bridgehead is any advantage to Ukraine if it's only held and not used to go farther inland. AFU might destroy some Russians coming to attack the location, but UKR could do that better in a position where they are not hemmed in on a tiny piece of land and where they need to carry all supplies across a river. It seems like it's not even a real bridgehead, but more of a contested area where both sides come and go, and nobody stays for very long since it's extremely exposed.
  8. If they continue the timeline any further, we will play scenarios where we are marching disarmed German soldiers around in a POW camp.
  9. This is not how the game works though. Spotting is done by each individual unit - they cannot help each other directly. Only thing that matters is whether the spotting unit has a contact marker for the enemy unit, and in this case, all of SDG's units have received the marker. What happens to the infantry after they pass on this info doesn't matter for spotting purposes. But I really don't know what to think of this case. It could simply be massive bad luck that SDG has three vehicles who all kept failing their spotting checks against one single Sherman over multiple turns, even though it's actively firing, which normally gives away the position very fast. And then the Sherman got lucky to spot the non-moving TD in the hedge, even though it's not firing. It could also be some kind of corner case where the game engine somehow doesn't allow LOS in one direction even though there should be.
  10. Not that I have tested out or can prove. Just that in all my countless hundreds of hours playing these games, the only time I thought there was something seriously wrong with tank spotting was when a JpzIV sitting on a location with full view over a big field let a whole platoon of Shermans approach from 1500m till they were literally driving past. Weather was flurries, but that didn't stop other units from spotting the tanks. Anyway, in this case, it's not Jpzs so it's off topic. I don't see anything in these screenshots that suggest why those TDs should not spot a firing Sherman. Nothing wrong with the tactics either. @SDG when you select one of the TDs and draw a target line to the Sherman, does it show you have LOF? Sometimes the game denies LOF for no apparent reason. The low hedge in front of the TDs shouldn't block line of fire, especially since the target is elevated.
  11. What TDs did you use? Jpz IV by any chance? In any case, some screenshots would be great.
  12. 50 Cal is better though. And the M1919A6 is very close. Also, sniper rifles are more than twice as effective as the HMG42 once you get out past 300-400m distance.
  13. It's not just some amateur narrative, it's official Ukrainian policy. Zelenskiy has always said the goal was to get the whole country back. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/20/zelensky-keeps-maximalist-war-goals-despite-gop-opposition-aid/
  14. Barely 10% of Europeans believe Ukraine can still defeat Russia, finds poll https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/21/barely-10-per-cent-of-europeans-believe-ukraine-can-defeat-russia-poll
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