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Bearstronaut

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  1. I'm not saying you're wrong about this and I know everybody is wary of the "Russia sux" excuse but the Russians have never been renowned for naval prowess. The US and Royal Navies have been engaging Houthi drones in the Red Sea for months now and have taken zero hits.
  2. Sometimes a change at the top is needed. Mark Clark removed John Lucas from VI Corps command at Anzio even though Lucas arguably saved the beachhead from destruction by not overreaching with his relatively meager forces. However, it took Lucien Truscott to actually effect the breakout. Now, I'm not saying that this new guy is suddenly gonna have the keys to success but sometimes a new perspective is needed.
  3. Plus, it's not like North Korea is a bottomless well of war material.
  4. Last year I played a few of the Italian scenarios PBEM with my army buddy and I won every single time thanks to those beautiful little mortars.
  5. Not really on this topic at all but I completely agree with you about the Italians. It's a damn shame that there is only one Italian campaign and only a handful of scenarios. I wish someone would do an Italian focused battle pack for Fortress Italy. I love playing as them because they are such an odd faction. Plus, those Brixia mortars are absolute .
  6. 1. On a TRP? Yes. 2. 13 minutes is the total time for the entire fire mission.
  7. Are you still planning on letting us play with your creations? I was very much looking forward to a bunch of new campaigns.
  8. I was a dirty enlisted man too but those staff officers are why you had food, fuel, and ammunition out in the field.
  9. Or simply not pay the soldiers. How many mobik/mobik wives videos have we seen complaining about not getting the pay that was promised them?
  10. In regards to the US military's recruitment woes there is a major issue that people are overlooking. When I joined up in 2010 the DoD didn't pull your entire medical record at MEPS. If you had been prescribed ADHD medication or antidepressants in high school your recruiter would straight up tell you to lie to the MEPS doctors. If the MEPS doctors couldn't find something wrong with you during your examination at the facility that day they cleared you. Now, they pull your entire medical record so if your parents got a pediatrician to prescribe you meds when you were 14 and had no idea that you were going to try and join the Marines when you turned 20 then you are SOL.
  11. Exactly. Their playbook for decades has been to ratchet up tension and then use that to gain sanction relief or food or money. I'm sure KJU would like nothing better than to realize his grandfather's dream and rule over a unified Korea but I doubt he wants to rule a blasted, irradiated wasteland. Assuming he even survives the war that is.
  12. My background is Korean Peninsula analysis and I speak the language but I haven't really focused on North Korea professionally for a few years. That being said, I do try and keep up on news even if not to the level I used to. The timing seems off. If he waits a year it is possible that he may have his buddy Donny Trump back in the White House. Trump has repeatedly expressed his opposition to the entire notion of USFK and I suspect he would try to withdraw all our forces from there if he wins the election. Additionally, South Korea is going through a truly unprecedented demographic crisis. Their birth-rate is something like 0.78 kids per woman. That is existentially bad for society in general but also catastrophic for a nation that relies on universal conscription for its national security. If Kim waits even five years before making a move the ROKA will have a massive problem fielding enough soldiers to effectively fight the KPA. KJU is a relatively young (if unhealthy) man and he has time if he is truly dead set on re-uniting Korea by force. I think trying something now would be extremely foolish.
  13. Hey Frank, just a quick question. Why do you only want to make German campaigns? There are already a bunch of really good CMRT campaigns that focus on the Germans and not too many Soviet ones.
  14. I'm strongly leaning towards the latter. He seems mightily invested in pushing the "bow down before the might of the unstoppable Russian bear" line.
  15. The French are a nuclear power. Even if all your doomsaying is correct and Europeans are woefully incapable of defeating the mighty Russian bear in a conventional conflict, there is no ****ing way the Russians are getting anywhere near the channel.
  16. How about far future? I wanna play Combat Mission: BattleTech.
  17. Maybe something to do with German counterattacks on OP Market-Garden? I know there is already a German campaign for MG but it's probably my least favorite of all the WW2 campaigns. PS: I know you said no Italian campaign but I really wish someone would do campaigns for the Canadians, French, New Zealanders, and Brazilians.
  18. I've been playing CM games pretty consistently since I discovered them in 2017. There is more than enough content for everything that has already been released. BF was even kind enough to give us an editor in the games so if you want new content then why not make it yourselves?
  19. The USS Kearny, a Gleaves-class destroyer, was torpedoed on 17 October 1941 and suffered 11 crew KIA. The USS Reuben James, a Clemson-class destroyer, was torpedoed and sunk on 31 October 1941 with a loss of 100 of her crew.
  20. There's a pretty big difference between a combined arms assault into Estonia and an errant missile crossing into Polish airspace my dude.
  21. I guess Heinlein was pretty prescient when he came up with the mobile infantry concept.
  22. Apparently we never learn. Before the ANA it was the ARVN. Before the ARVN it was the ROKA. Although we stayed in South Korea long enough that the ROKs were able to develop their own successful military industrial complex and would likely be successful in a war (at extremely high cost) against the DPRK without us. That would not have been true had we dipped out of the ROK back in say, the 1970s.
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