Sgt Joch

Steve, you divulged discussions that were done on the Beta forum and governed by an NDA. They were never meant for public discussion and you have completely distorted them. I am sending you a PM with more particulars and I expect you to act on it immediately or there will be legal repercussions. Now cease this discussion immediately.

There you go again arguing like a woman and digging up long buried arguments. I am not going to renege, defend or even acknowledge any of it. This line of argumentation is way too personal and totally out of line and you know it.

hmm, I do not recall posting propaganda cannot be effective, my only comment was that before deciding the film "Russians at War" is or is not propaganda, someone would have to see it. As far as I know, no one here has seen it, even though everyone has already made up their minds about it.

Honestly Steve, that is the type of argument I would expect from my wife, dredging up ancient arguments. I hardly remember what I wrote last month, let alone 10 years ago, but it does seem to have gotten under your skin though...

That is below the belt even for you Steve. Get up on the wrong side of the bed did you?

And?…Ukraine says it is fighting for “democracy’, but it wants to tell people what to think and what to watch? That does not sound very “democratic” to me. I will let you know what I think about the film after I watch it. p.s. - there are many reasons why people do not support the war or want an end to it that have nothing to do with “ Russian propaganda”.

Again, I don’t know what all the fuss is about that film or why Ukrainians so desperately want to prevent people from seeing it. People can watch it or not watch it and make up their own mind about it without someone telling them what they should feel about it beforehand. Personally I have no interest in seeing it, not because I think it is Russian propaganda, but because I think it will probably be boring. Making a huge fuss about it is the wrong strategy, it actually makes people want to see it since it is now “controversial”.

MISSION 1 SPOILERS So after multiple attempts and approaches, finally managed to beat mission 1 and score a major victory. There is no magic solution, the only approach that works is a run down the trench line...but first, you have to setup a base of fire and suppress the 2 MG bunkers. I used the 2 MG teams for that, gradually moving them into better firing position and eventually managed to knock out the 2 bunkers. Once the 1st MG bunker was knocked out, I sent the Platoon HQ down the trench line in short leaps and bound. Once the two bunkers are knocked out, the rest of the enemy troops are fairly easy to deal with as long as you are not overly aggressive. I managed to get to the last Gun with only two casualties and lost a third on the run back down the trench line to exit. This is an excellent mission, really forces you to use good tactics and to balance time vs speed.

Personally I do not see an issue. "Bocage" in CMBN works as well as could be expected given the limitations of the CMx2 system. This is how the U.S. Army described Normandy 1944 "Bocage" : Doubler, "Busting the Bocage: American Combined Arms Operations in France, 6 June-31 July 1944, (pp. 14-15) Doubler-Bocage.PDF (army.mil) Now I have no doubt that infantrymen using simple tools could easily make a hole through a "Bocage" hedge that they could fit through in a few minutes, but you have to consider the tactical/command restrictions. If soldiers/scouts come upon a bocage hedge for the first time, they have to 1) recon where any gaps/holes may be, 2) discuss the approach with the CO, 3) make a gap or hole that they can fit the squad/platoon/company and equipment through. All this takes time. Now all the tools are available to make all possible variations: Bocage, Low Bocage, Hedges and gaps for all of them. So you want to make it hard, use Bocage with no/few gaps, you want to make it easy or simulate a Bocage Field which has been reconned, prepped and an attack plan worked out before hand, use lots of gaps and/or engineers with demo charges. All the tools are there for scenario makers to use.

Regarding whether tanks are obsolete or not, let’s remember that gun equipped ships-of-the-line/battleships ruled the seas for 500 years until they encountered aircraft/aircraft carriers in WW2 and became obsolete in the course of a single war. Sometimes technological changes happen with lightning speed.

Twitter is Twitter, look at it, don’t look at it, take it seriously, don’t take it seriously. Honestly could not care less… p.s. - I have ZERO interest in wasting my time discussing Twitter so please everyone leave me out of this silly debate. If you guys want to spend time convincing yourselves that Musk will throw the election to the Big Bad Orange Man (tm), do it amongst yourselves. p.s.2 - Trudeau voter?

I know there has been a lot of histrionics and political posturing, but I personally can’t see I see much substantive difference between pre-Musk and post-Musk Twitter.

90% + of my feed on X is funny animal videos or photos of half naked women (yes I know the algorythim ). I still struggle to see why people think Twitter is a serious source of information.

You do realize that is a not very subtle dig at Robert Reich (i.e. “low T men”)who has been calling for Musk’s arrest a few days ago? There have been tweets aimed at R.Reich for days in my feed. Childish yes, but It has nothing to do with the Third Reich.

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