Fenris

yeah, not to make light of what's happening but these UKR farmer memes are going to be floating around for a while I reckon.

This is motion sickness inducing to watch but it does show a number of afv's being taken out. Google reckons the caption says "Jewelry work of our artillery on enemy tanks in the area of n.p. Bearded woman. Glory to the Nation!" Whatever that means.

Google translate says - "The Navy of the Armed Forces also have something to please you)) Bayraktar works" Another post of te same says "The alleged work of the Ukrainian UAV Bayraktar on a Russian BMD-2"

I read a tweet a few days back that said a mortar strike but take that with a grain of salt, there was nothing to corroborate it.

I saw this the other day. (If it's real) Is another clever tactic from UKR to spread the word inside Russia.

From my keyboard on the other side of the planet... I get the sense Zelensky would not be willing to give up much of anything now. It may be wishful thiking on my part but it feels like UKR is starting to get the stronger hand, at least with regards to negotiating. In a broader picture, (edit - and with strong support from the west) I don't think he should give up anything, I believe it's important that Putin doesn't gain any concessions so that there's a clear rebuff of this sort of adventurism. There will be other world leaders watching what happens closely and if Putin survives this fiasco it needs to be clear it's not worth trying it again somewhere else.

Yeah, I saw another tweet about that. Another interesting development if it's true.

The cavalry

Speaking of Rasputitsa, this one got posted recently

What's with many of the RU AFVs appearing to have the really narrow tracks? Considering where they're from I would have thought wider tracks would be standard....?

Just like 80 years ago

Another one or the same as before? Google translate says is says: Another gift for farmers from the Russian occupiers Thanks to the collected equipment of the occupiers, it is already possible to create a separate farmers' division in Ukraine.

More russian losses. Edit - now with details in english

I think is some sort of press coverage. Most of the first clip is interviews with russians.

What's firing here? A battery of some sort of BMP? Turrets look too small for SPA. No it is SPA, here's a better view

Seems like tires really are going to be one of the things that need some detailed discussion when this is all over.

Don't know if this is real but am wondering... Does UKR have any anti-ship capabilities?

He's looting. Everyone is doing it, some more purposeful and with more success than others...

Providing it's real... The language alone is just comical. What century is this again? Are we all grey haired seljaci (peasant farmers) or something?

Yes, I'm waiting for confirmation on that one too. I hope they pulled it off.

Long time CM player/forum lurker (think my original member number was 169). Been following this thread for a couple of days - thanks for all the info. Chalk me up as another one of the crowd who is scratching their head wondering what the hell was Putin thinking. Just doesn't make sense to me. Seems like a huge miscalculation, lose-lose situation for Russia. I'm angry because all this suffering is completely unnecessary. I really hope that one of good things that comes from all this blood is the end for Putin and Lukashenko. I don't hold out much hope for Russia but maybe Belarus can go the way of UKR and become a democratic and join the EU when this is all done.

Yeah I dunno. I've read all the above too a various time but when you watch footage, there certain looks like lots of smoke and/or dust... But I wasn't there so no legs to stand on really questioning comments of eye witnesses on the receiving end of these things. -F

Have had Steel Fury for quite a while (haven't played it in a while either). Graphics are ok given it's age and it does what it says on the box. Tries and gets reasonably close to being more of a sim than arcade game. Control scheme takes a little bit of effort to get used to but otherwise it's a fun enough experience if you play carefully - being a sim means death can come instantly and completely unseen. Some pretty good add-on's from the mod community last time I checked as well, check their forums or SimHQ. There aren't that many missions but you can get more. You can also build your own scenarioes but from what I recall the editor is a bit difficult to master also. As there's no other real ww2 tank sims on the market that I know of then I'd recommend it if you can pick it up for ~$10 or so.

You don't say

I posted a long time ago that I'd like the option to have custom formations that you can save and choose to use in any battle, the points being deducted from the overall total available. For extra points it'd be great to be able to save any custom formation's status at the end of a fight to carry it over to the next one (after a few replacements of course and with perhaps the option of a time stamp restriction so you can only use it in battles that occur after the fight before).