Commanderski

Regarding Battlefront possibly doing a game about this. I can already anticipate Steve getting an ulcer coming up with all the Ukrainian TO&E.
 
 

The moment of falling
Pilot captured

This is a concept that Rooks and Kings is developing, initially intending to use CM Pro to take advantage of the stats and replays generated.

The basic idea is that of a narrativist campaign - generating a single scenario at a time, with all of the results being complied and submitted. Those combined results being used to inform and generate the next, with the result being a linear campaign, albeit one which is open-ended. The further intention is to see if this format is useful to answer specific questions (e.g., the utility and correct use of Ajax) and to generate this data in a crowd-sourced sense. Since the core concept is to lean on a narrativist approach, the resolution doesn't have to be limited to only using Combat Mission - Steel Beasts, Command, etc. could all be potentially involved.

This approach is distinct from some other approaches to this kind of thing in the CM-space, where there are more gamist approaches to campaigns (e.g., using a second game as a strategic layer). These have some fairly obvious design problems, and I could rant about some of the problems with that approach for a while.

If this ends up with a reasonable outcome, then there's no reason why the concept couldn't be expanded.

Somewhere on the East. Destroyed/abandoned Russian vehicles.

 

Another one for the farmers...
 
 

130th recon battalion hit Russian BMP-3 (?) with ATGM. Big BOOM
 

Let's stay on topic guys. If you want to discuss racism do it with personal messages not forum posts please. 

Your western hypertrophied tolerance, false humanism and "real politic" led to Russian attrocities in Georgia, Syria and Ukraine. Western world - the stronghold and the stream of civilization turned out to the bunch of frightened wimps which deadly scared of this "superstate", made from "s**t and sticks" and gave us "48 hours to new political reality". So, this is our right how to relate to Russians. Here, in ruined Mariupol and Izium, in looted, raped, murdered Kyiv outskirt cities and villages, here completely other reality, where all liberal or leftist ideology voices must shut up and keep silence until last Russian scum find own death here. 
Yes, even among SS troopers not all were murderers. But whole SS was criminal organization and the spot of blood fell to all. So this is no matter either private Vania looted or murdered or not. The spot of dirt on them all. 
This is not Putin loots and murders. This is Russian soldiers. This is not "SOME".  This is "USUAL". The army is a cross section of society. So it reflects Russian society. So if I hear "common Russians shouldn't bear the brunt of sanctions", "stop bulling and cancelling of Russian" etc., I say "Too few sanctions. Too few cancelling. Too few rusophobia". Russia must be destroyed, derashizied and de-nuclearezied.   
My hate speech is finished.

Could we maybe knock off these racist accusations? Russian is not a race. Ukranian is not a race. It's the same as saying American or British or French is a race. That's just nonsense and all it's doing is inflaming passions.
Plus it's tiresome to wade through while trying to catch up.
Dave

One more video of Stugna-P ambush of TOS-1A (or TZM-T), in this time successful. At least one destroyed
 

Sorry if it is alreay posted :
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/australia-to-send-armoured-vehicles-to-ukraine-20220401-p5a9yl.html

AUSTRALIA TO SEND BUSHMASTER TO UKRAINE
 
 

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/risks-russian-ceasefire-offer
Don't think this has been posted yet.  Some very good points, the main one being that we in the west need to rethink the algorithms of this war in terms of what it really is, and not the lens we normally have viewed this thing thru.  In the west "ceasefire" is a prelude to peace...for Russia, not so much.  Of course I have zero doubt that the Ukrainian government does not already know this.
The concept of a ceasefire in this war is not really between Ukraine and Russia, it is really between Russian and the West.

Russian Mi-28N shot down yesterday in Holubisvske area, Luhansk oblast. On other video local settler says, crew is survived
 

Russian dogs run away - Ukrainian dogs wait in ambush?  

The strike on retreating Russian column in Chernihiv oblast, destroyed vehicles and pontoon bridge

Another utterly wrecked Russian position:
 

Hi everyone, 
I've been absent from Battlefront.com forums for a long time. When this war started I thought that a discussion on the subject was surely ongoing on BFC forum, so it's since the end of February that I am following this thread daily, even more often than TV news or social networks.
I just wanted to thank BFC and all the people bringing forward this thread, sharing invaluable news and information on this tragic war.
I hope that Ukrainian people regain their freedom and peace as soon as possible
Niccolò 

UKR mobile group of MANPAD. Crowdfunded pick-ups turned out more useful for AT/MANPAD-teams, than statuatory armored vehicles 

 

War is always inavitable losses, alas...
UKR forces struck retreating column of Russians NW of Kyiv
 
 

I have been thinking about this too.. many people are asking, where is the Ukrainian armor?  They do seem to be pushing light infantry to the front, with only scattered mechanized forces actually being used so far.  They are engaging the enemy with the smallest force required to do the job.. that is very smart... can it be that they have been husbanding there main striking power (mechanized forces) and waiting for the perfect opportunity? 
Granted it is a huge risk to concentrate mechanized forces for a counter-attack, the Russians do have a significant indirect fire capability at the BTG level (and the Ukrainians were taught that lesson in 2014).  But if they are holding these forces back, waiting for the intel to tell them the right place and time... it could be a huge knock out blow that nobody, especially the Russians, see coming.
Bil

The fan of Warhammer

And his spoils.... Looks like BTR belonged to some recon unit, armed with Val rifles

Sir David Attenborough: "And here we see a flock of Ukrainian geese fiercely protecting their nests..."
 

Alpha radiation is bad for this as it isn't very penetrating, unlike gamma rays.
 A gamma ray source is equally dangerous no matter where it is - a certain flux will interact with the entire mass of your body with some degree of probability, and the rest pass through.
Conversely alpha radiation can be stopped by a piece of paper, so if it is external, it is basically not going to get past your clothes and not really cause you a significant problem. But if you breath in dust that is an alpha source, you have the opposite problem - it is now inside you and not getting out, so all the energy from the radioactive particles gets dumped into cell damage inside your body.

Some results of destroying of Russian 59th tank regiment BTG near Kharkiv
About 50 % of BTG were conscripts. After 12th of March after scanal in Russia about sendng coscripts at the war, they were moved back to Russia. After the battle UKR troops captured chief of artillery of regiment and chief of communication (this is duty fro senior lieutenant rank), several dozens of serviceman was captured. 
For example here is a personnel list documents of the recon element of 59th tank regiment BTG - combined recon unit, composed from platoons of 1st and 2nd recon companies + combined comm squad from comm platoon. 106 men according to list, but in invasion participated only 70. Four men before invasion rjected to participate and didn't sign papers with their agreement of participation in "special military operation"