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Hmmm well if memory serves me, I do believe that Ukraine was a nuclear power before they agreed to give their nukes up in exchange for some security guarantees. In fact, everything he says that they are preventing was basically how things existed geographically at the time Ukraine surrendered their nukes. Anyone who thinks that all the nations of NATO could agree on launching an offensive war against anyone is probably certifiable. NATO can't even keep Turkey from attacking the Kurds.

There was no rush to invade now though. Putin could have just waited until 22 June if he wanted to

If Russia is using the subscription version of Office though they could be in big trouble

Well if it makes you feel any better, I was mildly disturbed while watching the video as well, but only in the sense that I don't like to watch people die. That should be a healthy and normal reaction. I was hoping he would be taken prisoner as well, but he looked to be dead already by the time anyone else entered the video (as I said).

I have seen the video that you are referencing. It was posted in this thread, but this thread is moving so fast that it's hard to keep up. The Russian soldier jumped out of the truck after the truck stopped and appeared to be wounded. He still had his weapon with him (his assault rifle was clearly laying across his chest), and he was shot and killed while lying on his back as in 'taking cover'. No doubt the driver and anyone riding shotgun were killed through the windshield. He was not killed execution style as you seem to believe (for some reason) unless you think any soldier that is killed during wartime is a war crime. He was shot and killed while taking cover behind the truck. Afterwards someone walked towards where he was after the firing died down, but I don't recall anyone shooting him again at close range. He was clearly already dead by the time any other individual entered the video. They simply inspected the truck for loot - at least that's what I saw.

You can use that for plowing fields I'm sure

Re Nuclear War - I think we can all agree that a Nuclear War would kill millions upon millions from many nations including Russia (possibly the end of the world through nuclear winter) and if Putin is threatening that just because Russia was removed from the SWIFT banking system that's probably not a rational actor or he's bluffing. Putin can't just assume that he can toss nuclear weapons around and not be on the receiving end of a few himself. Russia could be turned into glass, and I have to assume that he is fully aware of that. A rational human being would, perhaps, use nuclear weapons if their nation was facing an existential threat of annihilation against an enemy that can't be negotiated with. Using nuclear weapons because the EU is providing arms to Ukrainian soldiers who are resisting an invasion and are 100% in no position to pose an existential threat to the continuation of Russia as a nation is nuts if Putin actually means it. If that's a true reflection of his attitude about nuclear weapons, then you could probably assume that he would use them for almost any excuse. Maybe if he thinks that a coup is imminent, he might decide to light the world on fire as he goes down in flames (Hitler like). All the more reason to see if he can be removed from the international stage now if possible. Re abandoned equipment - I have to wonder about all this abandoned equipment. One would assume that if soldiers were fully on board with what they were doing that they would be destroying or disabling their equipment when they leave it lying about, but if they are just leaving stuff around that they would have to know that the Ukrainian military can use is a little odd to me.

This randomly popped up on my You Tube - seems pretty good

Oww, that one is going to leave a mark. I guess that trip to visit Times Square will have to be put on hold lol.

It could be just as simple as Putin thought / thinks he can do it quickly with very little fuss. If he just changes the leadership in Ukraine, then he can turn them into a puppet state and if he can do it quickly without too much effort then he's done what he wanted to do. He'll just assume everyone forgets after a year or two. If it turns into a quagmire and an extended war that rages for years like in Afghanistan or something he probably miscalculated. He apparently has already called for the Ukrainian army to start a coup to get rid of the 'drug addicts and gangsters' or something along those lines - doesn't seem to be many takers on his call to action at the moment though. So yeah, if he thought Ukraine would just roll over and welcome his armies in then his action makes perfect sense.

that's okay - some day you guys will look back on this interview, smack your hand to your forehead and go 'OMG'! That's for another day though.

That's all I can say. All I can do is say that the cheese is on the floor. Whether the mice can see it or not is up to them!

Steve dropped a few massive hints in that interview, and I'm surprised nobody picked up on them yet.

sorry, just noticed it's already posted. Do'h

That's the way it works if you have the destroy points set in combination with an Exit victory location

I have personal experience with a forum that allowed editing at any time. I was in this big back and forth discussion with this guy about Napoleonic Warfare and he would say one thing, then I would counter that and cite a reference. He would then continue on until he realized that he was incorrect about something, then he would go back like three posts earlier and alter what he wrote so that he was basically saying something completely different from what he originally said. My subsequent posts began to make less and less sense because I was responding to something that he altered after I had posted. The real aggravating thing was that I didn't even know he altered stuff from three posts back and so when he would make a new response to one of my posts it would be very confusing because his new posts were inconsistent with his old posts as I remembered them. The only thing I could do after that was include his entire original post in my response, but even in that case he would still alter what he originally said even with me quoting his original post in my response (so now his original post didn't match what I was quoting in my response). I had to give up discussing anything with him because you can't have a discussion with someone who keeps altering what they say after the fact. It was very annoying. Anyway, when I post here I usually re read what I just posted immediately after I post. In that way the timer doesn't become an issue.

If you click on the three dots in the upper right, you should have an edit option available to you. You can only edit posts for a certain amount of time before they become etched in stone. That's to prevent forum discussions from becoming strange collections of posts as people edit things and responses no longer make sense.

He has always been a RT player. He never played We Go to my knowledge - at least with CMx2. There was no RT option with CMx1.

I know that Steve does occasionally play. I don't know about Charles. Steve occasionally plays or participates in demonstrations, and he will also at least look at or partially play a scenario that has been submitted to be included in a game. I don't think he looks at every one, but I know that he occasionally dabbles with them. He never gives feedback or comments or anything like that, but I can say that on at least one occasion I believe that one of my briefings caused some new artwork to be included in the game and it just sort of appeared out of the blue so he must have read the briefing to get the idea to include it.

That's fine - if you want to make changes to it and then upload your version to the scenario depot thing, I'm perfectly fine with it.

You can send me a PM if you want to, but I would encourage you to watch the video first. I don't anticipate making any further changes to this one though - I am working on other projects at the moment.

I tried everything I could to make the initial deployment area along the road a safe zone. There isn't much else I can do with that honestly. It's as good as it will get - which incidentally is probably the reason why it's harder to exit that area. I had to add all sorts of heavy forest tiles which block movement through them unlike the original where you could pass through relatively freely. The game giveth and the game taketh away. The tank is part of the variation that I added to the original AI plan, and I specifically checked LOS from that location repeatedly since I actually only wanted the tank to see in one specific spot. I even planted extra trees to his right to help block LOS to the east. So long as he isn't seeing directly into the area where the reinforcements arrive then I'm fine with it. I seem to recall that the ground slopes back a little bit in that direction too where the reinforcements arrive so between all the extra trees I planted and the slope they should be fine when they arrive on map. What the player does with them after they arrive is up to them. There is only so much I can do.

If you guys are having trouble with the scenario you can watch this series of videos. He wins the scenario quite handily. In the modified Steam version, I actually modified the original AI plan a little bit based upon this video and I then added a second plan since this seemed to be one that people are trying multiple times, so the AI is a little different than when this video was made. The American force is also weaker now.