Andre76

Quote: Russia has, since 1993, openly declared a military policy involving preemptive nuclear strikes against percieved conventional threats (...)Given Russia's increasing reliance on nuclear weapons for basic security, this seems plausible. -Andrew I think the Russians is smart enough to not use nuclear force if it's not a *very* critical situation. Look at Tchetjenia (how is it spelled?). They lost one war and is now struggelig with a new one and they have't used any nuclear bomb so far, so they can't be that trigger happy. André

CM is a great game, but I'm missing a full after game report. It would be interesting to see something like a "top 10" unit list after battle with *all* (not just the confirmed ones) the kills for the variuos units. And then you could go back to the map and see WHY the best units got so many kills (placement, tactic) and learn. This could be adressed quite easily (?) with a patch?! Other opinions? André

I'm on too! Mail me @ andre.tangen@odindata.no André

Ok, I've never done this before, but there is always a first time for everything, let's go! Andre andre.tangen@odindata.no

Hi! This is my first post, so I hope I'm doing this correctly. I've followed this thred and I just want to say two things: 1. Some have said that it was a kind of "poetic justice" when Hitler invaded Russia 'cos Stalin could have prevented it in '39. Well, if we want to go down that road it is Britain & France fault WWII started. When Hitler "took back" the DMZ after WWI, no action. And Franc to blame when Hitler took Sudetenland and the Czech. France had an alliance with Czech (the Little Entete) and other east european countries, AND Stalin said that if France reacted Russia would join the fight! France chickend out. 2. Maybe the Russian soldiers where fanatical, but the officers were of poor quality after Stalin killed almost all of the officers before WWII. Also, on the inital attack, all over the border the russians surrenders en masse with little resistance. This because of a number of resons which I won't get into here. Of course the quality of both the soldiers and the officers got better into the war. BTW: I see that many have reconised that the Soviet tank in '41 was superior. But that was also the case in France '40 with the French tanks. The thing that saved the day for the germans was superior tactics (and the lack of it from the enemy) BTW2: CM rocks! André