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    The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

    in Combat Mission Archive #3 (2001)

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    My big one is city fighting. At the moment it's really...unsatisfying. I can't really see a way of doing the Eastern Front without pretty much ripping out the existing building code and starting from scratch.

    For example, like Jeff said, you're going to need buildings that take up more than one tile.

    Other issues I can see - fire and damage. Both affect the whole building instantaneously, which won't work for factories for obvious reasons. I'd be mightily upset if one squirt from a flamethrower miraculously sent the entire Tractor Works up in a blazing inferno, or if a single tank shot brought it crashing to the ground.

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    CM2 INFO......

    in Combat Mission Archive #3 (2001)

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    Originally posted by Jeff Heidman:

    I think the most interesting question about CM2 is how to model early war Soviet infantry.

    Alll indications would suggest that a large portion would be considered conscript, given their level of training and motivation. But at the same time, they would not break as easy as conscripts because of the real and known consequences of failure to follow orders in the Commisar time period (up until late 1942 IIRC).

    How will that be modeled?

    Jeff Heidman

    Probably the easiest way would be to make them green or conscript, but to give them a higher fanatacism.

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    Maple Leaf Up!! The PENG THREAD goes North!!!

    in Combat Mission Archive #3 (2001)

    Posted

    Originally posted by jshandorf:

    As of last week I have re-entered college life in the pursuit of my Masters degree, Jeff

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! You stupid bastard, why the hell did you do that? And believe me, the more work you have to do, the more "quick breaks" you'll find yourself taking.

    Have fun getting your dissertation topic approved!

    HAHAHAHAHAHAH!

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    [This message has been edited by Chupacabra (edited 02-06-2001).]

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    CM2 INFO......

    in Combat Mission Archive #3 (2001)

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    Originally posted by Skipper:

    Tukhachecvsky, by the way, was the one who screwed up in Poland in 1920.

    Yes, and what's your point? Tukhachevskii still saw the flaws in the Soviet Army and recommended they be changed. He also predicted with some degree of accuracy what a modern war would look like. Do either of these have anything to do with the Polish war?

    All listed were trotskists (ie, there was a damn good reason for Stalin tpo get rid of these people).

    Wow. Do you really believe that? I doubt that even Stalin thought there was any such thing as a Trotskiite, except as a handy label for his political enemies.

    Look. I definitely don't need you to tell me the names of marshals and generals who were purged. I want you to show that it was a negative factor.

    Can I prove conclusively that it was a negative factor? No, of course not. Why? Because it's pure speculation. They were purged, and so it is impossible to tell how they would have performed.

    However, based upon my knowledge of military history I would say that it is generally better to have experienced generals than politically inoffensive ones.

    So, can you conclusively prove that purges were not harmful militarily? Since you are making the radical statement here, I'd say the burden of proof lies on you, not on anyone else here.

    Edited to fix formatting.

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    [This message has been edited by Chupacabra (edited 02-06-2001).]

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    CM2 INFO......

    in Combat Mission Archive #3 (2001)

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    Stalin's military purges played a large role in the opening years of the war, it's a bit quixotic to argue otherwise, IMO.

    Take for example one of Stalin's most prominent victims, Marshal Tukhachevkskii. In 1936, the Soviet Union conducted a wargames exercise. The proposition of the exercise was that Germany had neutralized the Polish military, had concentrated roughly 80 divisions in the East, and had launched a surprise blow against the USSR. However, due to the political nature of the exercises, the director of the wargame, Marshal Yegorov, nullified the "German" force's advantages, assuming that the USSR would also have fully mobilized prior to the invasion, ignoring the surprise factor.

    Needless to say, the Soviets won the game.

    Nevertheless, Tukhachevskii made this criticism of the Soviet forces during the wargame:

    Mechanized corps made frontal breakthroughs of enemy defence positions without artillery support. Their losses would have been enormous. Mechanized corps operations were jerky, the direction bad. Mechanized corps operations were not supported by aviation. Aviation was employed somewhat aimlessly. Signals, communications worked badly...Staff work, in particular intelligence, was very weak in all units...This must be changed.

    From Erickson, The Road to Stalingrad, p. 3

    Any of this sound familiar? And yet by 1937, Tukhachevskii was dead, along with Marshals Uborevich, Yakir, Primakov, Putna and Eideman, with more to come. This also does not include the equally formidable list of officers who began the war in Siberia.

    Is it unreasonable to assume that, had Stalin not killed his most experienced officers, the war might have gone differently in the first few years?

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    Maple Leaf Up!! The PENG THREAD goes North!!!

    in Combat Mission Archive #3 (2001)

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    Originally posted by stevetherat:

    Wildman, Croda and Chuppy you not quite so hetrosexual, very bad players of CM, where are my files?

    *cough* I sent you two files yesterday, buddy. Considering my schedule usually keeps me to two or three turns a week, you should be licking my bloody feet now.

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    Mac Questions

    in Combat Mission Archive #3 (2001)

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    Originally posted by I/O Error:

    However, it's still just a dirty MAC! wink.gif

    (I'm an MS slave. Can you tell? tongue.gif)

    Hrm, maybe I should put this in language you're more used to:

    (l337) mAc OWNZ j00! mAc=HaX0r PC=SuX0r!!!(/l337)

    biggrin.gif

    (yes, this is a joke...)

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    Maple Leaf Up!! The PENG THREAD goes North!!!

    in Combat Mission Archive #3 (2001)

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    Blarg.

    I hate you all.

    Looking back, my big mistake was going to the fridge, looking for oranges to sober up, finding beer and taking that instead. Sniff, I feel like a bushy-tailed freshman again. Except without the ability to down massive amounts of alcohol without hangovers.

    Hi Peng. Got girlfriend GI? Of course I realize it was my inspired taunting that kept you around. God bless your atrophied heart, laddie, god bless us each and every midget one.

    I need a shower really freaking badly. Bye.

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    Maple Leaf Up!! The PENG THREAD goes North!!!

    in Combat Mission Archive #3 (2001)

    Posted

    Originally posted by Mark IV:

    Can I have an umlaut?

    I said, CAN I HAVE AN UMLAUT, PEOPLE???

    Üm, süre. Älthöügh I'm ä bit cönfüsed äs to why.

    Okay. As I have probably been in college more recently than anyone else in this thread, here are the three main drunkenness cures. Two of which I am downing as quickly as possible at the moment.

    1) Water. Yep. Drink lots of water. Take a piss. Drink some more water. Take another piss. Drink more.

    2) Oranges. Don't ask me. Maybe it's the vitamin C, maybe it's the high water content, whatever. Just get some oranges out of the fridge and eat them.

    3) Bread. This is the real beauty stuff. Soaks up alcohol once it hits the stomach. Stale bagels are amazing for this.

    Okay. That's todays lesson. Back to water and oranges.

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    [This message has been edited by Chupacabra (edited 02-03-2001).]

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    Maple Leaf Up!! The PENG THREAD goes North!!!

    in Combat Mission Archive #3 (2001)

    Posted

    Originally posted by YK2:

    Take that back instantly Hiram.... before I, before I, before I...................

    Hic.........well...... just take it back :) I want to try some of that Laphroig but whisky burns my tummy, and well two glasses of wine makes me tipsy... I am totally and utterly on my way to being drunk as a skunk..

    Popular misconception -

    Kids: skunks do not get drunk, mmkay?

    Swedes get drunk.

    And so do people with them.

    Have you ever had that thing where you're drinking, and you're drunk, but you think that if you have another drink, you won't be drunk anymore, so you drink it? But then it doesn't make you not drunk anymore, it makes you more drunk?

    That sucks.

    What?

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    Maple Leaf Up!! The PENG THREAD goes North!!!

    in Combat Mission Archive #3 (2001)

    Posted

    Okay. At the moment I am full of oranges and water, and hopefully they will counteract the liters of beers I have been hammering since some point earlier in the morning.

    I don't want anyone to get banned. Nor do I want anyone to quit posting.

    Nor do I want the 'Pool do go away.

    Can't we all just get along?

    Alternatively, can't we all just drink a lot and call eachother Dubya-lovin', Molson-drinking Snowflakes without bringing on Tha Madd Padlock?

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