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  1. Originally posted by Sgt. Steiner:

    It is puzzling why Hitler did not at least use gas against the Russians, being as they never signed the Geneva convention. Every other conceivable barbarity was visited by each side upon the other there. Having developed sarin nerve gas, which gas masks of the time could not keep out, it would seem a natural, especially once Germany was on the ropes, with total destruction staring them in the face...

    Hmm...maybe Hitler was at least a decent enough guy to watch out for his own people. I bet Stalin would have just loved to be given such an excuse to ship the German population to Siberia.
  2. Jon

    Thats besides the point whether I canceled or not. I actually let it go through because I couldnt believe my eyes (still won that particular battle with a major vic, btw). A spotter is meant to spot. This guy was either asleep on his post or drunk off of captured Russian vodka.

    If you as a spotter saw a bunch of rounds you ordered to fall over yonder hill drop in your lap, would you sit there and wait until your higher ups told you to add a few meters to your faulty coordinates?

  3. Ive only played the demo so far, but I haven't heard any real cussing on the Russian part. Which is a tad dissapointing because I wanted a game reallistic enough to make my mother blush! ;)

    When I get the game (ordered Saturday, live in Buffalo) Ill get the translations done if no one does it by that time.

  4. Today I accidently discovered that doing research at college can actually be fun!

    While looking for articles for a World Civ report, I stumbled across a few articles by Glantz on the Soviet military I had not personally read before.

    http://www.jstor.org/search/cc99333c.10339433020/1-4?configsortorder=SCORE&frame=noframe&dpi=3&config=jstor

    AFAIK, everyone should be able to access that page, but if there are any problems let me know. Hopefully you all enjoy this as much as I did.

  5. I dont think its about the timer. Many tcp/ip games have a long enough timer for both players to finish, in my experience. People who take 2 hours to plan all their moves for a 2000 point game are just slow, plain and simple.

    Nothing wrong with that of course, but if you are slow you can't play as much. If you can't play as much, you get less experience playing. If you get less experience playing, you are worse at it then someone who can get in a dozen games while you fiddle away with just one.

    So yes, TCP/IP'ers are better gamers IMO.

  6. Terence,

    Most often it is the last option you mentioned. "Tanko Desantniki" usually hopped off the tank and were expected to run alongside and in front of it as soon as firing started.

    I took the liberty of doing a little google searching and came across several interesting websites. Here is an interview with one Evgeni Bessenov, who describes the tankodesantniki role as

    "Now tanks advanced carefully, following tankodesantniki infantry, while our task was to destroy German Panzerfaust teams with small arms or indicate Fritz targets to the tanks, so that they could destroy them with main guns."

    Full link:

    http://www.iremember.ru/infantry/bessonov/bessonov1.htm

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