Aragorn2002
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24 minutes ago, mjkerner said:
FYI, Bootie messaged me that he would get to uploading this at CMMODS IV today. I’m heading to the Wyoming/Montana mountains for the next 10 days myself, so I hope no one has any problems with the mod. I will be in occasional touch with the world, but don’t know when/how often. Fingers crossed that all goes well for you guys!
You've done your best, MJ. Sounds like a great trip. Just forget us for a while and enjoy the mountain air.
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49 minutes ago, Erwin said:
Am simply quoting the data and supporting research stated in the book in case others are interested in reading about those events. That is not a discussion. If anyone has data and documents that contradict the facts and supporting research outlined in the book and posted them, then yes, that could certainly initiate a discussion.
Regardless, none of the above should stop one from enjoying games like CM about the era and surrounding events any more than one would not want to play a game about Attila the Hun. It is important however to remind folks of the realities of the historical events and resist attempts to rewrite history.
Fair enough, Erwin.
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15 hours ago, Erwin said:
The only reason to send US troops to India would be to confront the Chinese from an adjacent "friendly land base" using India as a sort of unsinkable aircraft carrier in a similar way that Great Britain was used to base US forces. India is a nuke power so a confrontation with China could be very serious for both.
In addition the terrain being disputed is mountainous - probably makes Afghanistan look like a "green and pleasant land". Chinese military and economic expansionist intentions are clearly to breach the protective barrier of the Himalayas so as to intimidate and threaten Asia. China already has compromised Pakistan and has built and leased a naval base there. So, in effect India in in danger of being surrounded in the same way that the US felt threatened by Cuba in the 60's.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/17/asia/china-india-himalayas-conflict-intl-hnk/index.html
https://nypost.com/2020/06/17/provoking-a-crisis-with-india-chinas-latest-aggression/
China is surely gambling, as did Hitler in the 30's, that the US and other powers do not have the stomach to confront and stop them - especially considering current pandemic as they make illegal land grabs such as the massive theft of the South China Sea in order to grab resources (like oil) that China desperately needs while in addition threatening world trade. While we may still be seeking evidence as to whether Covid-19 is a biowar attack or merely an accidental release from a Chinese facility, the Chinese are certainly exploiting the pandemic as a distraction/cover for their other expansionist aims whether in Hong Kong, South China Seas or on the border with India and also Bhutan.
http://www.indiandefencereview.com/news/in-bhutan-too-chinese-grab-land/
https://thediplomat.com/2018/09/trade-war-and-the-south-china-sea/
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/07/heres-why-the-south-china-sea-is-highly-contested.html
There are certainly parallels with the 30's, but I see different ones than you do. For example an extremely dangerous American president who's only interested in money and trade and hasn't got a clue about what's really going on, the Russians trying to destabilize other countries in order to make advantage of the confusion, the Chinese forced into a confrontation because they are becoming too powerful and too successful and last but not least a weak and divided Europe, that needs to understand they are on their own in a world gone completly ballistic.
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51 minutes ago, Erwin said:
"Bloodlands" does an xnt job describing all those factors and the often insane-sounding rationalizations made to justify the mass-killings and ethnic cleansing actions by both Soviets and Germans. Also, while nowadays it's politically correct to call the WW2 Germans "Nazis" as if the National Socialists were a separate entity and not supported by the majority of the German population, "Bloodlands" provides the evidence that the regular Wehrmacht troops were up to their necks in atrocities from the invasion of Poland onwards.
Well, a lot can be said about attrocities in wartime, but to my experience discussions like this should better be avoided on this forum. Let's leave this subject to rest.
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20 minutes ago, LongLeftFlank said:
Erich Koch et al. slapping the bread and salt out of villagers' hands didn't help, certainly. But once Soviet authority was removed, all kinds of local warlords and opportunists were going to pop up to fill the vacuum, no matter how enlightened the Germans chose to be. The Reichskommissars had their orders to squeeze the Ostland dry, and were too racist and ignorant to understand that they needed to cut deals with a subset of these folks and play them off against each other, instead of treating them like dimwitted cattle (stűcke). But Nazis gonna Nazi....
Yep. And don't forget the Soviet partisans were formed before and prepared for the German invasion in order to terrorize the population and prevent them to work with the Germans. Stalin didn't trust his own people and with good reason.The Germans made it even easier for him by treating the Russians the way they did. Chosing between Hitler and Stalin, between the devil and the deep blue sea...
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Looks to me like just another propaganda war. Perhaps the US can send some troops from Germany to India. High time anyway for the Europeans to stand on their own feet again.
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They look even better than I anticipated! Man, that must have been a lot of work, MJ! Thank you, thank you, thank you for this superb mod. Can't wait to see those guys in action.
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15 minutes ago, Vacilllator said:
I won't go to mad, but I do have a bit of catching up to do
. Anyway, hello to everyone - perhaps I should have said that earlier?
You should have, shouldn't you?
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Hell. Why not.
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There you go.
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14 hours ago, mjkerner said:
Spent hours yesterday squashing bugs, or rather, finding the bastiges. Don't ask. Doing the readme and the marketing photo-shoot this morning, and should go to Bootie this afternoon--well, by midnight, anyway. I will see if my Dropbox can hold it and if so will put it up there for a few days while Bootie gets it sorted.
See why BFC doesn't give us availability dates, lol?
You mean, you work for THEM?
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7 hours ago, mjkerner said:
Lol, not sure “better and better”, just “more and more”.
I trust in this case that's the same thing.
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39 minutes ago, mjkerner said:
This weekend for sure. I sort of went the way of BFC with CMSF2 and Rome to Victory and kept adding options, tweaking bits and pieces, or finding new ways to do things at the last minute. I decided to use tags after all, but still need to check all the texture names, tweak a few more textures, and we’re good to go. I mean it this time, lol!
You better...
But seriously, delighted to hear the mod is getting better and better.
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45 minutes ago, Bufo said:
From a ricochet? I don't think so.
A 152mm grenade on a steel surface? What do you think they heard inside that StuG? Must have been quite a noise.
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Bet they have quite a headache now.
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3 hours ago, mjkerner said:
Stopping by to give you anxious ones---you know who you are, lol---a quick update. I'm running behind, but not for lack of working, just keep thinking of things I need to do, add. takeout, etc., plus literally at the last minute I found a couple of new techniques by accident that actually make certain things look better. I still might have it ready to send to Bootie tonight, but give me a day or two slack if not.
Thanks.
But of course, MJ, please take your time. Beggars can't be chosers.
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Superb map!!
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And just to prove my greedy nature again, MJ, and pointy nosed or not, I still would love to have those Ghurka-boys too. I know your modesty about your own work, but personally I think you are an artist in this field.
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Superb, MJ! Really happy with that and looking forward to use it. Personally I don't mind using a tag for this mod, but that's up to you of course. Thank you for all your work and time!
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Mixed feelings about all this. Good to see BF making money and securing their future. Well deserved, business first etc. Less happy since this will inevitably result in more delay and a slower output of games for us. But impressive stuff, that has to be said.
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On 5/28/2020 at 5:18 PM, Erwin said:
Reading an excellent book "Bloodlands" by Timothy Snyder.
While describing the East Front situation in general, it has a large section on Partisan and Anti-Partisan groups and their actions and Snyder outlines the operations of Partisan leaders like Bielski and Zorin and the Anti-Partisan formations under Kaminskii, Dirlewanger and Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski.
Interestingly the book outlines how the Partisan groups were often fighting each other as the various ethnic Communist partisans hated the nationalist Ukrainians and Polish partisans etc. while the Jewish partisans had their own agenda.
Also read; 'Sowjetische Partisanen 1941-1944: Mythos und Wirklichkeit' by the Polish author Bogdan Musial. A lot of these so-called 'partisans' were little more than gangs of heavy criminals who terrorized the local population and cut up every German or other opponent they could lay their hands on.
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On 5/28/2020 at 11:47 PM, Bubba883XL said:
i just grabbed this, quick look shows awesome detail on the battles etc. they have great book son thier website. waiting for endkampf to get back in stock also.
Buy it while it is available. Superb book.
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1 hour ago, Sgt.Squarehead said:I thought so.
I don't. Rather bad taste.
Hypothetical China-India war is now much less hypothetical
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Chamberlain did more to prepare Britain for war than Churchill and was far from the fool history made him. Churchill on the other hand was a bankrupt and corrupt war mongerer, who indeed wrote his own history, as he himself predicted. He was despised by many with good reasons.