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    Any Chance for a New Afrikakorps game?

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

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    3 hours ago, danfrodo said:

    But Montgomery's insane egotistical tirades --  how did Eisenhower punch knock his teeth out?

    Seriously? That's how an American talks about one of his respected and brave brother-in-arms? Montgomery was a very skilled and intelligent general. There's not much glory for him nowadays due to the inflated American ego with regard to WW2, but especially you Americans should pay him more respect than you usually do.

    Don't get me wrong, I like Americans, really do, but the way some of you guys are looking at history nowadays...

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    Any Chance for a New Afrikakorps game?

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Aragorn2002

    1 hour ago, BluecherForward said:

    Thought I would include a link to a great article on the Afrikakorps and Rommel by renowned historian Robert Citino:

    https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/drive-nowhere-myth-afrika-korps-1941-43

    Worth a read.

    Is it? Personally I think Citino is a good example of a bad historian. Calling Rommel's performance in North Africa overestimated confirms my low opinion of him. Rommel never had the means or logistics to force a decisive victory. He perhaps wasn't the genius propaganda made him, but deserved his reputation as a great tactician. And the British, South Africans, Australians etc were tough opponents and equally skilled in desert warfare.

    All these little men nowadays, judging men so much greater than themselves. It makes me nautious. No offence intended, Bluecher.

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    1917

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Aragorn2002

    1 hour ago, Erwin said:

    Very true...  Hence the complications of the Middle East - have to go back thousands of years...  

    Absolutely. At the moment I'm reading a book about the fighting between the Austrians/Germans on the one side and the Italians on the other in the Alpine region between Austria and Italy in 1915.How many people know the Allies promised the 100% German speaking Austrian provence of South Tirol to the Italians in exchange for Italy changing sides and attacking already hard pressed Austria-Hungary? After ww1 the Italians annexed the whole area and began to make life hard for the German speaking population. Such injustice made a lot of Austrians ready for another war. Imagine the USA fighting a bloody war against Russia and China, losing it and Mexico attacking and annexing Texas. I'm pretty sure that wouldn't go down well with the American people. Just an example...

    Btw the Middle East was mainly Christian before the muslims came and wiped the Christians out. Puts the crusades in a somewhat different light, doesn't it?

    Anyway, history is important. 🙂

     

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    1917

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

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    2 minutes ago, MikeyD said:

    You look up past conflicts and it becomes apparent that there are 'popular' wars that give the right social messages, wars that were once 'popular' to reference but fell out of favor (the Franco-Prussian was of 1870 for example), and there are wars best forgotten. Nobody outside of China talks much about the Opium wars to force China to import drugs being produced by Britain in India. That conflict arose because the US and Britain didn't have much of anything to trade for valuable Chinese goods. So they hit on a scheme to get China addicted to drugs. But China was naturally averse to the idea. So we went to war, China lost, and the British aristocracy became filthy rich.

    And yet, you can't understand ww2 without ww1, you can't understand ww1 without the war of 1870, you can't understand the war of 1870 without the napoleonic wars, etc usw

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    Castles in Italy

    in Combat Mission Fortress Italy

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    On 2/2/2020 at 1:50 AM, umlaut said:

    I set up 12 Brummbärs to fire at 12 churches from around 200 metres.
    Result: When all the Brummbärs had used all their ammo (33 150mm HE rounds and 3 150mm HEAT rounds each)  none (0) of the churches had collapsed.

    All the churches had holes knocked through their walls. In average it took a Brummbär 21,5 150mm HE rounds to knock a hole in the wall of a church.

     

     

    I'm pretty sure you will go to hell for this, Umlaut. 😀

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    1917

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Aragorn2002

    9 hours ago, Erwin said:

    I liked the movie as well and recommend it.  Was only pointing out that it's not a story that has to be in WW1.  It's a classic type of story that could be set in almost any era or location.  I imagine the filmmakers chose WW1 as the backdrop since WW1 recently became "fashionable".

    Not sure about that. How many people have a decent knowledge about what happened in WW1? The fighting at the Eastern front or the Alpine front for example is hardly known anymore. Not even in the German speaking countries. Or the fighting in the Middle East against the Turks?

    Most people are so incredibly ignorant about history nowadays. Very frightening.

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    Looking for weathered faces mod for British

    in CM Normandy Maps and Mods

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    10 minutes ago, mjkerner said:

    Aragorn, I think Aris or someone did some for the Germans (which it sounds like you already have), but I don't think there are any for the British.  However, since I know you've done some renaming before, you can just rez-explode the CW version 110 brz of CMBN, then find the British "skins"  (faces) in the "soldiers" folder, and then copy the weathered German faces, and start renaming them with the British name for faces: uk-soldier-skin 1, uk-soldier-2, etc. The default British faces are numbered 1 through 8, and of course you can number them higher to your hearts content. (If you rename less than 8, say 1- 6, then the default faces 7 and 8 will still be in the mix.)

    I hope I explained this clear enough. Feel free to PM me if not.

    That's very clear and fortunately within my limited skills, MJ. Thank you for your instructions! 

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    The Year Ahead Bone Post

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

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    2 hours ago, danfrodo said:

    f Stalin hadn't killed most of his officers and if the armed forces were used with even marginal competence, then Germany would've been lucky to get to Smolensk. The Russians had numbers but were controlled by an utterly anti-competent lunatic.

    Lunatic indeed. But Stalin was no fool. His plan to push Britain, France and Germany into another bloodbath worked, but wasn't followed by another trenchwar, so he could attack Germany in the back. That's why Stalin for a large part is responsible for WW 2. He easily could have made an alliance with France and Britain, but he tried to be smart.

    And without those numbers you mention, build up in 20 years of preparation for total war, the Red Army could/would have been beaten. That's the point many Russians are making now. Without Stalin's terror Russia would have been wiped out.

    1 hour ago, BluecherForward said:

    Actually, the Soviets in the western districts were right in the middle of upgrading all of their units - they would have been weaker a year earlier. A number of T-34 tanks, for example, were captured while still on rail cars (heading west). Also, not sure OKH saw Barbarossa as a sure bet - although it is certainly a fact that the Germans had terrible intelligence about Soviet capabilities and resilience.

    In Hitler's view Germany didn't have any other choice than attack Stalin as soon as possible. I think the Germans knew more about the Red army and Russian industry than we are led to believe now. They had enough Baltic, Ukrainian and other spies working for the Abwehr, even in heavily guarded Russia itself. But Hitler knew he would never get a better opportunity than in the summer of 1941. It wasn't a blind gamble, it was an inevitable next step for him. Both Stalin and Hitler knew  that they were enemies to the death and it was just a question of who was forced to attack first. Stalin was prepared to attack in 1940, if the situation in the West developed into another WW 1-style trenchwar, but in 1941 he knew the Germans were coming for him. Smart fellow,  that Joseph Vissarionovich. .

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    The Year Ahead Bone Post

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

    Posted · Edited by Aragorn2002

    On 1/27/2020 at 4:03 PM, markus544 said:

    Is it not true that the Soviet arms industry usually cranks out poorly put together weapons of war. 

    I agree. That's why I keep saying that no country was better prepared for war than Soviet-Russia. Let's not forget the Germans rebuild their war industry in less  than 8 years. Stalin had almost 20 years to prepare for a war he tried to promote in every possible way and hoped to profit from for his own dark plans. And in that period his secret service gathered almost every defence secret in the US, Britain, Germany and the rest of the world. The development of Russian weapons benefitted greatly from that. Apart from that Stalin invested huge sums of money in the Soviet armed forces and war industry, while his country suffered under terror and poverty.

    Hey, wait a minute. That sounds familiair! 🤨

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