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    If this can be our awaiting CM3...!!

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    14 minutes ago, z1812 said:

    The Battle for Caen from June–August 1944 was a battle between Allied (primarily British and Canadian troops) and German forces during the Battle of Normandy.

    The accent in the video seemed more Canadian than British......which surprised me as often the Canadians are overlooked.

    Not in the Netherlands. Most parts of the country were liberated by the Canadian army. But yes, the Canadians are often overlooked too. I have practically all books by Mark Zuehlke and after reading those you can only admire the Canadian fighting spirit. In both world wars.

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    Ost Front Books

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    6 hours ago, BornGinger said:

    At the moment I'm reading León Degrelle's book Campaign in Russia which tells the story of the Wallonian Legion, which later on became the Wallonian 5th SS-Brigade, and their fighting on The Eastern Front.

    So far in the book they have been fighting under the 97th Wehrmacht Division in Ukraine and Caucasus and León has mostly described the horrific conditions under which they advanced forward in rain, which kept them soaked, and snow, which kept them freezing cold, while they were fighting the Soviet forces in 1941 and 1942.

    I am now to begin reading about the Wallonians being taken over by and moved to the Waffen-SS and expect that there will be more descriptions of fighting than of the rain and cold.

    The year is soon 1943 and there are the Khorsun pocket, the 1944 fightings around Leningrad and the fighting in the Baltics and maybe a little bit about the fighting during the Ardennes offencive, if León was among the Wallonians from the 5th SS-brigade who fought there, and then the fightings in Germany 1945 left to read about.

    Interesting character, Degrelle.

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    Pre-orders for Fire and Rubble are now open!!

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    15 minutes ago, markus544 said:

    I find this whole conversation confusing.. I am not casting anything on you guys.  I am reading the posts and in doing so between the lines and I still don't get the whole steam deal.  What's the big deal with steam anyway?..  Just a marketing thing as far as I can tell...Am I missing something or what?  I am probably just not as smart as the rest of you guys.  

    No, you're absolutely right. The whole conversation is confusing. 

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    Pre-orders for Fire and Rubble are now open!!

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    23 minutes ago, chuckdyke said:

    I see Steam as a solution to a non-existing problem. If they slow down the release date of games, I see that as a problem. I can remember when you bought CM in the local computer shop. Then I couldn't find them till I found out about 3 years ago I could buy the games online. Possibly Steam will go the same way. 

    Steam has nothing to do with the endless delay of Fire and Rubble.

    I quite like Steam. Never understood why BF didn't.

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    Pre-orders for Fire and Rubble are now open!!

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    2 hours ago, BFCElvis said:

    Something like this?:

    FR Snow for the Hungry

    Historical

    Date: January 30, 1945

    Conditions: Snow with Blizzard conditions

    Location: Near Jaskeim East Prussia along the Baltic Coast

    Backstory: Konigsberg has just been encircled and the German navy has officially begun Operation Hannibal for evacuation of German civilians in East Prussia.  Gross Deutschland organized all of its remaining armor and APC infantry to attack East along the Baltic coast and relieve the encircled soldiers and civilians trapped in Konigsberg. 

    That is one that @ASL Veteran has made.

    Sounds very interesting. I'm especially interested in the maps of Eastern Prussia. 

    Operation Hannibal. How many people will ever have heard of that?

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    Ost Front Books

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    4 hours ago, Aragorn2002 said:

    Another interesting book from the Russian side, perhaps already mentioned. Tank Battles in East Prussia and Poland 1944-1945 by Igor Nebolsin. 

    O yes, I do read books from Russian authors too. 😉

    I must add the book is largely based upon accounts from Russian soldiers and commanders who where scared stiff to report their real losses to their superiors and who grossly exaggerated those of the enemy. Still, interesting reading. And yes, the Germans also exaggerated enemy losses and their number of casualties were enormous too.

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    Pre-orders for Fire and Rubble are now open!!

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    Posted · Edited by Aragorn2002

    34 minutes ago, chuckdyke said:

    Just look at Barbarossa to Berlin a few scenarios are there for the taking. Courland, East Prussia, and the list goes on and on. 

    In fact there are few battlefields where so many interesting battles took place as the Eastern front in 1944-45. Although a rather neglected history, the fighting there was more fierce and fought with more units and material over a larger space than anywhere else. There are just a few authors, like Douglas E. Nash jr.and Aaron Stephan Hamilton, who write about these battles in detail. Of course many authors write about the Eastern front in general, but authors who really research what happened there are few and far between. The average German infantry division at the Eastern front in 1944/45 saw more action in a month than most Western Allied divisions during the whole of WW2. Only a fraction of that action can be found in books, for the real details one has to read complicated documents such as War diaries (KTB) of regiments, divisions, Corps etc. A very time assuming job, for which most authors don't have the time, energy or knowledge. Most of these documents can only be found in archives in Russia, Germany and other countries. Apart from that there's only a fraction left of all documents, since most of it was destroyed at the end of the war by the units themselves or by Allied bombing. German divisional books are usually suprisingly superficial, although there are exceptions, like the divisional account of the 1. or 4. Panzer Division.

    Names like Wilkowischken, Goldap, Lauban and Bautzen only ring a bell with hardcore Eastfronters and they are just the tip of the iceberg of battles that raged in the last year of the war in the East.

    In that respect I can very well understand the Russian frustration when it comes to the question who defeated Germany. On the other hand war is war and the suffering was no less at the Western front or anywhere else of that cursed conflict.

     

     

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    Pre-orders for Fire and Rubble are now open!!

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    53 minutes ago, chuckdyke said:

    I want to plant the flag on top of the Reichstag. Will be an interesting scenario. 

    It will bring so many interesting possibilities for scenarios. There are few good books about the fighting in 1944-45 at the Eastern front, compared to 1941-43. I'm interested in the whole period, but 1944-45 the most.  Desperate fighting with no hope of victory or glory, it's like watching LOTR, but without a ring to cast in the fire. 🙂

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