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How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
__Yossarian0815[jby] replied to Probus's topic in Combat Mission Black Sea
re: UGVs, especially when moving cross contry, wouldn´t an operator have to be "at the wheel" literally all the time? I mean, compared to a UAV that will fly in on a preprogrammed path and only need to be be babysitted for the important part of its mission. -
How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
__Yossarian0815[jby] replied to Probus's topic in Combat Mission Black Sea
Heh, I wrote an essay on MIRVs in high schoool in the 198somefink. -
How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
__Yossarian0815[jby] replied to Probus's topic in Combat Mission Black Sea
I would like to add that the gas infrastructure from the USSR to the west (or what has become the west in the meantime) predates all current and recent politicians (we´re talking late 1960s). The attached corruption is however more recent (russian top jobs for former German and Austrian polticians is more of a Putin era thing). If somebody can pull off a genuine Energiewende, it´s the Germans. It will be well invested money since everybody will have to wean themselves off fossil fuels anyway. This is of course a major undertaking and will take years, regardless of moralistic huffing and puffing from countries who (currently) have easier access to energy . -
How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
__Yossarian0815[jby] replied to Probus's topic in Combat Mission Black Sea
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How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
__Yossarian0815[jby] replied to Probus's topic in Combat Mission Black Sea
If the Germans had won, not a single ukranian would exist today. Most of the people in this thread would not exist. The nazis had an extermination plan for practically everybody. -
How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
__Yossarian0815[jby] replied to Probus's topic in Combat Mission Black Sea
Um, no. The KPD (communist party of Germany) was never very strong in Weimar Germany (10-16%). The NSDAP certainly didn´t grow at the expense of the KPD. In fact the KPD was forbidden so that the Nazis could claim their takeover to be democratically legitimate (Ermächtigungsgesetz). -
How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
__Yossarian0815[jby] replied to Probus's topic in Combat Mission Black Sea
History is full of soldiers fighting for the lands of their ancestors on their home turf...and losing anyway. i.e all the native peoples of Americas, practically all of Africa, practically all of the meditaranean basin was conquered by the Romans, etc. etc. -
How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
__Yossarian0815[jby] replied to Probus's topic in Combat Mission Black Sea
All countries are artificial. The belief in a natural nation state of a pure people is the kind of thing Putin believes in. If you want to be on the winning side of history stick with the artificial agglomerates (Unites States of..., Eur...Union) -
How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
__Yossarian0815[jby] replied to Probus's topic in Combat Mission Black Sea
During the yugoslav wars in the 90s the serbs/croats/bosnians tried to explain to anybody who was listening that they they spoke totally different languages and had irreconcilable cultural differences. 2 Generations later not so much. Read wikipedia on slavic languages and how they are related. -
I liked the 1984 dune movie. There. Take that. I read foundation around that time. The new series just shares the title I think. Ho, hum. I´m not sure that you can make a foundation movie, too abstract. The other day somebody told me they were thinking of making a Iain banks "culture" movie or series. I don´t think that will work either.
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R2V The Arverni Gambit
__Yossarian0815[jby] replied to Majick's topic in Combat Mission Fortress Italy
Heh, I recently played this a few times as the french against the (german) AI. you can dislodge the germans from the hill by carefully targeting each floor with a supporting tank and advancing with the reserves you get from behind. Also you can target some of the buildings on the hill from the wood below I managed to kick the germans out of the town, but getting all the objectives, nope, too difficult. -
Hitler, the failed artist
__Yossarian0815[jby] replied to Childress's topic in General Discussion Forum
The ideology was well established before Hitler joined, so Nazism would have been a political factor in any case. Wheteher they could have taken over Germany without him, who knows? -
European Union Army
__Yossarian0815[jby] replied to IronCat60's topic in Combat Mission - General Discussion
I totally agree, but I was being snarky that the US would not be amused if the envisioned 2% of GDP weren´t spent at least in part on US arms. -
European Union Army
__Yossarian0815[jby] replied to IronCat60's topic in Combat Mission - General Discussion
Fair enough. Budget and intentions is true for all sides. For fun´s sake (before this thread is locked) imagine Europe actually integrating its armies and actually spending 2% of GDP but not on US arms. -
European Union Army
__Yossarian0815[jby] replied to IronCat60's topic in Combat Mission - General Discussion
Defence spending: Nato europe: 1,5% of GDP, Russia: 4,3% of GDP Nato Europe GDP: 17 trn $, Russia 1,6 trn$ (do the math) -
Semper Fi Campaign glitch
__Yossarian0815[jby] replied to Battlefront.com's topic in Combat Mission Shock Force 2
What Euri asked, and in addition if you installed from the newest complete installer (V2.01), is the campaign fixed? -
'ATGM Ambush' Experiences?
__Yossarian0815[jby] replied to Sulman's topic in Combat Mission Shock Force 2
Also had a hard time with this at first, but then I discovered: bit of a spoiler: The bradleys contain Javelin launchers. -
License failure problem on install
__Yossarian0815[jby] replied to Phantom Captain's topic in Combat Mission Shock Force 2
Thank god I keep an email archive back to the early 2000s. My CMSF1 purchase wasn´t in the database anymore.