Ivan Drago

A good counter-battery target. </font>

A good counter-battery target. </font>

A good counter-battery target. </font>

Graphics are looking so much better now...soon there will be nothing left to complain about, except a Space Lobster shortage

Doesn't look like those kids know how to properly use RKG-3's...it works well when thrown at a (preferably stationary) target and allowed to descend via small parachute unto the weak top armor. These guys throw it directly at the speeding Hummers, probably making for not much more then a lot of smoke and knocking off some gear from the sides at most.

I rather like that one, but then the devs would have to give the Syrians something like 'Fist of Allah' to balance it out a bit...then again, I'm not at all sure Allah could beat Chuck Norris. I mean, that guy has made a lot of karate movies!

My bet's on late August - got a vodka bottle on the line, anyone game? Can't be any of the devs or beta people

I mean, you did better then the French did against the Germans in the early war, I'll give you that. But amazing? Not really. Not considering the circumstances. Better defensive terrain, being attacked by disorganized, demoralized enemy troops being led by politically placed Commissars instead of capable trained leaders (who were at the time breaking rocks in some Siberian gulag)...then in '44 Russia/USSR was WAY too busy fighting and beating the greatest enemy it had ever faced, racing for a quick victory. The incursion into Finland was meant to incite a ceasefire so that the Red Army could concentrate on the main foe and to conquer some territory as a buffer zone - the Soviets achived these goals, of course at a price. If the attempt was anything more then half hearted, for example if Finalnd was strategically important for some strange reason, the result would have been Helsinki looking like Berlin circa 1945. Buildings reduced to rubble and Soviet troops going on a raping spree of massive proportions. I'm not really adept at playing the role of the nationalist flag-waver, but this whole 'chest-puffed-out-uber-finn' thing does get on the nerves every once in a while.

What's so bad about speaking Russian? And we Russian don't have a similar saying for the Finnish people, because Finland holds absolutely no importance to us or to anyone else (except Finns of course) on the global scale whether speaking economically, strategically or in any other recognizable way. Your only claim to fame as a nation is repulsing a half-hearted invasion by a barbarous greedy tyrant in a useless land-grab who first crippled his own army by decimating all of its skilled commanders and officers. Well, that and having a yearly contest where y'all pick up your women folk and race around obstacles with 'em. Oh, and here's another vote for seeing CMX2:EF at some point in the future!

Then they kick their moms in the face and wail on electric guitars, making the heads of enemy American troops explode out of sheer awesomeness!!1 :eek: :eek: :eek:

Love them videos! My only small squabble is that the town looks a little barren still...but since it's a beta vid I'm not too concerned.

I'd throw a couple of late-model T-90's in there for sh*ts and giggles - have a little 'Cold War 2' riff on the situation maybe, Putin's evil successor is all bloated with oil wealth and throws Syria some toys to bloody American noses. *sigh* Won't be able to play with cool Russian stuff until it too is outdated...

In the words of Borat, "Very niiice, how much?"

Pass the pipe!

Bump for good question!

Mmmm...so, so tasty. All those action shots too...mmmm...*drools, chokes, drools more*

Oh that is l33t. Worthy of adding to the big pile of 'stuff we know about this engine'.

Yep, bear went over the mountain is what I was originally thinking of. Thanks for the link!

There was a website and/or book with a whole bunch of Soviet missions in Afhgan, some successful and others totally FUBAR - the point is there were a lot of scenarios mentioned. They were all around company-size too, so probably would make for perfect battles. Except for the lack of helicopters

One of those artsy Middle Eastern instrumental melodies they play on meditation/stoner soundtracks would be good. Accompanied by a desert landscape background theme with heavily armored troops advancing over it. KICK ASS!!!1 :mad: :cool:

Perhaps my brain is rotting, but I seem to recall that Katyusha rockets and arty shells were raining down in Israel all the way till the end of the brief conflict there, which likely indicates that counter-battery fire isn't all it's cracked up to be. Technology is nifty, but it seems that angst-filled Arabic teenagers armed with Kalashnikovs and religious craziness won't be so easily dislodged from the region without mass murder, ala Chechnia.

I'm man enough to admit that I still compulsively masturbate to game updates, and boy, has the last week been a chaffed one!

Aww shucks, you're just mad it's not man-love!

Not really that similar... Modeling the first Chechen war, with the incompetent and underfunded post-USSR-collapse army sending tank collumns into tight streets doesn't sound much more exciting then playing the second Chechen war; seeing bitter but better funded Russian generals kill a few million people and subdue the guerrillas through a mix of sheer brutality, bribery and assasinations.

Thanks for the reply, Steve! I was honestly more interested in what MikeyD went on about, that is the war of 1972. The future of combat there, at least to me, was summed up in the Hezbolah guerrilla tactics we've all seen on CNN a few months ago, and it wasn't exactly as interesting as previous wars. I like what you say about military contracts though - I'll see if the Russian military wants to model what would happen if China decided to claim Siberia as it's new oil field Thinking about it, that would actually be an awesome game (but since Americans probably can't find China on a map, it wouldn't sell).