Baneman

Then again, the EU might just decide to "fix the problems later" and fast track them in. ( in any event, the Russian goal of having Ukraine focused Eastwards in the Russian "orbit" rather than the EU's has spectacularly backfired ) We're well through the looking-glass now, anything's possible that was unthinkable a week ago.

Lots of governments give minorities a hard time. Even in my case, I ( and many others ) here in Scotland feel that the UK government is stripping us of rights. We tried a legal referendum about independence and may try another soon. We didn't try armed insurrection or invite someone to invade the UK over it. I could also leave and move to a country where I agreed more with the government's policies. It's the turning to violence and killing people that tends to lose you any support.

And if that is the case, he can take his employer to court and win - because, that's how normally rights are protected. And, being the west, he's not even likely to fall out of a window for doing so.

You'll notice that the bulk of your quotes about Russian "oppression" are dated post-2014. Do you really think that after Crimea and everything that went down in the Donbas in 2014-5, Russians would be popular ?

Given the amount of dis/mis-information floating around in this day and age, compared with when the GC was drafted, this actually prevents any wild claims of POW's being mistreated and/or "disappeared".

How would the Russians know ? They'd have to shoot one down AND capture the pilot. And even then, he/she could be "on leave". Russia invented that wheeze, it's too bad if it gets used against them, they don't get exclusive copyright on it, hehe.

Problem is that every time Putin has been allowed to get away with something, he's escalated. So if everyone says "let him have Ukraine or he'll nuke us", what do you say when he decides he'd like a land-bridge to Kaliningrad ? Or that some other neighbouring country is "historically Russian" ?

Smart move. It shows they're not the monsters they're being painted as and gets that info spreading via word of mouth amongst ordinary Russians.

If you know this, how is it that you don't see that it undermines the whole Russian demand that "Ukraine must not join NATO" argument as the conflict in Donbas prevents Ukraine joining. ( probably why Russia started the whole "separatist" thing in the first place, but that's a different thread )

1. Russia achieved that in 2014. NATO was almost completely moribund when the Crimean invasion took place and galvanised countries. 2. Strange, Putin is supposed to be so smart, yet fell right into their trap. Still, he could take the wind out of their sails by moving troops away from the border. I wonder why he doesn't.

I think Elvis has it right - there must be something wrong with your installation - I've just tested dismounting and remounting mortar teams into their halftrack and I cannot reproduce this - even if I remount the mortars into the wrong halftrack ( ie. the one from the other team ), on my machine they then show as "Destroyed" in the artillery UI, not "Not Positioned" ( which is odd, but obviously a code wrinkle ). Is yours a recent install ?

A comma after "more" and after "earlier" renders it satisfactory.

Nice pics, Kuli. Man that middle one looks cold !

Ok, granted I worded it badly - better to say "you would see some ?'s too", not the exact same ones.

No, the level of intel available to the player would be set in the campaign ( probably per scenario ). If you play the same campaign, you should see exactly the same number of "?" on the map.

Thanks, needed a good belly laugh !

What domfluff said. His comments about maps apply almost equally to Red Thunder, so it may come down to your preference for a nation/particular equipment. ie. Red Thunder = Germans vs Russians Final Blitzkrieg = Germans vs US

Sounds intriguing, I'll have to try and find an hour. I wish this sort of thing was published in writing because I could read in 10 minutes or less what is going to take him an hour to say.

Ouch ! A less than optimal dismounting procedure !

You can have as many folders under the Z or Mods folder as you want - it helps to keep things organised ( when you end up with hundreds of mods like some of us ). I have an "Aris mods", "Juju's mods" folders, etc.

Consider me to be minimum #2 Only just found this, but have always considered the lack of wrecks to be an oversight of BFC's, so please, allow me to encourage you ! They look great even now.

and is that an IS-3 next to the ISU-152 in the 2nd pic ?

What are those weird hoops in front ?

Totally !

I'm seeing them.