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It is a map only it has no ai plans etc. I don't really use quick battles so you'd have to ask someone with experience in how loading it in your quick battles folder works. Currently it would only work for pbem, or head to head play.

It is up now on scenario depot http://www.thefewgoodmen.com/tsd3/cm-black-sea/cm-black-sea-add-ons-maps/ukrainian-crossroads/

that was so it was available now. It takes a bit it seems before it becomes available in scenario depot

yeah that is where it went. I followed the links above

Honestly not sure yet, I just uploaded. I think there is an initial check period. Let me take a look, if I find it I will post a link. Yeah not showing yet. Here is a link for dropbox until it shows in the depot. up on depot now, link to Dropbox removed

Okay I dropped it to the scenario depot for Black Sea. It is called Ukrainian Crossroads and correction it is 4x4.5 km Totally fictional location, just a map I tinkered with over time.

I usually find scenario designers to be too stingy with artillery.

Deleted as irrelevant. I do not promise to do this for all my posts.

Yeah I think it is the source of the French protests - how were they supposed to pull off the miracle of the Marne with Uber?!

There are some included. I created one that is about 5x4.5 km - as big as CM will allow in a square map. The limitation is a map can only be so many action squares, so you can go really deep and narrow if you want. I think it was carved up for QBs but I will drop it over to the scenario depot later for use. Personally I would still go for a less dense unit environment. These days I think you'd see far less concentration even with a large map.

Bah, they come via Uber!

Love MOUT battles First thing I check is what way is the wind blowing and how strong. Then I check who all has smoke and demo charges

Just for comparison Georgia covers a territory of 69,700 square kilometres (26,911 sq mi), and its 2015 population is about 3.75 million. Latvia has 2,070,371 inhabitants and a territory of 64,589 km2 (24,938 sq mi).[ Lithuania has an estimated population of 2.9 million people as of 2015 Area Total 65,300 km2 25,212 sq mi Estonia consists of a mainland and 2,222 islands and islets in the Baltic Sea,[15] covering 45,339 km2 (17,505 sq mi) of land with a population of 1.3 million +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Georgia 26,911 sq miles Population 3.75 million Baltic States 67,620 Sq Miles Population 6,270,371 The Russia/Georgia war lasted 4 days and eventually a ceasefire was negotiated. 4 days in a country half the size with about 2/3 rd the population. A country with no NATO members next door. The capital was still in Georgian hands.

As the team withdraws an airstrike covers their tracks. - Somewhere deep in enemy territory.....

More enemy are pouring into the room The remaining member of the breach team fails to observe the enemy passing behind him and loses a man. The overwatch team takes care of the remaining enemy The surviving member of the breach time secures the other outside door Room secure, tending to the wounded. Breach team - 1 KIA, 1 WIA Enemy - 13 casualties.

Breaching and clearing a room to seize high value intel. The target is a compound with courtyard and towers. One team remaining outside threw smoke to cover the assault. I then sent two teams. one to breach and one to cover them. 6 guys on the assault. They blow the wall in and immediately gun down an enemy who had been adjacent. The breach team charges in. Taking out stunned enemy before they can recover. In the chaos the covering team takes out any enemy that manage to get behind them. First man down, one of the breach team is wounded.

They are shooting back?! Ha the sound mod used for Task Force Spartan Resolve has a guy shouting, "this would go a lot faster if I wasn't being shot at!"

Well I'd pay for a CM game like that if you include insurgents in the ToE! Wait wasn't that CM:Afghanistan? The more things change..... Cool Steve just said they will update CM:Afghanistan..at least that is what I heard.

so back to the discussion of what may or may not be factors in how Russia decided or not to act. Article from Newsweek on a poll by the Levada Center. Nearly half of Russians agree that a quiet anti-constitutional coup has taken place in the country through changes of law that favor corrupt officials in power, according to pollster the Levada Center. The survey of 1,600 Russians was conducted at the end of December 2015 and involved two groups of 800 people. The first was asked if “recent changes to Russian legislation defending highly ranked corrupt officials at the top of the national government and increasing the crackdown on those who deal in criticizing and unmasking them are all testament of a quiet, anti-constitutional coup in the country.” Forty-two percent were either entirely in agreement or somewhat in agreement, while only 4 percent completely disagreed. Thirty-six percent struggled to respond. http://www.newsweek.com/42-percent-russians-believe-corrupt-officials-have-performed-silent-coup-419779Those are some pretty dangerous numbers for a dictator. If he stumbles..... Hence the question about what are the constraints he faces. Launching an offensive that relies on a conscripted army with a high level of social discontent is a recipe for disaster. And just in case someone decided to deride the Levada center as some western puppet polling center. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levada_Center It is a homegrown Russia center that apparently has been held in high regard... as long as it didn't offend the sensibilities of those in power. Funny story of it's origins and founder The founding and development of the agency was intertwined with the career of its founder, Yuri Levada — the first professor to teach sociology at Moscow State University. During the political thaw initiated by Nikita Khrushchev, Levada was allowed to carry out limited surveys of public opinion. In one lecture, Levada asserted that tanks could not change ideologies, a reference to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. However, his first conflict with those in power came from a survey asserting that few actually read Pravda's notoriously longwinded editorials; and Pravda quickly and bitterly denounced the sociologist.

Putin not a dictator? Ask yourself this, what would happen if a serious "Impeach Putin" movement started - you'll find your answer there.

Heh heh copy and paste the quote into notepad and edit it all there. then paste back here. Regarding Putin, I don't believe him to be irrational. The question is simply understanding that what motivates him is different than what motivates most people I know. Putin in turn has to know how to manage the Russian populace. I disagree he can do whatever he wants. I think Putin is actually very constrained, but within those constraints he is free to make decisions fully on his own. His constraint is he absolutely has to maintain an at worst non political populace. He is capable of making what I consider to be irrational decisions - because they don't fit into my conception of what is best for Russia. They do fit into the framework of Putin's view of what is best for him. I think we absolutely agree there. What comes next is the hard part- figuring out what Putin thinks is best for him. So far Putin has been able to keep the population in step, but that was because the money train was rolling and was followed closely by the nationalist train... he is running out of track however and that is where it gets scary. I don't think invading the Baltics though is gonna help. He needs to appear to be standing up to aggression and for Russia's interests. Rescuing Russian folks in the Baltics isn't gonna cut it I don't think. I suspect Russian people are already jaded by the experience in the Ukraine and with it winding down to Ukraine getting control over it's territories again even your average Russia is gonna wonder what the hell was the point. Dragging that excuse out again would only cause them to remember all that hype that turned into nothing.

Thank god cause we have seen how ferocious your guys are already! Sheesh they'd scare the bejeezus out of the West. Gotta admit I like your AAR commentary the most.

Obama does not kill reporters.!.. oh wait... never mind. Well Ken and I are not on the same page in that regard. I have no issues with my President's "machismo" versus the chest thumping Putin. I don't need a WWF guy for president. I'll take this an American politician currently serving as the 44th President of the United States, the first African American to hold the office. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney and taught constitutional law at University of Chicago Law School between 1992 and 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004 over this anyday. He was a KGB agent in East Germany until the fall of the Berlin wall at which time he became a crook in the St Petersburg gov't before cashing in on his connections to take over the Russian government and run it for the exclusive benefit of his cronies. He occasionally wrestles bears and bears his chest. But that doesn't make any of the rest of what Ken says moot. However I think comparing the US navy and the embargo of Iran to a potential embargo of Russia in a wartime situation is comparing apples to oranges. The embargo of Iran was an international consensus embargo based on nuclear proliferation agreements. An embargo based on a state of war is a whole other matter. If the US declared war on Iran today, do you think there would be an Iranian navy or air force tomorrow?

Couple items. One I agree Russia could most likely overrun the Baltic states. I don't think however a fait accompli is gonna happen. The west might not militarily move in with the intent of driving Russia out. I do think they would move forces there to protect the Polish border, but more importantly I think they would simply shut down Russia economically. People may scoff at the current sanctions, but they are a source of irritation for Russia. In this instance however I think you'd see a wholesale embargo. There would be no trade with Russia whatsoever with anyone. The US navy would stop all merchant traffic with Russia for those countries considering ignoring it. Have a few images of Lithuanians with hunting rifles defending their capitol against Russia tanks go viral and all bets are off Secondly, I don't think Belarus would go along. Hell they won't even go along with Russia now. Risk war with NATO? Not gonna happen. The invasion would have to be an all Russian force launched from Russian territory and Russia would probably have to secure it's border with Belarus as well. Belarus is already uncomfortable with Russia action in UKR, an invasion along their northern border would have to trigger concerns they are next. This then means Russia would have to drive through all 3 countries in sequence and potentially face Polish troops in Lithuania with Kaliningad at risk. Meanwhile the UKR would likely overrun the Donbass by end of that week. It is a huge risk with the potential of the plan completely going off the tracks with very little reward. That being said, having a ready heavy brigade propositioned in Poland would give Russia cause to doubt and that is all one needs. I expect Russia is going to be busy enough over the next few years with other issues that a campaign against the Baltics will not be high on their list. Don't rule out tension between Russia and China over trade along the "silk route".

The other part of that discussion is Russia has to have something worth the risk. I have to say I think Russia did plan Crimea well from a risk/reward perspective. They pretty much nailed the west's inability to respond. At least in the sense of a move to show off for Russian nationalism. Personally I think taking Crimea was a huge mistake, but I get that there are emotional issues here as well. Economically it is a massive sink not to mention a foreign relations nightmare. I don't see anything like that regarding the Baltic States. While yes it could be something to draw popular attention from the state of the economy, I just don't see Putin taking that big a gamble. The playbook on Crimea won't work there. These are NATO member states. UKR he still considered the Russian "zone". If I were to cook up another CMBS type scenario it would more likely involve Belarus.