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    Combatintman got a reaction from Artkin in It's a good thing American and Russia didn't ever get it on.   
    To reinforce the point - have a look at 8 Guards Army here:
    8th Guards Combined Arms Army (ww2.dk)
    Then drill down to the divisions to see the equipment types fielded which conveniently have figures for 1979 and 1985.  Even as late as 1985 the ratio of T-62 to newer types was still higher than most casual observers would expect.  Leaving tanks aside - look at the other equipment - still lots of BMP-1  and BTR-60s sat in GSFG's East German barracks - where many would probably expect more BMP-2 and BTR-70/80.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from IICptMillerII in It's a good thing American and Russia didn't ever get it on.   
    To reinforce the point - have a look at 8 Guards Army here:
    8th Guards Combined Arms Army (ww2.dk)
    Then drill down to the divisions to see the equipment types fielded which conveniently have figures for 1979 and 1985.  Even as late as 1985 the ratio of T-62 to newer types was still higher than most casual observers would expect.  Leaving tanks aside - look at the other equipment - still lots of BMP-1  and BTR-60s sat in GSFG's East German barracks - where many would probably expect more BMP-2 and BTR-70/80.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from TheFriendlyFelon in CMBS 2022 - Battle of Antonov Airport/Hostomel   
    I usually find casualty parameters and/or friendly bonus parameters work here.  I assume the issue is that on turn one, the defending side is sat on all of the terrain objectives thus giving it a turn one win.  Give the attacking force a friendly casualty parameter worth the equal or nearly equal amount of points and set it at a percentage that takes about half of the scenario length to get whittled down to.  Presumably by that time, the attacking force will then have grabbed or denied some of the terrain objectives from/to the defender.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from Bud Backer in I don't think I can go back to playing against the AI   
    Glad you enjoyed To Verdenne and Victory - that was one of my two scenarios for CMFB.  I wouldn't be so down on computer controlled AI - I think there are some titles where it suits quite well and I'm mainly thinking Cold War here.  If you want a more realistic experience of what it would be like to be on the end of a Soviet Battalion attack then a well-designed AI plan put together by someone who has a thorough understanding of how a Cold War Soviet battalion would attack delivers that better than a human player who will likely employ tactics that they know to have the most optimal effect.  @George MC pulled this off very effectively under @Bil Hardenberger's tutelage in the NTC campaign for Cold War.  Nonetheless, there is no doubt that humans are more challenging opponents and at the end of the day, so long as you're enjoying the game, that's all that matters.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from A Canadian Cat - was IanL in I don't think I can go back to playing against the AI   
    Glad you enjoyed To Verdenne and Victory - that was one of my two scenarios for CMFB.  I wouldn't be so down on computer controlled AI - I think there are some titles where it suits quite well and I'm mainly thinking Cold War here.  If you want a more realistic experience of what it would be like to be on the end of a Soviet Battalion attack then a well-designed AI plan put together by someone who has a thorough understanding of how a Cold War Soviet battalion would attack delivers that better than a human player who will likely employ tactics that they know to have the most optimal effect.  @George MC pulled this off very effectively under @Bil Hardenberger's tutelage in the NTC campaign for Cold War.  Nonetheless, there is no doubt that humans are more challenging opponents and at the end of the day, so long as you're enjoying the game, that's all that matters.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from Simcoe in I don't think I can go back to playing against the AI   
    Glad you enjoyed To Verdenne and Victory - that was one of my two scenarios for CMFB.  I wouldn't be so down on computer controlled AI - I think there are some titles where it suits quite well and I'm mainly thinking Cold War here.  If you want a more realistic experience of what it would be like to be on the end of a Soviet Battalion attack then a well-designed AI plan put together by someone who has a thorough understanding of how a Cold War Soviet battalion would attack delivers that better than a human player who will likely employ tactics that they know to have the most optimal effect.  @George MC pulled this off very effectively under @Bil Hardenberger's tutelage in the NTC campaign for Cold War.  Nonetheless, there is no doubt that humans are more challenging opponents and at the end of the day, so long as you're enjoying the game, that's all that matters.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from George MC in I don't think I can go back to playing against the AI   
    Glad you enjoyed To Verdenne and Victory - that was one of my two scenarios for CMFB.  I wouldn't be so down on computer controlled AI - I think there are some titles where it suits quite well and I'm mainly thinking Cold War here.  If you want a more realistic experience of what it would be like to be on the end of a Soviet Battalion attack then a well-designed AI plan put together by someone who has a thorough understanding of how a Cold War Soviet battalion would attack delivers that better than a human player who will likely employ tactics that they know to have the most optimal effect.  @George MC pulled this off very effectively under @Bil Hardenberger's tutelage in the NTC campaign for Cold War.  Nonetheless, there is no doubt that humans are more challenging opponents and at the end of the day, so long as you're enjoying the game, that's all that matters.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from A Canadian Cat - was IanL in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Well a couple of examples then  - and this is playing out now under the Turbaned beardy lot ...
    Land tenure - there are folks claiming land based allegedly on titles/deeds from about 40 years ago and probably longer crawling out of the woodwork again.  So going back to the ISAF days and even now  - if you built a project to help the folks on a contested piece of land then you are going to irritate the contesting party.  Nobody has a clue who owns what which is something people in less conflict-prone countries sorted out a couple of centuries ago and had means to resolve them through a due process.
    Tribal disputes - again these go back years and the tribes were perfectly happy to align with whoever would best further their interests.  Any tribe aligning itself with ISAF for instance would trigger the opposing tribe to align with the Taliban.  There are heaps of confederations, sub-tribes and the like within Afghanistan.  Again this is still playing out now, I think I've read two reports in the past fortnight about tribal disputes undergoing arbitration with the local Taliban leadership.  There was also a case this week that I read where a group of Kuchis (nomads) are demanding something in the order of $60,000 compensation from villagers in Behsud District, Maidan Wardak Province for one of their number allegedly being murdered 40 years ago.
    Then you had the government ... which had to be ethnically balanced in order to stop itself ripping itself to pieces.  The majority of the ethnic figureheads protected their own.  Take 'Commander Alipoor' a fairly unpleasant ex-bus driver who commanded his own Hazara militia in Behsud District which 'protected' the resident population from the Kuchis.  That same militia also shook down travellers en-route to Bamyan and numerous other acts of unpleasantness.  He was quite rightly arrested and banged up for this and other crimes.   But he got let out because Second Vice President Danesh a Hazara lobbied for his release.  Militia belonging to this creature notoriously shot down an ANDSF helicopter in March 2021 and you've guessed it, the Second Vice President would not condemn Alipoor and Mohammad Mohaqqeq who was a senior politician at the time and also a Hazara urged people not to act too hastily.  The timing of this event was about a fortnight before districts started falling like ninepins to start the chain of events leading to the fall of Kabul five months later.  So the moral of that one was ... well who do you support because it seems they're all as bad as each other.
    The whole sorry saga of Alipoor here ...
    Who is Alipoor, aka Commander Shamshir? | TOLOnews
    MoD: Army Helicopter in Behsud Downed by Alipoor | TOLOnews
    Behsud Incident: Alipoor Continues to Evade Arrest | TOLOnews
    Govt's Reaction to Alipoor Met With Cries for Caution | TOLOnews
    Behsud Situation: MPs Call for Alipoor’s Arrest | TOLOnews
    Behsud: Danesh Says Govt Must Ensure Justice to Stop Fighting | TOLOnews
     
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    Combatintman got a reaction from A Canadian Cat - was IanL in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Nobody fell for it - it is just so ingrained that it kept getting put in the 'too difficult basket.'  I remember a briefing in 2019 at the US Embassy given by the US Ambassador who said flat out, the biggest threat in this country other than the insurgency is corruption.  Personally, and to link it back to the thread, it was probably the number one threat because it completely undermined the ANDSF's capability among other things - we can see the same effects on the Russian military.  To give you an example of the sheer grasping greed, when COVID hit in 2020 there was reporting of about 20 officials at various levels in the Ministry of Public Health being lifted for having misappropriated ventilators donated by the international community and flogging them off in Pakistan at great personal enrichment.  
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    Combatintman got a reaction from Phantom Captain in 2022 Mid Year Update   
    You're full of Christmas cheer aren't you.  Der Ring der 5 Panzer you got for free in the first place as @George MCreleased that as a community scenario .  So let's say 30% is 'old content.'  Looks like you're owed $3.  Let me know where to send the money to or maybe we'll set up a crowdfund.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from MOS:96B2P in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Well a couple of examples then  - and this is playing out now under the Turbaned beardy lot ...
    Land tenure - there are folks claiming land based allegedly on titles/deeds from about 40 years ago and probably longer crawling out of the woodwork again.  So going back to the ISAF days and even now  - if you built a project to help the folks on a contested piece of land then you are going to irritate the contesting party.  Nobody has a clue who owns what which is something people in less conflict-prone countries sorted out a couple of centuries ago and had means to resolve them through a due process.
    Tribal disputes - again these go back years and the tribes were perfectly happy to align with whoever would best further their interests.  Any tribe aligning itself with ISAF for instance would trigger the opposing tribe to align with the Taliban.  There are heaps of confederations, sub-tribes and the like within Afghanistan.  Again this is still playing out now, I think I've read two reports in the past fortnight about tribal disputes undergoing arbitration with the local Taliban leadership.  There was also a case this week that I read where a group of Kuchis (nomads) are demanding something in the order of $60,000 compensation from villagers in Behsud District, Maidan Wardak Province for one of their number allegedly being murdered 40 years ago.
    Then you had the government ... which had to be ethnically balanced in order to stop itself ripping itself to pieces.  The majority of the ethnic figureheads protected their own.  Take 'Commander Alipoor' a fairly unpleasant ex-bus driver who commanded his own Hazara militia in Behsud District which 'protected' the resident population from the Kuchis.  That same militia also shook down travellers en-route to Bamyan and numerous other acts of unpleasantness.  He was quite rightly arrested and banged up for this and other crimes.   But he got let out because Second Vice President Danesh a Hazara lobbied for his release.  Militia belonging to this creature notoriously shot down an ANDSF helicopter in March 2021 and you've guessed it, the Second Vice President would not condemn Alipoor and Mohammad Mohaqqeq who was a senior politician at the time and also a Hazara urged people not to act too hastily.  The timing of this event was about a fortnight before districts started falling like ninepins to start the chain of events leading to the fall of Kabul five months later.  So the moral of that one was ... well who do you support because it seems they're all as bad as each other.
    The whole sorry saga of Alipoor here ...
    Who is Alipoor, aka Commander Shamshir? | TOLOnews
    MoD: Army Helicopter in Behsud Downed by Alipoor | TOLOnews
    Behsud Incident: Alipoor Continues to Evade Arrest | TOLOnews
    Govt's Reaction to Alipoor Met With Cries for Caution | TOLOnews
    Behsud Situation: MPs Call for Alipoor’s Arrest | TOLOnews
    Behsud: Danesh Says Govt Must Ensure Justice to Stop Fighting | TOLOnews
     
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    Combatintman got a reaction from Kinophile in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Well a couple of examples then  - and this is playing out now under the Turbaned beardy lot ...
    Land tenure - there are folks claiming land based allegedly on titles/deeds from about 40 years ago and probably longer crawling out of the woodwork again.  So going back to the ISAF days and even now  - if you built a project to help the folks on a contested piece of land then you are going to irritate the contesting party.  Nobody has a clue who owns what which is something people in less conflict-prone countries sorted out a couple of centuries ago and had means to resolve them through a due process.
    Tribal disputes - again these go back years and the tribes were perfectly happy to align with whoever would best further their interests.  Any tribe aligning itself with ISAF for instance would trigger the opposing tribe to align with the Taliban.  There are heaps of confederations, sub-tribes and the like within Afghanistan.  Again this is still playing out now, I think I've read two reports in the past fortnight about tribal disputes undergoing arbitration with the local Taliban leadership.  There was also a case this week that I read where a group of Kuchis (nomads) are demanding something in the order of $60,000 compensation from villagers in Behsud District, Maidan Wardak Province for one of their number allegedly being murdered 40 years ago.
    Then you had the government ... which had to be ethnically balanced in order to stop itself ripping itself to pieces.  The majority of the ethnic figureheads protected their own.  Take 'Commander Alipoor' a fairly unpleasant ex-bus driver who commanded his own Hazara militia in Behsud District which 'protected' the resident population from the Kuchis.  That same militia also shook down travellers en-route to Bamyan and numerous other acts of unpleasantness.  He was quite rightly arrested and banged up for this and other crimes.   But he got let out because Second Vice President Danesh a Hazara lobbied for his release.  Militia belonging to this creature notoriously shot down an ANDSF helicopter in March 2021 and you've guessed it, the Second Vice President would not condemn Alipoor and Mohammad Mohaqqeq who was a senior politician at the time and also a Hazara urged people not to act too hastily.  The timing of this event was about a fortnight before districts started falling like ninepins to start the chain of events leading to the fall of Kabul five months later.  So the moral of that one was ... well who do you support because it seems they're all as bad as each other.
    The whole sorry saga of Alipoor here ...
    Who is Alipoor, aka Commander Shamshir? | TOLOnews
    MoD: Army Helicopter in Behsud Downed by Alipoor | TOLOnews
    Behsud Incident: Alipoor Continues to Evade Arrest | TOLOnews
    Govt's Reaction to Alipoor Met With Cries for Caution | TOLOnews
    Behsud Situation: MPs Call for Alipoor’s Arrest | TOLOnews
    Behsud: Danesh Says Govt Must Ensure Justice to Stop Fighting | TOLOnews
     
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    Combatintman got a reaction from Lethaface in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Well a couple of examples then  - and this is playing out now under the Turbaned beardy lot ...
    Land tenure - there are folks claiming land based allegedly on titles/deeds from about 40 years ago and probably longer crawling out of the woodwork again.  So going back to the ISAF days and even now  - if you built a project to help the folks on a contested piece of land then you are going to irritate the contesting party.  Nobody has a clue who owns what which is something people in less conflict-prone countries sorted out a couple of centuries ago and had means to resolve them through a due process.
    Tribal disputes - again these go back years and the tribes were perfectly happy to align with whoever would best further their interests.  Any tribe aligning itself with ISAF for instance would trigger the opposing tribe to align with the Taliban.  There are heaps of confederations, sub-tribes and the like within Afghanistan.  Again this is still playing out now, I think I've read two reports in the past fortnight about tribal disputes undergoing arbitration with the local Taliban leadership.  There was also a case this week that I read where a group of Kuchis (nomads) are demanding something in the order of $60,000 compensation from villagers in Behsud District, Maidan Wardak Province for one of their number allegedly being murdered 40 years ago.
    Then you had the government ... which had to be ethnically balanced in order to stop itself ripping itself to pieces.  The majority of the ethnic figureheads protected their own.  Take 'Commander Alipoor' a fairly unpleasant ex-bus driver who commanded his own Hazara militia in Behsud District which 'protected' the resident population from the Kuchis.  That same militia also shook down travellers en-route to Bamyan and numerous other acts of unpleasantness.  He was quite rightly arrested and banged up for this and other crimes.   But he got let out because Second Vice President Danesh a Hazara lobbied for his release.  Militia belonging to this creature notoriously shot down an ANDSF helicopter in March 2021 and you've guessed it, the Second Vice President would not condemn Alipoor and Mohammad Mohaqqeq who was a senior politician at the time and also a Hazara urged people not to act too hastily.  The timing of this event was about a fortnight before districts started falling like ninepins to start the chain of events leading to the fall of Kabul five months later.  So the moral of that one was ... well who do you support because it seems they're all as bad as each other.
    The whole sorry saga of Alipoor here ...
    Who is Alipoor, aka Commander Shamshir? | TOLOnews
    MoD: Army Helicopter in Behsud Downed by Alipoor | TOLOnews
    Behsud Incident: Alipoor Continues to Evade Arrest | TOLOnews
    Govt's Reaction to Alipoor Met With Cries for Caution | TOLOnews
    Behsud Situation: MPs Call for Alipoor’s Arrest | TOLOnews
    Behsud: Danesh Says Govt Must Ensure Justice to Stop Fighting | TOLOnews
     
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    Combatintman got a reaction from LuckyDog in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Well a couple of examples then  - and this is playing out now under the Turbaned beardy lot ...
    Land tenure - there are folks claiming land based allegedly on titles/deeds from about 40 years ago and probably longer crawling out of the woodwork again.  So going back to the ISAF days and even now  - if you built a project to help the folks on a contested piece of land then you are going to irritate the contesting party.  Nobody has a clue who owns what which is something people in less conflict-prone countries sorted out a couple of centuries ago and had means to resolve them through a due process.
    Tribal disputes - again these go back years and the tribes were perfectly happy to align with whoever would best further their interests.  Any tribe aligning itself with ISAF for instance would trigger the opposing tribe to align with the Taliban.  There are heaps of confederations, sub-tribes and the like within Afghanistan.  Again this is still playing out now, I think I've read two reports in the past fortnight about tribal disputes undergoing arbitration with the local Taliban leadership.  There was also a case this week that I read where a group of Kuchis (nomads) are demanding something in the order of $60,000 compensation from villagers in Behsud District, Maidan Wardak Province for one of their number allegedly being murdered 40 years ago.
    Then you had the government ... which had to be ethnically balanced in order to stop itself ripping itself to pieces.  The majority of the ethnic figureheads protected their own.  Take 'Commander Alipoor' a fairly unpleasant ex-bus driver who commanded his own Hazara militia in Behsud District which 'protected' the resident population from the Kuchis.  That same militia also shook down travellers en-route to Bamyan and numerous other acts of unpleasantness.  He was quite rightly arrested and banged up for this and other crimes.   But he got let out because Second Vice President Danesh a Hazara lobbied for his release.  Militia belonging to this creature notoriously shot down an ANDSF helicopter in March 2021 and you've guessed it, the Second Vice President would not condemn Alipoor and Mohammad Mohaqqeq who was a senior politician at the time and also a Hazara urged people not to act too hastily.  The timing of this event was about a fortnight before districts started falling like ninepins to start the chain of events leading to the fall of Kabul five months later.  So the moral of that one was ... well who do you support because it seems they're all as bad as each other.
    The whole sorry saga of Alipoor here ...
    Who is Alipoor, aka Commander Shamshir? | TOLOnews
    MoD: Army Helicopter in Behsud Downed by Alipoor | TOLOnews
    Behsud Incident: Alipoor Continues to Evade Arrest | TOLOnews
    Govt's Reaction to Alipoor Met With Cries for Caution | TOLOnews
    Behsud Situation: MPs Call for Alipoor’s Arrest | TOLOnews
    Behsud: Danesh Says Govt Must Ensure Justice to Stop Fighting | TOLOnews
     
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    Combatintman got a reaction from Huba in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Well a couple of examples then  - and this is playing out now under the Turbaned beardy lot ...
    Land tenure - there are folks claiming land based allegedly on titles/deeds from about 40 years ago and probably longer crawling out of the woodwork again.  So going back to the ISAF days and even now  - if you built a project to help the folks on a contested piece of land then you are going to irritate the contesting party.  Nobody has a clue who owns what which is something people in less conflict-prone countries sorted out a couple of centuries ago and had means to resolve them through a due process.
    Tribal disputes - again these go back years and the tribes were perfectly happy to align with whoever would best further their interests.  Any tribe aligning itself with ISAF for instance would trigger the opposing tribe to align with the Taliban.  There are heaps of confederations, sub-tribes and the like within Afghanistan.  Again this is still playing out now, I think I've read two reports in the past fortnight about tribal disputes undergoing arbitration with the local Taliban leadership.  There was also a case this week that I read where a group of Kuchis (nomads) are demanding something in the order of $60,000 compensation from villagers in Behsud District, Maidan Wardak Province for one of their number allegedly being murdered 40 years ago.
    Then you had the government ... which had to be ethnically balanced in order to stop itself ripping itself to pieces.  The majority of the ethnic figureheads protected their own.  Take 'Commander Alipoor' a fairly unpleasant ex-bus driver who commanded his own Hazara militia in Behsud District which 'protected' the resident population from the Kuchis.  That same militia also shook down travellers en-route to Bamyan and numerous other acts of unpleasantness.  He was quite rightly arrested and banged up for this and other crimes.   But he got let out because Second Vice President Danesh a Hazara lobbied for his release.  Militia belonging to this creature notoriously shot down an ANDSF helicopter in March 2021 and you've guessed it, the Second Vice President would not condemn Alipoor and Mohammad Mohaqqeq who was a senior politician at the time and also a Hazara urged people not to act too hastily.  The timing of this event was about a fortnight before districts started falling like ninepins to start the chain of events leading to the fall of Kabul five months later.  So the moral of that one was ... well who do you support because it seems they're all as bad as each other.
    The whole sorry saga of Alipoor here ...
    Who is Alipoor, aka Commander Shamshir? | TOLOnews
    MoD: Army Helicopter in Behsud Downed by Alipoor | TOLOnews
    Behsud Incident: Alipoor Continues to Evade Arrest | TOLOnews
    Govt's Reaction to Alipoor Met With Cries for Caution | TOLOnews
    Behsud Situation: MPs Call for Alipoor’s Arrest | TOLOnews
    Behsud: Danesh Says Govt Must Ensure Justice to Stop Fighting | TOLOnews
     
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    Combatintman got a reaction from dan/california in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Nobody fell for it - it is just so ingrained that it kept getting put in the 'too difficult basket.'  I remember a briefing in 2019 at the US Embassy given by the US Ambassador who said flat out, the biggest threat in this country other than the insurgency is corruption.  Personally, and to link it back to the thread, it was probably the number one threat because it completely undermined the ANDSF's capability among other things - we can see the same effects on the Russian military.  To give you an example of the sheer grasping greed, when COVID hit in 2020 there was reporting of about 20 officials at various levels in the Ministry of Public Health being lifted for having misappropriated ventilators donated by the international community and flogging them off in Pakistan at great personal enrichment.  
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    Combatintman got a reaction from Holien in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Nobody fell for it - it is just so ingrained that it kept getting put in the 'too difficult basket.'  I remember a briefing in 2019 at the US Embassy given by the US Ambassador who said flat out, the biggest threat in this country other than the insurgency is corruption.  Personally, and to link it back to the thread, it was probably the number one threat because it completely undermined the ANDSF's capability among other things - we can see the same effects on the Russian military.  To give you an example of the sheer grasping greed, when COVID hit in 2020 there was reporting of about 20 officials at various levels in the Ministry of Public Health being lifted for having misappropriated ventilators donated by the international community and flogging them off in Pakistan at great personal enrichment.  
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    Combatintman got a reaction from Lethaface in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Nobody fell for it - it is just so ingrained that it kept getting put in the 'too difficult basket.'  I remember a briefing in 2019 at the US Embassy given by the US Ambassador who said flat out, the biggest threat in this country other than the insurgency is corruption.  Personally, and to link it back to the thread, it was probably the number one threat because it completely undermined the ANDSF's capability among other things - we can see the same effects on the Russian military.  To give you an example of the sheer grasping greed, when COVID hit in 2020 there was reporting of about 20 officials at various levels in the Ministry of Public Health being lifted for having misappropriated ventilators donated by the international community and flogging them off in Pakistan at great personal enrichment.  
  19. Like
    Combatintman got a reaction from LongLeftFlank in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Nobody fell for it - it is just so ingrained that it kept getting put in the 'too difficult basket.'  I remember a briefing in 2019 at the US Embassy given by the US Ambassador who said flat out, the biggest threat in this country other than the insurgency is corruption.  Personally, and to link it back to the thread, it was probably the number one threat because it completely undermined the ANDSF's capability among other things - we can see the same effects on the Russian military.  To give you an example of the sheer grasping greed, when COVID hit in 2020 there was reporting of about 20 officials at various levels in the Ministry of Public Health being lifted for having misappropriated ventilators donated by the international community and flogging them off in Pakistan at great personal enrichment.  
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    Combatintman got a reaction from Fizou in 2022 Mid Year Update   
    You're full of Christmas cheer aren't you.  Der Ring der 5 Panzer you got for free in the first place as @George MCreleased that as a community scenario .  So let's say 30% is 'old content.'  Looks like you're owed $3.  Let me know where to send the money to or maybe we'll set up a crowdfund.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from Anxel Torrente in 2022 Mid Year Update   
    And why would Artkin subsequently purchase said allegedly recycled content thereafter?  But, you're right, let's hear the "how would you know?" answer first.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from quakerparrot67 in 2022 Mid Year Update   
    You're full of Christmas cheer aren't you.  Der Ring der 5 Panzer you got for free in the first place as @George MCreleased that as a community scenario .  So let's say 30% is 'old content.'  Looks like you're owed $3.  Let me know where to send the money to or maybe we'll set up a crowdfund.
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    Combatintman reacted to George MC in 2022 Mid Year Update   
    First off thanks to all those who have supported the Battlepack by purchasing it, and a shout out to those who have provided their support in the creation of this project – and a huge shout out to those who have freely given their feedback and additional support publicly via various means – online streaming vids, DARs, AARs and various forum posts etc, Its truly heartening to read and see these. 

    It’s just as well, being Scottish, that we are renowned for being slow to anger and not prone to unprovoked outbursts. On a personal note a mahhoosive amount of work went into the battle pack, at my end. Work of which I am truly proud off. The lion’s share of research, mapmaking and AI plan stuff was devoted to the two campaigns and the Rakow and the Dying Sun scenario. These all involved painstakingly creating huge new maps from primary sources. Research turned up several ‘loose’ ends regarding accepted historical narrative and I’m as chuffed with these as the scenarios!

    I digress… In short this sucked up a huge amount of time and I was also involved in several other projects (which I was keen to be involved in including CMFR and CMCW). Creating new content, AI plans etc for the Battlepack was a significant endeavour. So yup I used bits of various previous maps (which were my own creations and made available publicly) which I then significantly tweaked – mainly because I could not positively ID RL locations, or the fact is I thought the map – like Der Ring (which by the way took nearly a year to produce) to have a new life after some major tweaking. I’ve done this on previous game families with other maps. A few astute observers might have spotted them. 

    But, and I should stress this, in the case of Der Ring it was heavily reworked and I created brand new AI plans (I had to as I’d chopped and reused bits) etc. So yes whilst some stuff is based on sections of der Ring they are more the offspring – rather than the map wearing a false wig and a pair of dodgy specs…

    Re the rather offensive swipes about scamming, well,  re the master maps it’s pretty clear that as stated on the BFC website that they are “New maps based on maps from the Battle Pack missions”. 

    Years back I used to be with a punk band – another life another story…. One of the bands (way more successful than we were) we did some gigs with, had their singer on one of their records state this quote, it was along the lines of – “Whatever you do they’ll slate you off and criticise you to the ground…” It’s stood me in good stead through life.
    So aye happy to take the constructive knocks, but I’m less inclined to give credence tae whingers.
     
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    Combatintman got a reaction from A Canadian Cat - was IanL in 2022 Mid Year Update   
    No I don't.  Der Ring der 5 Panzer was not previous Battlefront content so it is new and adding 700m to an existing map = new content.  I am prepared to concede that if one map is a cut out as you assert then 13 of 14 only are new content.  So let's crowd fund a reduced target of $1 shall we?
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    Combatintman got a reaction from Aragorn2002 in 2022 Mid Year Update   
    You're full of Christmas cheer aren't you.  Der Ring der 5 Panzer you got for free in the first place as @George MCreleased that as a community scenario .  So let's say 30% is 'old content.'  Looks like you're owed $3.  Let me know where to send the money to or maybe we'll set up a crowdfund.
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