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I mean, I'm glad BFC had mentioned they put at least some new units for the Red side, but I was expecting more details in the news, along the lines how other three nations' units were described. And when I've read all text, this picture immediately came to my mind :]

Souldierz, I was very impressed how you've pulled a Tactical victory in that first mission. I've tried it numerous time and managed to knock out light vehicles (scimitars included) and some Challengers, but couldn't achieve victory no matter what! Great AAR

Hello guys! I'm not sure if this has already been asked, but I have a question about the trenches in the next CM game. I know BFC decided to make them invisible for the other side, which is good in my opinion, however I don't know how would they work now. In CMSF they were just holes that the scenario designer dig in the editor, they didn't have any bonuses themselves, it was just harder to hit units in those holes, that's all. In CMx1 it was different. Trenches were OBSTACLES then, with huge cover and concealment bonuses, but they also stopped units from fast moving for the same reason of them being an obstacle. That is, OK, I can maybe understand a tank going slower over them in real life in order to not get stuck, but watching how infantry crawled there with a speed of snail was just painful. Trenches meant to be an easy and fast way to move around soldiers on a given position. I hope, I really do hope there will be no speed restrictions for units that are in the trench! Also, having bunkers without any MGs or guns would also be nice, just for infantry to sit there under artillery barrage. Check Alex's first scenario from his Red campaign to know what I'm talking about - there's a nice trench system on Syrian's left flank which is being aimed by British arty in the beginning. You just put your fighters in the bunker and they patiently wait there, safe and sound, and when Blue forces start to advance with their light vehicles, they quickly man their battlestations and rip a new one for Britons.

You see, they don't give a crap about their costumers. "Why?" is a really good question and I don't know the answer. They have a crap PR department (I wouldn't be actually surprised if they don't have PR department at all). This forum section has a lot more action than their whole CMBB + CMSF + CMSF: Afghan section. Snowball is used to release early alpha versions and label them as "final", and then - IF there's an uproar, they use players who actually paid money for their crap localizations that don't work as beta-testers and release patches using their numerous bug reports. They've really mastered this technology: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Thanks No, no, mate, you didn't understand. It's not like they want to finish Marines patch first, and then put all resources to Afghan development - no. It was just an illustration of how they work. Although they say there will be a patch, everyone perfectly understands there won't be any. They probably release Afghan module at some point, but I'd give them half a year - minimum.

Snowball worker told on their forums more than month ago (10 February) that "we hope that in the next months the situation will change and we could provide some information to the people who are interested in this genre and in this particular game" There's typical Snowball for ya.. They are still working on Marines' patch (the latest patch is 1.10, iirc, in Russian version).

I never play QB against AI. In CMBB, more than half of the games I've played were QB, against the other player, the others were scenarios. In CMBB, we need to decide how many points each of us will have and then pick our forces. Now, you're suggesting that in CMSF I should open a map with editor, place some units with no restrictions (as there's no points in the game), pass the modified map to the other player, who needs to open it with the editor and add his troops with no restrictions. The only limit is his and my honesty. He can have a look at my forces if he's not very fair and I won't know about it. This, and the fact that there's no points, make QB PBEM battles worthless. As it is now, we have to search for good H2h scenarios (which are quite rare, because Blue forces usually still have the advantage) if we want to play a battle, I've never played QB against human and I probably won't ever play it.

Fortunately, there was a cameraman next to you to picture all this for the next new recruits.

Thanks for the bump, Pandur. I think it's extremely rare sight - real fighting soldiers (and even officers) of Soviet Army give honest interviews to a British journalist who doesn't try to show it all as BS a la Rambo III. I've heard about another documentary called "The Soviet Experience", also about the Afghan war, to couldn't find the full version, only 10 minutes of it. If anobody can share, it would be much appreciated!

What is interesting, there's a H2H scenario, British Recce against Syrian recon troops; Brits have about dozen of Jackals, Syrians have 5 BMP-1 with Recon dismounts and 2 ATGMs. I've managed to pull a clear victory against the Red side even on such a small map - Syrians were not reacting fast enough. On other maps I usually use this vehicle as an overwatch, never try to attack with it.

There is no such thing as Kantemirovskaya division anymore. It was reformed to 4th Separate tank Brigade.

Damian, I don't know a lot of things about the tanks, but there is a comment to that video is this guy talks from his ass?.. Or there is actually a possibility that this is in fact a T-64?

Hey there! Thought that some of you might like this film - it was created by British TV channel in the late 1980s, so it's in English and where needed, has English subtitles. It's really good film about the Soviet war in Afghanistan. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZW5ILBYD - I hope you will enjoy it.

It's not it? Hmm. Then I can't think of other tanks that looked similar and were KOed in the city itself. Here are the photos of all known destroyed tanks. http://sites.google.com/site/afivedaywar/Home/getanklosses

You're thinking of this tank: - 2 km from Gori

That is probably not a Garand but a Lee Enfield

Shilka and ZU-23-2 mounted on a truck. In Cartman's voice: "Sweeet"

Taken from MPN forums, author is Figurant

Hello guys! I am in a badly need of a good old PBEM battle I'm an average player, but can play as either side - Red or Blue, doesn't really matter. Besides the originial module, I can play scenarios/maps from the Marines and British modules as well. If anybody would like to have a little war, PM me please.

Thank you for advices, guys. I've also started playing Breaking the bank, as a Syrian defender. And we're looking into other scenarios with another opponent. Personally, I think that Operation Hammersmith is a promising scenario.

Hello guys! Could anyone please recommend me a good scenario to play via email - my opponent has a vanilla version and a British module. I'd like to try out British module in multiplayer myself, but if there isn't any balanced map for it, then a scenario for the original game will do as well. What I mean when say "balanced scenario" - for example, in my opinion, "Rock around the block" is a great map to play in multiplayer.

Just wanted to say that I too have ordered Marines and British bundle and yes, it is worth it. I'm having a blast now playing the Marines campaign - totally different gameplay style. Those AAVs are really eggshells, however the Marine infantry squad can probably even take out some small town with the firepower it has.

You see, I have no problems if they want to shoot their rifles in the air to celebrate something, however I do have problems with the things I've mentioned earlier - bombings etc. Or are you trying to say that this is also a part of their culture? About the reasons - everything has one. I'm sure killers of the whole Olympic team also had one; as had those who murdered women and children in Budenovsk and Beslan, this doesn't make it any less despicable. It is not shocking for me at all, if it's some shahid's house - should be not so selfish and think about his family before blowing himself up. It would be shocking if it had been innocent guy's house though. Nor do Talibs, however they manage alright with IEDs. Also, if they must use suicide bombers, why target civilians? To make them fear? That's a terror act right there. And what exactly is this effect? The one effect that I'm aware of is that it's a certain that after some time all hell will break loose over their heads - "Cast Lead" is a good example of such effect. Do they really want this? I'm not sure I understood you correctly because of the language barrier (I have small amount of practice in English, sorry). Do you mean that these methods are their only way of fighting against Israel? I disagree then - there is no need to aim at civilians on purpose. They do have some sort of military bases, outposts etc? Why not fire at those? Which is what they did and are doing, as I already have said - the ban of settlements is a good example. With that I agree "Reap what you sow". They've democratically elected islamist radicals who declare their aim is to wipe Israel? They get their results - escalation of the situation that happened this year. I doubt that killing civilians is a better aproach to solve the situation Not fair, it took some time for me to read and write my response, there was no post of your at that time.

Then don't fire a rocket. I mean, I can probably understand a fight against military assets, attacks on soldiers - maybe, just maybe. But firing a rocket blindly in the general direction of a city or bombing purely civilian objects - this is an act of terrorism. This, by the way, goes to Israel also - the attacks on some of the objects that were destroyed in 2006 in Lebanon were not necessary. One must start with something, right? As you have said: I see such ban as a positive action towards Palestinians. To be honest, I kinda doubt this. These guys are not moderates, they will see such retreat as an sign of weakness and their path as a true one, that gave them fruits. Now, if there had been someone in the power who would actually really stop harrasing Israel after such retreat, I'd be all for it. Some years ago I tried to do a research for myself to figure out what exactly has happened and happens in the Balkans - "who's right and who's not", in other words. After some time I threw this idea in the garbage bin - it is a giant clusterf*ck and simply isn't black and white (although my sympathies are still on the Serb's side). I have a feeling that it's the same with Palestine vs Israel situation. I sometimes read discussions (sometimes a very heated ones, sometimes they are civilized) between Israelis and people who back the Palestinians, my knowledge is based on the information I got out of such conversations (normally I don't participate in those). And the most important thing I got out of them is that it all depends on the person and his point of view - some "fact" can be seen in absolutely different light by two guys. Well, they are more civilized side - the way Hamas dealt with Fath (spelling?), the wide usage of suicide bombers, flag burnings, the cheerings of usual people in the streets after the planes crashed into the World trade center - no, such things don't give points for being civilized in my book. I'm not from the west. I'm Russian, who was born in one of the Soviet Union's republic that after its collapse became Lithuanian republic. I live in European Union, yes, but in Eastern Europe, and local media isn't very pro-Israel, so to ssay, nor do we have Jewish lobbyist. More over, the sentiment amongst the usual crowd here isn't very pro-Jewish also (I'm talking from my first-hand experience). And I don't watch any of the Western news channel, be it BBC, CNN or Foxnews (I don't watch TV at all), so I wouldn't be so sure about the propaganda working on me part. In case you're wondering where I get the news - I work with numerous local newspapers (as I said, they aren't pro-Israel) and I frequently read big international forums where people from all over the world post news (usually military-related), there you can hear every interested side of the situation.

I'm not proposing a colour revolution a la Ukrainian or Georgian or Kirgizian one, I'm saying that as long as both sides stop acting like pricks, there will be bloodshed - in case of the Palestinian side, they should stop supporting those who agitate to commit terror acts and who's aim is to eliminate Israel as a country. OK, please feel free to correct me, if I'm mistaking, but didn't Israel banned all the settlers in the Gaza strip several years ago? And is trying to do the same with the settlemetns on the West bank? I remember seeing footages of clashes of IDF and police versus the settlers from time to time. For example, the fresh one http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1135242.html Yup, after readin it - here: I see.. But wouldn't it be possible to make a static gun as a "vehicle", but veery soft skinned and that has a speed of zero km/h? Well, putting anti-tank guns on the rooftop is not the most widely method of their usage. ATGs couldn't be ressuplied in CMx1, tanks and technicals can't be ressuplied in CMSF (or can they?.. I might be mistaking), so the biggest whine the players could have about them is that they are static. In my opinion, it's still better than no ATGs at all.