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    How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?

    in Combat Mission Black Sea

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    Hi there.

    I have been a CMx1 player since CMBO beta and have all CMx2 WW2 titles. This thread is exciting and a lot of the arguments are very interesting. But I wonder if there is not sometimes an ethnocentric tropism in many of the analyzes presented. Let me share with you, not a structured argumentation, but just some thoughts from a guy who is far to be an expert.

    • Among the western allies, and unlike the Americans and the British, the German (WW2) and French (WW1) people know the price to pay for a war on their territory. Perhaps this difference explains a certain caution on the part of France and Germany to commit themselves too far in aid to Ukraine.
    • When President Macron said that we should not humiliate Russia, we can see here an admission of weakness but we must not forget that for many Europeans the 2nd World War is partly the fruit of humiliation « diktat » of Versailles treaty of 1919.  These people know that humiliate an adversary is also to take the risk that he capitalizes on resentment and a desire for revenge.
    • A Russian friend from Moscow told me that they (the Russians) were ready to fight to the last Siberian…
    • From the point of view of western military logic (the 10 points developed by Steve), the Russians have already lost the war. But, this is only a western reading grid. Is there a Russian reading grid that would be different ? (For example, I have the impression that losses are hardly a factor to take into account for the Russians. See previous thought).

    Thank you.

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    Indirect fire with on-map guns

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    Thank you BFC for these great piece of software :)

    Just a little question but it's may be a subject you know.

    I made some quick test with the german ig18 infantry gun. It seems to me this gun is a howitzer but it seems it always act like a gun. I mean the shell don't have a bell curve trajectory. With this minor restriction the gun is quite less effective no?

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    CMBO CM:BN Equipment comparrison chart

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    US forces going up against KTs within CM:BN's timeframe? I think that's a new one for me. But I wouldn't be at all surprised. As the remains of the forces in Normandy streamed over the Seine all kinds of things happened thanks to the chaos. IIRC most of the surviving Tigers and King Tigers had to be abandoned in the retreat because they didn't happen to wind up finding a bridge that could hold their weight.

    Steve

    11 Kts from schw. PanzerAbteilung 503 were engaged in Mantes area from august 21st to the end of the month.

    I have an interesting book of a local historian(Bruno Renoult - La tête de pont de Mantes) with several accounts of fighting between KTs, Luftwaffe land units and US units (813 th TD and 313/314 inf regt from the 79th inf Div).

    These german units were not disorganised retreating units. They have the mission to brake the US bridgehead over the Seine river... After heavy loss during "Goodwood", pzAbt 503 was reformed at Mailly-le-camp with 14 Kts before reaching Mantes area.

    Sorry for my rotten english:)

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