Rokko

Weeeell, that or maybe the Ukrainians repaired some of their junk T-72s, equipped them with Sosna-U and export Kontakt-5 from Belarus and let those fall into the Separatist's hands to make it look like Russia supplied high end T-72s to the coal miners. On a more serious note: Does Russia have a lot of old T-72 around in garages and warehouses and such which aren't getting upgraded? Or aren't they actually upgrading but rather producing new ones (given the newer models have new engines for instance), I remember having read an interview with some poor sod who was arrested for DUI in Rostov and then offered to go to Donezk to repair and maintain tanks (cause he was a mechanic) for two weeks in exchange for dropped charges. The end of the song was he got captured by the Ukrainians after a column of tanks, one of which he drove, getting driven near the frontlines was ambushed. Doubt it was the same incident though, since these guys weren't supposed to fight and the crewmember didn't even know each other and weren't trained either. Do you know how many AFVs were lost in that incident? From the pictures I'd say at least 3 T-72s and 1 BMP. I'd also really like to know how they were engaged. For me this is part of a bigger issue since I have real difficulties imagning what typical combat and engagements in that conflict look like, given that there is more or less parity in numbers and equipment for the most part (not like OIF for instance which was more the type of fighting CMSF tried to portray).

Interesting pictures. I cant quite tell but they dont have Sosna-U, so they arent T-72B3s right? That is also no Kontakt-5 ERA I think

Take a look at the Black Sea manual. I cant right now but from my recollection it looks definately like a seaborne landing, like the arrow comes in from the sea.

If you look at the backstory part of the manual there is a map that shows an arrow pointing at Odessa from the Black Sea, which indicates that there are plans for portraying a seaborne landing there.

Lol what did you do with your Abrams platoon? Those things are virtually impenetrable in the game to anything the Russians have, especially on a map that is not wide enough to get at their flanks.

Downloaded it from the Repository just now. Pete, I have to ask: Why do the people living on your maps always build their cities, houses and roads on sand?

Thanks for the heads up, you gotta love VICE.

I know. Still, I would not feel comfortable sitting on a bunch of plates designed to explode if something hits them, don't Sabot rounds ignite them as well? I have seen photos of people riding around on BMPs and BTRs, never into battle though anf I don't really know why.

I wasn't particularly serious about that. I doubt anyone would ride into battle on a MBT that is packed in explosive armor and a system that shoots shrapnel on incoming rounds.

I don't really see how the Russians could win this, btw.

I found when the Bradleys are approximately out of Javelin range and hull down, they have enough time to back out off sight when lased by enemy tanks. I didn't really like the Red AI in this scenario though, they were just doing a suicidal tank rush into the teeth of my defense. And the surviving tanks then did another suicidal tank rush out off the valley and drove straight through my advancing infantry screen.

Before we talk about any of that fancy stuff I first want bunkers and tank riders back

They also stated each Eastern Front game is going to span about one year, from June to June, since June is when the mud period usually ended which both armies used for reorganizations. So Red Thunder: June 1944 - May 1945 Kursk Game: June 1943 - May 1944 Stalingrad/Blau/etc: June 1942 - May 1943 Barbarossa: June 1941 - May 1942

In my university (in Germany) there are very many Russian, German-Russian, Ukrainian and Polish students. Funnily those stick together most closely and tend to get along very well. So all the adversity between all those nationalities doesn't really matter for these guys (young, somewhat educated people).

So I am still not sure what the (now meaningless anyways) Minsk II agreement had in mind for the Debaltseve area? How was that supposed to go down? Were the Ukrainians supposed to leave without the Separatists/Russians to interfere? After Ilovaysk I can understand why the Ukrainians would not want do this again, but I am still wondering what the original plan was.

"Stop exploding you cowards!" - Zap Brannigan

Hmmm, well they do show up in the equipment panel, but not in the C2C panel (if the section HQ for instance is inside the mortar halfrack, neither have a radio link icon show up in that panel). Not sure what the issue is with that, maybe that's WAD but it is confusing.

Good. It's funny that two people have noticed this issue in two different games at almost the same time. BTW another thing I've noticed while playing Blunting the Spear was that the German mortar halftracks don't have radios, although the radios are modelled visually and they have antennas.

I can't really look at CMBN myself right now, but in CMRT you have about 1-3 PzF per platoon split up among the grenadiers and none in the halftracks. That was different before and I am wondering, is this intentional or a bug? In the motorized batallions you still get 2 PzF per Opel truck.

If I am not mistaken, according to the Minsk 2 agreements Debaltseve was to be Separatist territory anyways after the cease fire, which appearently was kept in most other areas right? So why did fighting continue around D, did the Ukrainians not want to leave or did the Separatists not let them?

Seems about right. I am pretty sure though that every halftrack used to have one PzF in its inventory. http://community.battlefront.com/topic/118433-ss-toe-missing-panzerfausts-from-opels/ appearantly CMBN has a similar issue.

But you mean the first picture, right? I have looked at some more pictures and I think, the tanks on the second picture might be T-72B1s

Can you tell which version? It is no T-64BV right? Edit: DMS, you were referring to the first tank right? In that case discard what I wrote.

Thanks. The name of the photographer is Max Avdeev. I've sent you a PM, but others should be able to find the pictures by his name through Google. Those are not T-64s, though, right?

Could someone please tell me exactly what type of tank this is? The picture is from a collection on buzzfeed btw. I think I can't post the link here due to the graphic nature of some of the photographs, but I strongly encourage anyone to check them out. They are gruesome, yet strangely beautiful as well in some cases.