Probus

Very true @kraze!

In my humble but correct opinion , Putin just couldn't stand not using his shiny new submarine the Belgorod which is specifically designed to work on the bottom of the ocean.

Oye! That is something else!

They haven't been doing the smart thing. They've proven that. If Ukraine can keep up the pressure and the momentum, Russia is going to have a hard time reorganizing. What I've been reading on here is that their command and control has taken a beating, their logistics have taken a beating and they don't have the ammo to use their arty effectively to stop the Ukrainians. As you say @The_Capt, the smart thing to do is retreat to the choke point and they prolly aren't going to do that. So what are they going to do?

You've probably answered this previously Steve, but does this mean you think Russia is going to start a mobilization? Unrelatedly, Does anyone have a version of the Ukrainian advances on the map in movie form? I was wanting to see, and I bet a lot of people would like to see, what it looked like from the start of the push.

I have a feeling you defeat a drone swarm with another drone swarm.

I am an Intel guy but the latest word is that the new AMD CPUs will have faster single core performance than Intel. At least for a while. With clock speeds up around the 5.6 to 5.7 GHz mark right out of the box due to the smaller size of the transistor. Also power draw will be a lot less, which means heat will be a lot less and that means that there is more wiggle room at the higher clock rates. Another upside is that the AMD CPU price will not go up dramatically (but unfortunately the AM5 motherboards will be more expensive). The new CPUs will feature the AM5 socket which has a higher pin count. The AM4 socket just plain ran out of pins for the new memory that is coming out. More pins means higher bandwidth which means more data can be transferred in less time. I am really curious to see if someone running Combat Mission on a current AMD CPU will see a noticeable performance increase with this next generation of AMD processors.

Good to know!

OK, I've done a lot of stupid things playing Combat Mission, but this one takes the cake: Playing a great PBEM game in which I was doing really well. I only had two tanks. A pair of Stugs and I moved both of them up to take out one of my enemies' Shermans. Moved my first one right up, found his Sherman and POW! up goes his Sherman in flames. Drunk on my victory I move my second Stug up to look for another Sherman he has poking around and BAM! right into my own minefield. My Stug is completely destroyed. That has to be the stupidest thing I've done in Combat Mission I think, but no, its not over. My first tank, the one that took out the Sherman has also, just barely, entered the minefield. So I delicately back up and KABOOM! another mine goes off destroying the tank. And that's it. Both my Stugs I destroyed myself in my own minefield. That has to be the stupidest thing I've ever done in Combat Mission. Anyone else willing to share and help me reduce my shame?

In the spirit of the first post in this thread, Japan's new "Top Gun 2" themed F-15 fighters. Almost totally unrelated to the topic I might add: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/japan-unveils-top-gun-2-themed-maverick-f-15-eagle

Good question. I suppose HIMARS comes in ballistically. I wonder how fast?

Very interesting. I’ve always imagined a wall of propaganda keeping that info out of the hands of the Russian people. Not so easy anymore I suppose. I wish that NATO or even Ukraine could/would broadcast videos to the Russian people to see the seeds of doubt.

Very interesting. I’ve always imagined a wall of propaganda keeping that info out of the hands of the Russian people. Not so easy anymore. I wish that NATO or even Ukraine could/would broadcast videos to the Russian people to see the seeds of doubt.

Very interesting. I’ve always imagined a wall of propaganda keeping that info out of the hands of the Russian people. Not so easy anymore. I wish that NATO or even Ukraine could/would broadcast videos to the Russian people to see the seeds of doubt.

The Kremlin has historically had a vast, vast ability to ignore humanitarian disaster in their own country.

It needs a sound device. If you don't have one, sometimes that causes the game to crash like that.

At least, @Billy Ringo we are not seeing a lot of 'well actually' comments. Well actually, that may not be true...

Russia can sabre rattle all they want, but there is NO WAY they are going to do anything to escalate or risk getting NATO involved. Heck, they can't even handle Ukraine. In the words of the 3 Stooges, NATO would "murderize" them. I'm sure I missed it already, but how will Boris Johnson resigning affect support for Ukraine. Can someone linky it for me?

Is it just me or does it seem that Ukraine is targeting more and more ammo dumps?

Since we are almost 1000 pages in, I was wondering if a few guys could post some links to previous posts in this thread that are: The most important/informative The most predictive of what would or did happen Those of strategic importance I ask because some folks have recently joined us here and may need to do some catching up. 1000 pages is A LOT of catching up to do. Please upvote if this would be useful to you. Thanks a bunch! Probus

Good catch. What is up with that?

- Don't feed the trolls - @BFCElvis

I just wish it was for a happier subject Bill.

Thanks @G.I. Joe. I thought something looked fishy.

Can anyone validate the claims of this You Tube video. I've not ever seen an air-to-air shoot down with guns before. I think something is out of place because the plane shot down looks like it has dual tails.