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  1. Probably an attempt to extort more money from the EU. That's the level these guys are at - base level grifters.
  2. The EU didn't even figure in polls in the UK about things bothering the public. Came in after the top ten concerns in the years before the Brexit vote. Once the troll farms went to work that changed dramatically. This worked by specifically targeting lower education voters and voters that leaned towards conspiracy theories. With the results seen. The UK's own reports showed there was no loss of sovereignty in the EU - it was all just bullsh1t. You get the same "loss" of sovereignty joining any international organisation - the UN, NATO, etc.
  3. UK fishing fleet sold its quotas to EU fleets over a twenty year period - it wasn't taken from them. It made a small percentage of them rich while hobbling the industry. Better to blame the 'bad' EU though. Like most Putin talking points it takes two minutes of research to disprove.
  4. All far right taking points amplified by Putin's social media hit squad in the UK. Funny how they went after the most easily swayed in the population with their propaganda so the rest of the country couldn't see the crazy stuff they were posting and react to it. Anyway you are out of the "anti-democratic" EU and straight into the anti-democratic pacific partnership. You didn't even get a vote on that.
  5. Are they involved with taking Russian money like the Conservatives in the UK? Brexit was built on Putin's cash and disinformation. A cheap way to destabilise the EU and wreck the UK. Has he got fingers in the political/media system in the States?
  6. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/04/cpac-rightwing-republicans-ukraine-support-marjorie-taylor-greene Worrying article in the Guardian this morning. Lot of moaning here about German weapons and the like but this is pure fifth column action by the usual suspects in the US.
  7. Have to jump in on that one. As the gas was sold on the world market the whole planet benefited from the Russian supplies dampening down the market price of such gas. When the Russian supply is cut Europe buys its gas elsewhere and the global price spirals effecting everyone. So everyone worldwide that uses gas helped build the Russian army. Same way we are all still benefiting from Saudi oil worldwide and other nasty regimes even if our countries don't buy directly from them. It's a pity that Western democratic countries are dependant on any crappy regime for any natural resource but we are. Fuel, rare earth metals, you name it we buy it and in the process support despotic countries that work to undermine us at any opportunity. It's a problem all democracies have built up over decades and it really isn't the responsibility of one or two democracies to take all the flak for that situation developing.
  8. I have a reoccurring problem in both CMRT and CMSF2. In both games I was playing a campaign. Multiple missions into these campaigns in both titles the current save game when loaded crashed to desktop. Save games further back would also crash. Far enough back and a game might load but a save off that game would also crash making further campaign progress impossible. When the crashes start occuring I'm already well into the campaigns with dozens of saves marking the way. Both games run perfectly to the point the game starts crashing loading a save game. I've unloaded all mods for CMRT but this hasn't helped. I've got a completely vanilla CMSF2. Both games are fully upgraded. I haven't played a campaign in CMBN or CMFI in a while to know if I have the same issue in these titles. Has anyone else experienced this issue before?
  9. I'd have grave doubts calling Ambrose a historian. I had the misfortune to purchase his book on the development of the North American railways and found it truly atrocious. Even my layman's knowledge knew what I was reading was bad history - which a few quick web searches confirmed. Anyone reading his WW2 books should remember Albert Blithe. This guy would write anything without any fact checking. I don't have time to research if the facts in books I'm reading are actually real or just the authors make-believe facts. Dreadful stuff to waste money on when there is so much quality well written well researched history on the market these days.
  10. Thread title says it all. CMSF is not available to download from the 'my account' of the website. It's a 2007 order. Does that matter? I thought I read something on the website about orders recorded since 2008. Anyone any ideas how I get CMSF available to download from the 'my account' section? Thanks in advance for all replies.
  11. Select the unit, select a move order and then put your movement way-point on a vehicle. If there is room in the vehicle you'll see the mouse icon change to show the embark icon. Click and your troops will move to the vehicle and embark.
  12. In many table-top or board-games broken troops are simply removed from play completely. Broken is the same as a KIA for all intents and purposes.
  13. I'm playing a lot of campaigns against the AI with 4.0 in CMFI, CMBS and CMRT and I'm just not seeing any new extraordinary behaviour over 3.0. Badly panicked troops and crews have always had a bad time when they've 'broken' in an engagement under any version. If anything playing the new Russian CMBS campaign last night I was amazed at the staying power of Ukrainian infantry in fixed positions under incredible artillery and direct fire. If anything panic and morale is grossly overstated in CM due to the time compression factors that make the game enjoyable/playable. On a side note I've been gaming for thirty plus years at this stage. Any system I've dabbled with - table-top, board-game or computer game - when troops break under fire and panic it is usually game over for that unit. Opinions - of course - are like .........
  14. Thank you for updating this old campaign of yours Dragonwynn. I didn't notice many of your 'huge number of mistakes' playing though this a couple of times. I always thought it was a great effort. Hopefully the enhanced AI plans will make my next playthrough as interesting as when I first attempted it all those years ago.
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