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Kind of feel like a dick for saying it, but as a teacher I am glad. Compared to the Syrians and Afghans, the Ukrainian children are extremely unpleasant and undisciplined. I wonder what they are doing in schools there.

I will certainly get this. I don't pre-order though, especially not if there is no release date.

That seems like a bad move, to be honest.

Did I say that? However, history shows that targeted price controls are effective at fighting inflation, for example in Kennedy's conflict against US Steel back in the day, when they tried to raise their prices despite the wage and price guidelines in place at the time to curb inflation. He even got a nice birthday song by Marilyn Monroe out of it. Today all of this is largely forgotten and the only price controls our politicians are willing to implement are frozen wages "for the good of all".

Problem is that most European politicians, especially the German ones, took a deep sip of the "free market solves everything" koolaid and will watch prices go through the roof before doing measures like prize controls or rationing, so they are exacerbating possible effects.

Certainly getting the feeling that the offensive has some tactical successes but might be grinding to a halt. Then again, hard to tell and basically a total arm chair take on the whole thing.

Starting the RSI portion of the campaign, another cool looking map.

Yeah but to be fair, the US secret services have a history of screaming about nonsense to justify wars, they shouldn't be to shocked that nobody believes them anymore.

Probably their offensive interrupted some Ukrainian soldiers' Dungeons and Dragons game and now the Russians are shaking in their boots from evil satanist hexes put on them.

Is it possible he still runs that outdated version of the game that got patched where units tended to run away from cover when even the slightest hint of enemy fire came in?

Personally I would love to see another RT module covering the same time frame, with the minor Axis nations: Hungary, Romania, Finland, maybe throw Bulgaria in as well.

Yes, but the terrain in Monschau is still a lot less mountainous than the Italian one.

That is one way to look at it. The other is that they are not suited to the requirements of modern war.

Yeah but from what I have seen in that Wintergewitter campaign, one could have gotten a LOT closer on Monschau.

I think these birds are also relatively hard to keep and train in general, compared to domesticated animals like dogs or horses.

Pretty sure those snowflakes only "exist" close to the camera.

They probably just got too used to covering colonial anti-terror warfare.

Sorry for the slight offtopic, but the map, sadly is not that "great", imo. I have been to Monschau in person and to me it looks like whoever made the map got the general layout right, but misread the elevation on whatever map he was using as a reference. To illustrate my point, this is what Monschau looks like in real life: The map is way too flat.

Apparently Serbia is making a move too, just what the world needed...

Don't get me wrong btw, overall the historical part of the campaign is great, the maps are amazing and I had a great time. The 5th one just kinda killed my motivation and it felt like the realistic choice to make (like irl).

I finished the campaign now (well "finished"). I played the first 4 historical scenarios, which were excellent. I then started the fifth one with the Italian tanks and then decided to do the historical thing and call off the offensive. My reasons for that: I started in cramped setup zones under direct observation of two large hills, without any such terrain feature on my side even though we supposedly are coming down the mountains we took earlier. There was pre planned defender artillery placed in front of those setup zones: NEVER DO THAT, LEAST FUN THING EVER The only tanks capable of taking out the enemy tanks at reasonably long ranges were north of the river, where I am forced to attack a reverse slope defense at close range The southern setup zone was basically useless because two Stuarts that I can not take out at range except with a lucky artillery hit cover all exits. I could only advance out of there if I clear the northern bank first. Despite that, big infantry reinforcements come in down there, further cramping everything up for artillery. When in addition to that an enemy plane showed up, I cease fired and ended the campaign. If the point of that battle is to show WHY they stopped the offensive historically then well done, I guess, but not very fun and feels like a waste of time. Still got a Total Victory for the complete campaign, so I guess it is part of the plan?

FWIW I have a video of this battle on my channel.

Gonna play this campaign on Youtube, new installments every Sunday.

Not sure if this is even fixable, but one "Italian" mg crew member glitched into the terrain at the edge of the house and can not be taken out, but is still fired upon by my guys, contesting the objectives. Doesn't surrender either, basically holding up the entire scenario:

This looks awesome, might make a video series about it. I took the liberty of "skipping through" the campaign (don't worry, didn't look at the enemy deployment in any kind of detail). Some questions: The Italian troops are reskinned PrGrens and have Breda LMGs sometimes, but called G43. Are these actual Breda LMGs or were the G43s just reskinned to look like them? It seems like icon colors for allied troops were changed? I didn't click on these units to not spoil anything, but the icons sometimes looked different?