Ts4EVER
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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:
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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?
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8 minutes ago, akd said:
Hi-res of the strike on the Vasily Bekh:
Good to see that their music choices are getting better.
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19 minutes ago, LongLeftFlank said:
Enforcing the schools desegregation of 1956 (where the Arkansas NatGuard was not reliable, and Eisenhower knew it) was truly important and honourable work.
Too bad the schools have largely resegregated themselves, but yeah, nice try.
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Hope that "ideological supporters of Russia" wasn't aimed at me... I have no love for Russia, I just think that especially in this forum there is sometimes too much emotion and black-and-white thinking applied to what I see as basically a good old-fashioned hegemonical conflict for spheres of influence by two great powers (or rather, one great power and one play-acting as one).
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7 minutes ago, MikeyD said:
Huh? 'Interventionist' cause? You mean intervening in the Russian rape of Ukraine and Muldova?
I guess what he is saying is that these "interventions" don't have a great track records and were usually excuses for pursuing American interests. Quite often they made things worse, in fact. Probably another reason why Germany isn't that keen on supporting any adventures.
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1 minute ago, chuckdyke said:
NATO is also the reason the US doesn't have a West European style of a social safety net.
Now that is just nonsense. Even with the military expenditures, the US would have the ressources for that, easily. The political will / ideology is just not there.
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3 minutes ago, fireship4 said:
And some have a weird impression of the South in the US... borderline subhuman? Because they voted for Trump? Since that kind of language defeats the entire idea of bothering with a democratic system in the first place - that people can have their ideas changed (and less relevant, that they are the best judge of how politics is affecting them), and it is ideas that are the problem to be dealt with, and that the idea that people can be subhuman is more problematic than Trumpism, I don't think I need to deal with the point any further.
Yes, that was my point. This is not my view, but the impression I am getting from many of my fellow countrymen.
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Some of you here have a weird impression of Germany, I have to say...
You know what the Germans, at the end of the day, wanted in WW2? A nice, cozy, USA-type lifestyle.
What did WW2 teach them? You don't get that by war, you get it by selling everybody cars and cheating on the occasional emissions test. This is basically the German modern mindset summed up.
They don't want to pay good money for weapons, especially considering that if there is a WW3 involving NATO, it would probably be the end of the world anyway. And while the current media blitz was quite effective, they don't REALLY care about some eastern european country that they ultimately view as backwards and corrupt. At best they view those people as possibly cheap labour, just make sure to keep an eye on that family silver great-grandpa got for cheap from the Jews!
For Germany the whole affair is a big inconvenience. Except for the sanction effects and some refugees, the only real way it would massively hurt Germany is if someone annoys the Russians enough to end the world, which is what Scholz wants to avoid. Other than that, what mostly changes is that they have to get their gas from elsewhere now and are more dependent on the US than on Russia. Which is fine for now, but just wait until the next election, when there is a good chance that the borderline subhuman rednecks, who don't believe in evolution because they are at the beginning of it, vote someone into office who may as well be Putin.
And as for paying for weapons: As I said, history has taught them that this is ultimately a fool's errand and it is easy to come to the conclusion that the only thing you get by buying, let's say, a bunch of new fighter jets, is a better view of the mushroom clouds once things kick off.
So, in conclusion, I don't know why people are so shocked by Germany's stance.
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18 minutes ago, Butschi said:
The lack of political will appears to be shared by most other NATO members, though. The fine line, currently, seems to be "no western MBTs or IFVs". Leo 1s are roughly the equivalent of US M60s. No M60s in Ukraine, altough there are probably still a few around (er, experts: are there?). No Chieftains, no AMX30s. No Warriors or Bradleys. I doubt Ukraine didn't ask for any of those. Does drawing this line make sense? I don't know. But for once it looks like a somewhat consistent and coordinated strategy of the NATO members.
Re stalling and delaying and generally abysmal communication, I fully agree but that is a different issue. I'm not even certain it is all Scholz' fault or that of our defense secretary. The Bundeswehr is really in a desolate state, not only regarding equipment and readyness. It isn't like the Bundeswehr doesn't get a lot of money. I think > 40 billion $ / year over the last decade. That's less than the 2% GDP but still a lot. With that it isn't even possible to have regular body armor for everyone going abroad, a swimming area for the (elite) divers or even decent radios. My opinion: To achieve that level of epic failure you have to have a fine mix of incompetence and corruption (even if it is only the 'legal' kind) in procurement, planning and political leadership. Just to make the point: I'm not fully convinced it is active stalling on Scholz' side, possibly the Bundeswehr really just isn't able to deliver on short timescales. Even more reason to have good communication then, though.
This is true. I am pretty sure the German army might be as ineffective, if not more so, as the Russian one. The corruption runs deep and is probably happening in a more sophisticated way than in Russia, but there is still a lot of it.
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9 minutes ago, akd said:
Suppressors affect neither.
My guess is that they are NOT using those with subsonic ammunition. So they are probably not really that quiet, but maybe quiet enough to protect the hearing of the soldiers somewhat and make them harder to locate / identify as gun shots by sound.
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Shouldnt Russia be in "lost WW1"?
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There is a scenario already that does it.
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7 minutes ago, Boche said:
"This is not how a war is waged"
Well, she is right about something...lol
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Maybe the fear is that the MLRS would be perceived similar to cluster munitions in the public.
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Possible TOE mistake that might be relevant for the FB expansion as well:
Right now the Infanterie-Kompanie 45 has 1 Sturmzug and 2 normal platoons, as opposed to the other way around for a Volksgrenadier-Kompanie. I have a German book about the Infanterie Division Scharnhorst, which was one of the last ones created and used this organisation. According to that book, the division had two Sturmzüge like a VG division, the difference was that it again had three regiments instead of two, but each regiment only had two battalions. In addition, each regiment had an assault company in reserve (also with MP44). Not sure if this is some kind of unusual organisation or if the ingame one is wrong, just making a note here.
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Nazi zombies.
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1 minute ago, FancyCat said:
What the hell happened to the Soviet supply dumps?
Ebay
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7 minutes ago, chrisl said:
So if they don't have enough vehicles, how do they get everybody to the front lines? Train to the nearest railhead and then march them in? Right after UA got a bunch of new longer range, very accurate artillery and appears to have gotten some VT fuzes with it?
Are they taking "drown you in the blood of Russian soldiers" from many pages earlier in this thread literally?
Putin may actually be under the impression that the younger generation has grown soft and decadent and that this is just what the doctor ordered.
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To be honest, I was a bit disappointed by this: The Soviets used M1 Bazookas and PIATs in 1944, but only as a replacement for 45mm AT guns in OSNAZ (amphibious) units. These units were not able to tow their guns across rivers, so they were issued with launchers instead. There is a still from a news reel showing one at a river crossing, although I can't find it right now. Since the Schwimmwagen was included I always assumed the DUKW and the OSNAZ units would be in as well, but alas.
Edit: To go into some more detail, a combat report:
Quote"Since August 1944 the "Piat" anti-tank rifles of cumulative action did not prove to be effective, and few of them had to be used in practice, as they have a number of drawbacks, namely: 1) "Piat" rifle can only be fired from a cover due to the fact that the shooter was injured by a shrapnel from mine explosion. 2. The longest firing range of "Piat" rifle is 100 m, and the smallest effective range is 60 m. 3. When fired, "Piat" projectile (mine) has to touch the target with its head, which has a blasting cap, only at right angles. If the target is not hit by the limb of the head, the mine does not explode. 4. 'Piat" rifle is heavy - it's weight is 16 kg. 5. The rifle is designed purely for defense, the purpose of a battalion is different. Based on the foregoing, we consider it expedient to remove the "Piat" rifle from the armament of the unit, since the experience of the battles conducted has shown that it is not applicable. In addition, 5 vehicles are used to carry mines for "Piat". It is advisable, instead of "Piat" rifles, to increase the firepower of SMG companis by introducing 6 HMGs to each company, 12 in total, and, as anti-tank weapons, it is advisable to include a tank destroyer battery on Studebaker trucks to the battalion TO&E."
A commendation:
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"Piat" rifle gunner Junior Sergeant Degtyarev - participant of the battles from Odessa to Vienna. In the battles for the city of Belgrade (Yugoslavia) on Lake Balaton (Hungary), he showed examples of courage and bravery. In the last battles on the Raba River on March 28, 1945, he was one of the first to cross the enemy shore. He captured the "tongue", destroying together with other fighters up to 25 enemy soldiers.
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1 minute ago, BlackMoria said:
Absolutely a consideration. Today, depending where the conflict is, you have got to assume driving your military element along a road or through some town, that somebody is using their smart phone to record you and that info is getting someplace you aren't going to like it going. That said, using same social media, your military can shoot the same video or photo and attribute it to another location or doctor any geo location clues in the photo or video. With that much information coming in, it will be trying for enemy intel people to sort the wheat from the chaff so to speak.
Yeah, basically generating enough "white noise" to drown out the truth.
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Armies should probably start to seriously invest in some kind of "social media division". Just how in WW2 before an offensive armies would generate fake radio traffic and such, these days you need to generate fake "opsec breaches" or civilian posts about your army being spotted somewhere it isn't.
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That was my thought as well actually. Then again, how digitalized is Russian infrastructure... ?
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Tom Hardy put on a lot of weight for that new Mad Max movie.
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