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Hello, I am Vladimir Putin and this is Jackass.

Hello, I am Vladimir Putin and this is Jackass.

Hello, I am Vladimir Putin and this is Jackass.

Hello, I am Vladimir Putin and this is Jackass.

These seem a bit too easy to fake to be taken at face value.

Maybe they have decided it is finally free of Nazis...

Maybe they have decided it is finally free of Nazis...

How would your average Russian soldier know to suddenly stop using the phrase?  What now the godless Russian horde is linked by a skynet like Comms set up?  c'mon man. You have spent quite a bit of time on this thread talking about the essentially subhuman Russian people on here.  It permeates every post you make about Russians.

Yeah those are just artifacts from compression. I think some people vastly underestimate the amount of work that would go into a fake like that. I mean, you would need to have a big crowd shot of people at the right angle, for one thing. And don't get me started on that "fake" Putin video. Hollywood can maybe do something like that, but it requires specialists and way more time than you might think.

If the Ukrainians faked that with CGI, they should apply with Michael Bay after the war.

If the Ukrainians faked that with CGI, they should apply with Michael Bay after the war.

I am still using Office 2007, still works.

Maybe they have started painting their fuel levels on their tanks.

Maybe they have started painting their fuel levels on their tanks.

Yes...
The map looks great btw. I actually seriously considered trying my hand at CM campaign design after F and R was out. I regularly make scenarios for WinSPWW2, including recently a Russian campaign set in the fairly unique Arctic theater. It would end with an amphibious assault across the Norwegian border by OSNAZ forces. Imagine my dismay when only the Germans got their amphibious vehicles with not a DUKW in sight... so for now that idea is shelved.

Long campaign, varied terrain and opponents, decent challenge, but not frustrating, ends in Berlin, which is always the best ending for a WW2 game...

Be happy that you don't have to put the wires between there, I always lose 10% of my remaining hair doing that on my FH2 maps....

I enjoy tuning in to these two streams, they are good at presenting what they are doing and why they are doing it. Same battle, two players, two different AI plans.
Spoilers for Soviet campaign...
 

First of all: Have you tried the German Market Garden campaign? I quite liked that one.
Secondly, on the topic of the campaigns: I have played on my Youtube channel the Russian Campaign and the German Market Garden campaign, as well as lots of other campaigns "off camera). In my eyes you can't really judge the campaigns in general, but on an individual basis.
Road to Montebourg, Scottish Corridor and Road to Nijmegen are all made by Papertiger and are similar in style. I have a love hate relationship with them. I love their attention to detail, their graphical fidelity that always seems a cut above the others, the historical correctness and the huge amount of work that obviously went into them. Most of the scenarios have force sizes that (in my eyes) are manageable in CM.
Problem is: They are hard, and not necessarily in a good way. Many people say they have too short time limits and to a degree that might be true, but I think that is not the actual problem. The problem is that they often leave very little room for error, which in CM is always dangerous because of what in commercial games is often called "RNGesus", meaning the element randomness. I have played CM turns several times and often extremely different results came from the same order. This is in itself not bad and belongs into a military simulation, but in many PaperTiger missions you feel that one mistake will f.... your whole scenario over, and by extension the campaign. Sometimes not even a mistake, but just sheer bad luck. The scenarios are designed with such little tolerances that the little annoyances of randomness and the CM engine are magnified.
This leads to frustration, especially since, as Pericles pointed out, CM campaigns represent a considerable investment of free time.
Anyway, the other campaigns he mentioned I haven't tried (yet), so I can't comment, but some short reviews of those I played (or started to play):
CM BN
Road to Montebourg - See above, but was in my eyes the best of the PaperTiger campaigns, engine changes might have messed it up. That is another danger if you script the scenarios this much, btw.
Road to Nijmegen - See above, don't think I finished it ever.
Scottish Corridor - See above, don't think I ever finished the bonus battle
Kampfgruppe Engel - Kind of in progress (had a long pause for other reasons), seems quite good so far
A moment in time - Quite good, but one unwinnable scenario that left me scratching my head as to why it was in there
CM FI
Troina Campaign - Almost bit through my laptop due to the incredibly frustrating and unfair second level. Apparently this was fixed at some point, but tbh it seemed like the whole thing was one annoying and frustrating infantry slog through artillery fire.
Monte Cassino - Same, really frustrating in a boring kind of way
Raging Buffalo - Very good campaign, varied scenarios, great maps, manageable force size, some unusual vehicles to fight against
Foiling Fustian - One of the best campaigns, very weird forces, infantry focused, interesting scenarios and maps
Conrath - Spot the at-guns, bombard them, roll through map, repeat. Rather boring, can't remember if I ever finished it, so not a good sign.
CM RT
Hammer's Flank - Good campaign, forces a bit big and "unpersonal", but some great scenarios in there. Terrain sometimes a bit boring.
So all in all a mixed bag, although I haven't played all of them and some of the ones I don't like might be good in other people's eyes. Who knows, maybe someone enjoys storming one nondescript hill after the other, so the Monte Cassino on might be right up that person's alley.

Improvised protection against shaped charge weapon, often bed frames welded or otherwise affixed to the tank.

I will release 1 CM episode every Sunday for a while, starting with the "Rites of Spring" scenario that was posted here earlier. Probably going to do a campaign after this.

I will release 1 CM episode every Sunday for a while, starting with the "Rites of Spring" scenario that was posted here earlier. Probably going to do a campaign after this.

Well if he knows so much, how come he lost?
Anyway, regarding infantry: I am kind of confused why Graviteam Tactics is cited as an example of very strong infantry, the developers even pride themselves in infantry being somewhat useless against tanks. That is not a joke, there is a thread on their steam forum that only exists to post reports of tanks being basically impervious to infantry. I would even turn it around: In Combat Mission infantry is a bigger factor, in Graviteam the anti tank gun.
 
edit: Although I should say that this is partly because Graviteam plays before the introduction of effective hand held anti tank systems, at least the WW2 part.

I wont get Cold War, World War 2 is the only thing that interests me.

I wont get Cold War, World War 2 is the only thing that interests me.