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Sorry for any misunderstanding. My comment was meant to apply to the question of why the UKR hasn’t destroyed them.

For any of you who have never served in an infantry/combat arms unit, speaking from experience as a USMC Infanty, Small Unit Leader (0369) in the 1970s and early 1980s, men basically knew only what the higher-ups were willing to tell them. For example, I participated in the NATO Operation Teamwork in Northern Norway. We went from an airbase, Brekstat, onto Amphibious Assault Ships, steamed up the coast, and made our initial assault by helicopter. We assumed we were in Norway, but could have been landing in Soviet Territory for all we knew. So yes, it is possible that the grunts thought they were still in Russia.

When I was a regular (1969 to 1973) in the USMC, and even more so as a Reservist in the “Cold War,” it was our philosophy that whenever possible, it is better to “shoot to wound than to shoot to kill.” A dead man can be left where he falls until the opportunity to retrieve his body, while wounding one man usually requires two men to remove him to an area where he can receive aid. So in one case, you take out one, and in the other case you take out three.

It all depends on the condition at the moment. If the GRADs had already been fired, it might make sense to husband scarcer resources to use against more immediate threats. That’s one of the multitude of “on the spot” command decisions that every commander in the field must make.

There aren’t. The Cuban Missile Crisis was more about the (then obsolete) U.S. nuke capable ballistic missiles in Turkey. The U.S. removed them from Turkey as a result of the crisis. The missiles in Cuba were ICBMs that were nuke capable. I witnessed that crisis first hand and remember how we discussed amount ourselves in school, whether or not we would be going to war.

I originally thought Putin was testing the new Biden administration to see how it would react. If you look at the history books, the Soviets/Russia have “tested” every new administration since Truman either directly or by a client state. If the administration didn’t react “forcibly” enough, the world suffered an “incident.” History has shown a common practice of “pushing” your opponent. If he resists, take a step back. If he doesn’t resist, take two steps forward.

Historically, he is partially right, except he has it backwards. Moscow was part of the Kiev Rus principality. In fact, that is where Russia gets it’s name. Kiev was settled by a Swedish tribe know as the Rus. That was well over 1,000 years ago. He needs to be careful as China can probably that Russia is historically part of China since it was occupied for hundreds of years by the Mongols and Tartars.

Yes, there is. It’s called the UN Security Council. Unfortunately, there are five members that have veto power to block any UN action. One of those five is Russia. The only reason the UN was able to confront North Korea when it invaded the south was because the Security Council was able to propose and vote on the resolution when the Soviet Representative was out of the room. You can be sure that never happened, and never will happen, again.

Hmmm, “Continuation War Redux?”

Just like at Remagen during WWII.

While my reply here is not about the current invasion, the U.S. Commandant of the Marine Corps has recently deactivated USMC armor and long range artillery, and activated a new Battalion of Infantry in order to position the USMC for what he sees as the next theater of operations for the USMC; the South China Sea.

I imagine that it’s a very high probability. I thought the same thing when I read jabs were being sent in. Of course, the U.S. might already have a replacement ready and consider jams effectively obsolete.

I’m not sure Putin “stayed one step ahead … today.” In any negotiation, both parties must have a “no higher than and a no lower than” range. A negotiation can be successful only if those ranges overlap. If one party has no real intention of negotiating, the negotiation must fail.

Hear, hear! These posts are the best proof of the international community here in the Battlefront, regardless of some who seem to be intent on just sowing discord.

I read a news report that Russian entities have already been setting up methods to avoid or minimize any pain from threatened (or should I say now that Russia has invaded Ukrainian) sanctions. They have been quietly converting cash in their reserves to bitcoin type purchases so they don’t have to depend on any international financing.

No, you’re not stupid! Windows 10 is the most intrusive “I’m going to do this because I know better than you do” software systems I have ever seen. I’m really glad I was able to help. It feels good!

Well, I don’t know how you have your Windows 10 Startup set up, but when I start up my computer, right after Windows 10 starts up, I have to type in a “pin code” that I set when I installed Windows 10. Is is possible that one of your Windows 10 system start up options got changed so it requires your pin code, sort of like a password for starting as an administrator, or a security option to download from an unknown source? I know that sometimes the Mac OS has refused to allow the installer on CM demos if it doesn’t recognize the source. In that case, we simply right-click and select “open.” It then runs the installer. Try doing a right-click and open, and see if that works.

Well, whatever names were called in what must have been a very heated and energetic “discussion,” he at least still purchased Fire & Rubble. Times have changed, and while we don’t have to use or accept such language, we must understand that many people see those terms as simply emphasizing their statements. One of the women I worked with used it all the time, even though I’d admonish her with “You know, profanity is the mark of a weak mind attempting to forcibly express itself.” She’d just laugh and tell me to go “F” myself. Regardless, we were still a very good writing team because I didn’t accept them as insults.

Well, I don’t know what the sighting system was on the Flak 88, but I have to assume that the sights are good enough at 400-600m, and the trajectory flat enough that they can target the weakest area possible. It actually took me a few minutes to spot where the round hit. It is usually useful to analyze hits and KOs in a new release. I’ll see if I can get a screen shot and post it here.

I’m playing a scenario (single player, elite) where I have an initial force of three or four IS-2s. It one engagement when an IS-2 was hull down, an 88 AA/AT gun bounced four rounds off the turret at about 400-600m. The fifth hit in the lower-left corner of the gun mantle, and penetrated through the space between the gun mantle and the turret, and appears to have deflected down into the crew compartment. It killed my commander and gunner, but didn’t further affect the condition of the tank. Bad luck there.

I set mine to “desktop” in the options but usually have to edit the “display.txt” file to a size I can read (I have a 3840 x 2160 monitor and the text can sometimes be too small to read when set to desktop) and the CM won’t allow you to select any size except the ones listed. If you know the size of the flat screen you are using, you can open the “display.txt” file in (I believe) your data folder, and edit it to your actual screen size. Your data.txt should be “0, 0, 0.” You can edit the numbers to the size of your flat screen. For example, if the flat screen is 1920 x 1080, then edit the “0, 0, 0” to “1920, 1080, 0,” and save the file. That’s the extent of my knowledge, so if it doesn’t work, I can’t help, sorry.

Welcome to the club. You'll find many of us here share your compulsion. some even exceed it and beta test new releases.

They'll get my bicycle over my cold dead body.

I'd interpret BFC Elvis' reply as "very very" encouraging. Especially since today is the last day of April!

I hear ya, although I'm about to quit Elite Odyssey Alpha. Phase 4 doesn't seem to have anything beyond Phase 3, and a lot more really annoying bugs. This is the last week of it anyway. Good concept, but too much PVP for me, and the threat levels in the missions are way out of sync with the actual missions. It'll be good to focus on CMCW instead.