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I've not found an article stating Merkel is drawing a line in the sand that if Minsk was violated in any way harsher sanctions would definitely follow, you might've mistaken a quote that did not include Mariupol because that's all I can find including harsher sanctions as a definite. Most of the articles say "no end of sanctions if" and the only sentence I catched including more sanctions with 1 page of google checked is which is not a red line, atleast in the way I translate it. I don't think anyone expects that there will be no clashes during a ceasefire, my understanding is that the intensity of the fighting - on the whole frontline - has been reduced to a few minor events, according to the slightly Pro-Ukraine liveuamap.com this is the case. (if you have a more reliable source on recent events share them please - I think I can get use out of them ) Which would mean that it has reduced escalation and brought us a step closer to getting the people back to the table to work on a long term solution, quite possibly this could just be a temporary time span in which the Seps are forming up to strike hard somewhere again, but if that were to happen I very very strongly doubt Merkel would try to implement Minsk III and say to the German press "We've dealt with it with it again, again, again.". What Steinmeier said in the video is supporting this, they know that people are still dying and fighting over there, but the agreement has reduced it as a whole and if Putin decides to let it fail again there will not be another attempt.

Sending arms now to reduce escalation is somewhat contradictory to the diplomatic effort that has so far calmed the fighting down and got the Seps to pull back most of their heavy stuff. I don't see the 2 strategies working together all that well. Steinmeier made it pretty clear in his CSIS speech that if for example Mariupol was to be attacked Minsk II would be dead and that there will not be a Minsk III, meaning a shift in strategy to military means.

They mentioned it in one of the VICE news 'Russian Ghost Army' videos and also (tried to) interview/ed some of them. But your account is - and I'm trying very hard to avoid being pre-judgemental here - somewhat suspicious

spoilers Lovely map, setting and mission, it really looks and feels believable. So many details and on a map small enough to not ruin my frame rate completely with all the objects. The sniper team at the far left end of the map was really a pain for me, I wasted so much time and ammo on their location just for him to poke out again and again to kill the poor guy who is now supposed to do the buddy aiding to the medic before him. That bastard took atleast 5 of my men out of the fight for good and wounded several - while still being alive at the end of the game, in the same spot. I'm not sure why my BMP-2s and BTR-70s could not convince him to leave his little position - in my experience the volume of lead going his way and exploding around him would've pressed every non fanatic into crawl back a few tiles. The air support wasn't helping at all and actually counter productive - killed more Ukrs than Russians and I even had to cancel them in the end because they started shooting ATGMs at my convoy, luckily a tree ate it. I had more luck with the river, one got stuck for a moment. I lost just a single BTR-70 during the mission - he took an RPG to the front after he got out of the water and close to the road where he was supposed to provide overwatch for my Inf clearing the building. Although I had a lot of overwatch covering the BTR they failed to spot the squad inside the building (had Infantry just across the road from the building and they got not a single vague sound marker or anything that could've warned me - blind and deaf idiots ), they repaid the deed greatly though. Best scenario I've played in any of the CM titles.

the distance of LODs being used and effects like the wind affecting the foliage being disabled I'd assume.

They have a damage model if you use low detail and afaik theres also wind effect.. just not showing far away

Well.. I guess you can't ever truly know if the holocaust really happened, then. Because I highly doubt you are from Germany and have a living German grandpa telling you it's all just a lie from those damn Tommies!.

I think the probability of a claim of someones death ending up being true increases tremendously if there was an assassination attempt on him during the last few days/weeks And Givi - he probably got reported as KIA every time he claimed to fully control the Airport

I don't think they are supposed to be black, haven't found any pictures that show them in black either, but lots of green ones.

Mozgovoi seems/ed to be one of the few somewhat proper guys, would be a shame if he really has been killed to make room for the likes of Givi/..

Please offer it in the original size too if you decide to reduce it

US Mortar

use dropbox if the repository isn't working for you.

Let me invade your country and then blame the people for supporting the far right more...

2km everything regular etc atgms in light forest with 1 tree per tile ATGMs kill M1: 3 Gap between respotting and getting shots off too big -> APS and M1 killed ATGMs in return: 17 better ratio than with the Kh-S (who in the same situation killed 1 and died 19 times often without even spotting) only works if you can find a spot where the enemy Tac AI will likely not just drive straight backwards obviously I never said this is supposed to be the end-all APS M1s solution, it's very situational but if there's a spot on a map where it might work it is better to put 2 ATGMs on it than a Kh-S, that was all I was trying to find out. I've so far tried to cope with M1s by using cheap atgms to spook some and then drive an overwhelming force of T-90s against the rest of them also more at mines here and there

having 2 atgms on the same tile with covering arcs until both spot the m1 could work also edit: will run this several times

Sure, obviously the murica bias is also why the same engine limitation makes every US recon vehicle useless

If anyone here still needs an opponent I'm down for BN (v3, CW) BS and RT

It's pretty hard to find a map that offers 2.5km of LOS wide enough to allow ATGM fire on a position that is going to feature enemy armor, even on huge maps. I'll redo the test with 2km. I'm not after a "realistic scenario" but what I can expect while playing BS on large & huge maps not a big sample but eh, enough for me to judge this vehicle open, flat, everything normal yadda yadda M1 APS- 20 Kh - 0 Kh spotted first but died while 9M123s still in the air- 9 open, flat, normal etc but this time Kh being in "light forest" terrain and 1 "Tree H" per tile M1 still in the open Kh still has full LOS on the M1. M1 APS - 19 Kh - 1 Kh hit but did not kill and died in return - 1 The amount of Kh being killed without even getting a ? spot has increased noticeable but I did not counted it, several times even when the M1 missed it Kh still did not spot the M1 No target arc used - might be a game changer for both. Maybe I'll try it again with hull down tomorrow I'm pretty confident that if I turn the M1 90° the Kh would hit almost always hit first but try getting a 2km flank shot in a pbem

I've done a few (~5?) test runs with the Khrizantema and the M1 facing eachother 1km I think 4/5 the M1 spotted first and once the Khrizantema spotted first but got knocked out before the 9M123s could reach the M1 so yeah good luck you might get the drop if the M1 is moving(sideways) and the Khrizantema is hidden but both sides on open ground facing eachother won't end in your favour I'm afraid

Very unlucky Oplot. The first T-90AM shot was defeated by ERA. Either that T-90AM Gunner is a really good shot or he had a lot of luck on his side!

My problem with this entire thing is - besides the language bias (this goes both ways, I would not take a pro West blog as serious if they could only mention Putin with power hungry KGB thug and USSR nostalgic psychopath somewhere in the sentence.. like throwing in "criminal" just for good measure when talking about AFU General Staff or this whole fascist junta thing. He just needs to add "Nazi" to reach RT level ) - that there is not a single of his "sources on the ground" being linked. He is throwing a lot of numbers around and does not even attempt to explain why they are more reasonable than 0 or 9999. And Battlefront has an equal track record of "predictions" yet they seem to tell almost opposite stories.

From the "US soldiers act like cowards ingame" thread.

I'm Interested!

I was being sarcastic with this whole journalistic integrity thing. Comparing anything to RT is setting the bar very low and I would like to know what bat**** crazy "debunk it in 1 google search!" reports they've been releasing that would justify this comparison. So yeah I know it's not a Su-25 (they want you to belive that ) and the German NVA *Expert* did not convince me either! I wonder how RT found him though