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Hey Nik Mond, I was referring to earlier post, not yours I agreed w yours. I shoulda quoted the intended one.

What's the common theme in all these things? Steve Buscemi, of course.

I agree w StieliAlpha. What data showed was that 'easy to get' oil production would not keep up w demand. What has happened is that 'hard to get' oil has become less hard to get through advances in technology. Also, there's lots of folklore saying that some big problems disappeared because the problems never existed -- when in fact the problems were addressed. Y2K was a problem, but everyone fixed their codes beforehand. Acid rain was a real problem, but we moved to low sulphur coal or added scrubbers to the exhaust to reduce sulpherous emissions. Ozone depletion was real, but we reduced HFC use and it's been helping. These problems weren't hoaxes like Fox news would have us believe. They were real and we did something about them, like was done w DDT, lead in gasoline, etc

That post was a joke, right? I mean, no one actually could believe things that confused or ridiculously, provably, demonstrably false? Right?

SF2 is amazing good fun so far. two scenarios down, one total & one minor victory -- which must mean my wife has been gone on a business trip That javelin AT missile is a beautiful thing -- for blue forces, that is.

Perhaps I spoke too soon. I have now lost 2 Abrams

Abrams just took a frontal hit from 1000m from a 125mm syrian tank gun. And no damage? Modern warfare is insane!

Hey y'all, Playing 2nd SF2 battle, first one was a blast. Canadians vs insurgents. Next is "Allah's Fist". american armored force moving toward dug / mobile Syrian armor. Looks like fun. I had pictures of my first battle but it seems they are too big, I have to save them in other format. Question: do you ever open up in modern tank warfare? Or stay closed because optics are so good?

I just played Temple to Mars in CMFI, attacking up Monte Cassino in a snowstorm. I was having a very hard time about halfway in. So I decided to 'pull back' and regroup -- I went to scenario editor and gave myself more artillery, re-started and got revenge. Was cheating but felt pretty good actually If you play that one, be sure to use to make your artillery & mortars count. Germans are dug in so doing wide area shelling useless. Have to get observation and hit them with precision.

Yeah, FI is hard. 'course, that's why the front was static much of the time, and the casualties were terrible relative to the ground gained.

I work w sometimes a woman from Mexico, remotely. She got her PhD at Oxford, and has perfect Oxford style English. It was only after a couple meetings that I learned she was in office in Guadalahara, and was native Mexican. I was sure she was from England. her English is way more gooder than mine

yeah, at that AT gun it's a bad time to have a bolt action rifle

Thanks for the tips, everyone. Lots to learn with these modern weapons. Like you said, huge number of scenarios, plus the campaigns. I hope the rains come early to Oregon this year so I have a good excuse to play in the coming months

Ha, I haven't even finished all the WW2 content and I've been at it for what, 4 years now? yeah, bring on the 80s! Mech Brigade rides again, my Atari rides again I'm starting the the first battle in the list, Canadians going after a bomb factory. I am going to go way out on a limb and guess the roads are often mined or have IEDs.

Thanks everybody. SF2 big bundle w everything, is now mine

I always play against AI. Mostly because I am sooooooo slow to play -- like a few 'turns' one day, a few the next, that I think I would drive my opponents crazy. But last kid heading for college in a month, hopefully my playing time will increase and I could do PBEM. I won't have money to do anything else given what college costs So from that perspective SF2 sounds better. And I can definitely see how US/NATO cannot afford casualties. My first choice for non-WW2 would be 1980s, because I used to play Mech Brigade, which had a great manual with drawing of every vehicle. Some of those still around in SF2 & BF, it seems, but so many new ones to learn. But I suspect that's probably not even planned by BF at this point w all the other stuff that has to come out first. I googled Mech Brigade and saw images of it -- nothing like what I remembered, looks so primitive now.

Hey folks, I have all the CM WW2 stuff. I have prepaid the new FI module due August(-ish) which will bring new stuff. But I am feeling greedy for a new adventure and thinking about delving into the modern world. Black Sea seems to me to be more 'balanced' in the sense that both sides have at least somewhat comparable armor & professional soldiers. SF2 seems like I would typically be fighting either insurgents or a poorly equipped Syrian army, which doesn't seem that great to me. Yet folks on the forum seem to absolutely love SF2, so there must be some solid challenge there. So what do y'all think I should try first? SF2 or Black Sea? I am open to any thoughts you have on this.

I agree with you, this is a really good book, Tashtego. All Forczyk books are very good. His next book will be the 1939 Poland campaign. His last was battle for France. there's a prequel to the book you listed that covers 41-42, a must read for the upcoming (year 2022/3/4/5?) CM Barbarossa.

Thanks for the pics, Macisle, very nice. Is this a single player scenario? if so, which one?

Like everyone else here, I want more content. I want it now. Or at least by Monday. I want eastern front 41-43, I want the desert war. I want 1980s nato vs warsaw pact. I want Korean war. But BF is just a few developers and delivering software is ****ing hard, really ****ing hard. For those who have never had to do that it's hard to imagine how much goes wrong in the simplest ****ing thing when it's in the hands of users. So keep complaining about wanting more, I will too. But attacking BF personally like that, basically calling them thieves, that's just ****ed.

Wow, CarlWAW. That was really awful what you wrote. I am not being 'milked'. When they have new content, I give them money. When they don't, I don't. If they are scamming us they really need to do a better job of it. Yes, please move on. You are distracting the developers from making new content for fanboys like me.

I was a Sgt Rock fan myself. and that other comic that had those fellers in that Stuart tank -- the commander would talk to the ghost of his grandfather, civil war's Jeb Stuart

oh, right, I read this in a book a while ago. I mix up all the henrys & edwards .

Of course there's always the domestic audience factor to consider also. We always think foreign policy moves are actually about foreign policy. Sometimes it's for domestic consumption. Putin could do this because it makes him look tough and nationalistic to his own people, upholds russian pride, etc. He could do it because Russian people think they are being disrespected and he needs to stand up to the west to keep his tough guy image.

Very interesting conversation, thank all for your thoughts. I am seeing lots of good thoughts on this complex subject.