BornGinger

This video collage is quite funny (and has most likely been up in this thread before). Putin is happily eating his yoghurt while Russian tanks are being towed away behind his back.

That's at least good pictures for DICE and Activision for their video games about this war that certainly will come in some time.

Whether or not one likes it, that's definitely a good way of getting rid of those old soviet era concrete buildings and getting some more modern ones when they begin to rebuild that city.

Technically speaking, or how I should call it, he is a serial killer because he kills more than three separate individuals within a short period of time, which I think is the FBI definition of a serial killer, and this can be said about many other soldiers that are in active duty. The difference is that he, hopefully, doesn't get any sexual gratification from the killing which is what serial killers often seek from it.

Seems a bit to how the Soviet commisars appointed local supporters in occupied towns and villages in the Baltic States in 1940s when the Red Army arrived as "liberators".

Those have nothing to do with how German material is of low quality. They are just part of the game which all suffer from. Line of sight is often very strange in the game and vehicles often get stuck in a little splash of mud for no reason at all.

Where is @Battlefront.comSteven? He is usually active in this thread by this time of the day but hasn't been active the last 4 or 5 hours. Did his wife force him to go with her to buy some new stuff to the living room or kitchen? I bet he's sitting and waiting for her to decide which plates or chairs to buy so he can catch up with reading what's been going on in this thread.

There are reasons for everything. So you just "forget about it", as they say in US maffia films.

I mentioned this, Soviet soldiers in CMFB, a few years ago and was told that FB is about the last years of the Western front and won't have Soviet troops as those are in Red Thunder. But hopefully the next FB module will at least have Czechoslovakia in it as the US army went there too.

I think they said some time ago that the grenades and explosive bundles are both granades, bundles, molotov cocktails and what not. But the molotov cocktails should probably cause more of a fire than what is happening with the grenades, if they are supposed to be "cocktails" as well.

That should work too.

Was the waypoint for the team the end point, where you wanted them to go, or was it the vehicle? You need to give the team a waypoint on the vehicle and then make another one where you want them to end up, get dropped off.

How is this portrayed in the games? I have never had any armoured German vehicle that stops working all of a sudden or, as far as I know, had problems hitting an enemy vehicle. Is it possible that it is the vehicles "soft factors" that stop functioning properly, like for example the periscope and other mechanical parts that the player maybe don't keep their eyes on very much?

I think the pause was too short. You need to guess how many seconds it will take the team/squad to move towards the waypoint where the vehicle is pausing, the few seconds it will take the troops to fidget around a bit, like the troops always do with running back and forth of some strange reason before they do what you want them to do, and the few seconds it will take them to finally jump into, or onto, the vehicle. The larger group of a team you want to embark a vehicle the more time you need to give them. Do the test again after having guessed how many seconds it will take the team or squad to move to the vehicle's "pause waypoint", fidget around a bit and embark the vehicle and you'll see that it works. Buf then I haven't tried this for quite a while and Battlefront maybe removed that "embark troips on a pause" ability in the latest patch.

Vehicles can pause for a number of seconds just to pick troops up before they carry on to go somewhere but they can't pause and let troops jump off before they carry on. I don't know why this difference exists but of some reason it either must have been viewed as more important to be able to pick troops up or maybe they missed this while writing and control checking the code for the game engine.

He's waving his finger as if telling Lukashenko "You've been a naughty boy, mate". His leg is maybe just making a bit of the Elvis leg shake because he's so aroused and happy to see Lukashenko again. But he's definitely looked a bit ill in the latest videos.

Now when volunteers are coming into Ukraine (the number 16000 has been mentioned) and thus makes it a bit easier for the Ukrainian army to defend the country, I wonder whether it could help to send in Russian speaking Ukrainians into Russia to cause interruptions to the Russian railway system which leads to the Ukrainian border? As far as I understand the Russian army rely very much on their railway system to transport troops as quickly as possible. So if some Ukrainian "commandos" could interrupt those transportation lines it would possibly be a bit harder for the Russian army to move troops from the east towards Ukraine. Such an operation would probably require a lot of movement by night and maybe have those commandos dressed in civilian clothes so they can move around without drawing too much attention to themselves. But if such an operation succeeded at least halfway, that kind of move from Ukraine would most likely be a schock for both the Putin government and the Russian army.

Which video game is that from?

It seems that the military academies in Russia already know which subjects to focus on more extensivly. And maybe those subjects will be given more time in other countries too.

The only one I know of is that in the WW2 titles Red Thunder and Final Blitzkrieg the infantry can ride on the tanks while in Battle for Normandy they can't. I'm pretty sure that the infantry can ride on the tanks in the more modern day games. Apart from that difference I think there's only the weapons and kind of air support that is the difference between the games.

It was apparently destroyed yesterday. That video has already been up in this thread.

During the Soviet Union, and a bit after that union had dispersed, employees often seemed to not care about doing a job that really had to be done because it was the duty of someone else. So the driver of a lorry for example maybe didn't help with the loading of the lorry or with emptying it because his duty was to drive the lorry and nothing else. If this Soviet mentality still is in use among some people in the Russian Army it's possible that one or two officers were thinking "Those tanks would really need some infantry support. But as no one has told me to bother about protecting our tanks they'll just have to manage without that protection".

What has happened to this thread? Only four pages of posts since around midnight. Four pages used to be done each hour a few days ago. It seems the interest has stagnated a bit now when we're into day 10 of this conflict.

Did I understand this correctly? Are these soldiers belorussian citizens fighting for Ukraine and against Russia, Chechen orcs and possibly the Belorussian Army if it already has crossed the ukrainian border?

In some African countries for ecample they kill civilians on purpose and I don't know how often US attack drone controllers and helikopter crew killed civilians by "mistake" in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Russians aren't the only ones that attack residential areas on purpose.