Bearstronaut
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Try recon by fire. Usually gets the enemy to return fire and then you can suppress them with infantry and close and destroy or eliminate them with heavier vehicle mounted weapons.
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4 hours ago, paxromana said:
As I understand it this has always been the case since at least WW2 and probably even WW1 and under the Tsars
Same as it ever was. I read a book about Soviet soldiers in WW2 over the summer and officers coercing female soldiers into becoming "field wives" was a big issue.
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13 hours ago, chuckdyke said:
Few SU 100's around in South Korea, Seoul Museum. This one looks in good nick. Strongly recommend a visit. Pensioners like me don't have to pay. Wonder why the nice girl at the counter asked for my ID (Drivers License). Little disappointed was not my mature good looks.
That's a very good museum. I went there several times when I was stationed in Korea. Last time I went I got volunteered to be the translator for a battalion staff ride there because I speak Korean. I explained to my commander that everything was written in English as well as Korean but he was like "SGT, none of the battalion officers speak Korean and all the other linguists are working mission so you might as well come along."
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12 minutes ago, panzermartin said:
This isnt reckless, its a perfectly executed soft kill of a 32million USD unit with almost zero cost. On the other hand the US shot down chinese balloons wasting multiple 400.000 USD missiles.
Team BRICS win this air circus round
It was completely reckless. The SU-27 could just have easily crashed alongside the Reaper.
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Try attacking a Soviet position with Stummels or armored recon vehicles and say that you don't have to worry about ATRs.
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1 hour ago, Battlefront.com said:
If Russia expends these on fruitless offensive activities, then they will once again face the situation they had last fall when there simply wasn't enough bodies to stop Ukraine from advancing. At that point either Russia conducts yet another rushed mobilization and deployment (days, not weeks) or we see another operational collapse at the very least. Strategic collapse is very much on the table.
I do wonder where Russia is going to get the bodies for a new mobilization. They were conscripting convicts and middle-aged men in the first mobilization. That's bottom of the barrel stuff. No offense to the middle aged men here but I'm 34 and left active duty for the reserves last year because I didn't think my body could take it for much longer. Taking dudes in their mid-40s, giving them a couple weeks of training, and throwing them into the fight is what Nazi Germany was doing in spring 1945 when they literally had no other choice.
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44 minutes ago, Centurian52 said:
I second that! If only it weren't for those pesky opportunity costs. I want more niche wars and theaters, but those are the very wars and theaters that are not likely to give BFC a strong return on investment. I bet there's a strong market for Vietnam or the Pacific, but Steve has already pointed out elsewhere that there is no way the CM2 engine could handle that much vegetation.
For the Korean War I'd figure it would be relatively easy. The North Koreans and Chinese essentially used late WW2 Soviet gear and the US and South Koreans used late WW2 US gear.
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On 2/24/2023 at 12:02 PM, CarlXII said:
Yeah...where's all the friendly rich guys when you need them. Some are willing to spend 5-10 billion dollars on a soccerteam....How about throwing BFC their fair share ?
If I won the billion dollar powerball I'd definitely contact Steve about funding a Korean War Combat Mission game.
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1 hour ago, Seminole said:
In October 2022, about eight months after the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the University of Cambridge in the UK harmonized surveys that asked the inhabitants of 137 countries about their views of the West, Russia, and China. The findings in the combined study are robust enough to demand our serious attention.
- Of the 6.3 billion people who live outside of the West, 66% feel positively towards Russia, and 70% feel positively towards China.
- 75% of respondents in South Asia, 68% of respondents in Francophone Africa, and 62% of respondents in Southeast Asia report feeling positively toward Russia.
- Public opinion of Russia remains positive in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, India, Pakistan, and Vietnam.
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Nelson Mandela often said that it was the Soviet Union’s support, both moral and material, that helped inspire South Africans to overthrow the Apartheid regime. Because of this, Russia is still viewed in a favorable light by many African countries. And once independence came for these countries, it was the Soviet Union that supported them, despite its own limited resources. Egypt’s Aswan Dam, completed in 1971, was designed by the Moscow-based Hydro Project Institute and financed in large part by the Soviet Union. The Bhilai Steel Plant, one of the first large infrastructure projects in newly independent India, was set up by the USSR in 1959.
Other countries also benefited from the political and economic support provided by the former Soviet Union, including Ghana, Mali, Sudan, Angola, Benin, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Mozambique. On February 18, 2023, at the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the foreign minister of Uganda, Jeje Odongo, had this to say: “We were colonized and forgave those who colonized us. Now the colonizers are asking us to be enemies of Russia, who never colonized us. Is that fair? Not for us. Their enemies are their enemies. Our friends are our friends.”
What's your point, dude? Just because countries in the global south were colonized and victimized in the past doesn't make them arbiters of morality and the common good forever. In fact, I think it's pretty disgusting that people from India, Vietnam, or South Africa can't empathize with the Ukranian people trying to fight off their historical colonial oppressor. You'd think those countries would understand it far better than those of us in the west.
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I greatly enjoyed your CMBN campaigns so I am really looking forward to any new ones you decide to make.
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1 hour ago, billbindc said:
The most compelling explanation I have seen is the above. Russia had numerous motivations, both strategic and contractual, to explode the pipelines and it looks pretty clear that an accident forced their hand. In addition, the ships Hersh claimed did it where nowhere near the location and in one case was not even in service yet. His role as a conduit for Russian misinformation continues.
Doesn’t matter. He did his job and poisoned the well. Tankies and pro-Russian fascists will be citing his report for decades. I mean, there are still people who think that the Katyn Massacre was Nazi propaganda.
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23 hours ago, Artkin said:
Damn.
Soviet doctrine was a bloodbath throughout the war so it's a lot of explosions and tons of shameless casualties. You get to play with larger sized formations more often than not. Also the maps are larger with community content through the roof. You have the Berlin maps. IMO theres a little something for everyone even if you just take the maps and use them for your other games. With that functionality of CM (Porting maps inbetween titles) you get your money's worth no matter what.
Why dont you like fighting against soviet infantry? PPSH's?
Imo theyre not that insane unless you get into close range. And if youre fighting that close you've already lost your advantage and should expect a critical amount of casualties regardless (Goes for any CM game really).
Don’t get me wrong, I do like Red Thunder. I just like the western front ones more.
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On 2/14/2023 at 11:37 AM, Artkin said:
You don't own CMRT? Dude that's the craziest CM title BY FAR. It blows every other game completely out of the water. Damn. Even if you don't like the game you can use the maps for your other games. And CMRT has the most maps by far. It's the best CM hands down.
I own all the WW2 titles and CMRT is probably my least favorite for three reasons.
1. I am a US Army vet so am biased towards my own service.
2. I've never really managed to get the hang of Soviet doctrine.
3. Most of the content in CMRT has you playing as the Germans and I really, really, really hate fighting against Soviet infantry.
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1 hour ago, Battlefront.com said:
This is the same as it is in the US. For those who do not live here, it is easy to not see how geographically divided the United States is. Not only regions, but areas within. This has always been the case, but it's certainly become more noticeable since the Internet came about.
Yet at the personal level, good people get along with other good people no matter where they come from. Fortunately there are plenty of good people.
When I was stationed in South Korea I was amazed at the animosity between people from Jeolla and Gyeongsang provinces. It's like the north/south rivalry in the US but in a much smaller area and goes back over 1500 years to the Three Kingdom period.
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22 minutes ago, The_Capt said:
The political unity being displayed is deeply heartening and I think we definitely have pulled it together; however, we have not articulated the likely real costs and what it is worth to us very well. I have no doubt the grown ups up top understand all of this clearly (fingers crossed), but we live in democracies, so Johnny Lunchbox and the goof down the street with the “F#ck Joe Biden” flag need to get it too. Or at least enough of us, and that is the part that does make me a little nervous.
The goof down the street with the "Lets Go Brandon" bumper sticker on his car who posts stupid memes on Facebook negatively comparing the men who landed on Omaha Beach with Gen Z will be the first one to complain when asked to make the barest minimum of sacrifice.
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5 minutes ago, Seminole said:
Then I'd have to say you suck at strategic assessment.
I don't know if George Kennan is considered a 'neo-tankie', but his commentary a quarter century ago has proven downright clairvoyant:
perhaps it is not too late to advance a view that, I believe, is not only mine alone but is shared by a number of others with extensive and in most instances more recent experience in Russian matters. The view, bluntly stated, is that expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-cold-war era.
Such a decision may be expected to inflame the nationalistic, anti-Western and militaristic tendencies in Russian opinion; to have an adverse effect on the development of Russian democracy; to restore the atmosphere of the cold war to East-West relations, and to impel Russian foreign policy in directions decidedly not to our liking.Oh noes! What if we offend the Russians? Interesting that you don't ask how the Poles felt about NATO expansion. How the Lithuanians, the Latvians, the Estonians, the Czechs, etc... felt about it. The Russians are just pissy that NATO has stymied their attempt at restoring the Russian Empire.
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23 minutes ago, Seminole said:
Which one of them do you think then Ambassador (and now CIA director) Burns was quoting in that cable?
Or was that just a poor deflection on your part?
Get outta here with that neo-tankie crap. NATO was not a threat to Russia. Nobody was itching to drive on Moscow like it was 1941 or 1812. If the Russians had played nice instead of weaponizing their whole "Russkiy mir" concept the Europeans would have been perfectly happy to just sit there and buy cheap fossil fuels pumped in from Siberia.
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2 hours ago, Haiduk said:
After some threshhold the qauantity transforms to quality. Our soldiers describes Wagners attacks like zerg-rash. These are not "human waves" in usual sence. They attacks with small assault groups from different directions, infiltrate, wear UKR uniform and they do this continuously. You just have foled attack of one group, but since some time already another come from other direction.
It kind of amuses me to imagine future historians writing about this war and having to write a footnote to their readers to describe what a "Zerg" is.
*A Zerg is a fictional alien species from a computer game popular in the late 1990s known for attacking in suicidal wave attacks and ignoring casualties.
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Is the Mac version still being worked on?
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12 hours ago, Russkly said:
Sounds like a no-brainer to me...
Wonder what the ratio of Mac users to Windows users is in terms of players of CM?
I play on Mac.
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On 10/25/2022 at 6:49 AM, Lille Fiskerby said:
You did it !! fantastic ! well done and super screen shots. I know, this mission has a very "steep" timeline but it has to do with the next mission. Hope you can kinda lean back and enjoy the last mission, you deserve it
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Ha, good one. I finished the last mission with a minor victory. That armor counterattack caught me in a bad position and killed like half my armor.
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On 10/16/2022 at 5:32 PM, Lille Fiskerby said:
Sorry to hear that. You could chance and use the heavy machine gun platoon as infantry and hope the soviet infantry stays in the wood. You could also use some of your panzergrenadiere to help 5. Kompanie. You could also use your recon squads as normal infantry to "beef" up 5. Kompanie. Hope you will be able to win this mission, you are getting very close to the goal line
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I got through with a Total Victory. Guess I shouldn’t have worried so much. I just avoided the forest altogether. Used 434 troops to screen the edges and pushed up the right with armor. I lost two Panthers breaking up the Pak line but once that was dealt with it was fairly simple to clear out the place with the PzG company.
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I just started Warazyk Forest. I am quite dismayed that I only have 5th Company from the 434th. I only have one squad in the entire company that has more than five soldiers in it. This may be where my campaign ends.
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2 minutes ago, Taranis said:
Vladimir Putin criticizes the United StatesHe seems to imply that he never considered nuclearizing a foreign country. As if the Russians would ever do that. Seems the US calls about nuclear threats must have had their effect.
As if the Soviet Union wouldn’t have nuked Berlin in a heartbeat if they had had nukes in 1945.
Looking for Axis campaigns that starts of small and gradually adds more units.
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There's not that many German campaigns for CMBN other than the ones that come with the game and the different modules.