Vacillator
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3 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said:
Combat Mission's convoy behavior might be unrealistically good
After spending an hour or so last night in RT arranging two fairly large but not huge columns with pauses etc. I can only keep my fingers crossed. Something will go wrong obviously, but hopefully nothing serious.
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2 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said:
The electric car (EV) is more money up front, but it has just about no maintenance other than the tires and the battery.
Maybe brakes might be an idea too? Anyway, this isn't the EV versus others thread so moving swiftly on...
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2 hours ago, Falaise said:
sometimes you have to know how to sacrifice yourself for a good camembert with a good bottle of wine and "saussisson sec"
Now you're talking Steph. Tonight I have Brie instead of Camembert, plenty of wine (mostly French) but no sausage. Oooh err....
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9 hours ago, kohlenklau said:
Separate bedrooms for sure!
Yes for sure Phil
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7 hours ago, kohlenklau said:
I have KV-1
Ummm, Phil loving this already. Let me know if I can test anything or PBEM...
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On 4/13/2022 at 10:49 PM, Warts 'n' all said:
Let's just say, never trust anyone who wears a hat indoors, or anyone who has a goatee beard.
Agree on the hat (except @benpark's of course), but facial hair is okay n'est ce pas?
EDIT: Playing RT Baranovichi by PBEM just now, thanks to @benpark I think.
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11 hours ago, akd said:
“Terminators” are BMP-Ts, not T-14s (“Armata”). There are only a handful of these in service.
Ah, thanks for the clarification, I thought the article I'd read showed T14s, will have to look at it again.
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1 minute ago, Huba said:
Busted!
No worries, you're not alone except some can add more decades
... anyway welcome.
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9 minutes ago, Huba said:
What I was wondering is if it is possible to achieve some surprise on this level. Let's say that the Russian northern group of forces around Izyum doesn't push south at all, instead going west trying to encircle Kharkiv (not saying that this particular scenario is realistic, just an example, probably on a lesser scale too). Does this kind of thinking make sense at all ?
You're not asking on behalf of Vladimir are you? Just joking...
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Going back a bit to the T14, there has been media talk of 'floods of Terminator tanks' heading for Ukraine. Backing this up were pictures of three (yes 3) possible T14s on rail transport heading who knows where. Does anyone have any better intel on this, which looks a bit like total BS? And by BS I don't mean Black Sea
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Interesting piece on the BBC just now about the Russian Orthodox Church backing Putin's invasion as a holy war. Not that old horse manure again?
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6 minutes ago, dan/california said:
If Nato got off of its rear end and put it planes in the air
We've been over this quite a few times, pretty sure it ain't happening any time soon for obvious reasons.
Disclaimer: Unless something major changes...
And while I'm on, welcome to the new friends on the forum.
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4 hours ago, Falaise said:
the effort of Kohlen must be underlined as much as it earned him a marriage proposa
Steph, Phil @kohlenklau never told me you proposed
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2 minutes ago, sburke said:
More interested in how he got away. He was under house arrest until Feb 28th. you'd have thought he would have been under close observation or actually locked up. Were they letting him loose to see who he would contact?
I'm sure 'British Intelligence' was involved...
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Sorry George, I haven't got that far. If you made things easier, more people would get there (joking).
Anyway, I'm reminded that I have other things on my to do list
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'Recent video posted to social media has severals (sic) Terminator tank support vehicles heading toward Ukrainian border...'
So several vehicles is a flood now? Until I got to the statement about Russia's unprovoked invasion I thought I was reading Russian propaganda.
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To be fair to @Warts 'n' all the original poster said he already has BS and SF (2 I assume) so the only other one currently on Steam is CW. If, as he said, he's interested in RT (with or without F&R) at a discount he's in for a bit of wait. A worthwhile wait, but a wait nevertheless. RT was my first purchase
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Following up on that, while I would normally class The Sun as sabre-rattlers etc. this piece is a moving and I think neutral (if you can be) view of a particular location:
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7 minutes ago, BornGinger said:
And if I'm sent off to the penalty box for five days, I'll have to use that time of rest to consider my sins.
As I understand it the penalty can be far more than 5 days if your sins are big enough
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Back to Boris, I'm not normally a big fan either, but this BBC article on his trip to Ukraine today did make me feel a bit more generous about him (or perhaps others under him as others have said):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61052643
EDIT: Anyone know what the '120 armoured vehicles' might be? You can say you could tell me but would then have to kill me if you wish
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EDIT 2: these?
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said the UK will also be providing Ukraine with armoured Mastiff vehicles to fight Russia's invasion.
Mastiffs are heavily armoured vehicles suitable for road patrols and convoys.
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/britain-sending-mastiff-armoured-vehicles-to-ukraine/
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1 minute ago, akd said:
There was incoming fire when they were fighting much more carefully from behind a berm. The latter part seemed to be clean-up, maybe stumbling on a few isolated Russians that were cut-off?
Fair points, and I mean no disrespect to anyone for their bravery in such situations. For me paintballing is about as scary as I'd like to subject myself to, always makes me think of what it would be like with real bullets flying about. In my first ever game I took a ball in the face when I thought I was safe behind a barricade. Enough said.
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4 minutes ago, Aragorn2002 said:
Doesn't look very professional.
Looks more like a day at the paintball centre. Thankfully no-one seemed to be returning fire. Perhaps set up for the camera, who knows?
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7 hours ago, Erwin said:
western nations are pretty much the only nations in the world which actively welcome immigrants on the assumption that immigrants will assimilate and become good
I think (or maybe hope) in the UK as an example most people recognise the positives that immigrants bring. Of course not everyone sees it like that, and the often quoted line is that if you think your job / wages / housing are being threatened by immigration you start to take a more contrary view.
Not sure where this all sits with IMO stupid things like Brexit, slow acceptance of refugees etc. but my original sentence is where I hope we're at.
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1 hour ago, Kinophile said:
I believe the IRA GHQ felt that if the war continued it was the civilians who would suffered the most as things were escalating very quickly. The Irish would still win, but a ceasefire would stop the terror campaign while giving the IRA time to rebuild/expand.
While I have no particular axe to grind over this, I don't think this thread is the place for such 'beliefs'? I also hope your concluding belief is not actually correct.
Anyway, back to Ukraine if possible...
Is there a way to put the mujahedeen models from Combat Mission Afghanistan into shock force 2?
in CM Shock Force 2 Maps and Mods
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Okay Phil, it's back to the Ost Front for you. KV1 etc.
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