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    NATO module; why I think the dutch should be in.

    in Combat Mission Cold War

    Posted · Edited by dbsapp

    8 minutes ago, The_Capt said:

    Really, given your pro-Russian/anti-Western track record you think a shot at a national leader (as awkward and ham-handed as it was) was just innocent banter?  Seriously are they teaching you guys this in school now?  Take a shot, make some fuss and then pretend like you did nothing and everyone is "imagining things"; things like 100k troops parked on the Ukrainian border.

    My point on democracy is that by taking a shot at JT you clearly do not understand how they work or the role of politicians in this country at least.  You seem feisty today, new orders come down?

    OMG, your mighty leader was offended? Thats the reason for serious investigation. I guess those trolls who made that Youtube video should be arrested for mocking Him. It's time to show how democracy works!

    And my...what... "pro-Russian\anti-Western track record"?.. lol man you really have this totalitarian North Korean style thinking. 

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    NATO module; why I think the dutch should be in.

    in Combat Mission Cold War

    Posted

    1 minute ago, The_Capt said:

    Again, so far off you don't even see it, can't even see it.  Hilarious.  This is like Axis Annie telling us that "the Statue of Liberty is kaput!".   "Your Tim Hortons is substandard in the production hot beverages!" (Yep, that is showing us alright).

    Ok, well enough of this OT stuff back to "why the Dutch should be in!"

     

    I really think that you are speaking with some imaginable guy arguing over things that exist only in your head. 

    I'm curious how did you come from Youtube video to all this "democracy" stuff. 

     

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    CM vs Tank Warfare - tanks

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    8 minutes ago, Thewood1 said:

    Actually, you can set it up to be made aware in multiple ways to know whats going on.  In fact, they give you much more feedback that CM.  The unit itself is color coded, the numbers and state are visible in the left panel, the event log can be set up to show it, the camera can be set up to center the unit on the screen, and you can pause the game based on that happening.  You can also set it up to be wego by pausing at set intervals. 

    And that is part of the problem of people feeling the UI is too complex.  There are just a huge number of options, along with some translation issues with the dev.  People that play for a while will figure out how to adjust the game and interaction with the game to their play style.  From micromanagers to completely hands-off.  In CM, the interface is handed to you with very limited options.  That tends to attract a specific kind of player who doesn't want to fuss with learning how to configure the UI to match themselves.   Graviteam's main problem is you have to play it quite a bit to figure out how you want to configure the interface to match your play style.  

    Funny you say that about CM being a boardgame-like experience.  I have always considered CM a detailed miniatures game with a computer interface.  Definitely for CM1, and a little less so for CM2.

    The main problem of Graviteam's games is tactical phase on the map before 3d battles. It's really confusing.

    The in mission interface is ok, and yes, it basically free of micromanagement, especially comparing to CM.

     

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    2022, the Year In Preview!

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

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    5 minutes ago, chocice said:

    Once the WWII games get transferred to Steam, (being the only ones i own), what does this actually mean? You just sign up to Steam and play as "normal"? What are the benefits of this? Will Steam be the only platform the games are accessible in the future? Also, what could be the downside of this?

    Soz for all the questions, would like to know the pro,s n con,s before signing up to anything.

    The main benefit is that the game will remain in your steam library thus making it much easier to install\reinstall without potential difficulties with retrieving your battlefront account, emailed key, downloading the installation package etc.

    The con is launching process takes a bit longer time, plus some of the products may be first released here and on Steam later (I hope they will be released simultaneously, but who knows).

     

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    New Book: "Battlegroup!: The Lessons of the Unfought Battles of the Cold War" (Jim Storr)

    in Combat Mission Cold War

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    2 hours ago, Jim Storr said:

    Thank you.  

    I think you'd be surprised by my analysis.  We now know the force balance in excruciating detail.  It was nowhere near as unfavourable as we believed.  To that, add that the Soviets were probably preparing for a war, but not preparing to go to war (that is, they weren't intending to start one.)  This next bit isn't in my book (I only found out after it went to the printers):  conversations with Soviet generals immediately after the end of the Cold War suggested that they had discounted the nuclear option because the Soviet population would literally be eating the consequences two weeks later.  That is, the entire food supply of the USSR would be contaminated with nuclear fallout, due to the prevailing winds. 

    So: 

    1.  The Soviet Army could not achieve the force ratios it thought it needed to succeed.  By default, that means that it thought that we would win a defensive war.  

    2.  It didn't actually intend to start a conventional war; and 

    3.  It didn't actually intend to start a nuclear war either. 

    Given the forces actually available, the standards of training, and the degree of warning actually available, I personally think that NATO would have beaten the forces which the Soviets (and Warsaw Pact) could actually generate in a conventional war.  But I didn't necessarily think that at the time; and now I don't think that a war was likely to break out (in the 1980s at least).  

    I hope that helps.  I think the book will largely convince you.  However I urge you to read the book and think about it; that's what it's for.  

    Best wishes 

    Jim Storr 

    That's very consistent with what I said here several times.

    Food supplies contamination is an interesting detail.

    It's quite obvious that USSR didn't plan war and was hardly capable of winning if it begun due to severe force inbalance and huge Western advantage.

    But I was really surprised (not really) how well Western propaganda made people believe that they are threatened by mighty and unstoppable Soviet Union. 

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    I have a dream that the universal BFC will have the idea of expanding CMRT in the future

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

    Posted

    16 hours ago, lcm1947 said:

    My opinion for what it's worth.  I was going to buy RT in the next couple of weeks but now that there is a question of how accurate the research and stats on the Russian 

    tanks are I have decided to hold off and buy another more accurate one like FB or FI.  

    If I were such purist I would never buy a single modern title of CM.

    But here I am!

    Anyway people make top much ado about 60 bucks.

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    28 Soldiers

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    It was not proven a myth in 2015...

    In fact so-called Panfilov's 28 story deals only with relatively small episode of Panfilov's division actions and based on propaganda article that was published during the war. Not surpising at all that such article was not factually correct and was written to rise the spirit of soldiers fighting at the front line, not to be peer reviewed. 

    It so happened that article gained huge pupularity and people mentioned in it were posthumously awarded Heroes medals. But after the war it turned out that some of them were still alive. That initiated official investigation in 1948 that proved that the article was not a historical research or beholder's evidence, but sort of fictional short story vaguely based on the real events.

    Those documents became publicly available in 1980s. 

    It is the historical fact that Panfilov's division played a major role in Moscow's defense, suffered heavy casualties and managed to slow down Wehrmacht advance, which  by all accounts is a trully heroic action. 

    Time after time "sensational evidence" that 28 story is "false" emerge in mass media and produce yet another "scandal". This happened again in 2015 before the movie hit the screens. 

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