Profile of Dangerous-Cloth

Incendiary grenade?

in a 1v1 situation with maxim spam, only having an incendiary grenade isn't enough.

Hitler this, Hitler that, Hitler Hitler Hitler...

The only reason ww2 escalated to the point it did in Europe was because Germany and especially hitler said fuck you international banking world and created their own money that didn't need backing by the international debt promotional baking system and it overlords. Thus the banking world called in its debt horses to cut out the rotten apple.

If any of you even listen to his speeches, he talks about it quite frequently, especially England and it's 'wealth' of whom only a small portion of the people profited. I am not saying the man was perfect, but he was spot on.

As for his biggest mistake, well it was in defying the banking world on his own in Europe. Many people here talk about Barbarossa as his biggest failure, but anyone with a clear mind can see that this was a hastily build up invasion that was acted out preemptively. Yes any army make plans for any possible foe, but Barbarossa was flawed and it wouldn't have been so if it had been planned for years.

Think about it. We all hear in our history books that the Nazi beast attacked a peaceful and non aggressive nation in the east, known as the Soviet Union. Peaceful and non aggressive? Stalin waged multiple wars of conquest in the 1930:

1. Stalin´s war against Finland in 1939. This was an expansive campaign, but it failed horribly.

2. Stalin´s war against Poland in 1939. This was an expansive campaign, but it did succeed. Ironically enough the United Kingdom and France declared war on Germany, but not to the Soviet Union who attacked two weeks later.

Now perhaps Stalin was peaceful after his most recent wars and conquest, fair enough we could argue for that. But if you were peaceful and not planning a war, then why on earth did we have the following situation in the Soviet Union:

The positioning of the Red Army along the Soviet frontier in 1940 and early 1941 where no decisive or effective defensive infrastructure could be found. If the country was peaceful and defensive, it would make no sense to put almost all of your frontline troops in such a position from where you can´t effectively defend your country. Stalin was clearly no idiot, he knew this. Once the fighting slowed down in 1941 and the Wehrmacht reached the Stalin line, we could see the effectiveness of a prepared defensive line, it slowed the Wehrmacht down for weeks. No wonder the Russian front collapsed almost instantly at the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, there was no defensive line or organization, since the Red army got caught with their lederhosen down whilst preparing their own offensive.

Their own offensive, huh? Oh yes my friends, Stalin was planning his own offensive in Europe in the very same year as Hitler acted towards Russia, and it was the very reason Hitler acted towards Russia. What?! No way!! Well Stalin would like to tell you otherwise.

On May 5th, 1941, just seven weeks before the German attack, Stalin delivered another important speech, this one at a ceremonial banquet in the Kremlin to graduates of the Frunze Military Academy. Also attending were the members of Stalin's "inner circle," including Molotov and Beria.

On May 5, Stalin and assorted Soviet dignitaries attended commencement at the Frunze Military Academy in Moscow. During the following banquet, he proposed several toasts and talked volubly. An abridged transcript of Stalin's remarks that day, from Soviet archives, was ultimately published by the Russian historian Lev Besyemski in the March 1992 issue of the periodical Osteuropa.

Stalin lauded the modernization of the Red Army. He rebuffed Gen. Michail Chosin, the director of the Frunze academy, for proposing a toast to the USSR's peaceful foreign policy. The dictator substituted these words:

Now that we have become strong, one must go from defense over to the attack. To accomplish the defense of our country we are obliged to take the offensive.... We must reform our instruction, our propaganda, agitation, our press to pervade an attack spirit. The Red Army is a modern army, and a modern army is an offensive army. (ibid., p. 276) (Suvorov, Viktor, "Who Was Planning to Attack Whom in June 1941, Hitler or Stalin?)

No way! There would have been proof, attack plans and so forth! Well there were and still are! Not only was the attack set in 1941, but the attack plans have been uncovered by some Russian Historians, who of course were threatened with multiple death penalties and all fled to Britain or the US. The best one to date has to be that of Viktor Suvorov. In his book he states the following about the massed Soviet armies on it's Western borders:

"The basis of Soviet strategy was the "operation in depth" theory.... The shock army was to... deliver those strikes in depth. Set up purely to solve offensive tasks, these shock armies had... a considerable quantity of artillery and infantry whose purpose it was to break the enemy's defense, and one or two mechanized corps with 500 tanks each... On June 21, 1941, all the Soviet armies on the German and Romanian borders... were of shock army standard." (Suvorov, Viktor (1990) Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War?)

There are even maps uncovered.

(Weeks, Albert L. (2002) Stalin’s Other War: Soviet Grand Strategy, 1939-1941. Rowman & Littlefield)

Lol bro, you have been smoking quite a bit. Have I now? Or have you forgotten that Stalin was a communist and wanted to move on with the revolution that Lenin preached himself? It is no secret that the communist revolution was planned. It only failed.

Have fun in the rabbit hole..

Does it have the same engine as CoH2?

I remember my grandfather dying, it was painful but I never felt like he went away, I still feel he is with me. I am sure your grandfather is still with you too.

My sincere condolences to you my friend. Be strong!

It's Normandy because that battle is one of the best documented of the entire second world war, with a plethora of information on unit TO&E. It's easier to make an accurate representation of that rather than the clusterfuck that was the eastern front.

There is a lot of data on the Eastern front battles too. Not only surviving OKW documentation, but also the availlable documentations in the British War Registers since they cracked the German codes and have all OKW communications etc. since the first day that they cracked it.

I rather think the choosing of Normandy is two fold, one being that it involves the American and British forces, which sells better, secondly the battles were on a far smaller scale than the Eastern front, which of course makes it easier to not only find completer documentation, but also easier to reproduce them.

Still, the game looks cool.