Profile of Golradaer

Would people please post using proper paragraphs and capitalization? Reading some of these posts is painful.

Some of you have no regard for objective discourse. The point was that Germany acknowledges and vilifies its Nazi past while Russia defends its past actions as heroic and chooses to ignore the negative parts. It doesn't seem sensible that modern Russians should care so much about defending terrible actions committed nearly 70 years ago. A willingness to criticize yourself and your group (ethnicity, nation, religion, etc.) is a mark of a mature and rational mind. Blindly defending groups that you feel connected to just makes you look like a fanatic.

I also wonder whether all of the people complaining actually paid attention while playing the game. One comment on the Polygon article said a mission depicted Soviet soldiers burning down a Russian house with civilians in it with a flamethrower. No such thing is in CoH2. The houses you burn down in mission 2 are part of a village that was already evacuated and the intention is to deny the advancing Germans resources and shelter.

This seems to be a case of bandwagoning following the complaints of a few vocal people who distorted the narrative of CoH2 by cherry-picking the things that would be offensive to Russians and potentially exaggerating them. I can't see how an objective look at the game can conclude that the Soviet soldiers are depicted negatively (they are not) or that the Russian people are depicted negatively (they are not). The only things depicted negatively are the actions of two Soviet officers and Stalin, and one of those officers is redeemed in the end. This is so overblown.

I understand your argument, but I think there was just very little attention paid to the German perspective in the campaign rather than any attempt to make the Germans look neutral or good. There was no discussion of civilian-related atrocities on either side, and I don't think that sort of thing needs to be included in an action-oriented video game.

The only real difference between the depictions of the Soviets and Germans in game is in how the officers of each faction treat their men. And it seems quite historically accurate that the Soviets were far worse in this respect. I didn't get the sense that the Soviet soldiers themselves were bad, if anything they were quite heroic. The officers and leaders are the ones you come to dislike.

Good list!

Marcus Car
A Clown Car with Guards Rifle troops inside, used to hunt down enemy light vehicles.

Do you think we could stop using this expression? Nothing against Marcus, it's just silly to name a commonly used unit after a player. It'd be fine to say Marcus pioneered its use, or something like that.

I was just about to post this! Great game, watching the replay shows me so much, lol. Toward the end I kept thinking you had Conscripts hidden everywhere to throw AT grenades which kept me playing conservatively. Squads getting destroyed by flames before they can faust or on retreat is no fun .

Is the bulletin really the problem? I think MG42s pin squads WAY too quickly in general.