Profile of SgtBulldog

I played 3 or 4 german games yesterday. In none of them were there any problems supressing the first unit arriving.

Did any of the MGs die from Molotovs? Sure. When I had too short spotting or insufficient micro, they died before they could relocate or flee. WAD.

I find that the wide arc is a significant advantage. There are just so many more approaches you can cover fully with the MG42 where the maxim leaves critical gaps.

So even if supression might be inferior to the maxim, the overall value of the MG42 is not lower.

2: While the Soviet union did a lot of horrible things, focusing as much on those as the game does was guaranteed to chase away a lot of russian players, simply because its not fun to be told that your history sucks, over and over againg, and russians seems to have a hard time accepting theire history.

I think what you're saying here is quite typical for all those of you non-russian who question Relics version of the Red Army.

Basically you have no beef with any russian. You may even know and like some. You side with them and see no reason to offend them.

That's a natural and good attitude towards other humans. I like that.

But you must try to divide your relation to present russians from your attitude to the russian history. Understand that condeming stalinism is not an attack on your russian friends (unless they belong to the minority of present stalinists ofc.).

It's exactly the same as with germans. Noone fears or hates germans today, but it doesn't stop us from condeming holocaust and make movies and games about nazism during WW2.

It's the same thing with the SU.

However it could be what's wrong with the game to you.

So if the shoe doesn't fit, it's my feet that's something wrong with?

I think Cinderella is the only one who would ever agree with that approach.

As for the discussion about communities, I think the verdict on gr.org is a bit harsh.

At least if I think more years back, I rememebr a more tolerant forum. There was the usual fanboy crowds ofc, but it was not a hostile place.

However, after having taken a break for about a year in 2011, I returned to ask some questions and it was a completely different reception. The spirit had changed a lot and hostility was felt - even from mods....and between mods.

So if you are referring to the later period of gr.org, I understand what you are getting at, but it would be unfair IMO to label the enitre time of gr.org as bad.

It's a misrepresentation because it took isolated incidents, threw them all together, then falsely reconstructed things that happened, and made it appear to be so rampant that you would be part of war crimes and murder for almost the entire single player. Killing your own population with flamethrowers? Killing your own men for saving an officer of your army? Murdering partisans that are helping you? Machine Gunning your own soldiers? Also, then there's the more ideological issues like the protagonist saying millions died for a picture of the unused, and thus unimportant Reichstag, I mean, that is beyond laughable at it's face.

I think initially you write something about having read the threads about all these accusations, back in july/august?

Well, did you read anything but the wild allegations?

Did you for example read some of the threads that looks into the validity of the allegations themselves?

The point here is that some of them are FALSE and based upon a deliberate twist of what the game shows.

If you missed those threads, don't take it personal because you are not alone. The majority of the discussion on the forums just accepted the allegations flatly and spent all their energy discussing if Relic should portray an unhistorical image that was so unfavourable to the russians or not. Almost noone cared to discuss IF that was actually what Relic had done.

Relic ofc stayed far away from the discussion allthough they ofc. could have pinpointed all the mistakes made by the russian protesters.

Unmodest example: The torching in the campaign is not what it seems if you take a closer look, but threads like this got almost no attention. Noone cared. They just wanted to hop on the hype about the anti russian campaign.

Well, it allready did have a bit of its nerf reverted, AFAIR.