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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Blond_Knight<br/>
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Well, although their training has come a long way, you have to admit that historically the Soviets havent been concerned about casualties, only the objective. And its within the memories or some veterans that Commissars forced groups of ...

<t> Hmmm... I`m just curious why all of you coninue thinking, that Cold War Soviet Army was something like tribe of orks, that can rely only on it`s numbers in case of war? Sorry for being a bit selfish, but I din`t said anything "bad" about NATO armies... I won`t say that in Soviet Army everything ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: kevinkin<br/>
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NATO, that is the US for the most part, has practiced "strike warfare" since the fall of the Soviet Union and decline of their military. Strike warfare is about small operations with <I><s>[i]</s>overwhelming<e>[/i]</e></I> resources compared ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: mikeCK<br/>
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But as far as what their junior leaders could do, I’m not sure there is a difference between 1989 and 1994. I guess my point is that expecting your officers to exercise discretion AND make the right choices requires professional schooling. The ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: mikeCK<br/>
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“Encouraging it’s leaders to exercise initiative” is NOT the same as being able to do it. You can say “Mike, I expect you to fix this car yourself”; but if you don’t train me how to do it, it’s not gonna happen.<br/>
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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Sorrow_Knight<br/>
Radios or not, sorry, but the OP is simply correct about Soviet doctrine. It was rigid. Whether you want it to have been or not, it was. In order to have a western style doctrine where junior ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Mark Florio<br/>
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4). Not every tank had radios and those that did were basically following a scripted attack. Jr leaders had very little tactical flexibility. The result was often, at least in their training an aggressive push by increasingly more ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: exsonic01<br/>
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There, they can have logistics station maximum 4~5km back from front (battalion), and company can have such station 100~200m behind (only for defense ops)<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
Exactly what I`ve said about- during defensive operations ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: exsonic01<br/>
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All in all, I think Soviet army during cold war were capable of providing battlefield resupply / maintenance / limited repair service during middle of the battle. According to those descriptions, it looks very similar to "Service ...

I don`t know about US Army, but in Soviet resuply only allowed after combat as part of preparation for defence.

AB is tactical level game. In short tactical combat of batallion\brigade level of forces you will never be able to send additional ammo to your units.

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: thewood1<br/>
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Again, no issues with someone not liking a game that doesn't have their favorite feature. But I want this game to succeed so those features can be added. Accusing the dev of shoving the game out the door is not conducive to doing that.
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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Blond_Knight<br/>
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I actually have that book. <E>:)</E><br/>
But I remember in Viktor Suvorov's books he talks about training in the 60's, Id just like to have another voice confirm or elaborate on things first-hand like how reliable were the ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Werewolf13<br/>
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There seem to be a number of Russian members and maybe some - now defunct - Warsaw Pact nation members participating on this forum and that got me to wondering, thinking about the past and my experiences in the US Army.<br/>
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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Dorb<br/>
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Appears should of made the game for free since no multiplayer huh. Guess you can always play the 100s of other games that cover the cold war like this - oh wait.<br/>

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I`ve never said that AB should be ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: z1812<br/>
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[font="Arial"]Hi Everyone,<br/>
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I have been following the game closely. I also played the free version that was available. <br/>
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There is a lot to this game and it it has great potential. However it has no PBEM so I will not buy ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: demyansk<br/>
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If you played against me, you would want the AI. Not all human players are good or play 12 hours straight. I play a bunch of games and not the master of any. Most of us probably get beat 50 percent of the time. I just played HPS Sicily game ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Veitikka<br/>
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Now here it is again. I don't play PBEM games, so lack of the feature doesn't bother me. If you desperately want PBEM then perhaps this is not the game for you, but there's a pile of other features that we've been honing over the years. <br ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: nikolas93TS<br/>
Of course I would like multiplayer too, but given the current game condition I think adding multiplayer is something better suited for a hypothetical Armored Brigade 2, which would likely involve structural changes to the core engine and ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Veitikka<br/>
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Just out of curiosity... can you name real-time hardcore wargames that have an active multiplayer scene? <br/>

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Close Combat and Combat Mission series. Both are hardcore wargames, both are real-time and both have ...