<t>Hi to you all!<br/> <br/> Been away for a year and a half and I'm really out of it. Spent 14 months playing Close Combat -series and of course Operation Flashpoint. But after seeing Band of Brothers here in Finland I decided it was time for me to join again your noble ranks. So I have a question ...

Did my military service in 1997-98 in the Finnish army. I'm an AT-team squad/team leader. Rank is corporal( I guess). Spent 11 months firing those big recoilless things they call "musti". In the reserve now.

Excuse me ARIS.

To say that Finland was on the "soviet side" after WWII is a little bit wrong. What the heck you greeks and turkish people look the same to me.

<t>I too recommend "The Unknown Soldier" by Väinö Linna. And during this week the original book will be published for the first time! The book suffered from censorship in the fifties when it came out...Some "anti-soviet" and "anti-war" material were removed and even some events that would have made ...

You are not going insane. I hear "their" voices too...My bet is that the explosion sound is sampled from a movie or a sound effects archive/cd so....

Salute.

<t>Anybody else familiar with the problem? When you play campaigns, units(tanks&TD's and Flak's)which were hit in the previous battle in the turret(causing the loss of fire control)don't get fixed at all? I'm playing version 2.3. The only thing that you can do to get around the problem is to upg...

<t>Just started playing the long campaign(as a german)against the Poles. First mission was a delay and I thought that it would be an easy cake(I was relying on my historical knowledge,but it let me down apparently), but no! The polish troops came at me with about 100 tanks which I could deal with qu...

<t>Yes, dive-bombers were extremely vulnerable after performing their dive. They would have to retract their dive-brakes when they came out of the dive. At this moment their airspeed and altitude was low(a very dangerous situation in an airplane). They would have to gain airspeed and altitude and ge...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by Nikademus:<br/> <B><s>[b]</s>your gunners must have been put into their tanks straight from the rail cars that had come up to the front from the recruitment centers! <E>;-)</E><e>[/b]</e></B><e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> Yeah, it seems funny, but I have seen p...

<t>There was this story going around the Kainuu Brigade when I served there...There was this one lieutenant who was very enthusiastic when it came to testings guards awareness...He once attacked an MP sentry from behind just to test their reflexes. The MP swung his Assault Rifle butt straight to the...

I've downloaded the 2.3 version of SPWAW and installed it according to instructions...however the start menu still tells me that the version is 2.1. But when I select Battle from the main menu i get the version number 2.3! Normal?

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by Belaja smert:<br/> <B><s>[b]</s> It's my gut feeling that they do this intentionally, to test the guard. Guess what would have happened if you hadn't "shot" him? He might "instructed" you a bit! <IMG src="http://www.matrixgames.com/ubb/biggrin.gif"><s>[i...

<r>As it was suggested in an another topic that there should be a forum for gamers who have served in the military, here you go. This is not a forum but it's a whole new topic on the subject! <IMG src="http://www.matrixgames.com/ubb/smile.gif"><s>[img]</s><URL url="http://www.matrixgames.com/ubb/smi...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Well, the new entry date for Lahti ATR will be April 1940. But on the other hand couple new AT-guns will appear during the Winter War timescale (25mm French gun, 20mm 'generic' gun to cover at least 3 different variants)<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> You guys have really done...

<r>One way to describe firing an Apilas:<br/> You get sand thrown in your eyes and get hit in the back of your head with a shovel.<br/> <br/> I heard they don't use Mustis anymore in the FDF. Mustis were replaced with TOW-2's and AT-4 Spigots...As a weapon, the Musti is obsolete, but dragging it aro...

<t>This is my first day using this forum(I'm a true greenie)and already I am surprised to see how eager people are to answer comments/answers made by an "outsider". I want to thank you for that. And then another issue: According to my sources and knowledge finnish troops didn't have the Lahti ATR du...

It would be a nice feature to include finnish StuG's during Continuation War(1941-44)with log reinforced crew compartments. It was quite common and gave the StuG a little bit more protection.

[This message has been edited by Musti (edited July 26, 2000).]

<r>I will list a few things I have learned during my service in the Finnish Defence Forces 1997-1998. I served as an Anti-tank corporal(squad leader to you, yanks!)in the Kainuu Brigade, Kainuu Jaeger Battalion. The training I received dealt mostly with AT weaponry(Apilas and LAW) and infantry weapo...