<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by Mist:<br/>
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I suppose that there were some economical reasons for this war. No one declares war to another if he has no economical reasons. I do not know much about this background of Pacific War, but it should be. In other case why ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by Yogi Yohan:<br/>
<B><s>[b]</s>World War III begins October 1945: <br/>
The West opens the war with massive airstrikes against Soviet airbases. Knowing their forces are not up to assaulting the Soviets head-on, Allied forces dig in and prepare for in ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by GDS_Starfury:<br/>
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E: Nimits hit upon the naval topic. While the US Navy couldnt directly effect a war in central Europe it would have been useful in holding the Baltic flank and the east russian coast specificly Vladidovstock. The ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by tsbond:<br/>
<B><s>[b]</s>I don't see your point Teppo. Quality of equipment is only a small part of the big picture. I rarely compare equipment. To me the spirit and quality of your troops can overcome some if not most of the equipments short-fallings ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by tsbond:<br/>
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The US and Britain had over 1 million men on the ground during the invasion of France. These forces fought some of the best Germany had and still came out victories with far far fewer casualties when Germany could still ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by Rover1gp:<br/>
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I'm sorry,<br/>
If I gave you or anyone the impression the I was talking about anyone from this or any other forum. My refence. WAS To those who would imply that the american soldier was a second rate soldier was ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by Nimits:<br/>
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Another aspect of an early WWIII that no one has mentioned is the naval power. England, France, and the US would have easily established control of the waters around Russia and defeated the pathetic Russian fleet. American ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by StratMan: <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
Stratman, you have to remember that the 3 major allies had had their meeting at Jalta. So it was all decided long before the war ended - who would occupy what, and which countries would fall into each sides' sphere of ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by amatteucci:<br/>
<B><s>[b]</s>According to Krivosheev ultimately the Red Army mobilized a total of 29,574,900 people, the overall figure including also the Navy etc. rises to 34,476,700.<br/>
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Amedeo<br/>
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<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by Mist:<br/>
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page is cute <IMG src="http://www.matrixgames.com/ubb/smile.gif"><s>[img]</s><URL url="http://www.matrixgames.com/ubb/smile.gif">http://www.matrixgames.com/ubb/smile.gif</URL><e>[/img]</e></IMG>, though it shows that women ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by Ed Cogburn:<br/>
<B><s>[b]</s>Mist, goto to the link below and scroll down to the section on "The Women of the Russian Army".<br/>
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<URL url="http://www.gendergap.com/military/Warriors-2.htm"><s>[url="http://www.gendergap.com/military/Warriors-2 ...

<r>One of the female snipers got a medal (can't remember which one, but a high one, A Hero Of Soviet Union perhaps?) for 103 kills.<br/>
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Your kind of woman? <IMG src="http://www.matrixgames.com/ubb/wink.gif"><s>[img]</s><URL url="http://www.matrixgames.com/ubb/wink.gif">http://www.matrixgames ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by Ed Cogburn:<br/>
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Did Hans count women? I'll bet he didn't, and yes, the Soviets did have women in their ranks, don't know how many, but much more than "a couple". I don't buy the 10% limit, <e>[/b]</e></B><e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by RevRick:<br/>
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Regarding the South Dakota - I believe the Captain you're talking about was Gatch. And he was a wild man. During the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, (15 Nov 42) The engineer had wired the breakers open in the ship ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by bpolarsk:<br/>
<B><s>[b]</s> I am from Belgium and Ikka is from Finland, but has did not post for one day, I suppose he has been swallowed by a polar bear.<br/>
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Probably not unless he works in the zoo, since ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by Tom1939:<br/>
<B><s>[b]</s>HI!<br/>
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How much stacking points do a panzer brigade have? 1 like any other division? In the manual I did not find an answer. 1 stacking points is too low, 3 way too much. 2 stacking points maybe? With 1 stacking points ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by RickyB:<br/>
<B><s>[b]</s>Hi Teppo,<br/>
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I usually just let the factories run and tweak the planes a little. One problem fixed from before that I ran into last year was upgrading an airgroup to a plane that did not have as many in the pool as the ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by RickyB:<br/>
<B><s>[b]</s>Teppo,<br/>
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Thanks for all the comments! This has been fun to work on - we are all volunteers for Matrix on this. Look for the new release, and probably the last except for fixing any further problems, in the next week or ...

<t>Has anyone got any historical info on these Mobile Groups? I mean are they actually applicable as army size units? I remember reading once about the use of a "Mobile Group" in the Karelian isthmus in summer '44 and in that text it was described as a Kampfgruppe type unit for fast encirclements ...

<t>Yes it's a memory problem, or some other quirk. Used to happen to me quite often years ago when playing WIR with my 286. Shut off other memory munchers and if it persists, make a bootdisk and use that. Sometimes just saving & restarting the game works.<br/>
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I'm not sure, but I think ...