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After the United States Finland is the second largest group of gamers that have download SPWaW and joined our forums. With that many gamers its got to be a great country.

David

Originally posted by KG Erwin:
You guys amaze me, especially those who belong to the Finnish lobby. Why is there not a Norwegian lobby or a Belgian lobby or a Greek lobby? I'm NOT poking fun at you guys, but are there really that many Finns who are getting into this game? If so, I think it's wonderful, BUT, wouldn't it follow that you would encourage development of Arctic scenarios involving the Finns and their German allies?

Yeah, I'd like some scenarios too but I know they're pretty demanding to get done. Especially with the research to get them as historical as is fit.

Does someone know good places in the web where I could get some maps of Finnish battle sites?

And as a little side note... there is a Close Combat III conversion to Winter War and onwards .

... so all in good time .



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Markku "Mac" Rontu

"Understanding is a three-edged sword,
your side, their side and the truth."
- Sheridan in B5

If you want to use real Finnish names then you can find the names of WW2 KIA soldiers at page http://tietokannat.mil.fi/menehtyneet/index_en.php3

And yes, that site is maintained by Finnish Army

And a good starting point to Finnish military in WW2 is site http://www.hkkk.fi/~yrjola/war/finland_wwii.html/

(No, that is not my site, and nobody I know personally).

Mika

Originally posted by Miku:
If you want to use real Finnish names then you can find the names of WW2 KIA soldiers at page http://tietokannat.mil.fi/menehtyneet/index_en.php3

Hey, that was a nice site. I found 13 relatives that I didn't know from there. Obviously, my grandfather wasn't among those because he still lives.

So Nirvi is out of question, because I couldn't find a match with his family name? Perhaps none of his family actually died, dah. Of course, that's better for the results .



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Markku "Mac" Rontu

"Understanding is a three-edged sword,
your side, their side and the truth."
- Sheridan in B5

Huh, it was a bit frightening to find out that there were 157 soldiers with the same last name as I (Pesonen), of whose two had the same place of birth (Tuupovaara). Both of them were killed younger than I am now. This is really "the reality of it all".

Salute to those guys!

There is actually a Close Combat 4: Viipuri coming too. It has new campaign too, and it's made by the same guys as CC3:Talvisota (they are both from Denmark, can you imagine?!?). It will also have great new sounds (can they be bad when I do them )!

So Finns are a majority in wargaming if you look at the size of the country...?

Ilja

Shame that I don't have CC4... CC3 rocks too much (note: the original setting might be worse than CC2 but the mods, the mods...)

So, Ilja, why do we have so few Finnish scenarios? I think we shall have to remedy that .


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Markku "Mac" Rontu

"Understanding is a three-edged sword,
your side, their side and the truth."
- Sheridan in B5

I don't know why we have so few Finn scenarios in WAW... I only made sound files. Propably it's because most of the scenariomakers are non-Finns

But in SPMW I will make sure that Finns have maaaany scenarios and campaigns (Russia attacks, Sweden attacks, we attack Sweden - this one is a must , UN missions all over the world... lots of stuff)

Ilja

Version v4.3b has the new names in it so this EXE is no longer needed.

David

Thanks David, you guys are the best.




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Markku "Mac" Rontu

"Understanding is a three-edged sword,
your side, their side and the truth."
- Sheridan in B5