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How dare you, unbeliever? Crappy?! Those graphics rock!! Well, it's true that US flag does look like Stars and Bars on the screen but... this is AOTP! Hell, I just loved this game! And I was a great fan of the 1946, my dream is indeed that game in a modern engine. Trust me, modders, you will make a man happy it this campaign do exist!

He might be at last burning in hell, but I will stay cautious. When I was in Libya, some European papers said "Qaddafi almost dead! Heart and brain attack", etc, etc. We had great fun this day in the embassy, and the next day the said Qaddafi invited all european ambassadors and taunted them about his health. On the contrary, there was some time when I was there when he was recovering from almost lethal thing, and no foreign press saw it. So... wait to see the corpse! With suc obscure regimes, it's always hard to know what's happening unless you are very well informed. And rumors are kings in such societies.

I guess it's WoE. But the most up to date is WoI. Hopefully, all games will be at the same standart in a few weeks. But WoE is the one with most mods, campaigns, etc.

The release of this new WoI patch may be good news for older games.

Probably, but 2000-9 are evolved, sort of ascended versions of first generation two-seated ground attack versions, aren't they? Probably, but 2000-9 are evolved, sort of ascended versions of first generation two-seated ground attack versions, aren't they?

If I do recall correctly, 2000-9 are for A2G what 2000-5 are for A2A: heavily modernized-reworked versions.

Czesh history is indeed a great one. Under the Hasbsurg, they were a great cultural and economical center of the Empire. Tchecoslovalia was a island of democracy into a dictatorship zone in the 20's and 30's. They had a very good military and were courageous. It's a shame we let them down in 1938. Hadn't we, France, Poland and Britain may have won the war alone. It's a shame we let them down in 1945-48 too. I know less about Slovakia (speaking mostly about cultural and such impacts), but I'm eager to learn! I've a question to Kukulino, feel free to answer or not: what do you think about the 1993 partition? Were both parts of the Republic so differents? I know the language isn't the same, and that Slovakian were, sort of, put with the Czesh in 1918 without having say their mind, but are there other reasons?

More! I want more! I just love propaganda music video! It reminds me so much of my libyan times...

Even if I'm from western Europe, I won't think you will provocate them, old chap! : :yes: They just suffered the same as Tchecoslovaquia did: Russian tanks, puppet governments and all the rest. Berlin 1953 for instance. Poland was on the verge to be invaded too in 1981, hadn't Jaruzelski done his putsch. And what about Hungary? How surely, you easterners know what freedom his, and apart from soviet, all other participants in that military move were to some extent victims too.

Or nice planes to shoot communists down with.

True name of Taiwan is "Republic of China", it's the same state that founded the republic and fought the jap, but its power now only extend to Taiwan Island. Hence the name of its Air Force: "Republic of China Air Force".

I hope they made those people pay an horrible price for these lifes...

Are non-US allowed to vote? And is Alf the one I think?!

So do I!

China and Russia are no longer in the very bad relationship they were until Gorbi's visit in 1989. Some analysts say they are lurking into the empty spaces of Siberia, and attempting some migrating strategy in Vladivostok (more and more Han). Well, siberian empty spaces... Devoid of people. Not of precious minerals or oil. But I don't know how far it's serious. My bet is China would play on both side.

Set your radar into range. If you can lock a target, you will have little hooks. Choose your target (check your keys), then attempt a lock. A little dot will raise to the target, and when it will be correctly locked, you'll have range circles for the weapan currently selected. But you might have locked a friendly plane! You can emulate an IFF with crtl-R, but I don't think this as very realist. The other solution is waiting to be in visual range, that is doing it the way it was done in 'Nam. And loosing your sparrow advantage.

Same here. :yes:

Without surprises, Germany tried to take Metz back in October. The forts are now french-maned and what's left of them ironically are now helping french defense. Apparently withou much intelligence about the french lines and troops, German GHQ launch several offensive once again, perhaps with the hope to get back the initiative on the western front. They are defeated in the Vosges and in Lorraine. Sadly, the quary goes on in Serbia. Still, Belgrade hasn't fall yet! Brave Serbians... But Skopje defenders, surrounded, are now flying the white flag after a bloody fight. Finally, maybe learning from the Western offensives, Central powers are trying the offensive in the East. Russian armies do hold, but it's sometime close. We are yet in the second fall of the war.

And now, what are the military situations for September-october 1915? In France, September is the logical continuation of August. The offensive goes on. The Lorraine fortress-town of Metz surrender to Pétain's forces. 55 years earlier, following Franco-prussian war, it was annexed to Germany. Freed at last! Pétain's legend is born. Despite these setbacks, German High Command still tries to get back on the offensive and to reduce the Entente salient in German line, and actually, into German Empire. Without much success. In Serbia, the difficulty of supply situation has been clearly understood by the Central Powers, and general offensives are on their ways! Belgrade is definitively surrounded. All hopes of having the situation recover are gone for the Entente. British expeditionnary forces are pushed back toward Scutari. The port itself is under attack! But for the time being, British soldier did manage to hold it. This port is the vital link toward the outside word. If they are to be re-embarked, it would be there or not at all and face destruction. As usual, good news are coming from the Caucasus, where Russia do seems unstoppable and is now deep into Turkish-owned Armenia. In Middle-East, British forces are still advancing too, without much opposition. By the end of September, Jerusalem is in Christian hands. The last time was 700 years ago, during the Crusades.

There are surely genocides there too...

Gosh, I don't care about Checheny actually. I didn't gave a damn about the fate of the little islamic state fate that was build there and haven't shed a tear on the situation there, even if I thought that the Russian pushed the repression quite far... What I care about is dishonnesty. Russia claiming humanitarian intervention in a situation that looks like the one they faced in Checheny is nonsense, the same as claiming genocide in S.O. Let's say the thing clearly instead of old soviet-styled propaganda: Russia wanted to make Georgia submit and did not give a frak about human lives. I won't agree either, as I think this move does threaten the whole West, but it would be, at least, honnest. That sort of humanitarian propaganda claims are for sissies in western papers. It won't work with me.

Grozny, 2006. F.Y.O.I... And show me a picture like that of Tshinvali. By the way, you should also be more coherent: 1500 civilians, then civilan/military. Things seems to change following your own tries of justification.

You said yourself "civilans and military". Give us precise international-based breakdown of casualties, Mr Propaganda! What you are speaking about is called "war". That's not a lovely business, but it's how it's working. Now, we could also compare S.O and Chechenya, will you? Difference between war and genocide... Do you want to come on that terrain? I do not advise you to do so. By the way, if Georgians did have the time to commit a genocide during the few hours they effectively controlled much of S.O, they are the most efficient people on earth. For your own information: legal definition of the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG). Article 2, of this convention defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group" It rings several bell in my head. Not S.O, but Chechenya, for instance. Or Serbian in Kosovo, actually. Or what will happen in a few days/weeks into Abkhazia and S.O for Georgians. And we all know, thanks to you, that Russia's priority is to prevent genocide, wether they are real or fantasy. Wait and see...

Glad to hear it.