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  1. EnsignExpendable
    Ah yes, an unnamed regiment "in the Ukraine", during a period of time that doesn't match a single strategic operation. Let's try the Lower Dnieper Offensive Operation that kind of matches the time frame (late September to later December). The Soviets only started that operation with 1160 tanks, so it's pretty impressive that his regiment managed to destroy a third of those with only one eighth of all tanks available to the Germans, and yet still lose.
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    I'm sure the people in charge of those banks didn't lose any money at all.
  3. EnsignExpendable
    Corporate personhood is one hell of a drug.
  4. EnsignExpendable
    Gaijin has a new feature on the Russian forums to discourage people from bitching about the quality of the game: play three games a day, or you don't get to post.
  5. EnsignExpendable
    Tanks for the tank god, TDs for the TD throne
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    Best tank
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    I'm pretty sure the Germans had no problems killing Abrahams before 1947.
  9. EnsignExpendable
    I wanted to get a 1:6 scale model, but the Dragon kit is a modern one and not a vintage one, also apparently quite bad.
  10. EnsignExpendable
    Yuri Pasholok's guide to posting about the Armata. Suspension: 6 wheels? Obsolete, no modernization potential. 7 wheels? Excessive, heavy. Exhaust: Side? Hard to conceal, makes tank vulnerable. Rear? Impedes the tank's movement in a column. Optics: Direct optical channel: makes the tank expensive and complicated, signifies primitive electronics. No direct optical channel: the system is unreliable, the tank becomes blind after the smallest mishap. Protection: Side armour is insufficient (always) Top armour is insufficient (always) Active protection system: No? Any tank without active protection has no future. Yes? Active protection reveals the tank and impedes cooperation with infantry. Reactive armour: Poor (always) Fire control Poor (always) Sights: Poor (always) AA machinegun: 12.7 mm: excessive obsolete caliber, all the cool kids have 7.62 7.62 mm: insufficient obsolete caliber, all the cool kids have 12.7 Armament: 125 mm: insufficient and obsolete caliber for an MBT. 152 mm: excessive caliber, signifying primitive shell technology Cost: Less than 5 million: disposable garbage More than 5 million: kickbacks
  11. EnsignExpendable
    A fellow internet forum goon started a new blog that's nearly as full of useless technical minutae as mine! Everyone go click on it, tia ww2data.blogspot.ca
  12. EnsignExpendable
    Captain Pronin has some very curious Americans, but that's an intentional parody. Same in Passion of Spies, although "They" have less characterization in this cartoon. Adventures of Electronic has an American spy named "Uri" who tries to steal a Soviet android. He's portrayed fairly favourably in the books, in the movies, not so much, he's just a petty crook.
  13. EnsignExpendable
    Maybe for general purpose work, yes you need a translator, but for a tank slogan you can literally just google "T-34 photos" and find one with something that looks cool. Odds are there will even be a caption so you don't write "Death to America" on it by accident.
  14. EnsignExpendable
    Excellent models, shame about the Google Translate quality of the T-34 inscriptions.
  15. EnsignExpendable
    They stopped using nickel in armour in 1941 IIRC. In helmets, in 1940.
  16. EnsignExpendable
    Looks like he's up for a Boehning if you know what I mean
  17. EnsignExpendable
    If it's good enough for my terminal it's good enough for me
  18. EnsignExpendable
    Time travelling IS-2s!
  19. EnsignExpendable
    You have some questionable grammar choices there, plus Pacific and AT should be capitalized.
  20. EnsignExpendable
    Paint more tanks you lazy bums. More pics
  21. EnsignExpendable
    Pro tier photoshop job.
  22. EnsignExpendable
    Lollin' at Americans training Ukrainians on decades-old Soviet arms. I guess nobody that served in the Soviet army would get themselves tangled up in this mess. https://youtu.be/8HZ60Kj_Jm4
  23. EnsignExpendable
    The one and only White Elephant (accept no substitutes) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4IOAl6nZp3kN1JLZ1BiSnYxY1E/view?usp=sharing
  24. EnsignExpendable
    Sure are a lot of red stars on this so called "American hero".
  25. EnsignExpendable
    You're doing some seriously cool stuff, it's a shame that people aren't as interested in Swedish armour as they are in the major players' (or rather as they are in hearing that the Tiger was super duper from the History Channel for the millionth time).
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