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Off-Topic / Re: Picture of the Day
« on: 10-10-2019, 21:10:06 »
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Off-Topic / Re: Picture of the Day
« on: 02-09-2019, 18:09:46 »
SU-76s about to attack, 2nd Ukrainian Front, March 27, 1945.
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Off-Topic / Re: Picture of the Day
« on: 22-08-2019, 08:08:57 »This is mostly likely an artillery semicaponier #1006 in Svetogorsk (Enso), armed with two 76mm L-17 guns (fortification version of the L-11 tank gun, which was installed on early T-34s and KVs):
Soviet AT(?) bunker, Aug 27th 1941.
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General Discussion / Re: Unofficial FH2 Standalone (almost) Installer (Updated 02/28/2018)
« on: 17-07-2019, 10:07:16 »I also was annoyed with a lack to get it for others. Since my friends dont have a copy of bf2 and it's bin taken down form origin so you cant get it there anymore.Just google "playbf2".
Also, I forgot to post about that, but I've updated the installer a few days ago, nothing major, just added some files from original BF2 installation that were missing.
New hashes:
md5: 3e532a7ba703b4e58bc9ebdd6b04e39e
SHA1: 1653abe2420ac9545e7ec4fb33841844bcbd0f1e
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Off-Topic / Re: Picture of the Day
« on: 10-07-2019, 14:07:31 »
Animated PNG on the link
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B-17G Fortress 'Miss Donna Mae II' drifted under another bomber on a bomb run over Berlin, 19 May 1944. A 1,000 lb bomb from above tore off the left stabilizer and sent the plane into an uncontrollable spin. All 11 were killed. This was unfortunately not an uncommon occurrence.
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Off-Topic / Re: Picture of the Day
« on: 02-04-2019, 18:04:11 »
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March 1943. Soldiers of the Leningrad front before the attack. In the foreground is the crew of a 50 mm infantrymortar.
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Off-Topic / Re: Picture of the Day
« on: 31-03-2019, 21:03:51 »I agree, AFVs were often misidentified on both sides: StuG frequently appearing as Ferdinand and Panzer IV refered as Tiger in Soviet (and Allied) battle reports, photographs. But then again, what makes you think these records are more credible or less inflated than German ones? And would you credit "TankArchives" as an objective, unbiased source?Basically, what TS wrote:
Generally loss reports are more credible than kill counts, which are often enflated and hard to track during combat. There is also an incentive in internal reports to inflate enemy losses, but not reporting your own lost vehicles is rather foolish, since that means not receiving replacements or being assigned missions above your strength. So in historical science you ususally check kill claims by looking at the opposing sides losses for the day. In the past this was rather hard to achieve for the Soviet side, but after the opening of Russian archives it has become easier and shown that German kill claims for the Eastern Front were (as for all sides) greatly exaggerated.
And would you credit "TankArchives" as an objective, unbiased source?I apologize if I haven't made that clear, but I used this article only as a starting point and conducted a separate research of my own, as you can see from my post. Neither did I claim it to be truth of the highest instance, in fact, author made several factological errors, for instance, he misplaced Tukrospuszta on the map.
Well, I would hardly call him a credible source, since he has a certain reputation among Russian historians, mainly for for frank fact juggling and fabrication of documents.I recall the Germans being very inconsistent on their kill reports. People often bring up the "Ferdinand had a 10:1 kill ratio" and I just laugh my ass off. No way that monument to human stupidity had that kill ratio.
Inconsistency goes both ways. One Russian expert (Mikhail Svirin) claims, that twelve (12) Elefanten were destroyed by the Red Army in the Berlin area, six being captured infact with full ammunition. Hahah.. I mean really.
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Leutenant Alpherov's SU-100 in ambush during Operation Spring Awakening
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Off-Topic / Re: Picture of the Day
« on: 12-03-2019, 14:03:08 »Certainly, ISU-152 became greatly feared by German heavy tank crews. Like on 14 March 1945 in Hungary, twentyfour dug-in ISU-152 (protected by a minefield) managed to damage sixteen Tiger II from schwere Panzer-Abteilung 509. Later during the day, two sPz.Abt 509 Tiger II seized the strongpoint, knocking out all twentyfour "beast killers". After five days, all battle damaged Tiger II were repaired and running again. Ironically, only 10 days later, fourteen of these Tigers II had to be destroyed due to lack of fuel (source: Wolfgang Schneider: Tigers in Combat)Indeed they were and to such an extent that they falsely claimed those. I hope you don't think of me as a necromancer, but I had doubts about that encounter initially, and this blog post I came across recently reinforced my suspitions even further, so I deciced to conduct my own investigation on the matter.
The only units in the area between Velencefürdő and Tükröspuszta (according to this map, original here) armed with ISU-152s were 1443th SPA Regiment of 23th Tanks Corps (6 vehicles) and 363 Guards SPA Regiment of 18th Tanks Corps (4 vehicles, 3 operational) with only 4 ISU-122s lost during the period from 13th to 15th March. Well, maybe then Germans then had mistaken ISUs for some other type of SPAG? The only relatively closest engagement in terms of Soviet losses I could find occurred on 12th March when 60 German tanks attacked positions of 207th SPA Brigade, disabling 19 out of 63 SU-100 it had in expense of their own 38 tanks and SPGs.
That means that either Soviet (which I highly doubt) or German battle reports are incorrect,
which is not surpising taking into account the mess in German papers towards the end of the war and the fact that many of them were simply lost.
EDIT: Added picture to comply with the rules:
The grave of French tankers and Char B1-bis tank near Châlons-sur-Marne.
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General Discussion / Re: Unofficial FH2 Standalone (almost) Installer (Updated 02/28/2018)
« on: 11-03-2019, 15:03:47 »Hi all. Every time I try to open the fh2_setup.exe file, I select the language for installation, and then I'm met with an error that says 'Runtime error (at 33.174): The source file is corrupted.'
I am using a Mac and opening it through Wine, but I usually have no problems running .exe files through Wine. And even if the file is incompatible, it shouldn't say that it's "corrupted."
Hi all. Every time I try to open the fh2_setup.exe file, I select the language for installation, and then I'm met with an error that says 'Runtime error (at 33.174): The source file is corrupted.'I have the same problem, sadly. Using Windows 8.
Please make sure the ISO file you downloaded is not corrupted. Here are the checksums for original file:
md5: 721196d0ed3d5845d75183b24905af1e
SHA-1: ee75d4971cc20f766bb0de29e6048d19f20a1569
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General Discussion / Re: Unofficial FH2 Standalone (almost) Installer (Updated 02/28/2018)
« on: 28-02-2019, 21:02:40 »
Installer updated to 2.55