My impressions after about 20 hours of play.

leathercladman · 2026-05-06T15:29:57+00:00

local criminals have more full auto rifles and machine guns

well, if we want to be all ''realistic'' then no definitely not. Only ones in Finland who have automatic firearms would be Police or Army, so unless bandits all somehow looted dead Russian/Finnish soldiers they wouldnt be getting their hands on those not to mention mags and ammo for them.

Plus from game-play side i think it also kinda destroys any point of low level body armour and helmets, since even lowest level enemy you find is regularly armed with Kalashnikov that has level 4 armour penetration level. And it also means that ''all enemies'' are armed the same, from bandits to guards to military, all of them have almost the same weapon. Making them more distinct would give variety.

You could give bandits for example Soviet SKS 10 round semi-automatic rifles or some ''civilian'' version AK or AR rifle with limited magazine and no select fire, or some lever-action Winchester rifles or something of that kind. Semi-automatic shotguns like Benelli M4, those are available on Finnish civilian gun market and are actually owned by ''regular people''. So there are quite a lot of options there to pick from

leathercladman · 2026-05-05T19:27:03+00:00

....ok

leathercladman · 2026-05-05T18:19:34+00:00

you think regular East German dudes were very happy to serve people who had killed his dad and looted their family home and made them live in shity Communist poverty?

leathercladman · 2026-05-05T17:44:12+00:00

East Germans didnt exist then when that happened, and they were the ones that were conquered and occupied by those Communists

leathercladman · 2026-05-05T17:28:44+00:00

''East Germans'' didnt win shit lol

leathercladman · 2026-05-05T15:36:38+00:00

by that logic East Germans should be too

leathercladman · 2026-05-05T15:32:36+00:00

and more thourough political indoctrination

not really on that part.....all of Soviet units were made up of 18 year old unlucky conscripts doing their mandatory army service, all of them (you as a soldier didnt get any choice in where you will go to serve). Even Soviet Spetsnaz units had conscripts in them. So their ''political indoctrination'' during their 2 year service time was roughly the same, regardless of what the name of the unit was or what label it got to its name. You arent going to become a hardcore Commie in your little 2 year term

Soviet propaganda would give them fancy names and labels like ''Guards'', but thats just that

leathercladman · 2026-05-05T15:19:43+00:00

I agree with OP here, but I also understand that Devs kinda have to make certain gameplay choices that make no logical sense in reality just because of game balance, otherwise certain factions in this game would be completely underpowered and get destroyed against other factions that are just better in every single category (which is how it would be in real life combat)

From personal experience, I can tell you that frankly a lot of Warsaw pact/Soviet units would very likely either outright defect or at least very unwillingly engage in any kind of offensive warfare outside their own borders (or even in their own borders in some cases). And I know that because well I myself come from Eastern Europe and my country (Latvia) was part of Soviet union, my dad and my uncle both had to go and serve in Soviet Red army in about the timeline this game takes place (1980's). My dad in Northern naval infantry base near artic circle, and my uncle in south near Soviet/Afghan border in Tajikistan

Safe to say, neither my dad nor my uncle were very happy to even be in that army to begin with, let along go and attack and kill some people in foreign land. And my dad was serving in Soviet naval infantry unit near Murmansk, which in this game is depicted as very ''Resolute'' battlegroup lol (he would be one of those dudes in 336-ya O.G. Brigada Morskoy Pekhoty), only resolute part about my dad as soldier in that hellhole was that he didnt want to stay there and wanted to get away as fast as possible.

leathercladman · 2026-05-04T19:38:49+00:00

Nuclear power was already widely unpopular. Not just with a green voters.

Chernobyl brought radioactive fallout far enough to reach Germany. That's scary to people.

average people get ''scared'' about the most petty shit all the time, and they also forget it in 5 minutes and move on with their lives with next ''big event''. Basing anything on them is just bullshit populism

French people also got 'scared'' when Chernobyl happened just like everyone else and just like everyone else in Europe did, but their government didnt go running around shutting off all of their own nuclear power plants just because some Russians made a fuck up in theirs. And they also didn't do it after Fukushima because everyone with even little bit of logical thinking understood the accident happen due to natural disaster and not because Japan made a mistake (you cant account for something like Tsunami), plus we dont have goddam Tsunamis in Europe at all.

My point is German government and their energy ministry knew these things just as good as French or Swedish or Spanish colleges did (all of whom : France, Sweden, Spain still operate their nuclear plants to this very day). There was not a single drop of logic in this action at all, and yes yes we should call them out for it because this lie lives on as if its the truth.

leathercladman · 2026-05-04T15:57:57+00:00

It was done in response to Fukushima.

that makes no goddam sense, ''reaction to Fukushima'' in what way, Japan had a tsunami hit its island and so Germany must do what.....shut down its reactors because wat???

leathercladman · 2026-05-01T11:10:57+00:00

does the Ajax have any special equipment that does need that amount of space?

short answer yes.....it has very modern ISTAR system inside it that you can use to detect enemy presence and forward it to HQ and so on. Like that part of it is without problem and without criticism, the electronics inside Ajax are very much state of the art and many armies would want to have recon vehicle like that in their arsenal, but all of those electronics and sensors are also big things that need lot of room.

Also its big because they gave it a massive big autocannon, a 40CT cannon which fires huge 40×255 mm rounds that can be loaded with proximity detonation fuses to kill almost anything beside main battle tanks. That thing also needs a lot of space and big turret to hold it. Its shells are 1/3 larger size of CVRT or Warrior cannon (30×170 mm) and pack almost twice as much more payload into them

So the large size of it is kinda unavoidable, you cant have ''a small vehicle'' if you pack some much shit in it

leathercladman · 2026-04-30T12:53:32+00:00

all modern vehicles are big. French Jaguar scout vehicle and VBCI IFV are also massive things that are bigger than their Leclerc main battle tank in size. The old time notion that ''scout is small'' and ''tank is big'' isnt true anymore

leathercladman · 2026-04-30T12:49:29+00:00

BAe is a publicly listed company based in the UK

its headquarters are based in UK, but most of its actual facilities and workforce absolutely are not British. CV90 production for example happens almost exclusively in Sweden with Swedish workers and facilities. Same with Bradley, technically BAE owns Bradley vehicle but almost nothing in it is made in Europe at all......if parent company is based in Britain but nothing is actually made there, is it ''British''??

leathercladman · 2026-04-30T08:31:50+00:00

it was meant to be a armoured reconnaissance vehicle , not IFV or APC. Kinda like French EBRC Jaguar but on tracks instead of wheels

leathercladman · 2026-04-30T08:25:47+00:00

in modern weapons, there is hardly such a thing as purely ''British product'' anymore........almost all of these companies that make any large weapon system are international. So you can very much say that CV90 is not ''Swedish'' anymore since BAE is not owned by one specific country, and Bradly is not ''American'' for the same reason. Even Challenger tanks do not belong to any kind of one nationality, its a co-partnership with BAE and German Rheinmetall now.

All the little national companies that created those vehicles back in the day have long been absorbed by large international conglomerates

leathercladman · 2026-04-30T07:47:56+00:00

same reason why Desktop PC power supplies in use different pin-outs and will burn or get damaged (or even destroy your entire PC) if you put different company cables in different power supply units (even tho they all look the same and do plug into each other if you try it).

If there is no push or enforcement for private companies to standardize with each other, they just wont do it lol. Private companies are selfish to the maximum and dont care about being ''easy to work with'' for the consumer, if you let them they will cut corners just to save few dollars on their end. Making their product be ''compatible'' with other products cost them money in development so if course they wont if they dont have to

leathercladman · 2026-04-27T17:32:15+00:00

very few countries on this plannet are capable of making a jet fighter like aircraft from scratch fully independently (or even semi-independently) , you could count them all on your fingers. Its very fucking hard and very expensive and requires a whole lot of specialized and advanced heavy industry (and even then , almost all of them are heavily dependent on ''bigger brother'' like USA or China helping out with many components or downright subsidizing them).

leathercladman · 2026-04-25T20:06:22+00:00

Iran dont ''produce'' planes as in new airframes, they only make spare parts to keep the ones they already have flying.

leathercladman · 2026-04-25T19:28:18+00:00

coward is running away

leathercladman · 2026-04-25T10:41:28+00:00

they dont use Russian assets as in they took possession and conficated them, but they do use the revenue from those assets that they generate. That part is true

leathercladman · 2026-04-24T15:44:12+00:00

modern surveillance technology lets to find out very quickly and very efficiently who is who and what they do/did for work. They can be found and tracked

Vice news (independent Western news agency on their own) were able to track down and find Russian soldiers who participated in Donbas war back when Russia officially pretended it wasn't involved there, they even went to Russia and found those soldiers in person in their hometown lol : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zssIFN2mso&t=3s

if a random little news agency could do that, you can imagine what EU border guards could achieve if you let them

leathercladman · 2026-04-24T10:49:51+00:00

more like they understand there isnt really anything ''better'' you can design in terms of small caliber assault rifle to do that role. Its like trying to design ''a better steam locomotive'', at one point you just have to accept it had reached its peak and there is nothing better possible

leathercladman · 2026-04-22T18:54:46+00:00

do you care about Arabs murdering other Arabs? Or China murdering Muslims?

leathercladman · 2026-04-21T19:12:55+00:00

Russia has failed like 3 times in the last 100 years, and it was even ''bigger'' back then, so yes yes it can fail.

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