Oh god. Take this down before the Hexbears find it.
They defederated us because we didn’t fold to their nonsense, I think we’re safe.
Welp, I’m moving to shitjustworks
That is hilarious.
It was pretty funny. We were federated for like a week before they closed off, and it was an interesting week.
I must have been gone that week. Please somebody spill that tea all over me
Without going into too much detail as my memory is a bit shit, they were going around doing hexbear things and collectively we just kinda told them no and ignored them. This upset them and they defederated and we just went “ok.”
The Soviet Union’s brutality is what won the war. Russia’s current brutality is what will cost them the war. These two countries are not the same and these two historical events are not the same. The Soviet Union had to take desperate measures or be considered by the Nazis. Putin is the aggressor that’s trying to expand his empire and use Ukraine as a proxy war with the West.
Ah man Company of Heroes. That’s a community of a kind. Used to be involved with patching and mapmaking. Lelic.
As I remember it the issue with CoH2 that BadComedian (and others who groaned at Relics attempts to make a campaign) had was more that the Soviet campaign focused a little too much on the Soviet Union being bad and not enough on the whole Nazi Germany invading.
Which was an awkward thing because the CoH series was pretty politically whitewashed as far as WW2 can go.
So when you have this sort of sanitized germany invading, and the campaign is all “grr atrocities under Stalin” it just felt off. Whatever merits the story might’ve had, it just didn’t work for a series that easily could’ve stamped a “patriotic defense of the nation from an invader” on the campaign and then put much needed time on fixing the design flaws with the commander system.
(Tl:dr the campaign was garbage anyway and the devs shouldve focused on multiplayer)
It’s not even all that needed to go back all the way to Soviet Union for learning about such behavior; they were doing those things with all the recentish wars like in Afghanistan in the 80s or the “anti-terrorist action” in Chechnya in 2000s. Or Kursk in 2000. Those are some of the countless examples of absolute insanity that is Russian military or Defence Department.
" In Russia army is a closed system akin to prison. No one goes to that army or prison, unless those in change decide they are supposed to be there. And when you get there, your life will be that of a slave. " Anna Politkowska, 2004 (my translation)
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Maybe it was a self fulfilling prophecy from being marginalized on majority of fiction prices for the past 70 years…
Im sure someone thinks exactly this non ironically out there.
Some of the Soviet stuff is urban myth from movies like Enemy at the Gates, like shooting retreaters and stuff. They were mostly caught and reassigned, although some incidents did occur. The charge was desertion or not obeying commands. “No step back!” Was a rallying call and they did engage in strategic retreats. Most armies employ “barrier troops” in some fashion to charge deserters, US included. Speers as famously depicted in Band of Brothers is portrayed as a hero and actually shot a private for cowering in battle.
Company of Orcs 2: Ukraine Boogaloo
