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Beauty will save the world
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Tactical 2 years ago
>get a day off >decide to work anyways christ
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Tactical 2 years ago
A little passage I was really proud to write. For days, the 322nd "Ostland" Infantry Division had been stuck in the swampy taiga to the north of Omsk, fighting over oil refineries within the Azovsky Nemetsky district, home to the Russlanddeutsche - ethnic Germans living on Russian territory, oppressed for decades by the Soviet regime, constantly under surveillance of the brutal NKVD. They had gaunt, sunken faces as they peered out of their homes. Their village resembled a brutal workcamp, concrete fortifications built into every structure; slit trenches covered every street, dug by hand, the red soil piled up into defensive redoubts. Mass graves - victims of the Bolshevik regime. It was a dark, gloomy place. The 322nd were welcomed as heroes - liberators by the local people, as they passed through. Most of the people here were to be repatriated to Germany, away from this far-flung border region. A few miles away, the 322nd dug in for the night - believing they had the Soviets on the run. But, during the darkness of the night - three American attack helicopters roamed low, on the prowl. Night operations were the best way of bypassing German aircover, and these gunships were here to give the Soviet defenders some breathing room. "This is Lead - target spotted." The pilot reported in a calm, gruff tone. "Three troop concentrations - beginning attack run, over." "We see you Lead, start putting down some fire. Clear to engage." The radio crackled. Immediately - the three attack helicopters began a fast and low attack run, strafing the German encampment with high-explosive missiles intermixed with incendiary rockets. The grenade launcher in a ball turret on the nose began firing - the 20 mm belly-mounted gun pod opening up. In a matter of seconds, the German encampment was wracked by a devastating series of explosions. Night watchmen - who hadn't spotted the attack helicopters in time, rushed for cover, while the support squadron SPAA quickly rotated, their radars now only suddenly notifying them of the attack aircraft - only for a well placed, guided anti-tank missile to slam into its engines - detonating the 23 mm autocannon rounds onboard, and exploding it into a brilliant fireball, flipping and smashing onto the hard soil. The handful of veteran pilots enjoyed their work; raining down fury, smiling like devils as they felt the satisfaction of revenge. Finally though - the 322nd got their act together. Machine gun bursts criss crossed in the dark night sky with streams of tracer, and the pilots quickly circled around, dropping flares and evacuating. By morning - the 322nd Division, once numbering 9500 infantry, were left with just 2000 combat effective survivors. The Soviet counter attack began early the next morning.
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Tactical 2 years ago
@Dragon Zero You know a game is intense when your setting up "Anti-Bagration" forces My hope is that the Germans suicide into the forest against stacks of militia and AT guns, and in the center I have a super-defense. image
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Tactical 2 years ago
>germany becoming hegemonic >my economy is maxxed out >we both have an "alliance" >both of us are going to betray each-other when it becomes convenient >partitioning poland >setting myself up to have the best defensive ground and lure him into attack my army Literal Molotov-Ribbentrop Pack moment. image
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Tactical 2 years ago
"Romanians are what I call backstops, or door wedges." -Hitler on the Eastern Front, 1941
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Tactical 2 years ago
>tank crews on the eastern front would open hatches and start tossing nades out if enemy infantry got close Based driveby tank chads
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Tactical 2 years ago
"Babe I can't come to bed I'm busy setting up my invasion of the Soviet Union" "Darling the Soviet Union collapsed decades ago" "fuck" image
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Tactical 2 years ago
@#woke Kurt J. Mac's 'Shreveport or Bust' Groyper probably the most fun new stuff I've added in no particular order >Rockwell getting assassinated ๐Ÿ˜ญ >American Conscription >Ural War content I like to put it this way - Dmitri is the "protagonist" of the first half, but once things spiral out of control, it shifts to the power dynamics and geopolitics, as the world reacts to shit going FUBAR, and Dmitri and his son surviving, just barely, and he shifts to a background character, until the end.
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Tactical 2 years ago
playing rimworld with a bunch of difficulty mods in arctic my only surviving colonist has an infection but he's gonna make it +80 year old veteran of Stalingrad confirmed
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Tactical 2 years ago
I love ww2 authors and them constantly pointing out how hitler is evil. No clue if this is a real quote but everyone knows Hitler is a spiritual confederate :confederate: :confederate: :confederate: :confederate: image
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Tactical 2 years ago
"We solemnly confess that we consider everyone a scoundrel who does not try day and night to figure out a way to violate this treaty" -Adolf Hitler, 1933 Munich
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