Offtopic:
lol you CC players should just shut up, i'm not saying that CC sucks, actually its the best mod so far, but totally useless. Romanians we're the ****tiest soldiers of ww2. Do you guys know why Germans got into that pocket in Stalingrad? cause Romanian cowards couldnt stand the cold. and the German lines broke on
Romanian section. ( and yes there was Romanian soldiers in stalingrad fighting for germans.)
so go for it Sean1989, this is a must get mod for RO! those CC guys should of thought more when they picked their subject...
...Romanians...pfff...go home and shame CC guys. we dont need your negative comments here...
(BTW sean if you need help...i can map.
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I LOL'ed
Beneath contempt, seriously.
I look forward to seeing what kind of mod such attitudes are able to produce.
I also particularly look forward to hearing more on the subject of the history of the battle of Stalingrad from such an erudite person.
*Edit* Actually I can't just leave it there, even though common sense tells me not get drawn in by such a tard.
The fact that the 'cowardly Romanians' could not stand the cold is the reason the 6th Army was enveloped in November 1942? Which cereal packet did you get that particular gem off the back of?
Hitler decided that the main thrust for late 1942 was to be in the south as he realised that, with the failure of Typhoon, his war machine was perilously short of fuel and they needed the oil-fields of the Caucasus. Supply lines were already fairly over-extended and this was compounded by splitting Army group south into two sub-groups - A and B.
One group was given the job of gunning for the Caucasus, the other was to take Stalingrad. Stalingrad was an important centre for the production of arms and vehicles and occupied a strategically important position of the Volga and the rail-lines to the east. Going for two objectives simultaneously was not a smart move, though. Maybe Hitler was hoping that Turkey would pitch into the war if he took Stalingrad and help him take the Caucasus.
The Romanians had participated in the invasion of Russia - particularly because Hitler offered them the only chance of revenge for the 1940 Soviet seizure of Bessarabia and so on (modern-day Moldova). But, once Operation Munchen had reached a successful conclusion and, following that, the Romanians had been basically used as cannon fodder in the seizure of Odessa and been tasked with holding Germany's coat during the taking of Sevastopol it is hardly surprising that they were not exactly enamoured of being further involved in a war which was showing every sign of being a lot more drawn-out than they had imagined.
They were, in addition, woefully under-equipped. Romania had not been frantically up-tooling its war industries before the war like Germany and the Soviet Union had been doing because, frankly, they had not really expected to be involved in a world war. This meant that they had no real native arms industry and relied on mostly light weapons bought in from a variety of other countries. They certainly had no decent tanks or AT weapons cos these were ultimate technology at the time and the Germans were certainly not going to take all their Pz IV's and decent AT guns away from the German frontlines to give to the Romanians.
So when the Soviet buildup along the Don and to the south of Stalingrad was finally revealed to be a trap and Soviet tank armies rolled across towards Kalach, who was in the way? Demoralised, under-equipped Romanians with a few ancient 47mm AT guns, that's who. Not surprisingly, they rolled over pretty fast.
Hitler was quite happy to blame his 'weak allies' for his own strategic errors. But it does not cover up the fact that it was not too wise to put his armies in a position where they had to rely for support on their over-extended flanks from allies whose reasons for being in the war had faded pretty soon after 1941 was out.
BTW - there were NO Romanians in Stalingrad fighting for the Germans - they were a good few kilometres away.
As regards a Finnish mod - it is not going to happen because there are not enough mappers and modellers and animators and coders out there. End of story. Nothing to do with any external people's 'negative attitude' but more to do with the fact that the kind of people who talk about mods and the kind of people who make them are different.
