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Well, the vast majority of tanks now left in the RU army are T-72s, with a hefty number of T-64s as well, so Leopard 1 and Challenger 1 tanks will be more than a match for them.

LOL. Thanks for the list. A news reporter wants to interview me about this story, so now I have suspects to lay out for them. 😉

Given the overall availability of trained military manpower for Ukraine, losses of that extent would have collapsed their frontlines and have made it impossible for them to defend territory across such a large landmass with such a long border with the enemy.

If this were true Ukraine would've fallen by now.

@Mamoulian War, seriously, how do you find the time? Do you, like, have a spouse who takes care of everything in life for you? 😛 I am lucky if I can get through a couple of games in a year, three tops.

Not so surprising since Russia has seen their VDV forces as their most competent mainline forces, and as such have thrown them into every single battle. I would even expect that now they are completely depleted.

Beautiful! Complete cave from WotC.

Yes! This is exactly what I learned to do as well! The AI does a pretty decent job handling ranged characters, be they bows or spellcasting, but rather poorly with melee characters. I've done okay with my character being a duel-wielder too.

Welcome back, @BruceVC

I got through one run of DA:I and I enjoyed it. The repetitious meaningless combat was definitely a pain, and why I doubt I'll ever replay it, but the parts of the game outside of combat including the story I liked quite a bit.

Back to talking about the big picture ramifications of the war and Russia's and the world's future directions, here's a link to a think-tank site where there are several very interesting articles: https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en/series/ukraine-shifting-world-order One of the early pieces by Angela Stent about Putin's worldview is particularly interesting to me.

Biden has also caved and will now be sending Abrams to Ukraine. And apparently the US and NATO have now also agreed with Ukraine that in any spring offensive by Ukraine in the south it would be okay for Ukraine to go after Crimea, which until now had been a red line even for the West. And all the weapons being supplied are apparently to make it possible for Ukraine to shift to NATO operational strategy and tactics vis-a-vis high-intensity combined arms operations.

Unfortunately, at least until Turkey's elections later this year, Finland and Swededn will be blocked from joining NATO by Erdogan. He is trailing in the polls and will fully use "being tough" and standing firm" against Sweden and NATO as a way to prop up his support among certain voting blocs.

Looks like the Russians are very desperately trying to go on offense right now across the whole frontline to take as much territory as they can before all the new Western equipment shifts the battlefield in Ukraine's favor. Yeah at that recent summit on aid for Ukraine, more than 50 countries peldged to send military aid. So that is definitely more than just Western countries. The US is even pressuring Central and South American countries to send lethal aid.

Haha, yes a US congressman literally said this to Biden, suggesting we send one Abrams to Ukraine so that Scholz won't have that excuse anymore.

Yeah the backlash against Germany has been quite severe. Let's see if Scholz continues to feel it is worth it. The US side has explained this, saying they don't have any opposition per se to giving Abrams but that training and maintenance support for Abrams would be too complex for Ukraine. German Leopards are much easier for Ukraine to absorb and handle.

Looking forward to the return of Magnum P.I. My #1 show on TV these days and the only show I'm excited about watching.

Yup. I'm still angry about this one too.

Yup. Again, you beat me to posting this. And I too agree with the points being made. They are still trying to take away OGL 1.0a. And there was no attempt here by WotC to engage with the community. They tried to unilaterally do something awful. It was leaked. They got severely burned by the community. Now they're desperately trying to get people to believe this is how they always intended for things to happen. LOL

Ha! You beat me to it, @Gfted1! Here's another article on the Paizo response to WotC: https://www.thegamer.com/pathfinder-publisher-paizo-system-neutral-open-rpg-license-dungeons-and-dragons/

I believe it may be a new assessment within NATO that Ukraine has a very realistic chance at winning the war if they're appropriately supported.

Memo to any Obsidian person reading this thread: Please, please, please try to convince your Microsoft partner to buy out WotC from Hasbro.

Here's the most recent huge leak on the new OGL 1.1 document: https://gizmodo.com/dnd-wizards-of-the-coast-ogl-1-1-open-gaming-license-1849950634 https://knowyourmeme.com/news/dungeons-and-dragons-fans-furious-following-lengthy-leaks-of-ogl-11 It has caused a huge firestorm in gaming and D&D circles. And if you read through this article very carefully you'll see the new OGL is so very nakedly obviously targeting D&D competitors, and especially Paizo/Pathfinder, to try and shut them down. I fear this will end any possible future Pathfinder games, as well as any new content for Solasta.

I don't see any reason why studios keeping making deals with WotC. They are clearly untrustworthy partners. As recently as last month both Hidden Path and OtherSide released statements that WotC was very happy with their work on their D&D games. So these cancellations are obviously a money thing, in that Hasbro decided they would not make enough money for them. Hasbro stock is down 40%, and they're pulling back their investments to try and prop up their stock. An they're doing it by sticking the knife in the backs of their D&D video game contractors.

I was just now about to post this very article, as I found the story very interesting too!!