Tonci87

Yeah ground warfare during most of WW1 was simply too static to make for a really enjoyable game...

Yeah, but sadly still doesn´t make any sense.... Russia would never agree on invading Norway just so that Europe can have back their source of oil. IRL Russia would simply be more than happy to sell europe the oil they need, for a price.

Wait, THAT doesn´t make sense. If Norway was to halt all production (for whatever crazy reason) then Russia would be more than happy to step in with their own products!

Oil and gas, lots of it. I could imagine a story scenario where Europe refuses to buy oil and gas from Russia because Norway can cover their demand. Russia takes over the competition.

I guess tha will be explained in the series, but I imagine it would be for the same reasons the Nazis invaded it in WW2. Lot´s of ressources. Safe bases to operate in the Atlantic and the North sea.

A really stupid and outright desperate move by the erdogan henchmen.

Could be good

Dude forgett the money, if it is really the Amber chamber in there this would be a huge cultural and historic win! Or you know, the train could be completelly empty.....

Would you be OK with giving such a device to a mentaly challenged person? Does the 2nd amendment apply there too?

Flamethrowers are nasty. If some idiot gets hold of one and missjudges the harm it can do...... Those things should be classified as weapons and require background checks to obtain, on the other hand, it´s stupidly easy to build one yourself....

But in this case the women did meet the same requirements as the men, so I really don´t see a problem with it.

Those "butches" might be pioneering for many more to come.

Why not? My stance on this is, if a woman is fit and strong enough to carry a man to safety and able to endure everything their male comrades do then she should be allowed to serve with them.

Another thing I really liked about Mafia as a series (both 1 and 2) was the fairly realistic driving wich really set it appart from GTA (well GTA 4 had bloody good driving). It seems as if Mafia 3 has nothing of that.....

Source?

I know how that is, hang in there, I hope it gets better soon.

Well even the second wasn´t as good as the first one, in my opinion. The first one had much more charme, better story and more memorable characters. I think I can´t name 5 characters from mafia 2 from the top of my head, but I bet I can name 10 from Mafia 1, at least. Mafia 3 looks like they are ditching everything that made Mafia exceptional and are going for a GTA style gameplay instead. Everything they have shown so far looks absolutelly unfitting for a Mafia game.

There is nothing subjective there. If a developer announced features that are later not in the game, and as it is the case with CA forgets to mention that pre release then he is beeing deceptive. To me it's not a problem if features can't be finished and have to be droped ay long as the dev is honest about it and informs his buyers. CA never did that to not loose the juicy pre order money.

Let's use the opportunity and see what Milosevic the great leader of the Serbs had to say about OP Storm. During a meeting with the military leadership he accused the RSK leaders of cowardice ("they ran like rabbits") and critiqued the RSK army that they hadn't been able to hold Knin for half a day when "they had all means to do so". He was unwilling to send the JNA into Croatia out of fear that he will provoke a NATO reaction wich might lead to Serbia loosing the Vojvodina, Sanđak, Boka and Kosovo. Also the Serbian military had been giving so much aid to the RS and RSK troops that the JNA only had supplies for up to six days of war left. He was furious about the "defeating and humiliating situation, that all the help the RSK received ended up arming the Croatian army" He concluded: "If on that day we really would have commited the idiotic stupidity of helping them, who would have been able to reach Knin by evening? There was no way of reaching it because of their coloumns with witch they blocked all roads in their mindless rout, together with their population. Please 6000 Croats (exagerated number) dedefended Vukovar half a year; The whole first army was attacking, the airforce, astonishing, all the might of the JNA, but they (RSK troops) couldn't defend Knin, wich can only be approached from three directions; they couldn't even hold it for 12 hours?"

That has nothing to do with balance, it's simply how the engine works (and one of the main reasons why the engine sucks so much) melee combat is completely animation based wich means that one unit can always only be attacked by one other unit. This is what leads to those stupid situations where the last surviving guy in a unit can be sourrounded by a mass of enemy units and continue to fight them for another minute or so until he has received enough damage to die. This time CA seems to have included some AoE damage and knockback effects when large monsters do their attack move. My point still stands. Gameplay footage can have WIP written all over it, as soon as it includes preorder links and is released to the public, send to gaming news websites, etc. it becomes advertisement. If that advertisement is deceptive (as it has been in the past with CA) they deserve to get punished for that. There is no reason why companies in the gaming industry should be allowed to get away with shit any company in another industry would be dragged to court for.

Oh you missunderstood me, it was Serbian planes strafing their own refugees in order to make room for their fleeing soldiers and heavy weapons. Yes over 200k people fled the Krajina, however the Croatian military didn't have that much to do with it. Preparations for that began months earlier. 3 months before OP storm the leader of the RSK Serbs wrote a letter to Milosevic telling him that they were packing up if they don't receive more help from Belgrade. Days before the Operation RSK leadership told the population to prepare for evacuation. On the day of the OP a general evacuation order was issued to Serbian civilians and as is evident by testimonies from Serbian refugees their own military made sure that everybody is leaving. The war propaganda helped a lot in that. Serbian civilians were generally afraid of the Croatian military because they were told that the evil fashist Ustashi would kill them all and on top of that almost every family had relatives that would have been arrested for war crimes. It's a common theme during the war that Serbian civians would flee as soon as their troops pulled back long before Croatian troops would reach them. Why were Serbs excluded from the state apparatus? Maybe because there was a ridiculously large number of them in high pisitions? People were fed up with the Serbian rule and opression of Croats in their own land. The cobstitutional change was simply that Croatia wasn't defined as a nation of Croats, Serbs and other minorities anymore. Now it was a nation of Croats and other minorities. Knin is an ancient Croatian royal town, an important part of Croatian history. The Serbs could have lived on there, inside Croatia and nobody would have bothered them, but no, they were obsessed with that idea of a greater Serbia and motivated by Belgrade propaganda and military help decided to take up arms and kill police officers. OP Oluja was as justified as it can be.

LOL please don't repeat the numbers thrown around in Serbian media they are highly exagerated. Croatian and international investigations have come to the conclusion that around 600 to 700 civilians died during the operation wich is a ridiculously small number when you consider the size and scope of the operation and the size of the territory it covered. Serbian sources are the only ones throwing around those large numbers...By the way quite a few civilian deaths can he contributed to the RSK and RS troops. The Serbian command was very keen on getting the heavy weapons out of Croatia before the Croatian military could catch up to them. If civilian refugee coloums were in the way they had to be dealt with. And so it happened that one civilian refugee coloumn was crushed under the tracks of a tank coloumn while in other cases fighter jets strafed refugees to get them off the roads. Do you know that In '92 there were almost 400000 registered people in Croatia that had been forced to abandon their homes by the Serbian agressors? That is not counting all those that had been displaced in Bosnia. Talking about double standards.... The first shots in that war were fired by Serbs, the first dead was a Croatian, the first cities to be under attack and destroyed were also Croatian. The first civilians to be displaced and killed were Croatians too. The Croatian military didn't invade Serbia but Serbia invaded Croatia and destroyed Vukovar. It wasn't the Croatian navy that bombarded Towns from the sea and the air. It wasn't the Croatian military that almost daily fired artillery on all villages and towns it could reach and it wasn't the Croatian military that commited massacres on a scale completelly unimaginable in our modern times. Think about that for a while. In that war Serbia was the agressor from the very beginning and the Croatian Operation Storm is the natural result of that. Sadly Serbia is completely unwilling to accept that defeat and acknowledge their own mistakes. They feel the need to invent myths just like the Germans did after WW1 when they too were unwilling to face reality. By the way that was one reason why the Germans were so willing to fight England and France again.

Who needs them anyway (the americans were there by the way)? This is a celebration for all Croatian citizens of all ethnic backgrounds and especially for the war veterans and their families. Without this Operation the war would have draged on for much longer and cost much more lives. Have a nice Victory day! There was a large military parade (the largest in Croatia since 1997) in Zagreb yesterday. Some pics and videos here www.Danpobjede.hrt.hr And this here Parades were also held in almost every other town in Croatia, like here in Split (wich confused the hell out of the tourists when suddenly men in uniforms started to appear everywhere, Mi-8 helicopters did flybys, destroyers and gunboats paraded along the shore, sirens...) Festivities will continue today with a ceremony in Knin and a whole range of smaller celebrations across almost all towns in Croatia.

Oh come on! They labeled that stuff as Ingame footage! As I said, they pulled the same shit with Empire. Empire has Screenshots on the back of the CD case that simply aren't possible in the game! That is how far they will go with their lies! You might not know that but I was one of 12 moderators on Totalwar-zone.de the biggest gaming forum in the german speaking part of the world with over 12000 members. We were as close as you can get to CA as a fan of their games. Members of the Forum staff visited CA before the release of Empire and were shown mostly marketing bullshit and beeing lied straight to their faces, even by the CEO. Of course that stuff was relayed to the community and helped to build up pre release hype. As we all know Empire was a desaster at launch. A few months after launch the CEO of CA even wrote an open letter to the community trying to explain why the game was in such a state in wich he admitted that he was too ashamed of the game to show it to friends at release, well he certainly wasn't ashamed enough to not take our money! And they did it again with Rome2! Never defend such a company! I'm glad that Steam finally has refunds in place so companies like CA won't be able to pull shit like that any more without sustaining heavy losses.

Very interesting question oxmox! The Panslavist movement was at that time very popular amongst the Jugoslavian elites so I think the Jugoslavian kingdom would have been created anyway. Maybe it might have even worked if Serbian nationalists didn't try so damn hard to turn it into a Serbian empire. The Italians always wanted control over the coastal regions of Croatia, that the Ustasha government in WW2 handed them over to Italy was a big reason why the common people stoped supporting them. @Ice Well it's not the first time Slovenia tried to rip off Croatia, but using and manipulating EU institutions sure is a whole new level of criminal spirit. A real shame. Croatia and Slovenia could be such great partners...