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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: ROC on January 31, 2006, 11:36:14 PM
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Aces High Proudly Presents the First Scenario of 2006
Visit the Stalins Fourth Website at AHEVENTS.ORG (http://ahevents.org/site/component/option,com_staticxt/Itemid,91/)
Download trailers for the event here:
Stalins Fourth Vid 1 by Have (http://www.kesalesket.net/stalin/video/stalins_fourth_video01.wmv)
Stalins Fourth Video 2 by Mipoikel (http://www.kesalesket.net/stalin/video/stalins_fourth_video02.wmv)
Following the successes against the Germans during 1943 and the beginning of 1944, Soviet Union launched the fourth of its ten strategic attacks on June 9th 1944, north east of Leningrad. The largest Soviet offensive of 1944 was timed to support of the western allies, who had landed in Normandy three days earlier. The objective of the Soviet attack was to force Finland out of the war and ultimately conquer it.
3 Days after the Normandy Invasion the Russian Bear launched it's invasion to conquer Finland before joining the race for Berlin.
The Designers must be recognized for their exceptional work and effort in taking the terrain building opportunity to a whole new level.
Kanttori,Blauk,Camo,Sasmox,Have,Wasq deserve a very hearty round of applause, not only for the work on the terrain for this event, but for opening up the opportunities that are available for the Scenario Junkies from this point forward. Events in AH2 will never be the same.
The fight will involve a massive bomber campaign that will target massive cities such as Viipuri, and the Castle below;
(http://www.kesalesket.net/karelia/karelia01.jpg)
And Leningrad;
(http://www.kesalesket.net/karelia/karelia03.jpg)
Vehicle Attacks will be met with entrenched tanks hidden within a defensive wall;
(http://www.kesalesket.net/karelia/karelia08.jpg)
New Damage Models on the wooden and steel bridges will make for targets worthy of an attack;
(http://www.kesalesket.net/karelia/karelia10.jpg)
Active Base Defense by well protected manned guns will greatly contribute to the war effort;
(http://www.kesalesket.net/karelia/karelia16.jpg)
This event will have unlimited opportunities to contribute at several levels throughout all phases of the scenario. This is one Not to Miss.
Registration opens March 1st.
The Rules for this event are being fine tuned, and will be formalized once both side COs have participated and signed off on the rules.
This is NOT a 1 life event. There will be fighter, bomber, vehicle opportunities throughout the event, there will be no lack of action.
Contact ROC for Leadership Slots.
Visit the Stalins Fourth Website at AHEVENTS.ORG (http://ahevents.org/site/component/option,com_staticxt/Itemid,91/)
Enjoy!
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holy s*** that is friggin awsome!
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Holy ****! I don't even know where to begin.
Fantastic work guys, wow.
:aok :aok
:O
:eek:
;)
:D
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This is gonna be cool. :aok
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a little taste of AH2 C/T maybe? :)
Looks nice guys.
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Thats it. Screw fiddling with this computer. I'm going to buy one this month so I can take advantage of it! I aint missin this one!
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GREAT JOB!!!
Looking forward to it!
>>>S<<<
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COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL :aok
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ROC; you inspired too much! :D
Finnish never bombed or attacked to the Leningrad, there were several reasons why:
Mannerheim comprehended that Russians never forgive Finnish if we are participating to the Germans bombing raids and attacks to that historical Russian city.
Finland also didn't had any resources to attack against Leningrad. Finnish Army was spreaded all over the Karelian area from the Karelian Isthmus near Lake Ladoga to the Aunus' Isthmus near Lake Onega and river Svir. The area was enormous to the only half million Finnish soldiers.
But in spite of that this scenario has very much massive bombing targets with those huge amount of the GV-bases which Russians must capture before reaching the Viipuri town!;)
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Ya, but Leningrad is such a great screenshot, and besides Kanttori, I know which side you are on, and you guys will probably Make it to Leningrad :D
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Originally posted by ROC
Ya, but Leningrad is such a great screenshot, and besides Kanttori, I know which side you are on, and you guys will probably Make it to Leningrad :D
Maybe we must in this time try it... :D
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That terrain is simply outstanding. What a huge difference compared to the vanilla in the MA.
It's even tailored to bombing and GV work...way to cool.
Excellent work, fellas.
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Originally posted by kanttori
Finnish never bombed or attacked to the Leningrad, there were several reasons why:
Yes, you are right, Finnish abstained from attacks and bombings. But I wouldn't say that they were angels. Finnish were actively participating in Leningrad siege. Just FYI -
The siege lasted for a total of 900 days, from September 8 1941 until January 27 1944. The city's almost 3 million civilians (including about 400,000 children) refused to surrender and endured rapidly increasing hardships in the encircled city. Food and fuel stocks were limited to a mere 1-2 month supply, public transport was not operational and by the winter of 1941-42 there was no heating, no water supply, almost no electricity and very little food. In January 1942 in the depths of an unusually cold winter, the city's food rations reached an all time low of only 125 grams (about 1/4 of a pound) of bread per person per day. In just two months, January and February of 1942, 200,000 people died in Leningrad of cold and starvation.
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In January 1943 the Siege was broken and a year later, on January 27 1944 it was fully lifted. At least 641,000 people had died in Leningrad during the Siege (some estimates put this figure closer to 800,000).
http://history1900s.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.saint-petersburg.com%2Fhistory%2Fsiege.asp
So, I wouldn't introduce this scenario like "the Russian Bear launched it's invasion to conquer Finland." Russians had some other reasons to do that, and conquest of Finland wasn't the first priority. History confirmed this fact, Russia-Finland border is almost on the same place where it was before the war.
And one last thing. Looks like this is the first scenario where I am going to actively participate. Outstanding map, very realistic castle in Vyborg (Viipuri), can't wait to take a look on Leningrad, I was born and lived there.
Great <> to authors!
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Vad,
The Finnish-Russian border is where it was after the Winter War of '39/'40, not where it was before Russia made an unprovoked attack on Finland.
The Continuation War was Finland's attempt to get back the territory they lost at the end of the Winter War.
And I will be signing up for this one I think.
Sisu.
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Originally posted by Karnak
Vad,
The Finnish-Russian border is where it was after the Winter War of '39/'40, not where it was before Russia made an unprovoked attack on Finland.
The Continuation War was Finland's attempt to get back the territory they lost at the end of the Winter War.
And I will be signing up for this one I think.
Sisu.
Of course, I know that. I meant where border was before 1941.
Just for the record. I visited Finland tens of times, and I know their attitude to Russians.
But most of the Russians have very positive attitude to Finns. Partially, it is because we feel a little bit guilty for Winter war, partly for the perfect Finnish-Soviet relations after the War.
But mostly for the Finnish behaviour during WW2.
I just want to let Finnish guys know - a lot of people in Leningrad and Russia remember and are thankful for your "lack of actions" during the Siege.
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Originally posted by Vad
And one last thing. Looks like this is the first scenario where I am going to actively participate. Outstanding map, very realistic castle in Vyborg (Viipuri), can't wait to take a look on Leningrad, I was born and lived there.
Great <> to authors!
Leningrad is not modelled correctly yet. Kanttori mentiod me something about updating Leningrad later. He got all the maps to do it.
Vad and See you in Karelian sky soon :aok
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This map is beautiful. Great work!
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Holy Hole in the Donut! :aok :aok :aok
- Robin, the Boy Wonder -
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Vad,
I pretty much disagree with the your opinion about the siege and the reasons for June-44 attack, but this is not the time place to talk about it. :) (many archives are still unavailable)
I hope you make it to the scenario and enjoy it. S!
ps. I visited Viipuri in summer of 2004. Many of the and building textures come from photos from that trip :)
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Originally posted by BlauK
Vad,
I pretty much disagree with the your opinion about the siege and the reasons for June-44 attack, but this is not the time place to talk about it. :) (many archives are still unavailable)
I hope you make it to the scenario and enjoy it. S!
ps. I visited Viipuri in summer of 2004. Many of the and building textures come from photos from that trip :)
Agree, it is not time and place to talk about history.
Let me know if you need any photos of Leningrad, maps, airfields positions, photos of ships in Leningrad port at the time of war, etc. I can't promise much but I will do my best. Russian Inet contains a lot of such things, and it is easier for Russian speaking persons to browse sites in Russian.
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Vad,
thanks for the offer. I bet Kanttori will be thrilled, since he is planning on updating the Leningrad area (among other things) at some point :)
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Vad, I should be very pleased if you really could do that! I have such a good and big Leningrad map from the years 1930-40, but this is the only document I have catched from the internet.
We need just the photos and military maps from that period.
Now I have much to do with the 5-6 special historical Karelian Isthmus' airfields and couple of bugs repair to the last map's update before the scenario, but I am going to finish this map later in this year: more historical individual airfields, Kronstadt, Lappeenranta town and Leningrad.
So we need also aerial photos and maps from the Russian airfields near Leningrad and Kronstadt. If you find them it should be great!
Here's my e-mail to where you can send the material if you find something interesting: kanttori@kesalesket.net
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Looks awesome. Thanks to everyone involved [and it hasn't even started yet!]. I really can't wait for this.
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Beautiful Work! :aok
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Originally posted by ROC
The Designers must be recognized for their exceptional work and effort in taking the terrain building opportunity to a whole new level.
Kanttori,Blauk,Camo,Sasmox,Have,Wasq deserve a very hearty round of applause, ...
WTG guys!
When does the registration for this scenario start? :)
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Registration is planned to begin March 1st.
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Awsome,if we had a real fire animation would be perfect.
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Good choice using Joomla for the CMS. :aok The top button bar is a little tough to read, though. You may also want to use the wrapper component to embed the AH calendar in the site.
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DoK, I debated as to whether the top bar was too dark or I was just getting old lol. It's right on the edge isn't it. I like it though, I thought it kept the page from looking top heavy with a brilliant bar.
I'm going to make sure ForHim and Dantoo catch your comment on the wrapper, as you lost me on that one but I would like to see the calendar embedded.
Thanks!
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Wrapper just puts an external URL in an iframe. It usually works pretty well. There are a couple of decent Joomla calendar components as well which would give more flexibility in terms of posting practice times, sign-up dates, and so on.
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DoK,
Great wrapper suggestion, worked in nicely.
Probably spend more time on the calendar format after the Stalins Registration get's moving.
Thanks!
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Count me in!!!:aok
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thats gonna be short spring for finns :)
Can i get LA5 flight?
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Originally posted by ROC
DoK,
Great wrapper suggestion, worked in nicely.
Probably spend more time on the calendar format after the Stalins Registration get's moving.
No problem ... that's what I do for a living ... well, did do until the company ran outa funds right after New Years.
You may want to hold off investing time in a calendar module for a few months. There are a few calendars which support the iCalendar format due out this year - these support publishing via RSS. Which may be overkill for the needs of scenarios, but I figure any feature which reminds people to show up and fly a frame is worth trying.
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very very nice
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Originally posted by DoKGonZo
Good choice using Joomla for the CMS. :aok The top button bar is a little tough to read, though. You may also want to use the wrapper component to embed the AH calendar in the site.
DoK,
thanks. The top bar was designed somewhat hard to read to force the use of the left hand menu. Or at least that's what dtango informed me. Any tips / suggestions can be PM'd to me or PM me and I'll shoot you me email address.
I'm more of a Unix Geek that does functional stuff so making it look pretty is usually a secondary thought. That's why dtango is here :)
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ahh crud, I said Dantoo, not Dtango, sorry bout that. Wrong person credited.