It has begun! Hopefully we'll see many new trophies added to Ukraine's armoury as they start to retake more territory.
There was such a funny quote from an officer during the Kharkiv counter-offensive last year: "we started off as an infantry brigade, but now we've become a mechanised brigade".
Nice! I love seeing Ural trucks getting turned to scrap. They're the backbone of Russian logistics, and every one they lose means a unit somewhere isn't getting any food or ammo that week.
I had to take a break from painting for a few weeks due to a lack of motivation and life getting in the way.
This week I got the itch again, so I've been painting Death Guard plague marines from the space marine heroes collection. Painting plague marines is basically my hobby comfort zone. I've been saving them for just such an occasion.
Next up, I need to finish a unit of Thousand Sons terminators for the Burning of Prospero board game.
If I can get those 9 minis all painted this month I'll be very happy.
This indicates that Ukrainian efforts at attrition warfare have delivered over the summer, and that they're well positioned to start up manoeuvre warfare again.
It's worth saying that these elite Russian forces are about as well-equipped and trained as Ukraine's offensive brigades. There were some fairly well researched reports from last year by the ISW about how these air assault divisions have been getting badly beaten up since the start of the war, and have taken significant losses on multiple occasions against regular Ukrainian troops. Not to write them off completely, but the Ukrainians are perfectly capable of taking on these guys.
None of them seem to understand that Russia can stop these attacks at any time by leaving Ukrainian territory.
Even better! Each one has 4 engines. So they'll need to start working on 16 replacements. I'm sure that'll be no problem at all with all of those sanctions and their currency becoming worthless. These daily humiliations are getting expensive.
My entire D&D group. Thanks gang!
According to the internet, that's about $60-100m worth of airplane on fire.
Am I right in thinking that the purpose of these types of attacks are to show the Russians where they're weak, so that they'll need to take resources away from the frontlines in order to better protect that area?
That's my dream too, and why I'm actually sort of onboard with Musk's vision for car metros. The issue is that I'm 100% sure they'd also want to expand surface level car infrastructure to facilitate that network.
My centrist compromise that I hope will take off in European cities over the next decade is that most two lane city streets will become one lane one way systems with protected bike lanes, pavements and trees taking the space that's been freed up.
Welcome to the hobby! These look brilliant.
When I've been playing for 5 hours and needed a piss for 3 hours.