Heavy Fighting in South Ossetia

**ICantSpellDawg** · 08-08-2008, 16:42

When China recieved the Olympics I thought it was a good idea because of the positive geopolitical effects. Those effects were not forthcoming, so I'm not going to watch a man dance around in his skivies on ice. Unless he is doing it in South Ossetia.

Olympics shmolympics. This is a Total-War forum, not a Total-Olympics forum.

Update - the dancing hot chinese girl band was good. Olympics are as boring as hell. I'd rather watch the World Cup.

**yesdachi** · 08-08-2008, 17:02

NATO dragged their feet too long, let Russia have Georgia.

**Innocentius** · 08-08-2008, 17:21

I've been hoping for a Russian war since the day I understood there was a huge country with massive resources and a rather bad-ass military history next door, so any conflict involving Russia in any way is interesting to me. Shame they don't use the good old Red Army tactics anymore where they'd attack en masse, just that only half of them would actually have guns.

**Tribesman** · 08-08-2008, 17:45

Olympics shmolympics. This is a Total-War forum, not a Total-Olympics forum.

Update - the dancing hot chinese girl band was good. Olympics are as boring as hell. I'd rather watch the World Cup.

Oh come on Tuff , it was very good .
one fella on seeing the puppeteers actualy suggested that the puppets were really small chinese people as they were so lifelike , entertainment like that is priceless .
Well not the puppeteers but the comment by the idiot in the pub .

**ICantSpellDawg** · 08-08-2008, 17:51

Originally Posted by Tribesman

Oh come on Tuff , it was very good .
one fella on seeing the puppeteers actualy suggested that the puppets were really small chinese people as they were so lifelike , entertainment like that is priceless .
Well not the puppeteers but the comment by the idiot in the pub .

Haha. They could easily be construed as puppets.

**Evil_Maniac From Mars** · 08-08-2008, 18:40

Link with video (though lots of it appears to be self-propelled artillery like the 2S3 Akatsiya instead of tanks as advertised)

Originally Posted by Tribesman

Interesting , Israel has told Russia that it is only selling defensive weapons to Georgia and doesn't want to escalate the situation or alter the balance of regional power .
Russia responds by saying it is only selling defensive weapons to Iran and doesn't want to escalate the situation or alter the balance of regional power .
Funny stuff eh .

Business as usual. Everyone knows they're lying, and everyone knows what they're actually doing. But if they said what they're actually doing, they would have an international outcry.

Originally Posted by Marshal Murat

Strike fast, strike hard. Inflict as many casualties as possible. Maybe we should create a polygot mercenary force to help them.

Why? We have two breakaway countries. As it seems right now, Georgia has just attacked one of these countries, and the other country and Russia came to the aid of that country.

**PanzerJaeger** · 08-08-2008, 21:51

Originally Posted by Evil_Maniac From Mars

Link with video (though lots of it appears to be self-propelled artillery like the 2S3 Akatsiya instead of tanks as advertised)

Thanks! With a few notable exceptions, Russian armor is very awkward looking. I always enjoy seeing it in action, though. Looks like they had those '90's fully decked out for low intensity urban combat.