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Harland's avatar

Is that true about the Makarov? Sounds made-up. I have one(Bulgarian) and that thing is a great pistol that goes bang every time you pull the trigger, which is more than you can say for many guns.

The old Avalon Hill game up Front had a Commissar personality card who gave a +1 morale boost to the whole squad (because they were afraid of him) and the amusing chrome rule of whenever a man was pinned, you had to randomly check which man in the squad he was watching. If it was the man who was cowering, the commissar executed him with his pistol.

A great game, outstanding example of design for effect, with the Russians your men really were disposable, you could take huge losses and still win. The Americans were clumsy but resource-rich while the Germans were high-tech and tactically brilliant. All done with a few elegant rules and a deck of cards that long predated Magic: the Gathering.

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No one is willing to fight for THEIR COUNTRY anymore. At best, they'll fight for a paycheck. Even the American SF demands a paycheck. Though after this stung, the associated honor of joining the American SF is going to be pretty substantive for a few years. Maybe Americans will hold the unique global position of holding soldiers who fight for honor and dignity above mere dollars. That's a hell of a position to be in when the rest of the world mostly lacks those traits.

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