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Currently reading TBATD. On page 672 (hardcover), >!Bodarenko and his operations chief are talking to each other about Communist China's military strength, and they say to the effect PLA hadn't engaged in large scale combat for over fifty years since the Korean War. !<

EDIT: I made the mistake of assuming someone with inside knowledge would answer. Instead, this should've started with the documented fact that Communist China sent 200,000 troops and 200 tanks (and other vehicles and aircraft) into Vietnam in 1979 for hostile purposes. Communist China penetrated up to 20km into Vietnam, killed approx 6,000 Vietnamese soldiers, and approx 10,000 civilians as a result. That was not a border clash by any definition. TC erroneously omitted this real-life large-scale combat operation for some reason, and I think that reason was his long-standing animosity against the country of Vietnam, for understandably, their infliction of great losses of American military personnel.

ORIGINAL POST BELOW:

It makes me wonder why TC ignored the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979? The book was obviously written in a universe after the first Gulf War (1991). Two reasons: one, it involved "large scale" mechanized infantry maneuvers and resulted in substantial casualties on both sides, including heavy civilian losses for SRV; and two, SRV was then a close ally of USSR. Now here's some wishful thinking, but since USSR had a history of supporting its "allies" (see: Angola conflict, etc.) -- except for this conflict, why didn't TC also bring SRV or other former or even then-current ComBloc countries like Cuba into the mix as a player in TBATD? Either for background political canon, or as serious states coming to the aid of Russia against CCP?

I think it would've been neat for SRV to open a second front against CCP.

I've seen at least two YouTube videos where the camera/drone reacts almost 2-3 seconds after the user actions something on their RM500 controller (i.e. slightly panning camera left or right).

Anybody have insight into this?

Reconsidering purchasing a 'used' once since they're ~$300 USD.

I just came home to a missed delivery notice by USPS, requiring a signature for a 'letter.' It has my last name, and the sender was written as "COINBASE."

Wondering if this is supposed letter is related to the data breach scam (2025), or if it's related to an email I received on 05/01/2026 advising me to login before my balance is transferred to my state's unclaimed property division.

Host crashes? Lagged out for minutes.

Glitches.

Random deaths.

Played a 40-minute match last night with a buddy. Mainly looking for samples (and super credits). Collected about 20/20/7, respectively. The last side objective was glitched out as we couldn't see the directional combo screen to actuate the tower. No worries, Arrow, I brought 500kg ordnance to luckily take care of that. About to call the shuttle, buddy lags out. Environment was literally frozen for five minutes, if not slightly longer. He manages to reconnect. As soon as he steps out from his pod, I called the shuttle, he (level 150) gets immediately killed by a flying pebble at full health. His skull icon wasn't even in game. Cool, destroyers are now gone. So I ran around the launch pad for two minutes solo while getting swarmed by tanks, fire brigade devastators and the like. Shuttle touched down, and then my body just flew down, hit by literally nothing. Lost everything, including the 40+ minutes of my life, not including this post. No extract.

Since last year, this kind of scenario has played out at least 20 times. Devs need to stop stepping on their private parts, scratch that, my private parts, and get their stuff together.

Love the game, but damn.