Female Soviet snipers in WWII were common and some were very good and very feared.
I don’t know about “common” - about 2,000 women served as snipers in the Red Army during World War II. That’s out of about 700,000 women who served in the Red Army, almost all of whom served in support roles, and out of over 34 million men and women total. They definitely existed, though, and are about the only women on either side in the European theater who served as front line infantry, so they’ve become quite common in games and other fictional depictions.
The relevant question is how many snipers were there in total and how many of them were women?
Also, I thought they were more prevalent in places like the siege of Leningrad (St. Petersburg). Not sure though.
Fair point. Over 400,000 Red Army soldiers received sniper training during World War II. I can’t find a good reference for how many served in a formal sniper role, but Soviet doctrine called for a “sniper” (really, a designated marksman) in every squad, so by that measure, there were a lot of snipers in the Red Army.
Again, women definitely served as snipers. But I don’t think they were ever actually “common” in real life, by any reasonable definition.
ETA: we’re also drifting pretty far from the actual topic of this thread…
Neither of those games were published by Valve. Oblivion was published by Bethesda Software, and Bioshock by 2K Games. The decision to require a constant internet connection was made by those publishers, not by Valve.
I don’t actually remember what game they were. I’m pretty sure one was Oblivion, but I can’t be sure. It was a long time ago. Regardless of whether those games were published by the same company that ran Steam, it’s Steam I have a problem with, not those games (other than me not liking them, but that’s not the relevant issue).
I had a lot of fun with Warlock Master of the Arcane. It’s like Civ 5 in a fantasy world.
If you’re into space strategy games I’m having a lot fun with Interstellar Space: Genesis. It’s a 4x game like Master of Orion 2, and the combat is turn-based (but can be auto-resolved if you want.) It’s one of those games that seems simple at first but is a lot deeper than it first appears. I actually won my first few games by being elected supreme leader of the galaxy, which is an interesting mechanic.
Are either of these solo play?
Do they have Random maps that can be edited?
I’ve been playing Age of Wonders II Shadow Magic again lately.
Yes, both are solo, although you can play Warlock multiplayer. I don’t think either can have custom maps, but they do have random maps I believe.
The Age of Wonders series is a lot of fun.
Cool, thanks for the info.