alright, the bus for the army leaves in 11h 30min so this is the last you'll see of me in a while. i might take my Eee PC with me and in that case i'll be able to update quite often but if not the next you'll hear from me is in 2-3 weeks.

my SO account will be taken care of by someone else, any friends should know they may get attacked. i don't control the actions and choices of the new player.

good luck and cya later!

probably true, but stop calling finnish finish and finns fins. 

our marine commandos aren't exactly special forces though, every unit has a certain task and coastal jaegers are only one among them but our elite marine infantry. our army has proved to do pretty well without good equipment in the past though, if we could do it again today is a different question. ;)

well i can't prove it since i can't find where i got the info...maybe it was from the army papers they sent me, i dunno. but either way i guess i'll find out if i end up there.
some short info on coastal jaeger (marine commando) training in english from wiki:

Training

Commando training is one of the toughest given to any type of infantry in Finland. The main elements of commando training are combat training, weapons handling, endurance and mobility. Although training is tough for all commandos, NCOs and officers are drilled considerably harder than privates during their time at the Amphibious Warfare School. For privates the training is 6 months and encompasses only the fundamental elements of marine warfare. NCO and officer training lasts for 12 months. Physically, commando training places emphasis on endurance rather than short term fitness. For example, a commando candidate is more likely to spend his time marching with a heavy rucksack than doing push-ups. Marches are usually carried out with "full field equipment" (meaning 40-60kg depending on the task of the soldier) and can be as long as 80-90km. However, most commando candidates find the mental part of the training most challenging. Instructors go out of their way to put as much mental pressure on the soldiers as possible. This is always combined with high levels of sleep deprivation. NCO and officer trainees can go with as little as 2-4h of sleep during a 4 day exercise. The difference in length, quality and intensity of private compared to NCO and Officer training is reflected in the units sent for international duty. These usually consist almost exclusively of NCOs and Officers.


The Green Beret


Commandos can obtain the right to wear the green beret (commando green beret with a golden sea eagle) by reaching the required standards in shooting, running, swimming, a gym test, participating in all major exercises and, most importantly, completing the beret march. The beret march is approximately 70km in length over which the commando candidates must navigate themselves carrying 40-45kg of combat equipment. Every 5-10km the candidates are stopped to complete tasks given to them by instructors. Typical tasks are medical evacuation of "wounded" soldiers, shooting, weapons handling or map reading. At one point of the march candidates are put on a boat and driven to an unknown location. They must then locate themselves on a map and find their way back to the route of the march.

In case you didn't know I'll be leaving in...it's 12 days here now. on the 10th of january 6:15 am for the finnish army and my time of service in it. the finnish army is based on a conscript service, every male finnish citizen over the age of 18 has to complete either military service  or civil service, the last option is to be sentenced to jail for 168 days, 80% choose to go through the military training. females can also volounteer to serve if they wish. the finnish army is a defense force, with other words it's not meant to travel anywhere else in the world but only to defend it's own territory.


Anyway the purpose of this topic. i'm planning to keep this as a diary of what my military service is like, i'll make notes daily and update it along with pictures whenever i get home and can get it done. hopefully some of you may find it interesting to see what it's like. since there are still a few days until i'm leaving though i decided to start this topic with some basic info about the finnish army and service.


Finland is a small country with a population of only 5,3 million. yet our military history is legendary around the world and the finns respected and looked up to worldwide, by those who know history. sadly this story is unknown to or ignored by many, however we finns have no greater pride than what our veterans and their accomplishments that defy logic. if you have no idea what i'm talking about i'd ask you to look up the "winter war" and "continuation war" fought between finland and the soviet union, if i start talking about it this topic will become 5 times the planned length right off the bat so either look it up or if you wish to know, just ask and i'll tell you all i know. meanwhile here's the first part of an english documentary about the winter war on youtube, the other parts can all be found there if you wish to watch them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuEACrnubT4&feature=related

if you become really interested in learning more about this conflict these finnish war movies are highly recommended:
-Talvisota (winter war)
-Beyond the front line (continuation war)
-Tali-ihantala 1942 (continuation war)

they can all be found in their entirety on youtube with english subtitles. war movies are very different depending on where they're from. for example american war movies tend to include glory...honor and heroes. finnish war movies are more down to earth, they show what war is really like, there is no honor or glory on the battlefield, only death and destruction, fear and sorrow. but also the unyielding will to resist that is today known as the finnish "sisu", a word that lacks english translation but is such a big part of the finnish spirit.



then off to modern times where i will serve, first this small tribute video i found on youtube about the modern finnish army. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAr3kKJyKs4&feature=related

and then on to some technical info, it may not be spot on because it's all from my memory but it should be close.

the finnish army is as mentioned based on a conscript system. the army has some 20,000 active personnel and a 400,000 man reserve. in case of war and full mobilization over 1 million men will be called to arms. every man will serve for 6, 9 or 12 months depending on specialization and unit before placed in the reserve from where you may be called at any time in case of crisis or partial mobilization.

the finnish army training is known to be tough, and it's soldiers top notch. we're a small nation and as such need to rely on quality rather than quantity. the terrain and climate of our country is our best defense. a country covered by dense forests with relatively few roads. a country with a climate that is quite warm in summer, very wet in autumn and spring and with extreme cold, ice, dark and deep snow in winter. our troops and equipment is made and trained to withstand these extreme conditions and use it to our advantage.

infantry - our infantry that consist of about 400,000 men are equipped with the finnish made sako valmet RK-62 and RK-95 assault rifles, also known as the STG-62 and STG-95. these rifles were developed from the Ak-47 because of it's outstanding capabilities in extreme conditions. -40 degree cold, sand and mud, all the mechanisms of an AK will still work pretty much no matter what happens. the finnish RK has of course been vastly improved from the old AK but is in all significant aspects the same. it also uses 7,62 ammo which will go through a tree unlike standard nato 5,56 ammo, that's a huge advantage in a terrain that's covered by forest.

airforce - the airforce is very small and only has about 60 combat aircraft. the fighter of choice being F-18 hornets, of course upgraded for cold resistance and more. despite of, or perhaps because of the small size the finnish airforce is one of the best in the world. only the absolute best of the best can become pilots. every year 40 recruits are chosen for pilot training, out of 30,000 conscripts. perfect vision, physical fitness, etc are a requirment.

navy - the navy has no submarines because of WW2 terms but has about 30 surface vessels. this includes minelayers and other larger ship types but the main force are the new high-tech and stealthy Hamina class ship of which we currently have 4. they're pretty small but extremely fast and agile as well as well armed.

artillery and vehicles - finland has the largest artillery in europe with about 800 guns and over 2000 mortars, for tanks we have about 260 combat tanks, the main ones being german Leopard 2A4s, we also have russian BMP-2s and swedish CV90s as IFVs and finnish APCs and trucks produced by the finnish patria (the AMV) and sisu.


and then the more personal part where this diary will actually start, with me.
i won't find out what unit i will be in until i arrive there on the 10th of january, however i did have a form to fill out my preferences in and so i will most likely be either a coastal jaeger (marine commando) or combat engineer at the Uusimaa brigade in southern finland. the marine commando training is also known to be one of the hardest in the finnish army with physical fitness requirments that exceed those of the US delta force and the combat pioneers trained here have a training that's as tough physically but perhaps not mentally as the marine commando training.

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^not sure why he spells psycho like that 

nighty's getting all the fun

the suggested solutions won't work. a commander level limit would only stop the absolute top players from hitting mid to low rank players which the power difference already does. the people who deliberately harass new players are most likely alts and will stay in the low commander levels and ranks anyway being able to hit whoever they wish.

the other suggestion of a 14 day protection time could potentially be abused by experienced players making alts and using those 14 days to build up space stations and stuff or similar before bashing noobs or using kamis on a rival.

a limit for the amount of attacks per day may have some potential...the limit for raiding a secret base is already at 5 per day but limiting normal attacks is more difficult considering wars, long battles between players or counters.

i didn't mean the tinies, i can't see them. i'm not gold you know. and no worries, i'll keep hitting everyone ;)

i can't find any proof of those ships ever existing 

what ships?

not rly no, but you probably didn't in this case. except for abusing your insane amounts of money against me. 

I have checked the battle logs and the two accounts logs. All I can say is it must have been a grudge attack, because he specifically sold ships and bought fleets designed to lower his power to be in range of your mothership.

After that it seems the ships have been sold. The ship design seem to be a very expensive tiny design, that has expensive modules that give defense, but with low attack power, having a lower fleet power with low attack and high accuracy.

There is no bug or exploit that I could find, he invested a lot of credits into that fleet then sold it after the attack losing many credits in the process. The attacks seems deliberately aimed at your specific fleets.

Please let me know if you have any more questions.

Thank you,

Sir Emi





hmm in that case the 10 bil power you had after the attack came mostly from the credits selling those ships...they sure are expensive.

yep he used tinies but doesn't explain how he could reach me just under 3bil power when he has 7,5bil from workers and stash alone.

well we're at war with loki now so i unreserved my ships and took them out, then put up a power fleet and decoys which put me at 3bil total power.
however spayed (who was somewhere around 300bil in total power with 4 ships out suddenly hit me and took out the power fleet and all 4 leads with a regular attack??

this made me lose 2,9bil power so i'm now at...
26              AngelofAwe (#125660)     10419     83328                 ONLINE     77.407.926

after the attack spayed got rid off his fleet and after saying -3 ships for a while he stabilized at 10bil power with 0 ships out. i scouted and raided his base a few times so he's now...

2             Spayed (#8446)     22484     0                     9.999.192.476



well from scouting his secret base i got this:

Your scouting party estimate there are 695.949.178.964 workers in Spayed(#8446)'s secret base.
Spayed(#8446)'s stash estimated at 52.528.358.406 credits.


following the fact that 1 000 000 workers/credits equals 1 million power this alone is 7,5 bil power.

HOW in the ... could he attack me (at 3 bil power) and take out all my ships when his workers alone put him at over twice my total power? and with the credits on hand he's at 10 bil without ships!



EDIT: also...whatever he did, can it actually be legal??

EDIT2: maybe i should put the attack report too...not only did he attack me from at least 3 times my power, (when he has 0 ships) but he also killed off my powerships and 52-35-23-15 bil leads (with a regular attack) without losing a single ship.

Spayed(#8446)
2009-12-14 08:34:37
REMOTE ATTACK - REGULAR!!!

Spayed(#8446) attacked your from deep space.
Spayed(#8446) destroyed 3304 of your ships and lost 0 ships.
Spayed(#8446) attack was successful and you lost 548 segments.
Your forces suffered a terrible defeat.



EDIT3: adding proof of the power loss from his attack.

ttack ON you     Remote Attack - Regular
Full Report    Spayed(#8446)    2.878.691.947    62.537.741    2009-12-14 08:34:37

doesn't really bother me, then again i don't give a poop about that lame PR flu for someone to get rich on. half my class and my whole family skipped the bloody vaccine, who cares?