PSY

rudel, what about Assault? Where would you put that in your list? Does this work for entering buildings?

Here's a question I'd like answered: When trying to direct artillery am I better off using the FSV Stryker vehicle or the FO passenger in the FSV. What if the FSV seems to have better visibility on the target than the FO passenger (even when unbuttoned/opened up). Is the FO more effective when inside the FSV?

Copying over my answer from the "Help on loading APCs" thread: If you look at the vehicle silhouette in the unit info panel, you'll see two sets of dots, one on the left, one on the right. The set of dots on the left should be blue and indicate crew members -- if the dots on the left aren't all blue, someone is either KIA or WIA. The set of dots on the right indicate passenger positions. If the dot is green, the passenger position is filled, if its grey, you can put another passenger into the vehicle. (p.43 of Battlefront version of the manual). As far as overloading them goes, if you move the mouse on top of an already loaded APC instead of getting the standard Green Down-Arrow Triangle icon, you get a Yellow Down-Arrow Triangle Icon with a black triangle on the bottom. It will take the command, but I'm assuming they won't load (I get the same Yellow caution icon if I try to laod a squad into a Stryker MGS). [ July 29, 2007, 09:14 AM: Message edited by: PSY ]

If you look at the vehicle silhouette in the unit info panel, you'll see two sets of dots, one on the left, one on the right. The set of dots on the left should be blue and indicate crew members -- if the dots on the left aren't all blue, someone is either KIA or WIA. The set of dots on the right indicate passenger positions. If the dot is green, the passenger position is filled, if its grey, you can put another passenger into the vehicle. (p.43 of Battlefront version of the manual).

FWIW according to the manual, crawling is "very tiring and should only be used for distances" (p.55 of Battlefront Version of the Manual).

I couldn't get the Javelins to auto-fire against the bunkers in the Training Scenario. However, once I manually targeted the bunkers using the squad's Target button, they did fire the Javelins. It could be the squads don't consider the bunkers enough of a threat to waste their Javelins on, and they're trying to save the Javelins for non-existent future tanks (after all there are only a max of three Javelins per squad, so it doesn't do to waste them).

Use the "Pause" command found in the "Special Commands" tab. The first time you click on it, it will delay execution of the next order by 15 seconds. If you click on it twice, it will delay execution by 30 seconds, and so on up to 1:30 seconds. (Not to be confused with the "Pause" "Instant Command" which is above the regular tabbed commands and looks like a cancel sign and is next to the octagon stop sign. That "Pause" will stop all command execution until you click it again directly.)

I'm having a great time. Finished the training mission and am on the 2nd mission of the regular campaign. Kudos for a great game.

I'm pretty sure that would be Brooski who posted about 7 posts up from your post and got the "And you are...?" reply from stoat.

Sergei, I think you're showing some racist tendencies of your own. What does whether or not he's Chinese have to do with his comments? Are you somehow alleging that because he may be Chinese we should view his comments differently than if he were white? Are you calling him out and saying that because he may be Chinese he shouldn't be allowed express an opinion? I don't see what his ethnicity has to do with anything, and I don't see how bringing it out can be viewed as anything other than the use of a racist ploy in an attempt to silence him. I should also point out, that the name Lee is hardly exclusively Chinese. Consider this man for example: [ July 22, 2007, 08:18 PM: Message edited by: PSY ]

I like the detail on the units. Any chance we can get higher resolution shots. Unless I'm doing something wrong, this batch all looks to be 640x430 which is really small.

I liked this part, a rather interesting metric to see how much soldiers like a particular type of equipment:

I dunno, it doesn't seem less relevant than a lot of the other threads we've had in the CM:SF forum. Is this any less relevant than "Me and my M-14", "Peter and Dan Snow: Yom Kippur War: BBC2 21:00 Tonight", "Another skirmish in Iraq !", or "IEDs in Baquba"?

Or better yet a "Gone Gold" announcement with "Now available for download for both those with preorders and new orders."

I'm hoping they'll allow us to mix and match terrain between CM:SF and CMx2:WWII. That would open up all sorts of modern war possibilities.

That would be great. Not for Blue on Red, but as Speedy says it would make for more interesting Red on Red scenarios. Also are the various CMx2 games going to be compatible enough to take CM:SF vehicles and play them on a Western European map if we've got CM:WW2 installed or are our modern armies always going to be limited to Syrian terrain?

What's the latest on how close a soldier can be to the Stryker MGS when the gun fires. I seem to recall hearing something about it being extremely dangerous for someone to be outside and nearby the MGS when it fires.

I agree. A scenario doesn't need armor to be fun. I think a PTO CM could be a lot of fun. I definitely would buy it.

I'm sure I'll buy CM:SF sooner or later, probably sooner. However, I find the topic matter to be rather depressing given the current daily news from Iraq. I'm sure it will still be interesting from an intellectual standpoint. But from a fun standpoint, I really don't need or want more reminders that we've got troops getting killed out in the Middle East. I'd be up for Goose Green though

Date is November 25, 1942. Tanks were from 1st Battalion of the 1st Armored Regiment under John Knight Waters (who was Patton's son-in-law). Location is near the village of Djedeida on the banks of the Medjerda river near Bizerte. I agree, definitely not a priority.

Rick Atkinson's excellent An Army at Dawn about North Africa from 1942-1943 describes an attack on an operating German Airfield near Tunis by 17 Stuart Tanks (see pages 189-191).

I don't think that characterization of Strkers is completely accurate. In particular Strykers were not designed specifically for COIN or urban terrain. The original reason for the development of the Stryker was to create a fast, quickly deployable force. Think, for example, of Desert Shield where we had to move the 82nd and 101st quickly into Saudi Arabia in case Saddam tried to take Saudi Arabia in addition to Kuwait. In this situation we would have been hard pressed to hold off an attack, because the 82nd and 101st lack the heavy equipment of a mech or armored division. The idea is that Stryker equiped forces can be moved in quickly like airborne divisions, but have more staying power than the airborne, because of their Stryker vehicles. Heavier equipment including armor and mech will follow, but will take much longer to arrive. In an international crisis situation in which the US military needs to move quickly, Strykers would be among the first units deployed. Depending on the situation, they might have to enter combat before heavier equipment arrived. Consider a situation in which we had to enter Syria quickly without having an opportunity to build our forces up. In such a situation Strykers might very well take the lead. While Strykers in Iraq are doing a good job with COIN, that is not why they were originally designed. Here are the links for my quotes: Global Security <a href="http://www.army.mil/features/stryker/default.htm" target="_blank"> US Army Stryker Website</a>

The episode is available to watch for free on CBS.com. You will have to watch a Zodiac Movie add four times (spaced when regular advertisements would occur). Video quality is so-so -- looks okay at ~400x300 but not so hot when switched to full screen. http://www.cbs.com/primetime/the_unit/ I thought it was pretty decent. I'll probably watch other episodes.

Just out of curiosity why the huge imbalance in troops. Is the Swedish army that much bigger than the others?

I'd still like to hear more about how it handles widescreen. Almost all new laptops seem to be widescreen these days. If CMX2 takes the image and stretches it, that's going to look awful.