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Sarge, I'm beginning to suspect that we're not just short on a transport, but also a few lines of extra programming. Did I mention that I also have a nagging feeling that we're living inside a rather buggy computer game?

Whoa... Planetary insertion by counter-grav HALO technique... I never thought Honorverse tech is incorporated into CMSF

You're putting too much faith in ex-military man-cum-politician. They'd be first and foremost politicians.

4K in a couple of days...

My regular unit armory had them in the 90s. FAI I don't know about Bren fetish but I'm sure I'm not the only one who had a SLR and Lee Enfield fetish. </font>

The Brits got some kind of a Bren fetish or what?

Even the BAR, with its weight and low ammo capacity, still saw widespread service in Korean War, even found its way to Vietnam War.

I think the credit should have gone to the MG34. The MG42 was just an incremental improvement of the MG34, and the concept itself was developed with MG34 in mind first.

I wish that not only they put cherry-picking back, they'd also allow unrestricted formation of units ("Rambo" squads, anyone? )

Sure, like a snowball in hell

How do you model something that hadn't been tested in combat?

I second that. Enough tactical/strategic goodies to make a really entertaining game, if done correctly. And I need my Honor fix too :mad: :mad:

How close is he to the most likely combat area? Has he seen any combat yet?

I was hoping for something worthy of the venerable X-COM's successor.

Everybody knows the US LOST in Vietnam. Millions of commies were killed, sure, but in the end they kept the country. Packing up and went home, leaving the battlefield to the enemy, is just an euphemism for a retreat, and defeat.

I don't ever remember losing this war. .... So basically, we just quit fighting and left. </font>

Make sure it's a pony. And a BBQ party...

So, in a low-light condition firefight, soldiers using active IR would at a great disadvantage over opponents using passive?

Lack of armor action in Vietnam, as I recall, was a major rationale for the "No CM:Vietnam" policy.

Not really as, the insurgents have set off EFPs on busy roadways to hit Coalition convoys as they pass through traffic. An ordinary car won't even phase an EFP, it can cut through armor like a hot knife through butter, whats rusty sheet metal going to do? </font>

The irony is reducing collateral damage is a PR boost for the insurgents as well... By using EFP they negate the MRAP's protection while at the same time score some PR points.

Mr. Picky would like to point out that the Hetzer was not, a tank.

Bright indeed, in a dark kind of way...

Regarding IED vs MRAP, my opinion is that from the insurgents' POV, it's another victory for them. They have succesfully forced the US to spend extra gazillion dollars to upgrade their vehicles and protect their supply lines. And for a freakingly tiny portion of that money, they can adapt to keep their leverage, either by building even larger IEDs, manufacturing/importing EFPs, and/or devising new tactics. The (crude) cost/expenditure analysis is in favor of the insurgents.

Why would they wanna inspect military equipments on their way to the front?