Combatintman

The FO thing is not a bug, despite your insistence that it is. You got him killed and the campaign script hasn't allowed for him to be replaced - take it up with the campaign designer rather than bumping your gums that it is a bug. FOs were not two a penny in WW2 and took a long time to train so it is entirely plausible that for the duration of the campaign, there is insufficient time to identify a battle casualty replacement and bring them forward. I offer no comment on the half-track thing other than it does seem counterintuitive for a vehicle to show up at the start of every battle after its crew has been killed.

Of course you can - how's C2 going to work then?

Nope it is a Small Metal Gun ... as it was nicknamed popularly at the time - or as you say a Sterling SMG and in Army parlance, an L2A3. It's just the camera angle that is confusing you but you can clearly see the magazine is curved and knowing the weight difference between the Thompson and SMG, he wouldn't be carrying it as easily as he's carrying the SMG in the clip.

Are burning wrecks your thing then?

That's me in trouble then ...

@The_Capt - a British one would be more appropriate: Ok so this was the Falklands but the right era at least ... the bootneck with the moustache front left of the photo was a mate of my father's and was in the original NP 8901 and was one of the three who evaded capture for a few days after the original Argentine landings. He, like the rest of NP 8901 returned with the Task Force. Liked to drop his trousers in the pub to urinate off WW2 veterans who claimed that post WW2 conflicts "weren't real wars." He got shot in Borneo in 1966 during Confrontation and had the hole in his leg to prove it.

I use plain and simple old Paint and I don't have any issues with my overlays.

And more ... the legendary BV on the inside of the door of the FV432 plus the extremely rare FV-432 with the Rarden 30mm turret.

Well, he's wrong then. The British Army's Staff Officer's Handbook for 1978 has the same allocation of Charlie G in both Mech and Type A and B light role battalions - 36 in the battalion, 9 in the company, and 3 in the platoon. Moving forward in time, I was a reservist in a light role infantry battalion in 1984 and every rifle section had a Charlie G which I may or may not have had to cart around .

Nope, the Charlie G (Carl Gustav) came in before the 80s - off the top of my head, all of the British infantry TO&Es have Charlie G for the time period of the module.

My morale always drops when I get a Teams call invite if that helps ...

You can give AI units a facing by using ALT left click after you place the waypoint/location order.

Having written the TO&Es I can guarantee you there are a bunch of differences - the US and British mechanised infantry units will be very different indeed. No .50 cals on the AFVs, no Dragons and no TOW equivalents in any great numbers prior to the introduction of MILAN. So before that you get Wombat which will be a very much more tricky system to employ against T-64 than TOW. I also wouldn't expect to see CVR(T) en masse and of course the clue's in the name as to how they should be employed.

As @The_Capt explained the TO@Es aren't finalised but I think the Saladin, which I also love btw, would be a stretch because by that time it was pretty much relegated to other stuff like UNFICYP. Well just have to see.

I've accessed the free bits - it is pretty good but research elsewhere shows that it is not without its faults.

Bottom line yes there is a bridge bug - it is known but appears to have defeated all attempts to fix. Recent discussion on it here:

Actually my research in regimental journals turned up photos of the wedding of one of my former bosses, you don't get that stuff from the National Archives at Kew. I also found a whole load of stuff about @Pete Wenman's former regiment in the same time period. Now I get that wedding photos are not what we're after for research but there was a whole lot of good stuff that filled in the gaps from the more general sources. If I had the time then for sure I would dig deeper and have done so when researching battlefield tours but I found enough to make the campaign for which the basic map schematic that @The_Capt posted earlier in this thread.

The best online sources I have found are the regimental journals to be honest and trawling through the National Archives is not something that is within my bandwidth.

16th/5th Queen's Royal Lancers were there during the time frame of the draft British campaign which is set in the era of the very brief experiment to get rid of brigades and substitute them for four armoured divisions with two task forces under command plus a couple of Germany and UK-based field forces vice the three divisions that were previously fielded. It also explains why, as@The_Capthas explained, that we have a whole bunch of British TO&Es for potential inclusion as this was an era of chopping and changing - or to put it another way ... something that worked was changed for something that didn't and was (mostly) changed back to the thing that worked in the first place. To say it was challenging to research is an understatement as almost nothing of substance on 1 (BR) Corps task forces in the late 70s is readily available on the internet. Most Cold War stuff that is readily available covers the period from 1985 until the end of the Cold War.

As someone still on the Australian Army's books ... I am glad that Steve never mentioned such a game in this year's outlook.

QBs only recognise occupy objectives ... the manual explains this ... So the exit objectives could be the problem here given firstly the occupy thing plus the casualty calculation thing. Although not stated in the manual, I am pretty sure that you cannot have asymmetric objectives in QBs; however, over the years in picking at the problem I have tried and failed to understand how to put a decent QB together. @benparkknows a thing or two about these so he might be able to offer some grown-up advice.

Yeah ... being handed a can of the Australian beer that only about a dozen Australians drink would have been like the confusion in the Crocodile Dundee film when Hoges lands in the US.

Winter uniform for the Brits was the same as the summer uniform - so yes you're getting them.

You obviously don't work in the vehicle insurance industry

Water is a basic need - I think you'll find that the earliest settlements were close to water courses.