Boche

The part of all the important gear evaporating on the eve of the invasion is astonishing. As we all know corruption is rife in the R.Army but man...how many lives did that "little act" cost.

Hello again, 
 
The second mission is out : https://www.thefewgoodmen.com/tsd3/cm-shock-force-2-2/cm-shock-force-2-scenarios/cmsf2-oil-thirst-02-striking-the-hornets-nest/ 
This time syrians forces must destroy USMC units. Red vs BLUE to play as RED. 
Enjoy

Hello all,
Due to lifes and some other reason Letha and I wont be able to release as inteded the campaign. But the good news is all the missions( eleven of them) are ready(or almost) and will be release as standalone scenarii one by one:
Mission one : https://www.thefewgoodmen.com/tsd3/uncategorized/oil-thirst-01-hell-in-the-kitchen/
Hope you enjoy and have fun with it !
Regard's,

"This is not how a war is waged"
Well, she is right about something...lol

"This is not how a war is waged"
Well, she is right about something...lol

None taken mate! and no, I'm not wobbly I was just reacting to the 'ah, don't worry, the Ivans are sure to eff this up as well' statements.
While meanwhile @Haiduk is reporting some very real consternation from the ground there.
So I popped some red smoke, people responded and I think we are all now looking at this more soberly. Cheers!

So ... I was thinking the other day ... if only there was a war game that had a lot of the equipment and forces used in the current conflict/special military operation in which you could build maps and stuff ...
Map size 4,800m wide by 3,664m deep
Topo overlay

Satellite overlay

CM overhead ...

Where it is in Ukraine
Chervone Overlay.kmz
A couple of comparisons ...


The Combat Mission Black Sea map file ...
Chervone.btt
Just a map folks so no you can't do a QB on it or play it unless you actually click the editor button and add forces and plans etc.  Will this be a scenario one day ... hopefully.
I was prompted to make it because it looked like a BTG or two were going to roll south towards Barvinkove having rolled into Velyka Komyshuvakha towards the end of April and I though it would be worth seeing how it looked in Combat Mission and whether a scenario or two could be built around it - there's definitely meat there for sure so hopefully I can put something together.  If I do so it will be the subject of a separate thread.

A joke I saw a week ago elsewhere.
Russian mother calls her son, finds out he's in Ukraine.
"Why are you there?" she asks.
"It's a special military operation."
"A war? Will you be ok?"
"No mother, a special military operation. It's a proxy war between Russia and NATO, not a real war."
"Oh, that's good to hear," she says, "how's it going?"
"Well," he replies, "so far we've had 20,000 casualties, lost 1200 tanks and several thousand other armoured and military vehicles, had a cruiser sank and lost most of our officers."
"Oh," said his mother, "That doesn't sound too promising. How is NATO doing?"
"They haven't turned up yet."

The expenditure comparison for VII corps between WW2 and Desert Storm is insane.  331 days vs 4...wow.

The expenditure comparison for VII corps between WW2 and Desert Storm is insane.  331 days vs 4...wow.

An insightful thread on Russian logistics for the current fighting, where the supply lines of frontline BTGs are stretched longer than the Soviet norm for divisions:
TL;DR: Popasna direction is in trouble:

Soviet logistic tails:

Daily supply needs of Russian BTGs and artillery brigades, not including fuel and water:

Interesting expenditure statistics for the US:

good one, but this one was better
https://24tv.ua/u_rosiyi_z_9_travnya_privitali_plakatami_z_natsistami_voni_oglyadayut_pidbitiy_radyanskiy_tank_n1147618
They really have no clue what they are even celebrating at this point, let alone how their soldiers looked at the time
 

Im currently in a Spike equipped section, and If Spikes do make it to Ukraine I will be extremely happy. With a good amout of simulator time a group of guys can become VERY proficient at NLOS sniping in a matter of hours. I hadnt touched the system and was doing NLOS attacks (in the simulator) in an hour.

I gather that among the EU countries there should be around 10K SpikeLR misiles and 1K launchers at least. When UA runs out of Stugnas, those would constitute a hell of a backup option.

Im currently in a Spike equipped section, and If Spikes do make it to Ukraine I will be extremely happy. With a good amout of simulator time a group of guys can become VERY proficient at NLOS sniping in a matter of hours. I hadnt touched the system and was doing NLOS attacks (in the simulator) in an hour.

Im currently in a Spike equipped section, and If Spikes do make it to Ukraine I will be extremely happy. With a good amout of simulator time a group of guys can become VERY proficient at NLOS sniping in a matter of hours. I hadnt touched the system and was doing NLOS attacks (in the simulator) in an hour.

Way ahead of you ...

Had to reorient the map to get the roads to sit better.

In Spain it is different. The far-right party VOX supports Ukraine. Being nationalists, they do not forget Putin's role in supporting the Catalan separatists with propaganda through social networks, especially on the occasion of the illegal referendum of October 1, 2017.
And by the way, it is the reason that as a non-separatist Catalan (it is often unknown that non-separatists are the majority in Catalonia), I HATE Putin deeply and completely. There were separatists who went to Russia to ask for help, not only propaganda but also economic and military. If Spain had had a border with Russia, we would have had a war in Catalonia similar to the one in Donbas.
On March 9, the plenary session of the European Parliament approved a report on disinformation and foreign interference in the democratic processes of the EU, which includes a reference to the "close and regular contacts between Russian officials and representatives of a group of Catalan secessionists in Spain" and how these have been part of Russia's strategy to "destabilize" democracy in the EU.
Putin is a cancer that can only be cured by removing it.

Could very well be! 

Thats a spanish Instalanza C-90

CMBS Ukraine 2022 Scenario 1  The Coup  -  scenario ends 14 April 2022
Russia victory objectives:
1. Remove Zelensky
2. Install puppet administation
3. Occupy Ukraine east of Kiev
4. Occupy Ukraine west to Lvov
Russia score  =  0
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CMBS Ukraine 2022  Scenario 2 The Pause  - scenario ends  31st May 2022
Russia victory objectives:
1. Putin still in power
2. Crimea still in Russian hands
3. South and East Ukraine "de-nazified"  (obliterated, massacred, etc..)
4. 100,000 Russian boots still in Ukraine   
5. Bonus objective: Germany still buying gas.
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Any bets on Russian points at the scenario end?

To get the campaign ribbon you have to read all 500 pages.  Good luck.