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Destroying bridges is possible in CMSF2 with the use of IEDs in scenarios specifically designed for bridge destruction. This is as close as we can to bridge demo in CM. Most scenarios use occupy and touch objectives as explained above by Womble. Maybe someday. CMSF2 Scenario Coup d'etat.

A farm tractor for CMBS would be cool and useful ......

A cool NTC mod by @Kuli. The below screenshot is kind of dark. It should show the OPFOR shoulder patch and OPFOR above the pocket.

+1 Sounds like a good title for a scenario.

Why not? Sounds like a good idea. Has he opposed the idea in some way?

Thank you. Glad to have you back in the neighborhood.

+1. Very cool. Good job.

Welcome back!!

+1. Good stuff! Thank you for the update @Bil Hardenberger. This kind of stuff makes a great game even greater!!

Wow. This guy is a Russian senator but seems out of touch with reality. I don't think he understands the predicament the Russian Federation is in. They are going to keep this destructive behavior up until they destroy their military, economy, political system, etc. The entire house of cards will collapse with this attitude. Some rational, pragmatic, sensible Russian power brokers need to wake up and end this. For their own survival if nothing else. I wonder how many different pieces the Russian Federation may dissolve into....... Map makers will be busy I guess.

+1. Good stuff.

Paging @kohlenklau.

@Rinaldi Interesting AAR. It was also useful to see it fought from both sides. Thanks for sharing it.

This is a good SOP and, for me, one of the Lessons Learned from this war.

For me the friction, incompetence, and brutal behavior of the Russians has been one of the great surprises in this war. Apparently the best, most capable, most experienced and to be feared Soviet / Russian unit are those belonging to the 60th Motorized Rifle Division (MRD). Composed of the 125th Guards Tank Regiment and the 32nd Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment (MRR). These are the units that compose the OPFOR at the National Training Center (NTC) at Ft. Irwin California. Looking back I now suspect the real Soviets / Russians were never close to being as good as the OPFOR. Thanks for your input and service. Pretty cool to have an NTC Observer/Controller/Trainer on the forum. Which has been a real eye opener. I had thought the Russia army was a modern, professional force that would attempt to follow basic human values and respect (as much as possible) civilians and private property. I was stupid wrong. +1. Back in the late 1980s I worked in the Division TOC as a member of the 82nd Airborne. The footprint of the TOC and all the other HQ units was large and noisy with field generators running 24/7. An 11B friend of mine told a story of his platoon training in the woods of Ft. Bragg. They came across the Division HQ, also setup in the woods training. He was amazed by all the equipment, activity and com wire running into the area. He jokingly said they thought they stumbled onto a small city out in the woods.

This sounds very reasonable and in theory maybe this is how it should be or once was. However, I have to agree with @keas66. He was referring to the MSM (Main Stream Media) which you called "generalist media". I think your talking about CNN, MSNBC, BBC, etc. when you say "generalist"? The MSM often went into great detail and analyst about the war, especially in the beginning. It was almost non-stop details and analysist that was often wrong. Kyiv was about to fall, Zelenskyy needs to leave the capital, Poland might be invaded, nukes are possible, Putin needs an off ramp etc. They had generals and colonels standing in front of map boards giving detailed analysis. Lots of photos of IFVs / APCs generically called tanks. Many experts and analysts giving their detailed input. At the bottom of the screen the talking head often had expert, analyst, general, colonel, SF operator etc. in their title. But we knew they were wrong because we had this forum topic. I couldn't (still can't really) get enough of it. So I switched back and forth between six or seven MSM channels plus u-tube, twitter, internet, etc. It was (is) all very interesting. But one thing that became obvious was that the MSM was often wrong. Even when they were right they were a week or more behind actual events on the ground. If the MSM was delivering a broad stroke first draft of the situation they were selling it as detailed expert analysis which was often wrong and out dated. In an AAR of this historical event I think it is fair / appropriate to point this out.

Made me think of a very old but relevant topic. Please excuse Photobucket's vandalism.

Welcome back. I also gave MIUS a look through videos and reading forums. IMO it is an interesting game but would take some time and effort to properly learn. It has some very cool graphics. However it does not have a playback feature like CM and, as you mentioned, is only real time. I think this often compels players to play zoomed out in an attempt to keep track of everything going on (so much for seeing close-ups of all the cool graphics). Then if the player is lucky enough to notice something cool (like a tank turret blowing off a tank) there is no way to replay, zoom in, watch from different angles, in order to take screenshots etc. Maybe more importantly replay is useful for learning what/why/how a tactic worked or failed and unfortunately MIUS doesn't have it. So ultimately I decided it wasn't worth the investment of time and effort to purchase and properly learn MIUS. I do, however, enjoy the occasional MIUS gameplay video.

Dangerous window. Territorial Defense (TD) unit with a Corsar ATGM.

+1. Nice map with a lot of potential for creating scenarios on.

This is, for the most part, possible now. Lower the headcount to 70% the supply to limited, motivation to low some of the unit experience to conscript or green to show the difference between conscript and contract Russian troops etc. Maybe fitness to weakened if the scenario has them out of supply for weeks at the scenarios beginning etc. Set ground conditions to muddy etc. There are many possibilities with the Combat Mission editor. The addition of tractors with the capability to actually tow OpFor armored vehicles would be useful ..........

Russian tank hit by an AI controlled Bayraktar (Actually a Gray Eagle).

I think the different letters were for different areas of operations. At least originally when the war started. There is some detailed discussion about the letters in the CMBS "How hot is Ukraine going to get" topic. IIRC the uniform mod was made by @Blimey. I think he was just trying to portray hybrid forces.

I generally have tank platoon leaders in the fight. However they are almost always buttoned up.