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Bloody Bill

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  1. I do agree and updated modern engine would be fantastic.  There is no other game/simulation out there that even compares to combat mission.  I do really enjoy the game as is but would not be against a smoother game with eye candy :)

    I have been around a while but do not comment much.  I have had a lot of people tell me they like the concept of this series just not the look and they don't even give it a try....which is a mistake because combat mission is wonderful.  Would I love to see smooth graphics with more intense immersive detail...Hell ya!  I do not need it to enjoy the game though.  I truly do not know the effort it would take to bring combat mission into 2017 as I enjoy the game as a player but do not know the technical side at all.  I do believe if the series was modernized and eye candy added they would benefit greatly from that.

  2. Hey guys, I thought I would dip into the scenario making just to see how it works.  What started as a small thing turned into a monster that I didn't want to stop working on.  I have decided to let you gents have a look and see what kind of feedback you more experienced guys can give me.  Its a fictional fight based on real events.  I took the idea from John Tillers "Panzer Battles".   I hope you enjoy.

     

    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/107423573/Bloody-Hill 192.rar

  3. @c3k I am not sure if you ever served in the military.  Common sense on building vehicles, spending money our footprint or maintenance is never thought of it seems.  Look at the massive support that is needed to keep a platoon of Abrams going.  Design of the Saic could change by the time it is deployed and most likely will change after it is used in real world.  Marines don't care how they get to the fight they just want to get to it.  Marine Amtracs have crossed many miles of desert and stayed very effective in transporting and supporting Marines.

    As for your jet-ski battalion you had just better hope the enemy has no modern ability to use Arty with cluster rounds or your battalion is dead in the water.

    I do not know why the saic would not hold a full squad the only reasoning I was ever told was for the survivability situation I posted above.

     

     

  4. I was curious to a situation that happened to me twice in the same battle.  I unfortunately did not get a pic.   The situation was this.....I was fighting the AI my Panzer IV took out a Sherman and there was another one behind it and my Panzer kept firing but naturally hitting the dead Sherman blowing it up more and more.  The problem was the Sherman behind was able to rotate its barrel inside of the dead Sherman and fire and kill multiple targets all the while have a shield in front of it.

     

    Had the same kind of situation with a Churchill tank shooting through another Churchill that was knocked out. 

    I always thought wrecks stopped rounds from both sides...am I wrong in this or maybe  I just never noticed before.

  5. As a Marine myself (medically retired) I loved the old AAV7's.  As being attached to an engineer unit we were at sea way to much and got to land on a few shore lines.  The idea of the saic as I understand it is to have two vehicles carry a squad.  One vehicle with two fire teams in it and the other with squad command a fire team and more gear.  Less lives lost if a vehicle is destroyed.

  6. On ‎6‎/‎24‎/‎2016 at 0:46 AM, John Kettler said:

    Bloody Bill,

    You did just fine and neatly depicted the confusion of a meeting engagement. Thanks much for doing this. Half the time I couldn't figure out who was doing what, where or why!  Looked to me as though the Germans ran a terrible exchange ratio vs the Russians, who seemed to have loads of tanks. How old are your sons, and was it the older who beat the younger, or was there an upset crushing victory? What were the force buys and soft factors? Finally, I now have a major case of tank envy. Those IS-2s look mean. Are there any mods to the tanks?

    Regards,

    John Kettler

    Hey John.  My boys are 16(Russian player) and 13(German player).  They have played a few CM games against each other and absolutely love the game.  We normally don't play meeting engagements.  We decide attacker/defender by a die roll and we ended up picking this scenario.  They both got confused during the battle as they both wanted to attack and defend at the same time so neither one truly committed to an attack.  They seemed to of traded losses until the IS-2s made a presence than the Germans were done.  The younger brother has sworn vengeance and we are currently getting another battle ready.  I don't remember the exact scenario they played but it was all armor with some supporting tank riders for both sides.

    Glad you enjoyed the battle.  I think I am going to pick up the Italy bundle as they watched a video that PanzerPajamas put up and are reading all the Italy information they can find.

  7. 2 hours ago, Pak40 said:

    I do recall seeing this in documentary, probably on the History Channel. IIRC, the real life camera man was being interviewed or narrating the footage. I wish I knew the title of the documentary.

    There was a documentary with this in it I watched.  It was mainly about U.S. Armor during the war.  How U.S. tanks were killed in mass in a lot of fights.  One of the guys in the documentary was a maintenance chief talking about cleaning out the tanks when they were recovered.  I don't know how accurate this is since I have never seen the data but he stated that the U.S. tank Battalion he was with lost five tanks to every one German tank.

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