Muzzleflash1990

Just my 2 cents...
Spotting from INSIDE a vehicle: yes, horrific small field of view and in our little CM game if I have my tank NOT SEE an enemy AT infantry team in a nearby area, I feel like that is not a thing to complain about.
But I see in a CMRT Warsaw Uprising 1944 Mod that German tanks roll down the street and the turret slews over to sniper nail the enemy AT team hiding in a building. WTF?
In CMFB I have a US Army bazooka team NOT seeing an enemy tank driving all around them. I see as the player a quiet little spotting enemy "?" icon dancing and floating around to indicate they hear something but the game code has no specific sound effect wave file it ques up, a revving or idling of the engine or maybe squeaking of tracks? nope, nothing, the explanation usually given is they have their heads down in fear and are not seeing it or the wind is blowing or the darkness or visibility or Cognac.
SPOTTING IS BROKEN. SPOTTING ISN'T BROKEN. SPOTTING MIGHT BE IMPROVED OR TWEAKED. WE HAVE NO TIME. BUSY WITH OTHER STUFF. CHARLES IS THE ONLY GUY TO GO IN AND CHANGE THE CODE. HE AINT DOING THAT EVER MAYBE.   
 
 

I am guessing it is Mk20 for air support? For the Mk20, what I could find, one source said the area was around 4800 square metres, another 10,000. That leaves means each submunition covers ~20 square meters in the ideal case and a T-72 occupies around ~25 square meters. From Hapless video, it seems like the distribution is uneven with way more near the center, but the density looked about right. A Norwegian report I found suggested the M483A1 with 88 bomblets covers an area of 18,000 square meters, making each bomblet cover ~200 square meters, and that the pattern from tube based artillery is uneven. Good thing they fire in batteries then.

Because in real life you're not ordering a squad to go to an action square. In real life you could order them to "go to the top of this hill, to whatever position will just barely give you direct line of sight to that building on the corner that 2nd platoon is taking fire from." That is why we need a good LOS tool. We in the game have to micro-manage, since we're the brains and eyes of every single team leader, squad leader, platoon commander, company commander, vehicle commander, etc., etc....

You are talking about danger spaces, most specifically the one closest to the target.

If they integrated with Steams networking utilities (or some other 3rd partner) we could get direct connections instead of having to port forward. This would help with the "live" TCP/IP modes. In my country at least, Carrier-Grade NAT is the norm, so no amount of fiddling will get port forwarding working for you. I have to resort to VPNs for TCP/IP.

If they integrated with Steams networking utilities (or some other 3rd partner) we could get direct connections instead of having to port forward. This would help with the "live" TCP/IP modes. In my country at least, Carrier-Grade NAT is the norm, so no amount of fiddling will get port forwarding working for you. I have to resort to VPNs for TCP/IP.

Ah, well welcome.  You will find tactics are really only the notes, the music is always the stories these games tell and I am glad you are enjoying it.

Thanks for the spot, I eyeballed it whilst doing earlier but I think I got a bit carried away adjusting the text slightly over the map markings resulting in them being a bit off centre which I agree isn't great!
I have redone the CMBN and CMFB ones and centred the text as much as possible. Have also added CMFI and CMRT (the menu in these games seems to be lower placed so they have slightly different layouts.) Will do the modern titles another weekend 
As above grab them all on on Dropbox here > https://www.dropbox.com/sh/thquh9eho9moww8/AACz2okbQ1BxvHbfyBEPB1KCa?dl=0

Out of curiosity where is best to post the completed set? In the General CM Mod tips sub forum, or on the Mod Warehouse website? I also notice I can't edit my original post in this thread to change the preview images - is that something a Moderator can do for me or are the original posts locked forever after a certain time? (long long time lurker but only recent poster so apologies for being unsure how best things work here!)
Thanks all, enjoy your wargaming. 

I just wish the Soviet squads didn't have all sub machinguns and run out of ammo in five turns.

I've been messing with QB battles and I noticed the US infantry squads in SF have little ammo compared to BS. I know the ammo caliber is shared among all members, but each infantry soldier contributes to the squad ammo "pool". Of the 9 man US infantry squad, 7 are riflemen, and by comparing with other units, and splits squads, one can easily deduce that each rifleman carries (contributes) 210 rounds for a (sub-)total of 1470 rounds (a minor exception in BS is the one carrying the M110 changing 210 5.56 for 140 7.62).
In Shock Force the squad carries 1870 rounds giving a total of 400 rounds for the SAW gunners, or 200 rounds each - only a single 200 round box magazine.
In Black Sea the squad carries 3470 rounds giving a total of 2000 rounds for the SAW gunners, or 1000 rounds each.
Maybe the load carried in fictional Syria was/should be lower than that of expecting a fight against Russia in eastern Europe, but the Shock force numbers seems sorta ridiculous for the SAW gunner to contribute fewer rounds than the rifleman. Of course you can partially workaround this if you are using the carrier vehicles and acquire, but it is possible to play with only dismounts.
Any thoughts?

I've been messing with QB battles and I noticed the US infantry squads in SF have little ammo compared to BS. I know the ammo caliber is shared among all members, but each infantry soldier contributes to the squad ammo "pool". Of the 9 man US infantry squad, 7 are riflemen, and by comparing with other units, and splits squads, one can easily deduce that each rifleman carries (contributes) 210 rounds for a (sub-)total of 1470 rounds (a minor exception in BS is the one carrying the M110 changing 210 5.56 for 140 7.62).
In Shock Force the squad carries 1870 rounds giving a total of 400 rounds for the SAW gunners, or 200 rounds each - only a single 200 round box magazine.
In Black Sea the squad carries 3470 rounds giving a total of 2000 rounds for the SAW gunners, or 1000 rounds each.
Maybe the load carried in fictional Syria was/should be lower than that of expecting a fight against Russia in eastern Europe, but the Shock force numbers seems sorta ridiculous for the SAW gunner to contribute fewer rounds than the rifleman. Of course you can partially workaround this if you are using the carrier vehicles and acquire, but it is possible to play with only dismounts.
Any thoughts?

12. Surprise me - I'm certain to love it
Korea 1950
WW2 Pacific
WW1
Horses

10. Enhanced Modding Support
add units
equipment
functionality
ingame OOB editor

9. One Engine - CMx3
game performance improvments, graphics improvements, ray tracing, intermediate distance bitmaps
additional editor features, dynamic operational campaigns
additional gameplay features, coop, LoS tool, visible aircraft

7. "Fulda Gap": 1970-90
Europe WWIII

5. Arab-Israeli Wars: 1948–49, 56, 67, 73, 82, and 2006
Israeli War of Independence, 1948-49
Suez Crisis, 1956
Six Day War, 1967
Yom Kippur War, 1973
Lebanon Wars, 1982 & 2006

3. Afrika Korps: 1940-43 
WWII North Africa
Operation Torch, American North Africa Invasion Libya, Egypt, and Tunis 1942-43