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Been enjoying Snakeye's excellent "UK Helluva Takeover", the sequel to his also excellent "A Helluva Road Opening" (available in NATO and USMC versions).

The huge maps featured in these scenarios are brilliant - very craggy and majestic cliffs etc.  They would be outstanding for any Afghanistan scenario or campaign (better than for Syria possibly).  Hope designers pick up on this and use these maps.

Re this scenario, one aspect that is a lot of fun is that several of the Humvees have dismountable weapons eg:  50 cal, AGL, and TOW's.  (Note that Brit forces in other scenarios also feature this for their soft vehicles.)  

However, one issue is that if the support weapon team loses guys, these heavy weapons become immovable - and as a result are often useless in not in a lucky location.  It would be realistic as well as help the game if team survivors could voluntarily abandon such weapons so they could be used in other ways.

Of course others have also asked for this feature for all heavy support weapons (eg: ATG's).  Hopefully this will eventually be made possible in the same way that one can abandon useless vehicles.

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10 hours ago, Erwin said:

The huge maps featured in these scenarios are brilliant - very craggy and majestic cliffs etc.  They would be outstanding for any Afghanistan scenario or campaign (better than for Syria possibly).  Hope designers pick up on this and use these maps.

Cheers for the heads up, always interested in decent maps.  B)

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I recall one anecdote from the Iraq war. A soldier received a huge bill from the US government for the cost of his missing body armor *which had been cut off him by field hospital doctors trying to save his life.*  If you're going to abandon a U.S. government TOW missile launcher and walk away you might as well ask the enemy to kill you now because it'll be easier.

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