SgtMuhammed

I tried to post my own review but you need to have purchased the item from Amazon before they will let you review it. For some reason I am reluctant to spend $5 or more on shipping for a pack of pens.

"Scientists from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) have devised an ultra-hard vehicle armour" I think the flexible plates they talk about at the end of the article will be used for body armor. The Bainite plates are for vehicles.

There are lots of things that would be really nice to see in the game but unfortunately don't really fit with what the game is actually supposed to simulate. I would love to see a B52 saturation bombing but we can't make maps that big.

Interesting. Seems like they are talking mainly about KE projectiles. I wonder if there is much improvement against HEAT munitions.

If they institute a "loser pays" system then these B.S. suits would vanish in short order.

The main thing it does is reduce the learning curve because you have at least some understanding of how various systems are supposed to work together. Of course different people have different experiences and learn different things but in general it helps with the big picture. It also gives you a wide range of curse words and phrases to use when your pixel troopen do something stupid.

Smoke works with older missions but if the artillery supply level is set low, as many of the early missions tended to be to try to balance things, then you will only have a few smoke rounds. Each section of 2 guns will normally only have enough smoke for one good screen. You might get a round or two for a second volley but not very often. If you run out of HE you are out of smoke as well but if you run out of smoke you will still be able to fire HE.

With US weapons, M16 or M4 for example, there is a recoil buffer that reduces the kick to nearly nothing. You can fire forever and not get a sore shoulder. 30 Rounds with a G3 feels like someone hit you with a bat if you aren't prepared for it. Not really sure about the newer weapons, I got out before I could play with those.

The mods should be although you might have to make specific ones for Marines. I would advise applying them one at a time till you know they are going to work. Some people seem to be having crashes due to conflicts but I don't know exactly which mods are problematic.

I tell you. Trying to stop a company of T90s with only the band is REALLY hard.

Just be glad the Germans didn't build it. The concept of "recoil buffer" seems not to have made it to the German army.

That might be it. The round probably continued through the target and struck the ground throwing up dust.

Made egress from target much easier.

Don't get me started on those guys.

The real killer is the 200mm version of the M203. You need some pretty hefty Weaver Rails for that one.

That's a feature not a bug.

Does it only happen in that scenario?

Shouldn't be. That wasn't one of the things we worked on.

I am not sure if the continued fire applies to vehicle mounted systems or not.

"More than 18 months later, we get CM again. Well done, what took you so long to realise that the customer is right and RT aint for serious wargaming!" I only play RT and have ZERO problems with any scenario in the game. Not quite sure how RT makes the game less than serious considering that I never once tested "Pooh" in WEGO and it seems to be kicking everyone's ass no matter how they play.

Why not? In a good hull down position the sight is pretty hard to spot. Even just being in a concealed position while stationary makes you hard to spot. Believe it or not real crewmen tend not to leave their vehicle sticking out like a sore thumb like you often see players do in the game.

Cabal23, There is a patch for the base game which is for people who don't have the Marines module installed and a Marine patch for those who have the Marines module. I'm not sure if putting the base 1.11 patch in the Marines version would cause problems or not but usually when I notice things like that it is because the data file is incorrect. Not sure what the error report thing might be.

Nice. They should have had it from the beginning. It's rare that you find a jem like the Javelin system. The faster they make maximum use of it the better.

That is a most likely a .BRZ file problem. Are you running vanilla CMSF or do you have Marines installed? Make sure that the patches match.

In regards to spotting here is a real life example: When I was OPFOR at Hohenfels we were fighting a meeting engagement against a Bradley unit. One of our guys was pinned in the woods about 500 meters from my position on the other side of a valley. My group of 4 BMPs began to engage to render assistance. I was a little farther down the side of the valley from the other three and behind a big bush so I was just going to wait for the other guys to take out the Brad. After about a minute or two or watching them peer through their sights and point and wave about (our BMPs were actually M113s with a simulated cannon on the pintle mount so everyone was unbuttoned with full fields of view) I figured that the Bradley must be in some deep cover and hard to spot. So I pulled around the bush and turned to have a look. There on the hill, half way up a snow covered slope and on the clear ground about 50 meters from the woodline was a NATO cammo painted Bradley desperately searching for our companion. You could see the turret slewing back and forth as he scanned the woodline. THE THING STOOD OUT LIKE A NEON SIGN. I turned around to look at the rest of my guys and just shook my head. It took me about a second to kill the Brad and immediately begin to berate the other crews for fighting with their eyes closed. As soon as the kill indicator light on the Bradley went off all three of the other vehicles said, "Oh, there it is." These were all highly trained crews with lots of experience on that exact piece of land. One of the vehicles was the LT's track and had three additional sets of eyes sticking out of the troop hatch in the back. NONE of them saw a thing till I killed the Brad. So strange things happen. Game wise, I have had multiple instances Syrian forces firing at US forces and not being spotted in return. I just played through my Schwend scenario and had a single T90 destroy an entire M1 platoon and half a Bradley company without taking a round of return fire and all engagements were from the front arc. Things happen.