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    Indirect Fire by On-Map units

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    Originally posted by undead reindeer cavalry:

    more seriously speaking any chance we could get a general non-major-European-nation non-nation-specific module some day? wouldn't need to have perfect OOBs and TOEs, just some common equipment like CV90. the meaningful differences between a Norwegian, Finnish or Dutch CV90 are so small that they could be modded by players by just changing textures, if the base model was there. or what about making some sort of in-house licensing for the engine, or just for some tools or service to import content made by strict BFC specific specs, so that a group of fans could make a "mod" that BFC could then sell as a mini-module?

    I hope at least one or two CV90s make it into the European module.
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    Oh joy! There goes next year!

    in Theatre of War

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    I remember once upon a time there was a Vietnam mod for CC3 that I liked very much.

    Anyway, Matrix says this new version will be a remake of CC3 with a lot of the flaws of the original fixed (i.e. girly infantry, ubertanks, force composition, etc). I'm looking forward to it. CC2 was one of my all time favorites and CC3 wasn't too bad either.

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    New Screen shots posted on the Blog by Moon

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    Will the readiness penalty apply to individual units based on what vehicle they were transported in? I.e. all other things being equal, will one Syrian squad suffer the same penalty getting out of a Ural truck as it would a BMP?

    Also, what about Syrian ADA? Most Sovbloc AAA (ZU-23, ZPU, ZSU-23-4, ZSU-57-2) have records of being used very extensively in ground combat roles. If they aren't in the initial release, might they make it into a module?

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    More Photos of the Day

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    Ben Murray / S&S

    This photo of Pfc. Ross McGinnis appeared on the front page of Stars and Stripes on Nov. 30, a few days before he died saving his comrades from a grenade thrown into their Humvee.

    He has been given the nation’s third-highest award for valor in combat after sacrificing himself for four of his fellow infantrymen in Iraq.

    Posthumously promoted to the rank of specialist, Ross Andrew McGinnis, of Company C, 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment out of Schweinfurt, Germany, was awarded the Silver Star after jumping on a grenade that had been thrown into his vehicle in Baghdad.

    While patrolling Baghdad’s Adhamiyah neighborhood with members of Cobra Platoon on Dec. 4, McGinnis was manning a .50-caliber machine gun from the turret in the last of a six-vehicle convoy. After making a turn onto a city street, an enemy fighter threw a grenade at McGinnis’ Humvee from a nearby rooftop.

    Immediately yelling “grenade” over the vehicle intercom, McGinnis tried to deflect it, but was unable, Baka said, and the grenade fell through his gunner’s hatch and into the truck.

    The truck commander, who was also McGinnis’ platoon sergeant, didn’t know that the grenade had gotten inside and shouted, “Where?” to McGinnis, who was posturing himself as if to jump out of the hatch.

    After realizing that the four other soldiers inside were trapped, their Humvee doors combat-locked, he answered, “The grenade is in the truck,” and threw himself on it, trapping the deadly explosive between his back and the radio mount.

    When the grenade went off, McGinnis was killed instantly. His warnings to the other crewmembers had given them time to react, and none of the other four were seriously wounded.

    “He had time to jump out of the truck,” his platoon sergeant, Sgt. 1st Class Cedric Thomas, was quoted as saying in a military news release. “He chose not to.”

    McGinnis was 19 years old when he was killed. story

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    Brave kid. Rest in peace.

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    New Screen shots posted on the Blog by Moon

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    Originally posted by Imperial Grunt:

    Although US Army mech infantry squads have the standard 9, I heard they have a odd way of mounting them in Bradleys due to limited space, especially when you throw in all the extra stuff.

    And the 11M motto is "Death before Dismount!" Just kidding. Actually I don't think the Army makes a distinction between light and mech infantry MOS's now.

    Yeah, the ODS Brads carry 7 dismounts each. I think the extra seat in the platoon is used for the medic?
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    Arty with only 2 guns per battery?

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    Originally posted by c3k:

    Again, my question is, "Why are _batteries_ being portrayed in the CMSF artilley example as having only 2 guns?"

    Probably because they're still in early beta/late alpha?

    Remember, in those screenshots it doesn't say anything about a battery with two guns. It just has the firing units broken down into two guns. I imagine you could get away with saying the other four guns in the battery are either mobile or rearming from the FAASVs or HEMMTs.

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    Arty with only 2 guns per battery?

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    I think two guns has been kind of standard in Iraq lately. I remember reading an AAR from Fallujah that mentioned that one of the batteries in direct support had only two guns up, and they only fired one gun for most missions (as the missions were usually against single structures or emplacements and didn't require anything more).

    Note, that this doesn't mean 2 guns per battery is normal, but thats what they're doing in Iraq right now. During OIF's initial phase I remember seeing 6-gun batteries from the Army and Marines.

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