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Yeah, it is kinda silly, because at that point doctrine breaks down and you start looking for ways to just game the hell out of the AI, rather than implement a realistic solution- In the case of that scenario, I'm pretty sure the common sense solution would be to back off and wait for BDE to provide escalation options.

Unfortunately, the map design sometimes doesn't offer enough "back" compared to "close."

Um, yeah, pretty much all of us knew that...? There was a mission in CMSF featuring the AT platoon of a Stryker Bn versus attacking Syrian armor in fact.

McMasters quote was referring to DPICM leaving the US inventory, compared Russia which remains a huge fan of the stuff. Ironically, the article includes an anecdote about Russia's ability to essentially vaporize two mechanized battalions with their firepower. Gone, kaput. The moral of that story appears to be that winning the fires fight is key above all else and attempting to fight from the wrong end of the supporting fires ratio is a fool's errand.

Those are direct quotes. They even link back to the post in question, so people can look for themselves to see the full context. Now, are you going address the Stryker vs. cattle truck/Humvee portion of my post or ignore it like the rest of points raised against you?

... Someone remind me again how much integral AT firepower an old M113 or a cattle truck carried again? Anyway, the actual limit on the number of heavy brigades in the Army is budgetary, so the choice isn't Stryker vs. Bradley; it is Stryker vs. dudes in Humvees and cattle trucks.

Yeah, the infantrymen carry the 81mm WP round with det cord wrapped around it. They throw it into the building themselves, not fire it out of the mortar tube, lol.

We can just explode their innards with thermobaric weapons. And when it comes time to burning people out of fortified buildings, Marines just went with the field expedient solutions of stuff like det cord wrapped around an 81mm WP or a propane tank.

It's 1915. You're sitting in a briefing for next week's exercise. Your platoon sergeants are all at a SNCO PME held at Hooters. Do you know where your Specialists are?

Did it ever occur to ask yourself why they would use an objectively inferior, but still politically ruinous, dirty bomb rather than just having the Russians sling actual nukes?

Just sayin' guys: They aren't really pushing anything too far outside the automotive limits of their tank and every other tank that did that event made it through without flipping over.

That's what happens when you drift off the hardball onto soft soil.

I usually only pause to go to the bathroom or answer the phone. It isn't hard once you develop a rhythmn.

AFAICT, spotting rounds don't count against the FFE round count.

High-end German armor gets hit with increased rarity in CMBN because it was legitimately uncommon overall. The majority of the German force mix was something like StuGs and Mk IVs. If ninety percent of their armor had been Panthers and Tigers, they would get the common modifier and no rarity costs. That's effectively the situation with the US Army in 2017 CMBS. That being said, baseline price is already higher (much higher) for US forces.

Yeah, other than a decent micro/macro rhythmn, there isn't much else. CMx2 isn't exactly blazing the trail for UI so you just have to get used to fighting the interface to get things done.

You have to explain how you lost that one, because that's some ridiculousness.

Have you tried fighting from a raised three-quarter camera position that keeps most of your men in view? That's what I do and I can usually manage a company on the attack. Granted, that means I'm generally only pushing a platoon around at once, while the two or three others are lending support and mostly static. Other than that, I (rarely) smack the pause button when things get too intense.

It almost certainly would beat being assigned to a light infantry unit.

An individual infantryman costs over $100,000 to recruit, train and equipment, on average.

Firepower kills.

Mechanized infantry can do all those things. That was Iraq. Additionally, the people who crucified him were Rumsfeld and company, who espoused a view encouraging extremely light infantry (in the form of SOF) formations that relied almost entirely on airpower to do the killing while poo-pooing heavy forces as obsolete for modern warfighting.

Gaben's already raped my wallet hard enough.

Not a huge deal, I knew what you meant.

Because he never intended to invade Saudi Arabia. It's important to remember that Kuwait was, historically-speaking, a rather wealthy province of Iraq. It was broken off from Iraq in 1920 (IIRC) by the British to prevent the Iraqis from having meaningful access to the Persian Gulf, forming a rump state created out of whole cloth. There was a modest reunification movement in Kuwait, but it never amounted to much. All that would have been somewhat acceptable, but the Kuwaitis actually snatched territory from Iraqis while they were fighting in the Iran-Iraq War, then used slanted drilling equipment to quite literally steal Iraqi oil from under their noses. Additionally, the Iraqi government owed quite a bit to Kuwait (and, to be fair, Saudi Arabia) and the Kuwaitis were quite... abrasive in their demands for repayment. So Saddam had plenty of reasons (some of them good) to be angry as a hornet's nest at Kuwait... or rather, the British-aligned Kuwaiti royal family. Saudi Arabia was much less arrogant in its dealings with Iraq and was an on-again, off-again supporter of Iraqi interests. Of course, we weren't about to let Saddam just topple our ally because he was butthurt about lines moving on a map, some stolen oil and having to repay his war loans. We especially weren't about to let him play the stupid "I am so inscrutable, woooo, maybe I'll invade, wooo, maybe I won't, woooo..." game with Saudi Arabia, though that is more the benefit of hindsight talking. Operationally, it made a lot of sense to keep a lot of troops on the Saudi border, including his best formations, but strategically, it was untenable and basically guaranteed a massive, unbeatable coalition arrayed against him, in spite of the fact that he had no intention of doing anything other than gobbling Kuwait.