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Some interesting information on Israeli leadership from W. Patrick Lang former Green Beret, former Defense Intelligence Officer for the Middle East, South Asia and Terrorism, and former West Point Professor of the Arabic Language at West Point. Looks like this is both relevant to the current discussion and to any attempt to model the Israeli army in a CMSF setting:

Definitely correct. You can order a DVD version of the Marine Module from the website. It is a bit more expensive than the Download version once you include the Shipping and Handling charges.

Care of Haaretz:

Aaah, well that would explain it then. It does seem awfully far away to be useful. Thanks everyone!

There is in fact a BMP-2 in the game, but it's pretty far away. Here's another screen shot showing the BMP-2 -- it's on the far-right corner of the screen. It seems too far away to be generating these as some kind of smoke screen. I guess I can finish up the game, reload the save and then ceasefire and see where everything is. Last game I had them in there was also a BMP-2, probably about the same distance away from the smoke smudges as the ones in the screenshots, although I thought at the time, neither he nor I had seen each other.

I've got some strange dark black smoke clouds which are showing up in my Quick Battles. I had them in my previous Quick Battle and now I'm seeing them in the current one. Last time I didn't have anything except for infantry around the area and they weren't shooting at the time. This time, there's more going on, but I don't see any of my troops or vehicles shooting anything that looks like it would cause the smoke clouds. Does anyone know what these are?

Okay, I got FRAPS. Thanks guys. Failure of my print screen must be a video card device driver thing or something.

I tried that. I get a big black 1920x1200 square.

Is there an easy way to create a screen shot in CMSF?

Is that realistic or gamey? Would this happen in real life?

I agree that would be very handy. I had a squad pickup a Javelin along with CLU and then when the threat had been taken care of, I wanted to be able to drop things back off in the Stryker, and as near as I can tell there is no way to do that.

Yeah, I buy the grenades. But as far as bullets goes, as someone reported in the Sniper Resupply thread, the M107 .50 caliber Sniper Rifle has 20 bullets. I can't imagine a Sniper Team would just start shooting the M107 randomly into the building. I mean I guess they could if ordered, but would you really kill/incapacitate that many people shooting 20 bullets randomly through the walls. I guess it would depend on how big the building is.

You area fired with a sniper team and half the Syrians were killed? What? I don't see how that would make sense unless the sniper team decided not to use the sniper rifle and instead switched to grenades. Note I'm not saying that that's not what happened, just that it doesn't make sense and indicates a problem with CMSF's simulation.

Any recommendation on unbuttoning on US tanks? I unbuttoned my Abrams in the first scenario of the main campaign and when I checked back latter, 2 of my tank commanders were down. I think the nearest enemy was almost 1km out, so it wasn't like I had closed on enemy infantry with them or anything.

I like that. That also has the benefit that non-grogs/non-military people won't have to scurry over to the manual to figure out if the squad's weapons use 5.56 or 7.62.

Personally I think it's very useful to see who is firing at whom.

I don't think there's much point in waiting for the British module, unless you really want to play the Brits and not the Americans. Battlefront is constantly improving the game. I just copied the Readme file for patches 1.03 to 1.11 into Microsoft Word to give you an estimate on how many improvements they've made and it came out to 31 pages or 757 paragraphs -- truly mind boggling. Now not all those 757 paragraphs represents an individual improvement -- some of the document is double spaced (so two paragraphs per improvement in those sections) and some of the paragraphs are headings, etc., but still we're probably talking 300+ improvements in the past year and a half. So if you're just going to wait until Battlefront stops improving the game, you're going to be waiting a long time. I'm sure there will be improvements when the British module comes out, but there will probably be more improvements coming out after the module too. Then you'll be wanting to wait for the NATO module.

If you're talking about the 2nd Campaign Airbase Assault mission on the regular (i.e., non-Marine) campaign, if you check the conditions the Civilian Density is set to low. I think basically since the scenario takes place on a military base, any vehicle movement seen is considered hostile.

I'm curious as to how much of a difference binoculars make. Sounds like from the spotting changes thread neither the binocular equipped nor the non-binocular equipped teams could spot a nearby Syrian team. Seems like binoculars should not only increase ability to see other units, but could potentially make a big difference in determining what kind of units they were.

Dietrich, did you copy this down backwards, or did they really fire more shots with the Target Light then with the regular Target command -- because that would be bad?

Steiner, how would you do this in turn-based mode? Would you do something like a quick forward, followed by a 15 second pause at the ridgeline, followed by a reverse? Or is this maneuver mostly only doable in real-time mode?

Random question from a civilian, what about tankers -- do they experience the same puking, bruising, etc? Also Bradley Dick mentioned it was dark in the back of a Bradley. I had an opportunity to clamber around inside some tanks at the Military Vehicle Technology Foundation, and was surprised at how dark it seemed inside of them. I assume if nothing else, modern tanks are lite up inside by their electronics equipment. Did WW2 tanks have any kind of internal lighting system. Seems like it would be closed to pitch dark in there when buttoned up.

I agree.

Yes

Can you expand on that Bradley?