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Wow. Somebody bumped this up after 28 months

I've heard that also. The turbine keeps the same RPM no matter how much horsepower is bein developed. During the 1st gulf war, on our 4 day offensive, my battalion maintained a steady 15 KPH speed the whole way. My Bradley stopped to refuel once, when we got down to a half tank of deisel. I recall stopping to let the tanks refuel at least 5 times, maybe as many as 7 times. It was a long time ago, I can't recall exactly.

I was under the impression that the M2HB fired an armor piercing round in it's application with the majority of US troops. Kinda like a mini sabot or some kinda hardened core. I'd think the sniper rifle wouldn't use that type of ammunition because it'd just blow straight through soft targets. If it doesn't hit anything vital, you might as well have missed. I'd do a little research and possibly adjust the penetration values of the sniper rifle's baseline stats. But then again, I haven't fired any of those weapons, so take my opinion as that of an un-informed nOOb.

I've thought about joinin the guard recently. They have a Cav troop about 45 minutes away from me. But now I'm old and fat... and WAY too hardcore for the weekend warriors

I looked over the to&e page pretty thoroughly (http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/army/unit/toe/17376F100.htm)and I am pretty surprised by it. It's been a long time since I read real "military speak" from FM's, but it appears alot has changed. It appears that maintenence, supply trucks and recovery vehicles are now brigade level assets. I left the army in '92 and remember alot, but not specific #'s of different types of vehicles. The actual TOC vehicles are listed in that to&e, but from motorpool guard in Germany, I recall ALOT of HEMET's. Both fuel carriers and ammo/cargo carriers. Also all the mechanics were part of the HHC, divided into sections to support each of the line companies. They all had m113's, trucks with .50 cals, or M88 recovery vehicles to ride in. All of that, apparently, is no longer part of the HHC. Throw in the scouts ditchin Bradleys for HMMWV's and the mortars swapin four deuse for 120MM's, I hardly recognize it :/ I hate change.

I dig the canadian scenarios mostly because of all the support troops included, but i would much prefer the americans. Anybody happen to know what kind and how many support vehicles to expect supporting a us armor/mech battalion? I'd be curious for Marine OOB's as well.

I was with 3-35 Armor in Bamberg, Germany. Went and fought in the 1st gulf war, then my unit deactivated and i finished up back at knox with 5-15 Cav, right back where i started

I was :/ 89-92. Shoulda stayed in, but Oh well :/

Dude, your name is WAY too close to mine

I think what he's tryin to say, is if he has the OPFOR tanks thermal sight option checked, he wants ONLY those type tanks that actually do have them in real life to be equipped with them. Or possibly the opposite, if thermal sights is "off" the game only removes them from older tanks that do not actually have them in real life. Maybe. :confused:

I fought with VII Corps in the 1st Gulf War. When we were on the march, we traveled at a constant 15 kph so our tracks wouldn't outrun our supply trains. On contact, it was pretty much balls to the walls to manuever into position. I don't think the scale of tacops would warrant a march speed, as contact is always imminent once the troops are on map.

Anybody try this game or any of the other similar ones made by this Tiller guy? http://www.hpssims.com/Pages/products/FuldaGap/FuldaGap85.html It really looks like my cup of tea, as that was one of my teenage dreams to beat back the Warsaw Pact hordes with the 11th ACR in Fulda(Ya, I'm a little weird I guess ) There is no demo and the price is a little high for a non-mainstream game. Just wondering if anyone has tried it and would recommend it.

Back in the cold war, the Bundeswher had a pretty good divisional recon battalion. Good mix of tanks, Luchs scout cars, and Fuchs APC with infantry. I always wondered how it would do against a layered russian defensive belt. Also, I'm not sure of the current US heavy division Recon Squadron, but old school was 2 troops of 19 Bradleys each and 2 troops of air cav with AH-1's. [ January 17, 2003, 10:24 AM: Message edited by: DS CavScout ]

What would be a realistic # of supply points to be carried for a US army armor/mech inf battalion?

That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks Robert.

Any of you Cav guys remember how the whole rhyme goes? At 30, my mind is going already. Anyone who remembers, please post it here. Thanks!

Probably is the OMG concept, but at Camp Hof, they were always refered to as brigades. Regiments have rigid TO+E and these did not. From what I understand, they were under control at the Army level as opposed to an OMG being at the Front or TVD level. Their only purpose was to keep pressure on the retreaters until the second echelon divisions showed up, while the first echelon main attack resupplied and reorginized, as they most likely would have suffered heavy casualties.

I read in my old Border Guard Handbook that the Soviets had a few independant brigades. They were loosley structured, unlike regiments, all having a MRB and a varying number of tank battalions. Divisions in East Germany were kept at 110-120% strength and these brigades were made up of excess equiptment. Seemed pretty much standard for every Tank army to have an independant brigade, while the Combined Arms armies did not. The brigade was to be used as a pursuit/exploitation force to keep momentum after a breakthrough. Sort of a permanent reserve.

Sounds very realistic. Classic air assault delay mission. That's what the 82nd and 101st divisions are for.

I think for a beginner on modern tactics, "Team Yankee" and "Sword Point" both by Harold Coyle would be a good start. Although they are fiction, Coyle is(or was at least) an Army officer and has pretty good insight into combat. The best example out of the two books is a light airborne division getting overun in the desert by Soviet mechanized forces. Try putting an all infantry and ATGM unit in the open in TACOPS against a motor rifle regiment with Arty support and see what happens. Scouts Out!

I had the same problem with a couple of the maps you listed. I turned my settings down to 256 color and they work fine. Good luck Scouts out!

I was with VII corps in the Storm and nearly our entire Corps had the newer M2A2 and M3A2 Bradleys and I know for a fact there was no reactive armor used in my division(1AD). Of course there weren't enough MOPP suits to go around either... Scouts Out!

I believe in the picture, the reactive armor blocks are a mock-up. All the -A2 Bradley series vehicles also are supposed to support reactive armor, but to my knowledge, no US armed forces unit has ever fielded a vehicle equiped with enhanced armor. Scouts Out!

That was my problem with the supply button. You ever see how many points it costs to resupply an M109 battery! LOL

As far as I'm concerned, if I suffer 25% casualties in a solitaire game, I lost. It might not be included in the scope of the game, but I always try to keep my forces intact for the "next" operation. Too many losses is usually a result of improper use of support and recon assets. The military of late definitely tries to keep casualties to the bare minimum. As an example, during a training excersize in Hohenfels, Germany in 1990,my battalion commander was relieved of duty permanently because of losses to the scout platoon alone. He was relieved "just in case" we had to do the real thing someday. Scouts Out!