Capt. Toleran

I've noticed in AAR vids that many people do not use walk very often.
 
Walking is a very good way not to be seen.
 
I've walked recon units and FOs to locations in full view of the enemy and reached ideal locations
without being spotted.
 
When I quick move to a building, I walk to an elevated floor and setup. Only if the enemy is very close do I become spotted and invariably not even then.
 
Also walking around leaves your troops rested and ready for assaults or fast running.
 
I don't know how many times I've seen experienced players assault a position with tired forces and have them smacked.
 
If you plan to assault, rest your men. Too many times, people are in a hurry to engage. Condition is a very important part of the game and is seemingly ignored by many.
 
Also, C&C is also ignored by many. Its very important. I see players either move their command units to dangerous positions, leading from the front. This is American Civil War stuff. Think about moving command up to a safe, close position in relation to their troops. Try not to include them in the attack.
 
If you have to move them up for observation purposes, move your troops up first, wait a bit for spotting, then if its safe, move the command up slowly to a good observation spot.
 
Just a few thoughts.

In my university (in Germany) there are very many Russian, German-Russian, Ukrainian and Polish students. Funnily those stick together most closely and tend to get along very well. So all the adversity between all those nationalities doesn't really matter for these guys (young, somewhat educated people).

Russian meddling in Ukraine is way more ancient than 20+ years. It started from 1054 when first principality broke off from old Rus'. In any case, Ukraine will be part of Russia one way or another, that is just the nature of historical cycles. When core Russia is weak, fringe regions break off for a varied period of time, when the cycle of power swings back, fringe territories are always reclaimed. Be it 1654, 1764, 1921, 1944 or 2015, the outcome is always the same. 

For 30 years the Pentagon has been dancing around the notion of providing the army with a simple direct fire low pressure gun like the 90mm Mecar for infantry support. But every time they approach the topic 'committee think' sets in and they go off on some weird 'high technology' tangent from hyper-velocity 75mm guns to overhead-mount 105 NATO tank guns to exotic vertical launch missile systems. When all the infantry wanted was something that could put HE rounds into a building while in close proximity to friendly units.

Gave up about 25 min in after embarrassing myself, so I am going to start fresh -- First try, the New Checkpoint was overrun in the first 5 minutes, my supporting fires were too little, too late.  I am also thinking I had the checkpoints engage too early, they should have waited until under 200m to buy time and have a shock effect.  I thought I was being too cautious with the supporting vehicles (wasn't sure if the village they start in was friendly or not), but after taking too much time, then not enough, I rushed too many vehicles forward and lost a bunch, at which point I decided I had failed the mission and it was time to take a break and start fresh.  Very challenging, I hope to learn more from this!

I described what the situation currently in the Russian army with optical sights and complexes.
 
 
 
 
 
 
http://community.battlefront.com/topic/116715-cm-black-sea-–-beta-battle-report-russian-side/?p=1564057

Not being able to play CMBS at the moment I decided to reinstall good ol' Shock Force + modules and was promptly reminded what a great game that was. I also thought how much it could profit from the newest Combat Mission engine's many features.
 
Is there any progress on that endeavour? I guess a remake would make sense, both from a business and from a game design viewpoint, I also wouldn't mind paying again for a new version of CMSF, maybe at a discounted price for people who already own CMSF.

I know there is night optics but why nothing for the day? Does this put them at disadvantage when compared to the Americans widespread use of scopes on their small arms?
 
I thought optics were beginning to see more widespread use on Russian army AKs and RPKs in recent years. So are they still lagging behind in that area and that is reflected in CMBS?  

Optics are being deployed but not all units will have them possibly in 2017 they will though, In a war against NATO and Ukraine the best troops would be deployed which would have the scopes and weapon sights. 

It is the former.
 
Unless one of those mods is Vin's Animated Text you really don't have to worry about removing them at all. As a beta tester I get new "patches" nearly every week and I never remove my mods.

3-90.1 "Tank and Mechanized Infantry Company Team" is helpful too.  

I would add FM 7-10 the Mechanized Platoon and Squad.

Oops sorry man. I didn't remember even writing that earlier my bad. The modern ladder should be sorted out now at the Blitz (we had a server configuration problem)

I'm working on an night time ambient sound mod at the moment. It's easy to suppress the crickets with a good helping of EQ since the sound peaks around 5KHz. You are likely to get a vixen screaming in the background or an Eagle Owl or two though, (Tawny is also native to Ukraine, so possible) just to give it some life. The problem is balancing the nature sounds to not make it too frequent and noticeable & therefore annoying since it's a short continuous loop. All these mating and territorial calls are great for Spring to Late Autumn night ambience, but not relevant for Winter when not much of any volume is to be heard. This should also go for daytime ambience too. Birdsong dwindles and changes hugely in Winter since a large number of European species migrate to Africa.

One way around that would to be to make the loop bigger. I did some mods for CMSF and made the backgrounds about five minutes long so that by the time stuff repeated it got lost in the mix. However, that was a radio chatter background so it might be different. You can give it a try though and see how it sounds.
 
 
 
Mord.

Yeah, it's Tab, same for the enemy as it is for your forces. Only works if there's a breathing component to what you've clicked on, though. A dismounted but still functional vehicle won't let you Tab to it.

Weapons are sometimes damaged, so they are randomly not salvageable. If it is NEVER salvaged then that could be a problem.

If your troops are already maxed out on carrying weight the won't pick up the valuable weapons off bodies. That's one of the downsides to acquiring a couple extra Javelin missiles and a thousand more rounds before you exit your vehicle.

WeGo, Iron.
 
Get over your fear. Iron actually HELPS you play BETTER. It shows you what your troops see and know.

I'm actually glad I didn't take my chill pill when I had planned to, or I would have wasted it on this hassle
 
A lot of us think this is something beyond the usual mess.  In fact, we were assured the usual mess was gone, according to their own support page.  The thing is, bandwidth is valuable, and something running for 5 hours at 400k-1MB/s (because we have had to do this over and over and over today) is not a great customer experience.  I know I have been an especially whiny idiot today, and for me, that is really saying something.  We would just like to know why things are so different today vs. other releases that have gone much smoother, of products like CMBN that had presumably a higher level of demand vs. this.  And why is the cloud failing them/us?  That's what seems to be the issue.  if they would post "We're ripping Citrix a new spinchter now!", even that would be more satisfying than what seems to be dead silence after we paid money for a product we could download right now (as you recall from my other asinine posts, I was not a pre-order).
 
Anyways, I might go ahead and take that chill pill now, I'm losing the evening and today has been a waste.

Well I actually don't think that the point is asinine at all. It would be nice to show support for the company and get a convenient email when it was ready. I have advocated for download load only p reorders too. But it probably will not happen, so I gave up. Frankly now that full ordering is hours behind the perorderers and not a couple of days it is not as much of a big deal. Keep asking, maybe they will change their minds.

It's the opposite for me, I'm slowing down vs. earlier attempts, that at least started at 1 MB/s and fluctuated upwards from that before going back down.  I'm depressingly sure that this 2-3 hour download is going to fail as well.  Anyone know anyone at Battlefront personally?  They seem to think that a bunch of us are liars or something, because they are not responding.  Will it take me doing a chargeback with my credit card company to get their attention?  Because if i don't get what I paid for, I'm not going to let them keep my money.  I'm getting more and more sour by the minute, and you haven't seen anything yet.  Sorry to do this here, but I don't like this one bit, and this is the most I paid for a game in quite a while, as well as a big friggin waste of my home bandwidth.  I surely could have done a lot of other things today if they had told us downloading today was futile.  No communication means angry customers, especially when we follow their tech support advice on their own pages.

It's the opposite for me, I'm slowing down vs. earlier attempts, that at least started at 1 MB/s and fluctuated upwards from that before going back down.  I'm depressingly sure that this 2-3 hour download is going to fail as well.  Anyone know anyone at Battlefront personally?  They seem to think that a bunch of us are liars or something, because they are not responding.  Will it take me doing a chargeback with my credit card company to get their attention?  Because if i don't get what I paid for, I'm not going to let them keep my money.  I'm getting more and more sour by the minute, and you haven't seen anything yet.  Sorry to do this here, but I don't like this one bit, and this is the most I paid for a game in quite a while, as well as a big friggin waste of my home bandwidth.  I surely could have done a lot of other things today if they had told us downloading today was futile.  No communication means angry customers, especially when we follow their tech support advice on their own pages.

I'm done for tonight. Got about 30% of the download on three seperate tries - it started very fast, then got slower, then got really slow, then died.

Were all experiencing high levels of electronic jamming.