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Originally posted by The Commissar:
What would be the best way for your typical modern infantry man, without any AT assets (like Stingers missiles or a similar contraption) to take out something like an M1 in close quarters?
I assume the tracks are "sensitive" enough to be immobilized with something like a bundle of grenades. What could, however, knock out a beast of that sort? Keeping in mind the hatch is closed, of course.
I thought vision/aiming slots, but I've had the pleasure to see a M1 up close and they are rather small.
Do Inf. today carry anything in the ilk of Panzerfausts?
Tanks in advance!
Stinger missiles are anti-aircraft and would probably be all but useless against tanks. Unless you could shoot down the MiG overhead and call for an Apache...
The LAW is about equivalent to a schreck and most U.S. soldiers carry one into battle. The Javelin missile is a very nice weapon and I would guess that squads would be supplied with them like CM squads are supplied with 'fausts.
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Originally posted by armornut:
I do the same thing, except I use scale RC tanks sporting laser tag type equipment. I find that less people give me odd glances that way.
Armornut
Surely can't compare to the one I saw a while ago with a 12-gauge (that's a hard word to spell) main gun and a .22 coax...
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Originally posted by The Commissar:
23. If anything can possibly go wrong, it will.
Murphy's Law, paraphrased a little less abstractly: If there are two or more ways to do something, and one leads to catastrophe, someone will do it that way.
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Things like spotter grade affect the time that goes on the clock. When the targeting is done out of LOS and without a TRP, the clock counts down at 30 sec per turn.
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Originally posted by Michael Dorosh:
Special for Madmatt:
Would it be possible for you to forward me the password for this forum? I know you're busy, so if you let me change the Topic for this thread to "Pengademics: The New English" by myself, you won't need to get involved.
Oh, I also need to ban John from the forum. It seems he's forgotten where the General Forum is.
Actually, I'm not so sure telling people how to speak is appropriate there either; that being so, I need to put up a link to www.oed.uk somewhere on the page.
They would probably freak out at the way we've gone and left John unmolested after his attempt to spell "alphabetised" though. I am sure he would recognise what I'm saying - or at the least not be surprized once it sunk (sank?) in.
Unless of course you could care less (!)
Latterly yours,
The Hydra
PS - John, in a 1200 point quick battle in wet, muddy terrain, what importance would you place on the selection of armour, given the Attack option as American, playing against a random German infantry-only defense in moderately hilly country with moderate tree coverage in November 1944?
Why do we get the silly Englandish spelling of alphabetize, recognize and surprise, but the nice English spelling of defense?
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I thought I would bump this one to contrast expectations and reality.
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I tested 14" and 8" guns against a dug-in Sturmgruppe company spanning a hundred meters.
The first 14" shell landed about 30m off target, thus 80m away from some units, and killed every man in the company. Not the first volley, the first shell.
The first 8" shell was about 10m off target (these missions were fired with TRPs). It wiped out all but about 8 men, and the second shell finished the job. And these guys were in foxholes.
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Originally posted by Monty:
Hi all
I am an Optometrist,working in a local Hospital.
7 % of all men have a colour disorder.
There are 3 sorts of colour disorders:
- Red
- Green
- Blue
Red/green is indeed the most common colour disorder, blue is very rare.
There are 3 degrees of colour disorders:
- First degree ( mild )
- Second degree ( medium )
- Third degree ( strong )
So, not everybody with a colour disorder has the same problem. Real colour BLINDNESS is also very rare.
Monty aka Moose
Is the color-disorder gene carried on the X or Y chromosome? In other words, do you find that half of one percent of women have a color disorder, or no women at all?
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Originally posted by Michael Dorosh:
the one you raise latterly.
You are a disgrace. "the latter one" is acceptable, if you're determined to use that word, but either "the one you raise second/last" or "the second/last one" would be far superior.
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The LOS tool traces a straight line, it doesn't follow ground contours. So with the slight change of angle between the brush patch and what's behind it, the line intersected blocking terrain closer to your Sherman.
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Flipper, if you're serious, let's play a PBEM. I'll take infantry; you take armor. We'll see what happens.
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Chuckles makes his triumphant return, and wonders if anyone misses him. Additionally, he wonders if 300-odd posts that probably don't mention him would be worth reading.
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Interested. I would prefer Americans. checksix224@aol.com
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I thought I just noticed last night that the Brit 3" is "very slow". Carrying that stuff "very slowly" is not unfathomable.
Related, how does the 2" mortar perform? Don't think I've ever seen it in action.
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Is this a joke? I wonder how an M8 could have rolled through 256 infantry without encountering a single schreck. Mayhap it was the German commander who erred, not the designer of the game.
A perfectly nice frontal attack without infantry on the flanks is doomed.
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I was gratified to find an unexpected gift in my mail - a surrender from Mr. Hankey. This brings my vs. human winning percentage to 1.000, more than even Fionn can say. That's 1-0, if you couldn't guess. About to become 1-1, I fear, unless an earthquake forces me and jd into a draw. I must confess that I showcased the depths of my potential for stupidity in that game... but that 82-18 major victory makes a dozen losses worth my while.
Errr, not quite. Makes one loss worth my while, at least. I expect to crush Jarhead in short order, too. Then I can afford a second loss and still keep my self-esteem up.
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My conscience - something unique in this godforsaken place - screams at me for continuing this slaughter of Jarhead. I must say that things do look grossly unbalanced here. But he may surprise me yet. He may have four 14" batteries at his command.
On a related note, I am hereby turning in a wisely considered report of suicidal, foolish, nearly-the-g-word tactics by my no-longer-very-esteemed opponent. I count three unoccupied jeeps Fast-moving their merry way up my roads. In this case it's probably nothing to worry about, but in other circumstances I might have been rather severely unhappy.
But it's all good, because half of his armored division (slight exaggeration) is burning or, at the very least, smoldering intensely. A good trade for a handful of front-line defenses.
Lookie here, a turn from my good buddy Mr. Hankey just came in.
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Has anybody made or planned to make a comprehensive list of the best ways to use each unit in CM? I would do it myself, but I'm afraid that I'm not experienced enough. If nothing like this exists, and there would be demand for it, then maybe a collaborative effort could get a quality project done in a short time.
TOPIC 2: I thought of this because I was wondering if anyone uses the M1917 HMG. I never buy it because I don't see any point in not spending the few extra points for a .50.
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My two matches with Cesspoolers are going badly. JD wrecked a Bofors and a 60mm and panicked a spotter with about ten rounds of 81mm, then blasted one M3A1 with his 234/1 and killed the other with a 'faust or some fool thing. He continues to tear up my infantry with what I assume are SMG squads. My last chance is to get my spotter under control and try a "martyr strike" that will hopefully hurt his guys a little bit more than my own.
I'm not doing too great in my match against Jarhead either. That's because he hasn't even sent me the first turn movie yet. I think he may still be uploading it; I took an informal count and discovered that Croda gave me, the defender, around 3000 points. I think my worthy opponent must be in excess of 5000, at least.
My games with non-poolers are looking up. Mr. Hankey hasn't returned a turn in two days, but that battle is all but a done deal. Bates has cleverly left a 234/1 in plain sight of my tanks and I do intend to blow it away next turn.
P.S. Forgot about Mace. Turn on the way, my man.
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I shall defend BTS on this one.
As to the RR-in-building thing, that is an unintended use of any towed weapon. It was included as a convenience to scenario designers, but it is not a major part of real tactics or the game.
Squad locations are mildly abstracted. You can assume that twelve men are scattered over a twenty-meter area or so. They would have the common sense to stay away from the rear end of a RR.
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Jarhead:
I might say, a blind monkey with nothing but one leg and a sling shot could not miss a shot in this fishbowl of death...
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Hurry up and process this one. I want to see how many shots my "slingshots" score on.
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Croda:
6Cheeks, I assume it was my setup that you forwarded to JarJarHead. In that case, I certainly want to hear vivid descriptions of the battle, and if you are so inclined, feel free to send me the movies so that I can berate you both for your stupidity.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
It was most certainly not your setup. It MY setup, derived from YOUR scenario.
Will you kindly clarify the mechanics of sending someone movies? Is this simply sending the files that contain an action phase and no orders phase?
I shall indeed send you vivid and periodic descriptions of the battle, and perhaps Jarhead (how do you make a good insulting nickname out of an already-insulting nickname?) will follow suit. Perhaps Madmatt could post the descriptions alongside those of Fionn's game, sort of a parallel theme, "watch a tactical genius on defense shred an inept attacker".
P.S. I must tell you that I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw that Crodaburg lies on the road to the Seanachai River.
[This message has been edited by Check6 (edited 01-21-2001).]
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JarOfPickles wants to sully the beauty of this battle by playing it via IP. I told him, forget about it. He must hope that he can make me do something stupid under time pressure and thereby eke out, perhaps, a draw. Surely that's his only chance, and I have denied it.
(soup nazi)NoIPfahyoo! Come back... NEVAH!(/soup nazi)
[This message has been edited by Check6 (edited 01-21-2001).]
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I have sent my setup. Perhaps it would be amusing to the 'Poolers if we were to email our updates and musings to someone who would post them in a discussion that Jarhead and I wouldn't read?
Red and White Pole Mystery Question
in Combat Mission Archive #3 (2001)
Posted
The truth is that, during the looting of Paris, it became traditional for Marder III crews to steal several of these
as a sort of hood ornament for their vehicles.