Vergeltungswaffe

Let's hope this river crossing turns into a comedy of errors and fails magnificently too.

Within the time constraints of any given battle, PBEM, or otherwise, I am unbelievably slow and methodical with all the recon I can manage. The old adage works well: never send a team anywhere a scout hasn't been. Never send a squad anywhere a team hasn't been. Never send a platoon anywhere a squad hasn't been and never send vehicles anywhere infantry hasn't been.

Another excellent primer from The Cap.

Metallurgy is at least as important as caliber. I'll be interested to see the real penetration data for the 130mm (probably won't be anything solid for several years) vs the the M829A4 120mm.

Wow, he was a member of a group of very impressive men. There aren't many of their like today. About time they got more recognition.

Thanks Bil, good to see them kept clean and up to date.

My pleasure.

Always nice to see a scenario maker or modder come back to the fold.

If you used the [germany] tag in a 1944 scenario, would it use the late war color schemes?

Forumite 2 is a wise individual. The other 2...not so much.

Wondered about him as well.

Absolutely me. Had to do a double take.

The technology has come a long way, but the mission is still destroy enemy vehicles, suppress enemy infantry, exploit when possible and so on. Same as WW2.

I have my doubts that very many nations will be able to deploy, maintain, and competently use Anti Drone forces any time soon. (The Russians certainly don't seem to be able to use technology they've had for years very well at the moment, lol). Hard to find and destroy every tiny flying plastic device and it just takes one to expose that river crossing. The game will eventually shift in favor of the AD weapons, but then something else will change the balance.

As Steve mentioned a couple of pages back, river crossings are going to have to be rethought in the face of drones easily patrolling up and down rivers to find them. Combat engineering in general isn't likely to be the uninterrupted process it has been in the past with so many flying eyes to find it and bring prosecution against it. We could end up back to a time when rivers and other natural barriers are much more formidable obstacles just because you can't cross/breach them without heavy losses now.

Okay, now THAT'S funny.

If that's correct, that's certainly another sign the Russian's wildly underestimated what was going to happen when they rolled across the border.

Ain't it though?

Keep in mind that the mortar is to the left of the pictures above. So the shots with no wind have very little left/right drift, just the typical over/under variance, as you'd expect. But then, the 2nd and 3rd pictures, with high winds, show that the rounds are drifting in all axes, as you'd expect once again. Pretty well simulated imho.

It was never released.

There isn't a scenario with that name, it's just that most CM players associate Tiger with the WWII German tank, not the modern day Russian Tigr.

Thanks for the clarification. I scanned it and it is safe to open, revealing 2 .btt files, First Day of the War and Tiger Hunt (which should probably have been Tigr Hunt so as not to sound like a CMRT battle).

Thanks for the translation. If anyone d/l's that and it turns out to be something safe and desirable, would appreciate knowing what it is.

Dontcha hate it when that happens?

Wow, the immersion factor...