Vergeltungswaffe
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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.
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Another excellent primer from The Cap.
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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.
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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.
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Thanks Bil, good to see them kept clean and up to date.
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1 minute ago, Vacillator said:
Thanks for getting us back on topic
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My pleasure.
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Always nice to see a scenario maker or modder come back to the fold.
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If you used the [germany] tag in a 1944 scenario, would it use the late war color schemes?
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Forumite 2 is a wise individual.
The other 2...not so much.
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Wondered about him as well.
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6 hours ago, Battlefront.com said:
Show of hands... how many read Boris Badenov instead of Boris Bondarev?
Steve
Absolutely me. Had to do a double take.
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2 hours ago, chuckdyke said:
Similar doesn't mean the same. They are now completely different vehicles. Driving crosscountry at full speed (double that of a WW2 tank) with a glass of beer balanced on the end of a gun never ceases to amaze me.
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.
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5 hours ago, Kinophile said:
...But in the future, any competent military will have local Anti Drone units covering the crossing, and up/down the river at least 4km.
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.
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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.
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4 hours ago, Battlefront.com said:
Yeah, more like CTGs
Oh, for sure the expectation that there wouldn't be a shooting war poisoned the whole planning process, of that I'm sure. But I personally believe the assumption of no serious combat was invented to make this war possible.
Senior Officer - "Comrade Putin says he wants to invade Ukraine"
Planning Staff - "Sounds good! We'll get right on it. One question, when can we expect full mobilization?"
Senior Officer - "Comrade Putin says we are not to mobilize. This is to be a 'Special Military Operation' with our standing forces."
Planning Staff - "Ah, OK. So we're just going to take over the Donbas then? We can do that."
Senior Officer - "No, Comrade Putin wants a plan to take over all of eastern Ukraine."
Planning Staff - "Without full mobilization? This is impossible. We simply don't have the manpower to fight our way to the Dnepr."
Senior Officer - "That will not please Comrade Putin. Isn't there some way we can do this with our existing forces?"
Planning Staff - "Yes. If the Ukrainians offer no resistance we should be able to do it no problem."
Senior Officer - "Excellent! Then it is done. The Ukrainians will not resist. Make a plan that is based on this truth."
Planning Staff - "Er, we were joking about the no resistance thing. Are you just pulling our legs about building an invasion plan based on this assumption?"
Senior Officer - "No joke. He wants this war and we need a plan to make it happen. If the only way to make a plan is to presume Ukraine will not fight, then that is what we must do."
Planning Staff - "OK, well, if we divide up our forces and have them drive in small groups all over the place for 3 days then we can do it".
Senior Officer - "Excellent. Finalize the details of your plan and I will submit it for Comrade Putin's consideration."
Planning Staff - "As you command. We'll get started on a way to do this. If we exclude Kyiv we might just have enough forces to make it happen, provide Ukrainians do not shoot at us."
Senior Officer - "Comrade Putin was very specific about taking Kyiv as well as everything east of the Dnepr."
Planning Staff - "What? Even without any resistance we would need more troops than we have to make that feasible."
Senior Officer - "Not to worry, we have Chechens and police units. And if absolutely necessary, Syrians and Libyans. Since you said the Ukrainians won't shoot back they are as good as soldiers."
Planning Staff - "Wait, we didn't say the Ukrainians wouldn't shoot back. We just said that is the only way to... never mind. It seems this is what we must do so we'll come up with a plan."
Senior Officer - "Very good then. Oh, and don't forget that conscripts have to be left at home."
Planning Staff - "Say what? This definitely isn't going to work."
Senior Officer - "Of course it will. Comrade Putin knows what he is doing. He's a master at this sort of thing."
Planning Staff - "As you wish. We should have a plan ready in about 6 months."
Senior Officer - "Didn't I tell you already? We're invading next week."
Planning Staff - "Uhmm.... OK?"
Senior Officer - "Good job. And when you're done get started on a second plan that has our glorious forces going all the way to the Polish border."
Planning Staff - silence
(note, this was not an intercept made by Ukrainian intel, but it does seem plausible, doesn't it?)
Steve
Okay, now THAT'S funny.
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7 minutes ago, akd said:
This motor rifle company of the 34th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade had at most 32 men at the start of the war in February?
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.
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13 minutes ago, Phantom Captain said:
...Fire and Rubble is SO GOOD!
Ain't it though?
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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.
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It was never released.
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19 hours ago, Chelentano said:
I didn't play CMRT so I didn't know about the existence of a script with the same name.
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.
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11 hours ago, Chelentano said:
Hello!
I apologize for the language, as I was completely sure that I posted the translated version. The files are completely safe. This is a re-salting of scripts due to a deleted topic (I understand it was deleted because of the attached videos from the war in Ukraine)
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).
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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.
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Dontcha hate it when that happens?
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Wow, the immersion factor...
How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
in Combat Mission Black Sea
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Let's hope this river crossing turns into a comedy of errors and fails magnificently too.