Shosties

A coworker of mine was a USMC 'Nam vet who claimed to have built a number of devices for firebase perimitter protection that he called "King Claymores". The "Geneva-Approved" Mk. II variant was a 55-gallon drum that was filled with rocks gathered from patrols (a sign was put up: "price of admittance: one bag of rocks"). The open end had a cover welded over it and the back end had a shaped charge strapped to it. These were placed to cover a draw that was an ideal route for infiltrating towards the base. The Mk. I that got him into some trouble had been filled with broken bolts and machining scrap and refuse of, err, biological nature.

How to attack like the Germans/Americans/Commonwealth Intended for CMBO, but you can take away elements for both CMBB and CMAK. Meant to portray something like historical/realistic tactics and force composition. Calling all you tactical grogs and The "How to Attack Like A German/Russian" Threads Similar style intended to treat the Russians in CMBB.

I'm not a gun designer, or even a veteran of service, but this strikes me as somewhat wrong. A water-cooled, belt feld HMG doesn't disperse bullets in this manner. You want good stability in the mount and accuracy from the gun so as to be able to engage point targets at longer range when required. The angular dispersion for area fire was achieved by a fellow giving the butt-end a healthy slap after a short burst was fired.

Perhaps the disagreement here lies with changes in tatics and doctrine over time. The M60, even tripod mounted, is not the best subsititute for the M1917 which was the system developed for the type of defensive employment that grew out of the experience of WW1. My impression is that the "beaten-zone" of a static defensive perimitter maintained by US forces during the Vietnam-era was actually the responsibility of the artillery fire plan. Also there was more reliance on Claymore mines.

Greetings and salutations and whatnot, maggots. :mad: Just posting to let you reprobates know I am still alive (more's the pity, eh?), and indeed feeling demonstrably better than I have in years ("MEIN FUEHRER, I CAN WALK!!"). Now that I have reached something like a new physical equilibrium, I find myself reevaluting many things that I thought were pretty much set in stone. Among the lesser things to tend to: CM. I've found my interst in such things seriously on the wane. However, I don't like the idea of leaving things unfinished, so here: I will get back to my PBEM games that are outstanding on a one-turn-a-day basis in the late evenings (US CST, GMT-6) starting tomorrow. That means the following maroons can expect a resumption of the madness (in the game realm, not my own!): Prinz Eugen, Keke, DaveH, and Axe2121. With the conclusion of those games, I'm out, and heading on down the road to wherever it takes me. Peace... errrrrr... War! :mad:

No stretch at all. My eight-year-old nephew was recently diagnosed with mild Tourette's and ADD (his mom has them also). He went through a hell of a school year with a teacher that said it was just "behavioural problems" and said, point blank, she didn't believe two specialists' diagnoses. His parents are in the process of filing a complaint about that teacher, not for my nephew's sake as he's starting at a new school this fall, but for the kids that come after him. At this new school they've already met with him with open arms as they have two other students with Tourette's. They told him straight up - you're no different than anyone else; we'll just give you a bit of extra help when you're having problems. Pretty simple, really. </font>

Thanks, Jason. I know what you mean totally. For me it was "You just need to focus" or "You just need to find the willpower to get on with it". Actually I was trying like crazy to work around the problem in my own head but that was only killing me with stress. You can only struggle for so long before your body calls a halt to it all. When that particular set of circuits kick in (and my research points to these being located in the pre-frontal cortex) focus became neigh well effortless as well as flexible (at least for me; it's good to know that those circuits are still there after they turned low and then off several years ago). You can write a to-do list and actually remember it and go through those things one by one during the day without beating on yourself to keep stray thoughts out. Yelling at some with real ADD for not staying on task is like ridiculing someone with a lobotomy for not reading poetry with conviction. I'm only making a bit of a strech there I feel.

Hey guys, long time no post (or turns) from me. I have been recieving medical treatment for symptoms of attention defecit disorder for the past several weeks. The combination of those symptoms and burnout being that which punked my sorry a$$ out of grad school earlier this year. Not being very satisfied with how the medication was acting on it's own I began trying out vitamin and amino acid suppliment strategies based upon extensive research over the web of health sites, forums, books on nutrition and such. The results have been remarkable but disturbing at the same time. The past few days have been a pretty wild see-saw. Today I feel pretty steady and with sensations/feedback from my own body that much better than before and with my brain being relatively calm and focused. However, I've been forced onto what is essentially the induction stage of the Atkins diet due to intolerance to sugar and starches that I've never had before. Not that losing weight would be bad for me! This and my previous brushes with medicine have convinced me that for many situations you may want to consult a dietican or specialist in orthomolecular medicine. GP MDs and psychiatrists appear to be very blase concering the possibilty of metabolic imbalances and malnutrition that don't manifest themselves in a manner obvious from their conservative textbooks; particularly these days with sugar, starch, and processed carbohydrates coming out the ying-yang in the American diet (something unprecented in our evolutionary history). As things smooth out I will get back to these dormant games. Oh yeah... :mad: Tossers!

I had in mind Ari's brillant thread of ages ago wherein the REAL Finnish panzerfaust was demonstrated. The bare, pale, freckled arms in the photograph looked perfect for some good burnin' action down south. I scoured the forum for that post, couldn't find it, but did come across this great quote from Seanachai. ...errr.... :mad: :mad: :mad:

That position probably would have been invulnerable to direct fire in 1.02.

:eek: The ueberfinns are on the march!! Evacuate the forests!! We'll have to draw them down to southern lattitudes and hope sunburn starts to take it's toll! :mad:

Axe2121 and Keke are being no-turn-sending-bastiches. DaveH, despite the punishment he is getting, is at least keeping going. Prinz Eugen maybe back for more... it's your turn buster. "Mein Fuehrer! I can walk!!" :mad:

BUMPed for the 11000, 12000, 1300 series members.

Burn him, he's a witch!....Mein Führer, I can walk!! :eek: </font>

Try this. Less operational history, but lots of CM level stuff.

Try this. Less operational history, but lots of CM level stuff.

More relevent JasonC wisdom can be found here.

JasonC, what would be appropriate dimensions for a map upon which this hypothetical, but archtypical, battle would take place? Any feel for the width of zones dividing up the map and the number of flags that should be placed? Or would an exit objective for the Russians be best? Also, what sort of terrain would the front tend to go static on and from which a major attack would be mounted? (Obviously this would vary with time and zone) I'll take a crack at whipping this up in the scenario editor. It would be great for the purpose of learning how to create effective fireplans with the copious, but inflexible, Soviet artillery. It should also offer quite a challenge to the German defender. And it should definately have that "genuine East Front suck" feel to it.

Turns out to the lot of ya. My game with Nippy is over. As it stands, with just a small flag on a hill on the defender's edge, he wins 57-43. However, the overall casualty ratio wasn't too bad considering I was throwing green Russians at dug in vet SS Panzergrenadiers. Though the the company I threw at the village on my right got mauled terribly (with one of Nippy's waffle ueberhamstertruppen squads racking up something like 28 of my guys).

I don't know. It would make for an interesting experiment to do out in the middle of nowhere, though.

EDIT: Forgetting it and driving on [ July 16, 2003, 03:24 PM: Message edited by: Shosties4th ]

Ahh, the old saw about the gasoline engine being the source of the Sherman Ronson effect. And the dude, was ARMY!

very nice..... *pukes*

Time to save this thread from second page oblivion, maggots!! :mad: Turns out to DaveH, Nippy, and Axe2121. Waiting on you other guys... DaveH just got a lesson in how not to move armor around. :mad:

Not strictly true. In metals, indentation hardness correlates with compressive yield strength in a rough fashion. Metals (if they are ductile enough) yield at stresses far below those needed to break the diffuse atom-to-atom metallic bonds on a large scale (it doesn't usually make much sense to talk of "molecules" within metallic crystals). They propogate mobile crystalline defects called dislocations instead; these incorporate only a small zone of disrupted bonds. Think of moving a large rug a small distance by pushing a ruck through it rather than dragging the whole rug. Much easier to do isn't it? At the strain rates taking place from HEAT jet penetration, things get ultra funky (i.e. dislocations being propogated faster than the speed of sound in that material, etc.). I have no idea how Brinell hardness would correlate there, though supposedly stronger will remain stronger and thus put up more resistance and sap the energy possessed by the jet. Nope... kinetic energy. It's moving at some ungodly number of times the speed of sound (15?). The HEAT jet (which has been shown to actually still be in the solid state by X-ray flash diffraction) is simply pushing the armor out of it's way. The rapid deformation in this penetration zone is going to cause tremendous local heating though (dislocation motion disipates some energy to the crystal in the form of heat, especially when they are forced to move fast). [ July 15, 2003, 11:53 PM: Message edited by: Shosties4th ]