__Yossarian0815[jby]

+The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan by Gregory Feifer Also reading this right now. Pretty good so far. A nice stroll down memory lane. good old Breshnew and Gromyko ;O)

Thx scipio. Especially for the CMA version of this that gives the game a much more "analog" feel.

What happens is that you can give commands to the unit but nothing happens. I´ve only experienced this playing red and even then it doesn´t often happen.

spoiler for mission 2 leave the mound, kill em all, don´t let them touch the "bridge", retake the mound. mission 3 is a real *****. After many tries I managed a draw. I simply can´t figure out where all the exit areas of the Muj are.

Hiya fellow DT veterans! DT is dead as a dodo. Still I wouldn´t mind giving it a spin again , but without a high bandwidth srever...very difficult.

American Thnker, CATO? You won the election, fine, but that doesn´t mean you get to break the forum rules. ->No politics

1) I want the points of my side´s objectives displayed somewhere (In the briefing or hovering over the objective in-game). I don´t enjoy second guessing the priorities of the scenario designer. I often dont know if I´ve won or lost until the final screen pops up. 2) Kill stats 3) Even larger maps, so that the ranges of all that modern weaponry can be put to more realistic use.

Nonsense ) It´s impossible to play a large engagement in RT without pausing all the time. Pausing a RT game destroys the whole point of playing RT IMO. RT is good if playing against another human because you can achieve actual surprise. Against the AI you´re just making the game more difficult for yourself since you can´t surprise the AI because it´s scripted. Anywho PBEM is the best way to play CM and you can´t play PBEM in RT can you now? ;O)

When I find time I´ll try to reconstruct the situation..

I don´t mean that. I mean that if you don´t give the unit a target arc, it won´t fire on spotted enemy units.

It seems to me that in CMA unlike in CMSF, troops are extremely reluctant to fire on a postively identified enemy unless they are inside a target arc. Is this by design, that is reflecting soviet doctrine, or is it just a reflection of slower communications?

doh anywho, pics of the demo model: http://www.panzerbaer.de/types/nl_ifv_cv90-a.htm

The RAFAEL system (see Lethaface´s link) According to the dutch Wikipedia page on the CV90, they even stuck RAFAEL onto a dutch CV90 in 2006 for a demonstration. (At least I think thats what it says, Elmar help!)

Ah OK, thx, didn´t check. edit: Whats the rationale of not putting ERA on the CV9035?

I´m not impressed by the protection either. The side ERA of the warrior could shrug off anything up to an AT7. So far my CV9035s die or ar completely immobilized with a dead engine by every RPG7 hit.

A CM LAN Vienna? sounds interesting. I prefer Blaufränkisch.

SPOILER The scenario briefing is rather lacking on that one. I think the bridge is a touch objective for the Muj and the hill a hold objective. I moved my troops off the hill across the bridge in the 2 functional BMPs and crushed the Muj in the corner there, then just waited and killed all the advancing Muj before they could reach the Bridge. In the last few turns I retook the hill. major victory. The briefing on no. 3 is even worse, still trying to figure out where the Muj exit objectives are.

In a similar vein: When I dismount from a TOW Humvee my team has three missiles to fire and three remain in the vehicle. After firing all it´s missiles I am unable to reload through any means. You can´t acquire the remaining TOWS, entering and leaving the vehicle doesn´t change anything. (I´m not even sure the the remaining missiles can be used from the vehicle.) I had this situation in a PBEM game, anybody else noticed this?

In my book on the Golan tank fighting the Israelis were always fighting with the hatch open, peering out with binoculars (leading to many commander casualties). They only closed the hatch when shelled by arty. I am admittedly totally ignorant of the spotting abilities of the LeopardII , but I presume that the canadian leo1 has quite good spotting abilities with the hatch closed, so i still think the T55 would be closer to the actual israeli abilities. Now if we had a early LeoI to play with...

I would give the Syrians lots of old T62s and T55s with very low experience (which would be historically correct) vs. old T55s with high experience for the Israelis. IIRC the T62 didn´t work well in the Golan because of it´s lower ground clearance (lower than the T55) getting stuck on rocks all the time, don´t know if that is simulated in CMSF.

Afgh: Not well written but has interesting details: A Million Bullets: The Real Story of the British Army in Afghanistan by James Fergusson Iraq: The civilian side of the occupation: Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran History of the invasion: Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq by Michael R. Gordon, Bernard E. Trainor History of what went wrong after the Invasion. Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks

just a note to say: smoke launching and target light on hit tank fully operational.

Survived! At first glance everything seemed to be in order, but I´ll recheck the smoke launching ability.

Some pics from the last second of a current PBEM game I´m playing. Will the Challenger survive or not? in this turn it´s still alive. Not sure if CMSF allows for schrödinger cat uncertainty (I won´t know myself till I´ve sent and received the next turn) 1 sec to turn end turn end different angle

Only that the ultra right wing parties base their electoral success not on recent surges of immigrants but on well worn prejudices against well established communities. I.e. The Front Nationale vs. North Africans in France or the "Freedom Party" vs. the Turks in Austria. I don´t recall the BNP getting 30% of the vote in Britain after the surge of Poles.