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Ok, hey maybe they have got some people on staff but a few tours in the sand makes them experts at shooting people and maybe not so much on the invasion of an entire country.  Now if they were on the Corp staff back in 03 or SAMS grads with some NATO time, ok.  
Based on their resumes this is akin to getting municipal planning advice from two fire fighters.  Sure they are on the payroll but way out of their lane.
Live and let live but I would be cautious and weigh their opinions accordingly.

So this thread has been really good for following the WAR in Ukraine and seeing peoples views on tactics and operational options etc.  However I would say that last couple of pages have turned into theological semantic back and forth bulls**t.  He stole my toy first back in 19th century whatever.  These arguments have a time and place but for me not on this thread.  You want to discuss conspiracy theories, who has the moral high ground etc, then open your own thread and have at it, cause if you dont I can see this interesting thread with its wealth of information getting shutdown.  Plus I cant be bothered wading through all that drivel.
 
Thanks in advance.

Dwight Eisenhower on the Battle of the Bulge Movie. "It wasn't like that."

They should have "skipped" putting someone who was four stops short of Dagenham East into power in the first place. And remember children, don't trust a guy who hangs around pubs and never drinks beer.

Just saying if one wants to see a particular force in the Cold War Family, take a page from what the original Cold War team did and present a complete TO&E for your choice. Any keep you choice within reason, that is to say, a NATO force, preferably one that would fight in western Europe.

Well the USMC has fought in the last 4 US wars without an amphibious invasion, so need to assume they would have to land anywhere in the Black Sea or elsewhere in the fictional conflict in the Ukraine.

Battlepacks are scenario packs, just FYI to people. At least they all have been in the past.

'We don't have to see nazism and racism in every little thing do we?'  No, indeed.  But if we can't at least suspect nazism in a guy dressing as an SS guy all the time and enjoying it, not to mention all the people in the stream mentioning the letters A and H, then we might as well be blind.  There are those who over-react to certain things, indeed.  I am simply making the observation that you have to be seriously lacking in human sympathy to dress up and enjoy playing a member of such a famously murderous organisation.  There are people here who remember those killed in the name of the ideology whose badge he wears for fun.  Him saying he has no political agenda is nonsense, at some point you cannot separate the two.  The uniform means nothing without the ideology.

I was hoping someday there might be a CMN module that included the Princess Irene Brigade. Rangers and Commandos for CMN are on my wish list too.

I was hoping someday there might be a CMN module that included the Princess Irene Brigade. Rangers and Commandos for CMN are on my wish list too.

Fiddler on the roof - Tradition ( with subtitles ) - Bing video
 
Still hoping for New Year's Bones

Fiddler on the roof - Tradition ( with subtitles ) - Bing video
 
Still hoping for New Year's Bones

Fiddler on the roof - Tradition ( with subtitles ) - Bing video
 
Still hoping for New Year's Bones

Hi,
It's been a while since this has been asked I think, and at one time I believe it was on the development wish list. Anyway for those that don't know, the idea is vehicle decals would allow different vehicles of the same type to have different numbering etc on the vehicles in game. IIRC there were concerns about game performance if this were implemented, but perhaps with todays machines that's no longer a concern. Any chance this may still happen?
 
Thanks

Hi,
It's been a while since this has been asked I think, and at one time I believe it was on the development wish list. Anyway for those that don't know, the idea is vehicle decals would allow different vehicles of the same type to have different numbering etc on the vehicles in game. IIRC there were concerns about game performance if this were implemented, but perhaps with todays machines that's no longer a concern. Any chance this may still happen?
 
Thanks

There are always some complete wastes of oxygen - make nothing, contribute nothing, have no humour nor grace yet think it's okay to criticise those that do. @Bootie you do a job that nobody else has been willing to take on which makes you unique amongst us, we are all the better for it and indebted to you. I'd happily take the slipper to these wankers to teach them how to respect what is given to them for free, but that would probably be wasted on their sad entitled asses. I'll raise a virtual dram to your good health instead (am off the bottle at the moment - docs orders @ Christmas too!) Sláinte buddy 🥃

If this series were used, we'd have half the forces already made. I always wondered though, does this series also turn the Germans into good guy?
 
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I have been a member of the RSL for 10 years and was in the ARA for eight with two tours of Afghanistan and one of Iraq under my belt champ.  I know what I am talking about and have had numerous discussions of a similar ilk with members of my profession and veterans in the RSL.

Aye. Disturbing, innit?

The only saving grace is that China can't afford a WW3, since their economy relies very heavily on exporting goods to the rest of the world, and that would instantly stop if a general war started. The propaganda bonus of actually having a concrete enemy to face off against would struggle to counter the sudden loss of foreign exchange income, especially given the strange balance of construction investment in their internal economical workings. Of course, by the same token, the West can't afford a WW3 because of our reliance on importation of cheap Chinese-produced goods... So we're probably okay, and so's Taiwan.

Combat Mission certainly comes closer than any other wargame I'm aware of. But there are limits to the simulation. So no, battles in real life don't play out exactly like they do in Combat Mission. For one, both human players and the AI always tend to push harder and take more casualties than a commander leading the same force would in real life. In Combat Mission the AI seems to surrender after taking somewhere around 75%-80% casualties, when in reality 10% casualties would be a bad day and any sane commander is probably trying to pull their forces back well before they hit the 20% threshold (some of the bloodiest battles in history have casualty rates of around 20% on both sides). And if you are only playing against the AI it is important to remember that it can't react to your actions the way a human commander would, so there isn't as much push and pull as there is in a real battle. You also have much better information and command and control than you would in real life, with you being able to see everything your troops can see, and with them instantly responding to any of your orders. 
But in general Combat Mission does come really close. I think simulations like Combat Mission are outstanding tools for gaining an intuition of what real warfare is like. But I think that it needs to be combined with an understanding of what the limitations of the simulation are, along with some reading about actual battles.

"ADLERTAG, mein Herren. The destruction of the English air force on the ground."
Now, as then, much easier said than done.  Actual suppression of actual defenses on a nationwide scale takes weeks; it simply doesn't happen in a single 'decapitating strike (Grosser Schlag).  And while the PLAAF has come a ways since the early 2000s when MiG-19s were still its mainstay, its ability to mount weeks of high intensity combat operations across the Straits where the primary threat is (well dispersed) SAMs, not enemy warplanes is.... untested.
Remember, the entire point of this is not to clear the skies, it's to pave the way for invasion. Taiwan is rugged and full of caves. Taiwan is also rather good at making sophisticated AA/antiship/AT missiles and firing systems in bulk, and their average reservist is more than competent to operate same.
Effectively, Xi would be betting his own life, and very likely the future of CPC rule in China, upon the abilities of a recently 'rejuvenated' force that hasn't fought a serious war since 1979. And, let's face it, does not attract modern China's best and brightest to its officer corps (although there are undoubtedly exceptions).
...so that this same untested force could then launch an even more complex and risky amphibious/airborne assault across the Strait in multidivision strength. Only once PLA mech forces are ashore in force does Taiwanese resistance crumble as the result becomes obvious; you can expect the ROC armed forces to fight ably until then.
And that all presupposes the nonintervention of the US and its allies (whose staffs have been studying this air/sea/land battlespace nonstop since 1949). Because in the time it takes to secure (more or less) air superiority and (try to) knock out the antiship defenses, you've given Team USA time to think and react. 
My own opinions, of course. Nobody really knows for sure. But to me, victory through air power remains an illusion.
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Now, grab Penghu in a lightning operation and suddenly  Taiwan itself becomes a lot less defensible; it's now PLN shore based missiles that control that part of the Strait from the natural harbour at Magong (the Japanese used it as a fleet base).
.... And you've now presented the US with a fait accompli (a) start WW3 over an island nobody's heard of (b) garrison Taiwan with Allied 'imperialist' forces and watch the global economy go to hell, or (c) accept the proposed cease fire and eventual reunion of Taiwan with the Motherland later, one way or another.  And Xi has a victory under his belt, not a debacle.

It was a faction of the Sicilian Mafia whose leader was a Combat Mission fan who put up the cash for Fortress Italy as he wanted to play a game set in his homeland. He was a really good player, proving "Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line" !
 
 

It was a faction of the Sicilian Mafia whose leader was a Combat Mission fan who put up the cash for Fortress Italy as he wanted to play a game set in his homeland. He was a really good player, proving "Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line" !
 
 

It was a faction of the Sicilian Mafia whose leader was a Combat Mission fan who put up the cash for Fortress Italy as he wanted to play a game set in his homeland. He was a really good player, proving "Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line" !
 
 

It was a faction of the Sicilian Mafia whose leader was a Combat Mission fan who put up the cash for Fortress Italy as he wanted to play a game set in his homeland. He was a really good player, proving "Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line" !