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Same old dead horse. Bush/neocons/et al didn't want sanctions or embargo. Nothing short of full pledged invasion would be satisfactory, all others be damned. Which they got in the end. France rightfully retained the right to say "I told you so".

He did, artillery, IIRC. Will that make him more convincing to you?

CMx1 had virtually no anti-piracy protection, because there's virtually no effective anti-piracy protection available. Trying to combat piracy with the current technology, is like equipping the entire Afrika Korps with Tigers to take Tobruk, only to find out that the Allied had issued a Javelin with ten extra rounds to every soldiers and cooks

To say that some Iranians will ally with The Great Satan , organize themselves into a meaningful army, and start and fight a bloody and protracted civil war, so that their daughters can wear skimpier clothing in public, is too much of a stretch.

Ironically for the modern setting detractors, this will give them a MUCH better engine for the later WWII setting.

That will invite the Finnish reserve platoon to invade the country of every single BFC's crew

Tac nukes, with the option to use one as IED.

If you are getting a new computer, get Vista. Existing system, don't get Vista. I purchased a desktop from Dell in Feb, right after the Vista launch. Popped in a new 8800GTS and only game not working is CMx1 which I always had problems with on certain nVidia drivers. Although if you're *only* getting a new computer to run CMSF, have some XP disks handy. My opinion anyway... </font>

Stryker, Abrahm, Javelin, JDAM Kornett, T-72, IED, yellow taxi The horror, the horror....

*run off to get popcorn and front row seat*

The only acceptable (to me at least) reasoning of hiring mercenaries is in the long run it's cheaper than maintaining a standing army of equal strength. Or is it? I'm not familiar with any in depth cost/benefit analisys of this, though...

I'm impressed with their deployment to Mordor...

The TOW I described basically landed under the front of the tank instead of hitting the front hull. It has a large warhead, and Im guessing the blast was enough to rupture the underbelly of the tank. The thing about the T-72 is that its ammo is held in an unprotected autoloader situated below the turret in the hull. Any penetration of a T-72 risks detonating this ammo, but particually so if its the hull thats penetrated. It was one of those cool CM moments that I probably wont see for another 100 games, hehe. This is why ERA can be a life saver against these things. Usually a TOW will pack enough punch to still penetrate a T-72 covered with the older kontakt ERA, but even if it does it will do far less damage. </font>

*wipe drool off keyboard*

Brandenburg? Where's that in Syria?

I'm interested to see those studies.

On the contrary, a high ranking Syrian official bemoaning CMSF's virtual invasion would be a blessing in the form of free publicity.

So I take it that there will be Syrian campaigns, only not "official" ones? Now that takes a lot of imagination...

Good points, but an armed and trained population is the nightmare of every dictator. A democratic third world country might pull it off, though.

What downed F-15s?

And in Afghanistan too. They don't even have fire the AKs, openly carrying AKs comes with its own risk even if you are supposed to be (friendly)government troops.

If you are willing to trade a Bradley for a T55/T62/T72, that is. The Bradley is better off firing salvos of TOWs rather than pinging the tank.

LOL, that would do the trick

Yup, at many occasion resulted in dead Iraqi troops even with no insurgents in the immediate vicinity.