FAI
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He did, artillery, IIRC. Will that make him more convincing to you?I think Jason's problem is he has never got himself any time in service. -
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
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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.Originally posted by JasonC:...
So pick those who want them to lose as the winners, including exiles and internal libs and also internal displaced leaders like Montazeri, and pick the RG group as the faction that loses, and no balancing. Means used - not a 5 year occupation but SF, arming populace, subsidies, agents, return of exiles currently in US, all of them with the USAF at their beck and call. Spend one year breaking all the RG toys and any of them that want to come out, active CI not security. Dismantle the nuke program in the same period.
Worst that happens is the RG tries to take the place back in a civil war, in which the USAF intervenes with impunity whenever they get large. Doesn't result in any nukes. Does result in no sanctuary, and reduced threat to all of Iran's clients around the region.
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Ironically for the modern setting detractors, this will give them a MUCH better engine for the later WWII setting.
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That will invite the Finnish reserve platoon to invade the country of every single BFC's crewOriginally posted by JonS:I want an end to support for grass mods.
I confidently predict that this will bring the CM community to its knees within about 36 hours.
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Tac nukes, with the option to use one as IED.
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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.Originally posted by Stryker:</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Phoenix:
Would love to get this clarified. Im on the
verge of ordering a new desktop (mostly for
CMSF) and am on the fence about getting Vista.
Although if you're *only* getting a new computer to run CMSF, have some XP disks handy.
My opinion anyway... </font>
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Stryker, Abrahm, Javelin, JDAM
Kornett, T-72, IED, yellow taxi
The horror, the horror....
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*run off to get popcorn and front row seat*
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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...
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I'm impressed with their deployment to Mordor...Originally posted by Captain Adultery:they do in the new zealand army too...but then...those are highly trained troops....with cheap gear
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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.Originally posted by KwazyDog:</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Amedeo:
Perhaps I didn't correctly understand what you wrote but did you say that a TOW ATGM impacting on the ground near a fully functional T-72 caused it to explode?
This seems a bit strange (at least).
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>
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*wipe drool off keyboard*
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Brandenburg? Where's that in Syria?Originally posted by George Mc:That's a view of some of the fighting in one of the scenarios called "Attack in Brandenburg". It's pretty full on
Cheers fur noo
George
ps that's got a big map
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I'm interested to see those studies.
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On the contrary, a high ranking Syrian official bemoaning CMSF's virtual invasion would be a blessing in the form of free publicity.
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So I take it that there will be Syrian campaigns, only not "official" ones? Now that takes a lot of imagination...
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Good points, but an armed and trained population is the nightmare of every dictator. A democratic third world country might pull it off, though.Originally posted by Bigduke6:First the hard part, you create an infantry force willing to fight and die, and make the training national so you can call up plenty of reserves. So you are conscripting.
Your elites are not silly useless commandoes, but sapper formations good at emplacing explosives and mines, especially against armor.
The you equip you infantry with:
- Mortar-delivered nerve gas.
- 7.62mm assault rifle and make AP ammo standard
- Sa-14 issued down to infantry platoon.
- .50 MG issued down to infantry company.
- .50 single-shot snipe rifle issued down to platoon.
- RPG-14 issued down to infantry squad.
- AT-14 issued down to infantry company
Copious amounts of low-metal shoebox mines.
If you have extra cash left over then you plunk out for guided missles.
If you have a coast then it's small boats + Exocet or the Russian analogue.
Infrastructure things that will help:
- Communications using wire, motorcycle runners, semaphore, or some other way of talking without transmitting.
- Populace is armed ahead of time
- Populace is educated to high school standard.
- Polulace moves around the same way as your infantry, be it vehicles, camels, foot, whatever. Because the sattelites can't tell the difference.
Do all that, and it would not be fun at all for a NATO-type force to invade you. But as noted, the starting point is a national army capable of rapid expansion of resonably capable infantry formations in case of an invasion.
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What downed F-15s?Originally posted by unsobill:Soviet Air is most superior on the planet - its even so good that many capitalists copying it for their army's - VTOL F35 was copied from 20 years old Yak141 - who are you trying to fool here - even if you keep repeating that F's is better then Mig it doesn't change the numbers F-15's that were downed by MIG's in cosovo conflict and even more F's in Vietnam war... its NOT about planes its about quality of pilot, i repeat.
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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.
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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.Originally posted by Beastttt:[QB] from a discription of ERA was that the panel had 2 metal plates that would interfere with the shaped charge jet
1 plate moving away from the tank disrupting the jet
then the 2nd plate being bounced off the tank's hull or turret and doing the same disrption of the jet again
Vs a KE round the plates are moving and and the shearing force(since the odds of a 0 degree hit are next to nil)snaps or redirects the KE round
now my question would be
Could a Bradley fire it's 25mm chain gun to scrub off the ERA so it's TOW could have a chance at at a penatration or teamworked with an M1 and it's 105 or 120mm gun
I'm figuring that the 25 is going to have to go full auto for 3 to 5 seconds to do a good scrub job
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LOL, that would do the trickOriginally posted by Sgt.Rock of Easy Company:I've got it, we get a headwrapped middle eastern man to make a video of him talking to the camera, telling us how, he and his group of terrorists use it to realisticaly train to fight and kill Americans.
Then we get him to post it on YouTube, Google Video, Liveleak and Metacafe. After that, we just wait for the media to go nuts, saying its a terrorist training tool and then Jack Thompson would come and say how its realistic depiction of war is corrupting our youth.
BFC would have more advertisement and sales than they could handle.
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Yup, at many occasion resulted in dead Iraqi troops even with no insurgents in the immediate vicinity.Originally posted by Primarch:What about when US forces are working in concert with iraqi forces? It seem like a bad idea to shoot at every AK sound in that operation.
a module french army ?
in Combat Mission Shock Force 1
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