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    Fortified Positions - useful ideas

    in CMSF Strategy and Tactics Forum

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    Grenades and smoke would help alot... one strategy is just to target-fire every building you come across to pin/kill anyone inside. Of course, this uses alot of ammo. Works best if you have infantry vehicles to do the cover firing, as they have almost limitless ammo.

    My test compound setup was somewhat unrealistic. Starting the marines in a trench 30m from the compound was a bit harsh, and isn't actually very good scenario design. I think it would be more realistic, more flexible strategy-wise, and generally easier if the marines approached from further away, and had buildings of their own to occupy and to overwatch from.

    There is probably a neat scenario in here somewhere, I'll have to think on it. I've never actually finished a scenario design, I always seem to get obsessed w/ the small stuff...

    Well that's kinda the point though, ya know? A brainstorming in this area could definitely produce some worthwhile scenario ideas. My first on will be coming up in about a week or so.

    I think the main point to increasing the difficulty for the US forces is to come up with ways to limit their ability to concentrate firepower. Fire and maneuver is the doctrine after all.

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    Real Military Training any use?

    in CMSF Strategy and Tactics Forum

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    It helps - trust me. I'm just glad the game doesn't simulate getting beasted up and down a hill for a couple of hours.

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    Considering the equipment, time frame, and various other similarities, I was able to pick up on this game in short order. TO&E was much more simplified and having actually fired a javalin let me know exactly what to expect from it. Oh, by the way, while on that subject, when you fire the javalin (in game you have to wait for the hit), but then get out of there quick!

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    Fortified Positions - useful ideas

    in CMSF Strategy and Tactics Forum

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    This position is based around a typical house, but uses balconies to protect the infantry that are positioned in trenches in front of the house.

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    The sides of the house can be utilized the same way and if buffed up with some low walls, they provide excellent cover for AT/ATGM/Sniper assets.

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    After doing some testing on this layout, the troops here were able to take alot of arty pounding, but with some mixed results. For example, if they break and attempt to retreat, they get destroyed.

    I was curious about what others may have come up with in this area.

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    Weapons review from Iraq veteran

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    Originally posted by sgtgoody (esq):

    Actually the intent when you engage the enemy is to render him unable to prevent your manuevers. There is no doctrine about killing or wounding or scaring or tickling.

    Smaller rounds are not only lighter and can be carried in greater quantity but they can be fired faster and more accurately. Soldiers are trained to aim center mass, which will normally dissable anyone you hit.

    There are stories of people being hit nearly everywhere with everything and surviving. These incidents and incidents that people claim to hear get repeated and repeated until they become bigger than life. One of the Rangers in Somalia took an RPG through his body but lived for several hours, does that mean the RPG isn't effective. The Rangers also talk about a Somali who was on the recieving end of several bursts from an M60 and still left the battle under his own power.

    Sometimes people are just hard to kill.

    I agree, I've seen a haji go down from 2 shots from an M16A4 and then saw another get his arm blown off by a .50cal and evaded us. The insurgents and the Iraqi people in general are a sturdy bunch, with or without cocaine in their systems.
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    Weapons review from Iraq veteran

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    Originally posted by shlitzzlipzz@hotmail.com:

    here's an example how stupid all this 'legality' of bullets is..

    1. I design a bullet that fragments on impact and an internal cavity of the bullet has a dose of instantly reacting chemicals that render the victem pain-free and unconscious. If he dies, he dies pain-free. If he lives, he will be easily handled and won't fight back also.

    2. I design an insidious tracer element that burns at an extremely hot temperature. As the bullet fragments, it fills the cavity inside the person with burning particles. The pain is not bearable and will even fill the lungs with caustic smoke.

    1. might be illegal yet 2. is not.

    Wouldn't that be great, if the Geniva Convention didn't tie our hands with the use of such ammunition. Personally, I say we sleep gas the whole city and then house to house search for the guys lying next to their weapons and IEDs but the LT wouldn't buy it.
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    Weapons review from Iraq veteran

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    I'm a active duty Scout and I just came back from 12 months at Camp Junction City, which is right across the Euphrates river from downtown Ar Ramadi. I have been to Blue Diamond several times. The drive is...interesting.

    Alot of what this Marine's Father has said is true and some of it I would have to disagree with, some of the tale is probably lost in the telling and some of it is probably just a difference of opinion. Some of it is dead on, especially about the IEDs. I got a laugh from the part about the shower, thats so true.

    * The SAPI plates are much heavier than that, but you really do get used to carrying them around. Though running in them takes longer to get used too. The heat is much less than 120 normally because of the Euphrates river running alongside Ar Ramadi, although it still sucks. The heat is much more unbearable in Kuwait, where it gets to 140 at times. Until I got there, I didnt think it got that hot anywhere but the sun.

    As far as weapon systems go...

    * I carried an M16A2 for 4 months and an M4 the rest of the tour and only experienced the occasional double-feed. The 5.56 is a little underpowered when measured shot to shot against the 7.62, but I never fired just one at an insurgent anyways. More is better. :cool: Overall, very reliable weapons that WILL take down a haji. You really have to maintain your arms there, its life or death. The rail system being used on both weapons allows for a great diversity of attachments. I love my M4, though haji sure didn't.

    * The M-249 SAW (Belt-fed)is an excellent weapon and in MANY's opinion is far more reliable and portable than the M-240B. It's the 240 that jams/misfires much more often. The SAW applies an extremely "liberal" application of that 5.56 round that people like to bash on so often. The SAW fires like two M16A1s on full auto. Your not going to chew down one of haji's houses with the 240 anyways, both are used in much the same mission. The debate over which is better goes on. The same debate rages about the Mark 19 semi-automatic grenade launcher. I don't like it because it jams too much for me and I don't care who says it doesn't. You can't argue with dozens of aimed grenades though, so I leave that to the guys who like it most.

    * Ma Deuce is my baby. The M2 .50cal has been around since WWII and looks to be around well into the future. Reliable, sturdy, and deadly, the .50cal is what most of my kills were made with. When the round enters the body cavity, it creates a hydrostatic shockwave that ruptures organs and induces shock instantly. Now THIS baby will shoot through haji's house. I've seen it go from the hood through the trunk and everything between using armor piercing incendiary rounds. Car bomb that haji!

    * We did several missions with the SEAL teams and they DO love the HK, especially with the silencer on. Great for those pesky dogs that like to give away your sniper position.

    The insurgents DO still attack at night and during sandstorms. They also attack during the day in Ramadi. Everyday Ramadi is a full blown warzone. In Ramadi and on the outskirts especially, they like to set up IEDs (primary and secondary devices) and sometimes cover them with ambush forces that use heavy machineguns and RPGs. They also have limited night vision equipment and yes, even some body armor (though not as good). Honestly, the AK in all its variants is very much hindered there by unreliable ammunition. I fired more than a few captured AKs and the magazines all had at least 2 misfires. Plus haji shoots like **** too. Though sometimes all you need is to put alot rounds downrange. Such is war.

    IEDs: EOD is awesome. We completed over 1000 missions in the year we were there and at least half of those were EOD escort missions. These guys are amazing soldiers, even if they are Marines (just kidding). Another group of unsung heroes of the war are the robots used to detonate IEDs all over the country several times a day, EVERY day. Many a Johnny 5 has passed into toaster heaven because haji wanted to take at least something out with his little homemade device. The enemy use wire and cell phone detonated IEDs and even use TV remote stations, though I don't know how he expected that one to work, I can't get my to transmit across the living room.

    Another source of arms/fighters is Jordan. Many of the fighters in Ramadi are foriegn fighters from Syria/Iran. There has even been a female merc sniper from North Korea attacking our forces in the area. During the latest voting process, there was only fighting there. I've seen where the insurgents have executed 14-16 year old children for being questioned by us. The civilians are sick of it. The place is the deadliest city in the world where enemies of the West go to hunt. I feel anger too when we hear people say we are losing the war and should just leave. I have lost good friends there and I dont want to see it be for nothing. We are almost there and every time somebody in the press says that, they encourage the insurgents to fight harder, just trying to cause a few more casualties and they think we will run away. We wont, we just fight harder and they do most of the dying.

    Well, thats my experiences there, some of them anyways. I hope you don't take it as an attack on your friend or his father because it sincerely isn't M1.

    Cipher out.

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