sburke

One should expect nothing less from the Senior Member Extreme (Grande Wizzard)

My guess is you are unzipping more than just the patch and it is selecting other archived files at the same time. That particular file is not part of the BF patch. That sounds like a mod file that is also being affected. You may want to make sure the patch file goes into a directory with no other files in it

This is like watching this one stray cat in my neighborhood. The things is about as mangy, beat up and decrepit as... oh jeez.. maybe Boo. Anyway I keep waiting to find this thing dead in my yard some morning, flys all buzzing around it and the flea infested carcass stinking up my lawn. I'll probably do with it what someone should have done with this thread long ago- toss it in the frickin neighbors yard who insists on feeding it. It would actually spruce up House Rune.

Okay so you have a unit that is easily transportable to a theater where you already have established military bases and units. The air mobile force is gonna drop and marry up with a force hopefully including more than BMDs to fight in a country right on your border.... still looks like a force looking for a mission as opposed to a mission looking for a force. You already have forces positioned to do the very mission you are citing as an example for VDV units. Sounds more like what we would call here "pork barrel politics", something created with some excuse or another just to provide budget money. We tend to have a lot of that, but mostly for keeping military bases that don't have much function or military industries that could be done cheaper elsewhere. And just to say it, their recent experiences crossing that border haven't always been very good. Getting "lost" and captured tends to tarnish ones reputation.

really - you think the Russian army can go 100km past the FEBA and do an air drop? Might want to define who you think the Russian army could pull that off against first and then why you'd bother doing an air drop. It is an interesting capability, but as others have tried to point out - why? Name an adversary you think there is even a remote possibility where this might be useful to maintain. At some point Russia needs to define what is the functional role of it's military and figure out what it needs to accomplish that mission. Otherwise you spend lots of much needed cash for a military that might look good on paper, but doesn't really have a reason for it's existence. As Panzer....(stuff)... has pointed out, the US maintains an airborne force because it actually has a functional use for a light infantry force. The US military projects globally and has the lift capacity and friends to do so. They do everything from policing and humanitarian missions to actual forced entry against non peer threat. (though even those instances are becoming dated - Panama, Grenada for example.) Look at Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan though as an example where things can go horribly wrong and how difficult it is for an airborne light infantry force to regain the initiative. Honestly I can't see the Russian army trying any kind of deep air assault mission against any state it borders and if it can't do it there, where is it going to do it? Russia has few friends in the world and lacks the force projection capability to do much else useful.

same here and no issues I've noticed.

Unless global warming turns it into something else.. yeah It does have mountains and urban facilities, but the point of the whole facility is large scale unit training and you can't just move that around. There are other facilities for training in specific environments. (for example in Okinawa)

Yeah more likely nothing to do with anything about a king.

I think you are completely missing his point. We have training "academies" as well. The NTC and JRTC are a fundamentally different facility that I don't believe are replicated anywhere else (at least partly due to the significant cost). They present a training capability well beyond what can be expected for any other military in the world. You can go to the NTC website to get some idea, there is also an ABC documentary on the 3rd Cav regiments rotation there prior to deployment to Afghanistan (called Blood and Steel)

No it doesn't it shows BS at the top of the chart, but with the fewest number of games. For example in July 2016 it had 2 games, not 29. As Ian noted, it isn't the best way to display the data. Note the blip of CMA in July 2015. I doubt it suddenly had 20 games going. It would be better with actual columns and the number of games for each title in the column. I see a lot of charts of that type at work. This one is too fuzzy. Err what muzzleflash said. . I type slow.

I think you are reading the chart wrong. That CMBS is on top is only based on it's release date. The chart is total games. CMBN over all is usually the hands down winner

Exactly. Trees themselves aren't really the control medium. While driving through tiles with a lot of trees may slow a vehicle, they won't stop it. The underlying ground tiles are what determine if it is passable or not. They also have a larger determination on how well infantry will be spotted.

You really need to start providing a monitor cleaning service. I need to wipe mine down again damn it!

I am still working on my plan for immortality. Until then I have a limited time frame in which to enjoy this hobby. Even if BF had some kind of sales policy like steam products, I considered what probably amounts to $25-$30 to be well worth it to play for several years before it goes on sale. Generally that is true for any game I purchase. The ones I buy on sale are usually because I wasn't interested enough to pay full price and when I do buy them on sale all it does is ratify that I should never have bought it even at 50% off....

Is that a Hogwart's special?

Hey, I am always eyeing my javelin count as I do go through them pretty quick. I will also make sure I distribute AT 4s around. I just hate when an AFV rolls by and a team is not armed to deal with it. And yeah I do use those a fair amount as well. I guess it shows I lean on my infantry a lot. Armor dies too easily so I tend to let my armor deny areas to the enemy to move and let my infantry try and hunt them if they are stationary. I'll also use the armor to hose down any defended buildings as opposed to making my infantry try and suppress them. I follow your view though in not loading up small arms ammo.

For future screenie posting - professional editing advice

When did you slip the nanny cam into House Rune?

Jeez Panzerkraut I never thought a game would make me start looking up military pay grades, the associated titles and responsibilities, but after reading this I feel like I have to be able to look at my units and know by rank what that dude should be doing. This sucks! It's like... like.. I don't know edumacation or sumfink!!! And then you have the gall to make it humorous as well just sucking us in. Bastard.

I think maybe this guy is related to your sniper

hopelessly optimistic

This thread has pages and pages dedicated to that. So much so it has gotten boring. Believe what you want, no one here is apparently going to change your mind no matter how much evidence is shown to the contrary. You have the fearless leader you deserve. Good luck with your economy and political freedoms. If you don't exercise them, you won't miss them.

That would be the Coen brothers and The Great Lebowski.... dude.

meatspace. LOL I like it. Gonna have to steal that one.

That is debatable, but the fact is it is debated and no one gets locked up because they voice the opinion that he lied.