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If you can find a depression in the woods, that will really help. Helos have a difficult time with that and get in deep, not on the edge. What you want is to not worry about visibility so much as something to block the missile. Assume it will spot you and make it as difficult as possible to be hit. If you want to get gamey, take a vehicle you can afford to lose and park it in the open as a sacrificial goat - yeah like that one in Jurassic park.

Hope that it has dismounts and they are next to and outside the vehicle. Between the RPG and APS they should be toast.

Actually it is far less easy than you think. Pushing through a hedge is easier as there aren't any wires strung between. Think of vineyards as a wire obstacle. A major pain in the ass unless you have no other route. If you give a movement order with long end points they will most certainly go around cause they are smart pixeltruppen.

When the economy is so blatatantly rampantly corrupt I find it pretty funny that anyone has any faith at all that the military contracts are gonna be anywhere even close to public statements. Geez c'mon let's all get back to earth and discuss what the Russian military is going to actually be capable of fielding. Considering as long as Russia continues it's aggression in Ukraine, the likelihood of any access to high tech overseas equipment at any scale is going to be a long shot. Russia is going to home grow everything, nah I don't think so. Heck they had to go to France to build a carrier. The great Russian navy, built in France. Face it the economic foundation to do this is sinking fast.

No he is right, he has been warned about certain comments and has obeyed the restriction. Sorry John. It is one thing to disagree with the viewpoint you presented, another to go into subjects that have been prohibited.

Don't need to sell me. I just can't figure out who I like more, him or Mattis. I have a deep personal distaste for PowerPoint, between the two of them I can't decide which has the better quote about it.

Heh, I figured this thread was dead anyway. Battle is over, time to move on. Ukraine concerns now are of possible buildup in Mariupol area, more tanks crossing the border, terrorist bombing of march in Kharkhov. Russia is far from done yet. Meanwhile a state sponsored march in Moscow is going on declaring the Russian opposition to be fifth columnists. I guess Russia is missing Stalin's terror trials. Ahh now those were some good times. Russia's actiona and statements are all headed in only one direction. There has not been a single item I can look at that even vaguely resembles an exit strategy or even an attempt to control the fire.

It would need a lot more testing to determine what should even be considered. I had issues with 82 mm mortar fire in Frosty Welcome and in trying to recreate last week I was unable to do so.

Uh oh, next up a dozen nukes used in Ukraine. nsKb, your first instinct was best. Should have stuck with it.

McTank?

Allowing the opening of a save game in the editor alone would be a huge leap for campaign layer games so you could import the existing units into a new scenario. I'd pay full game price just for that alone.

Actually us hands were not all that clean, the post war period in Japan is an interesting tale of us subversion of a democratic movement to make sure they had a firmly entrenched ally for the budding Cold War. Not a particularly uncommon theme in the Cold War where both sides cared little about what kind of allies they had as long as they were their allies. Suggest you read Embracing Defeat.

Playing Poking the Bear with my TOW mounted Strykers I was able to take out multiple T 90s. Dicey though as if given half an opportunity the T90s would toast them. Narrow firing lanes, rear arc, T90 on the move, I had the odds decked in my favor, but still risky. Had another incident where a T90 barreled over ha hill face on to a Stryker which proceeded to douse it with 40mm. I figured the Stryker was dead, instead the T90 popped smoke and backed up with its's optics etc shot up. In it's weakened state I was able to use the Stryker's infantry to take it out.

Good enough to shoot down an airliner. Ukraine was losing aircraft on a somewhat regular basis and if anything, the air defenses by Russia have been beefed up. Between manpads and actual AD systems, the Ukrainian Air Force is simply overmatched.

But be careful, there are a ton of intricate plans you can formulate this way, however that intricacy can also burn you when the enemy interferes. What starts as a mutually supporting assault can quickly turn into a bloody debacle. Make sure when you set these up that you know what the worst case is before you hit the big red button.

Target is a combat, not a movement command. If you want them to target briefly then move, assign them a pause for the duration of the target briefly.

In this case though the guys stance seems to indicate he is in the truck and there is plenty of room. Very odd.

Doing a counterattack in AI plans is difficult at best and considering the force selection may be totally inappropriate it becomes all that much harder. Mark is really good at them, but he is up against some solid limitations

This is one instance where you do have to be really clear regarding play mode. Fighting the AI is a terrible way to learn how to fight a human opponent. It teaches you all the wrong things.

No you are wrong. You must be because I am a customer and I am.....wait you are also a customer?.......damn it! I sense matter and anti matter are meeting. Yikes! Cross the beams? Didn't you say that would be a bad thing? Herr Oberst you do know my response was tongue in cheek right?

So you got pissed at one post that suggested your argument was false and that equals insulting essentially ALL of the beta testers. Thanks dude. The beta testers put in a lot of time testing the product some of them an enormous amount of time for the love of the game and this is how you respond? Yeah I have to say that really helps my opinion of you and your argument

I wish I could, but Putin to me is the unknown variable. I don't know what is his redline for what is unacceptable and therefore he goes all in. I also don't know what forces might exist in Russia to remove him should he cross an unacceptable redline nor do I know how much the Russian population will truly accept. I don't buy that Russians are so unified behind Putin as keeps getting stated. I suspect rather Russians aren't very far off from any other group of people. They first want some level of economic and social stability and after that they want their personal freedoms. Putin had been delivering to some degree on the first two while eliminating the last. He is increasingly unable to provide the first two. How long before that social contract collapses? So far he has foisted blame on the west for his adventurism. As Russia's young men keep coming home in body bags, when do Russians decide this is not what they want?

This is the first time I have ever had to reconsider a response based on knowing the one I wanted to write would likely force Steve to give me at least a temporary ban. Do you really have no idea how conceited,narrow and and childish that post was?

Pennies are money, rubles are money cmon Steve just a little creativity and you can retire with a truckload of money now.

If the Customer is always right and I disagree with you then how does BF resolve that? I say they follow my opinion as I am a customer and I am always right.