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LukeFF

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  1. Can I make a request here for the ammo description for the American M2 .50 cal machine gun? It's always bugged me that, no matter the vehicle, the ammo description is always given as 12.7mm. All of the US service manuals I have read (including the "Dash-10") refer to the cartridge as .50 BMG. Never have I ever heard of .50 BMG being referred to as "12.7mm" by American forces. Thus, I think caliber description should be re-worked as follows: -American units: .50 BMG -British/other NATO units: 12.7mm
  2. Never thought I would see this: an M1A1 in the "Streets of Hama" mission, after breaking down the walls to expose the enemy's vehicles, knocked out two vehicles with one shot! Don't know if it was a secondary explosion from the BMP-2 that took out the T-90, since I was playing in real time. Nonetheless, two kills with one tank shell is something not often seen!
  3. Has anyone tried to run the 1.20 demo with the latest Catalyst drivers? It sure would be nice to upgrade my drivers beyond 9.3 and not have them crash CMSF.
  4. Do soldiers flagged at WIA at the end of a campaign mission have the chance to return in a later mission?
  5. Will the Germans finally get the G41 and G43 rifles? I know they aren't in CMBB, but I don't know about CMAK.
  6. Is he still a member of that wacko "Earth Sensitives" (or whatever it's called) group? EDIT: yep! http://earthboppin.net/talkshop/feelers/
  7. Finns scoop wife-carrying title: http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=107346
  8. It's an abandoned airbase, and the infantry are Special Forces.
  9. Is this something being considered for future releases? I find the vehicle models in CMSF to be excellent, but it's a bit of a disconnect to see a knocked-out vehicle (especially one hit by a tank or RPG round) sitting there like a museum piece.
  10. Sadly, I deleted it. It was the second-to-last mission in the TF Thunder campaign.
  11. I noticed an odd thing with a Bradley the other day: the gunner kept rotating the turret back and forth along a ~10 degree axis after I had given it a Target command. The 25mm gun was not out of ammo and had not suffered any damage. The only way I was able to stop the problem (and get the Bradley to fire on a new target) was to bail out the crew and then order them back into the unit. Known bug, and if so, is it on the 1.20 fix list?
  12. It's from the "Heads Up" mission in the TF Thunder campaign. Not a big deal, but I still found it to be pretty funny. I remember seeing those AC units littered all over the place in Iraq. Heck, ever heard of a bomb shelter in Iraq complete with air conditioning? Yep, we had one of those:
  13. Air conditioning unit out in the middle of a field?
  14. You can add me to the list. I saw my share of vile and nasty things while over there, so I can see the humor in Clavicula's story.
  15. Besides the light cavalry units, what other Army units are covered by the IBCT formation? -10th Mountain? -82nd Airborne? -101st Airborne? -The various National Guard light infantry units?
  16. Oh, we had our rubber canvas doors as well!
  17. I see your salvaged scrap metal and raise you my sandbags latched to the hood with a tie-down! Can't believe I rode up into Iraq in a similarly-equipped deathtrap... We also had Mk19-equipped M915s and hummers. And yep, we rode up into Iraq with shield-less gun mounts as well.
  18. Kind of. I see E-4s fairly often (usually in conjunction with a weapons team), but it's always been a Corporal, not a Specialist. Does the game display both ranks or just the CPL one? In my 6 years in the Army, I could probably count on one hand the number of CPLs I encountered. SPCs, on the other hand, were a totally different story. In my unit alone that deployed to Iraq, all but maybe 4-5 of the junior enlisted soldiers were SPCs. Corporals just aren't all that common any more in the Army. EDIT: I just had another look at my old records. At the end of our deployment, we had 35 junior-enlisted soldiers in my company at the end of our tour. Of those, 23 were SPCs, 1 was an E-1 Private (a screw-up who could never stay above E-2 ), 1 an E-2 Private, and the rest PFCs. IMO, having just one E-4 in a Stryker Rifle squad is a bit too low.
  19. Other than Corporals, I've never seen any Spec-4s in the game. It seems like almost all Army vehicles outside of the headquarters and XO units consist of either an E-3 or E-2 "in command." Oversight or design decision? The E-4 Mafia wants to know!
  20. Bradleys: will they finally use their 7.62mm MG when given a Target Light command?
  21. Nice, I didn't even know about the Space Bar feature! Was that something added in a patch? I just tested it out and found it to be a very convenient feature.
  22. FWIW, I also had this problem with the 9.4 drivers on XP (HD 4870 video card). Reverting back to the 9.3 drivers fixed the problem.
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