Sgt.Squarehead

If you liked that, you are gonna love this: T-80BVM (Lite) with a very 'fit' looking crew!

I suspect from their perspective Kim is viewed as a 'Useful Idiot', he brings a certain amount of trouble into the equation (THAAD at your doorstep), but they already know that the US would just come up with another pretext even if Kim weren't in the picture (QV: US missiles defending against the 'Iran Threat' all along Russia's western frontier).

Once you've contributed half as much to CM as @Combatintman has, we might start taking your posts half as seriously. Until then.....

They did have quite a lot of them and they didn't have much else to do.....Seems fair enough to me.

ROFL....Why the **** would they possibly do that? He's busy tying the world's current 'Superpower' up in diplomatic knots, leaving them to get on with making themselves into the world's next 'Superpower'.....The train has left the station and the US doesn't even have a valid ticket (apparently your president tore it up in a fit of piqué).

Oooops! Sorry little fella:

Dammit.....I really liked that kill-dozer concept!

Just my thoughts.

I think you'll find the Chinese have been talking directly with the Taliban in Qatar. Nope that will suit the Taliban fine.....So long as the Chinese don't start trying to run the place and they pay all their 'taxes', all will be well. Building pipelines.....Fine just pay the necessary taxes. Building roads.....See above. Building schools and demanding girls can go to them.....You figure it out! Building nations - See Afghanistan, History 2001-2018

Strykers are so good at spotting that I find you can put them in overwatch, commence your manoeuvres against Uhniv and they will systematically kill anyone so foolish as to fire at your men. In one play through some imbecile in a teeny weeny little house decided to open up on one of my squads, with Strykers in plain sight on two sides of him.....Seeing those rounds ripping through all four walls of the building was a great reminder of why a 100 year old (almost) gun is still so popular today!

@LongLeftFlank That would make an interesting overlay with the LWJ maps, looks like Resolute Force are holding the major population centres, but the countryside is firmly in the hands of the insurgents.....There's a very familiar pattern, eh? There's a big difference, the Chinese are invited guests, NATO not so much.....In Afghanistan that's a very big deal.

This has been my experience.....Maybe I've been appallingly unlucky with my T-90s, but I've had three move simultaneously to hull down positions on a timed command with tight covered arcs to engage a single hull down (AI controlled) Bradley, then reverse away after sufficient time for two to three shots. The Bradley took out one with a TOW almost instantly, long before the T-90s got a spot (only one ever did and it missed with the only shot it fired before retreating) and it got a second T-90 before the reverse move was completed. Both hits were kills.

This exactly.....Range is often a big factor in making the decision whether to fire or not, that Mk.19 is awesome at short range against IDed targets, the grenades all hit the house & everyone dies! On the other hand, over the course of a couple of hours long-range sprays of grenades against teams in the treeline can really add up, leaving you short when the **** really hits the fan. I plan on issuing all the Mk.19 Strykers to the Engineers & Co. HQ in my next run, my patrol Strykers will be .50cal only.

Heresy.....Call the inquisition!

https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2018/09/mapping-taliban-controlled-and-contested-districts-in-afghanistan-lwj-vs-us-military-assessments.php You decide.

The Mk.19 Strykers tended to spot targets at fairly long ranges and hurl a lot of grenades at them often to fairly little effect, thus burning their ammo supply......For my next run through I will reserve them for pulverizing known dug-in targets, much as I did with the 'BTRoD!' in earlier runs. PS - I begged @MOS:96B2P for a Stryker MGS, but to no avail AFAIK. PPS - The one thing I did run out of frequently was mortar rounds.....At one point I was down to about a dozen PGMs (reserved for a particular unit that was thoroughly getting on my tits) and some smoke!

The absence of various MRLS, (Grad, Uragan & Smerch in particular) is starting to grind my gears (this goes for Ukraine too). PS - @Sublime Just for you: I never liked the T-80 that much, but then I discovered these threads: http://sturgeonshouse.ipbhost.com/topic/961-communist-tracked-boxes-with-pancake-turrets-dont-you-dare-to-confuse-glorious-t-80-battle-tank-with-kharkovite-t-64-tractor-that-doesnt-work/ http://sturgeonshouse.ipbhost.com/topic/884-t-80-megathread-astronomical-speed-and-price/ I now have around a dozen 1/72 T-80 kits.

Mercury?

The game makes it automatically.....When you play your units can only see what they can see. How exactly that is displayed to you depends on your difficulty setting. I recommend starting with Iron Mode, theoretically the most difficult, actually no different to any other.....But what it does do is demonstrate how information is shared between units up & down the chain of command. Understanding that is a key element of learning the CM games. If you mean can you hide the terrain.....No. Maps were invented a very long time ago and the game reflects that. However a cunning designer can hide things in the terrain. PS - Welcome to the battlefield.....Bravo on opening the editor too!

I find the Abrams in CM:SF a lot less obnoxious than in CM:BS (having a few extra varieties to choose from helps of course), but I do feel it & (even more so) the Bradley are a bit overrated in all the games.....The Bradley's performance in CM:BS is such that it begs the question why the US would need to deploy Abrams at all.

That BTR and I became very good friends (I used it to finish fights rather than start them), I became so fond of it that I looked for a 1/72 kit of it, but the closest I could get was this.....So I bought it (& a bit of aftermarket to make it look sexier): The only vehicles I had ammo shortages with were the Mk.19 armed Strykers.

There is also a limited amount of WARPAC ammo in the UAZ-469s (Not to forget 'The BTR of Doom!' ).

Chunk the map per the @Combatintman method, use intel per @MOS:96B2P system & multiple exit zones.....Job's a good 'un.

Long War Journal may prove useful too: https://www.longwarjournal.org/tags/libya

Costly in hardware & prestige would be my personal summary.....They lost the best part of a company of Leopard 2A4s (I believe there's a full list of Turkish AFV losses posted elsewhere on the site). EDIT - I think it's in this thread: The list above covers the fighting for Al-Bab, there was more.....Quite a lot more as I recall.