Sgt.Squarehead

Kivu Province; Congolese National Army T55 (ex-Ukraine) fires on rebels approaching Goma, 2008
Ilfochrome Paper

Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of Congo, 1978
Kodachrome Pano Color Positive Film

Part of my job is to do with archive footage. In anticipation of the commemoration of D-Day I rediscovered Hollywood director George Steven's colour home movies of his war. He volunteered at 37 and was put in charge of a combat film unit, filming of course in B/W but he took his 16mm camera along and had access to rare stocks of colour film. These home movies were only discovered by his son in storage after his death.
It's an eye-opener, and useful for modelling and gaming.
 

I hope you still have time to get the infantry Co HQ on a tank.  I like to match up my infantry HQs with their supporting tank HQs in CMRT.  It is one of the benefits of tank riders.  When possible, I will put the infantry Platoon HQ on the HQ tank of the supporting tank platoon.  (Same with Company level units.)  This facilitates the flow of intel between the infantry unit and tank unit.  Just have to be careful not to get the inf HQ shot off the back of the tank.  Good luck with that.    Infantry without radios can also use the tanks radio to stay in C2.  With the lack of Russian radios this is often useful.  The screenshot below demonstrates infantry/tank cooperation & C2.
 

Now you are talking.....Bon Scott version of Highway to Hell:
He's dead so he can't sue you! 

A nice little ambush against a Stryker. I really do like the corner peaking feature
All set up and patiently waiting. He and other teams can hear the Stryker coming down the alley...

Score. Unfortunately it was only immobilized.

Frankly I only find encouragement in your persistent negativity, if something offends you, it is clearly a worthy pursuit in its own right. 

Maybe you could grab a chunk and fill it in, just like @Broadsword56 intended? 

I actually did a little test where I pitted one platoon of Abrams (not APS) vs four companies of T-90s. I chose a map with a narrow width but a long length, mostly rural with a few trees and houses. It was also a hilly map if I recall. Anyways, I took the Abrams and just lined them up abreast along a ridge-line but not hull-down. I then had the platoons from the T-90 companies line up in a inverted-V formation and started advancing towards the Abrams position. Just in front of the set-up area for the T-90s was a light wooded area. I gave the command to "HUNT" to all units of the four companies (might as well call it a battalion). For the Abrams, I used the "TARGET ARMORED ARC" command to establish interlocking kill cones that spanned both the width and length of the map. The T-90s starting rolling forward and before they even cleared the tree-line, when six T-90s go "BOOM". To save this from becoming a novel, let's just say that by the time the remaining Russian tanks got to the half-way point on the map, a junk-yard laid behind them. They too met a flaming death. They did however, manage to kill one of the Abrams. Ahem. What can I say? Nothing, other than the code for the Abrams should be brought down a couple of notches.

oh yeah, had a lot of experience trying to convert CMSF to CMSF2 adding in the water.  Something I hope never to have to do again.

Amen bru!!

I thought adding real water to Bishr or LJF Huge Rural (each 9km2) would be a doddle.....Got a whole fresh perspective on that once I actually tried it! 

Javelins need 15 seconds or so to acquire their targets.....The Red player can work with this.

I thought adding real water to Bishr or LJF Huge Rural (each 9km2) would be a doddle.....Got a whole fresh perspective on that once I actually tried it! 

or as Joni Mitchell said in the original lyrics before a beta tester gave her grief  
I've looked at trees from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It's tree illusions I recall
I really don't know trees at all

I generally feel with Bulletpoint concerning the pine trees. Currently we can only "improve" by use of adding bocage and bushes to the forest interiors (see Kaunitz "improvement suggestions" thread), as well as adding bumps to the terrrain mesh to increases density and cutting LOS/LOF. Modding also helps by making bocage look like parts of pine trees. Examples below show crushed and fallen trees in a pine forest by adding bocage objects, as well as other stuff from the flavor objects collection. While the flavors do nothing for cover and concealment actually, they improve the scenery greatly IMHO. It´s still WIP (CMBN), but will be released to public later this year. Adaption to CMFB will follow.

Low bocage flavor object put at the bottom of single pine trees. I also made a custom ground tile set for pine tree forests.

Some pine tree flavor objects with some damage from shrapnel on the bark texture. Low bocage (true terrain type, not flavor object) with leaves/branches swapped for the pine type, serve as fallen trees and branches.




 

Frankly I only find encouragement in your persistent negativity, if something offends you, it is clearly a worthy pursuit in its own right. 

Frankly I only find encouragement in your persistent negativity, if something offends you, it is clearly a worthy pursuit in its own right. 

Of course the number of computer gamers who care about WW2 or modern tactical sims that attempt to be realistic is probably also in the "low single digit range". 
That doesn't mean that there aren't enuff of us who appreciate what dedicated folks like Sgt S and MOS are attempting to do "re-imagining/re-energising" the CM2 game system to make the effort worthwhile.  Should be encouraged imo.

And sometimes you just get bloody lucky.....Two goddam minutes! 

Depends what kind and more importantly, what kind of Pz.III was it (and where was it hit)? 
Spaced armour can have effects much greater than its actual thickness would imply.

His gifs, and AARs in general, are fantastic and are the main inspiration for the graphics and presentation of my AAR. My trouble with the gifs though is I cannot seem to find an easy to use software to create the gifs in the first place. I can record and edit video no problem, but creating gifs eludes me thus far.
I think there's a sweetspot somewhere in there that I'll attempt to find. I will say that posting the longer updates can get rather tedious, and mistakes are easier to make, so for the sake of workflow I want to reduce the size of updates in the future. I'll figure it out eventually 😁
@Sgt.Squarehead Here's a little behind the scenes info for you. When I first set up this mission, I used the T-72AV thinking that it used the same ammo as the T-72AV TURMS-T. I chose it over the TURMS as I wanted to simulate an OpFor having the more typical day/night sights found on most Soviet/Russian tanks (at least until pretty recently) instead of giving them the Italian thermals. 
However, after the battle was already being fought, I found out that the ammo used in the T-72AV TURMS-T is actually better than what is used in the base AV. In a perfect world, OpFor would have been equipped with a T-72 with day/night sights (like the AV) and also the best tank ammo the Syrians have access to in SF2 (the TURMS-T). If I break out OpFor for some more fun later on, I'll be equipping them with the TURMS-T to reflect the better ammo, and to make battles more challenging against mid-tier US assets (like the M1A1HC as opposed to the M1A2)
To be clear, I do not know the specific ammo designations the Syrian tanks are using, but my testing showed that a TURMS-T can reliably penetrate the front armor of both the M1A1HC and Leopard 2A4 at combat ranges (1-2km). If I were to take an educated guess as to what the TURMS-T is firing, it would be BM-32 or BM-42 (or the closest equivalent).  

I am in agreement with @Sgt.Squarehead I fired 9 122mm PGMs at a Brad - exploded all around it  - one actually underneath it - and it was still functional till a T90A shot it, and I fired another 3 at a Bradley, to no visible effect - it was mobile. (Was it Galloping Horse Downfall?  I will write some comments on that scenario when I have finished it).
It's incredibly frustrating and not realistic - especially in the thread from HerrTom which has a lot of evidence that even near misses will do substantial damage to armoured vehicles. I can understand that too much arty can unbalance a battle but fighting against Abrams you can't really take them head on and using PGMs would seem to be a good option  - if they worked!

That Abram's is a great subject for a model, 3d or real.....The weathering and the combination of wheels & stowage make it a very interesting to the eye and it would be a lot of fun to paint, I'm almost tempted! 
 

Those Germans were remarkably clean.