Sgt.Squarehead

Busman's holiday mate? 

Sigh … yet another operational tour to a hot and sandy place.

Defence by international committee.....What could possibly go wrong? 
PS - I'm sure the French will love being told when & where they may or may not use their nuclear forces by Brussels. 

The - historical-  facts go to point out that  the last four Tory prime ministers in British history have been incinerated as a result of their policies regarding the EU. Thatcher, Major, Cameron and now May, seem to have find the end of their political careers on the same or a similar shoal. Always loudly demanding concessions from those "exploitative" continentals, always getting them, and all to, inthe end,  have been summarily thrown out of a window by a faction in the Tory party.
Rik Mayall totally nailed what those games are about with this impersonation
30 years ago!

Insurgent forces fight their way along Market Street:

A heroic rebel technical crew ambushes regime armour:

I wasn't joking about them being heroic, they took out two tanks and an infantry team single-handed at a rather critical moment.....What a fight! 

Did I mention it was quite a fight:

A friendly civilian (Honest!  ) emerges to render first aid to a fallen rebel:

 

I reckon it should be called the Europe Union Nations' Unified Command Headquarters.....Because they don't have any balls either. 

Insurgent forces fight their way along Market Street:

A heroic rebel technical crew ambushes regime armour:

I wasn't joking about them being heroic, they took out two tanks and an infantry team single-handed at a rather critical moment.....What a fight! 

Rebel forces assault Fisbuk Prison:

Some urban remodelling work has been undertaken on Market Street:

Wyatt got a gun:

"Hands Off Al Mout!" 
 

There are so many talented people in this community, but this really is it in a nutshell.
Going by past history, I think it's time for BFC to ask MOS to come hither.  😉

I dunno, but I can do the red one already:

Sweet (but not inexpensive) kit.....Gonna build mine towing something heavy out of the Rasputitsa. 

Sorting out tank gun elevation might be a good idea too.

Just found this link with thousands of amazing photos from the war. Most were shot by US trained Mujahideen from 1987 to 1989.
https://archive.org/details/afghanmediaresourcecenter?&sort=-downloads&page=6

Utterly shocking drills in the first clip and mostly smoking in the second clip. Mind you, the first clip at least confirms that people do dumb things which should be borne in mind when making observations about the performance of the Tac AI in the game.

That's that sorted out then, cheers Ian. 

Air missions no not provide intel of any kind to the caller or anyone else. Well other than smoke plumes they might generate by scoring hits on enemy vehicles.

LOL - that's important. Whatever you do don't spend the night celebrating in your secure compound, drinking heavily into the night without knowing you have been successful before you crack the first bottle. You might not get a second chance like these guys did:
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690363402/how-the-cia-overthrew-irans-democracy-in-four-days
Note: not trying to be political just a history podcast that starts with the story of a failed CIA backed coup attempt in 1953. The part I am referring to actually starts at 5:15 after the story of the failure and the introduction to this new pod cast. Spoiler alert they get a second try and they succeed that time. I'm sure @MOS:96B2P scenario will give you no such quarter.

It's an immensely intricate scenario in which the player has almost as much choice in framing the individual battles as the designer does.....Consequently balancing the whole thing and making all the possible variations challenging without being overpowering can be tricky.....I'm in one of those situations right now. 
This one will be worth the wait, even more so than TOC, take my word for it. 

No I don't know for sure. According to this, they were used in Ramadi:
https://dod.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/642097/iraqi-security-forces-sharing-lessons-of-ramadi-officials-say/dom/foxnews/src/syn/
According to this, they were still being trained on the equipment in the lead up to Mosul:
https://www.dvidshub.net/video/468579/iraqi-army-miclic-live-fire

Thanks for the PDF file.  Interesting stuff. 
On a very large wooded/jungle map, something like the TOC map.  Supply trucks (representing valuable natural resources) appear as reinforcements in certain villages, across the map.  These villages produce / gather the resource.  Said trucks would appear up to seven times (7 reinforcement groups) in the appropriate villages.  Each truck could be a RedFor destroy unit objective worth Victory Points.  Different types of resources worth different VPs.  Example: Jade truck worth 25VPs lumber worth 10VPs.  The more valuable the resource / village the better guarded by OpFor. 
The player starts with a small insurgent force at a base camp in the woods / jungle.  His goal is to control the province by controlling all the villages that produce the valuable resources.  He captures his first small village and the BluFor supply trucks in the village.  As long as he holds the village he will gain future supply trucks on future reinforcement turns.  Since the trucks are destroy unit objectives he must smuggle them across the border (evading government, troops & rival war lords) to an exit zone across said border.
Some of the bigger more valuable villages contain a trigger that would release additional forces to the player's control.  These forces would become available across the border in the neighboring country.  They would represent (reward) the player's military success (if he succeeds) in controlling the villages.  As the player commands a bigger force he is able to go after bigger villages until he is warlord of the province.  Throw in triggers, timers, AI groups etc........... Maybe spies used as refugees that must be dealt with......., maybe a modern Canadian led UN force in the area ...............   .       
         

Not urban, but how about a little reelpolitik to go with your COIN?Interesting case study here, from a part of the world where I've spent time about how (counter)insurgency can be made to pay, handsomely. Dynamics by no means limited to Myanmar.
In game terms, perhaps we could mash up @MOS:96B2P 's ingenious works with Settlers of Catan to create a nice little post-SHTF warlord game, lol. Oh, so you won't trade coal for sheep eh? Let me explain Largest Army to you.... 
Strategic Violence During Democratization (For Fun and Profit)
Prior to democratization, the Myanmar military government peacefully colluded with ethnic rebel groups to split the profits from jade mining and smuggling—a sector worth roughly half of Myanmar’s GDP. But fearing that the new civilian government would assume control of jade-mining areas and the associated rents, the military has ginned up unrest in mining townships to deter the development of an alternative authority.
Shortly after 2011, the Thein Sein government announced its intention to tax the previously sheltered [Army run SOEs] UMEHL and MEC, which have substantial interests in the jade sector. At the same time, the... NLD, led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, de facto prime minister) included strong language about increasing government revenues from the jade sector and cracking down on smuggling.
...Military families (commanders’ wives often serve as owners of record) and their companies made over $1 billion from their official jade sales in 2013 and 2014. This figure represents a lower bound, as most jade is smuggled out of the country, thus avoiding the heavily taxed emporiums.... more than 50 to 80 percent of jade is smuggled from Myanmar into China... less than 10 percent of total jade sales in 2011 was taxed by the central government.
The military elites not only have large stakes in major mining operations, they also run a lucrative racket in Kachin State.... military officers demand 20 percent of the value of any stone found by small-scale, artisanal miners. Moreover, the Tatmadaw receives payments from concessionaires, who both pay for soldiers to guard their compounds and distribute bribes to clear any roadblocks along their smuggling routes.
Proceeds from illegal jade exports not only benefit military elites and their cronies, but also provide an important source of income for the Kachin Independence Army (kia). The KIA, the armed wing of the KIO, consistently has been one of the largest and most active insurgent groups in Myanmar since its formation in 1961.... the group boasts membership of close to ten thousand troops and occupies territory in Kachin State as well as in northern Shan State. Funding for the KIA also comes from a variety of other sources: because it has lost control of jade-mining areas, it has relied more heavily on illegal logging and timber sales.
The military has allegedly hampered increased civilian oversight by timing attacks to disrupt visits by ministers or international observers. 
In an area still occupied by a historically rebellious ethnic army, the civilian government cannot easily discern whether violence reflects renewed separatist activity or military provocation. As such, the military can exploit unrest in this region—even of its own making—to convince an uncertain civilian government to cede authority to the generals in administering lucrative and “disputed” territory.
“Ceasefire capitalism”—the period of relative peace in Kachin State that enabled the exploitation of the region’s natural resources—enriched military elites and KIA/KIO leaders but did little to benefit the rest of the population. This generated resentment among the rank and file.... And after these lower-ranking officers seized power, they adopted a more confrontational stance vis-à-vis the Tatmadaw.

Cheers fella, it seems about 90% reliable as a demining tool and obviously you can tweak the charge placement for better (or worse) effects.....I tend to use the Huge charges around buildings as it creates a wonderfully complex moonscape even on dead flat ditch-locked areas (all the buildings here follow my usual policy).  Detonation reliability is 100% so far, the longest it's taken to go off is 58 seconds.
Here's a video of the charge in action, courtesy of @General Jack Ripper:
 

CM:SF2 'One-Minute-Test' of a Snake type demining charge:  https://www.dropbox.com/s/xaza5aww1cws6xk/[Test] Line Charge.btt?dl=0
Select Blue and click the big red button. 
Once you've tried it in your normal play mode, run it in scenario author mode (and/or look in the editor) to see the techniques used and monitor the effects in game (the map is mined in that area).