Sgt.Squarehead

Good to see this point raised.
IMHO CM is one of the very few games that actually can do this.
However it requires deliberate intent in the scenario design process to achieve it.....I suspect that most scenarios are structured such that the enemy will put up a decent fight simply because the majority of casual gamers might find an enemy that regularly surrenders en-masse a bit dull.
But it can be done.
 

Agreed, fifty meters is a bit optimistic for a handgun.....This being said I really like 'Pistoleers' in CM (mostly CM:SF2 ex-Taxi Drivers), they can be great fun:

Please, please look at the Red C2 and give the Uncons some more Specialist Teams (esp. Breach Teams) & Individual Vehicles.....Giving the US access to Predator Drones would really be cool too (the timing is so close and it's a fictional war after all). 
There's still a huge amount of life in CM:SF2. 

More from the article:
Maybe Ukraine should try doing some thinking for itself. 
Seems to me like the west (& especially their media) are fully ready to fight Russia, right down to the last Ukrainian. 

Dude, it's a quality blog and as I recall, threads are free! 
The CM community needs more content & commentary from folk who actually understand the game.

First time we've seen a BMMP prototype AFAIK:

https://gurkhan.blogspot.com/2022/02/efv.html
 

With a mixture of sneakiness & luck! 

This one got two plus a brace of Bradleys to go with 'em!   
PS - Note the direction it's attacking from, relative to its foes. 

Completely missed seeing this, but am grateful not just for Michael's years of contributing to the Forums, but because two visits back to brother George and family in the Tacoma, Washington area, he and I got to meet him and visit briefly. We had tea and, as the Brits would say, biscuits in the common area, because his room was messed up from some repairs, if memory serves. May or may not have a pic of him from our visit. If I do, shall post it. He was charmed that I brought him a jar of genuine English lemon curd, which I thought someone who loved his tea would appreciate. 

Regards,

John Kettler

From their perspective it was.....Sevastapol is massively important to Russia.
But I suspect you know that full well and that you are being disingenuous.
If China sponsored a Hawaiian revolution threatening Pearl Harbour, how do you think the US would respond?
PS - Once again, I felt that I should point this out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_War
Saying the Crimea is not historically Russian or that Sevastapol does not reperesent a vital strategic interest for Russia is lunacy, plain & simple. 

The file is here:
https://battlefront.sharefile.com/d-sd312c01f18984eea9c0cb58bda71281b
The .cam file that you download replaces the existing file in you Campaigns folder at:
User/Documents/Battlefront/Combat Mission Black Sea/Game Files/Campaigns

Tanks tend to operate rather poorly without a crew. 
Your comment is so wrong as to be utterly facile.....Borderline lunacy TBH! 

It's a known and reported issue for two titles and will very probably be fixed in the next round of patches.

It's a known and reported issue for two titles and will very probably be fixed in the next round of patches.

Warfare is just as honest and as fair as a bullfight in Spain. Some people like a 3D chess game. Tactical problem two PAK75 vs 12 JS2 they will lose but say they knock 2 out whilst crossing a bridge disable the two PAK75's and the crew exit the map. To play German could be an enjoyable scenario. I wouldn't like to do it in real life. 

Object 279 ->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_279 
plus
 

kohlenklau,

The (f) oops is traceable, I think, to my having FHO (Fremde Heeres Ost--Foreign Armies East, the Gehlen Organization) on the brain from reading Hitler's Nemesis by Walter Dunn. His book has scads of footnotes tied to various FHO studies, assessments, captured docs, etc.

Erwin,

No. It's captured French equipment. Hadn't seen this one before, but have seen a photo of a UE armed with a PaK-36. Here are several versions, the first two real field expedients!







Sgt.Squarehead,

Point taken. Had to rewrite that sentence several times, yet it still came out not quite right! In any event, here is a. clutch of captured UEs in what I believe to be their French warpaint, but hastily given crude Balkenkreuz markings.



Regards,

John Kettler

Sub 50 meters is not ‘practically point blank’ for someone shooting a pistol and getting shot at. 48 meters is a long pistol shot at about max range against a man sized target. 5-7 meters is point blank, 15 is medium, 25 is long, and 50 is max effective range.

I decided to see what this might do for me...
I had never effed with the script file. People have asked me for my mods, "It says it is a PZIIL in the UI but on screen I see it is a Romanian R-35, can you change the UI?"
I have many more of this shenanigans coming so I decided to try to edit the script file.
CMRT script file in the F&R brz folders. red thunder v210a
red lights and klaxons activated, safety goggles on, range cleared, 3-2-1-0 commence test...
I opened the text file and changed IS-1 to KV-1. saved it ot my CMRT z folder.
Loaded the game. My vehicle modding test scenario loaded and my IS-1 "work in progress" KV-1 unit showed this! UI said it is a KV-1. Hot damn!
It showed the IS-1's 85mm gun and icon for heavy tank. Looks like the game code sees the script file as perhaps sequential entries? Maybe IS-1 is entry #395? Or whatever...
Next test will be actual scenario play 
 

Every kill with an M48 feels like an achievement, usually because it was! 
Frontal slugging matches do not end well.

He does look a lot better since he stopped dieting.....Looked positively gaunt back then! 
PS - @Warts 'n' all tease each other a bit, his avatar is Cromwell and I'm from Worcester.....Back in the English Civil War, Worcester was a Royalist redoubt:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Worcester 
When Cromwell's goons finally got into Worcester they properly vandalised the place.  Some of the vandalism has been left 'as was' and is now a prominent feature in the dining hall of a rather posh local school:

Every kill with an M48 feels like an achievement, usually because it was! 
Frontal slugging matches do not end well.

Every kill with an M48 feels like an achievement, usually because it was! 
Frontal slugging matches do not end well.

Ah, but what's the challenge in that? 😀 I play tested the US campaign, 1979. First scenario you start with a handful of M48a5s. Hoooboy!  That makes life interesting.
Dave