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Mastiff reacted to IICptMillerII in U.S. Thread - CM Cold War - BETA AAR - Battle of Dolbach Heights 1980
Oh hell yeah!
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Mastiff reacted to czarejs in *UPDATED* Team Yankee's First Battle Scenario
Hi all...I see that some people had the early version map of the Team Yankee scenario. The updated version can be found here... https://www.thefewgoodmen.com/tsd3/cm-cold-war/cm-cold-war-scenarios/cmcw-team-yankees-first-battle/
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Mastiff got a reaction from purpheart23 in Fire and Rubble
lol, my fingers are faster than a keyboard and brain.
I have question is this reinstalling CMRT? because this looks like the whole game again?
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Mastiff reacted to markus544 in Pre-orders for Combat Mission Cold War are now open.
No patience is not my strong side. In my meager defense I have been retired for about 10 years now...I don't golf and I don't surf....I do walk my three dogs and love my disabled wife of 29 years. Just saying
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Mastiff reacted to purpheart23 in The NTC
I've been to Palm Springs, I don't see the harm in attacking it.
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Mastiff got a reaction from Double Deuce in The NTC
I still have my NTC map from my days in the big green.
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Mastiff got a reaction from c3k in Reforger Nostalgia
My time at Reforger 1988-1989 was a blast, the one time they let us plow those farm fields and go anywhere!!!
I remember we found some sleeping Op4, and took all their radio antennas, they didn't leave anyone up for guard duty; I even went into a full sleeping GP medium and no one said a word. lol. left with their antennas. Got into a fist fight with 10th mountain over it! lol.
While out patrolling a road we came upon a disabled HQ 113, and Bradley, captured it and all there maps.
2AD MP Co, 502nd 1st Tiger Platoon!!
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Mastiff reacted to hank24 in Reforger Nostalgia
I grew up just 8 km from the inner-german border and never felt any fear or such - today I think that is strange.
Just the opposite, there are many nice memories concerning the military of that time. We often had the 16/5th Queens Royal Lancers on exercise at the farm of my father. They were stationed at the town of Wolfenbüttel nearby and everybody loved to see them, my mother because we talked english all day, the soldiers because they had warm places to sleep and a shower, and my father because he had an agreement to get a bottle of Famous Grouse for each day of their stay. We did things you never get elswhere, driving a Ferret Mk1 (I called it armored Dune Buggy), a Scorpion tank and even firing a Sten SMG on the meadow behind the barn. Once my father and me visited their barracks for some claybird shooting and the officers invited us to the officers mess. Wow, never saw so many silver cups and a living tradition like that.
When I served at PzAufklBtl 1 (Armored Recon) from '79 to '83 (just the proper time for this game) we were not even allowed to keep our battalion coat of arms, it was from the Black Hussars from Brunswick who fought with the British against Napoleon, but was too similar to the SS sign. That happens to military traditions when you loose your wars.
At that time I met kind guys from the 2nd Armored Division on Reforger exercise near Brunswick and found some nice friends there (Cpt. Hutto somewhere around here?).
And I served as contactperson for the team of 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards during the Boeselager Cup, an international competition among reconaissance forces. Still remember the 'Biwak' on the last evening.
One day I heard the sound of a Huey helicopter nearby and it did not disappear. So I looked for the source and found some thee or four Huey Cobra hovering directly at the outskirts of the village. I immediatly fetched my brothers and we tried to follow them with my Renault R4. Tough job, soon they were gone. But suddenly they reappeared one after the other over a ridgeline and took my car as a training target. Oh, man, that was exciting. I tried to make their job as difficult as I could but these helis were really fast and agile. I would love to ride one of those, must be like a flying Kawasaki.
I think Germany really lost something important with all these kind soldiers who are gone now and with them the BFBS radio and the British Wargamers Association with which I had so nice times at Rheindahlen and elsewhere.
And, by the way, a german Recon Btl was a complete all arms force in '79, ideal for a Bundeswehr expansion one day. There was a ground surveillance radar plt, two companies with Luchs and Leopard1, and a heavy company with grenadier plt (on Schützenpanzer kurz, later Fuchs), engineer plt, and 120 mm mortar plt.
And now I am here, working as an engineer on military simulation and looking forward to my retirement next year being excited to have all the time necessary to play my favorite game then, CM:CW.
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Mastiff reacted to MikeyD in when is the release dat?
Cold War is a special case because Slitherine and Steam are very hot to get this into their hands. And Slitherine is used to operating on a deadline so BFC had to adjust accordingly. CMRT Fire and Rubble had been worked on for 5-ish years and kept getting pushed aside by a string of surprise 'priority' projects (like the British Ministry of Defense). Cold War has no priority project ahead of it, besides finally getting Fire and Rubble out the door, which can be done without disturbing the Cold War work.
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Mastiff reacted to IMHO in Reforger Nostalgia
What is this 9 pack of presumably unguided rockets?
UPD I found out those are blanks to imitate shooting, part of MILES gear. Never seen it in pics, thank you so much!
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Mastiff got a reaction from IICptMillerII in Reforger Nostalgia
My time at Reforger 1988-1989 was a blast, the one time they let us plow those farm fields and go anywhere!!!
I remember we found some sleeping Op4, and took all their radio antennas, they didn't leave anyone up for guard duty; I even went into a full sleeping GP medium and no one said a word. lol. left with their antennas. Got into a fist fight with 10th mountain over it! lol.
While out patrolling a road we came upon a disabled HQ 113, and Bradley, captured it and all there maps.
2AD MP Co, 502nd 1st Tiger Platoon!!
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Mastiff reacted to IICptMillerII in Can someone please slap me?
Well, the good news is you don't have long to wait till you can experience it all for yourself!
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Mastiff got a reaction from The_MonkeyKing in M-47 Dragon, in the table of organization and equipment
While I was in all most all my teams in the Combat military police corps we had one per team. I loved this missile!
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Mastiff reacted to The_MonkeyKing in M-47 Dragon, in the table of organization and equipment
Good to hear! Even tough Dragon is not the most dangerous missile out there it will be a real trouble maker in numbers. As I understand it is light, fast to setup and the missiles are not too heavy. So integrates well to an infantry squad without limiting the mobility.
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Mastiff reacted to IICptMillerII in M-47 Dragon, in the table of organization and equipment
It depends on the formation, but it is essentially a squad level asset. Its available all through the timeline of the game so it will feature rather prominently.
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Mastiff got a reaction from George MC in Marking Mines?
mostly sitting is to true!! lol, 99% sitting, pissing, *******, and sleeping... 1% actual Combat...
Wilcox's pass, I tried to slow crawl a known mine field or choke point and still lost engineers!!
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Mastiff reacted to Combatintman in Marking Mines?
As a very good friend of mine who I went on my first tour to Afghanistan with said in reply to the question posed by a group of ladies we met in a pub in London while doing some of our pre-deployment briefings 'Afghanistan - wow! What will you be doing there?':
'Mostly sitting'
As it turned out he was right so I'm not sure all of the RL stuff is that interesting.
Although going back to the mine strike episode, that was about an hour after we crossed the border. Prior to crossing the lane, we got issued a set of verbal orders regarding going through the lane and after that, mounted up and prepared to move. The vehicle two behind mine popped off its smoke dischargers as we were mounting up and the net came alive with 'who did that'. Needless to say it was operator error and nobody had reloads for them. Luckily it wasn't a fatal mistake for any of us.
Again, it goes back to player expectation - as veterans, we both know that soldiers do dumb sh1t.
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Mastiff reacted to Bil Hardenberger in Bil's Floating Icon Mod
Finally completed the Icon Key.. hope this helps: