Lethaface

The best advise imo is to look for qualified / experienced people to directly fill in on the subject, or even do actual lecture on the spot. Ideally combat veteran/reserve psychologists/psychiatrists , with actual deployment experience. These people do exist, perhaps more among SF formations. If not available through army channels, they might be hire-able.

The question is whether the Russians have the time to only commit the reserves after a frontline penetration has occurred, or that they have to commit them before the actual event in order to be there in time to prevent breakthrough.

True they will be difficult to replace, but still material as opposed to the soldiers operating them. And of course while not same as the Leo2R, ersatz breaching vehicles based of whatever heavy AFV or (up)armoured bulldozer around can perform the task more or less and won't be as difficult to produce. Edit: not sure if all those vehicles are already destroyed in the meantime, or if some of them are still salvageable.

Thanks (direct source always better ). At least it seems they didn't take too much casualties, apart from vehicle losses. Bradleys/Leos are replaceable. Hopefully they can get re-geared soon.

Maybe it was alraedy posted, but this video look like might be from this incident:

On the defense in complex terrain they can be very effective as well, as long as you can keep them hidden / unsuppressed until enemy infantry comes very close. Woosh them and bugger off for the next victim.

RL helped me a bit restricting my following of proceedings lately, which is imo a good thing especially the stuff like twitter. People feel the need to post stuff and keep it going not really being bothered whether there is actually something worthy to post but rather how to get likes/'followers', etc. Although I probably will follow a bit more closely the coming weeks now that things seem to be 'in motion' and have some more time.

As effective as Ukraine can utilize it and prevent them from getting hit with arty or ATGM/mines etc.

I like seeing those actually . Feeling the need to call the outcome of an operation with supposedly multiple brigades in strength which, when there is some video of what could be like a company/battalion on the move having difficult time, perfectly shows their petty thoughts of trivial value. Kids in the chocolate propaganda factory who enjoy being fooled .

Indeed would seem like a good strike option, or an ambush plan by Wagner/Russia; if they are capable of such.

correlation vs causation.

Noticed this now

I agree that there is no merit in trying to add a rosey tint to anything from Ukraine, like they are fairies. At the same time they are fighting/defending in a war of aggression against their country and so far they, incl. AZOV, seem to be behaving rather disciplined all things concerned. Anyway Ukraine will certainly have enough to deal with after the war. This might be one of those issues. But other countries in Europe also have such type of people and they are (unfortunately ) also allowed to vote. They can't just lock them all up. Plus like you say we/I don't know really what are the political goals, if any, of such groups and how strong their backing is. Personally I think the subject is moot and mostly a way to whatabout diverge from the real issue. Ukraine will have to deal with it, but in no way shape or form is there any justification from it for the war against Ukraine (ps not saying that you say it is). I don't think Afghanistan compares well to Ukraine. But yes if Russia would in fact be occupying Ukraine and we would arm and train some extremist insurgency group fighting against Russia, that might bite back in the future. But we are supporting the democratically elected nation state of Ukraine, not Azov. How Ukraine deals with Azov is their problem as long as they don't go ethnical cleansing and stuff like that. But you and I know how fast the support would stop in that case, as well as the prospect of joining NATO / EU.

We are honored to be on his list; we will see to it his earthly remains will be handled with the respect they deserve after the battle finishes .

Inquiring minds appreciate

Ok thanks , in the CMCW tourney I seemed to get coupled with opponents next to me on the scoring ladder.

I didn't read the last 7 days because occupied with other stuff but perhaps a fresh thought: why are people even considering stuff? I mean ideally Ukrainians shouldn't use any 'questionable' markings. Ideally there wouldn't be any people with extremist thoughts there. But the reality is different; these people also exist in Ukraine and they also fight in the war. But they fight in their own country, against a force invading their country. If I my country would be invaded I'd have zero qualms about working together with neighborhood thugs against the invader. That doesn't mean I condone criminality. What do we want to achieve? Play into Russia's cards?

@BFCElvis not a poster on the matrix forums unfortunately, but I have a question Do you know how the matchmaking will take place? I presume I will faceoff against @MeatEtr, which I look forward to :).

Well sometimes universities or other organizations are too strict with protocol ;-). I remember during one training I was enrolled in years ago there was a guy from Switzerland following the training as well (he worked for the WIPO) and he told us that in his work/organization people were only allowed to say/propose something in a meeting if they have a degree in the subject. I guess I was rather 'flabbergasted' about that bureaucratic reality. We/I live in a different world fortunately. Anyway I don't think that you need to run your tests for 1.000.000 of times, as you already did you can with a large degree of certainty predict what will happen when you enlarge n. There is a very slight chance of these probabilities not being subject to a 'normal distribution' and will show wild different behavior if enlarging the sample size beyond certainty of 2 standard deviations. After all, the (underlying) data is produced by an algorithm (CM), it's not the quantum universe you are trying to predict here. I neither made statistics my profession but the subject was certainly touched upon during my time in school/university and apart from not enjoying to memorize formula's or using SPSS to make pointless (uni stuff lol) ANOVA / T analysis to prove you got the point, I was/am quite interested in the subject of chance/probabilities and statistics. Seems to me you have 'enough' understanding of the subject (not surprising given your profession ;-)) to present your findings with a bit more certainty.

Well sometimes universities or other organizations are too strict with protocol ;-). I remember during one training I was enrolled in years ago there was a guy from Switzerland following the training as well (he worked for the WIPO) and he told us that in his work/organization people were only allowed to say/propose something in a meeting if they have a degree in the subject. I guess I was rather 'flabbergasted' about that bureaucratic reality. We/I live in a different world fortunately. Anyway I don't think that you need to run your tests for 1.000.000 of times, as you already did you can with a large degree of certainty predict what will happen when you enlarge n. There is a very slight chance of these probabilities not being subject to a 'normal distribution' and will show wild different behavior if enlarging the sample size beyond certainty of 2 standard deviations. After all, the data is produced by an algorithm. I neither made statistics my profession but the subject was certainly touched upon during my time in school/university and apart from not enjoying to memorize formula's or using SPSS to make pointless (uni stuff lol) ANOVA / T analysis to prove you got the point, I was/am quite interested in the subject of chance/probabilities and statistics. Seems to me you have 'enough' understanding of the subject (not surprising given your profession ;-)) to present your findings with a bit more certainty.

Good result. I also made use of the reverse slopes, crossfires by AFVs/heavy weapons and the airburst mortars switching between the approaches. These were particularly effective pinning and attriting the US infantry trying to crest the slopes.

Interesting discussion by the way

Exactly. Even though it isn't always perfect, sometimes very far from perfect, it's exactly what keeps me/us playing this simulation which was originally released in 2007 (although significantly developed on since).

That's good news I didn't read before and IMO well warranted. To be fair we did have plenty of discussion about that one, but no changes to the simulation even though quite some work was done on the subject pointing towards the simulation being too generous on tanks. I did a bit of testing / work for that myself, especially CMBS M1A2 and Oplot-M dealing with 152/203mm direct and indirect hits. I might have missed it but until now I didn't read about plans to change this behavior. Better late than never ;-), and thanks for the update! I feel such significant decisions should/could be posted/collected in a sticky adminonly post on the General Forum. If anything they will help motivate people to do work when they anecdotally start to develop an intuition that there is something off in the simulation (they care about). On the spotting subject: I don't have much issues with spotting with RED after who knows how many hours of CMx2 since 2007. And while atm I can't put many hours, almost all of my playtime is in PBEM in some organized format; there's certainly players who can make the RED spotting 'work for them'. Perhaps the outliers or assessed capabilities of vehicles like a T-90AM in CMBS, or the Khrizantema, feel glass half-empty while they appear half-full for the M1A2SEPv2/3. IMO a lot of the spotting is often impacted by C2 sharing, that's more difficult for RED in CM (which I'd say is fair) but is manageable as a player and to large affect. There are some c2 issues for at least Syrians in CMSF2, but that's another subject.

IIRC in CM the IR searchlights aren't ever turned on for any side, because they would stand out too much. So the IR headlight isn't in operation AFAIK.