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    Artillery vs. Minefield

    in CMSF Strategy and Tactics Forum

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    In CMSF, could General Purpose rounds from mortars and/or artillery be used to clear out a suspected minefield? A scenario briefing tells me that the only crossing for a wadi is mined. Its a small area, and I thought about calling in a heavy linear 155mm GP mission to detonate the suspected mines... Before I waste the precious ammo, anyone know if this will work?

    MICLIC workaround ;^P

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    A Request for Missinginreality

    in CMSF Scenario and Mod Design Forum

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    As of now I've just put his icon folder in my z folder, fired-up a Brit scenario to see the results and then took the folder back out. I'm very leery of messing with anything but the contents of his icon folder (don't know a thing about alpha channel editing).

    Forgive my simple-mindedness, but I was thinking that I could just copy, for example, 'icon usa blue ifv 2.bmp' and rename the copy 'icon british blue ifv 2.bmp'. It sounds like you are saying this is possible (?)

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    Accents

    in CMSF Strategy and Tactics Forum

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    My accent seems to change depending who I am talking too, from very posh with my family to something a bit less obvious when talking to my mates.

    I've caught myself doing that as well. If I'm talking to the 'worker bees' out in the workshop I let my 'redneck' accent loose, but if I'm talking to the engineers propriety overrules upbringing...

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    Accents

    in CMSF Strategy and Tactics Forum

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    We hate that movie because we don't actually talk like that.

    I knew I shouldn't have made a blanket generalization like that...

    I guess it all depends on education and family background that determines how distinctively your regional accent is manifested.

    Back when I was in the Navy, my squadron had an old salty Command Master Chief from Wisconsin. He spoke exactly like the characters in 'Fargo' (to my Okie ears). This guy was a big burly lumberjack of a man and it was obvious that his parents weren't bankers or lawyers. Concurrently we had officers from the same region who 'suppressed' their native dialect, making it difficult to figure out where they were from.

    I didn't mean to offend anyone...

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    Accents

    in CMSF Strategy and Tactics Forum

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    I grew up in Oklahoma. We were right on the 'border' between the North Midland, South Midland and Ozark dialect regions. Depending on the speaker's education and socio-economic background, I can tell someone is from western Arkansas instantly. To me there's a noticeable difference between someone from Georgia or Florida and someone from northern Mississippi or western Tennessee. A southern Louisiana accent is unmistakeable.

    My 'favorite' American accent is Upper Midwestern (Wisconsin, Minnesota, Dakotas). The movie "Fargo" is a showcase for that dialect...

    As an aside, I recently found a book at the library that goes into great depth on the various dialects of the UK. It even inlcuded a CD with recordings of various speakers from around the country to help learn to recognize the subtle and not so subtle differences between the dialects.

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    British module maps.

    in Combat Mission Shock Force 1

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    The map for "UK Battlegroup Attacks!" is a beauty as well... I'm about 45 minutes into the scenario and have seen a couple of Challengers make jaw-dropping one-mile-plus shots across the valley...

    The terrain reminds me of the Little Bighorn battlefield in Montana: sweeping vistas of prairie cut up with nasty little gullies and draws... Awesome.

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    Air Assault

    in CMSF Strategy and Tactics Forum

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    Back in 2000 I took part in a training event where we air assaulted the entire brigade and we pretty much took everything except the kitchen sink by helicopter..HMMWVs, MTVs, artillery, you name it.

    It's a privelege to talk to someone who has done this stuff in real life.

    Even the LAV-25 falls within the payload capacity of a Super Stallion

    I worked on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier while in the Navy and managed to get blown around by those beasts on more than one occasion! It's amazing how large and powerful they are.

    A couple of other scenarios that I thought would be ideal for modding into air assault type battles would be Green Zone and Mujahideen Valley.

    By the way, Happy 4th of July to everyone! A million thanks to everyone in uniform.

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    Air Assault

    in CMSF Strategy and Tactics Forum

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    The only thing that I see is that maybe you are underestimating what an air assault force can actually do.

    I figured the Marines could and would bring everything but the kitchen sink, but because I wasn't sure of the composition of the Red force I didn't want to make the mission too easy for Blue...

    You guys have made me want to go back and tinker some more with this scenario...

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