Dietrich
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Suburban Hell, eh? The support firepower you have at your disposal in that mission is awesome. Just level the place and move in slowly with the tanks and LAVs, particularly the Tuas and unleash hell.
*slaps forehead as if suddenly remembering something* Of course — preserve own troops first, buildings second (or third or fourth or whatever)!
That said, Paper Tiger, would you recommend approaching the town from the left flank in a concentration and rolling it up or spreading out for a sort of frontal assault? In my several attempts to get through this scenario without loosing several LAVs or tanks which had eluded my fast-movers, I had my TUAs, my Coyotes, and most of my tanks spread out to open fire on any enemy units which revealed themselves while the infantry and a single tank assaulted from the left through the buildings and along the town's main street.
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"Crazy cat person" is only official if your cats outnumber humans in a house 2:1 or more.
But that means that to be a "crazy cat person" a person living alone need have only two cats. Isn't that way fewer than the number of cats a stereotypical "crazy cat lady" has? =P
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Will I reach Self Actualization when CM:BN comes out?
Or perhaps achieve grogvana?
Oh, wait, no... grogvana has been achieved only by those truthful and valiant few who hold CM:BO to be the best computer wargame there has ever been and ever will be. So I've been told, anyway.
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My two cents:
So are German forces "better" on average?Only if... aw, hell, this thread has already gone into overtime; and I'd rather spend my time at something other than continuing to pummel a deceased equine animal.
<wry sarcasm> If ever the Germans won (or, if one prefers, "didn't lose") a battle, it was either because the opposing troops were inept or because the Germans had material superiority. Any idea of the Germans being generally "superior" in any way and against any foe is just an "echo" from post-war interrogations of German officers with regard to their fighting the Soviets. </wry sarcasm>
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No that is the question that Arthur Dent came up with by a random scrabble draw, however the arrival of the Golgafrinshams on Earth fatally corrupted the "Earth program" and thus destroyed the ability to determine the question, which didn't matter anyway as the Vogons annihilated the earth 5 minutes before the program was about to complete.
I worries me greatly that I know this stuff.
Some would assert that it'd be far, far more worrisome if one did not know that stuff.
(I wouldn't agree with the aforementioned some.)
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*twiddles thumbs while waiting for no-doubt-imminent rash of snide anti-religion posts based off Messi's nickname*
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Page 81, Mark Mines subheading (italics mine):
This command enables engineer units to detect and mark hidden minefields so that other units are aware of them.Does that really mean that seeing pixeltruppen get blown up from under foot will no longer be the only way to know mines are present? If so, my pixeltruppen thank you heartily, BFC.
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Guántanamo detainees—the full list
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And wasn't WikiLeaks going to release video of the Granai airstrike?
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Who will play the villains?
Whoever the player wants to be the villains.
I imagine some play as the Syrians in CMSF because they think think Western troops — <sarcasm> with their daily machine-gunning of families driving to market and weekly bombing of wedding celebrations </sarcasm> — are the "bad guys".
We look back at the German soldier (to say nothing of the Waffen-SS trooper) and demand: "Why didn't you defect? Why didn't you disobey orders? Why didn't you kill Hitler?" But for any of these questions there is no real answer. At least no answer of the sort most people would want to hear.
As for me, I shall gladly play Allies as well as Axis, because both interest me, and because individuals and groups on both sides did things they'd rather forget.
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I love well-researched and well-designed historical scenarios. I hope to make some of my own as well.
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Some brave souls have even tired altering the models for other titles, though that's fraught with danger.
Clarification: not altering the models (because that's not possible), swapping one model for another. I've done a limited amount of model swapping and experienced no problems therefrom, and I have yet to hear about anyone's game or computer blowing up because they indulged in some model swapping.
If someone else has done the hex editing work already and bundled it into a *.brz file, model swapping is actually just as easy as using any other mod that comes in a *.brz file. Also helps (a lot) to use theFightingSeabee's z-Bee Mod Manager.
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<blasé Ben Stein deadpan> "It all makes sense now..." </blasé Ben Stein deadpan>
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From the article "Above, Beyond and Forgotten" from the April 2006 issue of World War II magazine:
Llewellyn M. Chilson should be a household name—President Harry S. Truman thought so*. At a White House Ceremony on December 6, 1946, the president pinned seven combat awards on the chest of Master Sergeant Chilson. As he gazed at the medals covering the sergeant's uniform, Truman said: "This is the most remarkable list of citations I have ever seen. For any one of these, this young man is entitlted to all the country has to offer. These ought to be worth a Medal of Honor—that's what I think about it."On March 28, 1942, a few days before his 22nd birthday, Chilson was inducted into the Army. Records show that he was 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighed 150 pounds when he reported for duty at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind. Chilson completed basic infantry and amphibious training at Camp Livingston, La., and Camp Johnston, Fla. He then joined Company G, 179th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division.On November 26, [1944,] the 179th Infantry Division was approaching Denshein, France. While attempting to cut the main road leading from the town, Chilson's platoon was suddenly halted by machine gun and rifle fire from a German roadblock. After directing his soldiers to lay down covering fire with a machine gun, Chilson moved forward—alone—as enemy bullets blanketed the area.Taking advantage of darkness, Chilson outflanked the Germans. He crawled to within 60 feet of the roadblock, threw two hand grenades into the enemy position and then opened fire. When the firing stopped, the sergeant had killed three Germans and forced nine others to surrender. His attack allowed the company to cut the road and, as his subsequent citation for the Silver Star stated, "materially aided" in the capture of Denshein.
At about 2:30 that morning [March 26, 1945], Company G began its crossing of the Rhine [near Worms] in small boats. . . . Comnpany G had made it halfway across the river when the Germans, waiting to catch the Americans when they were most vulnerable, opened up with a barrage of mortar, rifle and machine gun fire. . . . Protected by the dark, the Americans made it across, but the 1st and 2nd platoons were immediately pinned down by enemy fire as soon as they reached the opposite shore. The lieutenant in charge of the second platoon was shot in the shoulder, side and leg, and was out of action. . . . Chilson took command of the platoon and quickly formed the disorganized and frightened GIs into a compact, efficient fighting force.He then began leading Company G up the right bank of the river. They had only gone about 100 yards when the Germans began firing on them with automatic weapons from the top of the dike running along the bank of the Rhine. Chilson ordered his men to hold their position and began inching his way forward over the swampy, open ground and up onto the dike.
When he got within range of the German machine-gunners, Chilson saw a horse-drawn ammunition wagon. He quickly threw a white phosphorus grenade into the wagon, which set it ablaze and destroyed the ammunition it was carrying. Chilson then rushed along the dike and with his carbine killed the German machine-gunners by the light of the fire from the burning wagon.
Having destroyed the machine guns, Chilson ran back to his platoon and led them up to the dike and along the riverbank. At 4 a.m. the company was again halted by enemy machine guns. Two well-concealed German positions were firing onto the Americans. As before, Chilson ordered his men to remain in place and then crawled alone for 200 yards into the darkness. Well forward of his own men, the sergeant then used a radio to call for mortar and artillery fire onto the Germans, directing the fire by by sound and flash until the two machine gun positions had been destroyed as well as two 20mm cannons that had also begun to fire on the Americans.
Chilson led his men forward. By 9 a.m. they had reached a road junction where they were again stopped by enemy fire from four machine guns and well-aimed small arms. "It was impossible to move," company commander Captain Raymond E. Wantz remembered. "We called for artillery fire but couldn't get it." Company G then put out cloth recognition panels to mark its position for a hoped-for airstrike. This idea was quashed when the GIs realized that the panels would most likely not be spotted by friendly pilots. Finally, Wantz decided to use a bazooka against the Germans. He sent out a two-man team that fired nine rounds before both men were wounded—but none of the bazooka rounds detonated.
At this critical moment, Chilson volunteered to take two men and destroy the machine guns. After gathering eight white phosphorus and seven fragmentation grenades from his platoon—as well as 120 rounds of ammunition for his own carbine—Chilson had the rest of his men fire on the Germans while he led his companions up a water-filled ditch. When the trio was within 30 yards of the first enemy machine gun, Chilson told his two comrades to open up with their M1s. Then, rising up on one knee, Chilson hurled one white phosphorus and two high-explosive grenades at the enemy in rapid succession. As they exploded, he stood up and charged the Germans, killing three and forcing nine others to surrender.
Having silenced the first gun emplacement, Chilson then scrambled down the side of the dike and rushed some 65 yards to the second machine gun position, which the Germans had placed in a hollow tree stump. Reaching around the tree, he dropped a white phosphorus grenade into the stump—destroying the gun and killing two of its crew. The two surviving Germans were so stunned that they surrendered.
Not satisfied with his success thus far, Chilson then charged the two remaining German machine gun positions, throwing white phosphorus grenades as he advanced and yelling at the enemy troops to surrender. Thirty German troops were so amazed by what they saw coming at them that they dropped their guns and gave themselves up.
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By the end of the day, Company G had carried out its orders—it had taken Gernsheim. Although it suffered 25 casualties, without tank support the company had killed, wounded or captured about 200 Germans and seized 13 machine guns and four 20mm cannons. What is most impressive is that much of that destruction had been wrought by just one man—Chilson. He alone was responsible for killed or wounding some 30 of the enemy and taking an additional 200 prisoner. For his heroism that day, Chilson received the Distinguished Service Cross, which is second only to the Medal of Honor.
The article includes descriptions of about a dozen more instances of Chilson either taking on the enemy alone (except, perhaps, for supporting small-arms fire) or leading parts of his platoon in the attack.
In all, Chilson was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross three times, the Silver Star twice, the Purple Heart twice, and the Legion of Merit (which was rarely awarded to enlisted men), as well as several other medals.
45th Division website with detailed info about and photos of Chilson
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Ive never seen three soldiers from the same squad all simultaneously whip out their AT assets and all fire within milliseconds of each other at the same target..
You should see what happens when a T-62 comes round a corner 60 meters from a Marine squad.
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As it happens, I'm currently working up a scenario that takes place at Latakia International on the very first day of the war: USMC infantry from the 22nd MEU (SOC) are tasked with capturing the airport so it can be used for bringing in supplies, follow-on forces, etc. I'm using SD Smack's excellent map. (Thanks very much for making it, Steve-o.
)According to "canon", the USMC contingent lands at Hamidiyah and from there advances east to Hims and then south to Damascus. But is that the axis of advance for all the USMC forces involved in the invasion of Syria? Would perhaps another MEU be tasked with securing Latakia on account of its port facilities? If, say, the 22nd MEU is tasked with securing Latakia, wouldn't it be reasonable to reckon that part of the MEU (or perhaps some other unit attached to it) ought to concurrently capture the airport southeast of Latakia? As far as I know, Latakia International is the most suitable such facility in the USMC's AO.
Another thing that I've been puzzled about in seeking to gain a sense of the Coalition strategic plan (the axes of advance, the objectives thereof, etc.) is the eponymous Task Force Thunder. The "canon" campaign doesn't specify what units make up the elements of the composite Heavy/Stryker TF. Would the TF force be comprised of elements of an HBCT reinforced by corresponding elements of an SBCT, thus forming a brigade-sized composite? The Dutch campaign states that the Royal Netherlands Army contingent joins up at Dayr az-Zawr with elements of the US 3rd ID. Would an entire BCT of the 3rd ID be sent along Highway 4 from Al Bukamal to Dayr az-Zawr? Would TF Thunder perhaps be made up of part of one of the 3rd ID's other BCTs, rather than from a whole other division?
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Off your asses and on your feeeeeet! Time for some pre-deployment training!
*gets his thumb clamped as M1's bolt snaps forward* Ow! Sonuva...!
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The MG-42 was inaccurate, burned through ammo like it was going out of style, ad nauseum, many say.
Blah blah blah, I say.
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So if the US DoD asked you for advice, you would recommend that they shrink the Air Force by, say, approximately a fourth and instead buy more MBTs, IFVs, and howitzers?
I imagine it could very well be that a US Army tank commander's memoir of OIF would include the assessment that the USAF was "largely ineffective". (I wonder, though, what would be a USMC tank commander's assessment of the various Harrier, Hornet, and Cobra sorties...)
What about ATGM-equippd Apaches, Cobras, etc.? Do those likewise fall into the category of "largely ineffective"?
[good-natured sarcasm] Come to think of it, why even have an air force except when the other side has one too? The other side always has tanks and armored vehicles that are so obsolete as to be death traps; it's not like they pose any threat to friendly forces who have MBTs with them. Even if the other side does have an air force, superior ground-based anti-air assets could do the job just as well, right? [/good-natured sarcasm]
But let me get this straight... politicians and air-force personnel are pretty much the only ones who don't roll their eyes at "air power"?
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Ibelly dance music...now, that is COOL lol
Hossam Ramzy for... the... win.
not sure I have ever paid that much attention to the music however, is it true that what we see gets more attention than what we hear?Without the music it would be just some scantily-clad Middle Eastern woman undulating and shimmying around. Not that that's not, in certain respects, good enough. =P
In a roughly similar vein (not Middle-Eastern but North-African), I recommend Anouar Brahem, Tunisian master of the oud (which is ancestor as well as cousin of the modern guitar and is regarded in the Middle East as the sultan of musical instruments): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqIZKX4Er7E
Another favorite of mine is the Lebanese multi-instrumentalist Simon Shaheen: (with his group Qantara)
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air force were ineffective largely in taking out armored targets in 1991, 1999 and 2003.
"Ineffective largely"? So even in OIF, most of the LGBs, JDAMs, Mavericks and Hellfires either failed to seriously damage their targets or missed them entirely? :confused:
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I'll definitely be downloading it later today. So that'll make it 14. =P
Not to put too fine a point on it, but if circumstances had allowed you to release it before CMBN was announced... *shrug*
Whatever the case, thanks very much for your assiduous work, LongLeftFlank; and thanks to the beta testers who helped refine it. *salute*
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To be fair, there was a time when anything that had tracks and a gun was a tank. But that was, y'know, 1924 or so.
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Canadian campaign - reinforcements?
in Combat Mission Shock Force 1
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Mighty fine screenshots, Paper Tiger.
Thanks for posting 'em.
And when Paper Tiger is busy, it means good things are forthcoming for those of us that like assiduously thought-out and excellently made scenarios and campaigns.