Clavicula_Nox
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The best thing to do is use your Mk 19 armed Strykers to blast a hole in the wall, move forward with your vehicles, smoke, and assault the buildings. I usually don't start taking buildings until I have all of my reinforcements (I think it's 1 platoon at start; 2 reinforcements?).
For that scenario, avoiding the road network is key to survival.
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So if you buy food off a shelf, get home and lose that food, would the grocery store replace it free of charge?
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THe same happened to me; Battlefront offered to sell me the Marines bundle at a greatly reduced price and I was more than happy. Thanks Battlefront!
Also wanted to add that the rep I spoke to (From Battlefront) was completely professional and helpful throughout the entire process. In fact, I meant to shoot Steve a PM asking him to personally thank whoever it was I dealt with, but forgot, so want to make up for it by publicly thanking the individual.
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I may not have laughed at it, but nor did I think it was a "vile" story. Anyone who thinks that was a vile story obviously hasn't had a sufficiently sobering dose of actually vile wartime stories.
That's what I'm saying.
THe point of the story was just talking about, what I called "Mad Max: Iraq". That stuff is mostly gone now as the Guard and Reserves were quickly standardized as a result of Active duty soldiers seeing that kind of thing, bitching, and forcing regulation enforcement. Good for somethings; bad for others.
As for vile stories, I have some, and would only reveal them at the height of all drunkeness; which has happened, but only for the most unintended audience (my wife) and I don't want it to ever happen again.
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So I guess I'm the only one who got a laugh out of that? It's just one of those moments when you smirk, shake you head and wonder "How the xxxx did I get here?" Clavicula, I'm with ya brother, it's just one of those oddities that happen in war.
Maybe it's time we learn proper social boundaries. Arms are for hugging!
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No you aren't.Oh no, not another one. I'm officially starting the "Bad People Club" for all of us crazies.
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So, killing a helpless animal, cutting it's head off and mounting it on a vehicle was a "humorous and good time". That is extremely sick and twisted behavior. Please keep your vile stories to yourself.
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
- Mahatma Gandhi
This also, obviously, applies to individuals.
I think you have to understand the situation, the act wasn't humorous, but the oddity displayed by the person was. It could have easily been enacted in some other way, but that was how he, a redneck hill backcountry type person was. I think only a person who has been in combat could possibly understand the sheer hilarity that results in witnessing the bizarre and insane.
For example, I think it's hilarious that the death of an animal is more revolting to some people than the death of a human being.
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Against small arms I'm not too worried about my guys chilling out on the roof, even if it's the flat roof without the... wall protecting you from below. It's when they start shooting 25mm and up that I find myself wishing I'd had them go somewhere else. That and airbursts. Those always suck.
Yeah, I'm pretty much the same, I just notice a higher casualty rate on roofs; which is okay, I just wish my pixel soldiers wouldn't die.
I hear you on the roof thing. I know, I'm not military & I have seen it on You Tube & Live Leak, but I have seen lots of video where they always have men on the roof & their firepower is intense. It takes a lot of courage to stand up there & pour the fire on the bad guys when natural instinct is to duck & do it quickly
Fire discipline, plus an well-equipped squad can dish out a lot of firepower relatively quickly. One neat thing is that SAW and 240 gunners can load their weapons while under cover, then pop up and continue firing; just have to be careful you don't overheat the barrels and make the whole thing go cyclic.
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Oh, we had our rubber canvas doors as well!
Tehehehe; Mad Max: Iraq nostalgia.
Our first "gun trucks" were 2 seat humvee pick-up variants (I don't know the model number) with big tubes either spot welded, or bolted down onto the middle of the pickup bed; the tube then had some jerry-rigged little mount that kinda-sorta fit an M249. The troop benches were installed, and a troop strap was tied between both benches so the gunner could *kinda* sit if he wanted, otherwise he had to stand.
They went as far as Navstar before being turned back because, as a result of Rumsfeld's encounter at Camp Buering/Udari a few days previously concerning scrap metal, they were told to return to Camp Virginia for "additional protection for the gunner". This additional protection came in the form of sandbags stacked up to about calf height, and away they went. Scrap doors, scrap metal welded to floorboards, and calf high sandbags.
Personally, we dealt with scrap / no doors for quite some time, which was fine by me, and were quite happy when, tired of waiting on the Army supply system, we bartered or "borrowed" sufficient scrap to fashion our own gunshields until being provided with actual armor kits.
As a driver, I appreciated no doors because I kept my weapon on the dash with the barrel pointed out, and it was relatively easy to grab the pistol grip, brace the weapon on my driving arm (left) and fire without worrying about shooting through some rusted out scrap metal. As a TC, I appreciated no doors because I could hop out instantly if needed. The scrap doors, as I once mentioned in another thread, were a pain because they were often secured with 550 cord, which meant either untying (long) or cutting (not as long, but still not quick). Rubber canvas was preferable to scrap, and until we started getting (actual) armor, we were a bunch of swiss-cheese looking humvees puttering along the road, some with no doors, some with haji doors, and some with canvas doors.
Another oddity: While stopped for a potential VBIED, a Guardsman from Arkansas shot a lonely goat. Eliciting an authentic Rebel Yell , he took off for the corpse, and before we knew it had already worked its head off and was doing whatever it is that Arkansas backhill types do with goat heads. Eventually, the thing ended up as a kind of mascot for his vehicle, and occupied a variety of homes, from the gunner's haji plate armor, to the front cattle-pushing grill. It was humorous, and definitely one of the good, yet bizarre, times.
That boy sure loved that goat head.
I miss this stuff, I really do, but everything was completely different the second time. Too many rules, too many people getting in trouble for stupid ****, etc. It may have been what I call, "The Time of Wandering", but it was still something special.
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Yeah, Specialist is like the most common rank in the Army. Only total screwups can't make (and keep) Specialist, it just seems weird that Privates are running everything when everyone knows Specialists run the Army.
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I think there is a limit to how many shooters / window, but if there is, I don't know how many and who has priority fires. It *should* be SAWs, DMRs/snipers, and grenadiers with AT switching out as needed, but if that doesn't happen, I would personally chalk it up to a "bad" team or squad leader rather than call it a game fault.
I know this has been brought up several times, but the one thing that always bugged me about buildings is just how unsafe the roof is. One of the things that we would do after taking down a building is hang out on the roof and control the high ground; sure, vulnerable to higher buildings (that's why you take them down and not the short ones); but, life is imperfect and that's okay.
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Ahhh, 3rd ACR. I have that video somewhere on this laptop; it's pretty old, both the laptop and video, I mean.
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Wow. My Alienware recently died after 5 years of loyal service, and here you come along with this cyberpower stuff. I am amazed at the price difference, and considering there are more options. Thanks!
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So it's probably out of scope of CMSF anyways. Too small micro details.
Yeah, after posting, I thought about my response and figured that from a personal level, the weight makes a difference; but at CMSF's scale, I don't think it would, or it would be so small that it wouldn't be noticed.
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When do you think it would be appropriate for these documents to be updated? How big of a circus do you think that would be?
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I thought you 'light' guys didnt need vehicles ;-)
Lol, we don't need them if they have anything heavier than 10mm salvaged scrap metal welded to the floor and jammed into the doorway.
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From all of us light infantry types, thanks!
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I've seen them, but I can't remember where. But yeah, I've never seen so many privates in one place outside of TRADOC. Task Force Thunder must have policed up all of the Army's privates for this one.
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Ok, My fault as I was thinking of another set of rules called
'WWII Battlefront' from the makers of 'Fire and Fury.' For some reason or another thought it was the same rules.
Hmmm, now you guys got me interested in this FoW. Going to look through their website now, and maybe make a trip to the local Hobby Shop.
Yeah, that whole "battlefront" word gets thrown around a lot, it seems.
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Yes, you were. Go back and read FKs post again.
At best you were horribly unclear over what you were talking about.
That's my fault, I skimmed and skipped the "urban area" part. Thanks for pointing it out, now I understand your reaction a lot better.
Now, for urban areas, I don't have a problem with it if the area is clear and is populated by combatants only. In that case, creative methods are required to get opfor to vacate, and not everyone has on-site large caliber weapons to make use of. I would be terribly uncomfortable with the idea of using something like WP when it can harm someone other than "bad guys".
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Using wp in an urban dense populated area while there are several other smoke screening options available is simply [...] sick. In my opinion it was just done for shock and awe purposes, which makes it even more despictable.
Now a Stalingrad like battle where it is about winning or losing a big ******* war and civilian casualties are not really an issue anymore, thats something different. Firebombing a city is not an issue either in such a situation.
Now to get back to the world without an ongoing world war; If you say its good to use wp on an enemy fortified position, why not use napalm instead? Or Sarin, even more efficient. Perhaps a combination of all three might prove most efficient? Again, when things are are like 40-45 every side will use everything at its disposal. However it is not 40-45 now.
The point of these (naive) treaties is that banning these things from usage will hopefully result in these horrible (effective) munitions only being used when they are really, REALLY, needed (WWIII or the like). OFC many countries will keep stacks of cluster bombs even if they signed the treaty against it. However when REAL **** hits the fan, do you think anyone is even going to mention a treaty? What it might help doing is that minor conflicts will see a lot less civilian loss of life and some honour to soldiers fighting in the field: I would rather die or be limbed by an HE shell then by WP burning through my flesh.
I'm not talking about using WP in densely populated urban centers, and pretty much agree with your post.
Besides, the use of WP in this context isn't for smoke, it's for convincing an enemy to leave his fortified position so that he is receptive to the HE rounds that are already on their way.
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Sure. I didn't expect you would.
On the other hand, what would your commanders, or their commanders, or their commanders think about being responsible for headlines like these?
The way I read that line in your credo, it's not about whether you are embarassed. It's about whether your country is embarrased of you.
When the US military decides to limit it's employment of WP, they will filter it down the chain of command at which point, the directives put in place by higher will be followed and it will no longer be used.
I know my creed, and I know what it means, thanks.
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Your line of argument bears a very strong esemblance to "Waa! He can do [thing], why can't I?"
Bad People do all sorts of things because they are, ta da, Bad People. Good People are much more limited for the same reason.
Also, something about "under no circumstances will I ever embarrass my country"
I don't think using WP to flush an enemy out of a fortified position is embarrassing; I think losing soldiers and endangering the mission, however, is.
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Oh for gawds sake. Your enemy flies jumbos into buildings - do you want to do that too?
Not really, but I haven't run into anything which would require flying a plane into a building. Seriously, why would I have to do that?
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It is the convention against certain conventional weapons that prohibits the use of incendiary weapons within an urban area. The US and Israel are not signatories.
And thank God, too. I would hate to be a combat leader who has a need for WP, but can't use it because someone, many years and miles away, said it's bad; meanwhile, while he sits around wishing he could use it, his enemy is already shelling his position with the stuff.
Remarkable videos from 4/25 ABCT in Afghanistan:
in Combat Mission Shock Force 1
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No way; costs too much money, waste too much infrastructure.