hcrof
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If you want to use turn based play and are in the same house, you could try hotseat mode where you both play on one computer. It is far from ideal though as you have to wait for your opponents turns. Best to have the TV on or a good book for while you wait. On the other hand, the banter can get pretty fun as it is face to face!
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But that trend is already under way, regardless of green industry. It's why western nations should be at the front of the queue on green industry: To get a head start and smooth out our fall from dominance. It's probably going to prolong the West's current position in the world, if anything.
I agree. In my opinion, one of the reasons why the EU is so agressive in using its market clout to make all products greener is that European countries are very good at doing just that. It gives them an edge over much of the competition.
That is of course only one aspect of it. As stated by a lot of people, the world is going green for many reasons. As noble as it is to save the planet, many people see other advantages in joining the green movement, often financial ones.
I can see that I am coming off as a bit of a cynic, but whatever peoples reasons for joining the green movement, hopefully it will have a generally positive effect on the planet.
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Fair enough. Thanks for the clarification. Still, the point still stands for the BRDM-AT
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True that, but according to fas.org, the LAV-AT comes with a "TOW II ground-mount kit". Isn't that much the same thing? Or have I got it completely wrong?
And what about the Stryker ATGM?
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How about this for a suggestion?
Right now BRDM-AT vehicles are completely useless. They spot very slowly, are easy to see and are always destroyed before they do damage. In addition, even when they outrange their tank targets, they will 'bug out' before letting a shot off.
Seeing as we can't camoflage our vehicles, would it be possible to dismount the crew and use them with remote control stations? The BRDM sits behind a ridge and the operator can hide up to 80m away while guiding the missile.
Two problems solved at once and BRDM-AT becomes useful for a change! The code could probably also be used with western ATGM vehicles but I am not sure whether they have the same system.
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I have already tried what flamingknives suggested. That should also rule out the GUI glitch. Could it be that vehicle crewmen are not allowed to use GMG's?
I will try to move them and deploy again soon but it is a PBEM so it might take a little while.
Not being able to drive the WMIK or even aquire ammo is a real pain. The crew is dead and I want to put the vehicle back into action somehow, whether as a gun platform, ammo repository or a taxi!
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Well your links started well but I'm afraid they descended quickly into nut job territory.
'Green jobs' are one of the fastest growing industrial sectors so it is natural that governments and industry would want to take advantage of that. When thousends of auto workers get layed off they (voters) want jobs and a good way of doing that is in the green industries. A second reason why it makes good sense to go green (whether you believe in climate change or not) is to reduce your dependence on foreign oil, especially with big players like china going to any lengths to get some for itself.
The links:
- Well british unions have always been interested in creating and preserving jobs so given the fact that there was no way to keep the factory they announced that they would continue to fight for similar jobs. Hardly surprising and no secret agenda.
- The American Communists publish a very uncontraversial article saying that unempoyment is undesirable and its part of a secret agenda? Shocking stuff! Remember, sitting back and letting a recession run its course has been tried before and it didn't work which is why goverments across the world are pushing stimulation funds. A lot of these funds are being pushed into the above mentioned fast growing industries (green) as an investment for the future.
- Van Jones looks like a showboater shouting popularist comments but nothing he said was very redistributive. He was just saying that these new jobs should go to anyone that wants them. Much like when women began to work in the factories, a larger workforce means a larger economy. And if a Native American has a job then he is not on the streets causing trouble - win/win. BTW, I am not saying that native americans cause trouble, but unemployed people in general cost the state money for any number of different reasons.
- Cap and trade is complicated and I don't want to go into the details because I don't know that much about US politics but I fail to see how making energy more expensive is redistributive. Surely it would affect the poor more than the rich as thier energy bill is a higher proportion of their income?
- The boston herald story sounds like a govenor trying to save face rather than an expensive way to redistribute wealth.
- The Centre of American progress article is more of the same, jobs are good for the economy. Agree with that or not but it is no news.
- The next video. $10million? For poor countries to stay stable, with a bonus of good PR for the USA? Sounds like a bargin to me!
- A site called 'rantburg'? retelling the above story with a heavily conservative spin on it? It's not a source, its just some bloke preaching to the converted. Noone else in their right mind would even get half way through before giving up because of the bias involved.
- The GE article is irrelivent to your original point - Just big business doing what it does best.
- As I mentioned before, the Prince of Wales has been warning about harm to the environment for decades. Maybe because he genuinely believes it?
- Now the links get really bad. "Scientific advancement and medical breakthroughs are ground to a halt, as in the old Soviet Union where technology was frozen in the 1950s"
'nuff said, the writer is retarded.
- The next article is off topic and I don't want to get into that debate. Consider this however, if scientists make their names by disproving established theory, why is the well established scientific consensus on climate change still around? Details are debated, but not the fact that it is a real phenomenon.
- I have never heard of Lord Monckton. I am both british and interested in climate change. What expert knowledge can a man with no background in any environmental discipline bring to the climate change discussion?
Sorry ASL Vet but you really are going to have to take off your tin foil hat. There are hundreds of different 'agendas' with a general trend towards a green economy. The process is more advanced in Europe but then we are a socialist workers paradise attemting to push our green/red agenda across the world!
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True enough. I havn't given the links a proper look. I am going through them now but it will take a while.
While I am sure there is an agenda being pushed by many people I would be more convinced that it is more to do with promoting new home grown industry than wealth redistribution.
Prince Charles has been green long before it was fashionable so I doubt he has a secret agenda. I will comment more when I have watched the videos.
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So I want to move a Javelin team across the battlefield so I put them into a spare WMIK but rather than driving off they just sit in the passanger seat and stare at each other!
"Jenkins, take the wheel!"
"But corporal, I am only qualified to drive WMIK's armed with GPMG's. This one doesn't have a top mounted weapon"
"Dammit, if only I'd known. Looks like we're walking then"
They can't even aquire more small arms ammo. This is not a problem for a javelin team but what if a squads need more ammo and sends 2 guys to stock up?
On a related note, here is the GMG:
The button says they are deployed but they arn't. They have been in that position for a long time but they havn't started to set out the tripod.
Savegames available
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Communism + "Poweratti" = greatest supervillain ever?
Time for the American Right wing to take up the sword to defend our way of life - there are greens under the bed!
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By installing the british module the game will update itself to v1.20 so no need for any patches
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These are great suggestions Alex. Just throw in some RPO's as well and I will be a very happy man with the next release!
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I have asked for this too, having 'pop smoke' for the engine and 'target smoke' for the smoke mortars. British Tanks can do this too so it should be in IMO.
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Watch out for CM:Normandy and CMSF2 for temperate environments with water, weather etc
There is plenty more coming in the series and the engine is being improved all the time
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I believe the soviet concept of the AK was for a cheap, easy, and reliable gun that could put down a large quantity of fire.
Doesent that sound like a PPSh?
I probably shouldn't disguise my opinion as fact but I wanted to emphasise the fact that a soviet squad won't really use fire and maneuvre like a western one. Their job is to leave the carrier then assault the enemy. While they do that, as you say, they put down a torrent of unaimed lead in the general direction of the enemy. I think they even fire from the hip as they advance!Anyway, RED needs artillery and IFV's to suppress the enemy and will find it very difficult to attack without them.
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I found something else on my computer. I should have posted it earlier but what the hell
Morale, suppression and cohesion
For all the high technology on the modern battlefield, the most important asset a commander has are the soldiers themselves. Soldiers however are human, and like anyone else they all fear death on the battlefield. When the bullets start to come too close and friends start to get hit, the natural reaction is to curl into a ball and wish the ground would swallow him up, rendering him useless in combat and probably in more danger than he would have been in the first place.
All soldiers are trained to react in certain ways and to follow orders even when their minds have shut down in fear but they are not machines – ignore this and you will lose a lot of men.
Unit cohesion
Unit cohesion is a difficult concept to define but it incorporates how well the soldiers get on with each other and their leaders and how experienced they are working with each other. Soldiers in cohesive unit know how each other thinks and will act so as to not let them down. They will accomplish tasks faster and will be more resilient under stress.
A unit such as Syrian reservists will have only trained together a few times before, none of them have any attachment to their officers or each other and they certainly don't want to fight in the army. They have very low unit cohesion and as soon as bullets start to fall near them they will abandon whatever mission they where given to try and take cover. They might even flee altogether!
In Combat Mission, cohesion is represented by a mix of experience, leadership bonus, morale, and motivation bonus and like real life, US squads tend to have higher values in all these areas.
Morale
Morale can be defined as the happiness and confidence of a unit. A squad that is well led and looked after will tend to have high morale. A unit with high morale will follow orders better and recover from setbacks quicker. Under artillery fire, a unit with high morale will stay ready to get back into fighting form as soon as the shells have stopped whereas a squad will low morale might just run away.
Likewise, the loss of a leader or a lot of fellow soldiers will hit morale badly and many poor quality squads will panic if it happens.
Suppression
Suppression is one of the most important aspects of combat. Most infantry are not expected to hit targets with their rifles in combat even at medium range. However, the weight of fire will probably force the enemy to stay in cover to avoid being shot. If they are hiding, they are not shooting at you so you can move into a better position or call up heavy weapons to destroy the enemy.
The best weapons for suppression are machine guns because they are accurate at long ranges and can put out a very large weight of fire. US troops are accurate enough at range to suppress as well but Syrian riflemen are not often expected to suppress the enemy, the AK-47 and its derivatives were designed for close assault as an evolution from the WW2 SMG squads.
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The problem with infantry hunt is that when they hit the deck they lose sight of what they dropped for. This makes the whole command pretty pointless unless you are in a very flat map.
Trying to hunt over a ridge doesn't work for that exact reason so I would use the quick/slow option.
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Well I had made a story for a probably now cancelled campaign detailing how the troop buildup on the Syrian borders triggered mass mutinies in the army, led by the old Republican guard.
Breifly, as the reserves are called up for war, noone in the army wants gulf war Mk3 and are prepared to fight the unpopular government instead of NATO. In the campaign, a Republican guard commander defends Latakia from loyalist forces while the rest of the country looks on. If they are successful the country has a counter revolution encouraged by western intelligence agents and special forces. If they look like they will fail, NATO invades and the country is pretty screwed.
Unfortunatedly the very big map issue affects almost every map I made for the campaign so it doesn't look like it will ever see the light of day.
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Ah well, I thought you were talking about concrete or wooden pillboxes. These can work temporaraly but not against a determined enemy. When you said Arma I assumed you where in a conventional war situation. The one in the video was holding off the crew of a downed helicopter which is an unusual situation to say the least but in an unconventional war you sometimes can't take the gloves off and assets can't always be concentrated.
If you mean trenches or fighting positions, then you are right, they are very common today, although as mentioned earlier, conceilment becomes very important.
About the hardness of infantry, its a funny world. One man may go out of action from loud noises whereas a doped up mujahadeen can sometimes take .50cal to the chest and keep fighting. You never know who the supermen are going to be either untill they get hit.
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Affentitten has it right. If you must do a frontal assault though, work your way close to the pillbox and hit it with an AT-4 or a RPO. Immediately assault using smoke to conceal your movements from other enemies. Use grenades and automatic fire to finish off the survivors. If you can't do that, it is probably best to call it a day (or wait till nightfall and hope they don't have night optics). By this point however the situation is so far away from the real world that you might as well go Rambo and see how far you get.
There is a reason why modern armies don't use pillboxes any more. Everyone and his dog owns anti tank weaponry that can take it out. The only way to protect infantry is by concealment and it is very difficult to camoflage a bunker in a fps.
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Try to load a big scenario and the game will crash for sure. I have built a number of scenarios that crash in the editor even before adding units. (or finishing the map either!)
I run vista 32 with 8gb RAM (I know I can't use this much), an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ processor and a GeForce 9600 GT graphics card. Very large maps cause a CTD with my rig.
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Well I think that light in a CMSF map is universal for the whole map, even if it does change over time. Given the scale involved, would one lighting mission affect the whole map? I don't know but if it doesn't, you might be right thinking that it may be hard to implement.
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Burning vehicles have their own light source so it is theoretically possible. I would love to see star shells in CMSF - think of all those beautiful screenshots
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Alex - I have my own list of suggestions that I occasionally give to BFC
You have some very good ideas and I hope Steve etc are reading this. I wouldn't hold out hope too much on these happening any time soon though, It seems to me that right now if it is not applicable for Normandy it won't make it in.
We will just have to wait for CMSF2!
new to CMSF - two questions
in CMSF Strategy and Tactics Forum
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Hi there!
1. Infantry doctrine usually involves dismounting the infantry out of small arms/RPG range and advancing them forwards making maximum use of cover as well as good suppressive fires from the carriers. If you are new to modern warfare remember that ranges are very long. An RPG can hit your carriers at 300m out and western infantry should be pretty good at dropping targets at that range too. To stop your infantry being cut down suppresion is key. Fire at anywhere even suspected of containing the enemy to stop them from shooting back.
More information can be found in the Strategy and Tactics forum. Try my community strategy guide thread and then move on to the sticky threads for some more advanced stuff.
2. It looks like you did well in the first mission but I would try the second one again. You can't afford to sustain those losses! 5-10 KIA and 1-2 vehicles lost would be acceptable I think. Check out this: http://www.battlefront.com/community/showthread.php?t=88831
Hope that helps!