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Finished it right now, great one

They would have the option get near the beach with their amphibious assault ship, with the landing crafts (LCU,LCM) and with the air-cushioned variants (LCAC). How close depends on the situation and beach conditions. Vehicles and infantry may be directly traverse the shallow water from the crafts to reach the beach, or when further away from the beach and still deep water between them they would first use their amphibious vehicles like the AAV to get to the beach and check if everything is fine for which we even will get the ability to do so in CMSF2. Landing at night is possible and would be viable option given the circumstances provided in SF. Send in a scout force of course also a plausible option. You surely won´t bring the complete MEU and stuff like the cafeteria with you on the first landing. However nothing is written in stone and different commanders may chose different aproaches due to different circumstances. Here some vids were you can see it in action at day and night, keep in mind that excercises often differ from the real deal due to safety reasons for example. http://www.military.com/video/forces/marine-corps/marine-amphibious-night-operations/2581541159001 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwmVjRbtsk8 Video 2: The big ship in the background on the left is a ampibious assault ship, the right one far away, not sure, looks like a DD, Arleigh Burke perhaps, wild guessing here, the small ones landing at the shore are LCU/M´s Equipment overview which should answer all questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=181&v=tt0PD0rLgCE About the Fleet thing well it is the Mediterranean Sea so technically home of the 6th but when war is close fleets get redeployed, especially when considering that the 5th wouldn´t have a long way trough the Suez canal to reach the theatre. But perhas someone else can provide more valuable information on that.

Yeah did the same here, thanks.

This is what you´ll find in most of the academic definitions, especially the civilian part. However as it seems that the terminology inflicts a rise in blood pressure in some individuals which then proceed to see words that aren´t there or neglect words that are there, I hereby declare an updated suggestion 2.0 in order to return to topic: Future conflict on Iranian soil an surroundings involving: US and allies vs Iran and allies vs/with Unconventional forces engaging in symmetrical and asymmetrical warfare for the different factions or even following their own goals. Who could the Allies of US and Iran? Bring in a Chinese PLA expeditionary force perhaps? Other ideas? Other soil?

Is there a way to disable the user interface or do you cut it out of your screenshots?

Everything already covered here. You also could see support from other US branches. I would probably prefer to play a Campaign vs. ISIS. However I also have no problem taking the perspective of the other side. Not long ago I´ve played a campaign where you take the role of a Syrian con/uncon commander trying to hold off a British/US attacking force and - hands down - it was an extremely unique experience. I am very eager to play the "Uprising" and "Road to Dinas" campaign but decided to wait for CMSF2. I hope you´ll find a way to fix the obstacles without too much work involved. Your Mosul map and the ideas you´ve shown here would make a top notch campaign. Btw checked your link, playing as Iraq´s Golden Division, nice. Will check that definitely out. In the scenario´s comments at TPG someone mentions a "video series", does he mean a documentary or is there any video footage provided in preparation for this mission?

Really great idea, do you plan to release a campaign including this constellation?

The year is 2008: Technically FO´s and FAC´s still being taught the rudimentary basics of calling in Naval Gunfire Support (NGFS) and Marines have officers assigned being Naval Gunfire liasons (NGLO) but they in reality have other responsibilites then handling NGFS. Most large calibre ships got decommissioned and even though most modern ships technically would have the ability to bombard a shore, most of the demand would be met by missiles (Tomahawk) or by CAS provided from nearby air bases or a carrier/expeditionary strike group.

I can try loading it.

I run 120hz Gysnc @1920 and have no problems. Can´t tell for sure how your components will react to the higher res monitor but a 970m should be sufficient and like you pointed correctly out this game isn´t that GPU dependant which doesn´t mean GPU´s are completely unimportant. Combat Mission FPS really depent on scenario size and settings. Even on very powerful machines I see frames dropping down on huge scenarios especially when maxing out the detail settings which can tear your frames apart, I run them one or two settings lower and still didn´t figure out what they exactly do . As far as I know they mostly affect the world object drawing distance and drawing detail. Don´t see any difference on the models from close between the settings. Also ingame AA gives me a somewhat bad feeling. Also checking high priority process here. I run Reshade for AA, adaptive Sharpen and some personal preference effects. If you have Access to online retailers like Amazon you could order it there and if all things go south return it.

Elite, need to try Iron

It is not my definition of terrorism but one of the most common technical one you would find in a lexicon. Also I give a single damn about what you and your friends do. Using a odd racial attribution like this in order to classify if the term "terrorist" applies or not is just completely off. Pointing that out has nothing to do with arrogance. Also why should terrorist organizations be beyond CM´s scope? CM does not have to model the terrorism incident per se but isn´t it possible they could see assmyetrical conflict with regular forces? You basically already see an abstraction of that in Combat Mission Shock Force. The Uncons potrayed there basically can be everyone from displaced regulars, insurgents, to members of said organizations. Also you are the one that should carefully reread what people are posting here. Point me out where I say "all partisans = terrorists". Do you see the term "insurgent" there or did you conveniently skip that? I don´t know what the hell triggered you to come up with this odd stuff. I´m off for a round CM.

You´re not pedantic but just wrong. The term "terrorist" has absolutely nothing to do if wether a conflict is hypothetical or not but is defined by the means of "terror" someone uses to reach his goals, like specifically targeting civilian population with bombings in order to inflict fear or dissent for example. Politically of course it is often used to (incorrectly) disgrace organizations or individuals which the other side would probably call freedom or resistance fighters. Regarding the rest you´ve wrote there. I think you got something completely wrong here. Organizations like the German RAF or the Irish IRA are also commonly designated as terrorist groups, so what in the hell has this suddenly to do with the skin color? No offense, but next time spent at least some time contemplating before posting, for your own good. Also nobody with at least minimum cultural aspiration describes Middle Eastern ethnicity with "brown people". Back to topic: Yeah also hope that Combat Mission Shock Force 2 will see success (I am pretty optimistic that his indeed will happen) and see further expansions.

Yeah I know Israel would probably kept out of such an conflict by the Coalition/US (like they were in Desert Storm) in order not to destabilize the complete Middle Eastern. However in the end everything everything can happen when given the right reasons and backstory.

Future Conflict on Iranian soil involving US + Israel vs Iran + Russian or Chinese Advisors and various religious/insurgent/terrorist fighters supporting the different factions or even following their own goals.

However noth are not that appealing to me. with a near-future all out conventional and asymmetrical conflict set in the (Middle) Eastern, South America, and/or involve China. Yeah China would be awesome also great to access the not to be underestimated Chinese wargamer market. Combat Mission: Rise of the Dragon

Yes very important to keep that in mind and do exactly what Miller says. On my windows machines I even seen the whitish not responding overlays getting triggered without user input while the scenario was loading. Hit the start campaign button, when you see the loading bar don´t touch anything for 5 minutes, tell us what happened.

First guess was answer Early War, not often covered in wargames and it sounds fun first to think about playing with late WW1 stuff but thinking about it, there is a reason why its not so often covered. There are not that my sophisticated Weapons systems - especially tanks - for the nations specifically the Germans. Scenario-wise also difficult, French didn´t put up much of a fight, Poland was not capable doing so while being attacked by two major powers. The annexation stuff that happened before the invasion of Poland as also the later invasion of Norway are not that relevant from CM´s perspective. Operation Barbarossa is scenario-wise interesting but there wouldn´t be much for us to see. Russian wise there is stuff to add, I would certainly be excited to see soviet KV1/2´s. However for the Germans there would be absolutely nothing new to discover equipment-wise, except for older versions of known vehicles. Better to be left in Red Thunder. I must admit I am not that interested in Afrika Korps but this theatre have seen many known commanders, operations, tank battles, on par equipment used against each other, fierce fighting and shifting fronts, many nations participating there. Especially for the Allies there would have the option to introduce many vehicles not seen in the CM European Theatres like the different Crusader tanks. Furthermore lets not forget that we would see completely different terrain sets in a Afrika CM giving the seasoned CM player some visual but also tactical variety (open fields, infantry may be better traversing contested space mounted etc.) So in conclusion the choice for me is easy: definitely Afrika Korps

Try this: make sure you delete the .cam file and the mod folder start combat mission blitzkrieg and quit redownload the cam file and the mod files then put the files into their according places (campaigns folder and z folder) start combat mission blitzkrieg again and launch the campaign

One of my Marine LAV´s got caught up by an enemy T-72. Normally the LAV would - beside its evasion maneuvers - try to enage the enemy tank with AP rounds which - visually observed - tend to bounce completely off with no effect (I know they still damage subsystems). I then by accident discovered that issuing a Target Light command upon an enemy tank lets the LAV engage the tank with HE ammunition. Intention could be to damage/destroy Sensors or Gun with HE to at least have some effect on the opposing vehicle. But can HE under this circumstances really have a better effect on enemy tanks than AP? Did someone made any fruitful observations about this?

Damn it was a really bad idea to come back to the CM forums several weeks ago. Now I can´t leave this place anymore, so much great stuff to be found here. Looking forward to see the release of this scenario. Some of its ideas sound quiet revolutionary.

Yeah also had the impression that in Black Sea moving several softkill/hardkill capable vehicles in "packs" gives them somewhat higher survivability. Also thanks John for providing the informative video.

Mosul, great idea. Good to hear you´ve already made progress with that project. With CMSF2 at the doorstep and talented guys like you working on real world operations maps and scenarios I am pretty sure Shock Force will see another golden age. Very excited.

Thank you very much George!

Sounds promising. I also need to take a look at this in the near future.