Desertor

Luke, be gentle with Mr. Kettler please, he is an old man with healht issues.

Ah, you're always a good source of (absurd) humor, Jonnie. 

You're also having to leave the troops to their own devices. Even in RT, you can't follow each troop, check what it's seeing and stop it when the vista looks good. You also don't have the squad's ability to say to itself "We can nearly see that from here; if we went 10m over there, we'd be able to shoot at it, pretty sure," on a continuous basis. "Advance your platoon and set up a base of fire that covers the farm buildings at grid ref xxxxxxxx" is a perfectly reasonable order from a captain to a lieutenant to conceptualise, and you need to be able to assess at what point the Lt's squad sergeants see the target and deploy their squads into firing positions. That farm could be a lonnng way off, as well.

The game requires some careful and detailed management of your troops because the environment in which they are operating is complex and intricate. There are lots of things you have to pay attention to, because there are lots of options of how to go about things: for example, when your fire support teams are crawling into their final covered fire positions, do you have them on short covered arcs at their arrival point, or set them straight off with area targets on suspected enemy positions, or just leave them to the TacAI's tender mercies? Three broad-brush options for one waypoint, two of which have more detail under them. Winning against a human takes effort and skill.

I think we need more variety.

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That wasn't H&I, that implies some marginal military utility, it was the intentional terrorizing of an utterly helpless civilian population.  The sheer tragedy of Putin setting this kind of war loose to keep him and his friends in Dachas with hot and cold running blondes is simply overwhelming to think about.  Especially since a retirement package that included more of both of those things than he could ever make a dent in was negotiable right up until he loosed the Four Horsemen to run run wild through the Donbass.  Might still be for that matter, everyone this mess touches will be worse off for at least a generation, no matter who "wins". It would be worth paying him off and installing him in the Swiss Alps somewhere just to make this stupidity stop.  Any economic assets worth fighting over are guaranteed to be smoking wreckage by the time the fighting is over.

OK I went and did some experimenting.  Here is a scenario with four different prepared tank positions on each side one is T90s vs M1s and one is T90s vs Bradleys.  Lot of fun even if it is not realistic.  The idea was just to show how a tank position might be made using the editor.
 
Prepaired Tank Positions.zip
 
Here is a screen shot of one M1 just before it sustained mission kill damage.  As you can see it has survived a few hits already.

 
Here is the how they are made diagrams.  I created four slightly different positions.  One two AS wide - I think that one is too wide.  One super long which I think looks silly but anyway you be the judge.  The long ones can have a lower section that allows the tank to totally hide.  During the battle when tanks withdraw after a laser warning they will stop when they reach cover.  A few times the tank in the position with the extra low section actually stopped there and therefore stayed in the prepared position most of the time they actually retreated back below the hill.  So, if you do create positions like these think about what tanks will do if they pop smoke and withdraw - do they have a safe place to go?
 
 














 

"Its alrigth honey, we can try it again later"

Granted I'm not adding any new information to this debate, I'm effectively calling you out on the fact that you raise issues/questions then if they are answered/addressed, you move on quickly.
 
eg. you've spent more text telling everyone that you're not going to address Steve's response to your question with the concept of "I have already explained my original point twice. I don’t feel like doing again" than it would have taken to say "ok, you've got me there, that's a valid response" ( because, y'know, he DID answer rather comprehensively ). Restating your point doesn't address the response.
 
But your debating style appears ( to me ) to be "move on rapidly as soon as any point is countered".
That's fine, but it does appear to be a waste of time debating with you.
No doubt, this post of mine will appear irrelevant to you.

Of course I will not post here anymore as apparently it is pointless. Every John Doe living thousands of miles away, not understanding the language, not knowing anyone personally and who has never been to Ukraine or Crimea, is suddenly an expert on Ukraine, but people who understand Russian and Ukrainian and having their cities swarmed by Ukrainian 'students' are suddenly internet trolls. If you question the validity of Azov picture go to Lviv to one of the Right Sector pubs, you're gonna get more along with personal autographs.
 
Your understanding what is going on in Ukraine and Europe is well...lacking at best. Half dozen of Region Party politicians committed 'suicide' since the beginning of the year, corruption is bigger than before, all anti-maidan people living on Ukraine are devoid of any parliamentary representation and I read that Ukraine is building 'democracy'. Greece is demanding enormous war reparations from Germany on top of its poor economical situation and I will not even start on potential conseqences - enough to say that Europe could be on the brink of biggest crisis in its most modern history - but yeah, it is going to 'rebuild' Ukraine no matter how much it is destroyed.
 
Please also consider tagging this forum in an appropriate way so everyone knows which side is 'right' and 'wrong' and what the 'propaganda' is. Great way to prevent trolls from posting! Fox news would be proud!
 
Have a nice debate sirs!

I personally tend to agree with your assessment... but it's a matter of faith and nothing more; I just wanted to point out that it is a bit controversial and should not be automatically assumed to be 100% truthful... Then again, that's about the most first-hand information about Russian Ops in Donbas that we have seen in the printed media; so what choice do we have but to take it seriously?

HA! I get at least two men killed before I even start a scenario...I lost six guys today during a QB force selection. Going by my record since CMBN was released I am not even the guy you want serving your chow. The only way I could get two WIA would be not to play and it would still be iffy. Good job. I doubt anyone's gonna top that for a while.
 
 
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Well, after a somehow confusing episode involving arty, smoke and close range encounter among two main battle tanks lasing and firing like mad my Abrahams, HQ of the whole task force ended inside a two storied house... I was playing RT in one of the stock scenario. First time it happened to me in 14 years of CM...
And sure I saved the file.

AGS -  best way to stop them. Just keep sending troops for them to kill til they run out of Ammo. It works every time.

Spartans Always came back home either with their shield or on top of their shields...

Love the PDF Scenario design manual from CMBN...I have been wanting to get that in a single file form for a long time...now I can read it all at once and really try and understand that whole AI thing.
 
Sigh, haven't had a chance to play...BUT I do feel the 3.0 engine will be fantastic and the graphics I have seen so far are awesome...I am a big, big QB player so having 330 maps to choose from is truly awe inspiring.
 
Sounds like my tricks from CMSF will get my butt handed to me here...looking forward to the new training campaign.

If the military and DoD was a true private enterprise, issued stocks, had bond holders, board of directors and subjected to the whims of market forces and activitst shareholders they Army probably would use this as a low investment training tool and see it implemented in the most efficient way.
 
But thats not the case and I think in many ways you hit the nail on the head perfectly. I've seen first hand and up close how the private and public sector operate. For all its inefficiencies I wouldn't want to see or think it would be a good idea to run the military like a private business, so its probably going to be people like you who see to it that this sort of training tool gets to where it needs to be via the back door.

Really?
 
I could say the France, being somewhat nervous and concerned about the unfolding Ukrainian crisis and Russia's possible involvement in said crisis, maybe came to their own conclusions about the ramifications of that deal and needed no US 'convincing', as you seem to claim has happened.

Stalingrad?

I'm afraid we can't just discuss strategy here without at least mentioning the bigger picture, i.e. politics. Every thread about strategic layer will have some political component, simply because strategical aims in war stem from political decisions. Good ol' Clausewitz.

See here is a classic example of the weakness of using technology as a crutch. I just imported some cheap ass labor and have them reading it for me. Now I just wish I could understand what they are saying.

Wildlife get used to ambient sound changes in the environment.  When I was in the military as an artillery officer, at the time when I was a forward observer, I would have to make allowances while adjusting artillery fire to avoid the herds of elk and deer on the firing ranges.  They ignored nearby exploding artillery rounds and on two occasions, I had to put the guns at check firing because a herd of elk walked up onto the hill that I was adjusting artillery fire on.

Well, you're here now and apparently, you're a guy from Canada. Don't worry, I won't hold BLSTK against you.  
Now that you've found yourself, happy Combat Missioning

I do not even know who I am so if you know, please tell me. I was planning on visiting an ashram in India to find myself but I should have come here instead  

"One more time, Herr Hauptmann! Maybe it is just sleeping."
 
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I have the impression that there is some steam marketing nerd pushing an agenda in this forum.
When I discovered the first combat mission demo, back in the year 2000. I did work for a game publisher, and from the forty + staff, there was nobody except me who played the game.
14 years later BF still make outstanding pieces of software, and the company I did work for is long forgotten... Try to google Montecristo games.com and see how a company without soul and heavily funded exploded in mid air.