Sandokan

Squad Leader.
I found the CMBO demo all those years ago when I was looking to see if Avalon Hill had tried to make a computer version of SL.  CM is the spiritual descendant of the Squad Leader series.  I still have the original and three "gamettes" (pre ASL) in a closet.

From wikipedias summary of the Peloponnesian War
"Seizing its opportunity, the Spartan fleet sailed at once to the Dardanelles, the source of Athens's grain. Threatened with starvation, the Athenian fleet had no choice but to follow. Through cunning strategy, Lysander totally defeated the Athenian fleet, in 405 BC, at the Battle of Aegospotami, destroying 168 ships."
People have been fighting over the control of the grain supply from the Black Sea for 2500 years.

I don't think I've seen it on here but if it was already pointed out I apologize. 
It appears that the 44th Artillery Brigade is one of the units that has received and is employing the M777s. There are a couple articles/videos on their facebook page that talk about them being deployed already. They say that the systems are well liked as they are light, easy to use and very accurate. Hopefully they will make a difference for the UA.

The urgency of getting a DOD wide license for CM professional edition is hard to overstate....

Ukrainians showing how it's done: Bridging the Donets:
 

Dude.  Seriously.
 

Bloody hell it backfired!  Well what can you do... bottoms up.

Just walked by the TV as Eurovision and Ukraine's entry was playing.  The singer gave a shout out to Azovstal and Mariupol. 
Respect is due 🇺🇦❤️.

Surely at some point a decent tractor will pull them out...
Then a bit of drying and tidy up for some new owners. 

That's great, have fun with it.

I'll copy in  @BFCElvis my friend, as he is the font of all knowledge in such matters ❤️.  Sorry John, I know you have other things to deal with 😬.

Hi there Vacillator! Glad to hear you.
Uhm, If I remember correctly all CMSF2 should be activated at the same time.
Anyway, I'm gonna check. Cheers.

Some crazy intense scary footage  from around Lyman ( from a mainly civilian/police perspective  ) - I  seriously recommend following this  Ukrainian News Channel .
 

Having heard on the BBC (who just this morning got around to the famous bridging fiasco as breaking news) about how Russia is threatening to encircle Sievierodonetsk, I decided to summarise how the Russian 'threatening to encircle' reports have changed over the war so far:

Unless you're Oryx and have to try to ID them all.

BBC report from the front N of Kharkiv:
Not sure what the massive anti-material rifle is.  Maybe this:
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2020/06/17/ukrainian-snipex-alligator-14-5x114mm-anti-materiel-rifle/
EDIT: or more likely this:
https://audm.org.ua/en/news/nova-14-5-mm-dalekobijna-gvintivka-t-rex-vid-hado/

This never gets old...
 
 

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I bet the new UA artillery's first job is to destroy RU artillery.  That's what I'd do.  Arty is the only part of the RU military that is really working.

How do you think Don Diego de la Vega feels!!!

Some of the conversation over the few pages have referenced the former Yugoslavia.  Which brings back... well, not so good memories.
I was a Canadian peacekeeper in Bosnia in latter half of '93.   During the Croatian offensive in the Medak in Sept of '93, I was with the 2 PPCLI when we went into the sh*tstorm to try to stop the ethnic cleansing going on.  The Croatian army attacked our unit during that operation, a thing that the Croatian government denies to this very day.  Despite us photographing the Croatian dead after the battle and collecting their ID, etc.    We had god damn evidence and to this day, the Croatian government position is that they never attacked us.
Part of our job, beside trying to keep the warring factions apart, was to document evidence of ethnic cleansing and I was in charge (I was an officer) of a evidence collection team.  So, literally thousands of photos, videos.  Transcripts of interviews with witnesses and victims.  Six months exposed to that living hell, day after f*n day....
So I had the evidence, because sometimes our official recording devices ran out film or tape and we used our personal recording devices to finish up at a site.
After I got out the military, I found myself sometimes on various military forms about games, such as this one.  Arma forums, military wargame forums... that sort of thing.  And as it happened, I ran into forum members from Croatia and Bosnia Serbs and we would get into it.
Universally, every Croatian or Bosnian Serb forum poster denied what happened there.  And I was called a liar on many occasions for telling them them the truth of that war as I was there and they weren't.  And I have evidence to back up my claims.  No one believed me and if I offered visual proof, they didn't want to see it or they disclaimed it as fake.
I remember a particular Bosnian Serb who was not in the war but we got deep into the weeds discussing what happened during that war.  Deny, deny, deny.  It never happened.  Until videos that the Bosnian Serbs took of them killing civilians and dumping them in mass graves what was recorded by the very soldiers who committed the atrocities surfaced and made it onto their local media and they couldn't deny it any longer.  Those videos were part of the process besides sanctions that resulted in some notable Bosnia Serb / Serbian leaders being turned over to the ICC for prosecution for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.  After the revelation came out, this individual on that forum who I had spent hours engaging with about the culpability of Serbs in the atrocities simply ignored me from that point onwards.  I will never know why.... was it that he discovered that I was right all a long and he was wrong and he was ashamed (as he would have been) or he simply wanted to hang onto his delusion of what narrative he wanted to believe was true and he knew that I would keep chipping away.   
Denial is a powerful thing.   I don't understand why it has such power but it does.  People can dismiss an outright objective reality because to accept the truth is to undermine what they think reality is or should be.   I don't get it and is beyond madding to see the denials in the face of objective reality happen over and over.
Sigh.   I don't know why the hell I rambled on with this.  Maybe it was a story I need to tell to remain sane in light of the same brutality I witnessed back in Bosnia happening in Ukraine now.  Or maybe I still am the greater fool for believing my experiences in Bosnia can be an object lesson to others about holding onto a narrative that is personally comfortable but runs counter to all the real evidence to the contrary.   DMS, I am looking at you....
The truth will come out after all this is over.  At least, I hope it does.  The truth of this war needs to be told and codified so generations that follow can know what really happend.
Now at the end of this and reviewing it, I feel that I should have deleted this or apologize for it.  
I am hitting post. It is my truth.  Let people accept it and learn something from it or ignore it.  I needed to say this for a long time.   
 
 

@akd
Follow up to your video of the Avian Air Assault Brigade. Here the operations staff is seen in the field conducting Battle Damage Assessments of earlier strikes:

My take on the Russian approach: Send a BTG, then pummel with artillery whatever it is that the BTG got stopped by. Repeat.
Given that (very simplistic) summary, artillery is the Russian weapon that needs to be countered/eliminated.
The rush of Western artillery should help Ukraine do exactly that. Massive ISR saturation of the Russian support echelon should give Ukraine a detailed target set of Russian artillery (I include the various missile launchers here as well).
Extended range munitions (Excalibur rounds, GMLRS, Switchblade 600, etc.) should allow Ukraine to aggressively attrit the Russian artillery arm.
Once that is done, that will represent the accomplishment of a pre-condition to any Ukrainian counterattack.
Some of these attacks, like any attacks on Russian airbases/logistics hubs, will occur on Russian territory. I do not see that as an escalation. Russia has invaded Ukriane. Ergo, Russia landmass is a legitimate target. As long as Ukraine uses precision targeting and limits the attacks to military targets (or those that are directly supportive, e.g. bridges, POL facilities, etc.) I cannot see any negative repercussions. Sure, Russia will bitch. What are they going to do? Send MORE BTGs into Ukraine and threaten to rape, loot, and pillage? BTDT.
Given the depth of Russian penetrations into Ukraine, getting 150+km range weapons into the fight will have a noticeable impact on the course of this campaign.

If this is true, hope it works out for him as well as it did to Nick the 2nd