A co
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My concern about light infantry on the modern high intensity battlefield is, how are you ever going to get away from the enemy artillery fast enough? Whether you're attacking, defending, or just in transit on foot? That question was raised in my mind at Ft. Irwin, where my platoon was once suddenly 'killed' by artillery.
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Thanks for the responses, guys. I've got enough battles going now to keep me busy.
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Anybody up for a PBEM?
Any size scenario or quick battle except huge.
I can do at least one turn per day on average. Don't have vehicle pack. CMRT or CMFI would be ok also. I use dropbox.
Send me a PM.
Thanks.
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It seems casualties are a political liability in Russia, despite the stereotype of Russian indifference. The Soviets attempted to hide the casualties of the Afghan war, for example. The new law just moves the ball further down the field of censorship and control.
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There was a thread about this kind of issue some time ago. The conclusion seemed to be that regardless of where the hit occurs, it's treated simply as a 'front hull penetration' (in your case) and the damage or lack thereof is random.
What I mean is a penetration on the driver's hatch is no more likely to injure the driver than a penetration on the far opposite edge of the front hull, as far as the game engine calculates it.
Given that, two hull penetrations failing to immobilize the vehicle is a bit unlikely but still is something we will see from time to time.
And yes, the specificity of the hit decal location ends up deceiving us in our expectations about damage.
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'Gates of Warsaw ' is good. Combines tanks, infantry, open spaces and close terrain. The Germans won when I played it h2h, but I can't say necessarily that the Germans have an easier time of it. Beautiful big map that takes advantage of CMRT's capabilities. Enough time and space in the scenario to think strategically and to have a lot of choices in your actions.
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2 inch mortars are good when their larger parent unit is present, with vehicles carrying extra 2 inch ammo.
I normally use target light because the continuing danger to the enemy is more valuable to me than taking out one of his teams with a full 2 inch ammo load.
They're good for harassing or attriting targets hiding out of sight behind hedgerows. I save them for targeting valuable units like HQ's and spotters.
I don't count on them to pin the target, but to make the opposing player feel the location is unsafe and have to move away.
In a current battle I'm using them to prevent the enemy from having a safe jumping-off line for his infantry assault.
Of course it's best to avoid using them at long range, as their accuracy suffers.
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Some advantages of splitting squads, as I see it-
A small team can move and get into cover more quickly. A moving full squad ends up like ducks in a shooting gallery once the enemy orients on them.
A team can make better use of small divided areas of cover than a squad.
As mentioned before, divided teams are harder for the enemy to keep track of.
Divided teams can see more terrain then a full squad, because the eyes are further apart, so to speak.
Squads bunch up at waypoints too much.
Whole squads are of course easier for the player to manage, but the effort of managing teams is worth it.
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Glad to hear that mortar HT's will be able to fire without dismounting the tube. I wonder if other types of gun carriages will be able to do on-board indirect fire with these changes?
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So it seems the Sexton SP gun cannot unbutton. Is this an oversight on the part of BFC, an attempt to discourage their use, or something else?
My thinking is, if they're in the game at all, they're going to fight in direct fire mode, so why handicap them this way?
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I don't think Orwell had ever been connected to fascism, though he did go from pro-communist to anti-communist over time.
Such a continuation of the war might also have had the aspect of an almost continent-wide partisan war. Communist partisans in France and Italy, nationalist partisans in Germany, Poland and Ukraine, who would have kept fighting as long as the conventional war was not settled.
But I think the main question for the leaders of East and West would be the will to crush such a huge enemy, and the presumed benefits you'd get for the expenditure.
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Well I'm glad they can land in the vehicle then. I guess my pixelated pineapple pitchers just need a little spring training.
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Has anyone ever seen a grenade thrown into an open topped vehicle? I have only seen my men do the 'grenade/close assault' function causing explosions on the outside of the vehicle. Are open topped vehicles more vulnerable at all to grenades in the game? I'm starting to think they are not.
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Daroc, just curious, what kind of cover/ concealment/ terrain slope are the MG's in that are getting hit by the gun?
I wonder if HMG's could ever fire without being spotted at 600M in the right circumstances.
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But how does the commander know it's outside the range of his covered arc, unless he uses the laser rangefinder to make sure he shouldn't use the laser rangefinder?
Just kidding...
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It's probably an oversight by scenario designers not to include them more often.
The 45mm is a very handy weapon- hard to detect at long range, good with side and rear shots when being bypassed on big maps. and even has a cannister round. And when you kill a Panther with one, you do feel very clever!
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There's a movie called 'Come and See', available with English subtitles, about a young partisan. A very cruel movie. Not for the faint of heart.
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You might have to set up a test to find out.
I do know that the 'barn' category of buildings is easier to destroy and provides very poor cover for troops inside it.
Also, different types of 75mm guns, for example, have different amounts of explosive in their HE shells, so that is another factor to consider.
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Nice work! I think Osprey advertised they're coming out with a book on the Goumiers, but now I can't find it. The excellent book "Ten Armies in Hell" about Cassino, Diadem, etc., has a lot of praise for General Juin and his men.
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That would be useful, but I don't think the game engine currently allows such options to be added.
You might be interested to try the demo version of Tac Ops from Battlefront, which has several options like that which can be set for each unit to determine actions upon contact. It's a very different format for a tactical game but cool nonetheless.
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Skinfaxi-
Yes, a recon vehicle might get scared and try to back up if it sees an enemy tank, but this reaction isn't too reliable. Sometimes the vehicle moves in a way that endangers it even more, like trying to make slow tight turns, or picking the wrong cover. The AI just isn't that smart.
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Fitting in one squad per bird was never a goal in Air Assault operations, at least in my day (previous millennium). You would reform the squads from the 'chalks', ('chalk' being the helicopter-load of people) on the LZ after landing. We had 11 man squads, plus maybe Dragon or M60 teams added, plus platoon HQ & RTO, etc. and the squads were almost never at full strength anyway. So the real size of the squad could not be predicted much in advance, certainly not to match it neatly to the capacity of the aircraft. (Which varied according to the atmospheric pressure anyway.)
Don't know how Mech infantry used to do it, in their M-113's.
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In WEGO there isn't really a way to get them to retreat immediately upon contact.
You could try some tricks- have the vehicle dash out, pause a few seconds, and reverse to cover. With luck, you might get to see something without getting destroyed. Or you could have the vehicle advance slowly under cover of a forest; vehicles in woods can sometimes avoid being spotted.
Of course if you have time let the crew park behind cover, dismount and observe on foot.
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Help with russians
in Combat Mission Black Sea
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"As blind as a mole" is the exact phrase that applies to the MT-LB, I think.