nik mond
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5 hours ago, Warts 'n' all said:
As for Stuarts, in my book the only good Stuart, is a dead Stuart.
No need to worry, underfunded, hastily designed, and the French contribution was wrought with inefficiencies and plane ol bad luck. It was doomed to fail.
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6 minutes ago, sburke said:
Whoa careful there Erwin, you sound like a socialist.
Oh now you did it.
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Oh Man, did you make that up all by yourself?
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I had remarkable opportunity to talk to a Lancaster navigator many years ago. For them spotlights were a real threat as they were tied into the sighting and plotting of the flak. If a Lancaster got lit up they immediately changed course and altitude. I mention this after watching wicky's video link above where it was not a factor for American crews on daylight raids.
Digressing further, but this gentleman showed my father and I has flight logs, he would flip to a couple entries and well some pretty hairy stories.
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7 hours ago, danfrodo said:
That post was a joke, right? I mean, no one actually could believe things that confused or ridiculously, provably, demonstrably false? Right?
Can't fool you. UV(B) mmm good... If you are a cannabis plant. Not soooo good for growing corn and soybean, and things you might want to eat. Ozone depletion occurred at an exponential rate, literally that is. I am not sure what you were referring to as false exactly, But a big hole in the ozone over major crop belts would have been a really bad thing if left undiscovered. Its been slowed but still growing. Major polluters now are hospitals, anything that uses anesthetic type gases, fluranes N2O. But that is changing now too. Its only because of some scientists in the late 70's that we dodged that bullet.
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The discovery of Ozone depletion and its causes is an example of the "Oops" line in Sburkes intricate graph. That was discovered just in time. Trying to convince a world of politicians this has to be stopped now was another remarkable feat in itself. Crops and healthy soil don't exist after years of UV radiation. umm, Good catch guys
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There is certainly room for tank on tank battles. There weren't many for the US vs NVA but there definitely enough to make more than a few scenarios over the course of the entire war such as Ben Het. For the ARVN vs NVA armour, lots of mixed tank on tank. Just need some PT76 and M48 to add to the mix.
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I am late to the party. But I brought up a similar topic back in 2011 with my little "single guy" campaign. And ran into the same things like requiring restarts to actually to get 1 guy. Then in the second battle the troops would lose their primary team weapon. But, if the morale was set to Fanatic and the leadership 2+, actually all attributes maxed out so you could get the guys to move, it was fun in a Sgt Fury Howling Commando way.
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If it was HE then that is entirely possible.
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Regret my Samsung 32" 60Hz 4ms Curved PLS LED Monitor (LC32F391FWNXZA). After 1 year, lots of stuck red pixels showing. Tried all the tech advice remedies. No joy.
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Scripting syntax is pretty much the same for all high level languages , and many people would be able to jump right in. But for people who have no experience it is not really a problem either. Just having a couple pages of example scripts to use, or paste can get you started. Community feed back to help with the debug issues would bring people up to speed to tackle a scenario.
A hybrid system would be awesome too. The Precanned scripts in CM2 work fairly well, the immediate shortcoming being the commands are linear, and lack branching (OR) conditional statements, looping etc. Having larger selections of AI commands, perhaps layered would be a good alternative for the next gen
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Some inspiration for the mod:
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Interesting, because I've never changed my color settings, they were set to North American 2 which is sRGB1996 and uses the color spacing I am pretty much accustomed to looking at. I changed to adobe RGB1998 had a look, and what popped out to me were the reds. Color spacing changes are very much a function of vibrance (or it is the product of). And I incorrectly went straight to the hue and saturation to tweak but no its actually vibrance. If things don't look right and its a color spacing issue in the game view, try a little tweak with vibrance.
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Corporate espionage sanctioned by a competitor perhaps
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22 minutes ago, Sublime said:
how do you figure the Union Army was all volunteer? LOL not true. Not only did things such as pressgangs still very much exist, and not only was it common for wealthy men to pay someone else to go for them, but yes starting fall 1862 there WAS a Union draft. In fact it specifically started some MAJOR riots in NYC
At this point (In time). The draft was not enacted until March 1863. Prior to this it was a volunteer Army up until, and at the time of the proclamation. However, saying all was a bad choice in words because it excluded the questionable practice of pressing criminals, and immigrants into service.
Speaking of press gangs it looks like your thread got pretty well shanghaied.
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4 hours ago, danfrodo said:
Nik Mond -- all our wars have nationalist mythology springing out of them. I hadn't thought about civil war when I said that. In what way do you see the textbook history subjective? I know there's a whole world of mythology trying to say the war was not about slavery, which doesn't even pass the laugh test (not that it's funny that such propaganda still lives). Everyone at the time, including some of the state constitutions, clearly state that it was all about slavery. Later some clever marketing types rebranded it as some ridiculous "war of northern aggression" and that it was about "states' rights". Yes, states' rights to do what? Make coffee? have state fairs? No, state rights to enslave human beings and treat them as property, with rights equal to farm animals (meaning none). The nearly 100 years of oppression & Jim Crow to follow rather put the lie to the whole thing rather emphatically I would think.
I'm probably on the same page as you. A possible reason why the door is left open for re branding is because the beginning of the war: 1861-1862 gets skewed, skipped, glossed over, or just plain fast-forwarded straight to the Battle of Antietam, and then the emancipation proclamation in 1863. Going back to the beginning: The expansion of slavery is ceased for any new state (west) entering the union. Policies are set in motion to phase it out everywhere else in time. Now 11 states seceded. Yes the American Civil war was very much about slavery. Did the union go to war for the reason of freeing the slaves in the south? No, well not initially, the south was winning battles in the beginning. The union even looked for a compromise. Remember Lincoln did not want to interfere with the institution of slavery as he initially stated at his inauguration. There was a push to appease the border states and even pro slavery democrats in the North were appointed. So who freed the slaves? I suppose General Fremont gets initial credit for this in August 1861, he declared martial law in Missouri and freed the slaves there... But Lincoln removed him from command and modified his order. So the poor slaves are not free anymore. Again, it was the big fear of tipping neutral states to the Confederacy. These were the dynamics of the time, which explain so many things. Once the union started gaining momentum, the neutral states became irrelevant. Enter January 1863: The emancipation proclamation. Remember all soldiers were volunteers, and it was at this point they were fighting in support of this.
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On 1/4/2019 at 11:20 AM, danfrodo said:
Very interesting. Thank goodness that here in the US we would never allow such self-serving nationalist propaganda to flourish. Oh, wait.....
If you are referring to the American Civil War then I am inclined to agree I find American history textbooks uncomfortably subjective (to put it mildly) regarding this subject.
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The exception to this is with broken troops in buildings I think. They tend to stay put and can manage to fire back.
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I think its a rock based life-form
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Depends which country you are playing as
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When the Huertgen took place the US army had a very efficient system of requesitioning replacements similar to replacing lost material. As a result the full picture was not initially recognized, meanwhile Frontline troops became greener as casualties mounted.
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Fwiw I upgraded from a GT260 to GTX750 on my 1st Gen i7 a few years back and noticed a massive improvement in CM gaming. I was able to Max out settings for once. But that is going from a low end card.
I now have night blade with gtx 1080 8gb and of course CM plays like dream because of the processing speed alone. I suppose if it's a 4km map of just buildings you would still get a lag at ground level but that still happens in the shooters I play that are maximized.
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Meeting Engagement objectives are always somewhat atypical. We can identify with hardpoints to hold, or swarm in an attack or defend scenario. But what objectives do you fight over when comparably sized task forces go BUMP. on a hill, in valley, in a forest. I think someone has a problem with these. If you don't have any hold objectives to reach, one of two things will happen: Player one runs straight to the hardpoints and fights a defend battle against an equal sized opponent, of course he wins! Or player two camps back then shoots at anything that moves, wins by attrition.
Units that did meet, whether planned, or unplanned fought each other as the objective, and the need to lay claim to the key immediate terrain features which could change the tide of the battle. A cross road maybe, but also the building that covers the cross road, or the forest that masks the enemy's movements. You can't just say "oh I'd go around the forest, that's not a real objective" Well no, too late. Its a meeting engagement and you have a forest to hold, or a choke point, a hill, or building because your opponent will do it, if you don't.
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I use squad level scout teams alot more than I used to these days. Atleast one squad per platoon has a scout team detached. I don't actually consider this recon so much as I use it as a point man scouting ahead of the platoon to spot the enemy. Unfortunately he buys it first more often than not. But its a good way get a picture of how the map is occupied. This is slow plodding, and one hopes the time spent pays off when the fur flies.
Med-evacs + Detailed Injuries.
in Combat Mission Shock Force 2
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The US still has a stockpile of M14 toe poppers for use in Korea. That's about the only weapon left designed strictly for maiming. The problem is the geneva Convention obligates those who signed on to treat the enemy injured same as their own. So guess who's logistics get tied up.