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    Vickers-Berthier

    in Combat Mission Fortress Italy

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    Did the Vickers-Berthier mg make it into the game? I bought the R2V module recently. I noticed it's not in the manual. Apologies if this has already been brought up but I googled it first and didn't find any threads discussing it. I started a scenario with Indian troops recently and they all seem to have Bren guns.

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    Cats chasing dogs

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    POSSIBLE SPOILERS

    This thread inspired me to revisit Cats Chasing Dogs last night (I played it once before as the Americans, can't remember the outcome).

    I thought I was doing well to start with by positioning my first 3 Pumas in an ambush position in low ground in front of the farm.

    As the amis began rolling up the road I realised that my positioning was poor as one of the Pumas wasn't able to receive mutual support from the other two.

    I managed to knock out 2 M8s and a jeep before my first 3 Pumas were whipped out. Those pesky jeeps kept making my Pumas button up.

    In the end I managed a draw (having lost all of my Pumas). The Stummels turned out be more effective than I'd expected them to be - the added lethality of the 75mm HEAT rounds probably helped vs the 5cm which sometimes needed two shots to KO enemy armour.

    I kept changing my mind about where to put my infantry guns so their contribution was nil. In hindsight I think it would have been better to use them in an indirect fire role as some of the M8s took up static positions at various points.

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    How do you counter tanks with ERA?

    in Combat Mission Black Sea

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    On 1/23/2019 at 6:39 PM, DerKommissar said:

    UKR player here! Your answer to RU tanks is thew Corsar ATGM:

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    This thing rips through ERA like nobody's business. If you're playing the UKR campaign, take care to keep these things. The "Corsair" (which is what I call it, not sure if that's the correct translation) do not have as much of a punch as RU or US ATGMs, so it may take two hits to take out a T-90A. This being said, they are very accurate, quick to set-up and reload, in my experience.

    All this being said, the Javelin is a superior solution and I can see why UKR, IRL, is really eager to acquire it.

    The other thing I noticed is that ERA (especially on my Oplot-Ms) is very vulnerable to autocannon fire. Sustained 30mm fire will very quickly destroy ERA, and cause a very disastrous amount of commotion. The crew is rocked, and needs more time to seek and destroy the source of the fire. All the while, their optics are getting damaged and their main gun can even be knocked out. 

    The trouble with the Corsar vs the more modern Russian MBTs is that it's laser guided and tends to set off the target vehicle's laser warning receiver leading to smoke/evasive action.

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    If British forces were included in a future module, what new equipment should we see?

    in Combat Mission Black Sea

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    5 hours ago, Rinaldi said:

    Makes me wonder where they would figure in on this scenario; even with the very clear expansion of the war being ruled out by Battlefront. Would they remain poised in the Baltic States to maintain the deterrent and prevent an expansion of the conflict, or be poured into the Ukraine through Poland? The saner option would be the former, I guess.

    It would be interesting to see how they stack up, especially with the relative organizational mess the Army is in with the 2020 reforms underway. I recently purchased the UK module for Shock Force after the recommendation of @BrotherSurplice and don't regret it; they're far more interesting to play as then I was willing to give them credit for.

    I suppose it's possible that a battle group would be in either Poland or the Baltic prior to the Russian invasion. Not sure how long it would take to reinforce that to either brigade or division strength.

    Also, forgot to include the NLAW in the new equipment (wish)list.

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    If British forces were included in a future module, what new equipment should we see?

    in Combat Mission Black Sea

    Posted · Edited by black_prince

    I've no idea whether BF are considering a future module featuring UK forces. I understand the only one that is definitely on the cards at the moment is the Marines module. However, indulging some wishful thinking for a moment, given that BS is set in 2017, I was wondering what new equipment it would make sense to include.

    Obviously, it's too early for the Ajax family of vehicles. Presumably we could expect to see self-propelled and shoulder-launched Starstreak for air defence. UAVs such as Watchkeeper, Desert Hawk and the MQ-9. Maybe sharpshooter rifles in infantry sections? 

    Also, I understand that Exactor (improved Spike NLOS)  has been adopted by the RA as regular equipment. Would it make sense for it to be available as an off-board asset?

    Finally, just as engineering vehicles like the Churchill AVRE and the Sherman Crab are now available in CM, would it make sense to have the Trojan AVRE with a working line charge and mine plow featured?

     

     

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    M60 MBT Modifications Opinions

    in Combat Mission Black Sea

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    14 minutes ago, Artkin said:

    Pessimist? OK. No further comments.

    Hmmm... I wasn't aware that pessimist was an offensive term. In point of fact, I agree with you that Turkey is neither likely to be included in the game nor would they be a match for Russia one to one. On the other hand, I don't think that they would be markedly more inferior to Russian forces than the Ukrainians, particularly if their best units were involved.

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    M60 MBT Modifications Opinions

    in Combat Mission Black Sea

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    36 minutes ago, Artkin said:

    Would you send a strike force of m60s and m113s against Russia?

    Well, the M60T with its 120mm gun, fancy era package and what appears to be some sort of MAWS might still have some relevance. More so than the T-64bv perhaps. although I suppose that if the Turks were involved they'd probably send their Leopards. WRT M113s, I believe they use both plain old vanilla M113s and the 25mm cannon armed variety that the dutch use in CMSF. I'm sure if they were facing up to the Russian hoards they'd be able to at least purchase an ERA package for them as a UOR (if they don't already have one).

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    Combat Mission: Pacific Storm

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

    Posted

    While we're on the topic of never going to happen wishlists, I always thought the Iran-Iraq war would work well in CM2. Lots of cold war equipment, good balance between forces, varied terrain etc... The only thing that would be difficult would be getting the kind of detailed information required for historical scenario design.

    Other than that,  the Korean war would be quite interesting, T-34s vs Shermans, Centurions. Although I'm not sure how common tank on tank action was, probably confined to the earlier stages of the war.

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    Sherman vs Churchill

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

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    4 hours ago, Bulletpoint said:

    Which kind of StuG (can't remember if they all use the same gun in CMBN), and at what range? And what kind of Churchill? The VII is strong.

    Even the earlier marks can resist 75mm L48 on their front hulls at most ranges and on their front turrets and sides at longer ranges. In one battle I had 3 rounds bounce off the side of a Churchill MkIV's turret. After the mission I discovered the rounds came from a StuGIII (75mm L48) fired at around 900 metres. While this is probably longer than typical tank engagement ranges in CMBN I'm positive that a Sherman would have been toast in that situation. 

    Also, bare in mind that the 6lber armed Churchills in Normandy can penetrate Tigers frontally with APDS rounds at ranges of over 1000 yards.

     

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    Are all 75mm HE created equal?

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

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    On 10/12/2017 at 3:16 PM, Bulletpoint said:

    I've read that some 75mm HE had more explosive filler than other shells. For example, the short barrelled "Stummel" supposedly had a 75mm shell that packed more of a punch, since the low exit velocity meant that the walls of the shell could be thinner, allowing more explosive filler.

    Is this modelled in this game, or is 75mm HE always the same?

    Yes, the difference is modelled. There's a substantial difference in game between the explosion from a 75mm HE shell from the Panther's L70 compared to the much more powerful explosion from a 75mm L24 such as found on a Stummel.

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    M60T v Kornet

    in Combat Mission Black Sea

    Posted

    19 minutes ago, BTR said:

    With the war now raging on for nearly five years, there have been many storage raids by FSA. Since parts of FSA trickled down to ISIS, perhaps they took some of their acquired weapons with them. 

    Lots of equipment lost directly to ISIS by the Syrian regime and Iraqi army as well. Just yesterday ISIS captured tanks, artillery pieces ATGMs, trucks etc from regime forces in the Shaer gas fields near Palmyra.

    http://spioenkop.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/the-peculiarity-of-syrian-war-islamic.html?m=1

    Also, there's probably plenty of trading of weapons etc between the different factions organized both at low and high level. The Kurds seemingly found documents implicating the regime in an exchange of weapons for oil with ISIS after capturing Shadadi and other ISIS documents have since come to light of more agreements between ISIS and the regime.

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