MOS:96B2P
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A farm tractor for CMBS would be cool and useful ......
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10 hours ago, chrisl said:
Putin's Pocket?
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2 hours ago, JonS said:
DeSantis isn't going to like it
Why not? Sounds like a good idea. Has he opposed the idea in some way?
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On 6/17/2022 at 12:02 PM, BFCElvis said:
Just hanging out.....my itchy banning finger hasn't been used in a while. I have it on standby.
Thank you. Glad to have you back in the neighborhood.
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+1. Very cool. Good job.
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On 5/28/2022 at 3:54 PM, Liveload said:
Hello again everyone. RL took me away from gaming for awhile, but I'm back onshore now and getting the rusted old machine oiled up and dusted off. First step is to recover as much of my work as I can and then go from there. Getting back into the rhythm of life, yes?
Welcome back!!
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+1. Good stuff! Thank you for the update @Bil Hardenberger. This kind of stuff makes a great game even greater!!
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1 hour ago, Harmon Rabb said:
What a clown.
Wow. This guy is a Russian senator but seems out of touch with reality. I don't think he understands the predicament the Russian Federation is in. They are going to keep this destructive behavior up until they destroy their military, economy, political system, etc. The entire house of cards will collapse with this attitude. Some rational, pragmatic, sensible Russian power brokers need to wake up and end this. For their own survival if nothing else.
I wonder how many different pieces the Russian Federation may dissolve into....... Map makers will be busy I guess.
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15 hours ago, Phantom Captain said:
Battle 2 is over. My men are exhausted.
Battle 3 awaits....
+1. Good stuff.
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9 minutes ago, Havran00 said:
Hello, Iam completely new to the CM community, I didnt yet had a chance to try any of the mods, but I wonder if are there any about early war (1941-1942) or even better - Winter War, Chalcyn-Gol or Polish campaign (preferably from Soviet perspective) since I havent managed to find any, just some mod for Continuation wa.
Paging @kohlenklau.
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19 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said:
My general rule of thumb is if the person is sitting behind a desk or standing in front of a media wall, ignore 'em. If the person is in a helmet and vest reporting in Ukraine, then it's at least worth watching/reading/listening.
This is a good SOP and, for me, one of the Lessons Learned from this war.
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20 hours ago, JonS said:
Is that really true, or did the Soviet military always have - in retrospect - a kind of Potemkin vibe about it? Did the Soviets conduct any major operations after WWII?
For me the friction, incompetence, and brutal behavior of the Russians has been one of the great surprises in this war.
Apparently the best, most capable, most experienced and to be feared Soviet / Russian unit are those belonging to the 60th Motorized Rifle Division (MRD). Composed of the 125th Guards Tank Regiment and the 32nd Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment (MRR). These are the units that compose the OPFOR at the National Training Center (NTC) at Ft. Irwin California.
Looking back I now suspect the real Soviets / Russians were never close to being as good as the OPFOR.
18 hours ago, SeinfeldRules said:Even by American doctrinal standards we have several minutes to process fire missions with fully digital observers and howitzers, and it's very rare to meet that standard due to a wide range of circumstances.
stated it took 20 minutes to deliver artillery fires, which is about on par with my own experience.
we have seen very little in OSINT that can accurately characterize how Russians control fires on a technical or tactical level, for better or worse.
digital distribution of fires is nothing revolutionary or unique; articles like this just give the public the opposite impression.
Thanks for your input and service. Pretty cool to have an NTC Observer/Controller/Trainer on the forum.
8 hours ago, LongLeftFlank said:We have been saying for a long time that the Russian army that Russia is trying promote in various training videos does not exist. It is a horde of people with weapons. That's all they've got.
Mic drop
Which has been a real eye opener. I had thought the Russia army was a modern, professional force that would attempt to follow basic human values and respect (as much as possible) civilians and private property. I was stupid wrong.
On 5/13/2022 at 3:39 PM, SeinfeldRules said:From what I’ve seen, often one of the best ways to use a UAV is to have another intelligence asset cue them on and have the UAV complete the kill chain with accurate targeting data.
Another under appreciated aspect of UAVs is the support required to operate, analyze and integrate their collection into a a coherent intelligence picture for units - command posts are already bloated with personnel and have survivability issues,
+1. Back in the late 1980s I worked in the Division TOC as a member of the 82nd Airborne. The footprint of the TOC and all the other HQ units was large and noisy with field generators running 24/7.
An 11B friend of mine told a story of his platoon training in the woods of Ft. Bragg. They came across the Division HQ, also setup in the woods training. He was amazed by all the equipment, activity and com wire running into the area. He jokingly said they thought they stumbled onto a small city out in the woods.
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19 hours ago, JonS said:
To be fair, that's not really the role of generalist media. Their job is to deliver the first draft of history in broad strokes. Specialist media, like RUSI or Janes, is for the details and analysis.
This sounds very reasonable and in theory maybe this is how it should be or once was.
However, I have to agree with @keas66. He was referring to the MSM (Main Stream Media) which you called "generalist media". I think your talking about CNN, MSNBC, BBC, etc. when you say "generalist"?
The MSM often went into great detail and analyst about the war, especially in the beginning. It was almost non-stop details and analysist that was often wrong. Kyiv was about to fall, Zelenskyy needs to leave the capital, Poland might be invaded, nukes are possible, Putin needs an off ramp etc. They had generals and colonels standing in front of map boards giving detailed analysis. Lots of photos of IFVs / APCs generically called tanks. Many experts and analysts giving their detailed input. At the bottom of the screen the talking head often had expert, analyst, general, colonel, SF operator etc. in their title.
But we knew they were wrong because we had this forum topic. I couldn't (still can't really) get enough of it. So I switched back and forth between six or seven MSM channels plus u-tube, twitter, internet, etc. It was (is) all very interesting. But one thing that became obvious was that the MSM was often wrong. Even when they were right they were a week or more behind actual events on the ground.
If the MSM was delivering a broad stroke first draft of the situation they were selling it as detailed expert analysis which was often wrong and out dated. In an AAR of this historical event I think it is fair / appropriate to point this out.
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On 4/25/2022 at 4:28 PM, dkchapuis said:
I’ve been using the various HQ support teams as cheap special weapons teams. (I mostly play PvP QBs)
is there some under-the-hood reason I should not do that and leave them in the back with the HQ?
Made me think of a very old but relevant topic. Please excuse Photobucket's vandalism.
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On 5/9/2022 at 10:55 PM, markshot said:
I was think about MIUS as well, but due to its real time nature, CMx2v4 is more welcoming.
Greetings, all! I hope you are in good health and thriving/surviving financially. (and no one is really taking shots at you)
Welcome back.
I also gave MIUS a look through videos and reading forums. IMO it is an interesting game but would take some time and effort to properly learn. It has some very cool graphics. However it does not have a playback feature like CM and, as you mentioned, is only real time. I think this often compels players to play zoomed out in an attempt to keep track of everything going on (so much for seeing close-ups of all the cool graphics). Then if the player is lucky enough to notice something cool (like a tank turret blowing off a tank) there is no way to replay, zoom in, watch from different angles, in order to take screenshots etc. Maybe more importantly replay is useful for learning what/why/how a tactic worked or failed and unfortunately MIUS doesn't have it. So ultimately I decided it wasn't worth the investment of time and effort to purchase and properly learn MIUS. I do, however, enjoy the occasional MIUS gameplay video.
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Dangerous window.
Territorial Defense (TD) unit with a Corsar ATGM.
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+1. Nice map with a lot of potential for creating scenarios on.
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1 hour ago, Erwin said:
From what we're reading (assuming it's not all propaganda of course) it seems like the Russians are not any more effective than the Syrians in CMSF. Will be interesting to see an update in which Russian capabilities are more seriously degraded than what CMBS currently would indicate.
This is, for the most part, possible now. Lower the headcount to 70% the supply to limited, motivation to low some of the unit experience to conscript or green to show the difference between conscript and contract Russian troops etc. Maybe fitness to weakened if the scenario has them out of supply for weeks at the scenarios beginning etc. Set ground conditions to muddy etc. There are many possibilities with the Combat Mission editor. The addition of tractors with the capability to actually tow OpFor armored vehicles would be useful ..........
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Russian tank hit by an AI controlled Bayraktar (Actually a Gray Eagle).
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3 hours ago, JM Stuff said:
Nice shoot.
1) Are de Z or V signs used for certain region of fighters to be recognised themself, for exemple Z in north V for South or do have this another signification?
2) Pants from some fighters seem to be from ww2, does Ukrainian soldiers keep some stock of German uniforms of ww2 ??!!
I think the different letters were for different areas of operations. At least originally when the war started. There is some detailed discussion about the letters in the CMBS "How hot is Ukraine going to get" topic.
IIRC the uniform mod was made by @Blimey. I think he was just trying to portray hybrid forces.
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18 minutes ago, Simcoe said:
I know I’ve seen this topic before but I couldn’t find it in a search.
do you leave the tank platoon leader in cover to transmit C2 or do you put them in the fight?
I generally have tank platoon leaders in the fight. However they are almost always buttoned up.
Baraque de Fraiture Scenario
in Combat Mission Final Blitzkrieg
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Destroying bridges is possible in CMSF2 with the use of IEDs in scenarios specifically designed for bridge destruction. This is as close as we can to bridge demo in CM. Most scenarios use occupy and touch objectives as explained above by Womble. Maybe someday.
CMSF2 Scenario Coup d'etat.