Chibot Mk IX

Holy cow, sinking the Moskva??? That's incredible! That's my thought too. With the threat of landing in Odesa is gone, Ukraine Land based AShM units can change from "hide and seek" to "seek and destroy" mode . And they can concentrate several units in the same area to achieve a missile saturation attack. Now the question is, what is Moskva doing at zmiinyi island? 1, Protect other vessel in the SAG and doing a deep land strike with Kalibr? 2, Or it is a patrol mission? Moskva and other vessels patrol around zmiiny island, using it's long range SAM to intimidate the US surveillance aircraft/UAV operating in the region?

+1 Westwood is a witch C&C generals, US Crusader tank + Battle Drone

I guess it is no longer worth to hold it any further. From attacking side perspective , Izyum itself is not an ideal place to make a breakthrough. Rus side has only one road to push out from a very narrow front , and it is under observation from the southern bank Terrain map around Izyum There is a Significant elevation difference on the two sides of the siverskyi donets river. As long as UKR controls the hills on the southern bank, they are in a good shape. Any attack coming out of Izyum will lose momentum very quickly, if not be totally wiped out by ATGM and Artillery.

They can 1, use shift to select multiple Arty support group at the same time 2, wait for the first fire mission become fire for effect, then they can call another fire mission.

Well, the game put a wide range of equipment working at IR spectrum as IR optics. But many of the near infrared night optics do not have thermal imaging capability. The MT-LBM 6MB, BMP-3 and BMP-2 have IR Optics, but they cannot see/fire through smoke.

you have the HQ team to guide two fire mission, that could cause some problem. In this case the HQ team is busy with 122mm's communication, he don't have time to request 120mm fire mission adjusting. Either, wait couple more min till the 122mm fire support mission begins or, cancel 122mm fire mission , wait for next turn

Noticed that T-64BV can see and fire through smoke screen. I searched the manual, it didn't say T-64BV in CMBS has any Thermal Imaging Device installed. Search online and find out some article mentioned UKR army acquired 150x T-64 2017 between 2018-2019, they fit with thermal sights. So, is this a bug? or in CMBS universe all the T-64BV has got some upgrade program?

If you can provide a screenshot of the mutually supporting positions that would be great. We should be able to provide a more detailed answer to a specific question. You mentioned in Urban terrain, then the defender at each position will have their own blind spot. Put your view to the defender's position, study their FOV. When the mutually supporting positions share the same FOV, some of them could share the same blind spot at the same time. Explore those blind spot. Current CM engine do not support pixeltroopen climb through windows, so, got to study where the door is. Use demo charges or tank cannon to breach the wall and buildings to avoid death trap on the open street. And yes, you got to take them one by one. Just like use Hedge Shears to cut down a shrub plant. Leaves first, branch next , then trunk. As you mentioned, it is very time consuming. When facing a human player, such action will be a much more significant challenge. AI will not react to your move. Human player will move his troops around and eliminate his blind spots.

Finished the scenario 2 - enhanced version Love this one. Not too many scenario give you chance to command a pair of BRDM-2 it is quite a challenge to UKR player. I doubt UKR player can win this in a HTH game. When facing a human player, I don't think there is any possibility to save the trapped UKR troops

A little OT, Most of the member here are professional in land warfare, it is highly recommend to take a look at a DCS guidance on basic air battle https://www.mudspike.com/dcs-f-15c-combat-guide-for-beginners/ In the middle of the article , the author presented a very good explanation on notching and doppler effect

That's a very good analysis. I'd like to add one more comment, the major issue for SAM vs slow UAV thing is the detection and tracking (due to Doppler effects and radar return signal filter out). If the searching radar is lucking enough to detect the slow flying UAV then it is very unlikely the Fire Control Radar (FCR) which working at higher frequency will miss those flying objects. Most of the UAV do not have a RWR radar warning receiver, the UAV operator is unlikely to detect a missile launch , making a UAV's missile defense maneuver (notching) is impossible. Above is the Pantsir's searching radar's spec, it detects targets with radial speed from 30 m/s to 1000 m/s. It definitely has trouble to detect some of those small and slow UAVs Also, majority of the Soviet/Russian built Surface to Air Missiles works with Semi-Active Radar Homing (SARH) guidance. Only S-400 system has one type of ARH missile?

Hopefully this is not a re-post A very emotional video clip Ukrainian Pianist Plays A Final Rendition Of Chopin In The Ruins Of Her House

This reminds me the PBEM games in WITP AE (War in the Pacific - Admiral's Edition), as IJN , you got to put USN's fleet oiler (AO) as high priority target at the early stage of the war. As USN, IJN's AO is always a high priority target from the day 1 to day 1000. 100 fuel truck is a remarkable achievement if it is true. that is 1.25 of the Russian MTO brigade's tanker fleet. It's going to really hurt, considering many of the Russian troops are >150km-200km ahead of their railhead / Army's main supply depot. under such circumstances, even assume a full strength , prefect condition MTO brigade is running the delivery 24/7, they can barely make enough fuel delivery for one third of Army's BTG to be operational.

at in CMBS, yes I just saw two BTR-4 killed a T-72B3 by flank shooting 30mm apds yesterday. And the other day I noticed that Oplot's front low hull is not safe when facing BTR-82A. My oplot suffered couple penetration and lost its engine.

Russian Logistics for the Invasion of Ukraine

A little OT: I found an interesting article that has been shared couple thousands time around Chinese internet (Weibo). It is translated from a Russian newspaper opinion published on Feb 3rd 2022. The author is a Russian. He followed a more traditional Soviet military thinking and predicted the future war with UKR will be bloody long. It's not going to be an easy walk. He laughed at any idea that UKR will give up the fight in 48 hours and said "This is not going to happen." . Man, this dude is a great foreteller. the original article is here Прогнозы кровожадных политологов восторженных ястребах и торопливых кукушках https://nvo.ng.ru/realty/2022-02-03/3_1175_donbass.html

IMHO, I don't think the Russia is OP in CMBS. Like others have already mentioned , so far the Russia's failure is caused by logistics, support, planning. Oh they have a crazy full scale invasion plan but neither did they mobilize enough troops nor smart enough to adapt to the new development on the battlefield. None of these are in CM's scope, CM is a tactical level wargame. What I want to see from a future updated CMBS are: 1, old generation AFVs, T-72B obr1989, BMP-1, T-80U etc 2, Separatists, militia , territorial defense force 3, make APS more expensive and more rarity. Maybe M1A2 SEP is overpowered but that belongs to a different topic.

THE WARGAME BEFORE THE WAR: RUSSIA ATTACKS UKRAINE

If Russian force coming from east side can secure their supply line, advance via M02 and then E95 , they can still make an encirclement. But at this moment the Russian force from east advance at a very slow speed.

Exactly! ************** https://twitter.com/partizan_oleg/status/1499252779571093506?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1499252779571093506|twgr^|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.miltalk.net%2Findex.php%3Fthreads%2F163010%2F Late to the party, I bet the 65 miles long convoy outside NW Kiev has been discussed hundreds of times. I still want to add my 2 cents here A long length convey is no surprise. A Soviet tank division can be 50km long in a single file marching formation. But what happened on NW of Kiev is a logistic nightmare. Under normal circumstances, one road can barely support one mechanized regiment. But now Russian has to use one road to support the whole army that is 200km away from the rail terminal/supply depot. On one hand, Russian force has to ferry troops forward, on the other hand you have to supply food, water, fuel and large amount of ammunition forward for the planned besiege. The trucks need several re-fuel and maintenance under this 400km back and forth trip. So several small supply depots must be set up somewhere on the road. No surprise this will cause a huge traffic jam. Now imaging you have an inexperienced staff officer team from Army HQ to manage the supply convoys on a traffic jam road. The frontline troops urgently request fuel and ammo, their combat readiness degrade with low supplies. The Army HQ’s first reaction is very likely to send more supplies on the road, which in turn be delayed on the road, causing more congestion. Since the frontline troops cannot get the delivery on time, their voice for more supplies needs become louder and louder. And an inexperienced Army HQ team will send more convoys into this mess, causing more delay and congestion. It’s getting into a vicious circle. A little bit naughty analogy: When facing a clogged a toilet, many people’s first reaction is to flush the water again. Sometime it unclogs, but many time it will make clog worse. Sounds familiar? Well, that’s happening everywhere, port congestion, container stuck at the rail terminal while the goods are out of stock in shopping mall and supermarket. Global supply chain issue.

Don't get me wrong, I have no sympathy for an invasion army. I just feel bad for those staff officers. I had a very busy week on work, so I can totally understand how frustration it is: Your CO. yelling at you , he needs a new offensive begin tomorrow. BTG 001-005 reports they are low on ammo, BTG 008 requests fire support from Arty Bde. BTG 011-013 says the need fuel. BTG 015 reports they lost three tanks due to enemy fire, but they are not burning, needs recovery bn's ARV support. BTG 006 cmdr reports no one protect his flank. OK, good news, you still have BTG 007 on your hand. Now you got to do calculation (and lots of calculation), check out the latest location of those who needs supplies , send out couple convoys from Army's depot (probably 50km away from the border) travel 150km distance . Then communicate with those BTG commanders , ask them to meet with convoy x at certain location at certain time. Good luck with that, a tiny error could causing a disaster to the supply convoys and the BTGs at the frontline. If I have been assigned to this kind of job, I'd rather 躺平 (lying flat)

Because.... Home before the leaves fall? Ukr will surrendered in 48 hours? the Donbass war in 2014 is a great success for Rus BTGs. But I remember they stopped in 50km. Its' kind of border skirmish in which the BTG structure is excellent at. It is not a deep operation .

That could be an explanation, but it doesn't seem very fit with traditional soviet military doctrine. You must achieve a clean breakthrough before send in the "elite" . So the first wave of the "Bullet Sponges" is better to be elite/crack.

Guess the BTG--Army organization structure has a huge problem for any operation deeper than 50km. in old Bn-Regt-Div-Army structure, Bn draw supply from Regt/Div, who in turn get their supply from Army. The Army HQ only has to take care of a couple request. Now you have 15-20 BTG commander request re-supply at different location simultaneously. That is a nightmare from Administration point of view. To make the situation worse is who is RESPONSIBLE to protect the 15-20 supply conveys? Traffic jam could easily happen with so many conveys moving on road. Should the supply has the higher priority or move the troops forward has the higher priority? I feel bad for those Russian staff officers in Army HQ .

Yes, Ukr cannot lose Kharkov at this moment, because it is important to Rus too. If Kharkov is occupied or defender be suppressed, look at those roads coming out of Kharkov, Rus will have the freedom to move troops west through M03 highway (participate the battle in Kiev) or turn south, work together with the friendly troops from Melitopol to encircle Ukr in the Donetsk area