Chibot Mk IX
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4 minutes ago, akd said:
The 3D17 grenades are burning in the launchers then detonate inside them. That is not normal deployment for 3D17, which should be launched 50m up and away from tank before detonating.
I will check the video again when I get a chance, but I remember the first flash is about 30m away from the T90
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5 hours ago, billbindc said:
I'm more interested in what damage is actually being done to the T-90.
Optics?
Gun?
Ammo explosion?
What else?
Just saw a pic of the abandoned T-90M
In CM's language, it is:
Optics: X
CITV: X
Weapon control: X
Main Gun : X
the two bright flash in the video are the smoke grenades discharged from the launcher. So all the smoke grenades are gone too. And from the pic the smoke launchers seem to be taken a badly damages.
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7 hours ago, chrisl said:
Many years ago I worked on a space mission concept that was doing super high precision astrometry, that is, measurement of precisely where all the stars in the sky are and where they're going (because they're moving and we can measure sensitively enough to care). It was science driven, but the Navy was working on a competing concept and I had to think for a while about why. But it was a little after Gulf War 1, with all the precision bombing, and when I did the math on mapping the precision back to a sphere the size of the earth, it amounted to being able to aim not at a door (as they did in GW1, mostly with laser target painting), but at the doorknob using mapping and nav without needing a SOF guy with a laser. And that was decades ago.
ISR+massed precision == just don't even try it
Are they looking for developing a SLBM armed with Conventional Warheads ?
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4 hours ago, The_Capt said:
Sweet Jebus. Looks like they are targeting the engine.
They are targeting T-80BVM's Ammo rack,
This trick probably doesn't work on T-72s
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3 hours ago, Bil Hardenberger said:
Rule of thumb that I use..
- Tank has thermal sights: STAY BUTTONED - do NOT expose the tank commander (TC)
- NO thermal sights: UNBUTTON - expose the TC
Thermal sights provides benefits to the gunner but not to the commander. So I usually will also keep M60A3 TTS and M1's commander unbuttoned. For CMSF2 and CMBS, there are alot of AFV that have CITV and commander video , I will keep the hatch closed for those.
as for Soviets in CMCW, I would prefer to have T-64, 72, 80 buttoned, not only they fight buttoned-up but also the tree-men crew team will lose a lot of combat efficiency after loosing the tank commander.
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6 hours ago, Anthony P. said:
I've not encountered it. What causes it and how is it avoided?
Here is the save file
Hit go and you will see the disembarked TOW team cannot move or remount on the Humvees. (The waypoint is there, they just won't move)
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23 hours ago, Erwin said:
Playing Paper Tiger's "Gung Ho!" campaign. I disembarked the Humvee TOW's and they cannot move, nor re-embark.
This is likely a disembark bug, I have experienced the similar issue before
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Are you sharing the Jav missiles among the same platoon?
Talking this from memory, the Jav team will first expend all the team carried ammunition first, then they will take the missile from neighboring team. And if the shooting team has 0 missile, they will not take the missiles immediately. Instead, they will wait for next target pop up in their sight, then they will borrow one missile from an adjacent infantry unit, beginning the reloading process then aiming and shooting.
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Just curious on the logistic side how the Soviets deal with PPSh-41 and PPS-43's ammunition? Their box magazines are not interchangeable. In CM these two are mixed at squad level, must be a nightmare when coming to the logistic side.
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Roger that.
I opened the mission 3 yesterday. Yes, it is very open, I am thinking to advance in a column formation to the right then make a 90 degree turn change into the line formation, just like the good old Frederick era. I will need a lot of smokes to ensure the safety of this maneuver.
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Looks like it is work as intended, but with two incorrected placed artillery mission you have a bad luck day. Artillery has a very high chance to be off with an emergency fire mission. Depends on LOS, other missions has a small chance that failed to be delivered into the intended impact zone.
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1 hour ago, poesel said:
How come that S-300 rockets are so good at ground attacks? They were build for ground-to-air combat!? Why do they hit anything, and why are they intercepted so seldom?
All the long range SAMs have the potential to be convert into a land attack role or even anti-ship role. one of the example is SM-6
QuoteThe Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) is a multi-mission missile capable of antiair warfare, terminal ballistic missile defense, and antiship strike roles
the speed, trajectory, target signature, the impact area , distance to the interceptors launch site. all these factors combine will make them hard to intercept. (or lead to the decision to not intercept these missiles)
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AT rifle fires at infantry target. I can confirm that. There is even a pic under the screenshot topic to prove that.
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20 hours ago, Probus said:
This is probably a stupid question but here goes:
Why aren't either side using vast amounts of smoke ammunition to fool these less expensive drones during operations? I've not seen (hardly) any action where smoke rounds/dischargers were used. They could even make a smoke round that hangs in the air just above the troops to bork drones.
I asked a similar question back in March
During the summer campaign we occasionally see the UKR force use smoke to cover their flank
But, there is no way you can find enough smoke ammunition to cover the operation from drones all the way beginning from assemble point to the jump out point then to contact point
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12 hours ago, Kinophile said:
@Chibot Mk IX, interesting quote.
There's an odd little note in there, namely:
A guide? To whom? Is he misreading something? Why on earth would anyone place flags in front of their lines? Doing so is dangerous, it highlights your lines (duh) and if you're UKR then you already know where your lines are and you certainly don't want to advertise to RUS.
Odd.
We don't know how far these yellow flags are from the trench. If there is some distance, let's say 50-100m, that could be used as a reference point for artillery fire, a waypoint for drone operators. If it is placed next to the trench, then probably that is a marker to indicate friendly position to some hothead FPV drone operators.
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And last.
Please improve the FOW by remove the detected enemy units' UI panel.
right now with as soon as you detect a riflemen, you will know if the contact is a HQ, a part of HMG team , an AT Gun position or a Javelin ATGM team. That is so unrealistic. I miss the way how CMx1 handle the unidentified infantry contacts
Or, I also miss the CMx1's tank misidentification .
Sound contact is also far better in CMx1. In CM2 a sound contact gives you a precious position.
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Can we separate the weapon recovery and first aid? Every German player should have experienced this. The squad that cover a vital crossroad lost the machine gunner Karl to a stray bullet. Karl is incapacitated. Now his comrades begin the first aid to Karl. In the next two minutes , since the MG firepower is gone the whole squad sit there helpless. And, as the first aid almost done, guess what, a spotting round landed nearby so the first aid stopped. That makes your blood boil and all you want to do is yelling at the screen "damn it! grab the MG42 and fire!". In this kind of frustration situation, I would rather to have the poor pixeltruppen Karl killed instantly. At least the MG42 can be recovered in less than 1 min.
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and I hope we can have a combat log that records : squad 1 receive fire at 24:52 got two casualties , squad 2 fire at unknow contact at 25:32.
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We have target and target light right now. For modern title , we need something as "target medium". Right now for the IFVs if issue target, then it will use ATGM (there is a trick to avoid this happen, but it is too complicate for a regular player to use ) target light, it will use the MG. So I hope a 3rd button will make IFV prioritize its autocannon.
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Regarding the recent news about the death of Chinese citizen Zhao Rui, who participated in the Russian Army, renowned pro-Russian war correspondent Lu Yuguang has compiled and published the following article based on accounts from Zhao Rui's teammates.
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QuoteAfter the death of Zhao Rui, a native of Chongqing, China, all of his documents – passport, ID, Russian military orders, enlistment certificates, Russian military ID, contracts, and more – were laid out in front of me. Additionally, there were his phone, translator, and other belongings.
Zhao Rui, male, born on July 20th, 1985, in Chongqing's Nanan District, at a certain address in Tanzishi Nong Street. Both his parents are retirees. He stood at 1.82 meters, slightly chubby, had a few girlfriends but at 38 years old, remained unmarried.
He was a free-spirited, solitary young man, loyal and righteous, the kind who was passionate about justice and belonged to the category of fiery-blooded youth.
From his ancestors, Zhao Rui had stories of fighting against the Japanese. He loved reading novels like 'Railway Guerrillas,' 'Burning Steel,' 'Plain Guerrillas,' all related to resisting the Japanese invasion. In school, he often narrated stories of anti-Japanese heroes from these books to his friends, treating them as if they were characters from 'Water Margin.'
After dropping out of school, Zhao Rui discovered a group similar to the anti-Japanese forces in the history in northern Myanmar jungle from an online source. Through introductions from a guide, he secretly went to northern Myanmar and joined the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army.
This militia truly resembled the 'Three Discipline, Eight Points of Attention' of the Eighth Route Army from the past.
Later on, Zhao Rui also recruited XiaoQiang from Kanchiang, Guangdong into his adventure team.
XiaoQiang: I met Zhao Rui in 2013; he was my comrade in the Allied forces. After returning to China, we went our separate ways but kept sporadic contact. Occasionally, we would boast about our exploits in our comrade group.
During the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Zhao Rui told me that Ukraine had recruited many individuals from Western countries, including Japanese soldiers with deep enmity towards us Chinese, and even troops from the Eight-Nation Alliance that invaded Beijing's Old Summer Palace! (well, he forgot Russia is also in Eight-Nation Alliance)
At that time, Zhao Rui was the administrator of the MNDAA group and noticed that Russia was starting to recruit volunteer corps from around the world. He had a sudden idea: 'Why not go to Russia and fight against the Japanese?' I thought he was joking, so I agreed.
But Zhao Rui was serious. He told me that he would depart two months later and needed to lose weight during that time.
I didn't know how to refuse; if I promised something, I had to follow through. I tried countless times to persuade my wife. Our daughter was only 3 years old, and my wife tearfully begged me not to go. But since I had promised Zhao Rui, I couldn't back out.
I told my wife, 'Give me this last bit of freedom, then I'll listen to you for the rest of our lives.'
I said, 'Zhao Rui and I will just be soldiers in Moscow; we won't go to the front lines.'
My wife and daughter shed countless tears, but they couldn't stop me.
After waiting for more than a month, our tourist visas for Moscow were approved. Zhao Rui asked me to take a plane to Chengdu and wait for him there. He would come from Chongqing to pick me up. We spent three days in Chengdu, during which he told me many stories about his family, like how his grandfather was an underground anti-Japanese worker. Suddenly, I understood his actions, thinking that even if comrades die on the battlefield, they should die gloriously!
We boarded the flight to Moscow! We arrived in Moscow in the early hours of the morning, took a car to the hotel, slept until daylight, visited Red Square for a day, and only the next day did we go to the recruitment station. After passing the medical examination, we directly took a car to the outskirts' Pioneer training camp. After half a month of training there, we were assigned to the 58th Army of the Southern Military District of Russia. After some time training in Rostov, we were sent to Belgorod to undergo 20 days of mandatory training under Wagner instructors.
Later, we were assigned to a certain battalion in a certain regiment of the 58th Army. Both Zhao Rui and I were privates.
This year, on November 11th, our company was sent to the front line for the first time, towards Novoprovoka in the Zaporizhia direction, very close to Labodino. On that day, over 40 foreign recruits, including us, entered a village and were surrounded by the locals. We hid in a house and fought for a week, unable to evacuate the wounded, feeling as if awaiting death.
After I was injured by a blast, only Zhao Rui and I, along with six Nepalese soldiers, remained. Several times, we heard Ukrainian tanks passing by the house, the sound of artillery booming.
On the sixth day, the supporting Russian troops finally arrived. We managed to retreat to the rear, where we rested for about a month.
On November 29th this year, we received another notice to head to the front line at Novoprovoka. Before departing, Zhao Rui called friends and arranged his affairs at home; we all knew this trip was very risky!
We took a bus from the camp to Tokmak city, then boarded an armored vehicle to enter Novoprovoka. We hid in the woods there, waiting for further orders.
Late autumn in Zaporizhia was very cold, frost forming on our hair, chilling winds penetrating.
Around six in the morning, over thirty of us boarded tracked armored personnel carriers. Zhao Rui and I sat on the first one; Zhao Rui was particular because he was from the city and the vehicle was dirty due to mud. We all sat on the flat surface above the tracks, with Zhao Rui sitting tall by the turret. He was 1.8 meters tall, like a wooden board sticking on the armored vehicle. The vehicle sped up, Zhao Rui let out a shout, a tree branch scratched his foot, causing a significant injury.
I loudly asked how badly he was hurt, suggesting he jump down and crawl back on his own. He didn't respond.
The battle quickly commenced. After the Russian artillery barrage, the Russian squad leader ordered an assault. As we fired and advanced, Zhao Rui, a few Nepalese soldiers, and I formed an assault team.
Following the tactics taught by the Wagner instructors, we alternately covered each other, advancing into the deepest Ukrainian trenches.
The Nepalese soldiers were scared; they just hid behind Zhao Rui and me. Zhao Rui, dragging his injured foot, turned back to yell at me, saying something about dying today. I scolded him, telling him not to talk nonsense and to find a place to hide while urging the Nepalese soldiers forward!
Once we entered the Ukrainian trenches, chaos ensued. The Nepalese soldiers' hands were trembling, their submachine guns firing continuously. They didn't hit any Ukrainian soldiers but took down their comrades!
After one of the Nepalese fell, convulsing on the ground and then lying still, the one who fired the shot turned pale with fear, mistakenly thinking I was coming to kill him!
After driving all Ukrainian forces out of the trench, we cleared the surface positions, and only eight of us remained.There was no counterattack from the Ukrainian forces; instead, they began using drones to drop bombs and wear us down. Drones flew like flies, buzzing around the positions, occasionally causing explosions, followed by cries of distress.
We searched for a hiding place in the anti-aircraft shelter, but the Russian squad leader was nowhere to be found.
Without a commander, everyone acted on their own!
By noon, with no sign of reinforcements, I started searching for Zhao Rui. Around 4 p.m., I saw him on the edge of the trench: Zhao Rui covered in blood, lying on his back, looking at the sky with bloodless face and open eyes.
In his lifetime, half-jokingly, he kept instructing me: if he died and his body couldn't be taken away, be sure to cut off his hair and bring it back to his parents for his soul to return home.
I didn't have scissors at the time, and I couldn't bring myself to tear his hair off. I took his passport from his coat and found his other belongings.
At that moment, a drone suddenly accelerated above me, a precursor to bombing. Before I could react, the small bomb had already exploded. I quickly ran to the other side of the trench; the second drone followed and dropped a larger bomb. My leg felt a burning sensation; I was injured, so I lay still on the ground, pretending to be dead.
Then, a third drone arrived, buzzing near my forehead, and soon, it flew away. In the dark evening on the Zaporozhye grassland, after a simple treatment of my wounds, I realized my face was covered in blood.
Shortly after, a slightly larger drone arrived, dropping a rocket into my anti-aircraft shelter. Smoke emerged, and my left eye corner was injured.
My face and thighs were covered in blood, and I felt quite panicked.
By nightfall, we were leaderless, with only seven Nepalese soldiers left. One of them approached me and asked in English if I could move.
I replied that my leg was injured, and I couldn't walk. These guys left me behind, disappearing from the trench, and soon after, I heard a series of explosions of landmines outside the trench.
It's unclear what kind of battle this was. The foreign legion had no commanders, no infantry tactics, no cover, no medical support, no communication tools, no backup ammunition, no support, and no coordination. Fortunately, the Ukrainian forces were in a similar situation. When we entered the trench, we saw an old man who threw away his gun and ran away. I picked up his gun without even disengaging the safety.
It was chaotic!
Both sides were clueless!
It was late at night, and the Ukrainian forces launched cluster rockets into the trench. These cluster bombs contained dozens of steel pellets in each warhead, causing delayed explosions, tearing through the air with a hissing sound.
I had to leave the trench immediately, which was now only occupied by me.
But where to go? I judged the direction of Ukrainian artillery fire by the bright explosions; the illuminated explosion sites should be the Russian positions.
The Ukrainian forces inserted many yellow flags in front of their positions, so I took a chance, assuming it was a guide rather than a minefield marker.
Nobody would be so foolish as to tell the enemy where the landmines were buried.
Crawling out of the minefield, I saw something shiny in front. I crawled over and found a crashed fighter jet with a person inside. Out of curiosity, I touched him with my hand, realizing he was a pilot, his hair and face frozen in ice, shining in the gunfire.
This was a maze of trenches and ravines crisscrossed by both armies, with shattered body parts and corpses strewn everywhere. Suddenly, a flare lit up, illuminating the earth brightly, followed by a barrage of bullets from about ten meters away.
Luckily, I had warm clothes on since southern people fear the cold. On that day, I wore five layers of clothing, including three inside my bulletproof vest.
I deliberately shouted loudly, lay down in the bomb crater, and pretended to be dead. Shortly after, a Ukrainian drone flew over, lighting up its headlamp, circling a few times, and then flew away.
Another round of gunfire came, and I was hit in the back, but I remained calm and didn't feel much. Later, I found that the bullets had only penetrated halfway into the bulletproof vest.
Seizing the opportunity, I quickly crawled toward another direction where the Ukrainian forces were shooting, finally reaching the Russian positions.
I crawled for more than a kilometer.
It took more than six hours in total.
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Additional notes from Lu Yuguang:
Tonight, I am staying overnight in a concealed tunnel in front of the command post of a Russian regiment in Novoazovsk, which belongs to the second defense line of the Surovikin.
Large snowflakes fall from the sky, illuminated by the glow of artillery fire.
In an instant, the fields and grass are covered in the white, fluffy snow.
Using the military network of the headquarters, I tried to send a message to Xiaoqiang, who is recovering in the Rostov Military Hospital: "Is it snowing in Rostov?" However, due to poor network conditions, the message never got through.
I showed the photo and belongings of Zhao Rui to the head of the Russian news department. In fact, we have become accustomed to all of this.
I know that the simple sky by the Jialing River, which belongs to Zhao Rui, must not have luxurious colors. There, by the river, are the familiar boatmen's tunes, the pure bright moon, and the person who can accompany him to tell anti-Japanese stories at night.
When the heart is calm, the world becomes calm, for Zhao Rui.
Zhao Rui's TikTok account: Emperor Qian Long.
The last update was on November 27, 2023, at 11:11.
Rest in peace, our fellow countryman Zhao Rui!
Our hearts will all remain in Donbas, whether it's for those bidding farewell or those who will leave this land in the future, because there are too many unforgettable memories.
Lu Yuguang wrote this on December 19, 2023, at 22:00, from the frontline camp in Novoazovsk, Zaporozhye.
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The remaining PzG Infantry put up a fierce resistance but it is fruitless.
and after another 15min of fight, German AI surrender
This mission has a bug on VP , hey I am not tactical defeat here
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On 1/27/2022 at 9:35 PM, Chibot Mk IX said:
So, here is the updated plan, I will delay the final attack for 20 more min. The 152mm and 76mm needs FO team, and there is only one FO team on the map. It takes 19min for 152mm to target Nashorns. As soon as the fire mission confirmed I will let FO team start the 76mm smoke mission. Hopefully 152mm barrage will kill some if not all the Nashorns. IS-2 will lead the attack. Hopefully they will absorb enough 75mm APC rounds before some lucky shots find IS-2's weak points on the armor plate. With gentle wind, 76mm and 82mm smoke should last 5-6 min. It is highly unlikely that I can make two T-34/85 tank co. cross the river in less than 5 min. I have to accept a long-range duel. Must win the first fire fight fast, then wait for the smoke disperse, win the round 2 fire fight.
Finally finished this mission.
The 152mm mission on Nashorns is disappointing. It only destroyed 2 Nashorns. The rest might be damaged because later they didn't react to my push very well. Only 1 T-34/85 lost to the long 88.
I twisted my original plan , now it combines both option 1 and option 2.
76mm field gun smoke block the center part. two 82mm mtr smoke mission, one is to block the forward defense PZ IVs and the other is to block the 4 x JPz IV's LOF.
So that my left wing and right wing can engage German right wing at the same time. (Smoke marked in red and LOF marked in yellow line). Meanwhile as soon as my right wing move from the covered jump out position they will also need to engage part of the German's left wing.
I made a mistake here. I underestimate the time need for the 76mm smoke screen to be formed (I forgot they have low LOF). So when the T-34/85 and SU-85s moved into the fire position, the center part of the Panzers' LOF is not blocked by smoke. fortunately for me, the workhorse Panzer IV is no longer able to keep pace with T-34, especially at >1000m long distances duel. The T-34/85 can survive 2-3 penetration. There is even one T-34/85 survived after 5 penetration. And one APHE hit PzIV, it is done. So I slowly gaining fire superior. Later, with mortar smoke screen disappeared, the five forward deployed Pz IVs were quickly destroyed by fire from three sides. The JPz IV caused some trouble, including one shot an IS-2 and a T-34/85. But they were destroyed or damaged in the following couple min.
Now with IS-2 in lead, I begin the river crossing.
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Finished mission 2
Assault into the town center turned into a very confusing close quarter battle
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No, that is a traditional Soviet approach to force allocation, concentration of combat power in a sector.
on map 10.5 cm leFH 18 and 122mm M30 howitzer
in Combat Mission Red Thunder
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I am reading two combat reports in 1944, one is 6th PzD's Panthers vs several howitzer units from 5th Army at Nemunas bridgehead on July 16th 1944. And another is 4th PzD vs 65th Army's artillery units.
I hope the Dev team can add the howitzers on the map in the future update, function as AT guns.