Chibot Mk IX

War, War never changes. I agree you on most of the part, but disagree with some part. When BMP-1 get into Soviets armed force service, it was designed to follow tank formation closely. However after Yom Kippur war Soviets realized their BMP-1 are very brittle on the battlefield. So they changed their doctrine. The BMP companies must keep distance with tanks companies , preferred distance is 500m-1000m. So Tank companies lead the way, BMP companies are in "on call" position, follow behind and ready to provide support. This doctrine will not only keep BMPs relatively safe in nuclear warfare with tactical nuclear weapons detonate everywhere, but will also keep them safe in a 70-80s conventional warfare. Yes, NATO has a lot of ATGM assets, but Heavy ATGM are issued to Battalion/Company level. Light ATGM M47 Dragon at platoon level may not be able to effectively stop MBT. Later the TOW 2 on M2 IFV increased a lot of firepower to the Mech inf platoon. But basically Soviet can concentrate their artillery, use their MBT to absorb enough damage, Mech infantry in an "on call" position to provide support, the whole formation keep moving. Javelin could change the whole situation, they are relatively light weight, relatively cheap, easy to change fire position, hard to detect. Issued to Squad/Platoon level so it has both the quality and quantity, and they are providing same punch as a heavy TOW 2 Glad the cold war didn't turn hot. And cold war ended before Javelin get into service. So we don't know what Soviets will do to adapt to this new threat (maybe their solution is very simple: use tactical nukes and chemicals). One thing is clear, if you try to reenact this Soviet doctrine in CMBS, you will get a lot of burning T-90s. Like you said , sending out infantry as screen is a solution, but this will cost speed, it is not fit into Soviet doctrine. For some of the NATO screen force at the border, forcing Warsaw Pact change into an assault formation can be considered as a victory, it will disrupt Soviets schedule and slow down the enemy. My point is, new high tech shining toys could force the opposite side to adapt a new tactics. Naval and Air operation are more sensitive to this. Land warfare is less sensitive. But charging a machine gun post in a Napoleonic era column formation is a bad idea. In modern day battlefield, mass your artillery in a Soviet WW2 style will make the enemy's counter battery mission a piece of cake. So, new weapon system/hardware has an impact on tactics my 2 cents

All hail the powerful 8.4kg HEAT warhead I am in a PBEM game , scenario "Galloping Horse Downfall". This is what happened last turn. American is retreating, I send a MTLB chasing after Javelin.... Incoming! A miss, but.... Ouch. Glad both two crewman survived , they can still charge enemy with AKS-74U. A Javelin team spotted 20 min before this happening, that location is marked with yellow arrow in the first pic. I dropped probably 30 rounds 120mm mortar shells air burst in that area. The blue arrow marks where this Javelin comes from. Either my opponent changed his position after he detected spotting rounds or he has another Javelin team there. Anyway, it is the time for another round of bombardment.

There are plenty of 7.62x54R in the 7 men Rifle squad. Ukraine's 7 men squad has 700rnd (1 PKM), Russian has 970rnd (1 PKP + 1 SVD). The 6 men squad could experience 7.62 ammo shortage much more often, Ukraine's 6 men squad has 300rnd, 420rnd in Russian squad. So make them grab 250 or 500rnd 7.62mm is highly recommended I usually do the same thing here. But recently I am rethinking this . In a PBEM game and when I expect to see enemy armor, I will constantly change my exposed infantry team's position every 30s or 45s. Light load will be helpful to my game play style. One thing puzzle me is, why the Russian/Ukraine's grenadier could not equips RPG-22/26? It looks like those who equips with GP-25 or GP-30 are screwed. They cannot equip with RPG, cannot pickup their fallen comrade's LMG. They only have 10 rounds UGL HE, and burning the ammo fast. BTR, MLTB and BMP don't carry 40mm VOG-25 HE. I hope BFC can add some 40mm HE to Russian/Ukraine AFV in next patch

I know, I just want to share my thoughts on this, maybe it should be labeled as "Requested Features and Ideas" . Hopefully the development team will consider this when they work on next modern conflict game

I haven't update my SF1 to SF2. But I don't like the idea of remove Syrian Air Assets. Penny wise and pound-foolish. It is going to be a blow to people who love to play Syrian civil war scenarios. Modern air battles happen in a very large area. Early warning to detect threat at 500km away. BVR Air to Air missiles and long range SAMs shoot at target 100km away, CAS aircraft drop JDAM 8000 ft above. This is way beyond CM Map's scale. So why not make off map Air-Defense assets available? I had this idea when I was playing CMBS. Maybe BFC can add an option called "CAP/Area denial" to both sides just like the EW Strength concept in CMBS. This is to simulate something like a F-22 shooting two AIM-120C at your poor Su-25, or a S-400 Battery released several SAM 100km away. When "CAP/Area denial" setting is at high level, there is high possibility the opposite side's Aircraft will get shoot down, or cancel their current task, or be driven off from their current station area (become temporarily unavailable)

Looking for some tips from other Russian player. How to operate your IFV/APC safely , transport and disembark , and provide fire support? For the fire support part I can think about one. Find some place that do not have LOS with front line. Park at the space behind the building , or behind reverse slope. Then move out of the cover at a full speed , stop at a point with LOS to front line, pause 10-15 seconds and do Area Fire, then reverse back. In WeGo game this requires a combination of different commands. But you need to do extra work to make sure they survive under the threat of Javelin

One tip is to assign other personal in the same group as ammo bearer Note: Make sure it is the guy from the same group! like the pic below. From a infantry squad that is in the same platoon with the Javelin team, I split a two man scout team. They grab a Javelin missile from the supply truck, then move to 1 or 2 grid (8-16m) away from the Javelin. Now they can share their ammo. Javelin team has only one missile in their inventory, but Ammo section tells you there are 2 available

too bad I forgot to save that turn's replay, but I have the save file before and after Before After Javelin left a huge crater, caused 3 casualties to the personal in that BTR-80A

Taiwan is a hot spot but I don't think it fits CM very well. It is going to be melody composed by Radars, EW , surface warship, submarine , aircraft and missiles. War is over before US and China land force clash. Taiwan scenario fits into naval war game like CMANO. Maybe we should set the stage at Central Asia , just like Command & Conquer: Generals, US vs China vs GLA.... and we can add Russia into this.

no, I mean 105mm. In scenario "Hold the line" US paratroops has the support from M119A3 105mm, I saw 2-3 rounds close miss at a BTR-80A, but only cause slightly damage on the wheel

I agree, but on the other hand the Javelin's warhead weight is 8.4kg, Milan's warhead weight is 2.7kg. Yesterday in one of my CMBS game, I noticed that a BTR was knocked out by close missed Javelin. The same vehicle could survive a close missed 105mm HE.

I could have a wrong impression but I think it is not this one. Anyway, thank you for sharing this video.

Sorry, a lot of questions here. Most of them are related to CM’s coverage on Technology part. I did a quick search on the forum but could not find any discussion 1, The first question is an observation of the game from my limit experience. I noticed that in the game the American's Artillery PGM is relatively inaccurate compare to Russian/Ukraine's. My guess is M982 Excalibur and XM395 are built with GPS guide system (CEP 5m-10m) while the Russian and Ukraine one are Laser Guide (CEP 0.5m-1m), so there is an accuracy difference in the game and it is caused by different guidance system. Is this correct? 2, Then the next question is , in the game is there any Russian or Ukraine UAV has laser designator system that could support their Laser guide Artillery PGM? US side their UAV can definitely support Artillery PGM strike as the guidance is done by GPS. 3, Question number three is, does EW warfare strength have an impact on GPS guide PGM? In other word, does EW include GPS jamming? 4, Question number four: Does EW strength have an impact on ground radar, like searching/fire control radar on Tunguska? I have a great respect on Tunguska’s radar. In one of my game it picked up the RQ-11B as soon as it arrives, shoot it down with one bust of AA gun fire. Just wondering if my UAV could survive longer in a heavy EW environment. 5, Then the last question: Does CM simulate the Thermal Inversion at dawn and dusk (the rapid change of background heat should have a negative impact on the thermal imager/IR optics)?

I have a different thought on this In a PBEM game an AT-14 could be a better choice for "hit and run" tactics. If your ATGM team fired one or two shots in the pervious turn, then at the beginning of the next turn it is very likely to subject concentrated area fire from another human player. AT-13 has a pack up time of 20s, AT-14's pack up time is 0. That means if you give a withdraw command, the AT-14 team will be able to running away immediately, the AT-13 won't leave until 20s later, by that time AT-13 team might have been cut down by 25mm/30mm HE

Good Luck to that Not saying it is not a good idea. But as Chinese military is experiencing a radical reform, all I can do is to wish BFC good luck when they study the PLA's OOB.

Thanks everyone, good to know I remember there was a video clip of US SOF and SDF try to intercept an incoming ISIS VBIED, 3 Milan launches failed as missiles out of control and dropped to the ground, then American has to use the Javelin to destroy that VBIED

I noticed that sometime the lunched ATGM missile will drop on the ground 2 to 3 seconds after the missile left the tube. This happens on wired guide ATGM like AT-4 and AT-7. At first I thought it is to simulate low experience operator. But latter I found out that even Veteran/Crack ATGM group could experience this problem. So is it simulate the malfunction of ATGM? or simulate the missile is out of control because wire entangled with trees? What is chance this will happen? (My limit game experience give me a number of 20%) Thx

Thank you for sharing this!

CptMiller, so you gave an order combination of 1, move forward. 2, Target area. 3, pause 20s. 4, reverse？ Well, if you want to ask BMP fire ATGM, you cannot give another movement order after the fire order at the last action point. so you have to delete step 4. Looks like this is hard coded in CMSF. I guess you can first give a 30s or 40s pause to the vehicle, then fast to the fire position, target the control tower. Hopefully, they can reach the position , finish aim and fire the missile before the turn ends. And in the next turn cycle, you can give a pause then reverse command combo, to let the gunner finish the guide. But anyway, Javelin will rain down on your poor BMPs Good Hunting

because everyone loves German car? lol

https://www.bilibili.com/video/av25520917 https://www.bilibili.com/video/av25590985/ a Pz IV F2?

T-26, T-34/76, and maybe a dozen of BT-7

Wow, take my money please! It brings back my memory of those days playing CMBB. “Once a king” was one my favorite scenario, herding a mixed group of Heer, SS and Volkssturm to escape the doomed Reich By the description I guess the new Mod will cover the period from Vistlua-Oder Offensive (Jan 1945) to Battle of Berlin (May 1945). And from the description the new Mod will focus on Army Group North and Army Group Center? It’s pity that Polish People's Army is not included in new units. Will it cover the Army Group Courland? Will it expand to south a little bit, so that we can experience the battle of Budapest and Operation Frühlingserwachen? Maybe we can find Hungarian, Romanian and even Yugoslavian in the game? OK, I guess I have asked too much. Battlefront, thank you for sharing this good news, can’t wait for this MOD.

I cannot find if there is any restriction on weapon reclaim from manual, below are my observation in 3.0 engine Not sure they are correct, please correct me if I am wrong 1) A riflemen (bolt-action rifle) will reclaim the LMG and MP44, he cannot reclaim SMG, Semi-Auto rifle 2) A SMG gunner will reclaim the rifle (both bolt-action and semi-auto) and LMG 3) A LMG gunner will reclaim the SMG 4) Tank crew will reclaim rifle/SMG/LMG 5) Anti Tank Rifle (ATR) cannot be reclaimed by anybody 6) Only the other member in the same HMG team can reclaim the HMG 7) Only the engineer or personal in engineer squad can reclaim Demo Charges

Yes, please! Release CMSF 2 ASAP, before WW 3 breaks out and nuclear warheads are flying high in the sky!