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If this is possible, this could be a good chance of CMBS education and share PBEM experience. Is this available? Of course for 1 min turn based. I was thinking of using QB against AI as following: Player A command phase -> replay phase -> send save file to player B (before push red button, at 'Done' moment) -> Player B command phase -> replay phase -> send save file to A (before push red button, at 'Done' moment) .... A and B will command different company or platoons. Something like this. I made this idea from old post about the possibility of 2:2 PBEM game, which play like (Blufor A -> send to Redfor A -> send to Blufor B -> send to Redfor B ....) Is the 2 vs AI idea feasible?

Honestly, I didn't know. Is this true? I never read things like that in manual (maybe I missed). Is that means I can share this copy with only one person?

CC:GC (Close Combat: Gateway to Caen) was under sale recently, costed only 10$ for a week in the humblebundle. It is over now. (I never mean like 'CMBS should follow' or something like that) I really wish a discount event of CMBS or summer sale or anything like that, but that policy purely depends on BFC's thinking, and I respect their decision. Some of my friends are really really waiting for sales of CMBS. They are serious RTS fans but they are all college students or graduate students, and 55$ is not a cheap price for us. I really want to play this fantastic game with those dudes, but for now, they are just watching my play. Sad

I read and searched for those game types, but couldn't find enough detail. It just says like "It will going to decide possible maps and attacker/defender purchase points" "Assault weighs more for VP holding, than kill points" "Attack/defense and Probe are somewhere between Assault and ME" But I hope to know more details. What are the 'Probe' and 'Assault' games? For example, how these game proceed, and what are the difference/similarity from ME game and attack/defense game? What is the victory conditions for Probe and Assault games? Are there many PBEM games with probe/assault mode? Thanks Best,

Great thanks Kieme.

Great vid Reiter, That was one really intense battle.

I have a question about leadership. Does the leadership of HQ squad affects to all other soldiers? I mean 'leadership' of Battalion HQ, Company HQ, or Platoon HQ. For example, if the Battalion HQ squad have +2 leadership, is this bonus affects all battalion members? Or only to his HQ squad members? Same question with Company / Platoon HQ. Also, if the leader / commander KIA during battle in those HQ squad, who took over the command, and how the leadership changes? Thanks

I forgot to mention that I'm using laptop. Some laptops equipped with dual graphic system (intel internal + external) which makes all those problems with recording softwares. I think shadowplay is not ready for laptop, but I understand that because it is still beta.

If this post is more proper in tech section, then please move my post to there. 1) Record I had hard time to find a proper software to record DirectX/OpenGL game. All other programs, like OBS or Shadowplay, had problem with this. It was impossible to record properly CMBS. ( In OBS, you can use the window mode to record, but quality decreases) Finally, I found "loilo game recorder" It is free, it is not a heavy program, and it works nicely with CMBS. For me, degree of FPS decreasing during recording was not severe, just small numbers. This is my current record program. One drawback is, to record cursor, you need to use window mode. I didn't tried but I guess loilo will make some quality decrease in window mode, like other softwares do. So, I'm not recording the cursor in my video. 2) Encoding I'm using lightworks free version. There are some limitations in free version, but only for encoding to upload in youtube, free version works enough. (though the free version's maximum youtube quality is 720p). There are lots of great videos in youtube if you search "lightworks tutorial". Like https://youtu.be/ZUMylx7lCa0?list=PLhaLh8Y1rcya1tgPS_i2zxbaBiHkbaf3m and https://youtu.be/7znIHsyqfm0. I shared this information, because I want to watch more CMBS videos. With these programs, recording and encoding are not a terribly difficult task. (though it costs some time). AAR with pics and explanations is also excellent way of sharing CMBS experience, but I think good one video would be better way. Cool, fancy CMBS walkthrough/battle video with epic music (like Hans Zimmer music or russian army choir musics XD) will be awesome, and that could be the great way to share/advertise this game, and bring more new CMBS players.

Thanks for the report. Can I have a source?

That makes sense. Defenders usually have more time for preparation, so set up TRPs and mines could be justified.

Ok, so, it is purely depend on gamers. Thanks I agree, I think both "no preplanned" and "no deployzone bombardment" should be there for ME game. For attack/defense game, I think attacker maybe allowed to do both or only one of them, but not for defender.

What I know is 'No preplanned arty/air' and 'No deploy/spawn zone bombardment' Are there anything I need to know? How do you guys set electronic warfare? Always no for both side? Thanks

It is really rare. I reload the save file, but the same happening never occurred again!! Maybe I spend too much luck for my CMBS life? XD I agree, but yes, this was really cool! The T-90AM just aimed at HMMWV, and didn't even knew the what was behind the building(not even yellow icon). I think the crews of that T-90AM would be very surprised also.

Hello all 1) What are the advantages of fixed-wing CAS when compare to helicopter supports? (Or, in what situation the airplane CAS is better than chopper CAS?) I mean, airplanes in the CMBS have less amount of ATGMs, and cannot call the CAS to anywhere unless there is a direct LOS from Air controller sections (unlike choppers can be called anywhere without direct LOS). Airplanes have HE bombs, however, but their effectiveness are not 100% guaranteed - it can be missed. In addition, though someone claimed that the airplanes are more likely to evade the surf-to-air threats than choppers do, to me, they are also vulnerable against the SAMs or AAAs as same as rot-wings. Stinger AA or Igla, Tungu... are very dangerous even for airplanes. Airplane's cost is also not that cheaper than helicopters. In US, F-16CJ AT costs very close in QB points with Apaches, while the F-16CJ AT have only 4 ATGM (Apache Guardian AT has 16 ATGMs). In Rus, Su-34 and Su-24M2's cost level is similar with KA-52 or Havoc's ones. What is the real good point of F-16 CJ AT, Su-34 and Su-24M2 over Apache, KA52 or Havoc? Also, when should I need to choose F-15 or F-16 instead of Apache, or Su-25s over KA-52 or Havoc? I couldn't find any good reason why should I need to use the airplane CAS, instead of high tier gunships. 2) What is the differences between helicopter? In Rus, KA-52 is a bit expensive than Mi-28N Havoc, though the Mi-28N have more number of ATGMs, and 122mm HE rockets (IMO much more useful than 80mm rockets) What justifies this 'little expensive cost' of KA-52 when compare to Havoc? Survivability? or ability to find / detect the enemy vehicles? Same with Apaches. Guardians are slightly expensive than Longbows. Is this just because of more number of hellfire ATGMs in Guardian? Or because of other in-game issues? Thanks Best,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-tEen7xKUk 2 min vid with English subtitles. Very, very lucky shot from T-90AM. Svinets penetrated Humvee, a building, and the side of M1A2 SEP v2 behind the wall. (Does the in-game T-90AM use Svinets-2? or Svinets-1?) Anything can happen on the battlefield, specially when it is inside the forest of buildings.

Hello Vin, I'm using your easy vis UI mode, and I found that some of the portraits for soldiers are changed to vehicle crew portrait. I checked that the Russian infantry have crew portrait. Not sure about US and UA. Could you check this?

My Quote is not working :/ anyway "Because both you and the guy in the article were "just repeating what you thought the guy was saying" and "it's not like it's your own mf thought in the matter". "2300 Armata tanks" is a legendary statement by now, and it's wrong from the beginning, because it's a giant misunderstanding. The actual plan for ГПВ-2020 was to get 2300 new armored vehicles. That includes BTR-82A, upgraded T-72B3s, and even upgraded BTR-80->BTR-82AM." Ok, now I know that the 2300 new vehicle mention was wrong, but still, that single statement cannot harm the credibility of the author's point on Russian economy. "From what I've seen so far, people who scream "OMG Russian economy is crumbling!", just want to "see the bad guys fail" (a widespread psychological desire), and don't really want to look at the actual facts and numbers, which is imperative for doing an actual economical analysis." Because their "so called scream" is so true and they are real, and economy is very related with defense spending. And I checked all numbers and facts from the references from original 'thediplomat' link. I think their analysis was proper and good. How do you just regard them as jsut scream? Because they are Western journals and Western news papers? OK. I feel like I'm talking to the wall, so I will stop this posting. It seems you don't want to accept and ignore all the evidences which works against Russian economy, and I feel tired of this. "You don't know Russian, do you? I've read both the original report and CAST's statement about Putin's acceptance. It's nothing more than a PR attempt. The outcome of the Sochi meeting about procurement did fall in line with their report's suggestion and they did not want to miss such PR opportunity to come out and say, and I quote, "Therefore, we can state that Russian higher authorities have practically listened to our recommendations". Practically. They are commercial organization. Saying that Putin himself agrees with their suggestions/reports is a PR move. Doesn't mean their report is wrong, no, I do agree with it very much. Especially the part about plane and heli procurement." I'm very poor at Russian so I rely on google translation, so maybe I'm wrong and I understand poorly. But I think CAST did some really good analysis. Maybe it is a coincidence that the CAST opinion works, but who knows?

Not sure why you're doing this, just you don't want to believe the Russian economic breakdown? Whatever you think or try, it is fact that financial future of Russia is not nice. CAST is Moscow-based think tank group, consist of various experts. I don't really understand why you are blaming most well known Russian think-tank group, but they tried to reform the RuAF. Putin accepted their 'opinion' during Sochi forum. Sorry for Rus navy, but Russia just can't afford all of the plans.

http://thediplomat.com/2015/05/is-the-worlds-deadliest-tank-bankrupting-russia/ Gloomy forecast about Armata and Russian economy. The writer thinks that this "tactical weapon" might be a "strategical disaster" to Russian armed forces and Russian economy. I think the author is too pessimistic in some sense, but generally his points are valid and important, and references are well provided. I also think Putin and Russia will be on the crossroad very soon. What I know is, CAST already suggested several important points to Putin, and he accepted. http://vpk.name/news/132125_putin_uchel_rekomendacii_centra_ast.html IMO, clearly, Russians know that their financial future is quite disappointing, and try to do something. But I really, really think that they need to solve corruption problem and brain drain problem, otherwise there will be no chance to recover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XKbn27moLs My first CMBS recording try.

This question might be ok in tech question. I tried to make my recording of CMBS with OBS and Shadowplay, but all failed. I'm using GTX765M laptop, with Window8 64bit. Shadowplay was pretty obvious to fail, since it does not support for laptops to 'desktop capture', and Window 8 does not support Aero theme option. :/ For OBS, I don't know why. I think my settings were proper, but whenever I started the recording or preview, the game crashes. Is there any other good free and light recording program for laptop gaming? Or if anyone succeed to record CMBS with OBS in laptop GPU, how did you do that? Thanks

I'm using laptop with GTX 765M, with most 350.12 driver version. But this damn shadowplay never works for my CMBS. Desktop Recording is disabled, and no recording was done. Do you have any idea about this? Also, which program is good for recording other than shadowplay?

I'm not sure US / UA / RUS army use tracer rounds in real combat or not in real world. But, in-game, are there any mods to differentiate their colors? As far as I know, NATO use red, and OPFOR use green. Also, is there any mod for stormy weather with lightning effect + sound? I'm not sure how the real weather during the summer of Ukraine, but it is just for fun Lightning doesn't need to be directly depicted. Rather, just 0.01 sec of increased brightness to all map and object would be enough IMO. We already have downpour rain condition, I think just add lightning effect and sound with heavy wind sound would be enough. Is there any? Thanks

Double Kill!! In other angle It was in the downpour rainy night. That lucky shell penetrated the side hull of T-90AM and BMP-2.