IICptMillerII

+1 to this. I would love to see some of the advice in this thread put to good use. I think it would help everyone to see it all play out in a PBEM. I would throw my name into the ring of possible contenders, but unfortunately Olek has seen fit to block me as he feels I have been too critical of him. 
Not only is Rinaldi a fine opponent, but he creates very well done written/video AARs. A battle between him and Olek would prove to be very educational, and would no doubt be well presented for everyone to see and understand. 

In reality it would be something like:

"Gunner, target ATGM, building"
"Identified"
"Fire!"
"On the waaaaaay!"

But you got the jist of it. Great screenshot too!

Uh-oh, your power levels are showing!

Ok, if you're going to post stuff, you should probably have a slight idea as to what it is you are posting. 
The United States has over 4,000 Abrams in its active inventory. The Russians have less than 1,000 operational T-90s. 
The meme of red hordes died a long time ago. Continuing to base all future conflicts on this assumption is both ignorant and embarrassingly wrong. 
The West, specifically the United States, has both a quantitative and qualitative advantage over the Russian military. This has been the case for decades now. 
Please, please let this terrible meme end. 

Uh-oh, your power levels are showing!

Hot damn this is exceptional bait. Hats off to you sir. I nearly chomped down, hook and all!
Alas, I am already quite full from taking the OPs bait. Maybe next time 

Ok, if you're going to post stuff, you should probably have a slight idea as to what it is you are posting. 
The United States has over 4,000 Abrams in its active inventory. The Russians have less than 1,000 operational T-90s. 
The meme of red hordes died a long time ago. Continuing to base all future conflicts on this assumption is both ignorant and embarrassingly wrong. 
The West, specifically the United States, has both a quantitative and qualitative advantage over the Russian military. This has been the case for decades now. 
Please, please let this terrible meme end. 

Ok, if you're going to post stuff, you should probably have a slight idea as to what it is you are posting. 
The United States has over 4,000 Abrams in its active inventory. The Russians have less than 1,000 operational T-90s. 
The meme of red hordes died a long time ago. Continuing to base all future conflicts on this assumption is both ignorant and embarrassingly wrong. 
The West, specifically the United States, has both a quantitative and qualitative advantage over the Russian military. This has been the case for decades now. 
Please, please let this terrible meme end. 

Ok, if you're going to post stuff, you should probably have a slight idea as to what it is you are posting. 
The United States has over 4,000 Abrams in its active inventory. The Russians have less than 1,000 operational T-90s. 
The meme of red hordes died a long time ago. Continuing to base all future conflicts on this assumption is both ignorant and embarrassingly wrong. 
The West, specifically the United States, has both a quantitative and qualitative advantage over the Russian military. This has been the case for decades now. 
Please, please let this terrible meme end. 

Ok, if you're going to post stuff, you should probably have a slight idea as to what it is you are posting. 
The United States has over 4,000 Abrams in its active inventory. The Russians have less than 1,000 operational T-90s. 
The meme of red hordes died a long time ago. Continuing to base all future conflicts on this assumption is both ignorant and embarrassingly wrong. 
The West, specifically the United States, has both a quantitative and qualitative advantage over the Russian military. This has been the case for decades now. 
Please, please let this terrible meme end. 

Ok, if you're going to post stuff, you should probably have a slight idea as to what it is you are posting. 
The United States has over 4,000 Abrams in its active inventory. The Russians have less than 1,000 operational T-90s. 
The meme of red hordes died a long time ago. Continuing to base all future conflicts on this assumption is both ignorant and embarrassingly wrong. 
The West, specifically the United States, has both a quantitative and qualitative advantage over the Russian military. This has been the case for decades now. 
Please, please let this terrible meme end. 

Ok, if you're going to post stuff, you should probably have a slight idea as to what it is you are posting. 
The United States has over 4,000 Abrams in its active inventory. The Russians have less than 1,000 operational T-90s. 
The meme of red hordes died a long time ago. Continuing to base all future conflicts on this assumption is both ignorant and embarrassingly wrong. 
The West, specifically the United States, has both a quantitative and qualitative advantage over the Russian military. This has been the case for decades now. 
Please, please let this terrible meme end. 

TIK is excellent. I originally found his channel from watching his lets plays of the old Close Combat videos. He has since moved on to making his own well researched historical documentaries on various battles and subjects. A lot of what he is working on now is all part of his research for a monster Stalingrad documentary. 
His channel really is fantastic. I find his content to be highly educational and well presented/researched. Would highly recommend checking out the posted video to this thread as well as the rest of his channel. Great stuff!

All of them 

No, he specifically states that Germany had always suffered from a lack of oil, and it was this critical lack of a fuel source that hamstrung them. He doesn't make broad generalizations about resources, only how a lack of available and accessible oil reserves severely limited Germany's ability to wage mechanized war, which is true. 
This is a contradiction. If his main goal was Ukraine, then why weren't all efforts devoted there? Why was it supposedly second on his list if it was his main concern? 
Unless you are disputing all the various sources that state the opposite, this is unfounded. Germany had a very limited reserve of fuel from the beginning. He goes through everything, showing why Germany could only support the small amount of mechanized divisions it had, and why many were trying to reduce that number even more. They had no fuel reserves in 41, nevermind 44. 
This is a gross over-generalization that isn't even true until post-Stalingrad.
No good deed goes unpunished. Believe what you wish, I'm washing my hands of this thread. 

Would there be any interest in this quick reskin I made? Noticed there was no reskin of the BMP-1 after getting sand colored reskins for both the T-72 and BMP-2. 
It's not the best quality (I'm rubbish with photoshop) and I may still make a few tweaks to it before I'm comfortable with a finished product. Just trying to gauge interest, and see if anyone has any pointers (technical ones, not just 'weather it') on how to improve it. 

This is US Army ammo expenditure, not the Marines. Also, it's important to note two things:
1) In every conflict since WWII, the amount of munitions used in short periods and the lethality/accuracy of those munitions have increased. Someone can chime in with the exact specifics, but during the Arc Light B-52 strikes on North Vietnam, such as Operation Rolling Thunder and the like, more bomb tonnage was dropped in those single operations than most of WWII. 
2) OIF was a very quick military operation, something like 3 weeks total, give or take. During that time, it was high tempo operations the entire time, during which any given combat formation was in contact with the enemy. This means that a lot of ammo was used in a short period against new targets. However, with the situation against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, you have a single firebase lobbing shells at roughly the same area, for months at a time. The shell expenditure is going to add up pretty quick. Further, if you figure that the fire missions are called in competently and then factor in US artillery response times (think CMBS, 4-6 minutes for fire for effect), then you can do more fire missions in a given day. And to add, if you are the battery that is always dropping on target fire missions with fast FFE times, everyone is going to want you as their primary fires battery. All of these things add up to more shells fired per day, which helps to explain the headline. 
And because this disclaimer is needed here: no, the US is not wantonly dumping unaimed fires at urban centers just for the hell of it. US artillery is not barrel bombs, in practice or in the theory of warfare in which they are applied. If this is your angle, just do us all a favor and say so, so we can ignore this for the drivel it is.

Quite literally, yes. Just go ahead and google "ISIS suicide bomb" and it should clarify nicely for you. If it doesn't then nothing else anyone here will say can help you.

Would there be any interest in this quick reskin I made? Noticed there was no reskin of the BMP-1 after getting sand colored reskins for both the T-72 and BMP-2. 
It's not the best quality (I'm rubbish with photoshop) and I may still make a few tweaks to it before I'm comfortable with a finished product. Just trying to gauge interest, and see if anyone has any pointers (technical ones, not just 'weather it') on how to improve it. 

No, he specifically states that Germany had always suffered from a lack of oil, and it was this critical lack of a fuel source that hamstrung them. He doesn't make broad generalizations about resources, only how a lack of available and accessible oil reserves severely limited Germany's ability to wage mechanized war, which is true. 
This is a contradiction. If his main goal was Ukraine, then why weren't all efforts devoted there? Why was it supposedly second on his list if it was his main concern? 
Unless you are disputing all the various sources that state the opposite, this is unfounded. Germany had a very limited reserve of fuel from the beginning. He goes through everything, showing why Germany could only support the small amount of mechanized divisions it had, and why many were trying to reduce that number even more. They had no fuel reserves in 41, nevermind 44. 
This is a gross over-generalization that isn't even true until post-Stalingrad.
No good deed goes unpunished. Believe what you wish, I'm washing my hands of this thread. 

@Kuderian @slysniper
 
If you watch this video and still think there is absolutely no problem, you're either high, delusional, or both. 
The fact is, there IS an issue, and Steve has already acknowledged it and said there will be a patch that addresses it. Again to reiterate what I've already said, I would like it if the patch was out sooner rather than later, but I'm not all butthurt that it hasn't been released yet. 

TIK is excellent. I originally found his channel from watching his lets plays of the old Close Combat videos. He has since moved on to making his own well researched historical documentaries on various battles and subjects. A lot of what he is working on now is all part of his research for a monster Stalingrad documentary. 
His channel really is fantastic. I find his content to be highly educational and well presented/researched. Would highly recommend checking out the posted video to this thread as well as the rest of his channel. Great stuff!

TIK is excellent. I originally found his channel from watching his lets plays of the old Close Combat videos. He has since moved on to making his own well researched historical documentaries on various battles and subjects. A lot of what he is working on now is all part of his research for a monster Stalingrad documentary. 
His channel really is fantastic. I find his content to be highly educational and well presented/researched. Would highly recommend checking out the posted video to this thread as well as the rest of his channel. Great stuff!

+1 to this. I would love to see some of the advice in this thread put to good use. I think it would help everyone to see it all play out in a PBEM. I would throw my name into the ring of possible contenders, but unfortunately Olek has seen fit to block me as he feels I have been too critical of him. 
Not only is Rinaldi a fine opponent, but he creates very well done written/video AARs. A battle between him and Olek would prove to be very educational, and would no doubt be well presented for everyone to see and understand.