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Yes, that is correct and no one is denying that. - You will not get the desired effect that way of course, so nobody teaches that. And if there is wild spraying that is normally a good indication of the lack of training or experience or leadership level for that individual or unit. There is a term called fire-dicipline that involves a whole range of stuff from rate of fire to target indication and fire commands that is supposed to be adhered to and it is in well trained and led units. This is primarily a leader responsibility. There is however a proper way of firing at an enemy of unknown exact location, but its not wasting ammunition or wild. This is often applied in the initial contact with an enemy and here automatic fire is irreplacable! - If your up against an enemy with belt fed machine guns you can not win fire superiority with just semi-automatics! This is the way it is modelled in Combat Mission as well and I find that quite realistic.

I disagree on this being the point of the article. See my 2. point - Seems more like the guy is selling something to me. - I agree that full-auto fire will not ensure success in suppressing, but it has a hell of a lot better chance of being successfull in a COMBAT situation than using so called "well aimed single shots". The reason being, - And this is documented by every soldier that has ever been in a fire-fight at some range, that the enemy is INVISIBLE and when he is spotted he will be visible for a fraction of a second or at best, a couple of seconds. - This is the reality of infantry combat. And with this lies the main problem with the idea that single shots or magazine fed rifles can win fire superiority. - Its that of observing the enemy. Try finding a combat film from Afghanistan, Syria or Iraq were the enemy is observed on the camera or the grunts reports accurate targeting commands. - You will find very few of that kind. - Snipers have been mentioned by Steve to have an enourmous impact on suppression and I there is no disagreeing to that. - But snipers operate in a different way than the regular grunts. - They are a lot more flexible in their deployment and will lie in wait for the right target to show up and then fire at an officer or other key person to have a disproportional effect on suppression and morale. Here comes the surprise and shock effect to full play as the writer mentions briefly as kind of a site note in the beginning of the article.

That article do have some holes and doesnt really hold to any kind of scrutiny JSj. 1. I find it very strange if ONE UK study finds a truth that has escaped all modern armies on the deployment and use of LMGs since their adoption. 2. I ask myself what is the AIM of the article? - First a "problem" is presented. This is the need for, and lack of ability to train suppression. After this the writer presents the solution to the "problem". The solution is a new "gadget" made by some company. - I get a real commercial feeling from this. 3. The criticism of the Minimi LMG for not being able to suppress effectively because of poor accuracy is probably right, but this is a really weak argument that doesnt stand up to scrutiny because this LMG in particular has an enourmous spread built into it, compared to almost any other LMG. - With a minimi its very hard to get anything better than a 50cm group for a 5-8 rnd burst on 300m. - This being on a peacefull shootingrange. - To draw the massive conclution that belt fed LMGs and automatic fires does less supression than single shot or magazin fed semi-automatics on the basis of testing just 1 weapon is ridicullous. It seems the UK army might be unhappy with the precision of their relatively new LMG, but this doesnt mean all LMGs are created equal. - It means they should have done some more testing before buying. Another point - What was the trainining standards of the shooters, were there differences in the training of the LMG vs the SA-80 shooters? were there differences in conditions? Wheather, time of day etc? - None of this is mentioned.

Thanks Mord, got all of these Dl'ed and they are a great timesaver. - I think these blanks makes skin modding a lot more accessible to new guys. Or even better would be community available .PSD layered files for skinning like those aircraft simulator guys use to make new skins easily.

Finally we start seeing mods being made with the use of Sbbobovyc's excellent tools! Thanks for the preview BTR.

Amazing! Thanks for a great job on the tools and tutorials!

Cool if this is helping you out Kohlenklau

That would be great WaR! - I think there are more Fallschirmjager units than Luftwaffe ground troops in the game. At least I recon its more popular to play with paratroopers:)

Nice work on the ranks, I just wish you would correct the colour on the Fallschirmjager collar tabs as well. The tabs were color coded to branch. - Comparable to the Wehrmacht piping colors. - Battlefront got it wrong with the green color for Fallschirmjagers - Green tabs is for Felddivision troops. - Now did any of them fight in the Ardennes ? - Fallschirmjagers were designated Fliegende truppe and should be wearing yellow tabs. A bonus is that Yellow tabs would stand out with a nice contrast in the UI:)

Could probably do some up, - What style do you like for portraits? - Photoreal or drawings?

I dont know how well skilled you are with Photoshop, - This is a quick version - please ask for more detail if you want/need. I selected the green colour , put a layer mask on that. Then same for the brown patches. - Used several ways of selecting to just get the right patches selected. Then I copied the texture layer and made the copy layer black and white. Selected the masked colour layers sequencially and used a brightness and contrast adjustment layer on each on the B&W LAYER untill it matched up closely with the greyscale shade of the Dark Yellow areas. Put colour layer of the base Dark Yellow on top to cover the former Green and Brown. Fixed light and dark patches in the greyscale that was showing up in the colour layer (Left by improper masking) by dodging and burning. - Also used highpass filter on the B&W texture on low setting once to sharpen it up.

After a whole lot of trying this is what I ended up with on the Sdkfz 234-3 : Can still see a couple of streaks from the original camo. - That could be dealt with by working some more on it. Most importantly the shadows of the original skin is intact.

Thanks for your continued effort on making this Sbobovyc! - A lot of good stuff will surely come out of your scripts! Combat Mission modding future seems bright!

Thanks for a very quick answer! I will test out those techniques.

Hi! I'm trying to do some skinning and I would like to start off with a single colour base coat on the skin. The problem is that the skins I want to modify have camo already applied. - I am struggling to remove this without loosing too much of the original texture detail of the original skin. - Been trying some different methods in PS: Select by colour, High pass filter, but I would like to get some more tips from experienced modders/PS user on this. How do you deal with this?

Thank you so much for this ! That T-90AM is just beautifull!