Artkin

A LMTV is brand new, a lightly armored truck with a huge american diesel engine producing a little more horsepower. Not sure on either's torque figures but the lmtv is more orientated toward higher capacities. Even then Wikipedia rates the payload at 5000lbs but this is probably more of an issue of tires than truck. The 8x8 can handle more weight on the chassis per the tires, but not overall. I argue it likely has a much smaller payload than the lmtv.

With preorders currently being sold you can expect it rather than dream about itm

The dead numbers for Russians is already incredible. 50,000 is 1/4 (At least) of their initial invasion force. I bet most of these are located North and East of Kiev, Kharkov, and in the Donbass. Even WIA, these men are considered combat ineffective, which is a crazy percentage.

Sure but there is presumably a full crew + a squad of men inside + 14 men on top of the rear btr. These soldiers with a full combat load are probably anywhere from 200-300lbs each. The BTR is 11.5 tons, or about 25,000 lbs. Add 25 soldiers and that's an extra 5-7500 lbs of weight. For an armored APC (No armor would give a higher payload) with two 120hp engines, it seems like a lot.

Of course not. In my opinion the Donbass seemed more or less a stalemate since 2014. Considering it's been occupied for 8 years they probably have very good defensive positions, not even talking about fortified, but about just knowing the terrain.

Oh sorry about that. LPR and DRP both have pretty crap equipment compared to the RU army, thought they seem more experienced... they have lost the least amount of ground throughout the war. Then again that area of the conflict is probably the most dug in and fortified with building materials. The RU army rolled over defensive lines but defeated itself in doing so... Nothing new for the Russians at all.

Weak, unreliable? No. The Romanian MBT was pretty much a ww1 tank without anything larger than a MG to fight with. They were just hopelessly out-teched by the Russians, and could barely rely on their flanks. The Italians, and the Hungarians were in the exact same boat. Even better, the Romanians and Hungarians would rather fight each other than the Soviets. Fall Blau was a disaster from the beginning!

Before Haiduk even said anything I figured it was a full company. Before counting heads it looks like there are 1.3-1.5 squads on top of every btr. I immediately noticed how low the btr is to the ground, it's overloaded. I would absolutely assume the btr is loaded with troops, or with something very heavy at the least.

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I have also noticed a FPS hit when in the deployment stage, which immediately gets better when the go button is pressed. Not sure why your game dies so hard though. I lose maybe 5-10% fps in setup, nothing like what you are experiencing

I would definitely be interested in such trees!

Warts nailed it.

71 captured tanks is a lot. They probably rake the electronics on the turret with machine guns since they know it'll be theirs anyway

Wow CM could benefit so much by increasing the flavor object library size 10 times or so

Also something really important to consider with the spotting system is that foliage isn't as fleshed out as it should be. Untrimmed trees in real life have branches that hang lower. That is simulated in the game but it isn't on the screen to be visually represented. Watch the latest Free Whisky video and you'll know what I'm talking about.

Chapter one of The Russian Way Of War really bangs this over your head, the officers are too far and few. The Serdyukov reforms attempted to allieviate the stress on the officer corps if I'm not mistaken.

How can you justify this complaint? The BTR never actually saw the bmp right? Just radio contact? So you want them to shoot into nothing? Have you ever shot a gun? "Gunner load APFSDS! Fire into the walls, houses, bushes and the street!"

Please only reply to this topic if you think you've found a bug. Include a couple short sentences, a couple pictures, whatever. Make it easy for testers to see and keep track of everything. I will add bugs that I find directly to this thread, so if you are a tester please acknowledge these. Artkin #1: Pak 36r (76mm) AT gun is missing from specialist teams June 30 1944 in CMRT. Game version is 2.11

Either way this is a Combat Mission forum.

Don't forget about that little Su-100!!

It pays to be in the Guards

Not before the river Mius or Don

Yeah I'm really digging this. Do your trees have white ash on them? I feel like that would be seen more than ash in the dirt, unless you plan on placing it under wrecks only

I do wonder how many of us @WimO is using as test subjects... I'm playing two games of his against 4 other opponents! We have a 2v2 on Shanley and I'm against another on Shaul's run. Great scenarios to play in the provided format.

Indeed I did. Our scenario was approaching 150MB in size and I suspect that was the issue. It won't be resolved but I had shown it to the help desk, along with a couple other items like conscripts bogging armored cars too quickly