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Personal preference. But I would say CMFI, CMFB are the weakest titles. If I was you I would buy the titles with the most scenarios/maps made for it.

I agree his explosions look spectacular.

You can always better your graphics card since the slot they insert into never changed. You have a 6800? That is from a long time ago when AMD was at their peak. Now we've seen them crash and come back to life again. It's been that long. Ive had the i5 2500k processor as you too. Its fantastic. I recommend you overclock it to 4.7 ghz at least. You can do that in bios. That chip was able to run CM almost as fast as the i5 9600k I replaced it with. The only way you will get more processing speed in CM is to replace your motherboard and processor altogether. Theoretically you can upgrade to an i7 2700k because they share the same socket they insert into (LGA 1155). You wouldnt benefit much from this setup though. I recommend buying a new processor with the highest single core performance. My go-to website for processor and graphics performance is: cpubenchmark.net If you dont want to spend the cash I dont blame you. If your computer has a good cooler on your processor then feel free to overclock it. The i5 2500k loves it. Just keep it cool.

Sorry @JM Stuff when you install Reshade you are given options of what to install. I just pressed install default. When you have Reshade set up correctly then you will be able to press the "Home" key while you are playing CMRT (for instance). This will open up a list of effects that you can choose which will instantly affect your screen. All of the effects I previously mentioned are included in that list. @HerrTom is good with Reshade and has his own preset that he made available to the public, but I was unable to get his configuration file to work with my version of Reshade.

I had the same thoughts. I saw the men on the ladder working, and then I saw the support beam attached to the power line. I can see the pole surviving since it has minimal surface area and good aerodynamics. But that house probably wasn't affected much. It can't be easy to fix brick that's been shifted by a pressure wave.

No I wasn't but yeah I've played enough pbem to know when something's in poor taste like that. The QB maps all have fire support plans like right next to your spawn. On the smaller maps (Which is most QB maps) these zones can be close enough to cause casualties on turn 1

I'm surprised that flimsy house held together with such a massive crater next to it. Maybe the earth under the road was just very soft? You usually get results exactly like this in CM, and it surprises me. I would have expected that house to be flattened. It actually looks mostly brick. I bet an American suburb style construction would be damaged structurally.

Yeah I never saw this as a fun part of quick battles. Thats why I always set my artillery as 5 minute reinforcements in the editor. You can set artillery as 5 min reinforcement in QB's too

Operator Starsky (Ukrainian soldier) at Hostomel: An-225 has another aircraft's stabilizer lodged in its wing Ka-52 rotor blades are made of layers of fabric (Higher tensile than metal?) Russian military PCB (Presumed from helicopters) made in China https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aEug0yY2mBE

@JM StuffI havent explored reshade much. But I will always use AMD Fidelity in the options. It sharpens everything very noticably, and makes the vehicle textures "pop"/come to life. I also use CSAA(?), FXAA, SMAA. I have no clue what I'm doing with those. I dont see an improvement with them as much as the AMD effect.

AAMRAM is due to be phased out anyway. They could potentially get long range versions

I didn't know they would be able to lock onto something other than a vehicle. I fiddled around with a flat range test and saw no difference with extreme heat. My accuracy on that range was also significantly better than @ALBY's in battle. I even added HMG gunners and made them suppress the GILL gunners with no difference. Not sure what happened with our pbem then.

I'm playing a pbem right now where it's missed my vehicles at least twice. We are playing on conscript but it's a fire and forget weapon. It should have killed my vehicles right? The ATGM is in the Netherlands TOE

What's the backstory with Belarus though? No amnesty for them? Do they have historical issues with their neighbors? I don't know

Wasn't Lukashenko afraid of being integrated back into Russia? Why does he think helping them will prevent that?

Sorry to say this but the MP needs to be redone.

Trying to reply to peoples posts on mobile is cancer. Anyway, I havent heard anything about Belarus being gone after. They launched 20 missiles from their territory? I'm about to phone my local politician.

I agree. The AI doesn't have feelings. Blow them the **** up!

In contrast I saw something saying Ukrainian pilots are starting to get trained on F-15 and F-16. I find the former a little hard to believe but the latter, sure. Edit: also from that article "— In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 206 aircraft, 132 helicopters, 1,241 unmanned aerial vehicles, 343 anti—aircraft missile systems, 3,613 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 547 multiple rocket launcher combat vehicles, 2,032 field artillery and mortar guns, as well as 3,687 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed, - Igor listed Konashenkov" 3,613 tanks. Poor Ukraine. they've lost all their tanks, Poland's, England's France's, even Germany's. And now they're dipping into our stocks. Also The Military Balance 2020 says Ukraine had 348 MRLS. Military Balance 2021 says 354. Neither mentioned anything about reserves, which they normally will.

But Switchblade 600 has a 40 km range and is large enough to destroy a vehicle. I can't see this tech being too difficult to replicate and produce. Airplane wing design is based on all sorts of pre-made configurations. And gliders have been a strictly civilian thing too. Drones clearly take design features from gliders like the large aspect ratio wings. Being unable to penetrate the AD barrier is something else, but if you can waste a drone on an AA missile that seems like a victory to me. The drones can't be too complicated to produce. And in a wartime economy you can produce these things on the cheap, so long as you aren't importing pcb from China. @dan/california@Letter from PragueLooks like it actually struck two support trucks.

I thought I originally wrote that but maybe not. That's my thought. It hit the launcher (which was now empty) and destroyed it.

When will we see drones dedicated to SEAD? Why send a pilot when you can have a drone do it. The Bayraktar's are nice and all but how many have been shot down? Their efficiency seemed great early in the war, but now things have seemingly slowed down. I could be totally wrong. Maybe this is what that 600 kamakazi drone was designed for.

Thanks! @dan/california@Huba@Haiduk I thought it was something guided, because it looked like it locked onto the launcher. MRLS being GPS or laser guided wouldn't produce that type of failure. @Huba I thought it hit the launcher because there were some minor secondaries. The Buk only carries 4 missiles and 4 were fired. I think it's reasonable to assume it got hit. Thoughts? In my opinion it makes sense to drop 4 missiles on trying to get a plane kill, Russia has plenty of launchers and they only have a couple small jobs. Especially the longer range equipment like the buk. I didn't know that it could intercept tochka's but that would definitely be one of my primary focuses right now as the Russian AD commander. The Buk is only 40 something years old, so that is pretty wild. Maybe it had something to do with a heavy EW environment? I don't think I would consider the Buk system to be the forefront of Russian AA tech, and maybe they didn't anticipate how it would perform in 2022. @Haiduk I don't see what post you are talking about, I apologize.

Holy crap I've never seen anything like that ever before. The MRLS' rocket came back toward it and destroyed it? That is absolutely insane. Was it a guided munition or just coincidence the rocket hit the launcher?

Thank you I appreciate it very much! I will repopulate the maps even maybe expand the urban areas.