Frenchy56
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Having recently purchased CMFB, I've done my usual fiddling with mods and such. I've noticed that Panzergrenadier squads (both Waffen-SS and Heer) are missing one of their MGs.
The problem occurs when the gunner is inside the squad leader element. He is instead armed with a rifle, while keeping his pistol. I've also noticed that the Company commander and his 2IC have an MG inside their elements.
Before anyone asks, no, mods do not modify TO&E.
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On 9/16/2019 at 8:33 PM, quakerparrot67 said:
just out of curiosity, were green smle's a polish thing?
cheers,
rob
No, not really. It's just Oleksandr's thing.
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Basically, imitate the T-34 at the start of this video.
The T-34 has no idea if there is anything in the village, which is why it's firing its gun even though there's seemingly nothing to see, or nothing happening.
The Germans do not fire or flee yet because they are disciplined enough and well led.
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43 minutes ago, Attilaforfun said:
But I had no idea the enemy was there! It was an objective so admittedly I should have. How does one draw out enemy infantry quickly and safely?
Simple. You arrive at an area where you think some enemy infantry is creeping around. A couple of HE rounds will never be a waste if they're used to clear suspicions. If they fire back, open fire with all available units and if you deem it safe enough, maneuver around them to neutralize them in close quarters.
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In this situation, it can help to use recon fire. That means using your Panthers to fire at suspected areas of enemy presence and seeing if anything books it or fires back. Otherwise try to find good cover for your Panzergrenadiers to dismount behind. It could help to make them wait longer (45 seconds or so) so you'll have control over them sooner to split them into teams.
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6 hours ago, user1000 said:
I am trying to find out just which armor or vehicles they used. Did they use their own or German?
A mix of both.
I definitely doubt any new Italian faction will be in-game, since if I remember right, BF has expressed that none were planned. So I wouldn't get my hopes up.
If it was planned we definitely wouldn't be expecting this module to come out this year.
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7 hours ago, lsailer said:
(That hole in hedgerow rush bug, I hear you think, but not.)
How can you be so sure of that?
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18 minutes ago, BFCElvis said:
I am not the expert on these kinds of things. (akd on the other hand is
). I think that I see what you mean with the Staghounds as some have a crew of 3 and some have a crew of 5. All the Daimlers appear to have crews of 3 and I have no idea if they're supposed to have 3 or 4.
On my version (the latest public release), some Staghounds do have full crews after all (mostly company/battalion HQ's and unique platoons), most of them have a crew of 3 out of 5, and all Daimlers seem to have a crew of 2 out of 3. That is from the start date of the formation to May 31st 1944, of course.
I have also noticed something else, the Fox armoured cars from the Recce Regiment formation are also missing crewmembers. Two out of four.
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5 minutes ago, BFCElvis said:
Thanks. I will check it out and report it if I see it on my version.
Again, thank you Elvis for the quick reply.
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1 hour ago, Falaise said:
on the right sleeve you can put the badge of the 8th British corps insigne badge awarded after the fighting of Monte Cassino
That could be problematic, since the maximum game date does not, or barely goes past the end of the battle of Monte Cassino. For now.
In my opinion the SMLE's wood looks way too green, very unnatural for a WW1/WW2 rifle. I don't see how you could be content with this result, Oleksandr.
Vein's CMFI uniform mod has textures for the Polish Carpathian Division. I suggest you check it out, though inaccuracies are present. An idea for a new mod could be the Kresowa Division.
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2 hours ago, BFCElvis said:
Looks like Ian beat me to asking. Where did you hear that? It certainly wasn't "in game" because I was just doing something with some Brazilian troops and it sure sounded like Portuguese to me. #fakenews
Thanks for clarifying, Elvis. I had heard something about "substitutes" for voices for the new factions, don't remember from who. Might just have been me.
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7 hours ago, DerKommissar said:
Will they just have generic US voices or nothing at all?
Yeah, sounds like it.
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Your sense of observation might not be so good if it took you almost 9 years to notice this.
jk.
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1 hour ago, SimpleSimon said:
Because at one point or another the Viet Minh in fact were fighting the Japanese and then the French. One after the other I think is what Frenchy is getting at but tbh they may well have been fighting both the Vichy French local authorities and Japanese at the same time. Vietnam was a French overseas territory and after The Fall it went to Vichy. The Japanese and French had an unfriendly but pretty much cooperative relationship with each other in Indochina and it was from French airbases that the bombers which sank Repulse and Prince of Wales took off from.
Well, toward the end of the war, earlier fighting against the Viet-Minh could have stacked over the fighting against Japanese. In fact some Japanese soldiers fought in the Viet-Minh as well after their country surrendered.
In fact, the French were fighting the Japanese in the first place since they had invaded and wrestled the rest of Indochina out of Vichy French control in September 1941 (they had already invaded the North one year earlier). No wonder the airfields were available.
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3 hours ago, Warts 'n' all said:
Could you clarify this, as that would suggest two sides fighting against the Viet-Minh.
Both on Viet-Minh and French sides. I thought it would be clear that the French would be the other side during both of those conflicts.
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2 minutes ago, StieliAlpha said:
And then? Many Afrikaans speaking people I met, did not speak English very well. And the other way round, it‘s even worse. But it would be nice, if the South African‘s would have their lovely English accent.
I heard the Brazilians won't get their own voices. So don't hold your breath.
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Yes, Hitler had a passion and technical skills for drawing buildings. But you can't really get into art school if that's basically all you want to draw, there's more to it than that. Art is something that is used to transmit emotions or otherwise some kind of meaning, and Hitler's disinterest in that pretty much sealed his fate.
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4 hours ago, JohnW said:
The allied weapons includes an FN/29. Is this supposed to be a French FM 29 machine gun?
Yeah, I'd be sure of that. I hope they don't use this name in-game though.
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In reality the MAS38 SMG saw the most action against remaining Japanese troops in 1945 Indochina, then on either side against early Viet-Minh.
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@SimpleSimon Quite exact, but the FM 24/29 is about as much of a 'slightly modified French BAR copy' as the Bren is a 'slightly modified British BAR copy'. It used part of the action, yes, but you cannot call it a "copy", or "slightly modified".
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11 hours ago, IronCat60 said:
Recently a after thought occurred to me about this question.
I think that the average soldier was not really keen on the idea of manning that rear machine gun position as a means of auxiliary firepower in ground combat. It entails having your back to the enemy with the upper quarter of your body exposed and and no sort of armored protection for it. The risks far outweigh the benefits.
It's situational. If the enemy are hot on your heels, you better get shootin' with that rear MG.
TO&E Bug? Missing MG in Panzergrenadier squads.
in Combat Mission Final Blitzkrieg
Posted · Edited by Frenchy56
Okay then, I had a suspicion that it could have been that too. Strange that Nazi Germany had more machinegunners than it had machine guns at that point, a matter of having the right stuff at the right place and time, then?
I usually forget about the unit quality selection, since it's quite hard to notice.
Oh, sorry, didn't recognize. He looks like he put off a bit of weight.