chuckdyke
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13 minutes ago, MikeyD said:
'Casualty rate too high' was a common theme a couple years ago on the board. But events in Ukraine of the past year have largely neutered that complaint. If you play like a drunken Russian general you will get casualty rates like a drunken Russian general.
It is more the tactical drill which can take ages to get it right. Playing Soviet WW2 like you play US Marines 2016 usually don't end well. Reason I came to dislike Black Sea, played it like WW2.
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28 minutes ago, Yet said:
Dutch chieff of defence and former chieff of arms declare that Ukr should get also long distance rockets to hit RU on RU territory. 'Ukr cant stay in the boxing ring with 1 hand tied on its back'.
Correct like a game of chess in which you are not allowed to checkmate your opponent. The Vietnamese war was a little like that, not allowed to invade and capture Hanoi.
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51 minutes ago, The_Capt said:
We have been fed a steady diet of anti-Islam sentiment for over 20 years.
Islam is not a race but a religion. You can convert into and apostate out of it. Religions outside Europe are very much political ideologies. Looking after refugees is humane but to have politics without integration has proven to be a disaster. Soon I am moving away from a European culture. First one must do is to learn the language. Three weeks to go and I am off. Australia was great to work not so great to be retired. So I won't comment often for the next few months till I am settled properly. Wish you all the best for the new year. I support Israel but I don't agree with the present leadership.
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13 hours ago, Battlefront.com said:
We could say the same thing about some of our customers
The customer is king they used to say in the old country. Sad to say BF is stagnating and pointless to say computer games are a very competitive industry. Without doubt you are completely aware of it. I see less and less comments of the game designers here. The last game I bought I have not touched it in the last six months, it screams for up-to-date battle packs, but the never-ending talkfest about it is more important.
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A different form of warfare. Undermining discipline and morale always works.
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32 minutes ago, Lethaface said:
I wish everyone here a happy and healthy 2024!
Same to you, end of the month we say goodbye to Australia. A healthy 2024 for us.
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Massive increase of fake propaganda You Tube movies.
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The same with Battle for Normandy with the Vickers MG deployed on a Universal Carrier. Once disembarked you can't deploy it on the Universal Carrier.
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2 hours ago, Erwin said:
In the game, it does not appear as if scouts (not sure about snipers) have any special training that makes them better as scouts. Generally it's best to have Crack scout and sniper teams for that reason. They are quite good. Otherwise, the lesson that CM teaches us is that scouts tend to be expendable who find the enemy by getting shot.
Scouts Veterans and above with a minus factor for leadership. The reason for minus leadership they go quicker in 'shaken mode' and seek cover. Veteran and above are better spotters if you use an infantry squad.
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Eyeballing is best, in real life the driver's task is to find the 'Hull Down' position. If you can view from View-1 plus notch up with the mouse wheel but not before you used the mouse wheel you are in 'Hull Down".
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Voyage to the bottom of the sea. Old TV series.
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14 minutes ago, PEB14 said:
You don't man a tank without at least basic training…
That is correct it would happen if dismount was an option, like we have with trucks and in modern warfare APCs. In SF2 you can dismount an M113 APC and crew it with a scouting team so that you keep the .50 Cal MG. It is something I do regularly. Unit is British.
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16 minutes ago, Sojourner said:
Whoa, that was rather uncharitable. That post didn't veer any closer to the ditch than any of your meme posts.
Besides, I think he may be going through a difficult phase in his life at the moment, so a little slack perhaps.We will be neighbours soon. We plan to move to Cebu by next month. No worries I won't be asking to play Hotseat LOL.
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13 hours ago, PEB14 said:
I have never seen any report of a tank being abandoned
Because the intent is only to dismount, if dismount was an option any other unit could crew the tank. Sometimes you dismount (bail out) to recon over the ridge. Not all situations are modelled. The TC can't be split also crews can't crew other tanks even in the same formation. I tried to crew an elite crew of a tank which had a green crew.
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3 hours ago, Silentkilarz said:
The ability of on map arty/mortars to do line/area direct fire just like calling in from a FO.
Ability of selecting what weapons to target briefly with. IE ordering a tank to use only MGs or Main gun.
Being able to order air support to stay in a area even if they dont spot anything right away.
Returning ammo to vehicles. The amount of times I misclick on ammo the unit doesnt need drives me nuts. Allow us to return the 2k 7.62 my rifle squad took when I need 5.56.
Remanning guns after they are abandoned. We can re-crew vehicles but not ATGs?!
Fix breaching. If you breach a building with a wall the unit likes to run all the way around to the front door when there is a massive hole. Also along those lines, dont force the breachers to move after the breach. I want the wall down so my tank/afv can shoot. Not so the infantry runs through in enemy ambush.
Most of the issues you mention can be done. You need to play a lot and experiment. You can't reman a gun because the battle drill says destroy the gun hypothetically. Everybody has his pet theory and this is mine. Breaching three different methods the one in the manual is the most reliable one. Tank using MG is targeting light. Line direct area fire you need the full battery each with his own fire zone. Target light with mortars you get something like harass in direct fire mode.
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4 hours ago, ALBY said:
I am a war criminal in that I fire on surrendering troops until I can’t or the troops won’t do it. I’ve been burned by the Lone Wolf Rambo super trooper one time too many!
It is poorly modelled, surrendered units should follow orders but you can't do it like you could do before in the CM1 Games. In SF2 it is downright gamey.
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My sense is that Israel needs to define an endstate in this war that does not look like 2 million Palestinians being driven into the desert to die.
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5 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said:
It's a US pot style helmet made out of some sort of molded plastic or fiberglass.
It was the old Nato Helmet too. The inside was made from pressed Palm Fiber if I remember correctly. Maybe they used that one. Kids used them when they played soldiers during the 60's.
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All of the platoon inside hand grenade range.
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5 hours ago, Anthony P. said:
Any specific action square/bunker?
The one on the very top of the hill. I put my spotters on the edge before the river.
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34 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said:
Let's concentrate on updated 60 year old tanks and dual Maxims on motorcycles. That's not only more fun, but it is on topic too!
M10 Booker and compare it with a Leopard 1 possibly modernized for the 21st Century. The Leo is maybe 3 tons heavier and have a similar if not the same gun.
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In Edge of Darkness the sniper gets a full contact with the bunker but the Tactical Air FO even after five turns in the same spot as the sniper doesn't get a full contact only has a tentative contact. Things like this start to annoy me.
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Brits in Syria.
The target.
Casualty expectations
in Combat Mission Shock Force 2
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You need to think of everything.