Megalon Jones
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I won't lie....every morning my alarm gets me up a 530AM. First thing I do is look here for any sign of release.
1 hour ago, maxmaxmax said:it is 16th april
2 weeks left!
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'Untold Story' is a supplemental that gives more info on the Soviet side as well as details about theaters outside Europe. They should be read together.
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2 hours ago, Aragorn2002 said:
Don't forget the Dutch Marines, who trained with the British marines in Norway and were experts on arctic warfare.
Correct you are. North Norway would've been an international melting pot.
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The USMC in the Med would probably go to the defense of Turkey and Greece......or Yugoslavia.....or Libya....or Syria.....or Egypt. Those in the Pacific would go to South Korea and Japan.
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Norway. They would be joined by UK and French commandos and para. Now, THAT would make for an excellent expansion for CMCW. (hint, hint)
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So essentially they can all be NTC if used with the QMB?
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How many maps depict the NTC? Just curious
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5 hours ago, MikeyD said:
Mentioning a 115mm gun on a new tank gives an indication how old this comic is. T64A with 125mm gun began production sometime around 1967, but T64 with 115mm gun had already been in production for a year with some 500 tanks produced. I have a old magazine from 1972 with a very grainy long distance photo of a T64 'mystery tank' with 115mm gun in the snow. The author took a wild guess a 100mm turret front. I don't know how far off that was, composite armor turret front didn't appear til T64A. Does 'FV 76' on the cover mean it was published in 1976? That's an indication on how far behind they were on T64 intel.
The entire Soviet tank force seemed as an enigma. Why simultaneously produce so many different tank models? Thanks to the fighting in the Middle East, both the T62 and T55 were known. The T72 was supposed to be a super tank. The T64 often got puzzled looks and blank stares. The T80 (alongside the Backfire bomber and the Alfa class SSN) were portents of impending doom.
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13 hours ago, The_Capt said:
and lashing staffs together at the operational level
I imagine keeping a tight check on every officer above Major who imagines that their limited counter attack is just like Patton at The Bulge would've been interesting.
I'm going to have to really immerse myself in the background of the M60 series tanks. It seems like the latest variant M60 is actually better in some regards to the Abrams. I also expect the BMP/Sagger could be the unappreciated stars of the show. Funny how we got a bunch of things wrong. Being a youth in the early 1980's, I remember the T72 as THE scariest thing on the potential battlefield. The T80 was an ominous cypher. As it turned out, the T64 was your worst nightmare.
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9 hours ago, The_Capt said:
The power of Active Defence was not so much at the front end, it was the plan to attack the entire Soviet system while defending. This was smart as the Soviets' had pretty rudimentary logistical support. So the theory was to attrit and delay in the front while creating breaks and gaps in the rear so that the entire monster grinds to halt
So, limited counter attacks threatening flanks and delaying the deployment of the Soviet OMG's so the REFORGER units can arrive. Air Land Battle is all that plus smash up the 2nd and 3rd echelons before they deploy, disrupt C3 and the logistics of the rear area.
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1 hour ago, The_Capt said:
You guys can be the judge when the numbers go up but neither side is doing much with what is left on the board, Soviets do hold the objective but we failed to achieve any real breakout, breakthroughs or overwhelm the US forces. The only good news is that there is probably another dozen Soviet outfits like the one I just lost behind me.
Your force was the forward screen for a MRR, right? That means there is a colonel behind you with another whole Red Army regiment ready to go after you established the nature of Vth Corps presence.
I know Air Land Battle was designed to counter Soviet force echelons, but what was the plan for Active Defense in that regards? Pray for the USAAF to arrive? Hold out until the nukes fly?
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Yeah. These guys have helped me out on a couple of occasions. Indy rules, corporate drools.
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22 minutes ago, MikeyD said:
I think 'someone in charge' said no Youtube battles using Beta builds because things-not-done tend to stick out like a sore thumb. But release date is approaching so rapidly that that's almost a moot point. Don't want to use the Beta build? Close our eyes, count to three, then use the release build!
As soon as this thing drops, I'll be doing an AAR. Of course, it takes me a solid 2-3 weeks to get it played, recorded, edited et al.
My money is on Hapless being first out of the gate with a YouTube vid.
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3 hours ago, Holien said:
Well you are now ahead of Bil in commentary and he is certainly playing catch up.
As for comments I try not to say anything as I could let slip clues as to what we know and you don't.
But I think you will see that folk were in your corner when you read the Peanut Gallery thread...
Before I just saw this latest post my guess was a draw...
Looking forward to Bil's take on the last few turns...
Exactly. My mouth runs enough as is. Don't want to ruin the FOW.
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I recall reading that NATO expected all of their A10 and Tornado pilots to be KIA by D+10 or so. I might be fudging the numbers, but the attrition rate was going to be bad with all the Pact mobile SAMs attached at company and battalion level. Regardless, Active Defense assumed intensive use of NATO CAS as an equalizer. Either that or the nukes.
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It should be noted that every incoming French administration has adamantly insisted that it took it's NATO commitment seriously. Don't confuse not being under the unified command with being outside the Alliance. During the Cold War, the French knew that they were next on the menu after the FRG. They would've fought.
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5 hours ago, MikeyD said:
An irony of very long range hull-down shooting is the incoming rounds are at the end of their trajectory parabola and are very nearly doing plunging attacks. I notice an increased number of 'turret top hit' messages when engaging at extended ranges. Especially if you're firing HEAT, HE or squash head.
How do you rate HESH vs HEAT or Sabot in terms of penetrating Red Army tanks? Ball park estimates are sufficient.
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9 hours ago, Combatintman said:
You double misread then - it is M-577
I was overdue for an eye exam before the pandemic. Now things are just blurry noise.
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9 hours ago, Bil Hardenberger said:
The M-551 will not be in the base game, the M-60A2 with the same gun and missile system is however.
Bil
It seems I misread the command M557 as a M551.
9 hours ago, MikeyD said:If you want some Shillelagh porn, here's a missile missing a T64B by inches.
That's exactly what I was looking for!
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If any Beta testers wants to share some tank porn of this....uh....dynamic duo in action, please do. It was a poster boy for the Goldwater-Nichols Act and I've been morbidly curious about it since the opening chapter to Gen. Hackett's future history novel 'The Third World War.'
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6 hours ago, sawomi said:
As someone who lives in Germany I can say it's defenitely not "rare" to have a LOS over 1,5km.
Where (roughly) are you in Germany? Fulda has relatively short LOS due to all the hills and forests. Vth Corps took that into account. The BAOR had a much different terrain with the North German Plains.
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18 hours ago, Amedeo said:
And, since they fear that such an action might trigger NATO military intervention... they resolve to go to war with NATO just to avoid that!
Basically, being driven to suicide by the fear of dying.
Yeah, that definitely created a 'WTF?!?' moment for me reading that.
3 hours ago, BletchleyGeek said:Power politics in the Central Committee were never an straightforward affair after Stalin, so it is not clear how a lunatic plan like that would have gone smoothly through the Soviet Union government decision making processes.
The Politburo ended up being far more risk adverse than was generally accepted at the time.
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11 hours ago, MikeyD said:
So many alternate backstories to speculate about what could drive Russia to attack the west. Like, off the top of my head, Thatcher gaining power in '79 and Reagan on the immediate horizon causing the Russians to panic and grab West German as a hostage, a bargaining chip to forestall the anticipated nuclear first strike against them when Reagan gains power.
How about Brezhnev's health deteriorates much faster and the Central Committee can't come up with an acceptable majority bloc that doesn't include placating the hawks. Poland isn't able to stem Solidarnosc with martial law. Throw in a bad harvest, a tanked oil market and signs of ethnic troubles in the Asian SSR's.
That's a decades worth of bad news. Now, compress it into about a six month time frame.
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8 hours ago, MikeyD said:
'Partially demobilized' wouldn't be a thing in a full-up war of Russia's choosing. The West would've got fair warning that something was up simply from the Soviet army hoarding batteries, Diesel oil and medical supplies months beforehand.
Soooo...Brezhnev doesn't just wake up one morning, look out his window and say '#$%@ it! Onward to the Rhine!' sending the Red Army marching 24 hours later? Our alternate history back story is taking shape! The 1979 timeline could be tied to the Carter grain embargo while the 1982 variant might have something to do with the deployment of theatre nuclear forces.
8 hours ago, Ultradave said:There are choices in the TOE for several different kinds of Soviet battalions, both motorized infantry and armor. There are Reserve armor battalions that are equipped with T-55s an T-62s compared to the frontline ones with T-64s and T-62, and two varieties of those with 3 tanks per PLT or 4. For the motorized battalions, different selections of BMP equipped or BTR equipped, although they aren't specifically listed as reserve. That's taking one setup example from a 1982 quick battle selection. think you should be able to create whatever you want with all the combinations, as long as it falls in the years covered.
Is that what you were looking for with your question @Megalon Jones?
Dave
Totally. Thanks for the input.
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