Megalon Jones

Very nice and informative videos, thanks!

I saw the Kirtorf video by the way Megalon. Excellent as always. You deserve a bigger audience.

114F by wednesday.

watched video today, well done MJ.  And the 'coming attractions' at the end was too funny

Hey, am down here near St G.  Tell me about it...  Nice video btw.

Looking for any single player scenarios that feature the US tank thermal system.  I just got whipped by the T80/BMP combo in ‘Killing Time at Kirtorf’ and am looking to give Ivan the business as revenge.
Youtube vid of my defeat coming this weekend.

Thanks!  I'll be looking into those scenario's

Looking for any single player scenarios that feature the US tank thermal system.  I just got whipped by the T80/BMP combo in ‘Killing Time at Kirtorf’ and am looking to give Ivan the business as revenge.
Youtube vid of my defeat coming this weekend.

Game too difficult without god mode, yes?

Kriegsburg 1981 has a cavalry platoon equipped with M60A3 Patton TTS that arrive as reinforcements about one hour into the scenario.  This however may be to long of a time to wait for your revenge.  
Prior to the arrival of the M60A3 TTS you would have M60A2s.  The scenario is two hours.     

The Sichenhausen scenario has American M-60s with thermals.  And you have them from the start of the game.  It can be played vs AI or MP.

Scouts Out! Has them. 

Here are a couple of other threads on the topic:
Some messed up images in the above post but the thumbnails show the full images OK.
 
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If only somebody could talk to the AI about that 5 seconds pause...
 
…owing to the heavy fire in front and an excess of enthusiasm in the rear.  Fredericksburg.

Combat regulations of Ground Forces USSSR
Part II. Battalion, company [1982]
Alas, on Russian language. 
 

Perhaps another data point some might find interesting is frontal arc survival chances for the T-64/72/80s. Those three models and their variants were converging on the same numbers, so I'm calling them equal for simplicity.
This is of course not in hull-down and is not a reflection of Dragon's lethality - but rather the odds of hitting the lower front hull sweet spot at 980 meters.
This is also only counting hits which connected with the target, not shots fired - so does not account for Dragon's (lack of) reliability.

TL;DR - about a 50% chance that a single Dragon hitting a T-64 or better from the front will knock it out. It compounds from there with multiple hits - >90% of K/O if four hits are allowed to connect.
Seems the lesson for anyone playing OPFOR is to keep your T-64/72/80s hull down or roll the dice with shoot-and-scoot. With Dragon teams being plentiful and carrying 3 ATGMs each, the odds are still very much against any Soviet MBTs caught in the open.
Oh yeah, and send the T-55/62s to the scrapyard. 😁

BTW, the install location issue only happens if your game is located somewhere other than the default location of C:\Program Files (x86)\Battlefront\Combat Mission Cold War.

Yes.
Make sure the patch didn't create a Cold War subfolder inside your main CW folder and put the .exe there. When I installed the patch it tried to do that. Meaning that when I pointed the patch to my D:\Cold War folder it tried to install to D:\Cold War\Cold War.

As with many weapons and doctrines, I think the true effectiveness of the MANPADs (and AAA) is forcing the helicopters and jets higher up and further away rather than killing them. The Hinds traditional attack profile, fast in a shallow dive, would be too dangerous, so you end up firing the heavy machine gun and rockets at the very edge of their effective range (or beyond). However, I have no idea whether this is modelled in the game. 

Well, in game SPAAGs could be perhaps overperforming but, in real life, the M163 should be wimpier than the ZSU-23-4. I remember back in the '80s that the consensus was that US Army lagged behind the Soviet Army in the mobile air defense department, and the eventual demise of the ill-fated M247 Sergeant York added insult to injury.
It will be interesting to see the Flakpanzer Gepard in action when the Bundeswehr/NVA module will be released! 😁

I'm greatly enjoying your Cold War vids, too. Your presentation style works especially well there. I just watched the CMFI video last night where you went H2H against CW forces with ACs and a TD. Good viewing, if some head-scratching armor usage by your opponent.
Yeah, I understand on the dicey nature of QBs vs. the AI. Sometimes, the system produces quite good battles. But, very often...not. A big culprit is AI force selection, I think.

I found your YT channel fairly recently and have been enjoying your CM vids. I really like the vibe and presentation style you do. Love the retro cinematic thing! Brings back memories of going to the movies as a kid.
Maybe some Fire and Rubble quick battle vids? I can't watch the scenario vids yet, as I haven't had time to play them and don't want any spoilers. Would love to see some non-spoiler F&R vids, though!
Thanks very much for your work. Very cool, indeed.