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    War 2022

    in CM Black Sea Maps and Mods

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    To save anyone else the trouble: 

    Hello everybody!

My previous topic was deleted, and with it my scripts. 
I will not describe my work here, because all the information is in the briefings. 
I'll just leave it here. 
I would also like to inform you that the third scenario is already under development.

Good luck!

    As you've only posted one post (this one) on the forum, I'm not sure about your previous thread?  Not sure I want to download who knows what.

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    How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?

    in Combat Mission Black Sea

    Posted · Edited by Vacillator

    30 minutes ago, TheVulture said:

    Optimistic twitter thread from Dr Mike Martin. Anyone know anything about who he is as to his credentials as a believable analyst?

    Executive summary - Russian offensive in the east has fizzled and will likely culminate in 2-4 weeks, followed by collapse

     

     

    Was just about to post the same thing but reported by the BBC, who describe him as 'The war studies visiting fellow at King's College London'.  So I'm not a lot wiser on who he is, but his thoughts are more in line with this forum (or at least some on this forum) than the BBC has generally been until now.

    Edit:  Here ya go:

    https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/dr-mike-martin

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    Does the IS-1 ever use the rear mounted turret MG?

    in CM Red Thunder Maps and Mods

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    17 minutes ago, Holman said:

    Also, which crew member fires it? If it's the commander, he's ignoring situational awareness to do so. Was it the loader?

    You can kind of see why it was dropped from standard tank design.

    I imagine the loader is best placed, not the commander or the gunner.  As you say not ideal whoever it is.  And I'm still not sure why it was deemed necessary in the first place, was there a real/perceived history of German troops jumping on the back of Soviet tanks and the crew being unable to repel them?

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    Does the IS-1 ever use the rear mounted turret MG?

    in CM Red Thunder Maps and Mods

    Posted · Edited by Vacillator

    Okay, not quite as planned but a result:

    YC6RFbr.png?1

    Set Target light behind to start with, turret turned.  Then set it forward to get the turret forward again, rear MG was observed to fire very briefly at the previuosly spotted targets to the rear.  Only fired a few shots so far, will edit with an update...

    EDIT: Okay so the issue may be spotting?  There were three spotted German units when the turret was traversed to the rear, this turned to one in the shot above.  The shot above resulted in the demise of one poor fellow in that unit, and the unit then disappeared.  No more rear MG fire after that as there were no spotted units to fire at.  And before you say open up to spot, I already had and the commander had been shot.  Could have arranged that better 😬.

    I can adjust the above with different units and try to save my commander, unless it already answers your question?  Think I will re-do without opening up (aka commander death) and see if the rear MG then retains the spots.

    EDIT 2: So yes, it seems to me that the rear MG (with or without commander alive) can not spot units.  Will next try to test this with a rear end approach (ooh err) but need to make sure the turret faces the other way...

    EDIT 3: approach from the rear did not seem to be spotted so not fired upon but will try this again.

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    Does the IS-1 ever use the rear mounted turret MG?

    in CM Red Thunder Maps and Mods

    Posted · Edited by Vacillator

    8 minutes ago, Erwin said:

    If people are reporting that they very rarely see the rear MG being used perhaps that is solely under AI control(?)  It's common in modern titles to see similarish examples where a vehicle will use an ATGM against some targets even when one wants the gun to be used etc.

    Thinking about that, if you're manually controlling an IS-1 are you able to target with the rear MG without the tank or turret turning round?  Of course you can't actually just command the rear MG to fire on its own so not sure about this.

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