Monty's Mighty Moustache

Not if you want to maintain any kind of C2 they aren't. Unless it's a recon team with a radio (i.e. a specialist) then the smallest unit that should be assigned a task, IMHO, is the platoon. Of course the Red Army did things a bit differently as you allude to but if you send a fireteam or squad off on their own then they can and will suffer from not being effectively led. MMM

@AdamPraha if you haven't already seen it I'd recommend reading through the tactical toolbox on Bil's blog, has a lot of useful information. Here's a link to the movement techniques section: https://battledrill.blogspot.com/2013/08/tactical-skills002movement-techniques.html

Real-time, for me, is nigh on unplayable once you get above a certain size of force involved as it's far too easy to miss things. Combat Mission has always been a turn-based game, We-Go was their USP when CMBO came out, and the real-time mode was added later but it's fundamentally designed to be played in turn-based mode and I never play it any other way. The only way I could imagine playing in real-time might work, for me - others probably have better ways to manage it, would be to watch from a high level overview and then pause and zoom in whenever something interesting happens. But then there is no ability to rewind and find out why it happened. I re-watch turns multiple times to make sure I catch everything I want to see.

The beeb has done its verify thing on the narrative coming from the Kremlin: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68657383

1) It depends. If they have good concealment then not really necessary to hide especially as tanks don't spot that well. 2) Yes a panzerfaust team with a Target Armour Arc will only shoot the rocket at armour. I can't remember exactly but I think armoured cars and such don't count as armour but half-tracks and tanks do. 3) Yes if the team is hiding and a target comes into the arc and they have a good shot they will unhide and attack. Target arcs are a good way to make sure supporting assets such as HMGs or rifle squads don't open fire and give away the positions either, just set a small target arc of a few metres and they will not fire at anything outside the arc.

The team had two fausts, the first went over the top of the panzer (as expected) but the second hit and the crew bailed out. I had it marked down as dead but next turn the crew popped back in and started blasting away. I can't remember seeing that happen too often in all my years playing, I think it must have hit something squishy as only 4 crew got out (and back in again). The range was about 45-50m if I remember correctly, they were waiting in ambush at the roadside in case he pushed his armour down unsupported. Felt very aggrieved

I had a PF60 fire at a tank just the other day in a PBEM, in fact I've seen 4 fired in the battle so far. It's likely they were out of range, as @Vacillator says max range was 100m. Only one of them has actually hit and it didn't actually KO the panzer but that's another issue

The beeb are reporting the Ukrainians are indeed claiming they shot down the A-50 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67978739

My computer was only one year old when I tried to play it, so it was not old by any means at the time. The point of my post was not to criticise, merely to point out that calling someone lazy when you don't know what decisions were made for the FR scenario and why is probably a bit harsh. I may return to the Blue Hills once the performance improvements come in Engine 5, it was an enjoyable scenario when it ran.

For the record I tried to play your Blue Hills scenario in FB as PBEM and whilst it was an interesting scenario it was unplayable due to performance issues, and whilst I don't have a top end PC it's no slouch. We had to abandon the game not long after starting as my oppo was having issues too. So perhaps it was a conscious choice by the designer? To simply label them lazy is very judgemental, Walt Whitman would not be impressed MMM

I keep seeing people commenting on Steve’s priorities like they know exactly what he’s working on and how he spends his time. But none of you do, unless you work closely with or know him well. Now you can comment on the “impression” you get of how what he is working on, that’s fair, but to say he needs to sort his priorities out based on that is ridiculous

I remember seeing more than one video of that campaign, pretty sure @Grey_Fox did a series but not sure if he did that mission.

This mission? I haven't played it but this is just one of the playthroughs on YouTube MMM

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-tried-to-shoot-down-ukrainian-flag-revealed-firing-position-2023-9 Made me chuckle MMM

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-admits-thwarting-ukraine-attack-not-activating-starlink-satellites-2023-9 He didn't think Starlink would be used for military purposes? Man is either deluded or a liar. Or a deluded liar.