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    How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?

    in Combat Mission Black Sea

    Posted

    This part of today's ISW update made me chuckle.

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    Russian Security Council Deputy Chairperson Dmitry Medvedev threatened Russian internet technology and telecommunications company Yandex because its large language model failed to provide responses that cohere with ongoing Russian information operations. Medvedev criticized Yandex's Alisa voice assistant (ostensibly similar to Amazon's Alexa) on May 19 for being unable to answer questions about the US law approving the seizure of Russian foreign assets or supposed monuments in Ukraine to Nazi sympathizers.[17] Medvedev asserted that Yandex's artificial intelligence (AI) is a "coward" for failing to provide his desired answers to these questions and suggested that Yandex may be concerned about offending its Western clients. Medvedev suggested that Yandex's supposed unwillingness to provide answers to these questions greatly undermines trust in Yandex's products and could provide grounds for the Russian government to recognize Yandex's services as "incomplete" and even identify Yandex's current managers as "foreign agents." Russian news outlet RBK reported that Russian officials have previously submitted complaints against similar large language models for failing to generate sufficiently patriotic responses.[18] Russian officials will likely continue to struggle with shortcomings of large language models that are well known to others with more experience of those systems as the Kremlin continues efforts to solidify its control over the Russian information space.

    Can you shoot an AI for cowardice? I would think they would find a way.

    Armando Iannuci needs to get his pencil out when all this is over.

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    How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?

    in Combat Mission Black Sea

    Posted · Edited by Monty's Mighty Moustache

    Maybe we'll see some kamikaze peacocks before too long?

    https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-zoo-sent-soldiers-peacocks-hoping-inspire-them-in-ukraine-2024-5

     

    EDIT: realised that you need to sign up to read some articles on BI, text of the article below

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    A Russian zoo said it sent two peacocks to Ukraine with the aim of inspiring Russian troops fighting there — but then deleted its post after people mocked Russian President Vladimir Putin in the comments, according to reports.

    The Lipetsk Zoo, in southwest Russia, announced the move on social media website VK on Tuesday.

    It wrote: "For guys in difficult combat situations, the beauty of birds inspires and brings a piece of joy. This is not an advertisement for the zoo, but a gift from the heart. We hope that the beauty of these birds will brighten up soldiers' everyday life in combat," The Daily Beast reported.

    It also shared a video of a masked soldier in front of an enclosure with the two birds.

    The soldier said that every soldier would be able to look at the birds and get some "spiritual peace," according to The Daily Beast's translation.

    He added that an aviary was being built for the birds, according to Ukrainian outlet Pravda's reporting.

    It's unclear if the video was filmed in Ukraine. It's also not clear where the birds were sent, or how close to the fighting they had been.

    The zoo later deleted its announcement post, according to The Daily Beast and Pravda.

    It told Russian news outlet Rise that comments were left that insulted Putin.

    The zoo blamed Ukrainian bots for the comments — a common excuse that Russia gives for online comments that insult Putin or criticize Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

    It said that "insults against the president are unacceptable," per The Daily Beast.

    Some commentators were confused by the move, with one writing, according to The Daily Beast: "What are peacocks going to do there?"

    Russia has heavily restricted information that its citizens can get about the war, and has punished Russians who speak out against it, leading to little visible dissent in the country.

    While some protests have taken place, with thousands of people arrested, Russian citizens have largely not been seen to oppose the invasion.

    Putin has also put in place a law that effectively criminalizes any reference to the fighting in Ukraine being a "war" or "invasion."

     

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    I just HATE playing those PanzerGrenadiers…

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

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    29 minutes ago, PEB14 said:

    During WW2 the smallest tactical unit both in CW, US and German armies were squads, not platoons. (What you refer to is more in line with the Soviet doctrine.) So squads shall be able to manoeuver (fire/support) on their own.

    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.

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    How to proceed in battle ?!

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

    Posted

    1 hour ago, AdamPraha said:

    Turn based. 

    But that's the whole game then. But it's only needed in an uncluttered map.

    It's not a tactical solution.

    This switches the whole game completely into a turn-based game.

    But I'm only talking about a partial solution to an cluttered control. 

    Nothing in the 200 page manual says anything about that.
    It's a very nice and clear manual, by the way. One of perfect manual in the world.

     

    Otherwise, I've known about this problem for many years.
    This is also the reason why nobody plays this game.
    The impossibility of solving the attack for RTS players. As for your assumption, the manual doesn't say a word about it !

    That proves you've never read the manual.

    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.

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    Firing a small "panzerfaust on tank

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

    Posted

    1 hour ago, AdamPraha said:

    1.) Then the tank team itself I'll also put order" hide...

    2.)And paint over enemy tanks with purple paint...?

    3.)When they get within range, they'll start firing the panzerfaust themselves?

     

    Or do I have to give them the order to stop hiding manually ?

    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.

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    Firing a small "panzerfaust on tank

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

    Posted

    4 hours ago, Vacillator said:

    Looks like Russkies using captured PFs?  I'm sure there's a degradation in performance for that in 'the code' 😉.

    Upper hull penetration on the side of a Panzer IV, but no KO?  Really?

    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).

    3 hours ago, Brille said:

    Panzerfausts are nothing like the RPG7 or other modern rocket launchers. They are still pretty inaccurate. So even when the Panzerfaust 60 says that it´s effective range is 60m (though they were also ranged for 80m), one probably should use them at even lower ranges, especially with troops under veteran experience.

     

    You must be pretty unlucky there I guess. Usually a Panzerfaust hit means either a destroyed/decrewed tank or a severely damaged one.

     

    Combat-Mission-Battle-For-Normandy-Scree

    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 :)

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    Pre-orders for the CMFB module Download are now open

    in Combat Mission Final Blitzkrieg

    Posted

    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.

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    Pre-orders for the CMFB module Download are now open

    in Combat Mission Final Blitzkrieg

    Posted

    On 1/8/2024 at 7:54 AM, BornGinger said:

    The author of Mountains of the Moon was just too lazy to put an effort into making a good map and I hope the scenario and map authors to the new Final Blitz module have used enough of their time to not make those who buy it disappointed.

    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 :)

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    Annual look at the year to come - 2023

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

    Posted

    7 hours ago, CarlXII said:

    I would be perfectly happy to tell him the same thing if he was sitting infront of me....But he's not.

    Should i book an appointment, maybee ?

    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 

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    How do you watch replays?

    in CM2 General Tech Support

    Posted · Edited by Monty's Mighty Moustache

    I pretty much follow what @Centurian52 does but additionally I always use the + key to cycle through my units to see if anyone else got wiped out or took incoming fire. It's easy to miss an icon disappearing if they all get hit by artillery, especially for smaller teams like HQs and scouts, or fire making your men go to ground if they didn't take any casualties.

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