Centurian52

Rusi - Russian Tactics in the Second Year of the Invasion of Ukraine
Hot off the press. That's my afternoon sorted.

This but more. I was playing a massive PBEM many years ago and noticed I had a whole platoon routed and couldn't figure out why. I loaded up the last few turns and watched just that platoon until I could see what happened. 
I had smashed one of my opponents units and then sent in a whole platoon to go clear them out. Rookie mistake but I sent them all to move at once figuring they would cover each as they ran, no need to area fire to keep the fleeing enemy fleeing. As my platoon was filtering into his postions, the squads got a bit bunched up. One enemy stopped fleeing turned and fired a single shot. It hit one of my guys who was about to throw a grenade. He falls, the grenade bounces into the pile of friendlies. It goes off and down go a bunch of my men, including two others who were also just about to throw grenades. As they fall, their grenades also land at the feet of their comrades and a bunch more guys drop. One single bullet and he took out half a platoon.
I watched that single turn so many times because I just could not believe what I was seeing. Had we been playing real-time I would have missed it but instead I was able to go back a few turns and see what I had missed. WEGO only ever since.

Jewish space lasers are how I get my popcorn popped.

Like a good horror movie.  You know it's coming, but if the writing and direction are good, it still catches you by surprise.

US signals to allies it won’t block their export of F-16 jets to Ukraine (CNN)
Free the falcons!

Oh yeah, that's not an insignificant point. If there is anything that I feel is at the heart of what Combat Mission is all about, it's learning. There is no better way to learn about warfare than to experiment with it and see what works and what doesn't work (in an environment where doing what doesn't work doesn't get real people killed). In fact I believe the experimentation angle is one of the key selling points for Combat Mission: Professional for real world militaries.

Name: The Battle for Lozove
Map readiness: 50%
Play: Blue vs AI or PBEM only.
Location: Kherson region.
Mission: cross the river and assault Lozove Village. (More information will be added soon)
Friendly forces: 35th Marine Brigade, 5th Tank Brigade. 406th Artillery Brigade.

Enemy forces: 70th Motorized Rifle Regiment
Help: Need some people who are good at English for writing a Briefing.

You continue to demonstrate that you have absolutely no understanding of what I said. Do you even realize that you are attempting to counter me with arguments that are in complete agreement with everything I said?

That's not how genes work. It is very rare for a gene to be "for" something specific like that. Most traits are an emergent property of many many genes.
I feel like most of your comment is directed at Steve, not me. In fact I get the distinct impression that you didn't even read the rest of my comment, let alone any of my other comments in this discussion.
As a reminder, I am firmly in that camp that is saying that biology can't account for how Russian behavior differs from the behavior of people from other countries.

What Centurian52 said. 
WEGO also facilitates the learning process.  In real time you will often miss something that happened on the map.  2nd Platoon lost two tanks while you were concentrating on 3rd Platoon.  With WEGO you can rewind and observe every platoon for their minute of action. The turn can be replayed until you hopefully understand why/how those two tanks were destroyed. Then with that lesson learned you adjust your tactics and play on. 
Also replay facilitates screenshots. Replay, change the angle, zoom in until you get a cool screenshot of the action. 
A screenshot from each game since, as a CM addict, your going to eventually get them all.....😎 
CM Battle for Normandy

CM Red Thunder

CM Afghanistan 

CM Shock Force 2
 
CM Fortress Italy

 CM Final Blitzkrieg 

CM Cold War

CM Black Sea
 
Goood luck!  

WEGO is not a must. The game is well designed to work well in either WEGO or real time. Anyone who says that WEGO is the only "correct" way to play the game is much too elitist for my taste. I played pretty much only real time all the time for years, and that worked very well for me. I think there are trade-offs between the two game modes though.
You have more precise control over your troops in real time. You can cancel orders that you've realized are suicidal, whereas in WEGO you just have to sit there and watch your troops mindlessly carry them out. Bounding is easier to manage (requires more use of pause orders and guestimating travel times in WEGO). It's easier to coordinate actions a little more tightly (you can order troops to charge a position the instant that a barrage lifts in real time, where that requires some more estimation in WEGO). The drawbacks are that it gets harder and harder to manage your forces in real time as the battles get larger, and it gets easier and easier to miss stuff.
In WEGO you need not miss any of the action happening anywhere on the battlefield, since you can rewind as many times as you want and watch each action from as many angles as you want. I find it is a lot easier to coordinate very large forces in WEGO (in large part because it is so much easier to pay equal attention to every part of the battlefield). And for that reason I find that I play far more consistently between small battles and large battles in WEGO. And game performance can be a lot better in WEGO.
The main thing that finally won be over to WEGO though, is that it is so much more cinematic. In real time you mostly need to stay zoomed out so that you can keep an eye on the big picture. In WEGO you can watch the turn once zoomed out, so that you get the big picture details of what happened, and then watch it again and again zoomed in on each individual action and catch all of the interesting little stories that play out for your soldiers. It's like making your own war movie (only better than most war movies).

WEGO is not a must. The game is well designed to work well in either WEGO or real time. Anyone who says that WEGO is the only "correct" way to play the game is much too elitist for my taste. I played pretty much only real time all the time for years, and that worked very well for me. I think there are trade-offs between the two game modes though.
You have more precise control over your troops in real time. You can cancel orders that you've realized are suicidal, whereas in WEGO you just have to sit there and watch your troops mindlessly carry them out. Bounding is easier to manage (requires more use of pause orders and guestimating travel times in WEGO). It's easier to coordinate actions a little more tightly (you can order troops to charge a position the instant that a barrage lifts in real time, where that requires some more estimation in WEGO). The drawbacks are that it gets harder and harder to manage your forces in real time as the battles get larger, and it gets easier and easier to miss stuff.
In WEGO you need not miss any of the action happening anywhere on the battlefield, since you can rewind as many times as you want and watch each action from as many angles as you want. I find it is a lot easier to coordinate very large forces in WEGO (in large part because it is so much easier to pay equal attention to every part of the battlefield). And for that reason I find that I play far more consistently between small battles and large battles in WEGO. And game performance can be a lot better in WEGO.
The main thing that finally won be over to WEGO though, is that it is so much more cinematic. In real time you mostly need to stay zoomed out so that you can keep an eye on the big picture. In WEGO you can watch the turn once zoomed out, so that you get the big picture details of what happened, and then watch it again and again zoomed in on each individual action and catch all of the interesting little stories that play out for your soldiers. It's like making your own war movie (only better than most war movies).

They don't. That essay is laser focused on genetics, and doesn't address behavior. But Steven Pinker's book How the Mind Works does address it. The TLDR is that genetic variation does affect variation in human behavior. Other human traits are influenced by genes, and it makes all the sense in the world that behavior would be among those traits. The studies he references come up with something like 50% of the variation in human behavior being accounted for by genes, with the other 50% being accounted for by the environment. Again though, that is variation within human populations, not between human populations. Differences in behavior between populations is almost entirely environmental. The reason is, as the essay I linked points out, that there is very little genetic variation between human populations. So environmental factors are the only thing that can account for behavioral differences between populations.

I found this essay which gives some numbers for how much genetic variation there is within human populations vs between human populations. One caveat is that they are grouping human populations by continent, not by country.
https://www.ashg.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/genetic-variation-essay.pdf

About 80 thousand years ago.
Some unknown event (the Toba volcano eruption happened around the right time, and has been proposed as a likely cause) whittled the human population down to an absurdly small number (10,000ish sounds about right), resulting in a massive genetic bottleneck that has left its mark on the human gene pool to this very day. We are one of the least genetically diverse species on the planet. This is part of why we are so susceptible to plagues.

They don't. That essay is laser focused on genetics, and doesn't address behavior. But Steven Pinker's book How the Mind Works does address it. The TLDR is that genetic variation does affect variation in human behavior. Other human traits are influenced by genes, and it makes all the sense in the world that behavior would be among those traits. The studies he references come up with something like 50% of the variation in human behavior being accounted for by genes, with the other 50% being accounted for by the environment. Again though, that is variation within human populations, not between human populations. Differences in behavior between populations is almost entirely environmental. The reason is, as the essay I linked points out, that there is very little genetic variation between human populations. So environmental factors are the only thing that can account for behavioral differences between populations.

They don't. That essay is laser focused on genetics, and doesn't address behavior. But Steven Pinker's book How the Mind Works does address it. The TLDR is that genetic variation does affect variation in human behavior. Other human traits are influenced by genes, and it makes all the sense in the world that behavior would be among those traits. The studies he references come up with something like 50% of the variation in human behavior being accounted for by genes, with the other 50% being accounted for by the environment. Again though, that is variation within human populations, not between human populations. Differences in behavior between populations is almost entirely environmental. The reason is, as the essay I linked points out, that there is very little genetic variation between human populations. So environmental factors are the only thing that can account for behavioral differences between populations.

About 80 thousand years ago.
Some unknown event (the Toba volcano eruption happened around the right time, and has been proposed as a likely cause) whittled the human population down to an absurdly small number (10,000ish sounds about right), resulting in a massive genetic bottleneck that has left its mark on the human gene pool to this very day. We are one of the least genetically diverse species on the planet. This is part of why we are so susceptible to plagues.

About 80 thousand years ago.
Some unknown event (the Toba volcano eruption happened around the right time, and has been proposed as a likely cause) whittled the human population down to an absurdly small number (10,000ish sounds about right), resulting in a massive genetic bottleneck that has left its mark on the human gene pool to this very day. We are one of the least genetically diverse species on the planet. This is part of why we are so susceptible to plagues.

Damn. This sort of thing is a real concern in the DoD. We all want to trust our colleagues. No one wants to think that someone you've worked with for a long time actually intends to do something nefarious, and certainly no one likes getting their friends in trouble. But we don't do annual insider threat training just for show. Whether you're uniformed (me 5 years ago), GS, or a contractor (me right now) you need to make sure the rules are being followed!

Damn. This sort of thing is a real concern in the DoD. We all want to trust our colleagues. No one wants to think that someone you've worked with for a long time actually intends to do something nefarious, and certainly no one likes getting their friends in trouble. But we don't do annual insider threat training just for show. Whether you're uniformed (me 5 years ago), GS, or a contractor (me right now) you need to make sure the rules are being followed!

At that point we're talking about biological differences between individuals, which I do not dispute. There clearly is biological variation between individual humans. It is well documented that a significant portion of the difference in intelligence between individuals is genetic (not 100% of the difference in intelligence, but a significant chunk). But we're talking about populations, not individuals. The full range of biological variation is present in all human populations. There is far more variation within a given human population than there is between any two human populations.

At that point we're talking about biological differences between individuals, which I do not dispute. There clearly is biological variation between individual humans. It is well documented that a significant portion of the difference in intelligence between individuals is genetic (not 100% of the difference in intelligence, but a significant chunk). But we're talking about populations, not individuals. The full range of biological variation is present in all human populations. There is far more variation within a given human population than there is between any two human populations.

Damn. This sort of thing is a real concern in the DoD. We all want to trust our colleagues. No one wants to think that someone you've worked with for a long time actually intends to do something nefarious, and certainly no one likes getting their friends in trouble. But we don't do annual insider threat training just for show. Whether you're uniformed (me 5 years ago), GS, or a contractor (me right now) you need to make sure the rules are being followed!