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Makes sense. The areas on the 64 and 72 protected by the composite armor are all very focused on the frontal arc. From the sides the armor is just steel and not very thick steel at that. H

I’m coming around to wanting Germans 1st then BOAR. Who doesn’t want Leopards (1 & 2, thank you very much), Marders, Luchs, Milans, and Panzerfausts? I really also want Chieftains and maybe some late mark Centurions, although I’m concerned about British infantry’s AT capability in this time frame. One thing I’m learning by playing the Sov scenarios is that the Sov rifle squads are very capable vs 1979 American armor. Tank hunting with infantry in woods and villages is a thing that can be done much more successfully than in Black Sea or Shock Force. H

Vulnerability to detection and ARMs is a downside to pretty much all active radars before the more advanced AESA types were developed. It certainly seems like the Army believes that the USAF wouldn’t ever allow an adversary to get attack aircraft close enough to attack an Patriot battery with ARMs. Indeed the biggest assumption is that the USAF would be able to keep the airfields open in the face of a multi pronged Soviet attack on them. Even without nukes the airfields would be hit long, hard, and continuously. H

The progression seems to be Singer > Patriot > USAF. Seems awfully trusting of the Army to rely that the USAF is always going to be able to achieve air supremacy. When I'm playing I always assume the other side has effective air support. Lots of hiding under trees for units that aren't needed to keep them away from prying eyes. H

Invasion USA would have to ignore the very real problem of logistics. How does the invading army get to the US? How are they resupplied? If the answer is 'by air*' you fail. H *Yeah I know that they needed a premise for Red Dawn but the more you ignore the backstory in that movie the better your experience will be.

My drunken ZSU crew in Scouts Out! was jolted back to wakefulness by the exploding T64 and fired back w/o results. At least they didn't end the game with a full load of ammo while I lost 3 AFVs to American CAS. As either side I'm always assuming they other side has CAS. I typically try to scurry from tree to tree that has overhead cover and park vehicles in the shadow of buildings* whenever possible. It's not always possible to have overhead concealment and get the job done, but hey there's a war on and it's a risky business. If the pixeltroops wanted to be safe they shouldn't have been conscripted. H

For Airborne and Air mobile I believe. For all that I said the ZSUs are terrifying in my current game mine just sat their drunk while attack helos zapped a T64 and at BRDM AT5. H

ZSUs are terrifying but a glass hammer for sure. A cross look will take them out. H

Three hits from something (never saw the shooter) and I've lost the 125mm gun but the tracks are fine. https://imgur.com/hSZradq From the 1979 Scouts Out! scenario. H

Eh, roughly half the Belgians are really Dutch anyways. H

That 2nd pic shows a (most pedantic mode) bug. The spoon of the grenade should have been thrown off when the grenade left the hand of the thrower. As it is that grenade is totally safe... H

The funny thing is that the Sov got 4 different tanks in their fleet because of internal politics and a enormous case of Not Invented Here syndrome at the tank factories. And people think NATO was a disorganized cluster because the members couldn’t all agree on a common tank or service rifle. H

I wasn’t being very clear. The pre war British troops were marvelously trained, but by 1915 they were almost all dead or being used for training/cadre. The Empire didn’t have a mass of pre-trained conscript troops they could rapidly be called to the colours to replace the long service soldiers that died in 1914. H

The Sov would have the advantage in that everyone medically capable would have been through their initial military training. The older conscript troops wouldn't have had recent experience or the most modern weapons, but they wouldn't be starting from scratch like the Brits were in WWI. H

I want Chieftains, Leopards, Marders, Milans, and Brit infantry in FV432s with SLRs.... H

As opposed to your bacteria laden uniform and skin... More a difference in quantity than quality I would think. H

I've been playing the Soviet battles starting in '79. It's a switch from SF2 to see America tank shells and ATGM no selling hits on my tanks while my 125mm tanks and ATGMs get 1 round = 1 kill him on the Americans. H

Yes. More effective ways of poking holes in soldiers since WWII and nobody has body armor. Which is kinda weird that the US troops don't have flak jackets since those were fielded in Viet-Nam and would protect against fragments. They wouldn't do jack-all against bullets but they'd be better than woodland pattern fabric. H

Hits a the target but the shooter is within the danger radius of the HEAT round and self pwned. H

Thank you! H

Is there a list of the scenarios by date? I'm wanting to play through the 1979 scenarios before checking out the new hotness in '82. H

I'm not going to say nobody, nowhere, has ever manufactured a RPG-7 round that works as you describe. But the standard Soviet HEAT rounds do have safeties and simply dropping them on the nose won't set them off. This article says that the uncapped round is drop safe for up to a 3m fall: H

Everything I've read about Soviet (and Soviet trained tankers) indicates that the TCs would be buttoned up when fighting. Heads out is fine for road marches. Americans & Israelis fight heads out and only button up when taking direct fire or under air/artillery attack. You lose more TCs that way but the gain in situational awareness is better (assuming you don't have equipment with independent thermal sights for the TC). You see the doctrine reflected in the equipment. Soviet TC hatches aren't conducive to fighting buttoned up, NATO equipment is more likely to have things like open protected positions for TC hatches. H

The Germanies and BAOR, don’t care which order but I’d buy both. H

I’ve wanted exactly this since I started playing CM. Leave everything as is for most of the units but, for example, recon units need the ‘if spot enemy reverse or reverse and pop smoke’. As is, my recon guys make a spot while hunting and then sit, exposed, until explosively disassembled. H