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Yes, exactly. 
 
We shouldn't have entered into either w/o clearly defined goals and a plan to GTFO. 
 
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I just finished playing Sgt Squarehead's excellent Ashsh al-Dababir AKA the Hornets Nest scenario this morning. Up until now I've avoided scenarios that featured urban combat as I suck at it and I get a bunch of crunchies killed and lose supporting armor like crazy. I've read various write up on the forums and watched Youtube videos but it just never clicked. 
 
Then I read this post: 
which had domfluff's excellent advice for using the camera at level 1 to spot buildings that are potential have the potential to be covering your moving troops. Also in that thread was a link to this short write up about street fighting : https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/call/call_01-9_karagosian.htm which has this quote 
and then talks about the need for suppressing or obscuring buildings that have line of sight to when I need to move my troops in the open. 
 
And then it all just clicked. In the city fighting in the Hornets nest I only lost a few troopers fighting in buildings or crossing over to buildings after applying these 2 key principals:
1) Don't move in the open 
2) Smoke or suppress buildings that have LOS when you do have to move in the open
And of my losses were in the 1st few turns where I was in a firefight to get fire superiority of the rooftops. I wanted to be able to move around on the roofs to avoid moving in the streets and to be able to clear buildings from the top down whenever possible. Another learning is that even with target light the troops will burn though a lot of ammo surpassing just the buildings that have LOS. 
 
Big thanks to Sgt Squarehead for getting me going again after a bug kept crashing the game at 30 minutes remaining. 
 
I want to play thru the scenario again, this time using Syrian forces and in particular the BMP3. ISIS has their own VBIEDs but so do the Syrians with the BMP3. I imagine encouraging the troops do debus when under fire is never a problem when they are riding in a BMP3. Keeping the troops mounted and within a 100m might be a problem...
 
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I just finished playing Sgt Squarehead's excellent Ashsh al-Dababir AKA the Hornets Nest scenario this morning. Up until now I've avoided scenarios that featured urban combat as I suck at it and I get a bunch of crunchies killed and lose supporting armor like crazy. I've read various write up on the forums and watched Youtube videos but it just never clicked. 
 
Then I read this post: 
which had domfluff's excellent advice for using the camera at level 1 to spot buildings that are potential have the potential to be covering your moving troops. Also in that thread was a link to this short write up about street fighting : https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/call/call_01-9_karagosian.htm which has this quote 
and then talks about the need for suppressing or obscuring buildings that have line of sight to when I need to move my troops in the open. 
 
And then it all just clicked. In the city fighting in the Hornets nest I only lost a few troopers fighting in buildings or crossing over to buildings after applying these 2 key principals:
1) Don't move in the open 
2) Smoke or suppress buildings that have LOS when you do have to move in the open
And of my losses were in the 1st few turns where I was in a firefight to get fire superiority of the rooftops. I wanted to be able to move around on the roofs to avoid moving in the streets and to be able to clear buildings from the top down whenever possible. Another learning is that even with target light the troops will burn though a lot of ammo surpassing just the buildings that have LOS. 
 
Big thanks to Sgt Squarehead for getting me going again after a bug kept crashing the game at 30 minutes remaining. 
 
I want to play thru the scenario again, this time using Syrian forces and in particular the BMP3. ISIS has their own VBIEDs but so do the Syrians with the BMP3. I imagine encouraging the troops do debus when under fire is never a problem when they are riding in a BMP3. Keeping the troops mounted and within a 100m might be a problem...
 
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Mine seem to be crewed from the Moscow Institute for the Blind. I guess there are no deferments to doing your conscript 2 year service. 
 
Maybe if they issued the ATGM vehicles with seeing eye dogs...
 
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I've seen the same behavior myself. 
 
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I have never seen this before. BMP1 rolling, they hating, they see my M113 hiding behind a building (in ambush with the leader unbuttoned) and not only are the passengers firing on the AT team in the building on the left, the passengers on the other side acquire and shoot down my M113 TC before he can engage with his M2...
 
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I have never seen this before. BMP1 rolling, they hating, they see my M113 hiding behind a building (in ambush with the leader unbuttoned) and not only are the passengers firing on the AT team in the building on the left, the passengers on the other side acquire and shoot down my M113 TC before he can engage with his M2...
 
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Now I've seen everything. Plt. commander has a M16 but he transitioned to his pistol and shot down the Soviet crewman with it at close range. 
 
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Now I've seen everything. Plt. commander has a M16 but he transitioned to his pistol and shot down the Soviet crewman with it at close range. 
 
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Now I've seen everything. Plt. commander has a M16 but he transitioned to his pistol and shot down the Soviet crewman with it at close range. 
 
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Now I've seen everything. Plt. commander has a M16 but he transitioned to his pistol and shot down the Soviet crewman with it at close range. 
 
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I have never seen this before. BMP1 rolling, they hating, they see my M113 hiding behind a building (in ambush with the leader unbuttoned) and not only are the passengers firing on the AT team in the building on the left, the passengers on the other side acquire and shoot down my M113 TC before he can engage with his M2...
 
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I have never seen this before. BMP1 rolling, they hating, they see my M113 hiding behind a building (in ambush with the leader unbuttoned) and not only are the passengers firing on the AT team in the building on the left, the passengers on the other side acquire and shoot down my M113 TC before he can engage with his M2...
 
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I have never seen this before. BMP1 rolling, they hating, they see my M113 hiding behind a building (in ambush with the leader unbuttoned) and not only are the passengers firing on the AT team in the building on the left, the passengers on the other side acquire and shoot down my M113 TC before he can engage with his M2...
 
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I have never seen this before. BMP1 rolling, they hating, they see my M113 hiding behind a building (in ambush with the leader unbuttoned) and not only are the passengers firing on the AT team in the building on the left, the passengers on the other side acquire and shoot down my M113 TC before he can engage with his M2...
 
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I don't care if I lose the current scenario, I got a kill against a T64 from the front WITH A DRAGON!
I had a flank shot ambush all planned out but the pesky tank had plans of their own, which I ruined!


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I don't care if I lose the current scenario, I got a kill against a T64 from the front WITH A DRAGON!
I had a flank shot ambush all planned out but the pesky tank had plans of their own, which I ruined!


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I don't care if I lose the current scenario, I got a kill against a T64 from the front WITH A DRAGON!
I had a flank shot ambush all planned out but the pesky tank had plans of their own, which I ruined!


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I don't care if I lose the current scenario, I got a kill against a T64 from the front WITH A DRAGON!
I had a flank shot ambush all planned out but the pesky tank had plans of their own, which I ruined!


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I don't care if I lose the current scenario, I got a kill against a T64 from the front WITH A DRAGON!
I had a flank shot ambush all planned out but the pesky tank had plans of their own, which I ruined!


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I don't care if I lose the current scenario, I got a kill against a T64 from the front WITH A DRAGON!
I had a flank shot ambush all planned out but the pesky tank had plans of their own, which I ruined!


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I don't care if I lose the current scenario, I got a kill against a T64 from the front WITH A DRAGON!
I had a flank shot ambush all planned out but the pesky tank had plans of their own, which I ruined!


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Same bug or related to the one where all the M113s have thermal sight spotting capability? That one made me give up on playing the Soviets until it's fixed. 
 
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This and don't forget artillery. With the Soviets it's almost more of how does the armor support the artillery plan than vice versa.
 
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