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CMCW in '79 is like fighting the Germans in late WWII.
 
Except this time the Americans don't have superior numbers on their side while fighting tanks that are pretty immune to frontal hits. Even early TOWs don't reliably kill T64s/72s. 
 
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I dunno, it's typical Soviet life.
 
When you have ration coupons for meat, the store does't have meat. When the store has meat, you're out of meat coupons...
 
Welcome to the future, New Soviet Man!
 
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I dunno, it's typical Soviet life.
 
When you have ration coupons for meat, the store does't have meat. When the store has meat, you're out of meat coupons...
 
Welcome to the future, New Soviet Man!
 
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The previews of coming attractions was great. That movie reminds me of Mad Max except for the quality of the acting, the special effects, the plot, and the budget. 
 
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If I'm playing the Soviets they need to banzai charge with their RPGs and stab the tank to get a kill. 
 
If I'm playing the Americans then RPGs are devastatingly accurate out to 900m. 
 
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If I'm playing the Soviets they need to banzai charge with their RPGs and stab the tank to get a kill. 
 
If I'm playing the Americans then RPGs are devastatingly accurate out to 900m. 
 
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If I'm playing the Soviets they need to banzai charge with their RPGs and stab the tank to get a kill. 
 
If I'm playing the Americans then RPGs are devastatingly accurate out to 900m. 
 
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If I'm playing the Soviets they need to banzai charge with their RPGs and stab the tank to get a kill. 
 
If I'm playing the Americans then RPGs are devastatingly accurate out to 900m. 
 
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After the central front in Europe that's my #1 wish. The Arab-Israeli were a grab bag of everyone's equipment and the lessons learned there drove tactics for a generation. 
 
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Title say it all really:

https://thesovietarmourblog.blogspot.com/2021/07/soviet-atgms.html
Hopefully of interest to CM:CW players.

After the central front in Europe that's my #1 wish. The Arab-Israeli were a grab bag of everyone's equipment and the lessons learned there drove tactics for a generation. 
 
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BAOR gets me Chieftains with the 120mm rifled gun, West Germany gets me Leopard 1s and Marders. 
 
Either way I’d buy both. 
 
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There is a fixed total number of helmets in the game. The US ones had to come from somewhere.

BAOR gets me Chieftains with the 120mm rifled gun, West Germany gets me Leopard 1s and Marders. 
 
Either way I’d buy both. 
 
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BAOR gets me Chieftains with the 120mm rifled gun, West Germany gets me Leopard 1s and Marders. 
 
Either way I’d buy both. 
 
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Dispersion and concealment.
Keep units far enough apart that a air strike can only get one at a time. Hide units under trees or tucked up close to buildings. 
Keep AA units out in the open with clear fields of fire. Nothing is more disheartening than seeing your AA light up a forest…
 
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Dispersion and concealment.
Keep units far enough apart that a air strike can only get one at a time. Hide units under trees or tucked up close to buildings. 
Keep AA units out in the open with clear fields of fire. Nothing is more disheartening than seeing your AA light up a forest…
 
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The difference being that the Sov tanks are actually pretty reliable and not likely to have broken final drives or caught fire while deploying, plus they have more tanks than you do. 
 
It’s a problem, especially in ‘79. The other shoe is that the Sov have good supporting weapons. The BMP was revolutionary and outclasses the M113, and the Soviet infantry has a very good AT weapon in the RPG. Hunting tanks with infantry is a thing that can be done. Plus there is the artillery. So much arty. 
 
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Dispersion and concealment.
Keep units far enough apart that a air strike can only get one at a time. Hide units under trees or tucked up close to buildings. 
Keep AA units out in the open with clear fields of fire. Nothing is more disheartening than seeing your AA light up a forest…
 
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Wikipedia says the minimum range for a 4.2" is 770m. 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M30_mortar
 
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Witnessed!
 
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Great mods here that works flawlessly as far as I can tell. Thanks so much for the work.
I love it when it feels like Christmas morning. Had no idea BF had released CMCW until yesterday.
Like many, I go back to CMBB on the Mac when I was a young man. Since then got the whole series. Now I'm turning 65...
Anyway, re-registering was a breeze, as was the vanilla and mod installs. My gosh, even Mad Mike's campaign decompiler still works.
I celebrated when The Wall went down and can now play out what, thank God, didn't happen in Germany.
"Absent from the body, present with the Lord" was my rationale during those years. This game brings me back.
The campaign write-ups are great. Sorry for going way OT, but thanks for the memories.
 

A Germany module seems the most important to me. The West Germans would have been the most numerous NATO force on the ground at the start of the war and would have carried the majority of the early fighting. So we desperately need to have them represented. Next most urgent after that is British forces. I've just got to take that Chieftain out for a spin.

Trying to prevent soldiers from using weapons against an enemy is frequently an exercise In futility. 
 
My favorite example is the Brit troops in the Falklands using Milans against Argentinian MG emplacements. The missiles took out the MGs but were an order of magnitude more expensive than what they were being used against. 
 
That the troops didn’t have to keep carrying the missiles they fired wouldn’t have entered into the equation at all, I’m sure. 
 
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