Halmbarte

I subscribed just for the Featured Attraction and Previews! 
 
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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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German everything production during the war was a cluster. Germany didn’t have the resources needed for a major war from the beginning of the war in steel, aluminum, or oil. 
 
This book does a great job of analyzing German production in the pre-war and WWII timeframe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wages_of_Destruction
 
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BMP1s and 2s are still way better than BMP3s. Those things are VBIEDs that happen to contain dismounts. One thing I learned very early was to get the dismounts a good way away from BMP3s so they don't get wiped out by the secondary explosion. 
 
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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. 
 
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Eh, roughly half the Belgians are really Dutch anyways. 
 
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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...
 
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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. 
 
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With the way things are going, it's prolly the Combat Mission:Starship Troopers.
Or...
 
Wait for it...
 
Combat Mission:Ogre Mark V
(Bolo by Keith Laurmer)

Oh how I wish that game was still around. I sure spent a lot of hours with it. 
By still around I mean playable. I still have my copy but it’s just too small a window to use. 

TacOps

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