Oleksandr Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 While attacking always remember that your main goal is to achieve your victory with as less casualties as possible. In order to minimize your casualties, you should always plan your actions. Planning depends on a size of your force. There are tons of people who are talking about things such as: reconnaissance, fire superiority, and maneuvering. Indeed, those are crucial things to keep in mind. Now let’s pretend that you want to become a Ukrainian Army General in a world of Combat Mission, what would be the first thing to keep in mind while planning an attack? The answer is simple: Size of the force. Force Adjustment Formula: If you going to attack an enemy squad, you will need to do it with a platoon. If you going to attack a platoon, you will need to do it with a company. If you going to assault positions protected by a company, you will need to use a battalion. Simplification: Platoon vs squad. Company vs platoon. Battalion vs company. Force adjustment is crucial when it comes to minimization of your casualties and achieving success on a battlefield. Now let’s move from general formula to specific concepts related to Force Adjustment. If you going to attack an enemy infantry supported by armor or even by heavy armor, things are going to get a little more complicated. This is how Force Adjustment Formula may look in some cases: Minimum (expect up to 50% casualties) Platoon (at least: 3 bmp) vs squad (+1 bmp) Company (at least: 9 bmp) vs platoon (+3 bmp) Battalion (at least: 27 bmp) vs Company (+9 bmp) Minimum if heavy armor involved (expect up to 50% casualties) Platoon (at least: 3 bmp + 4 tanks) vs squad (+1 bmp + 1 tank) Company (at least: 9 bmp + 12 tanks) vs platoon (+3 bmp + 4 tanks) Battalion (at least: 27 bmp + 36 tanks) vs Company (+9 bmp + 12 tanks) As you can see, some battles can transform into massive operations involving hundreds of people and dozens of armored vehicles of all kinds. My suggestion would be to begin with quick battles and practice attacking starting from platoon vs squad type of battles on a small and tiny map. Foremost, Force Adjustment is not the only thing you should keep in mind while planning your attack, but it is the core stone of success. In a following post I will write about artillery support, unit composition, different tactical moves, etc. Those are tools what can and will help you dramatically when you will lead your men into a fight. Glory to Ukraine! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 Oleksandr, Welcome aboard! That's quite the first post, and I look forward to reading the ones thereafter. Love the photo! Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oleksandr Posted January 23, 2017 Author Share Posted January 23, 2017 (edited) Thank you for your nice words John, I will be writing more. On Photo: It is one of the 3rd series BTR lineup. BTR-3E (not in the game yet but I hope to see it one day in Combat Mission Black Sea). Basically BTR-3 is a platform of BTR's, Ukrainian Armed Forces are equiped with: Medical, Mortar, Regular (3E), and other BTR 3 variants. Best Regards, Oleksandr. Edited January 23, 2017 by Oleksandr 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiduk Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 (edited) 6 hours ago, Oleksandr said: Thank you for your nice words John, I will be writing more. On Photo: It is one of the 3rd series BTR lineup. BTR-3E (not in the game yet but I hope to see it one day in Combat Mission Black Sea). Basically BTR-3 is a platform of BTR's, Ukrainian Armed Forces are equiped with: Medical, Mortar, Regular (3E), and other BTR 3 variants. Best Regards, Oleksandr. Hm... Where did you see these BTR-3 variants in Armed Forces ? If you means National Guard, then yes... But in Ground Forces, alas, no. About dozen BTR-3DA in VDV this is nothing. Edited January 23, 2017 by Haiduk 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oleksandr Posted January 23, 2017 Author Share Posted January 23, 2017 8 hours ago, Haiduk said: Hm... Where did you see these BTR-3 variants in Armed Forces ? If you means National Guard, then yes... But in Ground Forces, alas, no. About dozen BTR-3DA in VDV this is nothing. The thing is that information on wiki about Ukrainian Armed Forces is not updating fast enough. We not talking about dozens in anything lol BTR-3 as a platform going to basically replace majority of BTR-80's in following years, and 3E is not the only version of it. Obviously information about numbers is classified and is not avaliable for the public in open sources what so ever. Yet, BTR-3 in following 2-3 years will become massively implemented in both: Ground Forces and National Guard (where as you already said it was implemented). VDV from the other hand especially 95th brigade are interested in BTR's 4 and its new variant BTR-4M. The reason for that is that starting from 2014 BTR-4E had around 2000 changes and fixes. So I would say that your statement is correct if we are talking about 2014 when BTR-3 were only appearing. Now after 3 years of war Ukrainian Armed Forces, National Guard, SSO forces, are actively progressing. For example only in 2017 Ukraine will produce around 12 000 new and modernized types of military hardware. The exact number of hardware produced, fixed and modernized since 2014 is something around 36 000 but thats an approximate number prior to classification of some info. Yet, if we will talk about this game in particular I would love to see BTR-3 Mobile Mortar variant. If you would be so kind, could you please tell me where can I write about desirible hardware to see in the game? I'm a newbie here on this forum and I was wondering if we have any topics where people are able to share their ideas with developers? And also Im glad that there are people playing into this game who are somewhat familiar with our National Guard, for me thats an honor to see that coming up. Will be glad to see you following my posts (will be posting a lot of stuff related to Ukrainian side here). Glory to Ukraine! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marwek77 aka Red Reporter Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 1 hour ago, Oleksandr said: ... starting from 2014 BTR-4E had around 2000 changes and fixes... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marwek77 aka Red Reporter Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 This i call finished product 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oleksandr Posted January 23, 2017 Author Share Posted January 23, 2017 2 minutes ago, Marwek77 aka Red Reporter said: 1 hour ago, Oleksandr said: ... starting from 2014 BTR-4E had around 2000 changes and fixes... Yea they've changed a lot including their engines - now BTR-4's are runing on mostly "Deutz" German Engines. There were tons of small fixed related to doors, wheels, gun stability, and so on. In the future Ukraine will be produsin other variants of BTR 4 platform as well, there are different fire modules. So BTR-4E and BTR-4M are linear models - they do the do, but there are versions of it for more spesific tasks. Yet, producing BTR-3 is cheaper, thats why we looking forward to see more and more of 3rd line coming up into a fight in a closest years. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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