db_zero Posted October 7, 2018 Author Share Posted October 7, 2018 (edited) When I gave the specs-range and altitude I was putting that into the context of potential military use on the battlefield. As mentioned in the US there are restrictions placed. Other countries can vary, but you still have to be careful and know what the laws are as well as how they generally view them. Also the TSA can and does prohibit some drones on airplanes. Edited October 7, 2018 by db_zero 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
db_zero Posted October 7, 2018 Author Share Posted October 7, 2018 Crazy stuff... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGAk5gRD-t0 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mord Posted October 7, 2018 Share Posted October 7, 2018 9 hours ago, ncc1701e said: No, I do not think so. Please check the few screenshots of the interface that we have from the game. There is no room for drones like what we have in CMBS, just artillery and air support. That's why they are called beta shots. The video was from December 2017. 4 hours ago, ncc1701e said: I have bought CMBN big bundle and I am enjoying it so far, and you? That evil bastidge is playing SF2! Mord. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOS:96B2P Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 On 10/7/2018 at 1:39 AM, iMolestCats said: As of right now we are still using ravens at the company level even then on my current deployment i haven't even seen the ODA teams use drones in that small of scale. All of our info on the ground is run by ISR. Plus carrying that stuff sucks.... Been awhile since I noticed you on the forum. Glad you are still around and thank you for your service!!! +1 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iMolestCats Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 13 hours ago, MOS:96B2P said: Been awhile since I noticed you on the forum. Glad you are still around and thank you for your service!!! +1 Thanks brother. I've never gone anywhere just haven't been posting as much as i used to. Now with cmsf2 inbound i can have more of an input. Also been getting pictures of my AO and have considered making a map for the game based on the area. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sequoia Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 So if I interpret this thread correctly, in CMSF2 US and possibly UK forces will get the Raven drone which is recon only and it will be rare. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sburke Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 5 hours ago, Sequoia said: So if I interpret this thread correctly, in CMSF2 US and possibly UK forces will get the Raven drone which is recon only and it will be rare. I can’t answer all that yet but just for grins and not in reference to QBs. In the editor you can switch around pretty much anything so you could give ravens to the uncons if you really wanted to. Theoretically speaking. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sequoia Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 Good point. But we can confirm, at least, the Raven is recon only as far as all I've read on Wikipedia, right? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sburke Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 Yeah the raven is a tiny little thing. It is purely an observation platform. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vet 0369 Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 2 hours ago, sburke said: Yeah the raven is a tiny little thing. It is purely an observation platform. That's exactly how it's used in CMBS too. Some scenarios will have one or two in the company that any of the officers, including the platoon leaders can use. A Tunguska is about the only thing that can bring it down, maybe the ZU-23 also, but I've never had one of those so I'm not sure, because the only thing the Raven is vulnerable to is triple-A. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncc1701e Posted October 12, 2018 Share Posted October 12, 2018 21 hours ago, Vet 0369 said: A Tunguska is about the only thing that can bring it down, maybe the ZU-23 also Cool, there are some technicals with ZSU 23-2 in CMSF already but will its aim be precise enough? Can't wait to try. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
=Marder= Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 So chances are we see EMT Aladin for Germany in NATO update? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sequoia Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 We don't know, and only Steve (and Charles who hasn't posted in several years) have the right to release info on the game without breaking a ND aggreement. From what I see on Wikipedia the timeframe fits and Aladdin and Raven are similar enough that they may have just given the games German forces the Raven and just called it the Aladdin, though strictly speaking the Aladdin is faster but with less endurance. It's also possible know one thought of it and it's now too late to add. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlowMotion Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 There are at least one kind of drones in demo scenarios. I noticed that when it was observing I could not cancel this. I don't know if it's always like this or because the air controller was dead and only radio man still alive of the 2 man team. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domfluff Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Just now, SlowMotion said: ...or because the air controller was dead and only radio man still alive of the 2 man team. What did you do to him ?! CMSF 2 demo tutorial mission has the Raven, certainly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlowMotion Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Just now, domfluff said: What did you do to him ?! CMSF 2 demo tutorial mission has the Raven, certainly. I think it was an enemy sniper that made the air controller disappear from the map. When I saw this I thought that dead members of a team/squad/etc disappear only once the entire team is dead. In this case there was only one man left. Did not notice at which point the air controller vanished. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Canadian Cat Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 If the leader of the team that called the observe mission is taken out then you will not be able to cancel it. Same for Artillery and Air support. Many times you don't notice that for artillery or air because the mission naturally ends at some point (other than Maximum missions for Artillery). I am not sure what you meant about the air controller disappearing when there is on man left. Do you mean the icon changed from the observer icon to something else? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 Can't speak to the game, but reconfigured and drastically improved Marine squads now have/will have (unsure of details as to transition situation) their own drones along with ~3 X more firepower and somewhat smaller squad size. If you thought Marine squads were bad news before... Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlowMotion Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 On 10/17/2018 at 7:26 PM, IanL said: I am not sure what you meant about the air controller disappearing when there is on man left. Do you mean the icon changed from the observer icon to something else? I meant that initially there were 2 soldiers in the team. After some turns game's unit info panel (or something) showed that the air controller was no longer alive. But I couldn't see the dead body on the map, like it normally happens when some of the team are dead and some alive. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOS:96B2P Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 29 minutes ago, SlowMotion said: I meant that initially there were 2 soldiers in the team. After some turns game's unit info panel (or something) showed that the air controller was no longer alive. But I couldn't see the dead body on the map, like it normally happens when some of the team are dead and some alive. A casualty will disappear from the map after buddy aid is completed. I"m guessing in the chaos of the battle the air controller was hit and buddy aid completed before you noticed. Were you playing real time or WEGO? (not that it matters, just curious) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlowMotion Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 9 hours ago, MOS:96B2P said: A casualty will disappear from the map after buddy aid is completed. I"m guessing in the chaos of the battle the air controller was hit and buddy aid completed before you noticed. Were you playing real time or WEGO? (not that it matters, just curious) Ok, I wish dead bodies stayed on map as long as some of the team are alive. It's good to see where they died. I was playing WEGO. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncc1701e Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 1 hour ago, SlowMotion said: Ok, I wish dead bodies stayed on map as long as some of the team are alive. It's good to see where they died. I was playing WEGO. I think this is already the case. Dead body remains on map. Casualties that you are taking care of i.e. wounded are evacuated by MEDEVAC even if you don't see it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOS:96B2P Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 5 hours ago, ncc1701e said: I think this is already the case. Dead body remains on map. Casualties that you are taking care of i.e. wounded are evacuated by MEDEVAC even if you don't see it. Both KIA (brown base) and WIA (red base) can receive buddy aid (buddy aid also serves to recover some ammo and equipment). After the completion of buddy aid both the KIA and WIA casualties disappear from the map. @SlowMotion just some more information that came from the below forum topic: WIA (red base) can turn to KIA (brown base) from additional hits. Buddy Aid is one on one however a team can treat multiple casualties in the same A/S concurrently. A team administering Buddy Aid will recover ammo including ammo for weapons they do not have in the team. Buddy aid on KIA (brown base) was about 15 - 35 seconds. On WIA (red base) about 1 minute – 2 minutes 30 seconds. Casualties only disappear if they receive Buddy Aid. I tested 2 KIA & 2 WIA for 1½ hours game time. They never disappeared. Experience of the teams administering buddy aid did not affect the length of buddy aid or the amount of equipment recovered. Lightly wounded (yellow base) are not counted as casualties on the AAR screen. To share ammo recovered in buddy aid the medic team must be part of the unit (“highlighted” unit) needing the ammo. During testing on average about 2 grenades and 170 rounds of ammo were recovered per casualty. I know from playing the game other equipment (radios, binoculars, some weapons etc.) can also be recovered but I did not try for that in the experiments. WIA (red base) incapacitated wounded are not counted in Parameter/Condition but are counted in Parameter/Casualties. Buddy aid does not make a difference to the score in Quick Battles or in Scenarios. Buddy aid does not make a difference to the score in a Campaign. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlowMotion Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 The reason why I wish buddy aid didn't remove dead soldiers from the map as long as their team mates are alive is: when you see the dead you know where enemy had line of sight to. So a place to avoid, like when infantry is moving on a hill or when a tank is finding hull down position. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncc1701e Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 16 hours ago, SlowMotion said: when you see the dead you know where enemy had line of sight to The enemy is moving too (perhaps not the AI indeed). So enemy line of sight may change too. If you count on dead bodies to show you the good avenue of approach, I do not want to be under your command - LOL 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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