mjkerner Posted November 30, 2020 Author Share Posted November 30, 2020 Just watched for the third time in 4 days. It just out did my previous record of watching Saving Private Ryan, Last of the Mohicans, Black Hawk Down, and Revenant 3 times in the first 5 or 6 days of release; but all those were in movie theaters. Anyway, can’t say enough good things about Mosul. (For the record, I have many, many quibbles with those other four.) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 20 hours ago, Sgt.Squarehead said: Dude.....It was you that originally asked for it! Seriously! @Combatintman please back me up here! 8 hours ago, Combatintman said: I can't remember where the details of where the Mosul thing started - it was a conversation we had in 2016 or early 2017. 2017: On 1/14/2017 at 12:50 PM, Erwin said: I am amazed that no one has attempted a Mosul mission with Iraq Army vs Uncons (esp using your xnt Ramadi map). Actually, any mission on your map would be great as it is one of the finest, maybe the finest CMSF map. So that's what I did. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 4 hours ago, Sgt.Squarehead said: your map would be great as it is one of the finest, maybe the finest CMSF map ...You did pay me well for that endorsement... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waffelmann Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 I watched the first episode of Fauda and have to admit that I have mixed feelings about this. It is interesting to see how this israeli special unit works. Killing arabs without visible legal basis and often it is questionable if these are terrorists or not. No wonder when the arabs are hating this behavior (if this reflects reality), respectively these people. I only wonder if this serie critics this israeli behavior or trying to leitimate it? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 (edited) 13 hours ago, Erwin said: ...You did pay me well for that endorsement... You were actually endorsing the mighty @LongLeftFlank (PBOH).....Ramadi is his creation, not mine. But I discovered that the section just east of the eastern cemetery bore a very close resemblance to the Hayy el Karamah district in East Mosul.....So I made a few changes, added the known features based on Google maps (in 2017) and created the two Mosul Mini-Maps that you can find in my thread. As it turns out this was a fortuitous coincidence as Hayy el Karamay was on the main axis of advance and the area was fought over repeatedly in 2016. I essentially compressed a million little skirmishes into one raging fire-fight. FWIW the maps/scenarios represent this area: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Al+Karamah,+Mosul,+Iraq/@36.3433418,43.2179888,928m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x400796779662a445:0xaafe1e66814fd862!8m2!3d36.344537!4d43.2140664?hl=en-US Hornets' Nest: The Crusher: Not quite right, but pretty close IMHO. PS - The sattelite imagery (and also Google's labelling) has improved significantly in the three years sice I made this.....I now know of the Shaimaa School which I had previously hypothesised was a TV station (apparently there's one in there somewhere, CTS had to clear it, as usual). PPS - There's still something iffy about the imagery around the Ansar Mosque, that diagonal feature running from lower centre to right centre seems like an imagery artefact of some kind to me. PPPS - As I've said elsewhere, were I doing a full CM:SF2 remake I would do things somewhat differently, TBH I probably will at some point. Edited December 1, 2020 by Sgt.Squarehead 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Combatintman Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 6 hours ago, Sgt.Squarehead said: You were actually endorsing the mighty @LongLeftFlank (PBOH).....Ramadi is his creation, not mine. But I discovered that the section just east of the eastern cemetery bore a very close resemblance to the Hayy el Karamah district in East Mosul.....So I made a few changes, added the known features based on Google maps (in 2017) and created the two Mosul Mini-Maps that you can find in my thread. As it turns out this was a fortuitous coincidence as Hayy el Karamay was on the main axis of advance and the area was fought over repeatedly in 2016. I essentially compressed a million little skirmishes into one raging fire-fight. FWIW the maps/scenarios represent this area: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Al+Karamah,+Mosul,+Iraq/@36.3433418,43.2179888,928m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x400796779662a445:0xaafe1e66814fd862!8m2!3d36.344537!4d43.2140664?hl=en-US Hornets' Nest: The Crusher: Not quite right, but pretty close IMHO. PS - The sattelite imagery (and also Google's labelling) has improved significantly in the three years sice I made this.....I now know of the Shaimaa School which I had previously hypothesised was a TV station (apparently there's one in there somewhere, CTS had to clear it, as usual). PPS - There's still something iffy about the imagery around the Ansar Mosque, that diagonal feature running from lower centre to right centre seems like an imagery artefact of some kind to me. PPPS - As I've said elsewhere, were I doing a full CM:SF2 remake I would do things somewhat differently, TBH I probably will at some point. Might be worth explaining some of the bits and pieces above .... TV station could be this sucker ... The piece about the lower centre to mid-centre around the Ansar Mosque - throw me a bone but the image below might cover some of it off: Can't say for sure which of the places highlighted with an antenna is the TV station but both are possibilities ... if only you knew someone who is an imagery analyst eh? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOS:96B2P Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 19 minutes ago, Combatintman said: Might be worth explaining some of the bits and pieces above .... TV station could be this sucker ... The piece about the lower centre to mid-centre around the Ansar Mosque - throw me a bone but the image below might cover some of it off: Can't say for sure which of the places highlighted with an antenna is the TV station but both are possibilities ... if only you knew someone who is an imagery analyst eh? +1. NICE!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Combatintman Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 7 minutes ago, MOS:96B2P said: +1. NICE!! Imagery 101 mate - look around the image and look at the shadows. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted December 2, 2020 Share Posted December 2, 2020 (edited) Good eyes dude. The diagonal feature I was describing is fully shown in your second Image.....It looks like some of the compounds are sliced off, or as if two images have been composited incorectly.....However some of the features do seem to have shadows. PS - In your second image a whole compound (hospital?) has completely vanished.....It should be to the east of the three small structures east of the putative TV station and immediately north west of the Ansar Mosque! Edited December 2, 2020 by Sgt.Squarehead 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Combatintman Posted December 2, 2020 Share Posted December 2, 2020 6 hours ago, Sgt.Squarehead said: Good eyes dude. The diagonal feature I was describing is fully shown in your second Image.....It looks like some of the compounds are sliced off, or as if two images have been composited incorectly.....However some of the features do seem to have shadows. PS - In your second image a whole compound (hospital?) has completely vanished.....It should be to the east of the three small structures east of the putative TV station and immediately north west of the Ansar Mosque! If this is the diagonal you're talking about ... They are compound walls. If you flick back and forward through the historical imagery (another IMINT trick) you can see that the diagonal appears to varying degrees in all of them so that, combined with the fact that they project shadows, tells you that you are seeing a physical feature rather than something created by the images being stitched together. The place is slightly different now 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted December 2, 2020 Share Posted December 2, 2020 Now that is a bit of a change! I really do need to get my head around the CM:SF2 map template feature.....Am I correct in recalling the image needs to be saved as a bitmap? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Combatintman Posted December 2, 2020 Share Posted December 2, 2020 Correct save it as a bmp and bung it in your Z folder using the file name Special Editor Overlay 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongLeftFlank Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 On 12/1/2020 at 10:31 PM, Sgt.Squarehead said: You were actually endorsing the mighty @LongLeftFlank (PBOH).....Ramadi is his creation, not mine. onntXB7qRts 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 (edited) Finally got around to watching this, TBH the unit depicted, while looking a lot like CTS, appeared to be acting a lot more like a PMU, at least based on the accounts I read while researching for the Mosul scenarios. Not sure what to make of it TBH. Edited January 8, 2021 by Sgt.Squarehead 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjkerner Posted January 8, 2021 Author Share Posted January 8, 2021 I read the New Yorker article after I watched it. It put the general situation with Nineveh SWAT in perspective. They weren’t CTS, nor did the movie say they were. I enjoyed it as a mostly pure war movie, though, and a very well done one, IMHO. No love story (well, except for the reunion at the end, no corny speeches, etc. And face it, how many war movies about fighting ISIS have been made? Your mileage obviously varied! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 (edited) I was hoping someone had given CTS the credit they are long overdue.....Just look at their record, most western units would be very proud of battle honours like theirs. PS - I did enjoy the film, but it wasn't quite what I was expecting/hoping for. Edited January 8, 2021 by Sgt.Squarehead 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sburke Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 something else that might be of interest Sgt just from the perspective of how the Iraqis shoulder the fight against ISIS The Spymaster of Baghdad: A True Story of Bravery, Family, and Patriotism in the Battle against ISIS - Kindle edition by Coker, Margaret. Politics & Social Sciences Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 Amazon Prime has an interesting Iraq documentary series "Marine Recon": https://www.amazon.com/Marine-Recon/dp/B01JNH9E1G 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjkerner Posted March 6, 2021 Author Share Posted March 6, 2021 I second Erwin on Marine Recon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aragorn2002 Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 Looks like a great Sunday afternoon movie, MJ. Christians in Iraq are still in danger. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-48333923 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 Been going on for decades. At least there is BBC publicity about it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PugRoyale Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 I watched Mosul last night after stumbling upon this thread. Very well done. Thanks for the recommendation! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aragorn2002 Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 (edited) Indeed. Very impressed. War is a dirty business. Edited March 7, 2021 by Aragorn2002 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sburke Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 On 1/8/2021 at 3:34 PM, Sgt.Squarehead said: I was hoping someone had given CTS the credit they are long overdue.....Just look at their record, most western units would be very proud of battle honours like theirs. PS - I did enjoy the film, but it wasn't quite what I was expecting/hoping for. a bit of positive news I thought you'd apprrciate Four Years After It Was Heavily Damaged, Mosul’s Iconic al-Nuri Mosque Is Being Rebuilt (msn.com) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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