arpella72 Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Very interesting video but unfortunately we can't recreate this in CM because the 50 cal. MG from american TDs are completely useless... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeFF Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Lol, ok. BF doesn't model things based on extreme outliers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ng cavscout Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 50 cals tear up my bmps in combat Mission Cold War at least from the sides and behind. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 (edited) Just had a nightmare pointblank encounter between BMPs & M113s in a forest.....I think my (reinforced) BMP platoon came off better, mostly because I had already debussed my infantry, there sure were a lot of red crosses when we brewed those tracks up! I'm trying to decide which game is more brutal, this one, or CM:RT.....At the moment the carnage in the Karelian Isthmus is still just about edging it for CM:RT, but it's getting pretty close with battles like that one! Edited October 15, 2021 by Sgt.Squarehead 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimpleSimon Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 (edited) Are we even playing the same game? The Browning .50cal is utterly brutal toward the enormous number of paper-armored German recon cars and half tracks they've got tons of. Murphy didn't kill anything bigger than a man with that Browning. He fought extremely hard and by all accounts did something very heroic and selfless in the face of a terrifying situation. The overpowering imagery and depictions of his fight are universally illustrating events which Did Not Happen Like That and paint an embellished idea of the battle obviously to sell war bonds and support Hawk policies post war. Incidentally, it was not even the first time Murphy did something worth earning a Medal of Honor for. The man's entire career was an insane defiance of death and odds and it left him by the way - with no shortage of emotional and drug problems after the war. He clearly felt that his life and exploits had been violated to some degree by a system with an ulterior motive. That's a far more interesting discussion to me than "oh if only CM would model the special AP incendiary round I read about on wikipedia".  Edited October 15, 2021 by SimpleSimon 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 5 hours ago, SimpleSimon said: He clearly felt that his life and exploits had been violated to some degree by a system with an ulterior motive. That's a far more interesting discussion to me +1 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletpoint Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 Â Here's Murphy in CM. This guy single-handedly saved the day by holding my left flank, and he lived to tell the tale. From a PBEM using Bil Hardenbergers's scenario "A rifle behind every tree". Â 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hapless Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 I think the OP's point is more about how some of the pintle-mounted .50s on US vehicles don't ever get used. As in, the weapon is fine... the pixeltruppen just never actually fire them because of where they're located on the turret (usually some kind of AA position IIRC). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckdyke Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 11 minutes ago, Hapless said: I think the OP's point is more about how some of the pintle-mounted .50s on US vehicles don't ever get used. The 75 mm Shermans don't use them on the light fire command but the 76 mm do. I tried it out in FB as I think they are effective against buildings. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
womble Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 IÂ believe the problem is that the TC would have to get out of his seat and stand on the engine deck to use the Ma Deuce to fire forward in the case of the TDs. That's a little bit outside the parameters of the "simulation"... Maybe it could be programmed, but it's not an insignificant addition and clearly BFC have decided that it's not worth the effort for the vanishingly rare (even in our exception-gaming that we undertake) cases where its availability would make a difference. It'd probably only be available to a Fanatic commander at all, and most of the time, even for such a committed individual, adding the BMG to the mix wouldn't make sense. And then people would start finding ways to provoke it, it'd happen "all the time" and another segment of the demographic would start pooh-poohing it as "unrealistic depiction favouring the Americans". Really not worth the candle. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freyberg Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 The impression you get from his book is that he was traumatised from the loss of so many friends and had a death wish... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckdyke Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 (edited) War is like a horse race you must bet on the winning horse. This guy didn't but destroyed 13 Soviet tanks. Men against tanks he was 18 years and served his time after the war. Once he knew the truth he regretted he ever joined up. Â Edited October 16, 2021 by chuckdyke 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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