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I've been reading "No True Glory" recently, and from the size scale the battles they had against even "mere insurgents," RPGs figure prominently in a minute by minute firefight. Assuming Syria would pull the same arms buildup cache stuff that Iraq did, even the informal militia and insurgent troops should be able to send a steady stream of RPG rounds back at NATO forces. The fighting in Anbar in 2004, if the book is correct, featured battalion-sized engagements in Ramadi, Fallujah, and the outlying suburbs, with insurgents who all had access to mortars, LMGs, HMGs, and RPGs, in a constant cycle of resupply (guys in taxis and cars bringing more weapons and ammo to the front, and hidden caches).

Can we expect this to be accurately reflected in CMSF?

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Toleran, we have done a lot of research into the RPG's...a lot of info is harder to find than you would expect it to be! You might like to check out the little article I just posted in the Blogfront section of this web page for some more info on the RPG-7 and rockets which will likely be in CMSF.

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Originally posted by KwazyDog:

Toleran, we have done a lot of research into the RPG's...a lot of info is harder to find than you would expect it to be! You might like to check out the little article I just posted in the Blogfront section of this web page for some more info on the RPG-7 and rockets which will likely be in CMSF.

Interesting , and really nice renders of the RPG-7.

About the rockets :

Is the PG-7V (I think that's the name (it's the most basic one) used against infantry?

Is the PG-7V the one they used in the movie Blackhawk down, and if it is, is it as inefficient(vs infantry) as it appears in the movie or am I dazzled by hollywood magic?

//Salkin

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Your comment about taxis bringing in more weapons brings up a question. I wouldn't be surprised if static automobile-shaped objects litter the game for city terrain. But will there be the possibility of actual 'commandeered civilian transport' in the game? A Toyota truck stacked with ammo boxes, an appropriately named KIA sedan carrying four militia fighters? "Mobility" for Syria doesn't only have to mean broken-down ex-soviet transport.

Ammo separated from weapons... weapons delinked from soldiers... A sloppy scenario designer could produce some rather annoying combinations, like lots of RPG launchers but no rounds handy! :D

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