GaryOwen

It was about 115 degrees Fahrenheit here today. I'm generally lazy already anyway. I'd like to contribute something constructive to this conversation, but have very little energy. However, this link might be helpful vis Tony's (DarkAngel) comments regarding the game logic window: http://www.steelbeasts.com/sbwiki/index.php/Events_Triggers_Conditions

You can play test scenarios in the mission editor. You can, if you like, compress time, view all units - both sides, or switch sides, during the game.

I'd like to answer your question directly, but by trade I'd be compelled to respond, "It depends." And it does depend on METT-T considerations. For instance, if the command intends to overwhelm the opposing force by concentrating mass, the unit may never leave march formation in order to conserve momentum. If the intent is to clear and occupy a fortified area, at some point there may be a halt where the subunits dismount their infantry. Where the halts take place should be determined by engagement distance considerations. Et cetera. However, the management here have provided storage space for a documents library in the downloads area. It has some stuff that may be helpful for you: DIA Report on MRB FM 100-2-1 Soviet Army FM 71-123 Tactics and Techniques for Combined Arms Heavy Forces, Brigade through Company Team

Article on using the M1 reticle to estimate range and a download link to a practice scenario engaging targets at known distances: http://1stusvcav.com/Techniques/Shoot/estimating_range.html

Here's another possible solution -- going into the map editor to modify the water obstacle so that it is fordable. See this thread: http://www.steelbeasts.com/sbforums/showthread.php?t=9753

Wiki Entry for "Creating Heterogenneous Units"

http://forums.gamesquad.com/showthread.php?101162-Win-a-free-copy-of-Steel-Beasts-Pro-PE http://forums.darkesthourgame.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=8428

Thanks, found it, I'll read it through thoroughly over the weekend. http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p124201coll1/id/263/rec/226 Tac Error, Welcome to the conversation. FYI, sb.com has a library: http://www.steelbeasts.com/Downloads/p13_sectionid/19 Please feel free to contribute.

I looked through Odom's book, The Collapse of the Soviet Military and couldn't find mention of it. That work focuses on the post-Brehznev era; so perhaps that's why it's not mentioned. Cockburn mentions the incident twice in The Threat. He claims that there was a faction within the land forces that wanted to invade Poland prior to the Polish declaration of martial law. Brehznev wasn't really on board with that (It probably would have required too much work for him that would have distracted energy from his more immediate pursuits). The faction, nevertheless, had enough juice to order a call-up. The call-up was totally fubar'd -- beaucoup invalid addresses, missing equipment, cluelessness on the part of those who couldn't figure a way out of reporting. The situation was particularly bad in the Carpathian district. There may have been an issue with ethnic Poles in the call-up. It was so bad that rather prolonging a career ending spectacle, or, heaven forfend, fixing the problem, the call-up was cancelled. I don't know how much weight to give Cockburn, but there it is.

Here is a link to a brief explanation of the depiction of terrain features on military topographical maps. At the end of the article is a link to a land navigation training scenario. You may find this helpful. http://1stusvcav.com/Techniques/Move/map_reading.html

With respect to the BRIMIs, here's a great link: http://www.history.hqusareur.army.mil/uslmannual.htm Along the other lines you're talking about, I recall reading somewhere about unsuccessful Soviet attempts to call up reserves in the early '80s in response to events in Poland. I can't remember if that was in Cockburn's The Threat or whether I've read about that elsewhere.

Dude, what is going on over there? http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504784_162-20068674-10391705.html

Spend any amount of time reading on Soviet operational art and you'll see that one of the greatest lessons that they took from the Great Patriotic War was that the opening move is really important. Which is understandable given the initial clobbering they took during Barbarossa. Since Krushchev, they had intended, if things were to get hot, that they would take the initiative and use their most lethal means to rip huge holes in the West's defenses, driving operational manuever groups through those holes as ruthlessly as possible. The infantry fighting vehicle (BMP) was designed specifically for this purpose. It was designed to allow infantry to fight from within a space that would protect them from radiological contamination. The Soviet force pointed at western Europe was organized from the ground up to fight on a nuclear battlefield. The US maintained nuclear capable artillery in theater throughout the Cold War. During the 1960's we even fielded a nuclear device that was launched from a recoiless rifle tripod. One of the reasons it was eventually retired was that the warhead's radius of effect was greater than the rocket's range. Additionally think about the message that the change from the Active Defense to the AirLand doctrine was intended to be sent to the Soviets. That message: "We are now acknowledging that we if we strike, we intend to strike deep and hard. We will call it defensive, but we will attack your homeland." Implicit is the threat to use high explosives. Of course, neither party wanted to see any of this actually happen. Andrew Bacevich, once the Blackhorse regimental commander - now a poli-sci professor/thinker, suggested in his The New American Militarism* that the military's conduct during the '70's-'90's with respect to the Cold War in Europe was a deliberate effort at regaining a degree of professional competence and self-respect after Vietnam by training to win a war that everyone knew would never have to be fought. So in answer to AKM's question: Gary Owen; perhaps you have perspective on what NATO would most likely have done under circumstances stated by the original post?, my guess would be the same as it had been doing up until that point, just adding more expensive weapons systems as time went by -- or, the same, just more of it. *http://www.amazon.com/New-American-Militarism-Americans-Seduced/dp/0195173384

Race to the Swift should be easy enough to find, if you must read Simpkin. That seems to have sold relatively well when published.

It's available in paperback for considerably less than $300. http://www.amazon.com/Soviet-Military-Operational-Art-Practice/dp/0714640778/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1306631674&sr=8-1 Simpkin, however, is a rare find.

For the M1: http://www.steelbeasts.com/sbwiki/index.php/M1A1_%28HA%29#Commander.27s_Weapon_Station_.28CWS.29

Duck Season!

I've had the ArmaII/Operation Arrowhead combo installed for some time now. I enjoyed the single-player campaigns in the original Flashpoint/Red Hammer/Resistance a lot more than those in the new versions. And although the vehicle modelling does tend toward being arcade-ish, I'd enjoy an organized online armor battle more than single player or jumping into an open server free-for-all. Simhq has a regular game Monday evenings, I'd probably enjoy that as well if my schedule permitted it. Anyway, having looked at the link, I was wondering where the game server is located, as latency seems to limit me with this game.

Their next event is May 28th, which is a Saturday. So that won't cannibalize TGIF. It looks like their first event in March had a fair amount of participation. I doubt that the SB community would be the worse for connection with this type of stuff on other platforms -- I doubt that any active SB community members are going to forego SB because this is now available. Participation by interested SB community members in such events on other platforms, however, may be a good way to introduce SB to people who may be disposed to check it out but were otherwise unaware of it. Always with the negative waves, Moriarty.

I was in Friedberg when 1/32 reflagged as 4/67. I think V was there when it was 4/67. That's when Archangel was there as well, IINM.

Good luck to you. Just out of curiosity, why the Bandits rather than something associated with the Taro Leaf divisions (24th or 25th ID) given your location?

AlphaIndia says: "You better keep moving and get off those hilltops fast, or otherwise you will skyline and I will bust a cap in your non taynking ass."

As a starting point: http://1stusvcav.com/Techniques/Move/terrain_analysis.html http://1stusvcav.com/Tactics/Page%202.html

Another formulation for the discussion: Tactics is the employment of units in combat. It includes the ordered arrangement and maneuver of units in relation to each other, the terrain and the enemy to translate potential combat power into victorious battles and engagements. U.S. Army Field Manual 3-90 TACTICS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It’s also said that tactics, like many other disciplines, sculpting for example, is both a science and an art. A sculptor combines his understanding of his materials and tools with his appreciation of the principles of aesthetics, such as symmetry and proportion, in order to create an object of expression. Similarly a tactician uses his knowledge of his own and the opposing forces, of the physical and temporal dimensions of the battle space, and then he applies general principles of war, such as mass and economy of force, to determine the best course of action to accomplish his mission. 　 So then, for our purposes here, the term ‘tactics’ refers to the discipline governing the decisions on how to best employ forces in the battle space in order to overcome opposition to accomplishing a mission. Tactics is a discipline governing decision making. It is goal oriented. Starting with the strengths and weaknesses of a given situation, the tactician applies general principles to determine which possible courses of action are best to achieve his goal. So, in order to achieve that goal, the tactician must take accurate stock of the situation, develop possible courses of action, and then applying the general principles determine which course is most likely to be successful. This process is recursive, in that the evaluation and decision making must continue as the situation changes and develops. http://1stusvcav.com/Tactics/Page%201.html

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