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2 hours ago, ChrisWerb said:

Weapons that were designed as anti armour weapons most often are not used for that purpose in combat. They're just way too useful for a myriad of other purposes.

 

Really?

 

As someone with over 30 years service including:

 

- In my earlier days qualifying on the weapon (Carl Gustav), fired lots on nice black HEAT rounds, HE and Illum as well as buckets of Prac

- More recently deploying and having people under my command use it

 

I'd never have known.

 

However those asymmetric threat environments tend not to have a lot of AFVs running around. Your average Steel Beasts scenario does.

 

If I face an armoured threat and if my guys only have 4 - 6 rounds (not the re-mount / refresh experience of SB) then I'll direct them to use them to fire at primarily AFVs (i.e. maybe use 1 of the 6 rounds on a bunker).

 

I see no point using them on buildings and other things when Murphy's Law says that as soon as you fire the 6th round an AFV will drive around the corner.

 

Apart from that the 84's signature will attract a lot of interest when fired so you need to ensure you pick your targets.

 

So by all means waste the ammunition (IMHO) on lower priority targets in SB, but please don't tell me how to employ the weapon system in real life until you know a bit more than just copy and paste out of Wikipedia or whatever.

 

 

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12 minutes ago, Gibsonm said:

 

Really?

 

As someone with over 30 years service including:

 

- In my earlier days qualifying on the weapon (Carl Gustav), fired lots on nice black HEAT rounds, HE and Illum as well as buckets of Prac

- More recently deploying and having people under my command use it

 

I'd never have known.

 

However those asymmetric threat environments tend not to have a lot of AFVs running around. Your average Steel Beasts scenario does.

 

If I face an armoured threat and if my guys only have 4 - 6 rounds (not the re-mount / refresh experience of SB) then I'll direct them to use them to fire at primarily AFVs (i.e. maybe use 1 of the 6 rounds on a bunker).

 

I see no point using them on buildings and other things when Murphy's Law says that as soon as you fire the 6th round an AFV will drive around the corner.

 

Apart from that the 84's signature will attract a lot of interest when fired so you need to ensure you pick your targets.

 

So by all means waste the ammunition (IMHO) on lower priority targets in SB, but please don't tell me how to employ the weapon system in real life until you know a bit more than just copy and paste out of Wikipedia or whatever.

 

 

I too was scratching my head over that comment. Never told my troops to fire a anti armour weapons  not used for that purpose in training, or my deployments either, just wondering where that came from?

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So now we have vids of troops firing AT wpns at non AFV's.. Not trying to cause shit here, how ever,

Is this the best tactical use of said wpn system?, or I got his wpn and I can fire it, so I will?

 Like I stated I don't see any purpose in doing so. Can anyone explain why one would use a limited wpn system, on a non armoured trg when a AFV threat, could appear at any moment and leave the unit without that capability?

Just how would the on the ground leader justify the it's use if it was needed,but unavailable when needed and lives were lost.

 

 

Not pointing fingers here (just my personal education), just trying to understand the thought process, as one who has been in situations where this behavior was not tolerated/encouraged working with other nations other than my own, and I've worked/deployed with a few.

 

Plz don't let this go pear shape.

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Well it's not totally insane. In the Swedish army (the longest user of the Carl G?) We basicly have 4 rounds for it, HE, HEAT, SMK and ILLUMINATION and what we load up is mostly mission specific, or more precisly threat specific (Even if we have a default loadout as well that I dont remember in my head).

 

And we are quite happy to fire HE on infantry, trucks and buildings with infantry in it,(with airburst function on the HE as well) use SMOKE to screen of enemies or our self and ILLUMINATION to... well illuminate (guess this round is getting more and more obsolete with NVGs...) 

So I am one of those who want to specify in SB what the Carl G are carrying and also be able to force the AI what round to use against what (for example a building with troops in it).

 

I guess different countries have different SOP's but to Swedish army the carl G ist not only a AT-weapon but a multi-purpouse weapon.

 

/KT

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Agree, we do the same with the Carl G, and use the rounds aligned with the target, although we don't fire a A/T round when we have Heat for that use, I suppose if all you had was AT left, and had to fire to save lives, but this would be in extreme cases. Personalty. I never seen this in trg, or deployments, But it could have happened. :) Do you you use the TP RAP FFV 552 ?

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I'm guessing some of the recent uses of what are meant as anti-tank weapons against non-tank targets has simply been the lack of tanks to shoot.  If you're fighting against an insurgent force that simply does not have armored vehicles, I imagine it could be tempting to fire an AT weapon at them for various reasons.  Be it the morale effect of doing so, the physical effect of doing so, or simply having an excuse to get rid of it so you don't have to carry it.

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On 10/24/2017 at 5:47 PM, Gibsonm said:
On 10/24/2017 at 0:49 PM, Bond_Villian said:

Some kind of UI function that would list all units that a player has under their command/ownership. (For Multiplayer).

 

Doesn't the current colour coding / shading achieve that?

 

 

 

Allow me to clarify;  Some kind of UI function that would list all units that any given player has under their command/ownership. (No more; "Who has 1/A"...."Who has 1/A?"...."EVERYBODY CHECK YOUR MAP AND SEE IF YOU HAVE 1/A!" )

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14 hours ago, Apocalypse 31 said:

 

Being able to place small military structures and force protection in the mission editor.

 

Tents, Guard towers, HESCO barriers, etc.

Yeah this would be handy. (Although having the Map editor open in another instance of SB and alt-tabbing to make map changes, then refreshing map in the mission editor works fairly well/quickly too).

Having these things as deployable objects in the planning phase would create some possibilities too.

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58 minutes ago, CalAB said:

If that’s the case with maps regarding the terrain upgrade then it will be a pool of sorts. We get to choose a region of a specific map but we can’t alter it. A random battle generator may actually be possible now. 

We'll still be able to modify maps. But attaching the map to a scenario file, so that everyone loading the scenario in the assembly hall will have the map at the same time...might not be possible anymore.

As map can grow bigger with higher terrain resolution.

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1 hour ago, Grenny said:

We'll still be able to modify maps. But attaching the map to a scenario file, so that everyone loading the scenario in the assembly hall will have the map at the same time...might not be possible anymore.

As map can grow bigger with higher terrain resolution.

 

Yes things like 20+ people at TGIF downloading the scenario + map 2 mins before mission start will be unlikely unless everyone of those people is on fibre, due to the file's size / download speeds required.

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It can still be possible if the base map has been distributed previously, and the embedded map is a "delta map" with sufficiently few differences to the base map. In that case the map size remains small to keep it practical to distribute it with the scenario file.

 

And while you are just TESTING a scenario, it will remain possible to edit a map while you are playing a scenario based on said map in its unpublished state. Only when you publish the map (=close it for further editing under the same file name) a scenario based on that map can be played in single player, or in multiplayer mode.

 

All in all the loss of flexibility is minimal, but we need to get accustomed to topics like "publication state" of a map, that maps MUST be fully georeferenced, and that map "packages" are now organized in folder structures rather than a handful of files strewn across different directories.

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19 hours ago, Ssnake said:

It can still be possible if the base map has been distributed previously, and the embedded map is a "delta map" with sufficiently few differences to the base map. In that case the map size remains small to keep it practical to distribute it with the scenario file.

 

So if I read this correctly the delta map is going to be new. Something that we can use to make small changes, like altering a road or tree line. A map feature accessed through the scenario editor?

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