Combat Mission: Cold War

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Gusington



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Quote from: Gusington on May 01, 2021, 01:20:09 PM
Is that an M60?

Yeah, the entire game is full of M60s.

Early Abrams is in, too, as well as some leftover M48.

MOS:96B2P

Yes it's an M-60 Patton on the MGB.  There are seven versions of the M-60, an M48A5 Patton and a 105mm Abrams.  Below are some screenshots of the Cold War US tanks in NTC terrain.  Back row are three of the M60s.  Front row is M48 and M1.  I hope a future module brings in the M551 Sheridan and others.   


Gusington

Thanks, those models looks solid.


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That M60A2 with the 152mm gun is a beast in the game, especially at long range.

MOS:96B2P

Here are the M113s in the game set in the National Training Center (NTC) environment.


FarAway Sooner

I just reread Red Storm Rising a few months ago.  Man, was that a fun read, even if Clancy's technology usually worked a bit more reliably than IRL!

Did we ever figure out how effective TOWs or Apaches were against T72s?  Or whether the M1A1's stabilization technology really put it in a different class than anything the Russians could field in terms of shooting on the move? 

I remember a ton of weapons systems that all looked good on paper but never ended up being deployed in combat until 1991, against an undertrained and overbombed Iraqi army that melted like butter in the desert.  After all these years, I can't even remember when the Bradleys finally replaced the M113s, when the F16s replaced the F4s, when the Leopards rolled out en masse, or when the M1A1 got its teething problems worked out.

I do remember, by 1990s, the Danes had at least one tank.  I saw it on a railroad siding once!

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ArizonaTank

So what is the status of CM Cold War?  I look at the Battlefront page and it is apparently still in beta...with PBEM coming with the full release. The web page mentions July 21 (it is now October 21), so wondering...is it finished? or still waiting that final patch?
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Quote from: ArizonaTank on October 06, 2021, 11:12:08 AM
So what is the status of CM Cold War?  I look at the Battlefront page and it is apparently still in beta...with PBEM coming with the full release. The web page mentions July 21 (it is now October 21), so wondering...is it finished? or still waiting that final patch?

That July thing is the patch with PBEM++. That patch is heavily delayed. The currently released version works just fine, with normal PBEM.

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Quote from: FarAway Sooner on May 04, 2021, 12:35:15 AM
I just reread Red Storm Rising a few months ago.  Man, was that a fun read, even if Clancy's technology usually worked a bit more reliably than IRL!

Did we ever figure out how effective TOWs or Apaches were against T72s?  Or whether the M1A1's stabilization technology really put it in a different class than anything the Russians could field in terms of shooting on the move? 

I remember a ton of weapons systems that all looked good on paper but never ended up being deployed in combat until 1991, against an undertrained and overbombed Iraqi army that melted like butter in the desert.  After all these years, I can't even remember when the Bradleys finally replaced the M113s, when the F16s replaced the F4s, when the Leopards rolled out en masse, or when the M1A1 got its teething problems worked out.

I do remember, by 1990s, the Danes had at least one tank.  I saw it on a railroad siding once!

I wonder if they tested all this after the curtain came down and they got access to some Ruskintech. Even the Iraqi tanks were only export versions iirc.
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smithcorp

Got a notification that CM: Cold War is now out on Steam. $85AU, so pretty steep. Do Battlefront games ever go on sale on Steam?