Cheers for your input Gibson

Awesome, the multiplayer sessions on the forums are great fun too!

many thanks good sir, you're far too kind

Everything is stock but the mission creator added those scripted radio messages into the mission

@@TallTankie Think i will hop back in the F18 tonight and get back into it. I moved to the A-10 then the Apache and now the viper but i miss the F18

@@mcdjay I do the same, I jump around aircraft all the time, not sure which one I’m going to take up next yet 🤔

It’s definitely an amazing multi-role! Give it a task and it’ll do it no problems. I like the afghan map I can’t wait for them to finish it

Yeah we often use 'Donovia' to represent Russia or other hostile countries in Exercises but this differs country to country and I've used it to represent a fictional country that I can use to fight both the Russians and NATO

Tank you very much good sir!

@@TallTankie No Tank you Sir 😁

good shout!

One of those steel beast things we all love 😂

The HESH in this sim is pretty broken, its not accurate to real life and often sends the hesh behind the target, it's a bit of a coin toss weather or not it'll hit in steel beasts, I believe ESim have just given up on the british vehicles sadly.

@@TallTankie yeah, that tracks with my experience as well. Something I noticed on their Wiki regarding lead calculation: "The ballistic computer calculates lead depending on the range entered into the computer from the lase and the horizontal rate of traverse of the turret." Which hints that lead calculation doesn't take into account the vertical axis - the change in gun elevation. Sad stuff really, Challenger 2 is my favorite tank.

TOGS and HESH is a challenge in Steel Beasts.

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Don't we all brother

Never too late to turn from the dark side ,-)

Yeah it’s a bit broken within steel beasts, it always lands slightly behind so I aim slightly short of the target

It’s one I’d made a while back

@@TallTankie What map did you use?

@@TimothySielbeck It is Haune Valley (edited)_941vu

@@TallTankie Thank you.

You can rent the game. I’m just coming to the end of my first month, about 10 squid, IIRC. A much better way to get a feel for it than buying outright (100+) only to discover you’re bored in a couple of weeks.

it wouldn't matter, challengers could just see through it

Yep! Thermal sees through, but funnily enough, the laser range finder cannot, and Im hazarding that SALH missile designators of similar wavelength cant either. Pre-range those kill zones, just in case! :)

Thank you! Cheers for your support!

No mods all stock on steel beasts

Combination of gun recoil, the breach opening and the vent tube being ejected.

Thank you very much good sir!

Don’t mind me, just going to steal that video idea 👀

@@TallTankie Please do! As a newbie SB person, I love hearing your thinking on choices of ammo position whatever.

Ivan the conscript drank all the alcohol 😂

Thank you very much!

Yeah the graphics are definitely dated but with the scale of the maps and number of units you can have on screen it makes it accessible to most machines but you’re definitely right it could use some improvements in some areas for sure!

Cheers pal 🤙

Ah I see, we don’t have to do that on the real thing as it doesn't effect you on the real system and we just have to drop the grips, I guess they can’t know everything about the wagon on the simulator. Thanks for the tip!

@@TallTankie eSim also has very little interests developing the Challenger 2 further, so it definitely isn't a 'full fidelity' model.

⁠@@Mirzayev that’s unfortunate, perhaps one day we’ll see an update to the chally, a man can dream!

@@TallTankie How is lead handled in the CR2 in reality? Is it not automatically applied?

@@tomssimshack398 Yeah the lead is automatically calculated once you've lased in normal operation but it doesn't lag the gun behind you like it does in the sim, it's rather seamless although you can let go of the 'grips' to drop the calculation if necessary which you achieve in the sim by pressing 'P' which caught me off guard at first as I'm just used to just dropping my finger off and back onto the 'grips.'

hardest thing isnt controlling vehicles, but managing the whole battlefield and controlling every single unit. its very overwhelming and is the reason i dont play single player.

Thanks! I'm getting back into it and it's great to see support!

Good comment, it's interesting as this simulates tanks in the most realistic way I've seen any programme do it, but having played all three this has the worst multiplayer support and user friendliness of them all, but as a tank sim, it is the king. Especially when you get around the problems with multiplayer and you find the niche communities to play with, it is so realistic and fun to play!

@@TallTankie I did not expect this but i respect your experience. Thank you for your fast reply. I'm leaning more on SA and GHPC end myself. It's good that we have a few to pick and choose from and i will have to give this game more attention

Yeah it shouldn't happen on the cr2, it's generally rather stable they must have out of date information if they've added that in intentionally but i think it's just a problem with the game engine

@@TallTankie it’s due to the fact that they made it to fit multiple vehicles, the M1A1 is the same. The combined arms module has had some love over the last few months, not as much as I’d like but it’s getting something. As a former Gnry Instr on CR2, I find it frustrating as we don’t even has the GAS to assist if the computer is disabled. The prime example is when shooting helicopters, without the computer aid, shooting on an MBS mark is impossible. The M1A1 resolves this with its own symbology, just one of those first world problems.

Yeah it's a shame they really could have gone into abit more deal with individual wagons, but I guess that's why steel beasts still has a market lol, but still I find this module good enough to have fun with

Great to see more people coming to dcs, the hind is a great module to get started on, it's fairly new tho so missing features but it'll get there, I hope you enjoy it, if there are any other modules you'd like to see a video on I'll see what I can do! Glad you enjoyed the video thanks for the like and sub!

It is, with a few more features and better sim like gunnery it might be priced right but it's a little over priced I'd say

@@TallTankie yeah the shaking you were getting with Stabs on alone would drive me mental, I may pick this up if the module ever goes on sale, until then I think I'll keep ramming my head into a wall trying to get Steel Beasts online working lmao

@@scrimmybingus8972 love steel beasts, only downside is multiplayer is limited to pre planned sessions, no just jumping into a lobby like DCS, need to come up with ideas for more steel beasts videos...

@@TallTankie so is it not possible to just throw up a lobby and play one of the scenarios out of the box? I was tweaking a Plt Recce mission in Iraq with some Chally 2s and Warriors, haven't the foggiest of what I'm doing though tbh

@@scrimmybingus8972 yeah you can but you're limited to a max of 8 players total, beyond that from my understanding you have to get a license from SB to run servers bigger but they're selective