PVP Persian Predicament Turn 4

[@EvilTwinn]

A double header today!

[@usuallyhapless9481]

That's a screwup! ;) Went out at 00:00 on the 16th, instead 1700!

[@d.c.6065]

the curse of Haplessness strikes again!

[@Spankee99]

I had to stop playing Cold War because watching the Dragons was going to trigger a psychotic episode.

[@usuallyhapless9481]

It's especially difficult to adapt when you're coming in from the modern-day games and you mentally equate Dragon with Javelin

[@blackvulture6818]

The reason you kneel like that when you fire the dragon is because you need to pray it hits

[@whya2ndaccount]

I guess the "good news story" was that the premature detonation of the Dragoon at 02:58 or so didn't injure the MG team.

[@Mr.Praetor]

My throat was raw from screaming. Private Cowtoenak had been knocked off his feet as he rushed to check on poor Private Palma and was bleeding severely from a sucking chest wound. I poured round after round into the Russian vehicles, but I might as well have been tossing spit wads at the damned thing! Grisha, who had so magnificently greased a scout squad not two minutes earlier, fell screaming as rounds impacted all around him. Finally, as all hope seemed lost, the Dragon roared into life. Dust sprayed into the air as the missile flew from its tube....and exploded harmlessly a few meters away, becoming the world's most expensive hedge trimmer. It was at this point I stopped screaming. I started laughing. This whole mission, this deployment, was a farce. I laughed so hard I stopped shooting. What did it matter anymore. Might as well die happy. (This turn was brutal and I have no idea how the remaining company is supposed to fight off BMPs and tanks when they can't even deal with BRDMs. The Soviets clearly have used their proletariat magic on the shrubbery. Will we manage to survive another minute? Find out next time on "The Farcical Life and Hilarious Death of Private Praetor")

[@Palma5025]

Good stuff man! Can't wait to see how this ends while slowly peering through the veil to the afterlife.

[@ba3787]

Sgt. Mordschlag went back into action, no time to waste. He waved his hand at the AT trooper, who strained to lift up the heavy launcher tube before the telltale yellow flash blooms out of its barrel. He can feel the time slowing down, another BRDM will burn, he can hear a voice narrating. Then the ATGM missed, the missile hit a shrub in the ground and utterly pulverised the unfortunate branches and leaves. The assistant AT man rushes to load in the replacement rocket. Mordschlag saw the M60 team near the bushes clutching themselves at the ground, then through the smoke he saw the BRDM turning its turret towards him, he never saw the gunshot "Advance!" the men dashed upslopes and began unleashing rifle fire onto the Soviets inside the building Saddam is firing at. The soviet troops inside the house fired a burst back in retaliation, then they all hugged the dirt in the face of overwhelming rifle fire. Kerry checked around his squad, everyone is up and running, this is a miracle. Time to maneuver and close in. Then a salvo of gunfire whizzes past his head, he ducked immediately to the ground as more gunfire erupted on the right, The team is quickly pinned by the sudden enfilade fire. "Where the fuck is B team? " Thought Kerry before a strange numbness consumed his badly fatigued chest. A striking black pain follows as warm, bloody liquid travels up his throat and the burning choking sensation of blood filling up his lungs. Kerry was the first to die among the 1st squad.

[@the_Kutonarch]

Oof, I got thwacked by a burst from a BDRM. I guess that's what happens when you get assigned to a unit called "the troublemakers."

[@Gunnery2]

At least the soviet forces haven’t tied bushes to their brdm’s. They would be unstoppable.

[@Roborob12345]

Dragon doesn’t use fins or thrust vectoring, but has a series of single use charges to bump the missile left/right/up/down. There is limited granularity to the corrections (nothing, or detonate a charge).

[@Mr.Praetor]

Whoops

[@d.c.6065]

ATGMs Remaining: 21 ATGMs Fired: 3 ATGM Hits: 0 Vehicles Killed: 1/24

[@afrikacorpse]

Bushes killed: 2/Lots

[@PiresArsenalLegend]

18:58 thank you for that horrifying flashback to year 10 maths hapless

[@reecedignan8365]

Seems the recon by bodies is going well for the Soviets. If your own lads don’t start picking up their shots properly or starting to win some fire fights, those BRDM troops are actually going to start winning these engagements and that’ll be extremely hard to recover from when their own reinforcements start arriving. - also hopefully you’ll find/win a good position for your TOWs or your going to have them having to fight open to open vs tanks and IFVs which ain’t going to start up.

[@mimir4965]

Love the tempo of new vids!

[@3badgersinatrenchcoat]

Foiled by foliage!

[@nbr1rckr]

3:04 Cold War Lorax moment 10:12 Lorax Redux

[@kurthummitzsch9948]

As predicted, things are going bad very quickly. How do you think the BRDMs would do if you had50 call instead of M60s?

[@usuallyhapless9481]

Badly. But I don't have any .50s... Though it might be worth investigating if US Airborne would bring any along with them on drops for- you know- exactly this kind of situation.

[@JuliusGeezer447]

This might be a stupid question, but I'm guessing a bush irl would not necessarily stop a Dragon missile unless it was particularly thick?

[@usuallyhapless9481]

Potentially, but it's more likely the branches interfering with the control wire trailing out behind the missile

[@JuliusGeezer447]

@@usuallyhapless9481 Ahhh that makes sense!!

[@williamwimmer5473]

are the minimum engagement ranges modeled in CM for guided weapons? particularly relevant in CW for 1st gen ATGMs like Dragon and Sagger that required an unstable hard launch and were noted for being extrememly difficult to get under control. I know Dragon in game is considerably more effective than the real life weapon, not sure if that's because of the lack of limits on it's guidance corrections that applied in real life or just the devs not wanting the players to commit murder if they had to deal with something as bad as the real thing lol

[@usuallyhapless9481]

Minimum ranges are definitely modelled! I'm not so sure about the exact details of the Dragon in game, but I do know it's got a noticeable failure rate.

[@DrewShotsFan]

Bushes, wallpaper and wellies 😂

[@jarekgiedrojc2643]

Hey. Can you provide a list of mods you are using for the Cold war in this scenario?

[@usuallyhapless9481]

It's the usual stuff: Vin's Unit Icons, Vein's Effects and the HQS sound mod (probably). Not 100% sure where to get them anymore now that one of the old mod sites went down, but here's probably the best bet: www.thefewgoodmen.com/cm-mod-warehouse/