As someone who has literal hundreds of hours in various CM titles I was still able to pull some new information out of this that'll come in handy in the future. This was a great video, well done!

One thing I would like to find out is how effective the "Armor" fire mission is against infantry garrisoned in buildings. "Armor" fire missions is supposedly HE with delayed fuze and in theory should be more effective at causing casualties to garrisoned infantry if a direct hit is achieved. I've also heard that "Armor" missions are more effective at demolishing structures, but since I haven't compared it with "General" it might just be placebo.

I think you have wonderful content on this channel ad it's heart breaking to see you have not uploaded in a year, I hope to see more videos from you

this vid was amazing. the personnel tests definitely are going to change how i use artillery from here on out

Great stuff! Can't wait for the follow up!

Great work, well tested and excellent communication of the results.

This was a "short introduction"...? Hee hee... You are certainly tenacious...! Thank you for your wonderful work. Your videos evoke "Usually Hapless" levels of expertise.

Fantastic video, I applaud the time and effort that went into this!

Excellent video - as always! Looking forward to the next one.

Solid data gathering, good modeling, and solid conclusions. The ammount of testing done was sufficient for a simulated environment. Great production value for the video, both entertaining and informative. Thank you for your work!

Great production values and interesting information. Well done.

Production value through the rood here, well done Mr. Free Whisky

Incredibly well produced and informative video. Great job!

Outstanding video ! Thank you for the time testing all this. :D

Excellent production and video quality, love your content!!!

Great video. Your channel deserves a lot more subscribers! I wish you luck from Belgium.

Wow, incredible format here! Nice work.

Have to say. Excellent detail .Must have taken some time to produce this. Thanks very useful

This is amazingly well done.

Very useful information, thank you.

The video was excellent. Highly informative and well produced.

What a really informative piece. Thanks for taking the time to put it together for us, Free Whisky

Outstanding! Both for game play purposes, and comparison to real life. Thank you for taking the time to conduct the experiments, produce the video, and of course, sharing your evident expert knowledge. Very well done.

Really nice video, very interesting. Thanks for putting it together

Nice work, as always! I`am your devoted viewer. Eager for more, especially AAR`s.

thank you so much for this video. the way you explain things is really great and I hope you do more like these one day ! thank you again dear Sir !

Nicely done and super helpful.

thanks that was quit informative. it is excellent and impresive work

Thank you. Excellent content. Subscribed !

I truly like youre style. Keep up this wonderful work 👍

amazing briefing!! :) Thx a lot! Really appreciate it. You got a new follower :)

I will need to rewatch this again before my future games. Good stuff.

your videos are great keep it up man

Great video and very detailed in a way I haven't really seen before as far as combat mission guides. Please keep making these type of videos along with your other battle videos. Your content is worth the watch every time. Also it would be good if you could time stamp the video timeline when the different sections of the begin.

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for taking the huge amount of time to make this video. As a relative newbie it's answered so many questions for me. Now I just need to work out when I'll ever use the 'delay' command in CMBN as I always need off-board arty about 10 minutes ago.

Thank you for this.

Can't wait until Im back home so I can watch another great video uploaded by you. Cheers your video will forever be entertaining and informative!

Great video !!!!!!!

Very well presented, and informative!

I remember someone asked what's the difference between normal smoke and WP on the discord and everyone simply assumed it was same as smoke with a small chance to inflict casualties. Well done!

awesome video !!

Thank you!

A direct hit on a trench doesn't destroy it, it just makes it deeper

Please please please do some shockforce 2 videos on the Dutch expansion, would be great getting a squaddies view on the scenarios and stuff. You're knocking each video out of the park too.

Interesting and informative. The

A few observations: 1) You will NEVER need to use artillery to suppress a linear target while vulnerable vehicles drive down a road in Combat Mission. The correct response in the scenario presented is to dismount your infantry and attack the enemy position. Once they are eliminated, your vehicles can now drive down the road in compete safety. Same with the scenario of advancing against a tree line. All of that machine gun fire is to let your infantry advance, once they have arrived at the enemy position, you have already won the scenario and there's no need to use any artillery to do it. 2) If an artillery battery has 100 rounds of ammunition, you will have 10 smoke rounds available. You should not use smoke to make a smoke screen unless you carefully account for how much ammunition you have available, how much you will need to make and maintain the screen, and determine to use it. The more effective use of smoke in Combat Mission is to drop it directly in front of the enemy position, so they are blinded in every direction. You will never need to move a large column across an open area under enemy observation using smoke to obscure your movement, because any seasoned player is going to know exactly what you are doing, and prepare for it. 3) Speak for yourself about how someone would use their pixeltruppen. I'll have you know I write very few letters home while still securing my objectives. ;) Other than that, the use of artillery as area denial works very well and you explain it perfectly. Even just having one gun use a harassing mission is enough to deter enemies from moving into or through an area. At the very least, you will slow them down enough to render their movement useless. 4) The danger of artillery in built up areas is whether or not it collapses an occupied building, in which case you can expect the unit inside to take 100% casualties. Other than that, your results in testing are exactly as expected. I once spent an entire month doing testing like this where i repeated all my tests a hundred times against various test objects, structures, and positions. I then classified the results _TOP SECRET_ because I never wanted any of my opponents to know what I knew. These sorts of things are discussed in the training fields, because you want to educate your officers about the things artillery is capable of, what it is not capable of, and how to tell the difference. On the Combat Mission battlefield you will rarely use any of these things given the lack of space and time that characterize most scenarios. By far the most effective use of artillery is to just dump some on any identified or suspected enemy position, or any area you suspect the enemy will attempt to move through. Also be damned sure to call cease fire at least one solid minute (meaning two minutes) before sending any friendly infantry through the effected area, unless they are mounted in artillery proof vehicles like Bradleys.

Using white phosphorus as an incendiary weapon against an enemy force is not a war crime. The treaty regulating incendiary weapons is Protocol III to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, which only forbids the use of incendiary weapons under some circumstances, mainly to protect civilians.

They should fix the fear moral thing, it ruins the game when you figure out how to dispose of them as a means to victory.this is great stuff.

Great video, now to use this info on my friends before they have a chance to watch it. Lol

Eyyyyy a fellow redleg!

Idk if it's modeled in CM but when dropping WP in med/deep snow the affected area is to be treated like a minefield. The snow smothers and extinguishes the WP, refreezes, and when some poor GI kicks it to the surface it gets oxygen and starts burning again.

So much information, thank you for the work you've put in this video! What I find strange is that artillery has such low effect on units in foxholes comparing to trenches. Foxhole is a fast ad-hoc protection, how can it be 50% better protection from anti-personnel rounds than a proper trench system?

I'm certainly going to start making much greater use of the personnel fuse. Although I wonder how much of a difference the era will make? I believe modern air burst fuses are somewhat more reliable than WW2 air burst fuses. Although I suppose if a WW2 air burst fuse fails to go off while the round is still in the air, that just converts that shell into a general shell, meaning that the personnel setting should still be as good or better most of the time (except against buildings).

Very well done video, thanks. Did you also try using the "hide" command when testing trenches and foxholes? From my own testing, it seems hiding in foxholes provides much better protection against artillery. It looks like you're not using it in this video, as your pixeltroops are not prone.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="710">11:50</a> You'll be glad to hear using WP isn't a war crime, you just can't use it against civilians, in built-up areas(?) or drop it from planes.

What movie is that at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="898">14:58</a>? Also love the videos!

Whiskey, you're a fuckin national treasure for this. Nice music too. Great video keep em coming

Is there any difference in effectiveness of 155mm shells vs 152mm? I recall an 'The Economist' article staying 155 was more lethal but other sources state that they are roughly comparable.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1429">23:49</a> what about trenches built with the goal to reduce enfilading fire?

Great video. Sad that the secure mission type isn’t effective against the AI, I could really use it in a scenario I’m doing. Only thing I was wondering about is how do precision fire missions factor into this?

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44A?

Dutch?

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Excellent video. I'm guessing you were in the Netherlands Army. Were you Artillery or Recce?