Poll 76 Results, Poll 77 and This Week (Patreon)

Ok, time for some more Arty/CAS this week. I do wonder if, at some point, I'll just run out of things to drop on those poor grenadiers. Sure, there are loads of options, but CAS is all kinds of finicky and a lot of the artillery is very comparable. Not sure it makes much difference dropping different kinds of 75mm guns on them. Still, I'm sure I can cook something up.

In other news, I got the bonus video for the Supertruppen sorted over the weekend, along with a good deal of testing for this week's upcoming Basics video. I was originally going to tackle 'Firefight Dynamics' (which is apparently a term used more regularly by people with big red noisy trucks) by having two squads engage each other and tracking round expenditure.

That way we could have had two lines on a chart that show where fire dips and rises and the effects that has... unfortunately, when a squad suffers a casualty the squad 'loses' their ammo, making it look like they've just fired off 100 rounds at the enemy. So, clearly need a better method for that.

So instead, we're going to look at drones in CM... and how underwhelming they are. So some of the video is probably going to be expectation management, some of it is actual useful testing.

Past that... I think a round-up from the company challenge is in order.

In the meantime though, this week's Shorts poll is back to moderns: Infantry Firepower won out last time, so we're back on with dropping terrible things on people or trying to poke holes in metal boxes.