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Poll 86 Results, Poll 87 and This Week

  • Modern Armour Penetration 7
  • Modern Infantry Firepower 9
  • 2025-09-08
  • —2025-09-15
  • 16 votes
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WW2 Arty/CAS won this time- I feel like something dramatic is in order.

Realistically though, there are finite number of calibres and plenty of them are similar, so at some point I'm going to have to think of something else to do.

Anyway, this week the main effort is CC23, with the Mixed American Mech Inf- how does our M113 infantry fare when we take away one of their rifle platoons and give them 5 M60s instead? I kind of like having 3 infantry platoons, so the tanks better pull their weight...

I wrote out the introduction yesterday and tweaked the force org chart (well done past me for leaving me no room to add things in), so I should be able to get stuck into the playthrough today.

Past that, we're back to the War Room and veering away from the Peninsular War (I still want to cover 2nd Porto at some point because that's a rare and imho impressive Wellington offensive battle), so I think we're going to head over to the Aleutians. Or do that detailed Bomber Command raid featured in Instruments of Darkness.

Anyway, this week's poll is back to moderns where we've got Armour Penetration and Infantry Firepower to choose from.

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Ben Kerry

It’s RISE Patton right? For one of my weirder ideas for “Cold War Gone Hot” aftermath there’s the “Haunted Tank 2” set in Fulda Gap with Patton’s ghost haunting an M60A1

Ben Kerry

What’s “Instruments of Darkness”? Some sort of supernatural detective novel? How does Bomber Command fit into all of this?

UsuallyHaplessVideos

Instruments of Darkness: The History of Electronic Warfare, 1939-1945, by Price. Fascinating stuff!

UsuallyHaplessVideos

Yeah, it's the RISE Passive. The A2 is just weird and the A3 and Abrams change the game up by having thermals. Of course, to some extent it doesn't matter that much because they all (not the Starship) have the same gun

Decimated

fun concept. would that M60 then slap another tank for cowardice, by swinging its cannon barrel and whang ! right across the turret face!

Ben Kerry

OK, that! Although I’d actually want more Iran Iraq war stuff, I’m just interested in that one

Ben Kerry

Probably. Also you get to see how comic book writers adapting the cultural cliches to World War Three. Like T-64s getting the Tiger treatment in plot as unstoppable metal hulk. Lorewise war comics continues to be printed and published until late 90s and there's several franchises from Commando about cool stuff during WW3 (superhero stuff never went big)

Ben Kerry

Need my M60 lore checked again, just can’t remember the names. I got a 1980 report on M60s in army use. The manpower crisis was really bad (I think if NATO is to win any of the Cold War Gone Hot, their best shot is some sort of soft mobilization 1 year before the war, after Afghanistan) I remember there are two kinds of M60A3, the passive ones don't have thermals but has ballistic computers and laser rangefinders.

Ben Kerry

For the armor penetration do one with T-64s please?