Concerning the Ukrainian
OPLOT-M I will first start with a question.
When I have put together my "
core" units in a generated campaign (I always normally assign the AI as many points as I allocate for myself.), does the AI in picking it's units have "
intel" on the likely units I have or possibly will operate with? Or is it simply the "
law of averages" has finally caught up to me?
I've often wondered about this but, to be honest, I never gave it any thought until what I saw in my current long campaign
Ukraine vs. Russia first two games (2nd still in play.) a change in it's MBT picks as will be addressed below last.
First to the platitudes and
they are well deserved. I long suspected the
OPLOT-M wasn't performing as it should especially as it's listed in so many "
Top 10" lists worldwide concerning MBT's.
Bottom-line, my tanks were
getting killed at a ratio of 3:1 as the
testing would prove as well on average. The main opponent and most of the time
ONLY MBT was the Russian
T-72B3/B4 one of the best tanks we've entered into this game.
It was right from the start as it is now..
The issues were...
ARMOR/ERA/STABILISER/AMMO and the
KOMBAT ATGM.
KOMBAT though looked (
3 times that I'm aware of.) at by Don and as I suspected also, was working as it should.
For more see
Pg. 82 Post 813 through Pg. 85 Post 842 of my final thoughts and changes proposed in my submission to fix the
OPLOT-M.
I'm a reference "
nut" though some might use a
different word or set of words to describe me.
The following were my references
I'm indebted to them all for assisting me on such short notice and as the submission clock was winding down, or so I (And Don.) thought at the time.
They are
Aeraaa, jivemi, John (Imp), zovs66 and of course Don.
THANK YOU all for your patience, time, efforts and conclusions.
The payoff...Submitted my recommendations in the last post as noted above./Don accepted them as submitted./Added to the OOB's (
Thailand's would get about 3 changes as well.)./Verified as submitted.
Game results achieved my
first marginal victory in the first game of this series of campaigns. Always set to "
HARD". Notable events were my
first hit probabilities now reflect the refs. at
94% so the Stabilizer adjustment is (I couldn't resist the next.) "
dead on target". The
Armor and
ERA adjustments are also working as discussed in the refs. and as for all items, as noted over the years. Though discussed in the posts, I have no idea if the
KBA-3 MG or
ammo were adjusted.
I'm finally getting kills I
never got even with
KOMBAT though, only against one tank. I'm not over confident, I have also adjusted some tactics as discussed during the evaluations, however they alone cannot overcome the fact that the
OPLOT-M is finally acting like a Top 10 tank should, it has finally arrived.
Now to the "
why" of the lead in question above at the start. The direct peer Russian MBT is the
T-90A/T-90M/T-90MS as later articles suspect for the latter two as well. The
cited OPLOT-M advantages are overall are in STEEL (Turret built for the
OPLOT not the standard
T-84 one.)/ERA/FCS.
First game I have in my "core"
6 OPLOT-M tanks the Russian AI had on the field
4 T-72B3/B4 tanks and here's where the difference is now,
2 T-90A tanks that I've
never seen on the field vs Ukraine before and
1 T-72M(?) newer version that I got my
KOMBAT kill with. AI set to tank heavy though with plenty of artillery, mortars, infantry (foot) and those "
darn" ATGM teams it ALWAYS likes to buy!?!
I actually thought to myself, Where did those T-90 tanks come from?
Just thought it unusual is all.
Before I move on the Ukrainian
JAVELIN as entered is operating as it should as well.
Now for
FYI and concerning
Russia. Given the
topic or event from this first ref. and it represents others I found, what's
NOT mentioned in it? There are a variety of possible reasons I could list, however since the first prototype was unveiled, it hasn't missed a "May Day" event. The second reports the Russian tanks buys for this year, that above item is missing here as well, as published in January.
https://www.armyrecognition.com/apri...ry_parade.html
https://www.armyrecognition.com/janu...s_in_2019.html
It's good to be "home".
Regards,
Pat
