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Poll 91 Results, Poll 92 and This Week

Added 2025-10-13 08:35:30 +0000 UTC

We actually had a tie! Modern Arty/CAS and Infantry Firepower both got 8 votes. We're still rolling with the BAOR content for now, so I think the infantry are going to get this one.

Though it might be a little different than usual. We're also down for a Basics video this week and I've been meaning to introduce some kind of standardised testing for the infantry after doing so for the vehicles with the mobility test.

The current test is basically time-to-kill at different distances, coupled with ammo expenditure. That's ok in certain circumstances, and it can tell us a little bit, but it can be very swingy thanks to having spotting built in. There's definitely been a few times where the shooters have totally failed to spot the target. That's not meaningless- it can be hard to spot a man-sized target at 300m- but it's not going to help anyone figure out how best to use their infantry.

So the idea is to instead get some pure rounds-per-minute at different ranges using area fire. That should give us a better idea of squad potential firepower- not actual firepower, especially not on a two-way range- but it should produce some more interesting and hopefully more useful data.

It might be worth also adding in other details, like antitank potential and the presence of special equipment- radios, NVGs, body armour, thermals, demo charges etc.; but we'll see.

That shouldn't be too difficult to produce and explain, so I should get a couple of days worth of plate-spinning this week, because boy, do some of those plates need some momentum.

Anyway, that's this week. In poll terms, we're back round to WW2 where we've got Arty/CAS and- funnily enough- Infantry Firepower on the menu.