Double Deuce

^ This right here! ^ If you have a preferred era/theater of the games that are available, I'd go with that one to start. Having more interest, imho, will help keep you interested and motivated to play, learn the interface and system. Then branch out from there.

About 5 years ago, I got interested in the Russian Civil War and was amazed at who all was involved in that fighting. IMHO, it was really a continuation of WWI but inside Russia with many of the nations of that war involved in fighting against the Bolsheviks. Have learned a lot about that theater from that time frame.

Sweet! Thanks.

I'm a late comer to CMRT and definitely need to check this out but with the BF Repository no longer available where can this be downloaded from??

I guess now I have to purchase Final Blitzkrieg . . . but this is a good of a reason as any for sure!

Not yet. Need to do some reading/research, see what piques my interest.

Finally decided to try my hand at scenario design in Red Thunder. I'll be starting with this small, 800mx640m map based on a large section of 2 ASL maps. and based on that, I'll probably keep armor to a minimum. There is more sloping terrain than the screenshots indicate but the western bank of the river definitely has a pretty large open area in the center.

I stumbled onto that Pamyat Naroda site while researching stuff for use with ASL and it has been extremely useful. Maybe if I get back in CMRT (CMCW has been taking up all my spare time) I can put it to use.

Holy Crap! It never dawned on me to add the AI/trigger information to the actual .bmp overlay, then use that for actually building everything out. You guys are genius!

I've been using that for ASL scenario research. It's an excellent site.

It's been a long time ago but iirc, when I got to Germany (Baumholder) in June 1983 we still had the M150's in 2/68 Armor, 8th ID. We were always at the end of the queue for new vehicles and had only just got the M60A3 about 2 months before I got there. I believe we got the M901's in my first year there so late '83, early '84.

I have a map, almost finished, that I was planning for use with my June 22, 1941 scenario (hopefully morphing into a mini-campaign based on a company of the Soviet 310th Rifle Regiment of the 8th Rifle Division). I am intending to use no mods and try to weed out (delete) from the OOB anything that was not present during that time frame although that's probably impossible at the individual squad level as far as their personal weapons. That being said, if there are mods available when this comes further in the design process, I'd certainly be willing to use them.

Yes, both the early StuG III and Panzer IV had the short 75mm cannon. I think the only real tank that could be used without mod would be the Panzer IIIG from F&R.

Don't remember seeing T-26's in CMRT/FR. Is there a mod?

I was a tanker (and also a scout) when I was in, but the infantry we deployed with (attached to our Task Force) talked about using their TOWs to target dismounts hiding/defending in buildings. The concepts sounds good by I can't confirm it would be that effective.