Aragorn2002
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48 minutes ago, Mr.X said:
This will be my last comment on this topic:
1. I will not defend myself against accusations that are absolutely grotesque. What do you think? That I am selling Battlefront products illegally via their official forum? To earn what? 150 Dollars ?
2. I have invested a lot of time to create such a huge BattlePack. It was primarily for my personal pleasure. Why did I invest so much time ? I don’t normally post any personal backgrounds, but in this context let me give a short explanation:
After working in Level A hospitals for 15 years, during the last year I was member of a medical intervention team. My job is to wait for emergency calls. Sometimes there isn‘t any of these so that you are waiting for endless hours. During this time, I am payed AND I can do what I like: sleeping, reading books or watching TV … or doing some PC game stuff like CM. For example: some month ago, last September I started my day and we had to resuscitate a three year old boy who had a cardiac arrest when suddenly stop breathing while he was sleeping. His diagnosis was a huge brain tumor and he passed away some weeks later. Some hours later, I had to open the chest of a 24 year old girl in the ditch who was trapped under her own car.
Between these two rescue missions, I created CM stuff, as a form of relaxation.
3. Of course, if one creates such stuff, it is nice to share the result with a community like in this forum. I did contact Battlefront in order to get (may be) some logistical support (especially for playtesting) and to offer them to use my work for their own - without any financial interest !!! I thought there was some enthusiasm there for such projects, but this idea was completely naiv. Did I care about that? No, I didn‘t. I continued with my project because it was my own pleasure.
4. Why did I go the way of „pre-ordering“? Sometimes, if you make content and it is placed on an uploading platform, it feels as if your content is swallowed by a kind of blackwhole. So, I have decided to make it this way, in a more personal form. When the content is ready, I will send it to all the guys who like to get it. Nothing more…no payment, no abuse of mail-adresses, only some harmless files of a OC game.
5. My personal happiness does not depend on such game stuff. I have enough real life, children etc.
If players like the content, it will be a pleasure for me. If they don’t like it, it is absolutely ok. And even if my computer should crash and all my stuff was destroyed - so what. It is only a hobby, little fun, nothing more.
Mr.X
Impressive story, Frank. Thank you for sharing that with us. Can't have been easy. My advice would be to ignore this reaction, make use of this publicity and finish your work. Personally I would be disappointed if your thread will not be unlocked again soon.
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1 hour ago, Vergeltungswaffe said:
All of us that have communicated with Mr. X to receive his Battlepack know full well there is nothing monetary involved and I'm sure Elvis will get it sorted quickly.
Indeed. Mr. X was even kind enough to send me one of his campaigns for testing. He never mentioned payment and from my contact with him I can say that he is a perfect gentleman who would never even consider charging money for his great work. All in all rather nasty and unfortunate that it has to be like this.
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9 hours ago, JM Stuff said:
Thanks you, appreciate, my life is slowing down on the forum, I just loose all my Games Mods and Scencampmaps on my HD and be on the way to reinstall all, I could give a tears about it, since longtimes 10 perhaps 15 years I had all on a "secure place", but is my blame I had already some signs of bads sectors on my HD, and dont pay attention on it and let the job for tomorrow...na ja, tomorrow was coming quick...this tomorrow never come,... untill the day that he give me his last cry and died for ever, I was trying to find "the tomorrow" to be awake and repear or change it, but cannot travel in the past...now he talk always to me, but I dont understand his language, he let me only the noise that never I wanted to listening about him, and more, dont appear more on the screen dopple motherf... when he can appear one time only I can format it, give him a second ilfe, and find something later again...and I know this sound, is not the first time that I loose a HD, but, nothing so precious as my CM collectionPlus...sigh !!
Pay attention to yours CM games guys, if you dont want to let a sign of sadness !!
Just pick now left and right what I could save on differents places, but when you loose something there is always something that you dont remember, untill the day that you are searching like a dum, and realized that you were aready loosing it, last time, and I know this will happend... sigh sigh !
Do you want to see how you feel when you loose your CM Games ??!!
I feel your pain, JM. All the best.
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1 hour ago, Sunbather said:
What an incredibly ill-informed statement. Ever heard of Graviteam Tactics? Armored Brigade? War in the East? CSL Campaign Series? Command: Modern Operations? Heck, even a gamey game like Warno is "complicated and labour intensive" production.
Got them all, but not comparable to CM.
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2 hours ago, BornGinger said:
@Vacillator I don't care what the new module will have for the players to have fun with. I'm not going to buy any more modules or such with the game engine there is now.
If Battlefront makes a new game engine wich offers at least some of what I mentioned in my posts about changes to the engine, which would make playing the game more interesting, I would buy something.
Yeah, that will teach them a lesson.
Here's a thought. After BF has finally closed business (and long mey they rule), NO ONE will ever produce this kind of complicated and labour intensive wargames anymore. So let's praise ourselves lucky we've already got his much.
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East Prussia. Perhaps we can work together.
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21 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said:
1943/44 Eastern Front would be easier to do and more popular (which also means more sales), for example.
Steve
+1 for that, Steve.
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7 hours ago, Vacillator said:
Worse than that George, at a comedy night in our village, the comedian asked if anyone had any Nazi books (whatever they are) and my wife shouted out that I did, based on such classics as Panzers in Normandy and The Battle of the Bulge Then and Now.
I am now the 'Nazi in the village'
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More oddly, I was approached afterwards by a lady I knew, who offered me a copy of Mein Kampf. I refused, saying it is not a good read
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I hear you, Tim. First time my cleaning lady cleaned my study room, she thought I was some military nut, with all my books,military medals, battle paintings, swords and other weapons. She now knows me as quite harmless and peaceful, but one can't be too careful with proclaiming our 'hobby'.
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Informative and interesting as always, George. Vielen Dank!
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Great news, Steve, thank you.
P.s. the screenshots of gallery 2 for the CMFB module don't seem to turn up.
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Calm down, guys. BF is the best and already gave us so much. I believe they will continue to do so and we should be grateful and supportive.
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41 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said:
We're in an impossible position. No matter what we do someone is going to have a ready reason to complain that we're not doing enough. Good thing we're OK with that or you'd be complaining about no support and no new games. I don't know about your country, but in mine there is an acute labor shortage for people with our skill sets. We could quit Battlefront tomorrow for a job in a different industry and probably get paid far more to do far less work.
Hmm... now there's a thought
Steve
Oh, no, you don't!
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12 minutes ago, Haiduk said:
Russians don't abandon their own %)
This guy didn't win a race with MTLB %)
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1 hour ago, Zeleban said:
Keep them burning, Gagauz, and stay safe.
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48 minutes ago, Harmon Rabb said:
Merry Christmas and a happy new year and whatever other holidays you folks may celebrate on this forum, and more importantly to the AFU personnel fighting the good fight.
I have the feeling this war is going to escalate and expand all over the world. Silly perhaps, but I have the feeling we are all heading for war. Or whatever they call it nowadays.
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For as far as possible under these grim circumstances: Happy Christmas, Ukraine. You are not forgotten and that isn't going to happen either. Personally I will be thinking of those cold, tired men in the snowy, wet trenches, fighting not only for their country, but for the whole free West.
May God give you victory, peace and justice in the coming year and smash and humiliate your enemies. Amen.
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It's officially announced the first batch of 16 Dutch F-16s will be delivered to Ukraine. A second batch will probably follow. Wilders or no Wilders.
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2 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said:
I have been asking that same thing here, rhetorically, on a regular basis since March of 2022. Every time Ukraine blows up an AD, EW, or ISR complex I wonder when Russia will run out.
Logically we know that Russia doesn't have an endless supply of these things. We also know they are slow and expensive to produce. We also know they don't have yards full of rusting ones that they can put into action. They also likely didn't have a large number in reserve at the start of the war because Russia chronically underfunded expansion/introduction of newer systems/capabilities.
That's all factual, not speculative.
Since the war started we know that Russia has transferred a lot of these systems from all over the Federation. We know they've drawn down forces from the Finnish border and long since tapped out resources in the Far east. We've seen intel reports of them moving S-400s from Kaliningrad, which is something they would not have done unless they were running out of places to grab stuff from (Kaliningrad is Russia's most important forward air defense region).
And yet, they still seem to have enough to adequately cover threats in/from Ukraine. Though some evidence suggests that Russia is forced to economize and leave some places less covered than others.
So the question remains... at what point does Russia simply not have enough of these fancy systems to maintain some form of edge over Ukraine? I keep thinking "soon". Someday I'll be correct!
Steve
We all know how long "soon" can take in your world, Steve.
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32 minutes ago, danfrodo said:
That is a very interesting way to look at this from Putin standpoint. I had never thought of it this way. Thanks much for sharing that, Bud!
For me it's the only explanation that 'makes sense', Dan. And an indication of how important this war really is for the West.
Putin's legacy.
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"No, to try and force Russia and its population in his mindset. He is turning everyone into a hardcore nationalist. This is probably one of his main goals with this war, to forever drive a wedge between the west and Russia in the Russians minds. So that the only future left is one that aligns with his vision. So that everyone who disagrees with this vision is seen as a traitor. Propaganda and hate speech work miracles. Those that disagree either leave or are afraid to speak out"
I found the above quote on Reddit very accurate and I see Putin and his war in the same light. The most important reason why Putin attacked Ukraine is that he wanted a war to unite his people and burn their bridges, to get rid of the people who oppose him and to make sure there's no way back for Russia, much like Germany in ww2. In that sense Putin has already reached his main goal. The only thing Putin is afraid of is peace.
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33 minutes ago, cesmonkey said:
A 24-page analysis / plan from Estonia:
Thank you.
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On 12/15/2023 at 8:03 AM, paxromana said:
Well, it took from 1914-1918 to strangle the Germans in WW1 and from 1939-44 to do the same in WW2. Economic warfare simply isn't an overnight thing.
Note, however, the copious evidence that Russian airlines and their stolen aircraft are in free fall, operational numbers wise. And that the Kremlin spent more on thingsa military this year than their whole budget for everything ... and it won't get better next year.
Even Dictatorships can't do deficit spending forever ... that's one of the reasons WW2 broke out in 1939, Hitler's Germany was fast reaching the end of its ability to rob Peter to pay Paul and the next four years were the Nazis raping the economies of each of their conquests to fuel their economy. Putin hasn't got any conquests to rape.
Exactly. Patience and perseverance. And realizing victory is never certain. That's why we need to keep an open eye and also allow other opinions, as wrong as they may be.
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1 hour ago, cesmonkey said:
Would be a grand end of 2023. Poland has a decent government again, in the Netherlands Wilders will not be allowed to stop helping Ukraine and hopefully something finally will be done about Orban.
Don't despair, Ukraine, the West won't abandon you.
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19 hours ago, Mr.X said:
@cbennett88, @Aragorn2002, @SuchyYour request is my command
you all are registered 
but please send me a pm with your E-mail. Then you will get the
BattlePack immediately when there is "Release-Day"
Thank you for your interest!!!
Best regards
Mr.X
I admire and salute you for completing such a huge project, Frank.
i searched for CMRT in Steam and i found this
in Combat Mission Red Thunder
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Hi JM, the Red Cross ambulance works well, thank you. Looking forward to more goodies once you're completly in the saddle again, my friend.