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  1. 2 hours ago, Warts 'n' all said:

    I suspect that there might be some members of "the community" who couldn't give a monkey's about an update, because it is blinding obvious from the fact that Declan and The Colonial One are providing AARs for us to watch that things are coming along quite nicely.

    Things are coming along quite nicely for years and years now, my dear wart. 

  2. 1 hour ago, BFCElvis said:

    Pretty much spot on. And I really really really really really really don't want to run into a pre-order to release time like Rome to Victory. Historically, it's generally been 4-6 weeks between when pre-orders open and something is released. I'd like to see a return to that for Fire and Rubble.......With the understanding that that is the target...not a promise.  

    So you still can't even predict the season the module will be released in? Ah, well.

  3. 3 hours ago, PIATpunk said:

    I expect the only useful response is when it's actually officially released for pre order.

    I assume you're more interested in this release, although you were pressing regularly for the previous release, you never actually purchased it - am I mistaken?

    What do you mean with the previous release? I did buy r2v if that's what you mean, so in that case you are indeed mistaken. I've always considered the R2V module to be an annoying obstacle on the road to Fire and Rubble. And although I admit R2V is quite nice, I still think it caused far too much delay. So if you're trying to insinuate I'm only interested in pressing for a release instead of the module itself you're twice mistaken.

    Opening pre-orders isn't the only useful response. I'm asking whether a autumn release is possible. That's not exactly asking for a release date, is it?

  4. 30 minutes ago, Lucky_Strike said:

    Hi folks,

    I've now made a second beta compilation. Anyone else interested in testing can PM me for a link. I should be on course to get the first proper release into your respective sweaty hands by next weekend. Then I can add a few extras as I make them - crops spring to mind.

    I did a quick test of the existing mod in CMFI and CMRT (demo). I could see straightaway that FI will need a lot of work to adapt the mod to it. There are many more very different terrains used so that'll be some time coming. RT is an easier ask, I don't have the full game yet (waiting for a bundle with FR - hopefully 🙏). The mod worked quite well in the demo and added nicely to the overall look of the battlefield. Then there are the Low Countries, autumn and winter versions to come up with - anyone!?

    In the meantime ... there's something in the long grass ...

    LS

    Low countries? Yes please!

  5. 1 hour ago, mjkerner said:

    Thanks everyone. More to come, once I figure out a conundrum involving the Sikh turban/beard face and a few other anomalies with the British and Indian troops.

    @ Aragorn, yes, like the BAR  replacing an occasional FN lmg, and likely because the French utilize US equipment, some troops (leaders. assistant leaders and crews) are occasionally armed with Thompsons.

    PS: Mountains were gorgeous as usual!

    Good! You've deserved that.

  6. 1 hour ago, Erwin said:

    The Chinese are demonstrating that they are interested in world domination via trade and military intimidation.  Western leaders apart from the one you don't like are doing a good impression of Neville Chamberlain.  It's illuminating to remember history and how much people hated and despised leaders like Churchill in the 30's, but who subsequently were proven right.

     

    Chamberlain did more to prepare Britain for war than Churchill and was far from the fool history made him. Churchill on the other hand was a bankrupt and corrupt war mongerer, who indeed wrote his own history, as he himself predicted. He was despised by many with good reasons.

  7. 24 minutes ago, mjkerner said:

    FYI, Bootie messaged me that he would get to uploading this at CMMODS IV today. I’m heading to the Wyoming/Montana mountains for the next 10 days myself, so I hope no one has any problems with the mod. I will be in occasional touch with the world, but don’t know when/how often. Fingers crossed that all goes well for you guys!

    You've done your best, MJ. Sounds like a great trip. Just forget us for a while and enjoy the mountain air.

  8. 49 minutes ago, Erwin said:

    Am simply quoting the data and supporting research stated in the book in case others are interested in reading about those events.  That is not a discussion.  If anyone has data and documents that contradict the facts and supporting research outlined in the book and posted them, then yes, that could certainly initiate a discussion.  

    Regardless, none of the above should stop one from enjoying games like CM about the era and surrounding events any more than one would not want to play a game about Attila the Hun.  It is important however to remind folks of the realities of the historical events and resist attempts to rewrite history.

    Fair enough, Erwin.

  9. 15 hours ago, Erwin said:

    The only reason to send US troops to India would be to confront the Chinese from an adjacent "friendly land base" using India as a sort of unsinkable aircraft carrier in a similar way that Great Britain was used to base US forces.  India is a nuke power so a confrontation with China could be very serious for both. 

    In addition the terrain being disputed is mountainous - probably makes Afghanistan look like a "green and pleasant land".  Chinese military and economic expansionist intentions are clearly to breach the protective barrier of the Himalayas so as to intimidate and threaten Asia.  China already has compromised Pakistan and has built and leased a naval base there.  So, in effect India in in danger of being surrounded in the same way that the US felt threatened by Cuba in the 60's.  

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/17/asia/china-india-himalayas-conflict-intl-hnk/index.html

    https://nypost.com/2020/06/17/provoking-a-crisis-with-india-chinas-latest-aggression/

    China is surely gambling, as did Hitler in the 30's, that the US and other powers do not have the stomach to confront and stop them - especially considering current pandemic as they make illegal land grabs such as the massive theft of the South China Sea in order to grab resources (like oil) that China desperately needs while in addition threatening world trade.   While we may still be seeking evidence as to whether Covid-19 is a biowar attack or merely an accidental release from a Chinese facility, the Chinese are certainly exploiting the pandemic as a distraction/cover for their other expansionist aims whether in Hong Kong, South China Seas or on the border with India and also Bhutan.

    http://www.indiandefencereview.com/news/in-bhutan-too-chinese-grab-land/

    https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/rest-of-the-world-news/china-eyes-bhutan-as-a-part-of-its-expansionist-strategy.html

    https://thediplomat.com/2018/09/trade-war-and-the-south-china-sea/

    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/07/heres-why-the-south-china-sea-is-highly-contested.html

    There are certainly parallels with the 30's, but I see different ones than you do. For example an extremely dangerous American president who's only interested in money and trade and hasn't got a clue about what's really going on, the Russians trying to destabilize other countries in order to make advantage of the confusion, the Chinese forced into a confrontation because they are becoming too powerful and too successful and last but not least a weak and divided Europe, that needs to understand they are on their own in a world gone completly ballistic. 

  10. 51 minutes ago, Erwin said:

    "Bloodlands" does an xnt job describing all those factors and the often insane-sounding rationalizations made to justify the mass-killings and ethnic cleansing actions by both Soviets and Germans.  Also, while nowadays it's politically correct to call the WW2 Germans "Nazis" as if the National Socialists were a separate entity and not supported by the majority of the German population, "Bloodlands" provides the evidence that the regular Wehrmacht troops were up to their necks in atrocities from the invasion of Poland onwards.

    Well, a lot can be said about attrocities in wartime, but to my experience discussions like this should better be avoided on this forum. Let's leave this subject to rest.

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