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    mjkerner reacted to Dlw in Fire and Rubble   
    I often find it to be entertaining to fight against the odd's, see how long I can hold with what i'm given, which is why I along with others am eager to see just what lengths the development team went into the accuracy and depth of the late war soldiers of the east. The hodge podge nature of the mixed SS, Volkssturm, Polizei, Luftwaffe Auxiliaries, Falschirm., Kriegsmariner and other units in my opinion just makes for a fun challenge considering all of the different variables of what a German commander could expect to receive in 1945 often demanding superior tactics to overcome all the deficiencies that your motivated and well equipped enemy does not share.
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    mjkerner reacted to Aragorn2002 in Fire and Rubble   
    Each to his own of course, but I don't entirely understand people's fascination with the Volkssturm. 🙂 Badly armed, badly trained, often badly led, they fought with great courage, but for me not very appealing, although perhaps somewhat useful for flank protection and such.
    For me FR is all about Volksgrenadiere, Fallschirmjäger and Waffen SS. 
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    mjkerner reacted to RescueToaster in Pre-reading recommendations   
    Been lurking for a while and decided to sign up for the forums and hopefully add to the discussion since I'm all hyped up for CM:CW!
    I was browsing the Googles and found this bibliography file of 10 Cold War related books and figured I should share. I believe almost all of these have already been mentioned, but I like the brief description for each book. 
    I'd like to make it clear that I did not make this list - I'm just sharing (and formatted and edited it a tiny bit to make it easier to read!).
    https://img.lib.msu.edu/general/events/contest/2006/2006GrevstadBib.pdf  written by Ted Grevstad-Nordbrock
    For those who don't want to click away: copy/paste below the break - book names are in bold, author names in italics.
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    “Ten Literary Accounts of a War that Was Never Fought”
    Ted Grevstad-Nordbrock
    Bibliography List:
    - World War 3. Bidwell, Sheldon, ed. (1978).
    Though non-fictional, Sheldon's work takes on an air of fiction when it hypothesizes about how a third world war in Europe might realistically start, and how it would play out. Like other books in this collection, slogging but indecisive conventional warfare inevitably leads to the use of nuclear weapons.
    - Red Storm Rising. Clancy, Tom. (1986).
    Clancy is, of course, the best-known author of the group included here. This work, one of his earliest, describes a NATO-Warsaw Pact conflict on land and on the seas.
    - Armor at Fulda Gap: A Visual Novel of the War of Tomorrow. Cook, J. L. (1990).
    Cook's illustrated work is an unusual mix of fact and fiction-of real-world armaments that would have been used to fight a third world war as well as fantastic imaginings of what the near future might hold. The title of the book makes reference to two common themes in the theory and literature describing a NATO-Warsaw Pact confrontation in Europe: the Fulda Gap, a historical passage-a "gap" in the otherwise rough terrain-from eastern Europe to the west, named after the German city; and armor, the tanks and mechanized vehicles that would contend for this strategic region.
    - Team Yankee. Coyle, Harold. (1987).
    This best-selling work intimately chronicles the efforts of an American tank platoon in defending a small swath of West Germany during a Warsaw Pact invasion. The story is based on the Hackett's The Third World War: August 1985, which Coyle acknowledges in his introduction.
    - The Third World War: August 1985. Hackett, John, General Sir. (1978). 
    This influential account of World War III is told by a British general. The illustrated edition features images of the battles, including the two terminal moments of the short war: nuclear strikes on Birmingham, England and Minsk.
    - The Third World War: The Untold Story. Hackett, John, General Sir. (1982).
     Hackett's follow-up fleshes out and expands the narrative begun in "August 1985."
    - First Clash: Combat Close-Up in World War Three. Macksey, Kenneth (1984)
    First Clash offers a Canadian take on NATO's efforts to repulse the Red Army during its invasion of West Germany. That this fiction is based in fact is emphasized through the use of annotated maps, images, and text boxes that contain discursive notes on tactics, armament, military organization, etc.
    - The War That Never Was. Palmer, Michael A. (1994).
    Written after the Cold War ended, this book describes World War III on a global scale (a war that "never was"), as told by a fictional Russian character to his old enemy and new ally: an American.
    - Red Army. Peters, Ralph. (1989).
    Peters's book is unique in that it tells the story of a conflict in Europe from the perspective of soldiers in the Red Army. This is perhaps one of the best written of the books of this genre.
    - Red Thrust. Zaloga, S. J. (1989). 
    Though no less fictional than any of the other works included here, Zaloga's text reads almost like a casebook. He offers a series of hypothetical NATO-Warsaw Pact battle scenarios in Western Europe, each with an accompanying postmortem: tactical strengths, weaknesses, and what might have been done by military leaders to affect a different outcome.
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    Hope this helps some, and also thanks for all of the recommendations so far. I currently have a few of these on the way!
    -RT
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    mjkerner reacted to Artkin in Infantry useless?   
    Guy please? 
    Really?
    What happened is indeed a mix up. Enough. 
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    mjkerner reacted to Schrullenhaft in PBEM turns not generating correctly for large battles   
    I'm unable to duplicate the problem with your Turn 40. Every turn I generate is fine (approx. 50MB file). I've tried no movement orders, a few movement orders, a few more movement orders and artillery/mortar fire adjustments and CAS requests. The only problem I had was when the game attempted to overwrite the same filename (I hadn't moved a file out of the 'outgoing' folder). The procedure I used was:
    1) Load game, select 'Saved Games' and then the PBEM file.
    2) Watched one turn of the playback (usually not moving the camera and not fast-forwarding through anything).
    3) Issued orders of various types (I couldn't really call new fire missions since almost no one had any line of sight).
    4) Saved file and exited game. Moved file from 'outgoing' to 'incoming' game folder.
    5) Reloaded game and selected new PBEM file and 'cancelled' out once I reached your opponents password login. Exiting the game after this.
    I had no problems with any saves (over 20). On average it took around 50 seconds for a file save. This was with a clean/un-modded install of CMBS 2.14 with the BattlePack. I'm running Windows 10 64-bit version 20H2. The system has an Intel i7-7700k, 32GB RAM and a GeForce RTX 2070 Super running the 456.71 driver (Sept 2020). The only things loaded were the Windows File Manager, a Firefox browser (with few extensions), Avast free edition (no exceptions for CM, to my recollection), Steam client, Malwarebytes (free edition), a Samsung SSD utility, Dropbox, MS One Drive (don't really use it - and files are NOT going to it), and a Garmin client (GPS).
    Since the UAV was 'busy', I was unable to do anything with it. I wonder if that could have anything to do with it (if the problem is within CM). Beyond CM itself I can only think of looking for some software that could somehow be interfering with drive writes (typically this would be security/anti-virus software) or somehow inordinately occupying the CPU while the game is trying to write the file.
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    mjkerner got a reaction from Aragorn2002 in Fire and Rubble   
    Hardly.
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    mjkerner reacted to danfrodo in Fire and Rubble   
    I like this idea -- challenge all of us yammering for east front to put our money where our mouths are.  I'd pay my $60 right now for a 1943 or 1942 game that wouldn't be delivered until 2022 sometime .  So BFC could ask how many would be willing to fund the project, and if that's enough they could ask folks to pay up and if enough actually pay then there's the answer.  And if enough don't I guess we get refund.
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    mjkerner got a reaction from Vergeltungswaffe in Fire and Rubble   
    Hardly.
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    mjkerner reacted to Bearstronaut in Fire and Rubble   
    I'll buy anything you guys make. Your games are probably my favorite games of all time.
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    mjkerner reacted to FlammenwerferX in Fire and Rubble   
    That rug really tied the room together...Did it not?
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    mjkerner got a reaction from quakerparrot67 in [Music] Setting the mood   
    Curious as to why? It's from 1982.
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    mjkerner got a reaction from Vergeltungswaffe in Mud?   
    Glad you see the light and are enjoying your liberation (assuming you are indeed, French) brought to you by The Commonwealth and United States armies, navies, and air forces. Great picture choice, too! James Whitmore was not only a great actor but served in the 4th Marine Division on Saipan (where my Dad fought and was wounded) and Tinian.

     
     
     
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    mjkerner got a reaction from MOS:96B2P in Mud?   
    Glad you see the light and are enjoying your liberation (assuming you are indeed, French) brought to you by The Commonwealth and United States armies, navies, and air forces. Great picture choice, too! James Whitmore was not only a great actor but served in the 4th Marine Division on Saipan (where my Dad fought and was wounded) and Tinian.

     
     
     
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    mjkerner reacted to AlanSA in Fire and Rubble   
    Since you insist on continuing this  off topic discussion.
    I don't think fighting Nazis offers the Soviet military a clean slate for their acts of aggression and crimes against not only their own people but their neighbours. 
    Neither do I equate the Allies whose acts were committed against targets with the intention of ending the war and freeing the people or Europe with that of the  Soviet Union who deliberately targeted the peoples of Poland and the Baltics  with acts of mass murderer to terrify them into submission. All the while allied with the Nazis. It's frankly absurd to try equate the two.
    Sorry your  "we're great because we fought Nazis, after being content to first align with them, and because our crimes against humanity didn't quite match theirs " argument doesn't fly with me. 
    You are of course entitled to your opinion.
     
     
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    mjkerner reacted to chuckdyke in Fire and Rubble   
    The thread is the Fire and Rubble extension of Red Thunder. If I require history lessons I know how to research and don't need the comment section of Battle Front. Com. Here I am a happy customer of Battle Front and look forward towards any news of this module. 
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    mjkerner got a reaction from mbarbaric in And now.....   
    I like that this is basically a sandbox. And what a sandbox! Assuming NATO forces and Warsaw Pact forces eventually are added in modules, the sky is the limit. Stuff I do now in miniatures, like Iran-Iraq War, India-Pakistan, African Bush Wars, Vietnam, the Falklands,  Ronnie and Maggie’s joint Invasion of Cuba (hey, it could have happened) are just waiting to be modded.  Great times ahead!
     
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    mjkerner got a reaction from Freyberg in Night combat friendly fire casualty caused by HMG   
    My recollection is .50 cal and above can cause FF casualties.
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    mjkerner reacted to AlanSA in Fire and Rubble   
    While I agree there was a degree of so-called "wehraboo-ism" about the German military there are now those going too far in rehabilitating the conduct of Soviet army.
    Lets not forget the Soviet military initially invaded Poland along with their Nazi allies and committed the Katyn massacre. They also invaded the Baltic countries who joined the Eastern Poles enslaved under a genocidal regime.  All in line with the The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.
    Lastly Soviet soldiers did not liberate Eastern European countries but merely exchanged one tyranny for another. Many of those same "liberating" Soviet solders would later turn their guns on the people of Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
     
     
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    mjkerner reacted to IICptMillerII in New things added to the new thing   
    This seems to be the go to for screenshot teasers. Here are a few more:
    Soviet infantry conducting a dismounted attack:

    GP-25 in action:

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    mjkerner got a reaction from Jotte in Team Yankee Campaign   
    You can still get one on Amazon for $902.00 if you’d like, Captain, but I went for $5 used one.😎
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    mjkerner got a reaction from umlaut in Fire and Rubble   
    Kohlenklau +100
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    mjkerner got a reaction from ratdeath in Pre-orders for Combat Mission Cold War are now open.   
    Yes, but you were the one who sent the emails, and therefore had a large part in our genesis. Ergo, you're the official 42nd member of the 41, lol!
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    mjkerner got a reaction from A Canadian Cat - was IanL in Pre-orders for Combat Mission Cold War are now open.   
    Thanks for the new avatar, Ian!
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    mjkerner got a reaction from George MC in Mud?   
    Yes it does. This is from before CMBN release in 2011. George MC explains it third post down:
     
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    mjkerner reacted to Rice in Pre-orders for Combat Mission Cold War are now open.   
    Us Fighting 41 should get early access to the game :^)
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