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So, support the allies in 1944 but also the axis? But I forgot, we can never use WW2 as an example anymore. A war where we supposedly did defeat the enemy and tried to eradicate the philosophy of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. The wars since then have all been lost or partially won. Call me stupid all you want but I HAVE picked 1 side in this case. You equate it to supporting mass killings of civilians. I don't. Israel can answer in the ICJ. maybe you have already rendered a verdict. Also, should our own soldiers not support only one side, our own side? In a future conflict.    
@The_Capt I met a wonderful Canadian couple about 20 years ago. She was a teacher in Saskatoon. Unprompted she somehow brought up the (new?) direction of the curriculum of her elementary school. Government directed curriculum. "First Nations". Maybe I am all wrong but it seems to be about instilling in white people from as early an age as possible some type of guilt for the past. 
I know you were Canadian Forces active duty in Afghanistan.  I don't know for sure but maybe now you are a civilian employee academic type professor/instructor of the Canadian Forces in some type of war college or armed forces type university? Did that require you to go to a civilian school to get a degree? I had started an online degree, a masters in social work, I was disgusted by the intro course to diversity and all the same trappings of white guilt/blame it tries to instill/teach/indoctrinate.
A comment was made about "North American voters". Now I suspect you meant white voters. Or maybe it was a general comment about the current low level of intelligence/intellect/IQ in people. Low Information voters is the term maybe? If the mantra to whites is to feel guilty and ashamed of the past to understand how non-whites feel...then the same low information/intellect/IQ people of non-white voters just pick-up the corollary. "I am not responsible for my feelings. It is someone else's fault based on the past. I am owed something. I can't be held responsible for my actions. I am oppressed." I have seen a press conference by native American groups openly praising the 7 October attack by Hamas with aspirations of how this might help them get "their" land back. Another video I saw showed an African American watching a pro-Palestine protest and he was asked what he thought. He said he felt a kinship to them as he was also living in occupied land. 
I am here today as the first day of the future. white, yellow, black, brown, red, whatever. Move forward to achieve prosperity and security. Don't have an agenda of restorative justice or whatever for the past. The US Armed Forces has gone more woke than ever. Meritocracy is apparently out the window. Both the US Armed Forces and many airlines now have a goal to get more non-white pilots. Them being non-white is the number one aspect of the application process. Will it help us win a war? We used to be told to be color blind. Now they instruct us to see the color of the other guys skin and make certain changes in how we treat them. 
I thought this was a good thread and some folks here were very smart. I could learn. I still feel the same way but I also see now that the current pathology of wokeness and "identity politics" is very widespread.   
The image in my signature is just a modern take on an old flag used in the early 1800's. 

Get out the red kettles! Ring the bell and take donations.
 

I searched the internet for this but couldn't find it so I made it myself...

Years ago I tried a GoFundMe here. For that operational level game. I tried to prime the pump with $1000 of my own. It fizzled quick. No interest.  
Edit: my own mods help me bridge the gaps where BFC will never go. Imperfect as these mods are, I really enjoy them. The latest Korea 1950 has been tons of fun. Steve has written that he depends on modders to take the game where BFC will never take it. He gave an example of where he would never take it, he said Crete, so I made a mod for that the very next month. He never mentioned my name. BFC has never ever contacted me. All my requests or ideas for help from BFC to allow my mods to be better, like a special module with stuff, have been ignored.

According to IDF spokesman LCOL Jonathan Conricus as of his 31December2023 briefing:
IDF KIA 506. (506 is the sum of the 7 October 2023 KIA plus the 172 KIA since ground operations started).
IDF Wounded: 2,200.
 
 

I guess this is the tryouts for the high school debate team? JHC.
I support Israel. 
I have seen the genocide card played, the apartheid card played, colonization card played, pay them reparations card played, and now I see the racist card is played.
IS OLD FASHIONED RACISM THE REASON I THINK A CERTAIN WAY ABOUT GAZA?
I guess you mean skin color?
Only trying to speak for myself here to say that I don't think so.
For whatever it is worth...Christmas present for me and the Mrs were the DNA kits. No surprise, I am 50-50 Germanic European and Eastern European Slavic (Hungarian). My wife joked and called me Hitler-Putin. She is a mix of Northern Philippines and Indigenous American Indian and Mexican and some Spanish and Portugese...and somehow 1% Jewish. OY VEY!
I watched a bunch of videos "Ask an Israeli" and "Ask a Palestinian" and for racial identity - I guess I have no 100% handle on what a Palestinian looks like. I have no 100% handle on what an Israeli looks like. Lots of different looks. Even the Israeli hostage Mia Schem said she revealed herself from hiding at that concert to somebody she thought might be an Israeli. She was wrong and got hauled away.
If it aint racism then what is it?
I flat out have more respect for the Israeli side. I have spent some intimate time with them. I have also spent some lesser time with military members and civilians of Arab nations. 
One thing that really resonated with me was the flower industry and greenhouses left behind intact when Israel pulled out of Gaza back in 2005 or whenever it was. Palestinians I guess do not like making flowers. Just tunnels!
If the point of this thread is to sway pro-Israeli opinions and win by having someone change their view. I guess I will just say I don't see that happening. 
HAMAS! Please surrender and stop the death of your people. Not gonna? OK, we kinda figured that. Iran says "hang in there guys!"...
Nobody is perfect. But given these 2 sides, I support Israel. I called my elected representatives and said so. I joined Friends of the IDF. I donated and specified my donation for 5.56mm ammo. 
HOLLYWOOD MOVIES: 
The entertainment industry and movie makers have always portrayed people whatever way they wanted and felt they could get away with or what was easiest. Charlie Chan was really a white actor. Cowboy and Indian movies had white actors with make-up quite a bit. Coke bottle glasses Japanese soldiers in the WW2 movies. Black domestic servants in many old movies. (Now the pendulum swings the other way. If you don't know what I mean, I guess you don't watch too many of the new "woke" movies). Classic Arab bad guys I recall from "Navy Seals" and Charlie Sheen kills the bad guy in the water at the end. Also good old Chuck Norris with the rearward firing motorcycle rocket in Delta Force. Classic stuff with the bad guy getting it. I saw a Made in China movie about the Korean War. Lots of scenes of white guys getting it from the Chinese hero. Entertainment Industry is like that globally I guess. 
I will make the CMFI Palestine 1948 mod and folks can battle it out. By the end of the year it should be done.
Best wishes to everybody. Shalom!
 
 

FORGET THAT 24/7 CRAP. The goal is to work 7/24. 7 minutes every 24 months. Maybe somebody HAS achieved that goal.
 

FORGET THAT 24/7 CRAP. The goal is to work 7/24. 7 minutes every 24 months. Maybe somebody HAS achieved that goal.
 

Maybe moving forward we all just post battle reports, technical info, and strategy reports. 
 
 Stay away from posting personal court room testimony or whatever you'd call it.
Just an idea.
Or lock it 

We are a team community!

Thank you, a little tired, I didn't see that the file was in front of me. It was a great Christmas with the family.
 
Happy New Year to you too cher ami 🍾
~Laurent

mon ami, the gun barrel is there in the 251/22 folder
sdkfz-251-22-d-pak40-gun.bmp
also a [whitewash] version
I hope you and your brother and all your family have a fabulous new year.
~Phil

Merry Christmas!
 

Alrighty, here is what I have to offer you all for under the tree. The mod with 1 scenario to play as allies versus axis AI. Maybe more to follow later.
@Bootie Please upload to CMMODS. There is an image and a readme to paste for your website description. 
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/geb3uexdjidapkteoq4gx/h?rlkey=upqq0d2hpfszu0tv38cst5h1l&dl=0
 

Well, it is Christmas. This scenario challenge ends and was somewhat dismal versus the other 2. I personally didn't make as many as I wanted. I didn't see much new juice bubbling up. Oh well.
Until next year!
 

It is also interesting to see the Gaza War in the context of military history.
As per last numbers I have seen, there have been ca. 25.000 casualties in Gaza (as per Hamas) and part of that are ca. 4000 to 5000 combatants (as per IDF).
Any military operation in dense urban terrain, if conducted by a Western military, shows a ratio of 1:8 and 1:12 of killed combatants to killed civilians (when it is a non-western military, it can be anything between 1:10 to 1:100).
Obviously the number of civilian deaths in Gaza will rise as more dead people are found and identified (the current numbers are just a floor, likely), but at the moment, even without the hundreds if not several thousands of Hamas combatants which have been taken prisoner, we are looking at a ratio of 1:4 or 1:5, far less than what past urban warfare would make us expect. And as mentioned, the ratio only improves for the IDF if one includes the prisoners.
In light of that it seems hard to understate how efficient and effective the IDF campaign in Gaza is. It might very well become a role-model urban warfare campaign for the ages if the numbers stay roughly at this ratio.
There is basically no military which ever managed to achieve something similar and be so careful around civilians.
Of course, ssingular suspicious actions by the IDF still need to be investigated and should be, if necessary, condemned and persecuted.
But the civilian death toll needs to be at least twice as high to become average as per past military campaigns in dense urban terrain (where warcrimes surely happened but which were still considered generally "clean" acts of war), and the death toll of Palestinians would have be greater by a multitude to be considered an extraordinary event.
Of course, the international stage still should pay close attention to what happens and ultimately it all depends on what Israel will do once they demilitarized the majority or all of Hamas in Gaza.
One important step will be a purge of the humanitarian aid organisations in Gaza which seem to deeply infiltrated by or completely beholden to Hamas and help the terrorists eagerly with their social media campaign. If the IDF would start taking the reigns over dispersing humanitarian aid in Gaza, more of it might actually reach the civilians who need them. 
To reduce the humanitarian crisis, I think Israel should try to let civilians temporarily cross the border to Israel after a careful check by border control. They are already evacuating wounded Gaza inhabitants to Israeli hospitals and obviously there will be security concerns that Hamas will send suicide bombers and baby trolleys with bombs in between the refugees, as is normal for them. It will be a hard balancing act for the Israeli security apparatus, but might bring more civilians away from the clutches of the Hamas administration and their allied international organsiations. Palestinians have really given scathing interviews about their life under Hamas as soon as they felt safe enough to do so, so I hope their liberation continues quickly without any of the well-meant but misleading internationally demanded ceasefires by that useless dumpsterfire that is the UN which is dominated by countries where the Israeli flag is regularly burned in the streets by angry mobs.

I can do a variety of things that I call "fake lobster" but I cannot change the physics of the game code. 
Here is an example for CMFI Korea 1950...
CMFI does not have the T-34/85. I use various resources to decide my best option to deliver a "fake lobster" version of the T-34/85. One resource I find easy to use is the ASL game with its counters and rules.  This resource led me to decide to use the British Sherman IIA as the "host" for the "shell" 3D model from CMRT. The power of the gun, the armor strength, the crew size were a good enough "fake lobster" match.
Making new vehicles
I have also created new/hybrid/bastardized 3D models in a program called Blender to be the "shell" over a good enough "host". One example is a Hungarian armoured car called the Csaba. It had a turret stolen from vehicle X with guns from another vehicle Z, slapped on the hull from vehicle Y. 
85% fake lobster with melted butter fresh off the coast of Maine.
 
 

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/bbh0uitnkurbo3he8o0m8/h?rlkey=ln9r68mj9vr42a3fwejpot68u&dl=0
 
Zip file, Inlcude sf1, sf2, Like I said probably a copy of sf1, don t know if BFC was  making a new set for sf2, I doubt about that ?
JM

Get out the red kettles! Ring the bell and take donations.
 

I don't know if we would get enough.  But maybe...

I will put your research into the designer notes. Thanks.
I don't know what nationality he came from. Sounds Danish. 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
REVISED BRIEFING
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1200, 10 July 1950. 500 yards east of Chonui, Korea. The sky is a haze with a light wind from
the west. It is hot and the ground is very dry. 
^
The North Korean 4th Division (commanded by Major General Lee Kwon Mu) with Colonel Choe U
Silk's 107th Tank Regiment was attacking south from Chonui. Earlier in the morning, the North
Koreans mauled the U.S. Army's 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment. The battalion held for
three hours against the North Korean onslaught. But two mistaken attacks, one from USAF F-80
fighters and the other a bombardment from friendly 155mm artillery were too much for these
green troops to endure. Soon, the battalion was running in headlong flight to the south despite
the regimental commander, Colonel Richard W. Stephens' efforts to maintain order. Colonel
Stephens ordered his 3rd Battalion to regain a low ridge east of Chonui.
 
^
You are Lieutenant Colonel Jensen and command the 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment. Your
men are just off of the soft life doing occupation duty in Japan (The 24th Infantry Division).
You have 2 understrength rifle companies supported by four M-24 Chaffee light tanks. Some of
your men are seasoned WW2 veterans but most are the draftees of a nation convinced that all
future conflict is most likely an atomic war. Ammunition levels reflect the sorry state of
logistics during the first few weeks of the Korean War!
^
Your enemy are believed to be elements of the North Korean 4th Division with T-34/85 tank
support from the 107th Tank Regiment. They are dug-in on the ridge and have eyes on areas near
[or in] your set up zone so deploy carefully! 

^
You have 45 minutes to accomplish your mission to attack the ridge and clear it of the enemy.
Victory is settled by post-battle analysis by the human player. If you have cleared the North
Koreans off of the ridge, you have won. Any that are still there might be cowered or broken and
might not count. 
^
The 3rd Battalion commander, LTC Pryor, became a non-battle casualty and was unable to carry
out the order. Colonel Stephens immediately replaced him with LTC Carl C. Jensen. At about
1200, with the support of four M-24 Chaffee tanks, LTC Jensen launched his counterattack on the
ridge. A firefight ensued with the defending North Korean infantry on the ridge. M-24 Chaffee
tanks from the 24th Reconnaissance Company and Company A, 78th Heavy Tank Battalion engaged in
the first tank-to-tank action of the war. One Chaffee tank achieved a "lucky hit" and killed a
T-34/85. Two M-24s were knocked out in the process, while at least one M-24 (Rebel's Roost)
survived the action. It was "no small achievement", but the 3rd battalion soon regained control
of the ridge. Jensen's victory was short-lived. The next morning, the North Koreans executed a
nearly perfect text book attack that regained the ridge, killing LTC Jensen in the process.
(The designer notes contain additional info about this historical encounter...)

Merry Christmas!
 

Alrighty, here is what I have to offer you all for under the tree. The mod with 1 scenario to play as allies versus axis AI. Maybe more to follow later.
@Bootie Please upload to CMMODS. There is an image and a readme to paste for your website description. 
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/geb3uexdjidapkteoq4gx/h?rlkey=upqq0d2hpfszu0tv38cst5h1l&dl=0
 

Well, it is Christmas. This scenario challenge ends and was somewhat dismal versus the other 2. I personally didn't make as many as I wanted. I didn't see much new juice bubbling up. Oh well.
Until next year!
 

Merry Christmas!
 

Alrighty, here is what I have to offer you all for under the tree. The mod with 1 scenario to play as allies versus axis AI. Maybe more to follow later.
@Bootie Please upload to CMMODS. There is an image and a readme to paste for your website description. 
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/geb3uexdjidapkteoq4gx/h?rlkey=upqq0d2hpfszu0tv38cst5h1l&dl=0
 

Hey buddy. It is hard to resist I know. Forum SOP: Don't feed trolls.
I suggest to block people like him. I use the blocking option now for over 20 people on the forum. It just saves stress.
By the way, BFC UKRAINE THREAD needs no defense. It is of course a mixed bag but all the posts could be lashed together for a damn PhD thesis.
"Changing views on the Ukraine-Russia conflict of 2022~202X."