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The original map and QB scenario are my design and can be found on the small map pack thread I made awhile back. I have to add it makes me happy to see my maps being enjoyed.

Thanks all! I updated the files. Added the tiny screenshot doofer to the maps for the menu. Also expanded the red start zone just a tad in Mariupol.

To be exact, war is a dark day for all mankind; some people inexorably find themselves pulled to it some ironically like a moth to the flame some like energy and matter to a collapsed star, no light escapes. To look in another beings eyes, see the suffering, the resentment, the hate...the despair... to then turn around, sit down and play a game with it...well that takes some suspension or disregard of...something that's within us all...but I have nothing better to do... These are mostly meant for H2H, but there's simple AI plans in there for QB's as well, just nothing fancy. Just something I threw together in spare time, Hope you all enjoy. (as always, feedback on the maps is appreciated)

Thanks! I slowly work on the maps as time and health allows. I overwrite the old with updated versions in the same folder. Certain assets such as air, artillery, and C2 were specific to the timeline the game was designed around and not what the SAA actually went to war with a few years later. It's a limitation that makes the campaign a challenge to realize, it's why I put the maps up for the time being for people to mess around with. I do appreciate feedback.

Thanks! I'm slowly getting back into things. From what I've done thus far, I had to pause due to the number of TO&E substitutions I had to make in order to get the Tigers to perform somewhat like their rl counterparts. The biggest issue were the off map support assets and C2. Drove me bonkers. Once I can figure that part out, we're golden.

In response to the thread topic: Honestly, coming from a mapper/scenario designer perspective, you don't need the fictional stories. Just give us the tools and the world will provide us the stories to create scenarios and campaigns from. The TO&E. The included equipment and the ability to modify things to suit the scenario designer/player, e.g. Professional Edition type capability. The toys, man! It's all about the toys!

Here's a link to all the maps I've done so far (I think, still scrounging). Some of them have AI and units in them, some of them don't. Some are in beta stages of completion and there's one map in there for CM BS, but nonetheless. Here it is.

Update: Recovered most of the work, lost a couple 4k master maps, but the chopped up versions still exist. Some key battles from 2019 covered. Now comes the part where I figure out what the heck I'm doing...

Hello again everyone. RL took me away from gaming for awhile, but I'm back onshore now and getting the rusted old machine oiled up and dusted off. First step is to recover as much of my work as I can and then go from there. Getting back into the rhythm of life, yes?

A Dr died fighting the virus and all you can think about is how to criticize her clothing? Really? You're not using your heart for what hearts are for.

Great news! I hope that the thread I made on the topic helped ease your task in some small way. The radio bug really seems to affect a lot of Syrian formations. Also, I don't know if it's related to the C2 stuff, but from the drone testing that was done, I discovered that if you assign a drone from the Blue TO&E to the red forces, it will only share contacts with the unit that called the drone. Nobody else on the red side sees the contacts.

Very nice, thank you. It would be super nice if someone has the time/desire to ninja the 2S3 and BM-27 into SF2.

Hello BFC, Is there a possibility of SF2 having anything added and/or fixed this year? Didn't see it mentioned, so I assumed it wasn't, but thought I'd ask anyway.

2015 is also when the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded Pirbright Institute began patenting corona virii...for research, etc. October 18, 2019, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sponsors Event 201 in NY. Event 201 was sponsored by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Economic Forum (WEF), the CIA, Bloomberg, John Hopkins Foundation and the UN. The World Military Games opened in Wuhan on the exact same day. Strange times we live in... By the way, where is ole Billy boy right now? I heard he cashed out or something...

I saw an article the other day where a 103 year old Iranian woman recovered. Also, just wanted to give a shout out to the unsung heroes of this pandemic: https://ifpnews.com/iranian-doctor-fights-corona-until-her-last-breath So many people giving it everything they have out there. Can't forget them.

Tanks arriving in San Diego:

You might enjoy this article: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/03/on-toilet-paper.html

Everything will be just fine...the big wigs gamed out a corona virus pandemic about a month before the real one happened. I'm sure they're all well prepared...

Ahh it must just be the Syrians that don't share info then. Thanks.

I've noticed that the drone contacts are not shared by the HQ with anyone else, do you see that as well? The only unit benefiting from them seems to be the HQ itself from my testing. Also, contact reporting in general seems to be broken between many radio equipped units. I have to do more testing, but this plays right into the broken radios issue I ran into while doing my Syrian campaign.

This bug really affects the Syrians badly. Many of their units are handicapped by it. Spec Ops, Airborne, Republican Gaurds, etc. It's pretty much halted development of my campaign as almost anything I try to do ends up with broken radios.

Thank you very much for validating the testing! Hopefully this will help BFC.

No that's not the case, once the radios are gone, they're gone. Only verbal coms afterwards. You can monkey with the HQ and vehicles all you want after they disappear and it doesn't return the radios. You can try it yourself in the editor, just make the map big enough to put the squad out of LOS and you'll see.

No, not at all. Some screenshots are obviously in order to explain this better. One Squad Syrian AB + 1 BMP 1 added Going to the Deploy forces screen from within the editor shows the HQ already in the BMP, radio icon visible. 2nd Squad - Radio Icon Visible 3rd Squad - Radio Icon Visible HQ moved out of BMP to the ground nearby - Radio Icon Visible 2nd Squad's radio has vanished - Radio Icon Not Visible 3rd Squad's radio has vanished - Radio Icon Not Visible

I am able to most easily replicate the issue with Syrian Airborne and a BMP 1. I can start a new battle in the editor, go to units and purchase a Syrian Airborne Infantry Battalion. Pick one of the infantry platoons and add a single BMP 1 to it. Select Deploy (blue/red) and then move that platoon HQ in and out of the BMP while checking the radio icons for the squads in that platoon. The radios vanish every time.