Anonymous_Jonze

Hey Guys,
Been feverishly working on the CMFB Campaign Task Force Baum... I am at the point where I am putting battles together (every map complete but one) and I just took the first battle to completion, I play tested it about a dozen times, but would still be looking for feedback...  These are all battles 'Allies vs AI' and the outcome would be important info in the process... plus all the feedback you can give me... Unfortunately, when one does play testing on a campaign it is mostly ruined if you want to play the campaign. But if you want to have some fun and try these battles, I can attest that they might be fun little fights...
First one up is Battle 1 'Wake up Laufach' ... Dusk, 1 Hour, Recon (+), Exit Certain Units, 625 pts per side, Medium Size (leaning toward small), and 4 different AI plans. Depending on the plan you draw, it could be a cake walk or a headache...

Any who if interested, go HERE look around at what's happening and if interested send me an email via the feedback button on the site... I will send you the .btt file for testing... 
I will continue on this thread as the other 8 battles become available for testing... My time frame for release of the Campaign is late June, so I figure 4 weeks or so would be great for feedback from the start of a battle...
Thanks for reading and I hope some will respond...
 
Cheers
-Rick
 

I would like this feature to happen someday. Sometimes I want to play a huge battle, but I don't want the responsibility of commanding a huge amount of troops. Maybe just a Company or a Platoon out of a Battalion. That being said... the AI would need to be drastically improved.

Hi all, its been a while... in fact so long that I had to create a new account for the Forums... Anywho I started revamping some of my old work so it will play better in Game Engine 4.x and also I am back to creating some new scenarios (some fictional, some semi-historical)... Also redid my Combat Mission Site (haven't touched it in 7 years)... Since I lost touch with all the people that use to playtest for me I ask if you have feedback; Good, Bad, and/or Ugly that you submit that via the Feedback button in the site's menu... I have done extensive testing on the vs. AI battles but, the Head to Heads I have not been able to test... Well I am active again, who knows for how long but I do have a lot of time on my hands and a lot of scenarios/campaigns on the production schedule...  You can check every thing out at Fredrockers Combat Mission Site ... Enjoy

While we wait the modding master to perhaps arise once again, I couldn't help myself.

So here's the first of a few mods of weathered vehicles for the Downfall module. Don't know how many I am going to make, but it certainly won't be all the new Downfall units.
Here's a Dropbox link for the Pershing - but it will only be temporary until the files have become available on https://www.thefewgoodmen.com/cm-mod-warehouse/



 

Exactly one year after the first announcement, the project is now finished. In order to avoid
misunderstandings on the part of the company Battlefront.com, I chose the name CampaignPack 😎.
The pack (as described in former threads) consists of 5 campaigns in which the player is thrown
into the events of the summer of 1944 in the sector of the German Army Group Center.
In total you will play minium 52 single missions, maximum 55 single missions (depending on one
branch). To avoid technical problems, I didn't add any mods to the campaigns. But I can, for example,
highly recommend the excellent work of @JM Stuff, especially his extraordinary mod collection of vehicles
and wrecks 👍
I recently visited the forum regularly to stay in touch with people who wanted to register. However, I have
asked the people at Battlefront.com several times to delete my profile.  This request has not yet been
granted to me, so as a quasi "undead" I will always stop by - but I will no longer take part in any discussions
or answer any questions in the forum. To get in touch with me, please write to me at:
E-Mail: f-s-zbg@web.de.😎
Of course, I can still send the campaign pack to anyone interested.
 
So all I can say is:
It was a great pleasure for me to finish this project and share it with many people.
I hope you have as much fun playing as I did creating it 🙏
 
Best regards
Mr.X 

The majority is based on Aris mods (I found a mod for the Nashorn in the mega mod "Berlin", but I don't know the author). The rest is based on the original textures from BF.c. Some snow textures and the King Tiger's snowy tracks have been added since the screenshot. I'll make some improvements before asking Bootie to host this folder.
List:
Russia:
- BA 64b - late  
- IS2-late
- ISU 122-s
- ISU 152
- Gaz 67
- HT M5
- HT M9A1
- HT SU 57
- OT T34/76 1942
- OT T34/85 1944
- Sherman M4A2 76
- Studebaker
- SU 85-M
- SU 100
- SU 122
- SU 152
- T34/85 1944-early-late-latest
- T34/76 1942-early-late 
- T34/5 1943
- T70
- Universal carrier
- Valentine
- White scout car
Germany:
- Jagpanther
- Jagtiger 
- King Tiger Henschel (version 1944 - Germany 1945)
- Nashorn
- Panther A early
- Stug 3G concrete
- Stug 4 late
- Kubel
- Schwimmwagen
- Lynx
- Marder II-IIIM
- Mobelwagen
- Opel Blitz
- Ostwind
- Wirbelwind
- Sdkfz 10/5
- PSW 231
- SPW 222-223-251/1 neu-250/9 neu- 250/10 neu 
- SPW 251/22 
 
View URSS :
https://www.mediafire.com/view/xmetfrtowhm3uab/RT_winter_Allied.jpg/file
View German:
https://www.mediafire.com/view/4ccikcg0mfe63mh/RT_Snow_Axis.jpg/file
Zip:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/vsuxuvuebpbeyvi/Winter_vehicles_Axe_-_Allied.zip/file
 
🍾🌲Happy New Year🌲💫
 

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
 
 

I am very very irritated to see my topic locked because an anonymus weirdo named JoMac has claimed that I would sell any of my content of my coming BattlePack.
I don‘t even have a PayPal Account. 
Thank you Battlefront.com for this great reaction. This level of communication is shameful.
Mr.X
 

Some new impressions from the campaign "Partisans Land":

The calm before the storm, St Mere Eglise 1944.

 

Short update:
There are two news - one bad and one good 😉
The bad one: due to an unexpected vacation, I had to stop my work since last week...
The good one: When I´m back home on 13th September, I will continue with work powerfully 👍
 
As I told before, it is a huge amount of things to do AND I want to have a product with quality - so, I have to 
adjust the release date for a (hopefully) last time:
With the experience of the last months, I am almost sure, that the BattlePack will be released as a Christmas gift 😎
 
Regards
Mr.X

Re: possible insurgency
1. First off, as Steve already said, things can theoretically happen. We're talking about the most likely scenario. Anyone who predicts future with 100% certainty is a fraud.
2. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of bad blood. Just as you saw a lot of Crimeans genuinely cheering up and supporting the invaders in 2014, the Crimeans saw people on mainland Ukraine cheer powerlines being blown up as 2 million people plunged into darkness, water channel being cut off, the roads being blocked for cargo traffic, with all the little nasty consequences that were actually physically felt here. The reactionary post-2014 policies, laws and rethoric weren't great either. But compared to all the mayhem what's been happening since Feb 2022, this is nothing. And people are TIRED of chaos, flying jets, drones, explosions and death. Those who are currently in the trenches or came from there are tired as well.
3. What would be "the cause" to rally behind? They can't even formulate victory conditions for the current war. Nor can they achieve anything significant, with all their men and equipment in the field. Rallying (who, civilians?) to do something a huge army can't do? That requires guts and there's none. Only stupidity and hubris. They are unable to say NO when told to do something stupid or illegal. Saying no requires guts.
4. You need to understand the reality on the ground. Pretty much all Crimeans who haven't left have Russian passports. What, 1.5-2 million people? Myself included. Because living here without one is practically impossible. Hell, I know Crimeans who left and are currently on mainland Ukraine that also have Russian passports, issued in Crimea in 2014 (illegaly, obviously). For Ukrainian government to take back control, they'll have to deal with it somehow. And bunch of other documents. There's already been laws and decrees passed aimed to make the transition back as painless as possible. There's a whole ministry that's dealing with issues like these. Refer to Ministry of Reintegration sources for more information.
5. That being said, it's been nine years, and nobody can pretict how much more time will pass before that. It can happen in two months, or in two years, or in ten. And with every single day, people are growing more tired. They are trying as hard as they can not to notice what's happening now. And there's no land warfare close by yet. When it comes, they'll have much more incentive to make it stop ASAP.
 
Re: how am I doing?
My life isn't as horrible as for some others out there. But things can change literally any minute, as for everybody else in the region. So I am trying to live in the moment while I can.
For those who don't know, I tried to get to Estonia via St.Petersburg back in September. Before Feb 2022, it was illegal (by Ukrainian laws) thing to do. I managed to contact some Ukrainian officials and learned that it is okay during the war, if your purpose is to leave the occupied areas/Russia.
But, as I also have Russian passport (issued locally after 2014, and almost impossible to get rid of without being put into danger), Russia views me as Russian citizen first, and by their laws, I had to get foreign travel passport in order to leave. I did that, and it took time. I also had to prepare money and other affairs. Thus I managed to get to the Estonian border only in September. My thinking was that it would be safer to deal with Russian documents after I cross the border, not before.
I knew that Russian passports issued in Crimea are not recognized by the EU. My Ukrainian foreign travel passport was outdated by that point. The rules are: you can apply for asylum if you have no valid travel documents. But when I got to the border, Estonian police and border guard told me that everything is fine with my Russian passport (the travel document I had to use to leave the Russian side of the border, because Russian laws) and thus I cannot ask for an asylum.
I told them many things about myself, and that I would be in danger if I return, but they did not care. They were angry and not cooperative, unwilling to listen. They blamed me for not coming sooner and for other things I had no control over. That night at the border is something that still haunts me to this day. Being rejected by the people who you considered to be good and being sent back to modern day neo-USSR. And there are things that I am not telling you here, because it is dangerous...
Anyway.. I came to St.Petersburg. Got seriously ill. Still, I got tickets to Vladikavkaz in order to try crossing into Georgia. But soon I found a lot of info online that told me the same story would happen there as well. There were no other good alternatives that came to my mind. Going somewhere else eastward wasn't looking like a good idea either, legally, logistically and for other reasons.
At that time, my little sister was still in Crimea. I've decided to come back here and deal with whatever happens to all of us together. Since then, there was a harsh winter without work. Serious depression, from which I barely managed to recover on my own, without meds or therapist. The dangers that are lurking out there are real. But I know who I am and what I stand for, and where my allegiance is.
Most importantly, I know that the bastards have already lost. I knew that back in Feb 2022. They will not succeed, no matter what happens to me personally. They can't do anything good in this world, and there's no "winning" for them in any shape or form.
I've stopped working on my Unity dev career for now. I tried to find some remote work, but failed and had to return back to working in a store. I do see a future where things go at least a little bit better. But for that to happen, a lot of people have to put in a lot of effort. There's nothing free, and freedom itself is not free. We all have to work for it.
Alright, I've already said much more than I should've. Over and out.

My snowy allied armor for FI completed (if you notice a missing armor don't hesitate to tell me) posted on CMMOD IV, now German armor: The Pz3 M - N and the Wespe seem to have no snow textures in FI, RT and FB. Here in 2 versions (snowy or white) for FI and probably compatible with FB and RT 
 
Wespe (from Aris mod):
Zip snowy
https://www.mediafire.com/file/4ut1pg1zust6nfl/Wespe_snowy.zip/file
Zip white
https://www.mediafire.com/file/5gwejghfcdplecs/Wespe_White.zip/file
View:
https://www.mediafire.com/view/gyc6m1izuctk0b6/Wespe_snowy.jpg/file
 
Pz III N: 
Zip snowy(BF.c texture)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/ewn7jrqmmh3bzko/Pz_3_N_snowy.zip/file
Zip White (from Umlaut mod)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/910v4usmvjare0y/Pz_3_N_white.zip/file
View:
https://www.mediafire.com/view/q8cqoldql2rmzok/Pz3_N_snowy.jpg/file
 
Pz III M:
Zip snowy
https://www.mediafire.com/file/2zp0q0q6wc5feah/Pz3_M_snowy.zip/file
Zip white (From Umlaut mod)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/u2o1alfxsn08q9b/Pz3_M_white.zip/file
View:
https://www.mediafire.com/view/huif1p7rxs2k3kv/Pz__M_white_snowy.jpg/file

Lots of possibilities to consider.
A.  the plane crash was an accident.  Least likely possibility in my opinion.
B.  It is Prig doing a ninja vanish as he got word that being near a window as in his future, so it was time to bail and live a quiet life in Africa.  Not likely but possible.  Wouldn't put it past the slippery bastard.
C.  Payback by the Generals affected by the purge.  Possible.  Proof will be seeing what machinations occur in the internal politics of Russian
D.  It was the Ukrainians.   Highly possible, IMO.
E.  Putin ordered the hit. A bomb or Russian AD bought the plane down.  It will be reported as an accident.
I am leaning between D & E, with E topping the list. Putin is hearing people mutter about him being weak and the failed moon landing, which could of buoyed up his standing, sunk that chance.  He senses the knives bring drawn and was forced to act.

More than one probably :

That woodlot is full of Germans.

Snarling, stalking, and growling like a big cat.

The scout seen earlier running away learns that hunting Tigers is not for amateurs.

To the west of Grodno near the villages of Mieckiwicze and Adamowicze, July 18th, 1944.  From @Mr.X's upcoming.
Glimpses of things...

Some more impressions from WIP:

I found this game by accident, searching for "Star Wars Battlefront" in a Google search. I don't know how many hours I have clocked in, but as a WW2 history fanatic, nothing comes close. 

Hope that it fits this thread, since it is no foto:
My video AAR for the "Operation Konrad" Tournament at "the Few good Men" forums :
 

 

Hi all,
Just wanted to say hello and I hope I get to play some PBEM against some of you when I get better.
I'm a huge history fan, and also a fan of Graviteam Tactics: Mius Front, but it never quite did what I wanted. Games like Gates of Hell: Ostfront, looked gorgeous but were tactically shallow experiences that in no way represented the battles I've read about in books. The closest I could get was warg ames like War in the East 2, which still were fairly abstract. 
I found out about these games a few weeks ago and...Well, with the Steam sale I've purchased CM:BS, CM:SF2 and CM:BN, plus all the respective DLCs. I've been wanting games like these for years. Can't wait to start building the hours. I've clocked up 30 hours in two weeks which, for me as a 37 year old with a job and girlfriend, is fairly extreme.
 
Cannot believe I didn't try them sooner. 
 
Nice to meet you all

What's everyone been up to?  CMRT released on Steam!  Here's some inspiration for any newcomers.  
More scene's from @Mr.X upcoming Tiger Trail campaign!


Firefight!

On the move.

Los los los!

Create a Patreon? I don't know if it only allows monthly subscriptions, but I'd gladly kick some money your way for your work

Someone looks like he is eager to get out there and kick some ***. 😎