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  1. 16 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said:

    Sorta.  The US Army had two camouflage uniforms in the later part of the Cold War game's timeframe.  The precursor to the M81 BDUm which is commonly referred to as the "RDF" or "Transitional" uniform, started large scale introduction in 1978/1979.  The M81 BDU is a simplified version of it and started showing up in large amounts in 1981.  There are significant differences in construction between the two, but those are not noticeable in CM terms.  The more noticeable difference is the earlier Transitional uniforms used surplus Green or Brown Dominate ERDL cloth left over from the Vietnam war.  Later versions used a cloth that would go on to become "Woodland" pattern used in M81.

    For CM's purposes we do not distinguish between the two uniforms.  Late period US forces have a choice between OD or camo.

    Steve

     

    Very interesting, as you can probably tell I’m far from an expert when it comes to camouflage.

  2. 3 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said:

    Ah, camo uniform discussions... I really like those :D

    Soviets first introduced a standard camouflage field uniform (TTsKO) in 1981, but it was not in wide use for several more years.  Outside of Cold War's scope.

    The US 6 color desert ("chocolate chip") uniform was developed in the mid to late 1970s as part of the post-Vietnam shift.  The desert uniform was not generally issued until the early 1980s and even then it was in short supply.  Because few US forces were deployed to desert environments there wasn't much reason to produce many.  In fact, when Desert Shield started up many units had to go to military surplus shops to purchase commercially made versions of the uniform as sufficient stocks were unavailable in military stores.  Same thing happened when OIF started up.

    Which is to say neither uniform is included with Cold War.

    Steve

    Shame, I was hopping to be able to have some mixed desert/bdu units for an early 80s Iran crisis some game. Figured if the Bradley got in this might too, hopefully we may see it in a future module or something. US troops in Egypt on exercise were supposedly issued it in 1981 after all and I imagine they would have been able to issue it quicker had a crisis been brewing in the Gulf...

  3. 7 minutes ago, IICptMillerII said:

    Ugh, that movie 😁 

    Just remember that movies are meant to entertain, not to educate. Especially comedy's. Don't read too much into all that. 

    In CMCW the Bradley comes in its own TO&E formation, and the dismounts are the 6 man teams they were in reality. The player doesn't have to do any annoying splitting or cross loading, all of that is taken care of by the TO&E. 

    That’s good to hear! Thanks for clearing everything up.

  4. 2 minutes ago, IICptMillerII said:

    Bradley's entered service in 1981. They were pretty rare in Europe even up to 85, but they were there. Plus, you can assume the US does a rapid buildup due to some kind of flashpoint somewhere in the world and prioritizes sending more Brads and Abrams to Germany in 81. 

    Don't worry, the Bradley and Abrams are in the game and that is where they will stay. 🙂

    Cool, glad to hear it. As most of my knowledge of the Bradley comes from the movie ‘Pentagon Wars’ I have to ask, will we have to split sections up to fit them in the vehicle? I hear they were designed a bit strange lol

  5. So I’ve seen some people on this forum referring to the ‘79 scenario as the ‘pre-Abrams/Bradley era,’ which seems to imply that Bradleys will be available come 1982. However, upon doing some research it seems that the Bradley was only issued to combat units in March 1983. Does anyone know if this is correct? Were Bradleys in Germany during this game’s timeframe?   

     

  6. 2 minutes ago, BFCElvis said:

    Is this the fist time you've run the game on this computer? We see this when the game is running on an Intel integrated card. What kind of video card do you have? 

    Spot on. It is the first time I’ve run it on this computer. It has an Intel Core i7.

  7. I recently installed CMFI using the full installer and have stumbled upon a strange glitch. All the letters throughout the game seem to be strangely digitized. I had a slight problem while downloading, apparently a source file couldn't be read, but I couldn't find anything about it online and decided to risk it and ignore. Everything in game seems to be working perfectly except for the lettering. Does anyone know how to fix this? It makes it difficult to read the mission briefings.

    Thanks

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