Smaragdadler

Ok. One pbem going. I'm still willing to start one or two more...

Searching opponents for CMSF pbem. I have played cmsf/cmbb/cmak-pbem before. CMSF/Marines/BF v1.20 1-3 turns/day Central European Time Zone english/german language Just send me a setup you want to play: Smaragdadler@gmx.de

I have bought this new book about Leopard 2, I linked above. I would say it's the definite grog bible about this topic. The level of detail and info depth is just amazing. Full German/English Text, many many pictures never seen before, 1/35 scale drawings etc. I don't think there is a better book about this topic out there. It's actually only the first of two volumes. It covers the development of prototypes and all the different versions in Bundeswehr Service + Specialised Vehicles, Ammunition, Markings, Driver Instruction Vehicle and the new developments like 2A4 Evolution, 2A6EX, 2 PSO-UrbObs. The second volume will be available in Autumn 2009 and will cover all Leopard 2 versions in international service (Sweden, Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, Poland, Finland, Greece, Turkey, Chile, Singapore, Canada, Austria, Norway, Portugal and Switzerland) German review of volume 1 with more sample pages: http://www.panzer-modell.de/monatstipp/juni09/tipp.htm

Nice find. Thank you. some link to new book about Leopard 2: http://www.tankograd.com/cms/website.php?id=/en/Kampfpanzer-LEOPARD-2-neu.htm some sample pic

Asmar Crossing (Red v Red). Uploaded at Repository.

Asmar Crossing. Red vs Red (SYR MECH vs. UNCON). Better player should take UNCONs. I downloaded it from cmmods, but can't find it on the repository.

What means this for NATO modul? To ask for a blue nuke-UAV would be just saucy. For UAV-IEDs we need to see a high-number usage in an actual conflict to convince Battlefront, that it is necessary to implement them. But maybe a UNCON-MPRD ("unconventional model plane recon drone" (I just made this up)) would be nice. Should come in different versions: /strategic/ - plane is controlled off board and sends it spotting data to highest UNCON-HQ (takes long time) /tactical/ - there is a on map controller with laptop. To communicate spotting-data goes faster. /armed/ - needs on map controller with constant LOS (like a AT-3B Sagger).

Nazi Ufos. I'm pretty sure.

Sorry, second try. This was the map which shipped with the deluxe edition. That's all I know.

You mean the map from the deluxe version? Have a look at this:

Searching one opponent for my first CMSF pbem. I have played cmbb/cmak-pbem before. CMSF/Marines v1.11 1-3 turns/day Central European Time Zone english/german language Just send me a mail: Smaragdadler@gmx.de

Here is something I found about Jena-Auerstedt (not bad at all): http://www.dailymotion.com/Chretzel/video/x6fpu7_1806engl_videogames

So the main title of CMx2 Westfront Late War will be about bulge. What would be the themes of the modules? Will there be an extra Hürtgen Forest Module? (don't think so, because it's basically the Bulge "uncut directors edition") Maybe a Ruhr pocket module (urban warfare) and a Thuringia Campaign module (with added extra 'what if' stuff to make some fictional Patton '46 campaign?) ...ah and there was this Ratte-thingy.

An idea for weather:

The end of the time line is not depending of a date but of terrain and equipment. CMx2:Normandy will include the whole fighting in Summer 44. All that includes aspects which where not present in June till September 1944 will be out of the time line. (new equipment, autumn and winter graphics). Market Garden supposedly makes it just in. So "on the ground" the line between first and second full CMx2:Westfront title will be the wooded hills on the German border.

What about an option to pre-subscribe all future CMx2 products?

...but of course not too less time, that it would constitute a sacrilege and would have to be fixed later or somefink !!!

It's worse. Because in the same time, they put Hürtgen under the carpet.

I don't want to wait for a Hindu pantheon module. Should all be better in the main release or it will be funtamentally ruined.

"until Spring 1945" means May 1945 (end of war ETO)? Or only till February/March?

Also from me a big thank you.

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The (usualy) 'best' way of engaging an enemy tank with a tank (meaning highest probability to hit the enemy while having the lowest probability to get hit by the enemy) is from a standing hidden (hull down) position with a predefined area (target arc) where the (in-moving) enemy is expected to appear. If you see first - you kill first (post modern blue on red). If you move, your chances of 'first see' go down and you will be seen earlier. That's the gag about 'overwatch' (-> hint). If your 'stabilisation equipment' (in CMSF: Damage panel -> '+Targeting' [?]) is gone, 'you' have to move the gun of your tank by hand crankle like in ww2. To fire on the move would then be a waste of time...

Explanation for old Elite mode is in the manual on page 37. Readme v1.10:

Of course it's all about what interest you. The point is, that in wargaming, if something has interested you before, one can asume that you have 'made your homework' (researching what the tec is capable of and how to apply it with your tactics). If you have made that for one 'topic' it is easy to jump in another 'chapter' of that 'topic'. And the 'topic-line' follows a tec-schedule, which HAS a 'time issue': 'Ancient Style' ('gunpowder tec' has no or negligible impact on tactics): Greek City-State Era Wars Roman Era wars (including Carthage etc) Medieval Warfare 'Cannon and Musket' (muzzle loader tactics) American Revolutionary War Napolenonic Wars Civil War Prussia 'Early modern' (the machine gun arrives big style) WWI 'classic modern' ('mechanized tactics without rocket tec and electronics) WWII (Korea) 'modern' (mechanized with rocket tec and classical electronics) Vietnam War 1980's NATO/Soviet conflict post modern (microtechnology arrives and has a big impact) current Middle East Conflict And it is absolutly correct for a reviewer to assume that some of his readers are not willing to do 'more homework' and want to stay with the 'topic' they know. For them the words 'no panzers' are enought to make it clear...