[Artilllery denied from spotters]

If the observer dies, the rest of the team can't do the job.

 

Some teams have two marked observers, but most don't.

[Coming Soon - Colonel Nosov's March on Germany]

Really looking forward to this!

[What do you think the first module of Black Sea would be?]

Any modern war game is going to feature lopsided equipment lists.  NATO has a huge variety of vehicles and weapon systems, but Russia just has Russia's.  And pretty much any enemy force (besides China's) will just be using older Russian kit.

[What do you think the first module of Black Sea would be?]

I believe that BTS has hinted that they're planning to return to modern warfare in an arid environment with a remade Shock Force (or something like it).  Obviously this wouldn't be a module but a separate game.

 

There has been some discussion of what people might like here.

[Buddy Aid way too easy]

It has always been said that medics and litter bearers are presumed to be present on the CM battlefield, but they are invisibly abstracted.  BTS didn't want to impose a probably tedious "minigame" involving the transport of casualties.

 

Buddy aid for a wounded soldier doesn't necessarily represent actual binding of wounds; it can simply be the time required to contact an actual medic and get them to the location.  Obviously this isn't always what's going on (buddy aid for surrounded soldiers, for instance), but it's a decent approximation.

[Things in ASL that aren’t in CMx2]

Well, it's gotta be said:  ASL scenarios have a full OOB list right there on the scenario card.

 

WHEN, STEVE, WHEN??

 

[Kieme's modding corner]

Thank you again for the wonderful work!  It really enhances the game.

[Brief overview of where CM is headed]

Excellent news!  Thanks.

 

More updates and more often, please!  We love them here.

[Why do I need LOS to an area which I want helos to scout?]

Because Helos have eyes on what they're shooting at, so can, theoretically, abort mission if targets other than hostiles are at risk. Less true with lobbed bombs and entirely not true with artillery. Sure, it's not a perfect representation of the realities of fire control, and how they vary even within the game environment, but it's enough reason to  have some restrictions.

 

This.  While fast-moving jets might attack coordinates in a strike far from friendly units, there is simply no way that they would be allowed to attack targets near friendly lines without a spotter on the ground clearing them for the strike.

[Inferior to CMBB]

Different games.

 

CMBB allows larger battles and includes a greater variety of units, but it's all done at a much more abstract level.  CMRT happens on a smaller scale but with much more granularity.  This applies to everything in the game:  vehicle modeling, landscape, ballistics, and especially AI.

 

Just look at an infantry squad in each game, for example.  In CMBB the squad is a blob with hit points.  In CMRT it's modeled as individual men behaving individually.

[Vin's mods - Animated Text, Geometric Icons, Easy vis UI, Bases]

Thanks for the updated mod!

[concrete bunker burning]

I've seen them burn too.  I just figured it was the officer's couch - lots of fuel there for a nice long burn.

 

Bunkers are all full of booze and porn.  They'll burn like a backyard grill.

[Poll: Would you prefer the original 2008 Syrian setting or something up to date for CMSF II]

The good thing about the original setting is that it plausibly allowed both conventional warfare (albeit interestingly unbalanced) and counter-guerilla scenarios.  It offered a pretty wide mix of possibilities.  Restricting the next game to a war against ISIS or an Afghanistan-style COIN situation would limit those possibilities pretty drastically.

 

I'd like to see the Syria scenario (with its original alternative history intact) but updated by a few years.  It could even be tied into the Black Sea timeline:

 

If the fundamentalist Syria regime makes its move while the conflict in Ukraine is in full swing, US/NATO forces would be spread thin dealing with simultaneous crises.  No Desert-Storm-style steamroller would be possible at first, so the operational situation wouldn't be quite so lopsided. 

 

I like thinking of CMx2's World War 3 as a series of moderate-scale crises erupting concurrently in different areas of the world.  It helps to make tactical gaming meaningful (as no side anywhere is opting for total or nuclear war), and it sets up for new games in new settings. 

[How come my troops always know when the enemy is dead?]

I can verify that icons will disappear before a unit is totally eliminated.  I've just been bushwacked in PBEM by a unit I thought I had killed off.

 

The icon seems to disappear when all units that have been previously spotted are seen to be hit.  If there are soldiers who were never spotted in the first place, the icon won't persist to represent them.

[Speculation: Traffic Cops?]

If you're asking for slightly better vehicle AI, then, yes, we all want that.

 

If you're actually asking for MP traffic controllers, that seems like something that would be happening a few miles behind the battle we're actually fighting.  It's outside the scope of a tactical battle simulator.

[Kieme's modding corner]

Tetris?

[Help me identify all available Campaigns.]

I have all of the ones on the OP list, plus these:

 

Saving Private Ryan

Sie Kommen II

Shimi's March

 

I got them either at the repository, GreenAsJade's, or the Few Good Men site.

[Aris Vehicle Thread...]

No problem Kieme

 

I won´t be modding CMBS. Sorry, I keep my energy for modules and vehicle packs in the ww2 .

 

Aris' work on WW2 is amazing, and Kieme's work on CMBS is equally so.

[Tunisia Campaign [WIP] "The Big Red One At Dawn"]

Looking forward to this!

[Sniper went around grape vines]

Fact:  no WW2 soldier of any nation every went *around* a winery.

[Kieme's modding corner]

Install BTR's mod as you normally would and then make sure any of Kieme's are lower in the alphabet.

 

So you could create a folder structure like this:

 

<my documents>\Battlefront\Combat Mission\Black Sea\User Data\Mods\Vehicles

<my documents>\Battlefront\Combat Mission\Black Sea\User Data\Mods\Vehicles\BTR ----> Put BTR's mod files (packed or un packed here)

<my documents>\Battlefront\Combat Mission\Black Sea\User Data\Mods\Vehicles\KiemeRussianVehicles ----->  Put all of Kieme's dirty versions here

 

Now if any of the same files appear under KiemeRussinVehicles they will override BTRs because 'K' comes later in the alphabet than 'B'.

 

The traditional method is to slap a "z" on the front of any mod folder you want loaded over others.

[Haven't Received my Physical Copy yet, anyone else?]

Mine just came today!

[Sniper went around grape vines]

Yes. Vineyards are wire fences with vines growing on them.  They aren't just a row of plants.

[Kieme's modding corner]

Yes, thanks very much!  These mods have added a whole new level of Wow to the look of the game.

[[Released] Rambler's CMBS Trees & Hedge]

Will try!  Thanks!