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    Files from the long gone Red Army Studies site made available

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

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    Hiya Folks,

    Some of you may remember those of us who put up the Red Army Studies site way back in the '00s or '10s. We had a host of files from the Soviet Military History Journal of the 1980s in pdf format that were on a very very slow server. I decided to make those files available once more by sharing them all through a shared Google folder. Everything within that folder can be viewed by anyone with the link below:

    https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/125aCdAW_f5wXKx9jns5hzSJEN9Be5hVN?usp=sharing

    There are also a number of handbooks and regs for both the Soviets and Germans in WWII. May they prove helpful in some capacity.

    Best regards,

    Grisha

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    Fire and Rubble

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

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    Hard to believe so much time has passed even here. Back during the CMBO/CMBB years there was an newly-open Russia with all its archives and people like David Glantz to make sense of it to give a better picture on the Eastern Front. I had a site that provided pdf's on Soviet military journals from the 1980s primarily and a group of people who were very much into ways to use CM as a tool for disseminating what had been learned. The traditional wargaming community was also very active in this way and we had so many discussions on the subject. We pushed each other to continue to find ever more material to form more accurate understandings about the war. That feels like a long time ago now, but it's good to see some things are still here--and even some people :)

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    Fire and Rubble

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

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    Barbarossa would be a large pile of work, I realize that now. It's OB and vehicles are almost an entire other game. It would be very cool to have that as part of RT though. I could wait for it.

    I would have to demand, however, anti-tank mine dogs too 🤣

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    Fire and Rubble

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

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    And for what it's worth, if there was any other theater I would have picked aside from Russian front, it would be Italian front. That's almost never done and it did sound extremely interesting when word first came out. Normandy is great, but the idea of moving to Italy/Sicily was even more interesting than North Africa. My personal opinion.

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    Fire and Rubble

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

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    35 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said:

    Our thinking was that Gustav Line established units that were needed for both Final Blitzkrieg and Red Thunder.  On paper it made sense to do it that way.  In reality it turned out that Gustav Line was a LOT more work than we thought it would be.  If I had to do anything over again I would likely have done Final Blitzkrieg first, then Fire & Rubble, and then Gustav Line.

    That's the problem with wisdom gained from doing stuff... you have to do stuff first before you gain the wisdom ;)

    Barbarossa would be a massive, huge, incredibly hard slog to get done because we have practically nothing needed for that setting other than the terrain.  And for sales?  Well.  We don't think it would be strong enough to justify that major an effort.  Same thing for Western Front 1940.  Just too much work for too little customer interest.

    Steve

    Actually reading the process from your end puts this into perspective. It makes sense too. Thank you and looking forward to F&R!

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    Fire and Rubble

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

    Posted · Edited by Grisha
    correct 'packs' for 'mods'

    16 hours ago, Battlefront.com said:

    For various reasons we've prioritized open up totally new game environments vs. adding content to existing ones.  We felt at the time, and still do, that is the best way to make the most amount of people happy over time.

    And then I see BfN has 2 mods and 2 packs, and FI has 2 mods. Maybe you drew the line when RT was pushed out?

    To be honest, I see where you guys are coming from. It's okay with me. I also appreciate you guys trying to be real with us. That is big. Thank you. Half the process of compromise isn't so much the solution but the understandings that comes across the table, so to speak. I admit I'm a Russian Front First kinda dude, so it was great to see RT come out. And I'm more Soviet player than German, so to see it set in 1944 rather than Barbarossa was amazing. It'll be cool to get a mod for this game. I know you guys got to make a living like the rest of us and this is your livelihood. But, yeah, it would be nice to see a mod drop for RT. F&B will be perfect. Can you say 'Vistula-Oder Strategic Operation'?

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    Fire and Rubble

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

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    Appreciate all the explanations about R&F's development. I dropped out in 2014 then coming back at a few months ago, and for me it's just a wait of a few more months. I have to say though that upon coming back it was a bit of a shock that in 6 or 7 years no other content was officially added on to Red Thunder, other projects or no. I realize that BFC has been anything but a 'regular' game developer studio(which is a good thing in my book) but coming back to see a game has sat dormant for 6+ years left me wondering. Glad to see it was not forgotten(no pun intended, Olga Berrgolts😃).

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    Pre-orders for Fire and Rubble are now open!!

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

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    6 hours ago, BFCElvis said:

    Something like this?:

    FR Snow for the Hungry

    Historical

    Date: January 30, 1945

    Conditions: Snow with Blizzard conditions

    Location: Near Jaskeim East Prussia along the Baltic Coast

    Backstory: Konigsberg has just been encircled and the German navy has officially begun Operation Hannibal for evacuation of German civilians in East Prussia.  Gross Deutschland organized all of its remaining armor and APC infantry to attack East along the Baltic coast and relieve the encircled soldiers and civilians trapped in Konigsberg. 

    That is one that @ASL Veteran has made.

    Ahh! Now you force my hand! I will try and find the info from my books posthaste! 

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    WP: Operational Maneuver Groups and Forward Detachments

    in Combat Mission Cold War

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    Not sure how these refinements to Soviet operational art will pan out in a strictly small unit tactical game, but It should be fun making scenarios in mind that focus on OMGs. Just don't forget Soviet development of operational art was at its apex in the 1980s, something the Red Army had been working on for 60 years at that point. Back during WWII the Red Army could only dream of vertical envelopment, but by the 1980s it was a reality. 

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    Fire and Rubble Update

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

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    22 hours ago, Vacilllator said:

    You would of course be welcome any time, circumstances allowing.  We could meet up for a Lynton and Lynmouth walk, and include the Valley of Rocks, followed by cider or beer.  Oh happy times ❤️ hopefully to return soon...

    If you ever find your self out in the Northwest--Seattle to be exact--IM me and we'll see what the local breweries have on tap. COVID permitting, of course. Stay healthy, amigo.

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    Fire and Rubble Update

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

    Posted · Edited by Grisha

    Oh and, Vacilllator, to off-topicalify this thread further I want you to know my wife and I visited your neck of the woods two summers ago. A walking tour to be exact, roughly around Taunton to Lynton. It was probably one of the best trips I've taken ever. First trip to England even. What I'd do for a real pasty now. Enjoy your little piece of paradise, sir.

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    Fire and Rubble Update

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

    Posted · Edited by Grisha

    38 minutes ago, Vacilllator said:

    At the grave risk of going off-topic, is that a sunflower mod in your profile picture or is it a 'real' photo?  It has bearing on some recent discussions, plus I have oddly experienced the joys of growing sunflowers this summer.  Yes, in Somerset, in the UK - odd, at least for me.

    As for the delay, my response as usual is 'I'm playing the wonderful CMBN in the meantime anyway'.  I am fairly new to the game so it has much more to offer than I have time for, and it's a great experience nearly every time I play it.  Except for those times I make bad decisions 😉.

    I took that from an actual WWII photo on the Russian front. Must have been Summer '41 even. Sad when you actually see it. The tank in the picture is wrecked and abandoned. That's not a person at the top but a hatch left open.

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    Fire and Rubble Update

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

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    I understand the frustration. It was rather surprising to have left the community in 2014 and come back 6 years later and see CMRT has had no expansion other than from the player community. Still, there are a lot of games out there. I'm playing Order of Battle among other things. There is Armored Brigade on Steam which is a great, true wargame for the NATO vs WP setting. There's also Hell Let Loose and Post Scriptum for the FPS view of WWII. And for the Russian Front(or Vietnam) there's Rising Storm 2. Anyway, it probably doesn't help much pointing this out unless you pull back a bit to a higher level of observation.

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    CMM or Combat Mission: Campaign Query

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

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    BFC, I remember back when work was being done to make an operational overlay from which to create and link individual CM battles into campaigns, based on a persistent OOB. It was called Combat Mission: Campaign. It never made it due to a number of reasons, and it was focused on the x1 engine. I'm curious as to whether the newest engine(4?) has the functionality to have something like this designed and developed?

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