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That's understandable. I hope that is the case. And it makes sense because I do remember Steve saying stuff about not supporting 1.0 and 2.0 etc. forever. That's basically where my head was at already. And like I said I don't have a problem waiting for upgrades. Mord.

That's news to me. I've paid pretty close attention since the whole upgrade deal was setup and never heard anything said about limiting them outside of features that might not fit a particular setting...but especially nothing about stopping at two. That sounds like some kind of internal talk unless I completely missed it. I can think of a few features that would fit in all settings right now, fire being one. And I don't have a problem waiting for the updates, that's fine by me just as long as my games stay at the same version, I am cool. Mord.

Great to hear you are having fun. It's cool reading new people's reaction when they experience the game for the first time. You've got it right, there is a lot of depth. Mord.

NO SOUP FOR YOU! Thanks. Fizou's legwork helped a lot. Sometimes the researching is the worst part. Best thing is you only have to research once, after that you can just add extra stuff as you update. Mord.

My guess is that was some obscure pop culture reference. Mord.

That's the thing, instead of designing a Windows for touch screens and one for PCs, they just decided that normal computer users should have the entire last 20+ years of their Windows experience wiped clean. My favorite idiotic change so far is how they had it where you could divide a folder and have your files lined up alphabetically from A-Z, each letter having it's own heading and separation bar. Very easy to sort through my hundreds of MP3 albums. If I was looking for Black Sabbath I'd scroll down to the B header and scan real quick and find it. So, what did they do? The mental giants decided that A-Z was too easy...so they "improved" it. Now they jam everything from A-H under one header, then I-P under a header etc. Now if I am looking for a band that starts with F I have to sift through A,B,C,D, and E before I can even start looking. It's so brilliant they could be bureaucrats. Mord.

I don't know but it's really been slipping lately. It used to take about 24 hours or less. Mord.

Great vid, Jorge. I look forward to them. Mord.

My first CMBS mod took eight days to be posted, then three mods only took one day, and now this last mod I uploaded has been waiting seven days. What's going on? Mord.

Virus software tends to be a giant PIA when it come to any CMX2 games. At this point whenever I install a new module or title I make sure to exclude all the folders and exe from all scans by Norton. Enjoy the game guys...if this is your first experience with CMX2 you are in for a great time. Shock Force is really fun. I can't wait until they remake it with all the extras we have now. Mord.

Are you deploying them with the same side you bought them for? If you buy them under Axis they only show up when you preview Axis forces. If you hit 3D preview nothing will show up. That's all I got on this one. LOL. Mord.

That's easy. More b*** **** where I have to relearn a dozen things that I have been doing since 1994 because it's now "easier" and improved", when in reality some genius at Microsoft has to validate his overpaid worthless position by pushing moronic changes that always end up making my computing life ten times harder. How's that for a prediction? When they force updated 8.1 on me, I went to empty my recycle bin one day and it took me ten minutes to figure out where the hell they hid the empty button. Mord.

No worries. Awesome. Gustav adds quite a bit to FI, really opens it up. And you'll have 1400 portraits to choose from with the other version of the mod. Mord.

Thanks, glad you like it...buy Gustav and you can get the mod me and DC did which has tons more! Yeah, you can only have one type of each portrait (should say it right in the readme), infantry, airborne, armor, armored infantry. If you put them in the same folder together one would overwrite the other. If they were put in separate folders, the one in the folder that's name started with the furthest letter down the alphabet chain would load up in game. I am hoping one day they can fix this as the Allied portraits all have sub units of their respective divisions. I actually just had a PM recently with BFC about it but as of now it's a coding thing. Mord.

I wonder who could've started that? Mord.

Man, when you jump in, you jump in! Unis are a hard one to start with for your first mod, unless you are just cutting and pasting. Prepare to cry a lot, but once you begin getting the hang of it, you'll be very pleased with yourself. The more you mod the better you'll get and you'll be able to self-critique much more effectively as you pick up new techniques and such and get a few years experience under your belt. I have been making portrait mods since 2008 and I am finally to the point where I think they are starting to look good (that just happened this week LOL). By comparison my very first one is/was so bad it's a blight on the human race and makes me want to puke. I can't even believe I thought it was decent enough to release. So, good luck and don't get too frustrated. The mod that doesn't kill you only makes you stronger and nuttier...eventually you'll develop the thousand-pixel stare. Mord.

Thanks guys. I don't know what's going on with the Repos. I uploaded the mod 7 days ago and it still isn't showing. Mord.

Are you only putting the ranger portrait in the z folder? It will only be used by infantry, there unfortunately is no separate portrait for rangers. When you install it did you remove everything from the underscore back? It should just say portrait usa infantry. Mord.

EDITED: No sure whether I understand you so I'll keep this post in case. If you already figured out what's below I apologize. Buy your forces in one month then go to another month and buy something else that was locked out from the previous. Go back to the month you started with and the locked out one should show up. An example: Kreigsmarines aren't available on June 6th in France. I went to August, bought a company, then reset the game back to June 6th, hit preview and there they were. Mord.

Beautiful work, McLaut! Did you make them separate buildings or do they overwrite the stock textures? Incredible what something so seemingly simple can do to capture the atmosphere. And I don't mean simple that it didn't take any work or expertise, but simple in a picture on the side of a building. I think it was M1A1 or LongLeftFlank that did stuff for CMSF like that, way back. But the game wasn't as advanced then. Anyway, great job, man! Found this...not exactly the same thing but a mural nonetheless. http://toofatlardies.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/5.jpg Mord.

Out of curiosity, what parameters were keeping them from appearing? I tried everything I could think of. Congrats, you got that fast. Mord.

Yeah, you select Airborne under Formations, then go down to the appearance tab and it should give you access to standard, 82nd, and 101st. You running the game at 3.0? EDITED: Yeah, you should be at 3.0. I checked the dates, put the time on September France to see if that was the problem and it wasn't. Though I was thinking it would be seeing that they should've been in Holland. Mord.

You have to have the airborne tab selected to have access to the 101st option, it's grayed out if you are on infantry etc. Mord.

Killer work, Kieme. As usual, you nail it. Mord.

Yeah, Sergei made that a few years back. He did a good job. I'd love to see him update it now that we have CW forces. But it really does shock your senses to see where we started and where we are. LOL. I can remember day dreaming all the time that CMBO/X1 would one day look like CMX2. There almost wasn't a day that went by, for three years, that I did not start CMBO up at least once per day to do something involving it, either comparing mods, researching something, or playing a battle. As great as all those first gen CMs were, I am soooo happy we are where we are now. I wouldn't want to go back, though I'd love to be 15 years younger. Mord.