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Some news: work is going on very well 👍
Part 1 of the "Five Bridges Campaign" is running its test as betaversion and the whole campaign will start its final testrun within the next 3 weeks.
Special thanks to all testers 🙏
 
Regards 
Mr.X

I am lucky that CMFI has late war US combat garments and boots. I think it looks great "as is"...


A barbed wire and broken down Kia sedan block the main road up the middle...

 
 

We will pick up the action later today unless postponed by TV sports...
Meanwhile, here are some more screenies.
A face I did from a Korean actor. He played the bad guy in "71 - Into the Fire".
You can also see my "stick grenade pouch"...


The Maxim MG team hunkers down in turn 1. These guys are now ex-parrots, singing with the choir invisible.

Some more guys in that team wearing their "Keds hightops"...

This guy is a warrant officer in command of the company group. He had served in the Red Army during dubya dubya two.
I had a cool idea for the "stick grenade pouch"...each texture for the grenades can be randomly plucked from the data.
Some are transparent so a guy can have 0, 1 or 2 grenades in the pouch.
GRAVEYARD: I googled a little to try and see what a circa 1950 Korean graveyard might look like. I had no luck really. So I just deleted the Italian names off of these CMFI gravestones. Mi dispiace!

 
 
 
 

I'm just going to make this one statement to inform if never heard of. Whether you choose to look into it further is up to you or not. When the nations of Turkey, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Ethiopia, and Russia or former parts of Soviet Union which are muslim to name a few form an alliance of key players to pile on Israel then it's going to get Biblically prophetic hot. Notice that Egypt, Syria, and Iraq are absent from the alliance although they fought against Israel in the past. Iraq could be considered part of Persia though. Saudi Arabia specifically will not be part of this alliance, and will actually condemn it. All these countries will come against Israel, but it will be victorious which will be viewed as a miracle of God. The aftermath is described as taking 7 months to cleanse the land with special people who have to mark the land as the dead need to be disposed of in a particular way. The very fact that Israel became a nation again after 2000 yrs in 1948 as prophesied it one day would is something to consider in accuracy.
I did this painting, "The Bringing of Mars", 24 yrs ago in 1999 about it, but Ezekiel 38, 39 were written thousands of years ago.

He has Easy Eights coming in on both flanks!


My Zis-3 takes a hit but only loses one soldier. 

 
My right flank HAD a Maxim in the 2nd floor of the church across from the Kimchee shop...now scrap metal for a Hyundai.

My 82mm mortar on the right flank starts to drop rounds into the path of his infantry.

A command element observes...

The Zis-3 scores a hit on the Easy Eight but the effect is not yet determined...

Tank 211 creeps forward on the right flank...

 
 
 
 

ROK PATTON'S GHOST
0930, 27 September 1950. 
Just south of Osan. The sky is a haze with a light wind from the west. It is hot and the ground
is dry. 
^
Task Force Lynch will proceed on through Osan to link up with friendly units of X Corps coming
from Inchon. The North Koreans were taken by surprise by the Inchon landings. Their offensive
energy has largely been spent hammering against the Pusan perimeter. The landings were
successful and the perimeter held. You now are part of the pocket's counter-attack with a
goal to drive forward and link up with X Corps coming from Inchon.
 
^
You are Lieutenant Hartmann and command Love Company of the 3rd Battalion, 7th Cavalry
Regiment. Your entire battalion is brand new to Korea. You WERE previously part of the 3rd
Infantry Division at Fort Benning, Georgia. You all traded your "Rock of the Marne" for the
"First Team" shoulder patch. In addition to your rifle company, you have two Super Bazooka
teams and three Easy Eight Shermans.
^
The North Koreans are a shadow of the force that started this war back in June. Their 4th
Division is estimated to number only 2,500-3,000 men. Local males have been pressed into service from
conquered farms and villages throughout South Korea. But these conscripts are led by a cadre of
veteran officers and NCO's. Additionally, the KPA still has numerous tanks and heavy weapons.
Supplies may be dwindling but expect the force in Osan to be perhaps 2 platoons of infantry
with a few tanks and heavy weapons. Their mission is to delay your advance so the rest of their
comrades can retreat northward.

^
You have 45 minutes to accomplish your mission to drive through Osan to the exit zone beyond
the river. There are 3 basic routes forward. a) on your left, cross the tracks and head through
the "Old Town" towards the rail bridge, b) up the center along the main paved road into the
city and road bridge; and c) on your right along the edge of rice paddy fields to a secondary
road that eventually fords the river.
^
Points are awarded for occupying the designated buildings but the final scores for each side
and who has obtained victory is settled by post-battle analysis and discussion between the
players.

 

I forget who did this mod! But today I had to make another mod in Blender so the tracks did not appear on the turret and so you see the wonderful "131"...

Updated the Vassal module with adjusted WIA/KIA rules and instructions on Insurgent camp missions. LINK

Also, depending on what you delete and what order you delete it in, some HQ units and things will not be able to be deleted.
Put them in a reinforcement group that doesn't show up for 3 hours and they won't be in the scenario.

New [CMBN] Force Specific Backgrounds now available.

Credits to Umlaut for original idea and style. Check out his background mods for CMRT and CMFI. I have used online colorization tools and the results is mixed, but even in the cases where its
far from perfect, I prefer it to the original black and white images. You can always remove ones you dont like, just remember to rename the files accordingly as a break in the number sequence will see the files after the break not loading.

I have also included a musich splash file with Eisenhowers D-Day speach.

Cheers,
Fizou
https://www.thefewgoodmen.com/cm-mod-warehouse/combat-mission-battle-for-normandy/cmbn-other/cmbn-force-specific-backgrounds/
 

Its up on TSDIII https://www.thefewgoodmen.com/tsd3/cm-red-thunder/cm-red-thunder-add-ons-scenarios/cmrt-german-tank-tactical-problems/
Enjoy!
Cheery!

OK, slowly modding a few things to get more of a Korea 1950 vibe to the battlefield...

 

Combat veterans from all ranks and all branches describe their experiences in/with combat, but they also explain what they believed worked, and what could be improved.
Amount of info is stunning, and some of the tips and advice could still be useful on the modern day battlefield.
 
Urban fighting, logistics, AT-warfare, combined arms, engineering, camouflage, maintenance, supplies, medical stuff, transport and much more.
It is a 388 page report, and you can (safely) download it from this WW2 US Bombers channel. Play in Youtube, than see description below this video how to obtain this report.
 
Whether you want this very interesting download or not, but you have even a slight bit of interest in WW2 bombers, check this channel out. You will be amazed, no doubt about it.

Stug III G earliest snowy (on BF.c bmp textures).
View:
https://www.mediafire.com/view/kukequdlalpzupj/Stug_3G_earliest_snowy.jpg/file
Zip:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/m06528u1q1m5jog/Stug_3G_earliest_snowy.zip/file
 

Another "I will try" here...

... a miserable September morning sees a reinforced US mechanized platoon trying to delay a Soviet MRB at a small village called Hohkeppel.

The russians have proven to be very good at turning their own equipment into scrap.

The russians have proven to be very good at turning their own equipment into scrap.

„Tiger Trail“ Campaign (17 missions) and „Into Hell“ Campaign (8 missions) are now running through their final Beta testing 👍🏻
Big thank to the Testers 💪🏻
 
But I need more volunteers 😎
Within the next 2 weeks, the first part of the „Five Bridges“ Campaign, including 4 missions (middle sized to large) will be ready for the final test run. So, pm me, if you like to play these 👍🏻
 
Regards 
Mr.X
 

Sounds like you have that backwards my friend. Tanks have not had as much effect on the battlefield as many expected mostly due to the simple and plentiful man portable AT systems. That has effected both sides - this is why we didn't see tanks roll into Kyiv and why we don't see tanks rolling over the RA defensive lines now. The tanks being blasted from C4ISR is a contributing reason but not the major factor. On that front it's the AFU that has the upper hand. They have excellent C4ISR and precision munitions are are very capable of using it. The RA has much weaker ISR and much less capable precision munitions.
The balance of C4ISR and raining precision strikes on the enemy is heavily, heavily in the AFU's favour.
Ukraine is far from doomed.

Looks a bit like James Coburn under that hat...

Looks a bit like James Coburn under that hat...

A slow day at the Osan open air market...

 
 

I made a simple icon for CMFI Korea 1950...
Next to it is the icon for CMFI CMAK2 that @Blazing 88's made me.
Elsewhere on my desktop I have an icon for CMFI France 1940.

Bet. I'm game. I plan to release at least two campaigns for Combat Mission Black Sea before then. (Thanks for your help with that, btw)