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How about a url?

"under waterfalls?" No wonder I couldn't find them in CM.

OK, next time I'll limit my opinions to grass mods...

Dream on. TO&E is apparently hard coded and won't be subject to tinkering, unlike OOB which can be customized. Besides, the BFC guys do a pretty fair job of research and covered almost all possible TO&E's for the entire war, within reason. IMHO, at least.

I'm surprised that Sturmstebber hasn't shown up by now...

That's exactly the word I was hoping to see.

Are we going to see grass and dirt represented with more texture in this new 1X1 M grid? And what size are the graphics tiles going to be? I'd hope for some finer grained terrain than we are now used to in CM.

I enjoyed the heck out of the idea of doodads. Will they be carried over? In 3D perhaps? I must say I'm looking forward to new grass and doodad mods to come up with.

I've been away for a while so finding this topic up on the Forum made my day, as did the expected release soon of screenshots and details. I don't know if this was covered yet -- will the problems with Borg Spotting be addressed in CMX2? It always bothered me in the original and it would be great to have it dealt with finally.

There are some truly sick puppies around here...crown grogs indeed!

It's hard to remain enthused about a game if no one is telling much about it...I think BFC is kind of dropping the ball here with no news or DD updates.

IIRC from the old discussions, it was a consensus that they'd be so relatively cheap and easy to run around (suicidally of course) and that most they'd be used to more or less expose the entire enemy deployment in a quite unhistorical fashion. With Borg Spotting, motorcycle units could lay open the entire enemy force with little effort. Just not realistic. MC troops in actuality were highly vulnerable and not the best spotters unless stopped - making them even more vulnerable standing there on their mounts. Their real utility was as couriers, military policing and as early-war operational transportation. If the next engine can get us away from Borg Spotting, perhaps we can see the MC troops finally implemented in the game in a historical fashion.

Juju, those aren't mods on your site: they're ART. Those treebases are the best I've ever seen. You should be doing that stuff for a living, man.

Here's my vote for the M-1 Garand as best battle implement, as Gen. Patton put it IIRC. And the MB/GP peep AKA jeep, as everyman's mobility. Would amphibious warfare been the same without the plywood LCVP? Another simple but basic tool of victory. Let us not forget the lowly 6x6 truck, be it Jimmy or Studebaker, but it put the Allies on wheels and kept 'em fed and ammo'd up for most of the war.

"Two out of three of us won't survive this war; I feel bad for you two."

Les - what are you playing these days? And what are you looking forward to?

I suspect that, as long as there are people around with money in their pockets, and with the types of interests that get them labeled as "grogs", "wargame nuts", "TBS fanatics", "hex lovers", "history buffs" and "military enthusiasts", there will be a market for serious PC wargames. Generally, where there is a market, some bright person will step in to make a buck off it and have some fun while they're at it. (Or even better, vice versa.) Dead? Not in my estimation.

Ballistically - I doubt it. I'm sure the armor grogs of which Rexford is a grand master, can clarify this. But from a practical standpoint, the armor on the US TD's was mainly meant to make them proof against typical infantry weapons of the day. They were not expected to go toe-to-toe and trade blows with enemy tanks, but rather to defeat them by movement, surprise, positioning and rapid redeploying before they themselves became targets.

Funny, I always labored under the assumption that BFC, Steve included, owned these forums and so could deal with them as they liked...and so far, I have no complaints. How odd to be taken to task for how you run your own house by someone who is essentially a guest in it.

There were French female partisans fighting on the Allied side, so the idea of Vichy "partisan" female snipers makes sense. I've always had the impression that Gallic women were ready to bear arms as well and as quickly as they bare most everything else.

The fella who commented about the M3 greasegun's inaccuracy might consider that a lot of the army's little-used hardware probably gets little, if any, TLC from the armorers, incluing barrel changes. That applies to modern weapons too, of course. I have a video tape of a weapons demonstration at Camp Pendleton and the Marines firing the SAW are holding it steady but the tracers are going all over the place...the barrel is for sure burnt out on that one. I'd be highly reluctant to fire it anywhere near a squad mate since the "covering fire" just might end as up "friendly fire" (a misnomer, if ever!).

Naw, its the Bratwust and beans breakfast, again...

Whew. I'm glad you said something Redwolf. My tin hat is picking up signals from Over There...quick, turn off your monitor before they see what Mike wrote!

How about the Suomi? The squad wargames (e.g. Silent Storm) just love it. Was it that good in practice?

Well, might wanna try it before you pan it. Give Hubert some time. And of course, one can't please everybody, no matter what one does...