Erwin

Being freelance makes perfect sense. But, after he's done so many mods, it would be a nice gesture to throw him a bone as recognition.

Good AAR. Thanks.

Not a lot of people know that amongst the Nazis' many innovations they also invented Breakdancing...

Thanks... I got it from CMMODS, but not sure what to do with the psd etc files. Don't even know what they are...

Perhaps a "Kinder Gentler Face of the SS" BG mod?

I have read that inf (a group) will shoot everything they have at a buttoned tank and have successfully damaged its optics, blinding it. But, in this case, where one has a single sniper, and he has not been specifically ordered to shoot at the tank, why would he want to give away his position? The example in this thread doesn't seem to be how a covered arc with no target order is supposed to work. Hope BF can take a look at it.

Luke, personally, I really don't care one way or the other re insignia. All I questioned was the "realism" (since that is what most people like about CM2) of bright colorful, easy to see insignia on uniforms. Why that question became so controversial is just weird. It's a question of "The Emperor's New Clothes" and the photographic evidence is clear and overwhelming.

"I wonder about your French Mod - v1.0 & Mikey D's African Theatre mod combo in light of recent events." Just what I was thinking re Mali etc. Good idea to try and mod the French. Always thought it was an mistake that they were not a module as they have some interesting vehicles.

Hard to make it look like a Merkava I presume. Great effort overall tho'.

+1. Really fascinating. Thanks... And a note to modders... we had a a failry heated argument here about how easy it was to see insignia on combat troops. These films show that aside from rear area CO's, the front line troops going into combat have insignia that are very hard to see and maybe removed.

But, restricting a unit's fire is the point of a covered arc. I think most people who wanted a tank to stay buttoned up would reasonably assume that a covered arc would have the sniper restrict his attention to what is in that arc, but not waste ammo pinging away when there is no point.

I still think these would be useful for Tunisia/North Africa if a mod for that is ever made.

ok... thanks... It's often hard to determine which mods are working without multiple loadings and unloadings of the game.

Are these for Aris' JadgPanther mod? I just unzipped the patch fokder and placed the actual files in the folder containing Aris' JadgPanther mod. Did I do that correctly?

Can someone translate? I couldn't figure out what a Russian journalist was doing there. Fixed cameras on AFV's? (Great idea btw, why don't our allied forces have that?) And what on earth are they shooting at. I wondered if it was some training town in Russia(??) Didin't see any ID on any AFV's - like the little syrian flags they have in the CMSF game. Truly amazing footage. But, hard to figure out what is going on. When one of the tanks is hit - not sure if it has a camera - it seems to just sit there taking hits for ages before moving away. And the dust clouds every time a tank fires... seems to gve cover for inf to walk up and plant a bomb on a tank. There could be thousands of troops in those bombed out buildings. What can the tanks do about it? Great war footage and an eye-opener re urban combat with armor. Seems futile...

"...the Katyn massacre was just need to kill Polish officers that they are not moved to the side of the Germans..." "...reason to kill them is the Soviets wanted control of Poland as a buffer..." Both Germany and Russia had Poland as a longstanding enemy through the centuries, and both wanted to destroy Poland as a nation-state once and for all, turning into a vassel state of uneducated untermensch worker slaves... Rather what Germany planned to do with the entire Soviet Union as well. In terms of keeping it as a buffer, the Brest Litovsk agreement between Gernany and the SU divided up Poland so there was no buffer at all. Katyn happened after that.

Glad you're doing the work to "get it right".

Good stuff. I wondered why no one had done this b4. Are any of the CMSF vehicles modable to IDF?

Very interesting footage. Thanks...

Got myself injured a few years back and spent the last years having surgeries and rehab. Basically ok now. So had lots of free time. Less now...

You missed my point entirely. In many of those LONG static takes in the "incredible footage" clip the camera never moves, and you can tell from the foreshortening in the images that the camera is using a very long focal length lens. It makes sense that the camera is a) far from the action so even when the tank gun aims at the camera, the gunner doesn't appear to see it, and the camera(man) doesn't move or duck to safety (cos it's on a fixed tripod and he is sensibly controlling it remotely). If one was planning this sort of shot, that's the way to do it safely. (Yes, I used to be in the movie biz.) Obviously. there are also handheld shots taken from a high angle very close and right above the tanks that are way more dangerous to shoot. I wonder if the tanks can't elevate their guns enuff to shoot up there. Same issue the Soviets had in Afghanistan... until they brought in AA and Shilkas.

Hope you remmebered to give them a facing order towards the tank if there is a waypoint there. I have had success several times (accidentally discovered) by simply having a team FAST move from building A to B (no intermediate waypoints), during which they happened to see a tank, stopped their sprint, aimed, fired and killed the tank, and then continued to B. Probably doesn't happen all the time. But, the tactic seems to work at least part or most of the time.

People seem to like CMBN more. It has more scenarios and campaigns than CMFI. And I think it's patched a bit more than CMFI, altho' that patch is probably imminent.

Am also enjoying this campaign. Took a break to complete the also xnt Habibollah Kalay scenario.

I had the impression they set up cameras on fixed mounts at extreme zoom focal lengths and operated them remotely - so somewhat safer for the operators.