Erwin

A BIG thanks Artkin and Koh... 
Suggest you name the scenarios with a "EW" prefis so we know it's early war and can locate them easily.  (I have almost 300 CMRT scenarios in my folder.)  And thanks for making the mods tagged...

IIRC I played this with little trouble.  The successful tactic is to locate the enemy positions with carefully moving inf scouts (even sound contacts are accurate in CM) and then find the furthest away location (ie: safest) to use all 4 SPW's to fire at suspected or known enemy postions for a few minutes.

IIRC I played this with little trouble.  The successful tactic is to locate the enemy positions with carefully moving inf scouts (even sound contacts are accurate in CM) and then find the furthest away location (ie: safest) to use all 4 SPW's to fire at suspected or known enemy postions for a few minutes.

IIRC I played this with little trouble.  The successful tactic is to locate the enemy positions with carefully moving inf scouts (even sound contacts are accurate in CM) and then find the furthest away location (ie: safest) to use all 4 SPW's to fire at suspected or known enemy postions for a few minutes.

Thank you...   Hope you also send to Bootie/CMMODS/FGM site as that is where most folks get their mods.  A few days from now no one will remember this thread.

Go into your game folder (my default location is Libraries/Documents/Battlefront/Combat Mission/Final Blitzkrieg) and look for "display size.txt".  Open it and change to size that suits your monitor.  I find that is different depending on the monitor one is using.  If you have a large monitor you can replace whatever the 3 default numbers are with "1920 1200 0" or even larger.  Save the file and start the game.  If the game doesn't look right or the text is too small, try other numbers.  (Eg: For my laptop I use "1600 900 0".)

I knew the Buddhist chanting would work. 
 

I knew the Buddhist chanting would work. 
 

I knew the Buddhist chanting would work. 
 

Ach Franz - why did I eat that extra schnitzel...?

 

Ach Franz - why did I eat that extra schnitzel...?

 

Ach Franz - why did I eat that extra schnitzel...?

 

Love it.  Those of us who are less bothered by historical accuracy than for the chance to play early war will appreciate this.

You seem to have a natural talent for framing.  I trained with a lot of would-be camera-persons and the vast majority struggle with that.

Very atmospheric.  You must be a good photographer.

Outstanding pics.  Some of best seen here.  Are those manipulated in any way?

Thank you for all your work.  Hope that you eventually put em all together in a campaign.

What makes these pics stand out are the detail of the close-up faces - esp pic #1 - very realistic.  

Thanks for looking at the file.  No Zugs were completely wiped out.  I can't recall exactly, but I think the rest of the ZUG appears in Mission 6 - but with 2-man crews. The set-up turn started with the HQ already mounted in the 251/1.  But the vehicle was still listed as "dismounted".  
Other than the 251/1's that carry the HMG's - which only ever have 1 crew - all the other 251/1's have 2 crew members and IIRC casualties amongst those crews seem to be replaced between missions.
The issue is what is the point in the game of having units appear in subsequent missions that are useless.  
Even with the FO that cannot call in arty.  What to do with him?  Send him on suicide recon mission?  Is that what happens in RL?  In a game, what is the point of loading up the campaign missions with useless units?  I do recall that the FO unit was completely KIA in Mission 5.  So... the campaign game system has brought back a one-man FO that is useless.  That is a bug in the campaign game system.  
Does this ruin the game?  Of course not.  It's still very enjoyable.  Am simply pointing out that the CM2 system is an inexpensive "Commercial Off The Shelf" entertainment game that quite understandably has flaws that hopefully are in a list somewhere to be fixed.  Elsewhere I made a list of over 20 similar issues.  I thought that would be helpful.  But, some folks are so embedded in the idea that CM2 is a flawless and accurate simulation of RL that it cannot be criticized or improved.  Perhaps they are worried about their govt contract customers looking too closely.  Who knows...
 

Have an FO that had casualties in an earlier mission.  Now it's back as an single-man FO but the man is labeled as a "gunner" - so he cannot spot for arty.  If an FO returns in a campaign he should have spotting ability.  Bug?

Appreciated...  ty

Outstanding pics.  Some of best seen here.  Are those manipulated in any way?

From WSJ:  "A series of events on the international stage has laid bare the perilous state of great-power relations as Russia and China challenge the U.S.-led global order."
It may be finally realized that this is not a proxy war between Russia and the US but a proxy war between China and the US.  The Ukraine war is misunderstood.  While we try and weaken Russia, China is supporting Russia in order to weaken the US-led dominance. 
So long as China supports Russia, Russia has the ability to keep up the war "as long as it takes".  China's goal is to weaken the US and the western alliance just as the west is trying to weaken Russia.  But, our goal should be to weaken China.  The sad fact is that at some point the war of attrition of its male population will be far worse for Ukraine than for Russia... akin to what happened to Britain after WW1.  

Am heading abroad soon and won't have access to decent computer (or even phones) till April earliest, so hope one of the others can help.
Edit: Actually I couldn't resist powering up your scenario to take a look.  Not sure if you want public comments, but my initial take was good (small) map.  Altho units consist of all regulars and I was expecting the SF forces to have better experience etc.  Hope to try it out when I have a few more minutes.

Ditto.  Thank you.