Erwin

At the end there will always be a conflict between historical accuracy and playability in CM due to the compressed character of the fightings. 
Real fighting at company or batallion level would be an extremely boring thing in a game because of the often endless hours they lasted. 
The same with reports of (for example) huge numbers of destroyed enemy tanks - in most cases such situations were the result of catastrophic decisions by headquarters or bad misjudgment of leading officers on site - many CM Players would not assess such situations as enyoyable playing.
So, if in doubt, I will always try to prefer playability instead of pure reality.
So, what players can expect, is historical correct units, historical correct locations/dates/circumstances and as historical as possible built maps (depending on military maps, areal photos and old pictures). 80% of the officers names and ranks will be correct, too - for some officers I have made short portraits to improve the atmosphere. 
Fighting itself will be harsh, sometimes with limited options, often with much more tactical options than one will expect with first glance. 
 
Regards
Mr.X 

And an even bigger real estate bubble that will cause direct pain down to quite low levels and to quite a lot of Chinese. Add that the real estate bubble also has an element of being created not just by overoptimism and bad judgement, but by "bad actors" who knew exactly what fraud they were perpetrating (to a greater degree than Japan, I get the impression) and the impact on their society may well go far beyond the pure economic disaster.
And if Western AD-at-sea is as effective against China's "ustoppable" hypersonic ship killers as Patriot-on-land has proved so far against Russian "unstoppable" hypersonic cruise missiles, it won't matter how many troops there are in the PLA, because the PLAN won't be able to get them ashore, except as floating corpses.

Corruption is one part of larger problems. In the west the move from agrarian to a industrial to an information based economy and society has been a gradual change. There was time to assimilate and absorb the changes. China not so much. It was rapid. There is also a huge demographic shift taking place in China. 
I've seen estimates that any serious invasion of Taiwan would involve more troops than Operation Overloard and be more difficult. The Allied forces had plenty of practical experience before Overloard-Torch, Sicily, Anzio and seabore landings and operations in the Pacific before undertaking Overloard. The Chinese navy and army lacks that sort of practical experience. I would guess that an amphibious assault the size and scope of Taiwan would be a huge ask for even the US Marine Corps which has the know how and experience to pull something of that scope off.
China projects a very strong image. The massive victory day parades, the large naval maneuvers, the firing of missiles. That's the image they want to project. What that means in practical terms is anyone's guess. Wars are won by people at the lowest common denominator. In the US and the west in general responsibility and initiative is given at very low levels. In the West the focus is on the individual. It the east its often on the collective.
I can't say I know just how much individual responsibility and initiative is granted to the lower levels of the Chinese military. Given the political climate and tightly controlled nature of China, I would venture to say its low.
Much is made of the Chinese economic juggernaut. We've seen this sort of thing before. In the late 70's, 80's Japan was viewed as the existential threat to America. Their manufacturing prowess, fueled by a weak US dollar caused great concern in the US. Then when US dollar got strong, the Japanese used this to start buying up real estate in the US, including some notable landmarks which cause further resentment in the US.
Then the Japanese real estate and financial bubble burst. You don't hear much about Japans economic prowess anymore and they like China are facing a massive demographic time bomb.
 

The Combat Mission Final Blitzkrieg scenario River of Blood, by PanzerMike, using Bil Hardenberger's and A Canadian Cat's excellent C2 Hard Cat Rules v2I
Human Axis attack vs AI Allied defence
https://youtu.be/AIogXkOBYcc

I tested the 2 roadblocks as flavor objects with the transparent hedgehogs and it acted odd.
I now have the 2 different roadblocks in the game as 2 knocked-out trucks (US 6x6 and the Italian Fiat truck).
They get in the game by the scenario author knowing how the mod works and knowing how to do allied versus allied -or- axis versus axis purchasing.
They are deployable by the side that "owns" them and when fired upon they give the sound of a truck being hit and can eventually light on fire. They block movement of vehicles.

No its just a long overdue updating... cant believe Ive been running it since 2015!

It's all possible. Personally I don't give a damn about what BFC thinks of us, same as I'm sure it will be the other way around. As long as they give us great games and we give them our money it's all good. Works for me. 😛 But I do appreciate they are there, that's for sure. Without them we would have nothing.
There will always be some bitter taste about what could have been, but will never be. France 1940, North Africa 1941-1943 etc.etc. Beggars can't be chosers, I guess. Personally I accept this because I've got all I ever wanted, but I'm sorry for gifted people like you, who could have made the difference and give us even more if their talents had been appreciated and used. On the other hand the most brilliant mods and scenarios hardly get any attention,as you experienced yourself. Perhaps that's also a reason why BFC doesn't bother to support 'little' mods like France 1940, Finland and Crete.
But don't underestimate your own efforts and the impact that had on a lot of CM gamers. Stick around, no need to sacrifice time, energy or even health on our behalf. Just help us with your knowledge from time to time. Make something if you feel like it or don't. You're too good a guy to be missed on this forum. Same goes for people like WimO@ and MJKerner@. Don't touch the game for a year or so, if you like, but just stay around. Don't be obsessed with it, but just enjoy it. We still have great times ahead, no matter what comes.

While the lower helmet looks better after looking at pics of WW2 Brit soldiers it seems that it was normal for it to be a bit higher as one needs to account for the helmet lining.  Looking at Phil's diagrammatic view: https://www.mediafire.com/view/t6ab2axrp1optj4/helmet_british_fitted_2.jpg/file  one can see that the guy's head is almost touching the inside of the helmet with no room for a lining.
 

Hope you haven't burned out. Your contributions have been much appreciated.  

Hope you haven't burned out. Your contributions have been much appreciated.  

An obvious thing to check is do you have all the required modules and are they activated?

I used to playtest for Joe when we worked on wargames for DoD.  But, no have not tested or played this design.  

Yes, this also the challenge I recall facing.  Be interesting to see how you do it.

It would still be useful to be able to split off a 2-man scout and not end up with an unsplittable 7-man team which is "unwieldy".

Check with Bootie.  A couple years ago, I sent him an ext HD with almost 300GB of content - pretty much everything that had been produced since 2007.

You are doing Aris proud.  Quietly giving us an entire snowy set of vehicles.  Much appreciated.  

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.