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    First fanmade CampaignPack "Summer of Destruction" is released (no charge)

    in CM Red Thunder Maps and Mods

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    6 hours ago, Jim1954 said:

    Could you list all the ones you have, if its not too much trouble?

    Alarmeinheiten

    Blunting the Spear

    BP1 Five Days One Summer

    BP1 Tigers at Ogledow

    CMRT Kampfgruppe von Schroif

    CP SoD Chapter I Partisans Land

    CP SoD Chapter II Into Hell

    CP SoD Chapter III Our Father

    CP SoD Chapter IV Five Bridges

    CP SoD Chapter V Tiger Trail

    FR Breakthrough to Kovel

    FR Broken Shields

    FR Night at the Opera Axis

    FR Night at the Opera Soviet

    FR The Battle of Tukums

    FR To Berlin

    Hammers Flank

    Rokossoykys Impasse

    The Relief of Army Group North

    The Road to Minsk

    Thunder Over Ponyri

    Training Campaign

    Zitadelle

     

    It's 23, I counted Tiger Trail twice as I had the pre-release testing version.
     

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    Combat photography: Photos from the front..

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

    Posted · Edited by Phantom Captain

    A couple of shots from @dragonwynn's CMCW campaign, Seven Days.  It's been REALLY fun so far!

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    This brave American soldier had fought so hard defending this position, survived being overrun by three BMPs and a T-62 by chucking grenades and shooting anything that dared come at him, even holding his breath to spring up at the last second to gun down this charging Soviet, only to be instantaneously killed by one bullet while reloading his rifle.

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    First fanmade CampaignPack "Summer of Destruction" is released (no charge)

    in CM Red Thunder Maps and Mods

    Posted · Edited by Phantom Captain

    5 hours ago, Mik093 said:

    You are missing campaigns. I have 24 for Red Thunder XD
    5 by Battlefront, 5 by Franck and 14 others created by members of the community.
    I started the game in December with BfN, FI and FB. I'm very far from finished XD

    Same.  24 campaigns for RT also.

    If you haven't, once you start playing humans, it's NEVER finished...

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    Combat photography: Photos from the front..

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

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    11 minutes ago, Vacillator said:

    Do you think the code includes a 'luck dice roll' where one player gets the luck and other doesn't 😉?

    In Pershing vs Tiger this week, I had an unbuttoned M24 Chaffee on recon duty.  One of @Ultradave's Tigers spotted it and an 88 shell exploded in the trees a few feet from the TC's head.  He buttoned up sharpish, no injuries.  The next 88 shell hit the turret and achieved a partial penetration right next to the TC's position inside.  Again no injuries, just made the crew 'nervous'.  You don't say 😂.  The Chaffee then retreated into the trees, and a turn later was Ready and OK...lucky TC and lucky crew.

    Anyway, good luck with your Panthers, although I may be a little late for one of the them!

    In direct opposition to your lucky M24 TC, another one of my Panther TCs in this battle was killed just being unbuttoned and backing away as one of those 17lber rounds exploded, in the ground, about 10m from my retreating Panther and the shrapnel killed my TC.  I swear!!  Of all the rotten luck.

     

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    Combat photography: Photos from the front..

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    Just now, Ultradave said:

    Sometimes it's just someone's lucky day, I think. A near miss, a glancing blow. Maybe the TC saw the shot being fired, and had just enough time to duck and pull down the hatch enough to avoid the flying tree splinters. Mantle hit - glancing blow (looked pretty direct though), happened to hit the heaviest armor on a lightly armored tank?

    Like board games, while each bullet/shell is intricately tracked, when it hits, there is some element of chance as to what happens, as there is in real life as well. Think of a real person being shot - a half-inch either way might have been fatal, but "tis but a scratch" 🤣  And since in a different thread someone said I can't say such things without the meme, I bring you, the Black Knight.

     

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    Merely a flesh wound.

     

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    Combat photography: Photos from the front..

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

    Posted · Edited by Phantom Captain

    12 minutes ago, Vacillator said:

    In two recent PBEMs, I have lost a Panther each time to artillery fire unluckily landing on the engine hatches. 

    Just saying 😱.

    Not cool!  Condolences.

    Ha!  Oh, I know!  In one of my CMBN battles I had a 60mm mortar drop a round right into the open top of a PSW.  It's amazing when luck turns your way.

    But then...sometimes there is nowhere to go and nothing to do but sit there and take it.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

     

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