Tom TCMHQ

Cold Winter Taiga Sunset Before the Rain Gentlemen , pics above are a VERY early preview of a new sky texture mod pack ( including 18 different new texture sets ). Don´t hold your breath...it will take a while to finish the project. Cheers Tom BTW: I hope artists like Magua , Ben Bittner or Tiger feel inspired to start their own sets !

Another CMBB Splash ( versions with English - and German buttons available ) for 1024 x 768 or above resolutions. Designed with Paint Shop Pro , Adobe Imagestyler, Paintmachine- and Melancholytron Plugins.More " artistic " Splashs ( including Russian and Hungarian ones ) coming soon. Hope you like it. Cheers Toms The new Splash can be found at the CMMODS WEBSITE

Hi , when I am done with my first CMBB operation , I will try to work on an improved CMBB version of the so called Ardennes Winter Mod. Stay tuned. Cheers Tom

Michael , LMAO ! Is that a quote from a movie ? In fact it sounds like ME , when I am playing the Russians in CMBB..... Tom

Tracer, it´s simple: load the 11002.bmp into your graphic editor , resize it to 800 x 574 pixel( I hope your paint software has a kind of " smooth " function ) and save it as 11001.bmp into your CM/bmp folder. Cheers Tom

Tracer, it´s simple: load the 11002.bmp into your graphic editor , resize it to 800 x 574 pixel( I hope your paint software has a kind of " smooth " function ) and save it as 11001.bmp into your CM/bmp folder. Cheers Tom

Gentlemen , the results of a lazy Sunday afternoon.... WWII photos and some propaganda stuff Battle of Kursk painting.Found this pic on my hard disk. Does anybody know something about the original artist ? Same pic as above , but with a more neutral ( less " teutonic " ) font design. Russian Splash All screens were designed with Paint Shop Pro and Adobe Imagestyler. More splashs ( winter stuff ! ) are under construction. You can download the new files from www.cmmods.com , since If have no time to update my own website at the moment. Cheers Tom P.S.: Credits to Alex aka " Pakfan " for the original design and font ideas.

Yunfat, The CM splash title graphic was designed by Pakfan using the famous " Luftwaffe " Font ( you can get it for free from several FONT websites ). I do my graphic designs with Paint Shop Pro and Adobe Imagestyler. Juju, I was very busy with my job during the last weeks and spent the few free hours with... ahem... PLAYING CMBB instead of working on mods or my website Hope to find some time in January to do all the missing updates on my site. Cheers Tom

Coming soon ... if I get Pakfan´s permission to use his splendid CM title graphic ( in fact the whole thing is inspired by Pakfan´s marvellous design ). Hope you like it. Cheers Tom

I like US software with German tanks painted by a French artist

Hi Doc., since I´m also doing this symetrical stuff , I would like to check out your new map and publish it at TCMHQ. If you like , send it to : tcmhq@nexgo.de Cheers Tom

There is a simple solution: Go to: http://classic.winamp.com/ and download the old 2.8 (? ) winamp version ( yes ...it´s free ! ) After installing this most popular MP3 Player go to " Preferences " and select " Options " There are several in- and output plugins: Select the " Disk Writer ( hope that was the correct name ) plugin and choose " PCM 16 Bit 44.1 Khz " as output parameter ( Mono- or Stereo depending on the source material ). Then load your MP3 file , press play and - no matter what the original sample rate is - you get a nice CM compatible WAV file. Attention: this feature seems to be excluded in the latest Winamp 3.0 release. Cheers Tom

Jake , from the navigation menu choose " Reports " and then " Data "..it´s a small file. Cheers Tom

Jason , My site is hosted by Militarygameronline.com in the UK ( Btw: the guys offer a great service ! ) The problem you described is caused by two possible reasons: 1.) The MGO FTP server is used by more than a dozend websites , but only offers very few free downloadslots. " Page cannot be found " ( or somefink ) means " Too many users connected ". Please check back later. 2.) Please don´t use any kind of Download Accelerator Software ( or you´ll encounter another strange message by MGO ). I apologize for the problems , but can´t solve them from Germany. I´ll discuss this stuff with the MGO admin next week. Cheers Tom

Hi , I´m currently working on a new " winter outfit " for the Germans. Since the German Army was unprepared for winter war in 1941 I thought I would give it a more " improvised " look ( Chalked/Whitewashed Helmets and " Tunica " (sp?.. sorry I dont know the English word for " Bettlaken " . As you can see by the lack of details the whole thing is far away from being finished , but I guess you get an impression of the intention. Cheers Tom

No , you don´t need any kind of password ! This message is as missleading as " Page not found " etc. The simple reasons for downloading probs are: MGO FTP server is too busy and doesn´t allow more connections OR you are trying to download via download accelerator software like getRight , Mozilla or somefink else. Cheers Tom

I guess this pic gives a better idea how wonderfull this mod really looks. Cheers Tom

Simple answer : " New turret "..I got the German CMBB version and this Tank is called " T-34 1941 gegossener Turm "..... I was unable to translate that into proper English Cheers Tom

The boys will put it right ....and I hope this changes will make it into the next version: - smaller terrain tiles ( 10 x 10 m or better ) - dynamic lightning - better infantry models ( more polygons , better animations ) - kind of " learning AI " Anyhow , whatever they will do , I pray that they will continue the WEGO concept and don´t jump on the RT train. Cheers Tom

Title: Operation Rshew Forest Type: Soviet Assault Best played as: German defender or PBEM Date: August 1942 Location: Rshew Weather conditions: Warm and damped Lenght: 10 battles - 15+ turns each Author: Frank Torweihe Historical background August 1942: While German Army Group South was advancing on Stalingrad and the Caucasus, the weakened troops of Center Army Group ( under command of Generaloberst Model ) were involved in violent defensive actions. In particular the frontline at Rshew was a thorn in the eye of the Russian HQ. With large numerical superiority the Russians made attacks to the north and the east of the city. The German Infantry Regiment 428 , a unit from the 129. Inf. Division ( and now subordinated to the 6th. Inf. Div ) was ordered to throw back the Soviets already sitting in the city forest of Rshew . Without waiting for the arrival of the entire Regiment , the I./418 ( 1st Btn. ) attacked the numerical superior entrenched Russians and conquered a large part of the forest. But despite all heroic efforts the Btn. was nearly wiped out during these attacks and the badly battered units were forced to entrench themselves in the conquered positions. They knew that the Russians would counterattack soon....... Sources: A book abouth the history of the German 129th Infantry Division and a 1:25000 topographical map of the battleground. Comment: I am currently playtesting this marvellous operation ( and had restart it again on battle Nr. 4 cause I made some real stupid tactical decisions before ). The atmosphere in this battle is overwhelming and its a real " nailbitter ". No spoilers here ... download it from my website at the " Scenarios 1942 " section. Cheers Tom

Aka_Tom_W , Check the scenario section of TCMHQ: You´ll find the CMBB versions of " Chance Encounter " , " Valle of trouble " , " Riesberg " and " Last Defense " ( but with slightly modified OOB´s ). Cheers Tom

" No markers " and " Riesberg " download problems are fixed ... sorry for the URL typos BTW: for the first time since two weeks I had no problems to access the downloads during the whole day (knock on wood). If you still have problems: please switch off your download accelerators and check your firewalls ( at least that was told me by the MGO FTP admin ). Cheers Tom

Matt , Well , I always knew that the English language is popular here in Germany , but I guess it´s better to exchange the English text with a friendly German " Hier findet Ihr Mitspieler für alle Battlefront.com Games. " I have to admit that " Games " is not a German term , but I guess it sounds better this way If you REALLY want to attract German visitor how´s about the classic invitation " Wenn ist das Nunstrück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! ... Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput! " ????? Cheers Tom

Gentlemen , A very talented new mod designer enters the stage: " Mr.Noobie " has released 11 (!) new T-34 mods together with a set of dirty tracks for the Russian tanks. Grab it from the " Sowjet Armor " mod page....and pray that there are enough download slots free on the FTP server A new historical CMBB operation made by Frank Torweihe deals with the defensive action of the German 428. Infantry Regiment near Rshew in August 1942. You´ll find it on the " 1942 " scenario page ( be warned: the mission briefing is in German. Maybe a helping hand is willing to translate it ? ) Concerning scenarios: I finished my last CMBO " classics " to CMBB conversions: now you can play " Chance Encounter " , " Valley of trouble " , " Riesberg " and " Last Defense " with CMBB. And..if you don´t like my setups..well , you can always use the maps for your own QBs. Cheers Tom

In a few hours ( sorry , I´m ill at the moment and couldn´t update the site in time ). Cheers Tom