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Better late than never. Definitely heroic futuristic derivation (2000AD fan from 1970 something ) as opposed to ****-dog variation (although I quite like that too ). Glad to see my screensaver is getting some use. I should point out that this isn't actually a photograph, it's a 3D render of a model I built composited (using Lightwave) with a photo and a map I found on the net. The same model was also used to make my CMBO jagdpanther mod. Just thought I'd point that out as junk2drive seemed to be suggesting that not much work (!) went into this (I'll let him off though as if you can't tell the difference then I achieved what I set out to do ). Indignant smelly brown-stuff dog (woof!)

Thanks guys, I think I get the picture

Can someone shed some light on why tank hunters insist on lobbing all their useless molotov cocktails at enemy tanks before resorting to the much more deadly grenade bundle? This usually results in setting some grass on fire and having the tank crew gun your tank hunters down before they can actually lob the grenade bundle. Also how accurately modelled are these things. Did grenade bundles get used a lot and where they as deadly as they appear to be?

Hi guys Glad some of you like the splash. Gautrek, I must admit (without being too self-congratulatory ) that I quite like the buttons too! Junk2Drive - thanks for uploading some of my mods, I had wondered if any of them were on the cdv se disc (someone from battlefront.com asked about them sometime ago but I never heard whether they actually got used or not). I'll try and upload my mods again at some stage - I've only got a slow internet connection so it'll probably take a while. Cheers

Hi guys This is something I made a while back and have just got around to uploading at www.cmmods.com (where I notice all my other mods seem to have disappeared ) SDog

Nice one COG! Keep up the good work.

CMAK is looking great but with all that dust I can see that a goggle mod is going to be needed for those tank crews

Thanks guys - very informative answers. I must try and get out of the habit of thinking of the on-screen action as being truly representative of all the possible courses of action. Thanks again SDog

I'd never heard of one of these before CMBB and I've just got to wondering about this apparently deadly device. In a recent scenario my vet troops took out 3 IS-2s with grenade bundles and in most cases from some considerable distance. I can see how a bunch of grenades stuffed through an open hatch might cause a few problems for the occupants but I'm a little surprised at how easily a casually lobbed bundle can cause a total system malfunction. I'd have expected most attempts of this sort to end with the said bundle bouncing off the target and exploding harmlessly in a muddy puddle. Presumably a non-shaped explosive device of this sort would have little to no armour penetrating power (?) so did they work by blowing up fuel tanks or something? Where were the fuel tanks on most tanks - I assumed they'd have been pretty well protected but perhaps not? Were the fuses on the grenades synchronised? Did grenade bundles have some sort of sticky gunk applied to them to make them latch onto a vehicle? etc.... Any info appreciated Cheers SDog

Just guessing but if you fired one of these downwards from an open window you might expect to have more trouble with the backblast hitting the ceiling?

Camels and Peter O'Toole!

Hi I've just uploaded (www.cmmods.com) winterised versions of the conifers from my earlier tree mod. Go get em SDog

Ji VJ I'm working on it. So far I'm not happy with what I've done but I'll keep at it.

Glad you like it . You can make some nice looking woods by mixing up the 'woods' and 'tall pines'. I think I spend more time looking at the scenery than concentrating on the battle

Hi Nevermind I never (well almost never) use the top-down view so I couldn't be bothered to mod them. My humblest apologies SDog

Hi I've just uploaded my 'Trees for CMBO' mod (www.cmmods.com). Some of the images are the same (or similar) to those in my CMBB tree mod but there are quite a few different ones and I've also included a set of 'deciduous trees' which can be used to replace the 'tall pines' images. This gives a different look to the game (see the difference between image (A) and ( below). They're designed to go well with my grass/mud terrain mod (or the gridded version) but I expect they look OK with other ones too. SDog

Hi The trees are my own ones or a mixture of mine and others. I've nearly finished a set of CMBO trees and I'll upload them when they're ready. I got a bit distracted by the arrival of CMBB. I like Magua's buildings mod for CMBO. I think I got them in the cmmos section at www.combatmission.com

Excellent! Thanks very much.

Cheers mate, I'll see what I can do (in due course )

Hi again Thanks for all the postive comments, it's good to hear that my trees are increasing your CMBB viewing pleasure As to Qs: Lou2000 - The only mods in the screenshots are Tanks a Lots peasant shacks (which I really like - I hope he's doing the other buildings too) and my trees. The rest are the default maps that ship with CMBB. BadgerDog - Installing these trees won't effect Captain Wacky's (or anyones) terrain. You'll still be able to see the grids just fine. bfamily33 - Maybe Do you know the bmp numbers for the Jagdpanther in CMBB? Louie the Toad - Minnesota and Russia are probably not as different as you think Do you mean CMBO in general or trees for CMBO? I've got a tree pack in the works. It's nearly finished (It would have been finished but the arrival of CMBB shifted my attention). Tom TCMHQ - As for grass just the stuff that ships with CMBB. I think that's everything? SDog

Hi guys I finally got CMBB a couple of weeks ago and I've just uploaded my first CMBB mod to www.cmmods.com I've replaced the stock trees (summer and autumn) with new versions which I think look more like the sort of trees that are common in Russia. The conifers are pine, larch and spruce (Taiga) and the hardwood trees are predominantly birch. There is a hi-res version as well as a lo-res version for people running older systems or systems with a card that downsamples the higher res images more dramatically (e.g. My DP Mac with Geforce 4MX card) There are a couple of screenies below. Hope you get some good use out of them. SDog

Hi You need to unzip these files first. I'm on a Mac so I use Stuffit Expander to do this. If you're on a PC you can use programs like PKunzip, Winzip, etc. They're all freeware and can be downloaded or obtained from most PC magazine CDs. SD

I saw a program on TV (or read about it, can't quite remember) about the battle for the bridge at Arnhem and a British soldier recounted how the German tanks had fired smoke rounds into the building they were holed up in to set fire to it. Apparently the German smoke rounds were white phosphorous which is highly incendiary. Do smoke rounds ever start fires in CMBB (or CMBO for that matter)? I don't think I've seen this happen. SD

You guessed it It would be really useful if you could post them in a zip. Thanks for the reply (and you too nevermind)

Hi guys I've just got CMBB and was wondering if anyone has compiled a list of terrain bmp numbers? Are they all the same as in CMBO? Thanks SD