Aragorn2002
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26 minutes ago, Freyberg said:
I'm a 20-year veteran and I agree with you.
All these months later I'm still vastly enjoying R2V - I've barely touched CMFB & CMBS since I bought them - these products are amazing and full of detail. I have no doubt they're a lot of work to produce.
Yeah, I've just bought CM Beyond Overlord and I'm thinking of buying CM Barbarossa to Berlin.
For crying out loud...
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27 minutes ago, weapon2010 said:
Its extremeley discouraging as a 20 year fan/customer not to get "year ahead bone post", I dont care that none of their plans did not pan out for 2020, most times they have and I would love to know their direction for 2021 and future projects , it keeps me invested and enthused.
Personally I'm not in the slightest interested in a year ahead bone, since as some other posters already mentioned, previous year ahead bones have proven to be worthless bone fragments. I just want the release of a comparatively simple module, that has been worked on since 2016-2017 and suffered endless delay.
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1 hour ago, RepsolCBR said:
They only need to change the year of last years bone...since none of those things have been released yet.
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"The good news is that we will definitely release Fire and Rubble in 2021, the bad news is that we have no idea in which season..."
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9 hours ago, BFCElvis said:
I suppose it depends on how you're defining "bones"
Just a couple of days ago I posted a picture of the Panzer III Flame, which hadn't been shown before.We do what we can when there's something available to share.
Rubbish. You're just trying to hedge yourself with a quick and usually bad screenshot from time to time. But I guess that's the New Now, a BF that lost all interest in it's community and can't be trusted on it's word anymore.
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50 minutes ago, slysniper said:
just add these issues with all the other things that disappointed you in 2020
I think most of us already did that in 2019.
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11 minutes ago, Bulletpoint said:
So I guess they could just repost them this year
That's why I'm not even looking forward to official announcements anymore.
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On 12/29/2020 at 9:36 PM, Vacilllator said:
No problemo, we will forgive you but only if you continue to break radio silence
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Time for broadcasting the program, I would say...
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19 minutes ago, BFCElvis said:
You are correct. Sorry I was mistaken that it was new to Fire and Rubble.
Grille H. I think it's even in CMRT. Used it in a scenario myself. Lovely vehicle though.
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One would expect some kind of update now release of the module is near. Or am I being silly and should we prepare for more radio silence and the inevitable story about delay, the promised release date of the 8th of January just being the date we can pre-order, so things can drag along for another couple of months and it's ready when it's ready?
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10 minutes ago, Sgt.Squarehead said:
I'd imagine xmas 1945 was an awful lot better than 1944.
I very much doubt that.
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13 minutes ago, RepsolCBR said:
Was any thought given to perhaps adding spies (simular to CMSF) or some other type of unconvential units to the german side...
I've been reading that temporarely unarmed volksturm soldiers mixing with the civilians caused the russians some problems...
The Werwolf-movement. It goes rather far to expect them in the game...
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1 hour ago, BFCElvis said:
Here is something that was newly added. Name that gun!
Quite a monster. Amazing how the Russians were able to produce even the heaviest at guns, which still could be moved without a vehicle.
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52 minutes ago, Sgt.Squarehead said:
To be fair I was thinking more of guys in trenchcoats & fedoras, maybe swapping out their MP-40 models for Thompsons.....With a bit of imagination (& a few mods) you could make use of the new Opel saloon car and some Soviet trucks to get some real 'Al Capone' action going.
I sometimes forget what excellent taste you have.
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18 hours ago, Sgt.Squarehead said:
Perhaps even some old ww1 steel helmets, let's not forget a lot of these brave, unlucky men were veterans from Verdun, Tannenberg and the Somme battles.
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Very interesting stuff, Ithikial. Take your time and all the best with your Dad.
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2 hours ago, Sgt.Squarehead said:
Can't find anything for Hotton.....But there's a trio of maps for 'Hatten' (Hot Time In Hatten):
Could those have been what you were thinking of?
I'm afraid not. I've noticed that map, but is Hatten, Germany, not Hotton Ardennes. But thank you anyway. Good looking map btw.
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Is there a map of Hotton available or did someone ever made one and cares to share perhaps?
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Impressive!
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1 hour ago, theforger said:
As far as I'm concerned it would be very welcome if you would release all as individual maps and scenarios, but that would be a waste of your work in building a campaign. Better finish your campaign and surprise us with it next autumn.
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On 12/12/2020 at 6:40 PM, Lucky_Strike said:
Yes, that's the idea. The only things that you may need to alter in the editor are the crop type, I think it's set to crop1 short, and maybe try a bit of marsh. Otherwise I think everything was featured one way or another, so you can switch most of the textures in and out to see what you prefer. Also maybe worth changing the weather conditions to see how things look in the rain for example.
My favorite crop type is tall oats with cornflowers. I love those blue flowers in the soft yellow-brown of the oats.
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15 minutes ago, theforger said:
The maps my own. It features 4 times in the campaign so it takes on progressively more damage and contains more wrecks. Used a lot of pre war postcards to try and get the look of the buildings as close as possible.
was a good resource too.
I'll take a look at the uniforms not really considered that.
My compliments. Great looking map, must have been a lot of work, but it's a beauty.
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10 hours ago, chuckdyke said:
Find a person to play Hotseat is a problem, I found two in the area I live. To play AI is just an apprenticeship. Nothing but respect for the editors, but their efforts at best is a set piece attack or counterattack. To doctor battle plans is a thankless task. Mods look pretty I agree but for me as it comes in the game is good enough. I would even play the game if it only came with NATO symbols.
Than Command Ops 2 is the game for you. Try it, it's a remarkable good game.The ideal companion to CM.
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3 hours ago, theforger said:
- Storming Stavelot
7 Scenarios into the Rollbahn D campaign so the Germans are a little less healthy than in this standalone version but give it a run out. Only 1x AI plan at the moment in this version.
Did you make the map yourself? If so, well done! Looks like an interesting battle and thorough research. Briefing is short and clear, as I like them. I've changed the uniforms from Greatcoat to Winter, since I think that's more fitting for the Leibstandarte, but that's personal taste. Looking forward to playing this!
I will give it a go in the coming weeks. Certainly makes me very curious about the campaign! And more scenarios/maps would be very welcome.
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17 minutes ago, theforger said:
I have some content but it's for my first campaign compilation, Rollbahn D.
I started building in March. It's based on KG Peiper.
The ambition is/was to produce an historical scenario for every 6 hours or so of the KG and associated units, their advance and eventual destruction, from the 16th to Xmas.
So far in the "can" I have
- Murky Merlscheid (Fallschirmjäger)
- Leaving Lanzerath (Fallshirmjager)
- Minen The Gap (Losheim/Scheid, Spitze)
- Breakthrough (Bucholz/Honsfeld)
- Bull-in-gen China Shop
- Butchers Of Baugnez (thanks for the Cafe/Hotel/Signpost mods Kohlenklau!)
- Storming Stavelot
- Trois Is A Crowd
- Jabos! (Cheneux)
- Probe At Stavelot
- Neufmoulin Rouge
- Duel In The Mist (Stoumont)
- Too Tight At Targnon
- Ster Way To Heaven (Parfondry/Stavelot)
For the remaining 15x scenarios I will be using mostly maps already created... but realistically it is still going to be next autumn.
I've made my own maps apart from Cheneux with some edits. Working on KG X and Y/Skorzeny's attack on Malmedy and the 82nd's first attempt on Cheneux (including using the captured Stummel) at the moment.
Considering releasing some or all as individual battles and maps? Open to requests. Stick with it? Release a map or 2? Release a battle or 2?
I've published 3x scenarios in the past with mixed reviews, Mission to Mass V2, CMBS Korsun 2017 and Summer In The City.
I enjoy the research/creative process, you think you know stuff, then you realise you don't quite know as much as you thought you did.
Bibliography:
The Devils Adjutant by Michael Reynolds
The Leibstandarte Map Book Part IV
The Leibstandarte IV Ralf Tiemann
Duel In The Mist Parts 1,2 and 3, Vosters, Weber, Haasler, Meyer, MacDougall
Jochen Peiper, Patrick Agte
A Time for Trumpets, Charles B MacDonald
Battle of the Bulge Then and Now, Jean Paul Pallud
Panzer Truppen 1943-45, Thomas Jentz
Tigers in the Ardennes, Walden
Ardennes the Secret War, Whiting
KG Peiper:The Race to the Meuse, Cooke, Evans
Battle of the Bulge: Thee 3rd Fallshirmjager Division in Action
The Longest Winter, Kershaw
A Tour of the Bulge Battlefields, Cavanagh
Smashing Hitlers Panzers, Zaloga
Ardennes 1944, Beevor
And last but not least Combat Mission Community Forums
Releasing some scenarios would be great. Duel in the Mist sounds intriguing.
Fire and Rubble Update
in Combat Mission Red Thunder
Posted · Edited by Aragorn2002
I have the impression that the real weirdos are those that still defend the endless delay and who think it helps to support BF in their lack of communication and commitment to the module.
I was thinking about making a chronological overview about the whole development of Fire and Rubble, but that job is simply too big for me, since it covers a couple of years and some very long threads.
I post some posts below, which prove my point that the development has been going on for a long time and that promises have been made. I must add that I haven't found promises from Elvis, just a lot of vague and cautious remarks. Still, he didn't handle the PR side very well and left far too much time between updates and bones. With that he caused a lot of unnecessary frustration.
Here just a couple of quotes, they may not prove all of my points, but they do tell a story. Mind you, it's just a quick grab, not nearly all of them.
June 1, 2018
Steve: The one you're all interested in is the first Module for CMRT. Let me tell you a bit about it. When will it be available to you? As always we have to be vague about it, however we're very sure it will be before the end of the year.
Steve: It's been in the works for a significant amount of time already. Most of the forces have already been plugged in and all of the vehicle models are done. As you can see from the snapshot of the Berlin map, there's been substantial work done on the scenario side of things already. What's really helping is that the CMRT Module doesn't require much internal development resources at this stage, which in turn means it's not being held up by CMSF2 or CMFI R2V work (or vice versa).
July 11,2019
MikeyD: The CMRT and CMFI modules have been 'almost complete' for awhile. Much of the CMRT module artwork was finished 2 1/2 years ago.
July 15, 2019
BFCElvis: Can we expect the CMRT module this year? Maybe.
(Sorry...that is as official and truthful of an answer as is available at this time)
BFCElvis: The plan/hope is by years end. But I'd hate to say that and then you have quote me on January 1st if it doesn't happen.
February 27, 2020
BFCElvis: It's been a coupla/few weeks since an update was made and that's too long. I have good news and I have bad news........
The bad news. As some may have guessed (and if you don't know what I'm referring to I invite you to explore the whole forum and you'll see what I mean....yes...I am being purposely obtuse) our special project has taken away assets that would otherwise be devoted to getting this module to you guys. That will end (for a while) in the next few weeks allowing full focus to be on this module.
The good news is that it hasn't taken all of the assets and things have not stopped moving forward. The number of stand alone battles continues to grow. The campaigns are very far along and waiting for final TO&E to be finished. The only major formations that haven't been added are the Partisans.
July 11 2020
MikeyD: The fly in the ointment, so to speak, was the Ministry of Defense's unexpected interest in CM, as has been mentioned elsewhere. That's workproduct that y'all will never see in detail and nobody's going to talk about but it shouldn't be a surprise that a few of us were kept pretty busy for awhile doing stuff that wasn't Fire and Rubble. BFC has the luxury of telling the discussion board "It'll be finished when its finished". For government work the proper response is "Deadline? Yes SIR! We'll do it SIR!" Fire and Rubble has been very close to being done for a very long time but BFC has been tied up with too much good fortune lately.
BFCElvis; As far as I'm concerned it's on schedule for a summer release. But I thought that with Rome to Victory last year and it came out in November. How's that? Does that answer the question?
Etc. Etc. Etc.
I don't expect Freyberg and company will finally get my point now, since no man is as blind as he who doesn't want to see, but the handling of this module has been and still is a shambles. The main reason for all this delay is that the Eastern front only appeals to a comparatively small group of wargamers, as Steve often mentioned, and so the sales of this module will not be as high as for RtV for example. THAT is the real reason for the lack of priority and commitment and to my opinion it's an insult to those who followed and supported CM all these years.