Aragorn2002
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1 hour ago, kohlenklau said:
Please do a forum search. Maybe somebody did change the MP40 animations.
I took a look and they seem to be specific to the MP40 so maybe that mitigates the possibility of undesired effects.
Do the Thompson animations look like they would work for the MP40?
We had friends for diner, Phil. I will check that tomorrow.
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59 minutes ago, kohlenklau said:
I don't know Jacob if anybody did it. I think that would just be a renaming of an animation. Warning: Changing by renaming any animation to improve the looks of one specific soldier action CAN affect the look of other soldier actions detrimentally.
Okay, Phil, apparently I remember wrong. Doesn't matter. I just think holding the MP 40 at the barrel like that after a couple of bursts might burn your fingers rather nastily. Thank you for your answer.
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2 hours ago, Butschi said:
As for fighting for my country: That is precisely the point. I couldn't care less about my country. My country is just a bunch of lines on a map. It was totally random that I was born within the confines of these lines and not others. Three centuries ago my country didn't even exist. It was a number of smaller areas on a map with some dudes constantly wanting to redraw those lines because they didn't have a playstation or something similar and were bored. Except for the random nobleman who "owned" that patch of land, nobody cared about those lines on the map and much less would have wanted to fight for them. Enter Napoleon and suddenly people here were told that they were Germans and that this conglomerate of lines on a map is something glorious worth fighting and dying for, instead of... well, living in a country that was actually more civilized but with less noblemen still having their heads attached to their necks.
In the following years, people were told that, since they were born inside these lines on a map, they had to hate people for being born inside the neighbouring lines on the map. After the inevitable war, the then "Germans" could finally become Germans, united under a (suddenly beloved) nobleman who called himself emperor. The emperor was of Prussian origin and thus the Germans were told that a militaristic society is the best. With great "Hurray!" millions went to the next war... because... was it even about lines on a map? Or just because going to war is so awesome? Millions of dead later - who absolutely enjoyed the experience of dying for their country (if nothing else), Germans had a brief experiment with nasty leftist ideas like, actually voting for stuff and such.
That ended quickly, when Germans were told that being randomly born to the right parents, they were better than people who were randomly born to different people. And also that the lines on that map absolutely need to be redrawn because people with the right parents need more space and those people being born to parents to the east in areas surrounded by lines called "Poland", "Russia" or "Ukraine" wouldn't need that space, anyway. Oh, and Germans were of course told that being born within the right set of lines, the absolute best is of course to fight and die for that set of lines.
After the inevitable war with even more dead, some people wondered whether those "leftist" ideas weren't all that bad, after all. Voting, inviolability of human dignity, etc. But alas, the lines on the map called Germany had been split into two sets of lines. Both sides were told that it was absolutely preferable to kill their relatives on the other side to allowing them to redraw the lines. If that didn't help it was absolutely necessary to just convert both Germanies, and if necessary the whole world, into a nuclear wasteland.
See, we are kind of fed up with this nonsense of "dying for our country". In between we found out that human rights, like e.g. not getting randomly imprisoned and shot without trial, kind of made sense and that our neighbours weren't as bad as we were told. Even the French. Especially the French. As others have pointed out, had the question been if we are willing to fight for freedom, democracy, etc. the answer would probably have been different.
And finally, let me be honest with you: I support my government in sending billions in money and materiel to help you defend your lives, your right to decide for yourselves, your freedom and, yes, your human rights and the possibility to enjoy your lives. Not the random lines on the map called Ukraine.
It's far easier than that. One fights for one's loved ones. I'm most of the time as annoyed as most people with my family and country, but I will tear the throat out of those who want to harm them with my bare teeth. Ukraine is not unique in that respect, they just know better than us spoiled Westerners, what it means to live under the Russian boot.
I don't like your words of disdain, Haiduk, your country has nothing to complain about with regard to the West. We could have chosen for our own freedom, but we didn't.
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The music for CMRT is a bit too heavy for my taste. I wonder whether there are WMV files available? For CMBN I have British Grenadiers which is more to my liking but not suited for the Eastern front.
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I'm not sure but while playing I wondered whether somebody made a mod for the way soldiers hold their MP 40. Not sure of that. Does anybody know?
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8 minutes ago, Astrophel said:
Very interesting chart, not least because Turkey seems to be the most inclined to fight for nationalist reasons. However, the willingness to fight for core values cannot be assessed by framing the question in nationalist terms.
Were you to ask a Dutch person whether they are willing to fight to prevent russians setting up torture chambers in their neighbourhood or having rape fests then I think you would see a different reaction. And yes we think war is the business of professionals not of "mobiks".
Somewhat reassuring is that so many russians are NOT prepared to fight for their nation. At the end of the day the russian people have to turn away from genocidal imperialist warfare on behalf of the nation and it seems there might be some fertile ground.
I agree. I don't think this map is telling us much about the willingness to defend the freedom of a country, when under attack.
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12 hours ago, George MC said:
I suspect it would be significantly easier
IIRC 3rd Pz Div didn't have Panthers at this time as their battalion were away being trained in them.
I know, George, just kidding. As much as I enjoy the originals, you have no idea what I do to your scenarios later on sometimes...
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On 8/7/2023 at 10:57 PM, George MC said:
Thank you
Appreciate you continued with it and a decent result too, weel done! Its good to know that this is winnable as I have heard of players having a very tough time in this. Coincidently another player recently completed this (posted the DARs and AAR) on the unofficial Combat Mission discord and likewise he did a decent job in completing it.
Look forward to seeing how the alternate path works out for.
Many thanks again for taking the time to share your AAR results and let me know how it went.
Cheery!
Would be interesting to see how things went with the Pz IV's replaced by Pz V's.
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31 minutes ago, Bulletpoint said:
Let's not forget thatt Kursk was in fact one big slaughter for the Russians, which only ended because the Germans had no reserves left to continue their offensive and had to withdraw divisions to other fronts, both inside and outside Russia.
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13 hours ago, danfrodo said:
Good, thorough look at the war of attrition. yes, confirmation bias for those of us who believe UKR will prevail. Though sooner is better for UKR (and the world) since all kinds of non-linear events could change the dynamic (RU extortion via energy, food, etc). But for now, this feller's math says RU is being heavily degraded while UKR is receiving replacing its loses, at least in vehicle losses.
Interesting article, Dan, thanks. I hope the author is right.
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1 minute ago, chuckdyke said:
The technology is here to knock all the internet dependent satellites. Without it international banking transactions and traffic will cease. High tech scorched universe.
Okay, but Putin will find a way to make us pay for that big time. And God knows the bastard is good at that. Nobody will gain from that.
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7 hours ago, cesmonkey said:
Part of me wants to see Ukraine able to have long distance weapons, but I fear they not ony will be used against Crimea. The more the Russians continue with their terror attacks on civilian targets, the louder the call of the Ukrainian people will become to strike back at Moscow and other Russian cities. So better not to give Zelensky that option perhaps. Not yet at least. And without F-16s these missiles can't be used anyway. Not sure of that.
Apart from the above little good will come from bombing Moscow, a couple of thousand dead or wounded Russians, some damage, both to buildings and the Ukrainian reputation and a road to escalation. As we know from ww2 it won't have much impact on the Russian will to fight. Not that they have a choice in it. All in all a wise German/US decision. For the moment.
What I often ask myself is what will be the reaction of the West when Putin starts using tactical nukes? What can the West do more than is already happening? More sanctions, arms deliveries to Ukraine and more damage to Russia's reputation won't impress Putin. Any thoughts?
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On 7/23/2023 at 1:33 AM, WimO said:
I have dropboxed my new Bénouville building skins and Kohlenklau's mod-tagged Horsa model and skin to Shane to u/l them to the FGM Mods Warehouse. As soon as that is done I will upload my first two OperationTonga scenarios (Operation Coup de Main historical and Operation Coup de Main - What If?) to the Scenario Depot. The scenarios need the building skins and Horsa mod for an authentic look.
Sounds great, Wim. Thank you!
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1 hour ago, NPye said:
Cheers for looking mate, I dont have any of the Italian games don't they have rolled up sleeves????
Just checked. Unfortunately not.
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23 hours ago, NPye said:
Looking forward to some great stuff for CMBN very soon, I decided to relook at some of the graphic elements, I made new Heer uniforms by copying and pasting EEEZ brilliant work and mixing them up a bit for variety, gave them a field caps, I really want some soldiers to have there sleeves rolled up, (is this possible techies???) changed the commercials and stole a few to make as Norman as possible, the church is old I made the maps and most of the other stuff before I made the Stalingrad Mod, which left the Norman builds left unfinished, then a break from CM and then got hooked on the Berlin Mod... So lets see what happens, I have a lot of maps, mostly British and Canadian, but also the battles around Caratan etc with the 101st. I used a few ground textures from the Berlin Mod which helped but is a work in progress and may be changed.
Grab a coffee and take a look at my interpretation of Sainte Marie du Mont, just a walk through to showcase the new work.
Looking great, NPye. Also like your ideas, like rolled sleeves.
I've tried to download your stuff via Dropbox, but there's nothing there. Could you give another link please? And it it possible to concentrate all your witchcraft into one mod?
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17 hours ago, kohlenklau said:
A newly arrived forumite reported a building texture issue. @ZarasthutaMG42
a file naming error was spotted and fixed.
Here is the repaired file you can grab and put in your CMRT z folder.
Excellent, Phil. Thank you!
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10 hours ago, Anonymous_Jonze said:
Ugh! I can't wait to play this!
Me neither. The defensive battles of Hrs.Gr. Mitte deserve a lot more attention. Fought under impossible odds they are nevertheless worth studying more.
Same goes for the defensive battles of the second half 0f 1943 and the first half of 1944.
Superb screenies btw.
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15 hours ago, kohlenklau said:
Shut your pie hole!
We need all the extra stuff we can get with this nearly 10 year old "work backwards from 1944" philosophy.
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It's quite welcome of course, but why has the Protze 70 truck been chosen to appear in CMRT? This truck was produced until 1941, if I'm correct and there can't have been many around anymore in 1944. As said, nice to have it, but a somewhat strange choice perhaps.
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1 hour ago, Vergeltungswaffe said:
That and the constant push to attack whenever any significant panzer forces were built up, instead of using them in defense and making it much harder for the allies to advance without prohibitive casualties.
Yes, that also happened at Kursk for example. Those German Panzer forces could have been much more effective while defending the retreat behind the Dnjepr. The only thing with defending and retreating is that you can't recover damaged or immobilized tanks, because you don't dominate the battlefield. Yes, the constant push to attack didn't do the Germans much good after 1943.
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I agree with you, George. The lack of proper time to train tank crews after 1943 does explain why the German tank divisions weren't the decisive factor on the battlefield anymore. A good example is the Hitleryouth division in Normandy which lost a lot of tanks because of badly prepared and badly executed attacks. Mainly because of the lack of fuel and ammo during the training period, which sealed the fate of many young tank crew members.
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On 7/9/2023 at 7:19 PM, kohlenklau said:
I downloaded a free 3D model and the author is Mr Helijah. https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/airspeed-horsa-7febf28fb92a4189b71dd3796af78c51
It needed massive changes in Blender to get it to show as a flavor flave object. Just so you don't think it was plug n play 5 minutes.
Maybe 3 hours work I did renaming and editing. AND I still have a few things to fix.
Looks sensational.
Imagine that in a Normandy or Arnhem scenario!
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8 minutes ago, Lethaface said:
Although It's just anecdotal I've been on the MH-17 flight quite a number of times (flying to/from Malaysia) and indirectly know some people who perished on the flight. At the times I was on the flight I was more worried about it going over Afghanistan.
Apart from that; the way the Russian regime handled MH-17 was rather infuriating for anyone involved. At the same 'time', our intelligence services have had quite some interactions with their Russian counterparts before and after that incident. So the way Russia behaved was not a surprise.
Also on another note, as a human I'm not convinced those who shot down that airplane did intentionally destroy a civilian airplane full of passengers. But 'we' certainly didn't forget, nor forgive.
How sweet it would be to see dutch F-16s shoot down Russian planes and bomb the hell out of their ground troops. Revenge is so much better than forgiving.
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1 hour ago, danfrodo said:
Double post
MP 40 mod?
in CM2 Scenario and Mod Tips
Posted · Edited by Aragorn2002
The Thompson animations are the same as those for the MP 40, Phil. Checked it in CMBN, CMFB and CM Italy. But it's not that important anyway. Thank you as always for taking the time to respond and trying to help.