DesertFox

Great wee vid showing T-34/85s being driven hard - they’re a lot smokier than I’d have thought!
Makes a change from the more common sedate 10km/h round in circles you normally see. 
 

I hope not. I would rather see the CW 44/45 Expansion of Final Blitzkrieg after Fire+Rubble. However we might learn in the next 2 months what the plan will be.

I hope not. I would rather see the CW 44/45 Expansion of Final Blitzkrieg after Fire+Rubble. However we might learn in the next 2 months what the plan will be.

I hope not. I would rather see the CW 44/45 Expansion of Final Blitzkrieg after Fire+Rubble. However we might learn in the next 2 months what the plan will be.

It´s part of "The Victory Campaign" to be found for free here: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/services/military-history/history-heritage/official-military-history-lineages/official-histories/book-1960-army-ww2-3.html
Direct link to the PDF
A fairly good part of Op. Veritable/Blockbuster is to be found and dealt with in there. Use it myself for basic, as well as some more detailed planning of related CMBN(FB) missions. This is also well supplemented with Whitaker´s Rhineland book. From german POV there´s comparably little, but I´ve various divisional histories (Lehr, 116th Pz.) and some scattered info on german Paras fighting in this campaign. Enough for some well founded scenario making I believe. So whenever that module is released, I feel prepared.🍻

It needs some rubble around it. Otherwise it looks like it was built that way even with bullet holes and cracks.

Given the limitations of the now 13 years old gfx engine, that is perfectly fine for me. The game is full of abstractions. Not that this is a bad thing.
Please bring up those nice little screenies. That makes it easier for those who wait.

Given the limitations of the now 13 years old gfx engine, that is perfectly fine for me. The game is full of abstractions. Not that this is a bad thing.
Please bring up those nice little screenies. That makes it easier for those who wait.

Let´s hope for a january 2021 release. 12 January was the start of the Vistula-Oder operation.
 

Let´s hope for a january 2021 release. 12 January was the start of the Vistula-Oder operation.
 

Yes, it is now 20 years I read George Blackburn: Guns of Victory and Whitakers Rhineland. For all interested, there are some very interesting threads about the ´45 Rhineland campaign on the WW2Talk board. Enjoy!
RHINE CROSSING 1945: The Rees bridgehead (30 Corps in operation 'Turnscrew') | WW2Talk

I am wishing for it. I hope at least parts of it are being realized in the next module. Good scenario could be Hochwald Gap,  Canadian Heroes - Private Loren Nelson - Battle of the Hochwald and of course all the Reichswald action. Maybe we´ll see the CW module 44/45 in 2022? I hope so.

Hmm, if it helps to speed up their release cycles...

Hmm, if it helps to speed up their release cycles...

Don´t need no poll. Commonwealth forces and expansion into VE Day for Final Blitzkrieg is due. Then finally we can go from D-Day to VE-Day with both games after 10 years of development.

Don´t need no poll. Commonwealth forces and expansion into VE Day for Final Blitzkrieg is due. Then finally we can go from D-Day to VE-Day with both games after 10 years of development.

Hey @RockinHarryman where can we have yours textures, these pictures is wonderfull seem so real  like in " the Pianist" movie this is the Berlin aspect that I would like to see in the new FnR...

There´s no (noticeable) shadows when overcast, which is realistic. Think the somewhat bland looking city streets add to the shadowless impression. Adding bits more contour and devastation might improve on that.

More than a year ago I predicted a fall 2020 release. I'm beginning to fear even that was too optimistic.

Jummy, chicken...

If the information is inaccessible and there really are no facts we can work with then we should probably not discuss it at all right?  I disagree that this is the case.   I work for a consulting firm with literally hundreds of folks working there but what the hell do i know. 

No one dismissed your experience, but if you only reconfirm your own bias what is the point?  There is factual data on how the Chinese economy functions the size of its middle class etc. even a little travel in China can develop a whole other picture of both the good and bad, however it is only a slice.  
 
as an alternative example. I have been to Johannesburg several times. As is my usual when working projects I pretty much go from hotel to office to hotel. It is rather boring.  Once in a while though I get to do some sightseeing so we went to one of the animal parks. The drive there was depressing. The level of poverty I just wasn’t prepared for. The disparity in living standard was huge and I am not a rookie traveler. I did a similar thing in China from both Shanghai and Beijing however the disparity was nowhere near as bad. China has certain commitments to healthcare for it!s population for example I did not see in South Africa.   Those are things China can’t just stop providing but are at risk even in it’s current trajectory. 

Nope, they reserved a lot of emergency beds (ICUs) in germany for covid (50%) and had to sent staff home because elective surgery practically was forbidden. The covid patients never materialized. They now reduce this to 25% reservation rate for covid patients and open up hospitals for normal surgical procedures again. So these guys are spot on at least for what is happening in germany. If you look at the numbers of early tests in the country you find that in a covid hotspot area (Heinsberg) 15% of the people were positive for antibodies (were already exposed to the virus) with death rates at about 0,4%.

LOL. What took you so long?

LOL. What took you so long?

LOL. What took you so long?