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Thanks in advance Juju! I've had to paste in your CM:BN weapons and silhouettes mod to keep me going until release day

Wow, so much! Thanks Juju! Great to have the camo skins back and a pacman loading bar will be the icing of the cake

It would be interesting if someone posted a real German briefing and then put it into Google translate and see if the english was readable?

Big thanks Bud for your AAR. I know how long these AAR's can take and appreciate your excellent efforts.

To use a birth analogy; Steve's baby is overdue. Steve has varicose veins and chronic backache from the long difficult pregnancy. Steve truly, wildly, ffing wants that baby out but baby ain't ready yet. Poor Steve. We are Steve's long suffering husband

Good luck chaps! I will be cheering you on from the sidelines. And thanks for the great AAR so far.

Great show snake_eye and Stonecutter! Curious of why Jerry is only attacking the Allied positions with his weakest tanks (PzIII's & short barreled PzIV)?

Very cool! A final huge battle to end the campaign with I plan to do a few visual vignettes for some juicy bits but not a full AAR I'm afraid. I find normal mode in CMBN too green in colour so I will probably use one of the shader movie mode mods for my pics. Phil, how will the overall victory points for each side in the campaign be calculated?

Thanks for this The Steppenwulf and the other modders involved for this excellent work! Ivanov - Unpack the folder from it's .rar format. Then copy and paste the folder into (on my PC) C:\Users\User\Documents\Battlefront\Combat Mission\Black Sea\User Data That should work

Great info BTR & Haiduk, thankyou! It is a pleasure to have some authentic Russian and Ukrainian critiques on Battlefront's Order of Battle.

Great stuff Iktah! Very impressive

Seconded. The RAF probably claimed three Jagdtigers....

Looks like another Jagdtiger kill Mark, well done! And I hear the sound of planes... (probably too late though).

I like your multiple Jeep purchases Bil. Besides their mobility, they will also make great target distractions and even bait for any enemy big cats. They are small and fast and (don't tell the crews!) expendable.

If the constant drop box syncing is the 'chat' file then it usually means more than two people have their CMH tuned into a single battle. The solution is to make sure no more than two people use CMH for that battle and everyone else instead copies,pastes and deletes the files manually before activating CMH for any other battle they might be playing. Though sometimes one forgets so you just tell CMH to clear the incoming/outgoing mail folder but not the drop box folder!

Chappy, grenade the monster or it might come back next round to wreek it's revenge... That APDS was fantastic! I love the tiny hole it made in the side of the Jagdpanther

Great to hear your heart massage had a happy ending...

Hang in their Chappy! Your tanks aren't having much luck but your FOO's are doing a marvelous job on the enemy PBI (poor bloody infantry) Listening out for that air support...

Sorry to hear that Phil As mjkerner said, your enthusiasm is infectious and your CM projects are outstanding! So get well soon and definitely more smoking, more drinking and less exercise (unless it's procreational)

@sttp are the men in question definitely WIA not KIA? Because looting only and buddy aid with or without looting are slightly different in my experience (apart from the aforementioned speed difference). Buddy aid is a matter of life and death and therefore is more urgent. Looting is not always a bonus and is less urgent. I think encumbrance and ammo supply also come into the equation when looting but not when buddy aiding. If a looter has full ammo and a rifle, they won't necessary pick up a SMG whereas if they are low on rifle ammo they are much more likely to pick it up. Also heavy weapons can only be picked up by the right heavy weapons team. I only realized the other day that different armies fighting on the same side can buddy aid and crucially loot each other. See pic below of an Italian holding a German MG42!

Ok Chappy! 'Lessons learned' was very informative. It is always hard to balance an offensive posture with a defensive posture. So A Coy is resting but which elements of 4PLDG, am I in command of @ChappyCanuck ? And @kohlenklau who made the fantastic map (Blessed are the map makers..)?

Thanks Odin for posting this. It is always fascinating to read the other side's perspective after the last bullet has been fired. I was in charge of the Recce armoured cars which you completely destroyed! And the leading infantry on our left flank which your HMG's and 105 barrage broke the back of... Perhaps Stonecutter can post his excellent Allied AAR over here or at FGM?

Bravo Sir, for stepping into the breach!

The same test this time with an American M10 tank destroyer. Note the TC is shooting the HMG while the gunner shoots forward with the main gun.

One concern would be if Jerry has any Panthers then your Shermans will get trounced in a long range duel favoured by a long map and fighting from the rear section of it?