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Wow. <shakes head in disbelief>

Ahhh, right! Thanks LLF. I had seen the word before in books about British colonial history, but hadn't really taken it in: it is the arabic slang term for soldier, so exactly the equivalent of grunt or squaddie.

Here is Umlaut's guide to making flavor objects. I've just uploaded it to mediafire so here it is for you all if you need this exceptionally useful and simple process. http://www.mediafire.com/file/0g35it41bg7sskz/Adding+Extra+Flavor+Objects.doc/file

HI @Dr.Fusselpulli (and anyone else) here is the link to Umlaut's guide to making new flavour objects. http://www.mediafire.com/file/0g35it41bg7sskz/Adding+Extra+Flavor+Objects.doc/file It is pretty easy. Two things to note: 1. there are 9 slots to each flavor object class. So you can use any of the other slots - e.g ATM is a fave because you can use up all the other slots e.g. ATM2 could be a wrecked truck, it doesn't matter. 2. The mdr naming convention might seem strange- you have to adhere to it *exactly* or things won't work. I keep paper notes of all the bits and pieces I am making so I don't get it messed up. Though this was for Black Sea it will work for any CM game, they all function in exactly the same way. Stick your new flavour objects in their own folder in the Z folder and you will be good to go.

If I don't do it while I remember it'll never happen. If there was a UK National Procrastination team, I'd be on it!

@Dr.Fusselpulli I'd be happy to do so - it's part of the general CM modding knowledge-base. It's on my old computer so I will have to dig it out, will try to do that later today.

I just come across this thread again. I did want to point out one thing - because I thought someone would spot it, especially with the hint about an Easter Egg. There's a narrative in the buildings. It might not be so clear in 4a but I think 5a definitely lets you know what happened there.

So yes, if you want a sausage kiosk, you can bloody well have one. It would just be reskinning the one in BS if there isn't one in the game.

@ Dr.Fusselpulli The good news is that flavour (or flavour) objects are easy to create with Photoshop or similar. I hope BF CMCW will have similar numbers of slots and independent buildings like BS, rather than SF2 which has fewer spare slots and no indie buildings which reduces options. There's a guide to creating flavour objects somewhere around too.

It seems that IG bulkbuy retail copies in cheap countries then sell the keys - that makes sense as I have received .jpgs of keys. I suspect this is a grey area. I looked at bannings from steam but could only find people who were advocating piracy or had cheated in online tourneys. I would imagine the worst they could do is delete the specific game from your steam library. I'd be interested in any responses from others here.

One other thing, if IG is a bit dodgy, it might be better to pay with PayPal. I say that because I bought a game from GOG a few years back, my rig was just a bit above the minimum spec for the game so it did play, but was laggy and awful. I immediately removed it and asked for my money back. GOG refused but I got my money back via the dispute mechanism. However that was before my country torpedoed itself with Brexit, so I don't know if things are the same because I quoted some EU regs for digital media purchases.

Hi all, Further to slippy's concerns, I took a look around the internet. I have purchased two games on IG and have had no problems, and not been asked for ID. But clearly others have had serious issues, so I am qualifying my endorsement of the site above. You can see some user reviews here: https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/instant-gaming.com https://www.trustpilot.com/review/instant-gaming.com Trustpilot seems to give it a high score, but obviously some reviewers had horrible experiences.

Thanks slippy. I will look around. I had assumed that they had got some sort of bulk discount.

I found this site: instant-gaming.com . It has Steam games that you then activate in your steam account. Just 1/4 to 1/3 the price. I often find that I am interested in Steam games but if they are full price I am not sure I will get the play out of them. I bought Surviving Mars on IG for about £8, and I have found it a bit too slow and buildery for me. I would be annoyed if I had paid full price for it. It's not a bad game, just seems to have a lot of repetetive actions to complete.

Interesting film, loved the first few minutes, although I am not sure that Disney's style of tanks apparently made of rubber matches reality

I am sorry, I thought it would post as an embed and I couldn't fix it. Darwin awards stuff.

What about this?

Happy New Year, Virtual PBI! Thanks for posting this @Erwin My main gripe with BS and SF2 is the ineffectiveness of ordinary artillery against armoured vehicles. PGMs aren't much better. I have had many direct hits and near misses and vehicles often seem to be unaffected. They drive away with apparently no track/wheel damage or immobilisation. The worst was an offtable 122mm exploding underneath a Bradley in BS. I cannot envision anything other than it penetrated the vehicle completely. I can't see any way that the Brad wouldn't have been blown to pieces. Shortly afterwards it drove away! Here is a link to one of the discussions artillery and tanks Likewise I find LOS a constant minor irritation. I expect many players have lined up a 'perfect position' only to find that when you deploy the weapon, the crew cannot see anything. Having the wrong ammo is annoying but I put it down to standard military incompetence and a drunken quartermaster . I gave up on the hulldown command and use the manual method, which seems to be more effective, though time consuming. I do wish BF would address some of the most egregious issues, in terms of realism and gameplay. I can live with TOW Humvees being sh*t, but some of the other stuff does reduce my enjoyment, not to mention immersion.

Yes, I have the VHS of it around somewhere. Not sure whether that or the T55 are the most obsolete technology!

LOL.

[Fumes] That autovoiceover drove me mad - couldn't get to the end of the vid. If that's the state of robots, they won't be taking our jobs soon :-).

I just found this on Youtube. There is an English translation from an aggrieved Ukrainian, but I found it fascinating - a look at a well-equipped sniper team, with an electronic warfare specialist on board, with an EW anti-drone weapon, and the team themselves have a western commercial drone among other western kit.

Do let me know if you encounter any problems, so I can fix them.

I've made a new building. It's an upmarket one because I got tired of all the squalor. It is suitable for a governor's residence, mosque, consulate, or warlord's palace. I didn't know what to call it, so "Posh Islamic Place" will have to do. I've made or added some flavour objects so you can create a large compound. It has two types of roof - one plain white, one traditional Islamic tiling. NOTE: It is numbered to follow on from Kieme's original 14 buildings in HD. If you don't have these buildings, just renumber the MDR FILE so it is consecutive to the buildings you already have - e.g it will be building 9 if you have just the vanilla buildings. Unzip and place folder in Z folder. I suppose you louts are going to blow it up now. DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.mediafire.com/file/z54plxguppj217o/Building+15+Posh+Islamic+Place.zip/file A compound, with attractive water feature and nicely placed for local shops and ISIS homeboy parties: Note that the wall doesn't go all the way around for clarity. Extra flavour objects - some I made, some which are from Black Sea and Kieme's Civilian Vehicles. Note they are in convenient flavour object slots. Islamic decorated arch (pic doesn't show detail) and a flower bed. Our beloved president. Kieme's Civilian Vehicles Download links: JJ's Additional Flavour objects http://www.mediafire.com/file/0go8386p0dtkm0e/JJ's+Additional+Flavour+Objects+for+SF2.zip/file Kieme's Civilian Vehicles http://www.mediafire.com/file/t1qulvn5ap15kgj/Kieme+CMBS+additional+flavor+objects+(civilian+vehicles).zip/file Building 15 http://www.mediafire.com/file/z54plxguppj217o/Building+15+Posh+Islamic+Place.zip/file

I haven't received a reply. He did mention a while back that he was recovering from an illness so I hope he is well. I dunno if anyone has a direct email for him and can mail him?