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Square wheels!

I'm not so sure I really like the colored buttons, though they are also associated to the huge movement paths... I prefer a more subdued interface: maybe I'll come up with some metal buttons for Juju Mod. Do you know if there is some transparency mapping possible on the BMPs? Maybe using the Alpha channel or a specific color?

The same as for the Americans: three guys with demo charges to open breaches into the hedgerows...? I would like to have paratroopers' drop action, and also gliders landing. Oh yes! The ParaMarines too!

About the Browning HQ section I admit it is just my supposition, since who else should have been carrying the whole OP in a glider? This discussion about a proven fact is somewhat getting too far for me, and it's useless: the Germans had the plans for the whole Operation; if at first they were suspicious about their luck, the following days' actions confirmed the Allied intentions. So they were able to react with speed and efficiency, without having to wait for Berlin's approval or reinforcements. Let me know if this thread becomes another peng challenge, so I can sod off as fast as I can...

I believe you know who the Obersturmbannführer Walther Harzer is...

Indeed, my mistake: Air Transport Forces 38 and 46 Groups RAF, RASC Air Despatch Units 52nd Troop Carrier Wing, USAAF IX Troop Carrier Command (Less 52nd Wing), USAAF

That is OK! I already expanded the whole data and checked the files are already well organized from the start... Maybe a file list wouldn't be really needed... Any idea what is an mdr file? Is it maybe the 3d model? S!

Yep, that I figured thanks.

Look for it in the Repository: there is a mod just for the colored buttons. I stick to Juju Mod for now: excellent as usual! Juju is back! Thanks.

Absolutely NOT, but then again ALL gliders were Americans. The crashed glider may have been brought down on its way up North, not necessarily a crashed landing one. I cannot buy Student may have made up this story just to despise his former enemies. I stick to his truth and Officer's words.

I'm unable to find any hint on searching the forum. Is there any listing for the files present in CMBN as reference for Modding purposes? Thanks for any help. S!

Ahem, Michael, IIRC the salient in the Netherlands was actually used to launch the March offensive due East this time instead of North: as mentioned, the crossings at Wesel etc. BTW that Op Varsity was the largest AB Operation of WWII.

This is the theory wrote in 'It Never Snows in September' in 1990, but I believe those who are doubting this finding, or trying to limit the plans somewhat to the 101st only, are not in good faith, trying to cover up for a magnificent SNAFU. First of all these were found on a British officer, and this suggests the glider's transported men were liaison and staff to Browning HQ. In any case I believe it wasn't difficult for the Germans to detect the intentions or choices of their enemies after a few days, since there was only one road for all those big bridges leading into Germany.

But if for the Normandy landings there was also a huge disinformation work going on since a long time (Patton sent to NE Anglia commanding a fake Army made with rubber weapons and real fake radio transmission: Operation Fortitude) regarding MG there was mot enough time for anything but to press on, and the Allied had already lost too much time delaying for many reasons. There was also another rouse for the landings in Sicily in 1943 (the dead body of an officer carrying secret plans for a landing in Greece IIRC found on the Spanish costs as if drowned after an aircraft crashing at sea): just to say the Germans' high echelons had many reasons to be suspicious about their findings, but not so for the field commanders who were close enough to verify the facts. Unluckily for the Allied in this operation, chance wanted two armored divisions (II SS Panzer Corps) reforming and refitting their ranks right on the spot at Arnhem, the First Parachute Army's General Student reinforced with the 59th Division from the XV Army that was on the move right when the Allied Paras started their drops. All this placement of the Germans was dictated by other reasons, as they were expecting an assault on Holland proper, with a paratroopers drop East of the Rhine. But since they happened to be right there, they quickly understood what was going on, and had enough forces to react quickly, without even having to ask Berlin for support. As I wrote, to me all these look like a full series of casual events that contributed to the ultimate failure of Monty's plan. Odd (it was already noted): for a General always so cautious and meticulous, the only time he acts as bold and we may say as careless, but with good reasons to do it, he fails.

If at first they even thought it was a rouse, after a short time they were able to confirm all of the Allied moves, and consequently the Germans were able to exploit all the weak points of that plan.

Yep, in the meantime I can surely use the Windows tools...

Above all I chose Historical (or semi historical) and I really appreciate detailed maps based on real places; that said in CMX1 I remember one battle was most intriguing with two Armored Regiments fighting each other to conquer or hold the City across a river (a huge map, heavy rain) only to discover it was really fictional, since I noticed there was a road leading to Bayonne (near the Pyrenees) where there never was any battle of that kind... Another one I really liked was St. Anne Chapelle (the Bulge) with just a company of Paras holding a crossroad against a Pz Grenadier Company with three HT... Scale doesn't matter, but the hint to some reality or a plausible atmosphere and Order of Battle is most essential.

First thing I would like to mod them TRPs, maybe using those from another Modder made for CMX1... It will take just ten minutes, or less, for that.

Here you go: Besides, the Troop Carrier didn't have all the Aircraft or Gliders needed, so they had to be very careful about their losses.

In many source books, documentaries, interviews, etc. I can find the sources if you ask politely, but not right now. After their dropping the C47s had to turn North toward the coast, and met heavy 88 Flak there, and many more 20 mm that were moved in position for the occasion, since the Germans had the plans, remember?

Sorry, I'd been mixing up my memories with some other tool now... But I'm still sure I used the LOS too a lot!

UP! Anyone can take pity of a CMBN for Mac buyer and furnish me with the subject of this thread? I asked to BF Tech but haven't yet received any answer: usually if one doesn't speak up against, he should be for! Please?

About this LOS tool, how were we using it in CMX1? Wasn't it just to move your sinngled-God-eye on the map at terrain level, activating the tool, and somewhat knowing if from that position were you able to see a specific spot? That would save a lot of frustration, or eventually will lead to more, I cannot say.

ehehe Well, it seems quite plausible, since in the end they went for that same place with Operation Varsity in March the following year... To go back to the Air fouling up because of the Flak, still they got heavy casualties, especially above Arnhem LZ farther down Oosterbeck...

The problem with the 1AB LZ wasn't just it was some 9 km from its target, it was also the same area used to supply the whole Division: in the end they had to stretch to far to hold their objective and their resupply base and consequently lost them both. An impossible task against two Armored Divisions +.