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I'm about to finish research and planning for a 3-4 mission campaign for CMFI set during the two last days of the German evacuation from Sicily and will take place in and around Messina. It will feature both US and CW units as "the Race to Messina" very much is on. It will be based in historic events and situations, but will make the assumption that the Allied vanguard manages to interrupt the last units to evacuate in order to make as big a dent in the German foothold on mainland Italy as possible. For example take out the air/sea defenses to clear the straits for the Navy/Air Force and capture military barracks for information on the retreat and as a grand finale - secure the harbor.
 
I will start by making maps as I want to see what a future module will bring to the table. I'm hoping for British commandos and large caliber AA units.
 
Anyone who has tips on how to best approach a campaign project and avoid uneccessary pitfalls is more than welcome to post here or PM me.
 
In time I will start posting screenshots as maps begin to take shape. The main source I use is an excellent topographical map that the US army made of Messina with high value targets marked.
 
So, patience - be my friend ... I hope I'm not taking on something I can't handle. But no rush.

I'm about to finish research and planning for a 3-4 mission campaign for CMFI set during the two last days of the German evacuation from Sicily and will take place in and around Messina. It will feature both US and CW units as "the Race to Messina" very much is on. It will be based in historic events and situations, but will make the assumption that the Allied vanguard manages to interrupt the last units to evacuate in order to make as big a dent in the German foothold on mainland Italy as possible. For example take out the air/sea defenses to clear the straits for the Navy/Air Force and capture military barracks for information on the retreat and as a grand finale - secure the harbor.
 
I will start by making maps as I want to see what a future module will bring to the table. I'm hoping for British commandos and large caliber AA units.
 
Anyone who has tips on how to best approach a campaign project and avoid uneccessary pitfalls is more than welcome to post here or PM me.
 
In time I will start posting screenshots as maps begin to take shape. The main source I use is an excellent topographical map that the US army made of Messina with high value targets marked.
 
So, patience - be my friend ... I hope I'm not taking on something I can't handle. But no rush.

Speaking of urban sprawl. I'm in the planning/research stages of a "what if" campaign for CMFI set during the last days of the German evacuation from Sicily. I will recreate large parts of Messina. Needless to say it is a long term project.

I hope this is one of the things changed for Battle of Bulge. Rivers and streams in the Ardenness change elevation rapidly. It just wouldn't look right if a stream were all the same height.

I made a mod that fixes this
 
http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=314&func=fileinfo&id=3062.

There is a mod that fixes that in the repository I think. Kieme made one for CMBS which also works for CMRT. Only thing there is no fix for unfortunately is fences.

Speaking of urban sprawl. I'm in the planning/research stages of a "what if" campaign for CMFI set during the last days of the German evacuation from Sicily. I will recreate large parts of Messina. Needless to say it is a long term project.

Like the title says. It will be uploaded within a week.

Like the title says. It will be uploaded within a week.

Like the title says. It will be uploaded within a week.

Like the title says. It will be uploaded within a week.

A straggler group of wounded Germans are hiding in the local church, awaiting rescue. The church sits on a hill overlooking a lake - a vital position to take to observe the German retreat on the other side of it.

 
You command a small recon force whose task it is to as quickly as possible seize the church, a local bridge, destroy the German troops or take POWs who might have valuable information on the retreat. We can't wait for a bigger force to help. Some heavier weapons will arrive soon.

 

 

 
Small/tiny scenario. Soviet vs AI only. Should be ready for play testing in a few weeks.

Advance!
 

Advance!
 

Advance!
 

You can always tune in for ChrisND's Twitch-broadcasts on (some) Sundays. Sometimes he shares some news, and even show games in the making before it turns up on the official homepage. He gave glimpses of Black Sea there first. Huowever, as stated above maybe they hesitate to do that with Bulge. There is a thread somewhere, can't remember now which, that shows of some of the vehicle models. Looks really good.

Italy has a pretty good one (also called geoportail, or something very similar). Edit: this - http://www.pcn.minambiente.it/GN/en/?lan=en
 
for the Netherlands there's this http://watwaswaar.nl/
 
For Germany this is useful: http://lib.byu.edu/collections/german-maps/ (there's a reference map in there somewhere, which helps finding the map you're after)
 
Holland has this, although the alphabetical listing makes finding the right map a bit problematic: http://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo:18976/-/collection
 
and this: http://ncap.org.uk/browse/map#zoom=1&lat=3737541.20636&lon=-2389065.59639&layers=BT (zoom in on one of the circled numbers in the area you're interested in to get closer and closer to exactly what you want)

Sometimes I miss the fact that I have more artillery assets than the max five that can be shown, especially if the briefing isn't clear on the point or when reinforcements arrive and I don't pay enough attention ( ) . Most of the time I realize the fact, but then I miss out on the chance of using it for preplanned missions on turn one. So I asked Juju for permission (granted, thank you) to make a slight change to the button that shows more assets, so that is sticks out more. I added a red border to make it appear from the background better. I used more or less the same red color as the texts and the red the arrow changes to when moused over. I think the border also makes the arrow less confused at a quick glance to the green dots for tubes.
 
If you think it will help you as well it is attatched to this message. Put in Juju's UI folder, buttons and support roster buttons and remove the old one. It also works for CMFI and CMRT.
 

roster right arrow.bmp

I'm still slaving away, here's another one on the horizon.
 

 

 

 

Sorry, site is in Swedish. Check in full-screen mode and fast forward to 1:45 for the "main" action 
http://feber.se/video/art/332305/stridsvagn_sladdar_s_hrt_att_d/

Well, at the risk of bunglin' OPSEC for the PBEM I'll just have to satisfy your curiosity:
 
My opponent has been going cross country trying to reach a natural bottleneck formed by two lakes. I've got better  cover but the terrain favors the Panzer IV's ability to get firing solutions faster. 
 
  Engaging Panzer IVs at 2km is not recommended:     Luckily I woke up and started to use that cover to my advantage, I've reached the bottleneck before him as well by using masked routes of advance I lovingly call this 'The corner'.           We're both about 4 tanks down, but he's also lost quite a bit of extraneous vehicles. Something tells me niether of our infantry will come into play for a while yet, and hopefully only to mop up shattered Panzergrenadiers clinging to treelines - but its still anyone's game.  

I will be re-launching The Proving Grounds in the near future if that will help some of you guys.
 

And there I was, saying it was never going to happen, but it's almost there: TweakedUI v5 is just about finished. For CM:BN users there's but a single new Bren gun icon, but CM:FI users can soon enjoy a fully compatible version of TweakedUI! Here are the new (WIP!) previews:
 

 

I might run some tests to find out.

The perils of missing the one shot you had: