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OK Greetings . The story so far. And it's looking lood. Having prayed to the almighty pentium and sacrificed a Hewlet Packard we through two virgins down the well, just for good measure..such nice girls too!. Started CMMOS and we had our dialogue box request us to find the CMBO file.. well we cancelled that. Then we were asked to find the CMBB file but first we need to get the Barbarossa to Berlin file in the box bottom RH side. so we cancelled again. Then we changed the letterbox to read 'Barbarossa to Berlin. OK so we were asked to find the exec file. (Not going to get hung up on that one) OK so C\Program Files\CMBB. Open it up, find the little tank icon. Click. Error message comes up.. "No rule sets.." Well thats OK as we havn't downloaded any yet. So we close CMMOS and go to where we have saved the rule sets and mod downloads. Now I know this is all very pedantic but if anyone else out there has problems hopefully they can follow the trail. Now rulesets loaded. Click on CMMOS Wow! theres a dialogue box with a rule set tab. Then Download a mod. Open CMMOS. Wow there's an icon. OK so lets look in our GEM Software file which is in C\Program files\Gem Software Products. Hey look at this we have a folder titled CMBB and inside are some file lists and a mod! and a Rule set. Are we getting somewhere? Small steps leading to giant leaps. Back to CMMOS. Click on the icon. Dialogue box up. Apply. Wait. In the bottom left hand corner something is moving could it be applying the mod? So we start the game. Load the graphics and wait. What's this. A line of nice T34's all in white winter camoflage. Those sweet little virgins!. Let's just see if it was a one off. Back to CMMOS. Configure. New rule set and another mod. Open game, loading graphics. Bang. there's a group of PZIII's all done up in their best whitewashed winter wear. Phillipe you'r a genius. Now Ive not tried to reverse the process and get the machines back to their summer wear but the icon is there and I have no reason to doubt it shouldn't work. I do have a Sviarnik rule set loaded and a mod for a dusty truck and the icon is still crossed off? I don't know why that should be. But when you look in the Gem File all the rules sets are visible as are the Zip files for the mods I have loaded. They are inside a file marked CMBB. Well I must thank you for your help. It was a learning curve but at least I don't feel quite so conceptually diconnected as I was. Hope others can learn from this exercise as well. With such a great game I must say I cannot think why Battlefront did not include winter wear for the game. It was after all an integral part of the campaign. Overall they seem to have done a great job. But thanks to all those modders out there who are making it even better. "Adversity is not without comfort or hope". Regards.

Phillipe, having read and digested your reply and having done a search OK I've started from scratch. Yes I had been intimidated by Bill Gates' minions and had put CMBB in a Games folder. I thought they were doing me a favour!I had also put CMMOS in the same folder! Bad mistake. I have downloaded CMMOS 4.03. So now we are installed in the right place underC:\Program files\CMMBO. And CMMOS is also installed with Icon in C:|Program files. So far so good. How am I going? That bad uh! Now that is far as I'm prepared to go at this moment because I know that when I first run CMMOS it's going to ask me to locate my CMBB executable file. ( Para. 4 in the Users manual) This is where I suffer from "conceptual disconnect". I like that phrase sums up my situation nicely. The user manual tells me that this is called Barbarossa to Berlin.exe But where will I find that file? In the CMBB folder? (A search told me it was in Windows Prefetch.. but that's a furphy that leaves me as clueless as you were) I'd really appreciate your help here. Yes I've done all the wrong things to date. as you said I have had rulesets and no icons and icons X'd out. I've had the program loaded but it had no effect upon the game. The log file is obviously useful. Now I know it exists. I can see the CMMOS program would enable much more to be had from the game. So I wait upon your leisure. "The Gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity".

Thanks for that Phillipe I'm much obliged. Sorry if the post was clueless, I guess I am a bit clueless when it comes to this new technology. However I take your advice and hope to do better. "O brave new world that has such people in it"

G'day. I have just discovered this game and I'm hooked!I have also downloaded CMMOS. Lots of lovely mods that make the game historical, making accurate looking vehicle and with correct camouflage. However I need help please. I just cannot get the damn thing to work for me! Having read the manual and installed and uninstalled the program. I seem to have problems locating my executable file which is in Windows prefetch. But I cannot click onto that file and I am finding that the loaded mods don't seem to load up in the game. Anyone more computer savvy than me offer assistance?