Sgt.Squarehead

Now you are talking. Traveller 2300 would be great too: PS - Among the countless things stashed up in my attic are every official item for both of the above games (& quite a few others besides).

I don't have anywhere to display my finished builds, so they either get packed into box-files and stored or given away.....I used to have a fairly extensive collection of build pictures on PB, but we all know how that ended (I think I may still have the originals on a dead PC). Here's the only thing I can get my hands on without mounting a bit of an expedition: M4A2 'Cecilia', 1st Platoon, C Company, 2nd Marine Tank Battalion, Tarawa, November 1943. That's actually basically the ancient (50+ year old) Airfix 1/76 kit: But I did a bit of work on it.....There are only 7-9 Airfix parts left, althought they are mostly fairly big ones. In total I used seventeen different kits and aftermaket sets to build this, basically it's as accurate as I could make it: https://www.theshermantank.com/tag/tarawa/ There are no pictures of 'Cecilia' herself so I used this image of 'Colorado' as my main reference and I also received some very welcome advice from Steve Zaloga who had recently built the model visible at the link above. Sadly this where the tale goes downhill a bit.....If you look at the image above, you'll note there's an exhaust deflector below the fuel can rack. I just couldn't figure out how it was constructed and attached, so I asked for help on Missing Lynx and the model went on hold until the problem was solved (sound familiar at all)? Steve sent me the drawings, but I never got round to making the deflector.....I'd already moved on to other newer & more exciting things. PS - The name should probably be in white, not yellow, blame Dragon.....I nicked their decals.

That lot's my 1/48 collection, under a table in the spare room (our dining room is a kit free zone). Then there's the modern(ish) stuff in the bedroom.....Started off like this: But soon: & right now: The few 1/35 modern kits had to be relocated to some shelving along with all the resin kits and my small collection of 1/72 nuclear howitzers.....Recently I've had a bit of a thing for tank transporters, I have seven or eight of them now (oh, and huge airfield fire-engines, I like those too). I couldn't even begin to describe what's up in the attic! PS - Apologies to @kohlenklau for the huge wander off topic.....You did ask for pictures!

Bravo! That would be a good result for an experienced player. Don't expect the bad guys to surrender like that in all CM:SF2 scenarios. We await you in the old city, infidel!

It can be (fairly) reliably done in CM:SF2.....Guess what I use? Hint: Apparently @kohlenklau has come up with some means to do it in CM:RT, I'm rather intrigued to know how, because I wouldn't have a scooby?

Huge IEDs crater something like four (possibly seven) tiles, not sure which exactly but it's BIG hole!

Couple of additional notes to @kohlenklau's comments above: If you want a Footpath through a forested area to be traversable by vehicles, it is best to use only Light Forest (or other tiles that vehicles can enter) in any tile that contains your path.....While Footpaths (or Streams) normally make all manner of impassible terrain including cliffs (& Deep Marsh Tiles) passible, the 'Doodads' in Heavy Forest seem to be able to block the path for vehicles, particularly on diagonal sections.

What a SUPER deal!! D'you see what I did there? Now.....About that 'Newer, New Stuff':

8m x 8m.

However it is owned by the (notoriously litigous) Steve Jackson Games IIRC.

I suspect it'll be back in the future, just as soon as both sides figure out who really owns their software and exactly what it's actually doing. PS - Just discovered something kind of fun while making this post, purely by accident.....CM:A appears to queue sound files at mission start and Alt+Tabbing out appears to pause the playlist. I had made a screenshot of my TacMap for another thread and when I jumped back into my scenario I was greeted with a resounding cheer from my Mujahideen! PPS - At least I think they were cheering.....

An approximate schedule of VPs is often appreciated as it guides the player in how to allocate his efforts:

1950s & 1960s heavy tanks rock.....We really need them in CM:CW. Hull down (if that's possible with a mobile cathedral) Conquerors & M103s slugging it out with hordes of IS-3Ms & T-10s.....Who wouldn't want to play that? PS - Just imagine the noise!

Nope wrong again! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMD-3 It's the BMD-4 and BMD-4M that have the twin cannon arrangement. The video starts with a BMD-3 then shows wht looks like a BTR-D being loaded onto the aircraft, before showing either a BMD-1 or BMD-2 being dropped out of another aircraft, finally returning a BMD-3 for the landing.

Most of my projects are for the modern games.....I've only got two WWII projects on the go, 'Merry Xmas Fritz!' with Soviet Partisans & the Italian Partisan experimental scenario. I spent most of last night testing the former to see just how good the Partisans actually are at sneaking.....I'm trying to make the scenario at least somewhat reactive using triggers, but I don't want the triggers to be unreasonably arbritrary, so I spent ages watching pixelpartisans crawling & sneaking as far into the map as they could along the most likely avenues of approach and then revising my trigger zones to match: I was so impressed by how well they did that I made some semi-official enquiries as whether they get some sort of bonus.....Apparently not, but damn they can be sneaky (& irritatingly a bit myopic at the same time). PS - There are probably forty plus Partisans in that image.....Can you see them? PPS - If you want a copy of the map to experiment with I'd be happy to send it, I'm quite pleased with the look of it and I've engineered some challenges into it.....It's available in 1943 Mode (Mostly Pristine), or 1944 Mode (Bomber Command Was Here!).

Good read JK (by NI standards), cheers for the link.

But where are the 'eyes' and 'teeth'?

TBH my modelling has been very much neglected since I got back into CM.....I need to clear a proper space and install a couple of work stations with proper lighting and an air-brush booth with better extraction than my current setup. PS - There's more than one kit in about 1/3 of the boxes, almost all the Dragon boxes contain between 2 & 3 kits. PPS - Note also all the work-boxes with various stalled projects (not sure if you can see it, but the top left is the Bike from Akira scratchbuilt in 1/72), I'm just the same with modelling as I am with scenario design.....Too many projects, mostly hung up while I 'problem-solve' (normally problems of my own creation or imagination).

That's pushing it a bit! The Soviets had a major hindrance to advanced tank design too.....Kruschev.

I have a fairly extensive 1/72 WWII collection:

That's harsh.....I've always been fond of the Pattons, they're just so 'Post-WWII America'.

Don't think Vulcans reload.....It's effectively one big continuous belt AFAIK (linkless feed system).

But not enormously unlike the Leopard 2s they will work alongside, eh? Their upgraded Leopard 2PL looks kind of cool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_2PL Not sure if the Abrams deal will scupper the full scale production of this vehicle.....This project has taken a while.