Sgt.Squarehead

What's the difference? Exactly! More of a T-80U man myself: Hopefully we'll see a few more varieties in a few more of the games. Hell if Steve & Co. were feeling expansive enough we could even have 'em in CM:SF2, Yemen has them.....Just the thing for the inevitable counter-offensive to Riyadh!

And you is King Cnut!

I'll know for sure when I get the book.....I'm definitely going to do at least one model in this scheme now as it's piqued my interest. The other US stuff in my collection is all Pattons (at war), M46 in Korea, M48 in Vietnam (still ongoing), M60 in Kuwait.

The M48's curved Glacis was more graceful.....But grace isn't terribly high on the list of wants for a tank (sadly IMHO).

Well you could always park a tank on them after you have killed them with a mortar, if it makes you feel better!

But damn wasn't it satisfying when you killed one, preferably with a precision mortar round, just to make a point. Me too.....Just about. But I'm odd like that, I can remember watching the first moon landing.....I was six months old.

Yeah, just been reading up on it.....Seems like the Soviets were kind of stuck in Gen-1 for a while. Guess they properly missed the boat on that one and they (or their successors) have been trying to catch up ever since. Only slightly related, but definitely interesting Article.

Well whaddya know, there really was a six-engined Hercules: "During the 60's the Air Force tested a six engine C-130 (4 turbo prop plus 2 jet engine). It was called the NC-130B 58-0712 (L/N 3507).The intention of the design was for a special version of the C-130 called the C-130C STOL (Short Take Off or Landing). But after 23 hours of testing, the Air Force retired the aircraft and turned it over to NASA." https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/40933-nc-130b-58-0712-ln-3507-the-only-6-engine-c-130-made/ But I'm guessing, once again, that's not your bird.

From your description of a feathered prop I'm almost beginning to wonder if it might be an engine test-bed aircraft, so possibly a perfectly normal four engined Hercules, but with pylons adapted to take one or more engines for testing? Quick check suggests that even this is unlikely, as it doesn't seem to be how things are done with a C-130: Unsurprising really as pylons are pylons, whereas engines require engine mounts. What would be the point of adding two more engines to a Hercules? If you need bigger, use a C-17.

AFAIK out of the various US AFVs in the game only the M60 TTS & M1 had thermal imagers, everything else was in the same boat as the Soviets, with Active IR or image intensifiers.

Presumably though, if it can be converted, @benpark's map would be a much, much better place to start than this:

I mostly like the pictures.

Now that will take some masking tape! I've got a couple of M113s in the stash.....Might see if there's a suitable M577 conversion kit and give it a go. PS - What's the base colour? Forest Green? That surely ain't Olive Drab unless there's something funky going on with colour filters. PPS - No worries, tracked down the source of the image: From this rather handy tome: That'll be on my shopping list then.

I was looking for that, but couldn't remember where it was.....Cheers.

Apparently not.....Really hoping we might see them in a CM:RT Vehicle Pack and sooner rather than later. A VP would be a great way to add a whole bunch of interesting vehicles that didn't make the main packs. Then, surely, it has to be time for Kursk!

Ummm.....They have been kind of busy (you might have missed it). But you can bet your last buck they will fix it in due course.

Mods like this really need to go official IMHO.....That is too useful a tool for everyone not to be able to use it (or benefit from it in play).

From a modellers perspective that would be fascinating.....I don't normally do US stuff, but I like anything a bit unusual.

This is somehing that I feel should be given a lot more attention in modern scenarios.....Much stricter parameters and serious Destoy Unit Objectives that massively outweigh those gained for terrain (unless fighting a set-piece batlle for possession of such terrain).

I think we need to chill for a bit and see what Bil & Co. have planned.....There's a risk we could dive into doing something that will be made entirely redundant by a future 'official' module. Also, while our modded efforts can look superficially convincing and feel even more so once you are actually playing them, they are only that.....Any serious examination of our TOE would find all manner of issues. Things will be a LOT better if @37mm remakes H&E using CM:CW (and like I said, once you are actually playing the current CM:H&E, it already feels pretty convincing), but it will never be as perfect as an official module (but nor does it require quite the same workload). PS - And if we're talking northern front then we just gotta have these:

"You need hands!"

Always thought the Abrams looked cool in the MERDC camo schemes.

I've never been excited about waiting to place a pre-order before, can't wait for this month to end. PS - @Battlefront.com really should point their financial managers towards these pages, it looks like there might be something of a sales bonanza ahead!

You'll need those well organised Uncons from CM:A too.