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I have said before that the TUSK M1's should have some of their loadout changed to HE just to give them a boost to anti-infantry. After you play with the Syrian tanks (which have HE) it's hard to go back to just HEAT which can't take out whole squads and destroy buildings with ease.

Perhapse it's due to needing vehicle access to the base? Or maybe they need to build the OP next to a settlement?

I was having a look at the current French army and read about the new Felin system which is like the infantry upgrade the US was doing but seems to have stalled. They're actually sending this stuff out on the field apparently which means that standard French soldiers will be covered in hi-tech stuff if they keep going. Helmets with HUD and NV built in, infantry weapons with NV/thermal/helmetlinked camera sights as standard, computer systems intergrated into the armor that links every solider into a network. It sounds like the stuff from the GRAW games but apparently it's real and they're equiping it now.

The WW1 TBs (the ones in Jutland) are a completley different kind of boat, fast displacment hull boats with torpedo launchers and light guns. The larger versions of these boats are commonly called destroyers and in WW2 the destroyers made up almost all of the TB class. The MTB appeared towards the end of WW1 (it's not in Jutland) tiny often planing-hull boats with usually only 2 tubes built into the hull. These are the boats that people would think of when they thought of torpedo boats today.

Ohhh we have just got to get these in the game!

It is in Australia for some reason.

Canned mission in all versions so far and most likely in the BFC one too.

Back when it came out in Russia people were complaining about there being no areas of damage (you hit the boat or you don't, no subsystems). Your boat (and the other boats) had a trio of damage types (fire, engine, something else) and a health bar (boat sinks when it's out of health). Is the more recent releases/version better in this aspect, the more recent videos do still show a health bar for your boat? I agree with your main complaint that trying to turn the game into a Battlestation's:Midway game is bad for the sim.

The AH-64D doesn't in real life as far I know but the one in CM:SF certainly does, first bar works better on armor and the second works better infantry.

Except for the aircraft that don't have guns or rockets or the helicopter that has 2 types of gun ammo etc... etc... Hopefully tooltips or something will be avalable in NATO/Normandy.

I don't know what's going to come out from BFC, remember all the "fixing" ToW got before it came out on BFC in good shape.

The dev ran into trouble a good while back and it looked like it was fish food. Then 1C picked it up but at a cost to the game, the good news: the games come out, the bad news: the origonal PT sim is now buried under a Battlestations:Midway'ish game. Apparently that was 1C's fault according to a dev on a Russian forum. Some of the origonal stuff for the sim is still there to an extent but allot's missing or inactive, the game is very moddable though. It's already out in allot of places in various forms (it's even out in Australia at the game stores, I saw it last week and was very surprised!). Reviews are unfavourable from what I've read, the main reason being what I wrote above and that what the game is now isn't all that great. Akella have broken off from 1C I've read and are making a Medateranian expansion that is more like the origonal idea hopefully.

Ohhh I like the loading music it's simple and catchy, haven't really listened to the main menu music though.

I just want to tell BFC good luck, we're all counting on you (to make CMx2 Normandy on time).

Empire: Total War was pretty messed up. Halo 2 and 3 were so "meh" compared to the first one. I don't think it would be entirely unfair to put CM:SF v1.00 on this list.

This thread's going Peng shaped fast.

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I think of world wars as a sereis of seperate wars that intertwine and the first war of WW2 started in 1937. Can we get some pics of Normandy anyway?

Would they wear a different fabric if fighting with a modern army?

Which smoke mod?

1: Not that I know of. 2: Normandy will most likely add fire, having flamethrowers and all.

CMx1 had operations which are different than campaigns. Campaigns are senarios chained together.

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Vehicel's haunted, end of story.