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As far as I know, nothing relevant has changed.  The 20% increase added for UK purchases means either:
Battlefront were paying VAT before on digital sales to UK consumers, adjusting the base price of the product to make the final price the same between US/EU markets, and have now decided to increase their prices by 20% for the UK. Battlefront were not paying VAT before on sales to UK consumers, and now they are.

When people are playing computer games all day they aren't working.  It's the same with smiling at old ladies.
A tax of this sort is not charged on imports which will be sold on to consumers, it is charged at the point of sale (or paid and reclaimed), and not charged twice on the same product.  It is charged on all consumer products which are not exempt for one reason or another (basic food items or sanitary products for example).  It is a tax designed to adjust with spending on consumer good, but not affect businesses.
UK purchasers were in fact getting Battlefront games tax-free up to now it seems, giving Battlefront an advantage over other sellers.

A breach team / engineers can make an opening in a sloped roof or any upper floor where you might want a "window".  
To Blast through an exterior wall, above ground level place the Blast waypoint outside on the ground in the desired direction of the Blast. This also works for sloped roof/walls. The graphics will not show blast damage to a sloped roof/wall but you are now able to Target out of it after the Blast.  Or just spot out. 

Note that the troops will not run thru the demo'd wall as they do when at ground level or if blasting a wall thru to another room at the same level.  

Or use the infantry-only rifle companies that have organic javelin squads, and add Strykers.  Not perfect either of course.

And right here is one of the issues with this forum.  While there are things that CM does that differentiate them from other games, CM is not alone is making "realistic tactical  and brilliant games".  Off the top of my head, there are the Graviteam games, which have a decent following and beat BFC to Steam by close to a decade.  Steel Beasts have a good following of people who use it as a combined arms simulator/game.
I play a lot of tactical combat games, including the above mentioned, as well as CM.  I own every CM game and module, as well as owning several of them multiple times.  Up until five of six  years ago, I played CM almost exclusively as my ground combat go-to game.   But over those more recent years, I have started playing other games as they have grown and, in many ways, surpassed CM overall. 
There are other very good games out there.  But there are people on this forum who are so heavily vested in CM, they are blind to anything else going on.  They have built their online social life around it.  Their hobby isn't wargaming, its CM.  And they will defend BFC regardless of how things are going.  It has created an insular community with a motto of "BFC or Death".  Forum conversations have become very focused on defending CM or BFC against all comers.  The only issue with that is all comers is becoming no comers.  It seems the majority of the discussion has become either John Kettler-like discussions or The Empower Has No Clothes around issues with CM.
I still come back periodically to see what's going on and hope that CMRT or CMBS module news floats out.  But I find myself being less and less enthused about it.  Reading other wargaming forums, I know I'm not alone.  The regulars here think there is only a small minority of detractors for BFC's performance.  That's because the people on other wargaming and gaming forums, who used to be regulars here,  stopped caring a while ago.

Firstly links which should fit you bill exactly, especially the first one:
  "The Russian Way of War" (2016):  https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/Hot Spots/Documents/Russia/2017-07-The-Russian-Way-of-War-Grau-Bartles.pdf
  "Russian New Generation Warfare Handbook" (2016):  https://www.multibriefs.com/briefs/rcaa/Russian_New_Generation_Warfare_Handbook.pdf
  "The Tanks of August" a set of essays on the Russia-Georgia war in 2008 (2010): https://css.ethz.ch/en/services/digital-library/publications/publication.html/119867
  "'Lessons Learned' from the Russo-Ukrainian War (2015):  https://prodev2go.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/rus-ukr-lessons-draft.pdf
  "Learning Lessons from the Ukraine Conflict (2019):  https://nsiteam.com/social/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/NS-D-10367-Learning-Lessons-from-Ukraine-Conflict-Final.pdf
  "Lessons from Russia's Operations in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine" (2017): https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR1400/RR1498/RAND_RR1498.pdf
 
Secondly stuff that might be a little outside it:
  "Russia Military Power" (2017):  https://www.dia.mil/Portals/27/Documents/News/Military Power Publications/Russia Military Power Report 2017.pdf
  "Cyber War in Perspective, Russian Agression Against Ukraine" (2015):  https://ccdcoe.org/uploads/2018/10/CyberWarinPerspective_full_book.pdf
  "The Bear Went Over the Mountain" (1996), based on "Combat Actions of Soviet Forces in the Republic of Afghanistan" (1991), translated into English with additional commentary, was for internal use by the Russian military/military academia to learn lessons from the war, with information gleaned via interviews of military personell.  It might be a useful primer on the problems they were trying to solve as they transitioned into the Russian Federation: https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a316729.pdf
  "The Other Side of the Mountain" (1996, with thanks to Sgt. Squarehead for the suggestion), companion to the above book told from the Mujahideen perspective, again from direct interview and personal experience:  https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a376862.pdf
  "The Russian Way of War: Post Soviet Adaptations in the Russian Military" (2013):  https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA599655.pdf
  "Russian Forces in the Western Military District (2020, posted in the forums recently by Ikalugin):  https://www.cna.org/CNA_files/PDF/IOP-2020-U-028759-Final.pdf
  "Russia's Military Strategy and Doctrine" (2019):  https://jamestown.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Russias-Military-Strategy-and-Doctrine-web.pdf?x30898&x87069

Firstly links which should fit you bill exactly, especially the first one:
  "The Russian Way of War" (2016):  https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/Hot Spots/Documents/Russia/2017-07-The-Russian-Way-of-War-Grau-Bartles.pdf
  "Russian New Generation Warfare Handbook" (2016):  https://www.multibriefs.com/briefs/rcaa/Russian_New_Generation_Warfare_Handbook.pdf
  "The Tanks of August" a set of essays on the Russia-Georgia war in 2008 (2010): https://css.ethz.ch/en/services/digital-library/publications/publication.html/119867
  "'Lessons Learned' from the Russo-Ukrainian War (2015):  https://prodev2go.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/rus-ukr-lessons-draft.pdf
  "Learning Lessons from the Ukraine Conflict (2019):  https://nsiteam.com/social/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/NS-D-10367-Learning-Lessons-from-Ukraine-Conflict-Final.pdf
  "Lessons from Russia's Operations in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine" (2017): https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR1400/RR1498/RAND_RR1498.pdf
 
Secondly stuff that might be a little outside it:
  "Russia Military Power" (2017):  https://www.dia.mil/Portals/27/Documents/News/Military Power Publications/Russia Military Power Report 2017.pdf
  "Cyber War in Perspective, Russian Agression Against Ukraine" (2015):  https://ccdcoe.org/uploads/2018/10/CyberWarinPerspective_full_book.pdf
  "The Bear Went Over the Mountain" (1996), based on "Combat Actions of Soviet Forces in the Republic of Afghanistan" (1991), translated into English with additional commentary, was for internal use by the Russian military/military academia to learn lessons from the war, with information gleaned via interviews of military personell.  It might be a useful primer on the problems they were trying to solve as they transitioned into the Russian Federation: https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a316729.pdf
  "The Other Side of the Mountain" (1996, with thanks to Sgt. Squarehead for the suggestion), companion to the above book told from the Mujahideen perspective, again from direct interview and personal experience:  https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a376862.pdf
  "The Russian Way of War: Post Soviet Adaptations in the Russian Military" (2013):  https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA599655.pdf
  "Russian Forces in the Western Military District (2020, posted in the forums recently by Ikalugin):  https://www.cna.org/CNA_files/PDF/IOP-2020-U-028759-Final.pdf
  "Russia's Military Strategy and Doctrine" (2019):  https://jamestown.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Russias-Military-Strategy-and-Doctrine-web.pdf?x30898&x87069

Firstly links which should fit you bill exactly, especially the first one:
  "The Russian Way of War" (2016):  https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/Hot Spots/Documents/Russia/2017-07-The-Russian-Way-of-War-Grau-Bartles.pdf
  "Russian New Generation Warfare Handbook" (2016):  https://www.multibriefs.com/briefs/rcaa/Russian_New_Generation_Warfare_Handbook.pdf
  "The Tanks of August" a set of essays on the Russia-Georgia war in 2008 (2010): https://css.ethz.ch/en/services/digital-library/publications/publication.html/119867
  "'Lessons Learned' from the Russo-Ukrainian War (2015):  https://prodev2go.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/rus-ukr-lessons-draft.pdf
  "Learning Lessons from the Ukraine Conflict (2019):  https://nsiteam.com/social/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/NS-D-10367-Learning-Lessons-from-Ukraine-Conflict-Final.pdf
  "Lessons from Russia's Operations in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine" (2017): https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR1400/RR1498/RAND_RR1498.pdf
 
Secondly stuff that might be a little outside it:
  "Russia Military Power" (2017):  https://www.dia.mil/Portals/27/Documents/News/Military Power Publications/Russia Military Power Report 2017.pdf
  "Cyber War in Perspective, Russian Agression Against Ukraine" (2015):  https://ccdcoe.org/uploads/2018/10/CyberWarinPerspective_full_book.pdf
  "The Bear Went Over the Mountain" (1996), based on "Combat Actions of Soviet Forces in the Republic of Afghanistan" (1991), translated into English with additional commentary, was for internal use by the Russian military/military academia to learn lessons from the war, with information gleaned via interviews of military personell.  It might be a useful primer on the problems they were trying to solve as they transitioned into the Russian Federation: https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a316729.pdf
  "The Other Side of the Mountain" (1996, with thanks to Sgt. Squarehead for the suggestion), companion to the above book told from the Mujahideen perspective, again from direct interview and personal experience:  https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a376862.pdf
  "The Russian Way of War: Post Soviet Adaptations in the Russian Military" (2013):  https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA599655.pdf
  "Russian Forces in the Western Military District (2020, posted in the forums recently by Ikalugin):  https://www.cna.org/CNA_files/PDF/IOP-2020-U-028759-Final.pdf
  "Russia's Military Strategy and Doctrine" (2019):  https://jamestown.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Russias-Military-Strategy-and-Doctrine-web.pdf?x30898&x87069

No thanks, very informative and interesting as far as I'm concerned.

No thanks, very informative and interesting as far as I'm concerned.

No thanks, very informative and interesting as far as I'm concerned.

No thanks, very informative and interesting as far as I'm concerned.

Aaron Amick/Jive Turkey, an ex-US Navy submariner who makes youtube videos on naval warfare topics and livestreams mainly naval/air games, has just finished a sponsored live-stream of CMSF2:
 

Platoon commander level co-operative play is about number one for me.

I am frustrated by my surmise these are in fact bugs, in part due to the thread by RobZ, and:
I believe the main gun on a MBT would be hard to knock out in real life, since it occupies such a small area from the front, and would be at an extreme angle of attack if from the near front.  Other shots (from the side for instance) would likely be directed at the mass of the tank.
To put a barrel out of action would I imagine require significant damage, since it is effectively a tube.
The chances of loosing a main gun when hit by an autocannon seem to be very high.  In the aforementioned mission, my Oplots lost their gun in perhaps 50% of cases where a BMP (3M?) autocannon hit them from the front.  Other systems were degraded the more hits were taken, and lost on occasion, but the main gun was always at great risk.  These were normally head-on encounters, normally with neither attacker nor defender hull-down.
Furthermore my frustration was compounded by the fact that my Oplots seemed to have baked bean juice on their optics, since they would take significant (minutes on occasion) time to spot BMPs showing the vast majority of their hulls while ordered to look directly at them.  And finally by the fact that I will likely not see this bug fixed wihout paying for an "engine upgrade".  This however is not the place for a discussion on the latter point, on which I concede the fact that the game remains frustratingly moreish, despite the achingly slow progress on the engine.

Another day another interesting post by John Kettler!