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Cold War - Middle East with new terrain and new forces.
Cold War - Nordic with new terrain, winter and new forces.
Ah, the possibilities
Dreaming!

Cold War - Middle East with new terrain and new forces.
Cold War - Nordic with new terrain, winter and new forces.
Ah, the possibilities
Dreaming!

At least Combat Mission Starship Troopers can be released with plenty of bugs so we all can do our part!
 
 
 
 

I want Combat Mission: Star Trek.
Gimme Bajoran resistance fighters against Cardassians. Or Starfleet against the Dominion. Or the Borg. That way you won't have to worry about "Borg spotting" 

To be as clear as possible:
Cold War will release through Battlefront (BFC) in April as a completed game. All features, assets, and normal playability and functions will be present. This includes the PBEM/multiplayer functionality as it is with every other CM game. 
In June, Slitherine will release Cold War on Steam. That release will come with a new mulitplayer feature, the Slitherine PBEM system.
Between April and June, the Slitherine PBEM feature will be developed by Slitherine and added to Cold War. Players who own the game from BFC will have the opportunity to try out the new PBEM features and report back on any bugs they encounter.

I won't lie....every morning my alarm gets me up a 530AM.  First thing I do is look here for any sign of release.
2 weeks left!

Well I'll do the correct thing and buy it here, then activate it on steam.
Then I'll buy a second copy on steam as a gift for a buddy of mine.
Then I'll force him to play it.

We're good either way.

Sounds like we will roll into Germany with T-72's before we get the opportunity to do the same with T-34.
 
 

Oh please not here! You know how it will ends!
 
And I will never get my answer from benbark...

Since you insist on continuing this  off topic discussion.
I don't think fighting Nazis offers the Soviet military a clean slate for their acts of aggression and crimes against not only their own people but their neighbours. 
Neither do I equate the Allies whose acts were committed against targets with the intention of ending the war and freeing the people or Europe with that of the  Soviet Union who deliberately targeted the peoples of Poland and the Baltics  with acts of mass murderer to terrify them into submission. All the while allied with the Nazis. It's frankly absurd to try equate the two.
Sorry your  "we're great because we fought Nazis, after being content to first align with them, and because our crimes against humanity didn't quite match theirs " argument doesn't fly with me. 
You are of course entitled to your opinion.
 
 

Sorry, I didn't see that comment, or I might have said something.
For the record, I'm anti-Communist myself, but I deeply respect the great sacrifice the Soviet people made to defeat a much more dangerous enemy; and I also feel grieved and conflicted by the terrible civilian casualties we, the Western Allies, inflicted on the civilian populations of Germany and Japan (my ex-father-in-law was a child at the fire-bombing of Tokyo).
I generally don't play as the 'bad guys' either - I'd much rather play CMRT as Soviets than as Germans.
Anyway - it's normal to get emotional about historical events from time to time, but let's all stay friends because we all have a great geeky hobby in common 😛

What CM needs is ingame tools to make every game session look like Bil H. AAR's
After reading all those excellent AAR from Bil (and others) it just feels like I am playing CM the wrong way!

Yes, but you were the one who sent the emails, and therefore had a large part in our genesis. Ergo, you're the official 42nd member of the 41, lol!

That's the problem.  I love the Western Front, but it's the Volvo.
The Eastern Front is a BMW.

For me it was the Close Combat games. I played all of them when I was younger and liked them immensely. I always wondered what they would be like in a 3D engine and with competent AI and then in 2017 I found CMBN and my questions were answered. I only wish that CM had the same kind of operational level game that Close Combat does but the tactical combat blows CC out of the water.

HOLY F!!!  I just rec'd my CMCW license key! 
Now if I could just put the day job on hold for month...

Not even remotely fair? 😃 Some examples...
June 1, 2018
Steve: The one you're all interested in is the first Module for CMRT.  Let me tell you a bit about it. When will it be available to you?  As always we have to be vague about it, however we're very sure it will be before the end of the year. 
Steve: It's been in the works for a significant amount of time already.  Most of the forces have already been plugged in and all of the vehicle models are done.  As you can see from the snapshot of the Berlin map, there's been substantial work done on the scenario side of things already.  What's really helping is that the CMRT Module doesn't require much internal development resources at this stage, which in turn means it's not being held up by CMSF2 or CMFI R2V work (or vice versa).
July 11,2019
MikeyD: The CMRT and CMFI modules have been 'almost complete' for awhile. Much of the CMRT module artwork was finished 2 1/2 years ago.
 
 

It's not that type of tablet
https://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/pen-tablets/wacom-intuos-pro

Glorious March to Victory, Final Post - "Like Tears in Rain"
Well big thank you to all who watched.  I figure I should stop leaving you all hanging, so we cease fired on the last turn (33 I believe).  Now take the end-screen with a grain of salt:

So first off there was a dumb double-accounting error for the Soviet side.  Basically the parameters were:
En Cas 50% = 50 VPs
En Condition 50% = 50 VPs
Dollbach Village = 100 VPs.
The error was the Soviets had another 100 VPs for having fewer than/better than 50% cas/cond, so I subtracted that because if we had paid attention Bil was above 50% too.  So the score was really 100 because I held the town.  (Note, also a small error in that his M150s were counted as tanks...a bug we noted for fixing)
The outstanding question is "could Bil have reduced me to 50% without going there himself"...that one is tougher.   So for Soviets:
215 men: lost 71 = 33%
17 Tanks: lost 10 = 58%
17 AFVs: lost 9 = 53%
For the US:
138 men: lost 56 = 40.5%
12 Tanks: lost 6 = 50%
17 AFVs (also counting his mortar carriers): Lost 6 = 35%
So this was by no stretch a "Total Victory", that was straight up on us for not checking the victory parameters.  I hold the village but given the drubbing I received in taking it, I am not sure I can put a statue up in Red Square for this either.  Add to this the fact I started with a lot more men and tanks, it starts to push the whole thing into Draw territory to my mind.  
Now Bil had much better arty, had air (I had none) and EW which made my arty next to useless without TRPs (which I did not have) so there is that.  And my starting position was not the best but it is a poor craftsman that blames the workbench.  
I will let you all judge for yourselves.  Regardless, was a helluva fight, the kind that comes around only every so often,  and we are all working to get you guys a chance at it yourselves soon enough.
 

This is my computer. There are many like it but this one is mine. My computer is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my computer is useless. Without my computer I am useless.
:)

Key. When I was a FIST chief (Cold War game time frame) the infantry company commander I supported, when I first met him, told me, "If I turn around and don't bump into you, you are not close enough" He wanted me and my radio close enough so that all he had to do was reach out and touch to get the fire support he needed because he wasn't about to attack anything without suppression.
This was late 70s, but it applies at any period or theater. And being in the 82d we acted more like WW2 infantry probably. We walked a lot. We just arrived in style 🙂
Dave

Just to make the old joke again: When it is ready.
Be patient. Normally we wait years for a new title and now it’s only months.😎

A The Night of the Refresh Monkeys...that brings back memories.
I will let BFC-central answer most of this but I can say we are on track with the initial announcement:  in Apr, post-Easter.

Set troops to fanatic. Voila, you have a bunch of drugged up lunatics.