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You know the definition of Cossacks? A bunch of inebriated thugs who will "courageously" attack half their number. But only if their enemy are women and children who are mortally wounded and preferably already dead!

Maybe they would be of some use on the steppes. Kind of a modern day equivalent of Cossack light cavalry perhaps.? Light, fast vehicles in a reconnaissance/raiding/exploitation role. Not really there to fight head to head although with an ATGM maybe they could harass like the 1980s NATO "3 men and a jeep concept

If BF go the Middle East again I would love to see them include Israelis, Turks. Egyptians, Iranians and others. The could even include Russian expedtionary forcesThat however would mean a great many expansions - for which no doubt many of us would be happy to pay However I would be even more interested in a Far East game. Although maybe India and Pakistan might be included in a Middle East scenario depending on how loosely you wish to define the Middle East

By the way do Russian MREs come with a Vodka ration?

My cat would greatly appreciate the canned tuna

I would love to help but, sadly, I cannot gauruntee to commit the time right now due to course work

Ths looks interesting but requires further research to confrm. For which, sadly, I don;t really have the time right now .

You might find this very useful https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/last-victory-in-russia-george-m-nipe/1111951643

As an interim measure, just updating the current CM game to BS standards would be good. Making Ant aircraft weapons function as such would be more than welcome. As would adding drones and relevant additional terrain (rivers, maybe railways)

Not quite Ukraine. For those who don't know the Suwalki Gap is the strip of territory between Belorussia and the Kaliningrad Oblast running along the border between Poland and Lithuania http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/nato-s-vulnerable-link-in-europe-poland-s-suwalki-gap http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/why-suwalki-gap-keeps-top-u-s-general-europe-night-n469471 This link has a nice little video that gives us some idea of the terrain in the area http://www.news.com.au/world/europe/the-suwalki-gap-the-potential-european-flashpoint-vladimir-putin-is-keeping-a-close-eye-on/news-story/eb51cce0c50f06949a16f9370779338e Wikipedia gives some further background information including a map of the region The idea of a Russian attempt at a takeover of the area (either as part of an escalation.of the existing Ukraine conflict or as a seperate conflict involving a Russian invasion of the Baltic States http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/nato-aims-be-more-responsive-wake-russian-aggression-n266956 We don't yet have NATO units for the Very High Readiness Task Force but we can do a US infantry contingent based on deployments of 101st or 82nd Airborne. Potentialy 10th Mountain Division might also be deployed, elements of the Division (10th Combat Aviation Brigade) having deployed to Eastern Europe as part of Atlantic Resolve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th_Mountain_Division#Readiness_controversy

Might bean idea there Sarge!

Somehow we managed it - but was it a Bridge too Far?

True. The problem is that things are happening so fast at the moment.

One fortification type I would like to see is an anti tank ditch

I wonder what the back story for a CMSF II might be. With such a fast moving real world situation it could be very hard to write convincing back story before the situation changes again. in the bboadest terms however we might be looking at a massive regional conflagration with multiple nations involved including US/Western and Russian intervention forces clashing. In effect the game in a CMSF 2 might be representative of the region being just one theater of a global war. We are however moving to far away from the OP. Oleksander raise a number of good points, many of which I agree with such as extending the time frame to allow for a winter war and including additional fortifications. To his list I might add anti tank ditches and for that matter ICMs/artillery delivered mines. Not essential for enjoyment of the game but certainly would be nice to have. As for the units/equipment list I would suspect some of these would be coming in new modules

One hopes that US and Russian forces never shoot at each other on a real battlefield. However, back in the 1980s in similar Cold War situation moderns table top and board wargamers invariably gamed World War 3 situations in Germany and sometimes in other parts of the World. In the event the real world situation never developed. However it mustbe stated that in both cases we were/are gaming hypothetical situations

What the Russians have probably been doing is combat testing the T-90 in Syria. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/russian-military-presence-syria-continues-t-90-tanks-spotted-latakia-1519724 One point Ido have to call you on is that CMSF does not include T-80s. I assume however this was a typo and you actually meant T-90

I also tend to be more interested in gaming small unit actions these days (company to battalion level (strongly influenced here by CM games :-) ) so tend to be more attracted to rules like Battlefront WW2, Battlegroup Kursk, Sabre Squadron and 3rd Generation Warfare. So I guess the real answer to your question Michael is that I have simply moved on and that my interests approach has changed :-)

A couple of small things really. First I was not willing to pay the asking price. Second and more importantly I didn't like the change in the time scale from 15 minutes to half hour turns which I did not feel appropriate for armoured warfare. I was happy with the 15 minute turns in second and third editions, copies of which I already have. Finally, by this point I had largely switched to other rule sets, in particular Battlefront WW2 which do a similar job and have online support for moderns up to the end of the Cold War. http://www.fireandfury.com/ This set Command Decision is a good set of rules for regimental/brigade evel gaming and I have enjoyed playing them a lot over the years. I have just moved on now for the most part, though I may still play the occasional CD game from time to time, probably with 3rd edition

I used to play Frank Chadwick's Command Decision rules for many years right up to 3rd Ediion, I parted company with these rule with 4th Edition fir various reasons although I still play the occasional game with 3rd Edition http://www.waynesbooks.com/CommandDecision.html

Excuse the typo! We are all guilty sometimes However I don't wish to know about your mother's proclivities thanks - there are other websites for that!

The use of computerized simulation is interesting. Doesn't the US military do much the same?

We're all nerds! Erm, hate to break it to you but we war game on computer! And many of us are miniature war gamers as well - and probably board games as well!

Every miniatures wargamer has this problem. I have a pile of 2mm Napoleonics (heresy! ) on my work table gradually being painted/repainted for use in multi corps games of March Attack - an 8 x 6 foot table scales to just over 3 miles in the official scale. However my landlord refused t let me knock holes in walls so I could have a bigger table So I had to go down a scale and since I already had quite a few 2mm from my student days,,,, However a won't be trying Fulda Gap or Desert Storm in 2mm I like tanks I can see!