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Of course it will. But mods have to be in the {userdocs}\Battlefront\Combat Mission\Shock Force 2\Data\Mods\Z folder. The question is, will the steam installation use a different location for this or the same.

What I want to know is, if I can have installed TWO versions of CMSF2 (battlefront AND steam) AT THE SAME TIME on the SAME system. (So that I can mod one to H&E and use the other for 'norma' [Syrian setting] Shock Force 2)

I have CMSF2 from battlefront installed. I also have it activated in steam, but not installed. Could I also install it in steam and then mod it to Heaven&Earth, while keeping my 'normal' CMSF2 at the same time without messing something up?

Meanwhile it's already 3th April. Not that long anymore, and it will almost not take that much time till it is almost not long anymore to the point where the month is quite soon over!

It means Staatssicherheit = "State Security". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi

Nice, another one for my collection. Thank you.

They kinda tried to make the whole Swizz population in a kind of GLADIO stay-behind militia in the 1960's. GDR had the Kampfgruppen der Arbeiterklasse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_Groups_of_the_Working_Class They are said to be one of the the reasons why in '89 there DDR regime gave in without a fight, because there was a big part of the population practically trained in counterinsurgency street fighting. That would have become a 'counter'-counterinsurgency. I hope they get included in a GDR DLC.

https://ia800207.us.archive.org/20/items/Der_Totale_Widerstand_Major_H._von_Dach_German/Der_Totale_Widerstand_Major_H._von_Dach_German.pdf It was marked as the 'most dangerous book from switzerland ' from newspapers. It is said, this one and "Der Stadtguerilla" where the books the Baader-Meinhof gang (Red Army Faction) got their practial knowledge from.

Goose step: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goose_step

Officially neither the Army nor the State Council of the GDR had even the knowledge where exactly on GDR territory the soviet atom weapons where positioned. They had the MfS (stasi), of course. But they where certainly not in the position to just nuke Switzerland.

Presumably to keep dirt and dust out of the pivot mechanism of the gun. Sometimes naval guns on ships have them too.

Ok. But you had some bunkers. At least... https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/prepared-for-anything_bunkers-for-all/995134

Swiss had a seat in a bunker under the Alps for every citizen, I hear. In Thuringia only the Stasi had a secret Atombunker. https://www.thueringen.info/frauenwald-bunkermuseum.html

No, it was because of deployment of Pershing II MRBM. West German parliament (Bundestag) gave approval for deployment in West Germany on November 23, 1983. That at least was, what all the noise was about. Soviets never made a public statement about Able Archer 83. So it is impossible that we as kids in GDR where indoctrintated about it in school. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pershing_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83

No spruce in the background, just deciduous woodland. For Central Germany we need at least spruce, black pine, beech, maple and poplar would also be nice. For Northern Germany we need much of red pine.

That puts it well. Only one time I had really fear. That was when I was 8 years old in 1983. Some rainy November morning I come to school and there is Apell and all the older ones and the teacher seem to be very scared. I did not really understud what it was all about at the time. Only that I thought there will be war and I will die. Then on that day in school we also had to read text about Hiroshima and Nagasaki etc. I later (in the 90s) figured out that it was the time when the Pershing II where deployed in the west.

Nah, IS-3 wins, because of most sexy curves. Same reason why Akula-class is most beautiful SSN.

Inner German border's fortification system essentially was designed as a serious obstacle for single or small groups of civilians trying to leave GDR territory towards the FRG. It was not designed as a military fortification against mechanized armored divisions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_German_border https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortifications_of_the_inner_German_border

It's the same in East Germany. After WWII the farms where collectivised and the small aggricultural fields of the seperate farmers where jointed to big "LPG" fields. -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landwirtschaftliche_Produktionsgenossenschaft

Here you go: http://www.ddr-uniformen.com/?page_id=416 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/M45_(Stahlhelm) Minute 5:48: https://archive.org/details/DieDeutscheWochenschauNr.733

More open landscape than Fulda Gap/Rhön will appear when someon makes Scenarios/Campaigns where NATO repels Warsaw Pact back and the warzone switches to GDR territory. East from Eisenach one enters the Thuringian Basin with large LPG fields and much open space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuringian_Basin

ATGMs will be the interesting wild cards. Let's see how it will play out.

Yes, an theoretical avarage that will get easily undercut or exeeded depending on the exact location and conditions.

It has nothing to do with postcards or street view. It depends on the location. If you drive up these hill at 500m and 2.5km distance in your pic, how far could you see? Hard to tell. Depends on the landscape and the features in it in a particular direction, atmospheric conditions etc. It also has nothing to do if you are on a road or a field. Just drive some kilometers on a rural road in central Germany. The view distances change constantly in all direction. If it leads you up over hills or plateaus you can have far reaching panroamic views for some time and then it goes down in a valley again und you can see maybe 100m or 200m.