sawomi
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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)
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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?
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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!
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1 hour ago, markus544 said:
Stasi.... East German secret police...I hate that term...Secret Police.
It means Staatssicherheit = "State Security".
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Nice, another one for my collection. Thank you.
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15 minutes ago, markus544 said:
Well is not true that Switzerland's population is armed to the teeth with firearms.. As I recall that country has one of the lowest murder rates in the world...
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.
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18 minutes ago, StieliAlpha said:
Reminds me too: Switzerland even published a “Zivilverteidigungs-Booklet“ in the 60‘s, trying to prepare people for a Guerilla warfare. Kind of a Boy Scout manual with a “Third World War” story line. Not surprisingly, the evil invaders came from the East and relief finally came from western airborne troops landing in the last moment.
If you care, I can send you a PDF copy. Hm, perhaps I should post this in the recommended reading thread.
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.
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2 hours ago, markus544 said:
What moron would what to nuke Switzerland. Oh the russkies. Or East Germany maybe. Cold war was nuts.
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.
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1 hour ago, Mastiff said:
I always wondered why the boot over the main gun mantel?
Presumably to keep dirt and dust out of the pivot mechanism of the gun. Sometimes naval guns on ships have them too.
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19 minutes ago, StieliAlpha said:
Not quite. Switzerland only had...
Ok. But you had some bunkers. At least...
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/prepared-for-anything_bunkers-for-all/995134
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5 hours ago, StieliAlpha said:
Looking back, I never felt very threatened in the 70‘s and 80‘s. Even 15 years further back in primary school, we had no „duck and cover“ lessons.
Swiss had a seat in a bunker under the Alps for every citizen, I hear. In Thuringia only the Stasi had a secret Atombunker.
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4 hours ago, StieliAlpha said:
Interesting, that must have been because of Able Archer 83. The exercise was held in November 83 and raised the tensions quite much...
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.
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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.
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3 hours ago, hank24 said:
I think it is like living next to a volcano. You know about the danger, but you simply don't care after some time or when you are born at that place.
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.
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Nah, IS-3 wins, because of most sexy curves.
Same reason why Akula-class is most beautiful SSN.
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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
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7 hours ago, Dr.Fusselpulli said:
The countryside in the Czech Republic is differently used from the countryside in Germany.
I am German and live in Czech Republic and I clearly see a difference. In Czech Republic, LOS is often far greater, larger fields, less treelines between them. Seems to be a leftover of communist agriculture.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
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On 2/16/2021 at 5:18 AM, Irididdle said:
AAAAAA, Gimme the stupid DDR helmets, oh god I can see it in my head already.
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
QuoteThe NVA steel helmet has an eventful history, the beginnings go back to the Third Reich. There the steel helmet used later in the NVA was invented and also patented under the Reich patent no. 706467. It was tried here to manufacture a helmet easier to produce, which has better protection against splinters and bullets by the beveled edges. The straight surfaces at the front of the Model M42 were often penetrated by bullets and splinters. The end of the war did not allow a large series production, the helmet has not come out beyond a pre-series in 1945.
Based on a memorandum from the Army Medical Inspectorate, which pointed to the increasing number of head injuries and other shortcomings of the previous German helmet models M35 and M40, the development of a new steel helmet was approved by the Army Weapons Office in 1942 - bypassing the Ministry of Armaments and Adolf Hitler's ban on new helmet designs.
The work was carried out at the Chemisch-Technische Reichsanstalt by the Institut für Wehrtechnische Werkstoffkunde Berlin (Director: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Fry and Dr. Hänsel). Four models were shortlisted for testing: "A" = a slightly modified helmet 35, "B", "B/II" and "C". The experienced manufacturer of steel helmets, the Eisen- und Hüttenwerke AG Thale/Harz, which had been commissioned with the production of the test samples, also submitted the "Thale proposal", which had been developed as a modification of the model "B" under the direction of the chief engineer Erich Kisan. During firing and troop tests, the two "B" models proved to be the best. The prototype was registered as a patent on December 7, 1943 under the number 706467. The further results were summarized in a memorandum and presented to the Führer's headquarters in the fall of 1944. Despite the positive assessment of the helmets as well as the great savings in material and working time, it refused to introduce a new helmet model - apparently for logistical reasons and for reasons of tradition. Only a few hundred helmets were issued for troop testing. Series production did not take place.
The NVA later took up this design again and produced this helmet from 1956 in series, in the course of time this was revised several times. The later versions had clipped chinstraps which loosened with load. Due to the far protruding sides, soldiers were often stuck on edges of vehicles or trenches, which led to injuries to the spine. Ballistically and in the hearing the NVA steel helmet is until today one of the best, if not even the best! The protective effect has only been surpassed since the introduction of Kevlar helmets.
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
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1 hour ago, slysniper said:
Well, for those of you that like your long range duels, I will say, I have played at least 5 scenarios in the package, where long range engagements are a thing. But a few of them are not representing Germany land shape.
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
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ATGMs will be the interesting wild cards. Let's see how it will play out.
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Yes, an theoretical avarage that will get easily undercut or exeeded depending on the exact location and conditions.
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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.
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Re Heaven & Earth
in CM Shock Force 2 Maps and Mods
Posted · Edited by sawomi
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.