Dr.Fusselpulli

Well... I know a lot of them saw themselves as "The people that slow down the enemy until a real army arrives".

Back around April 2019 I got first wind of the still-unnamed cold war title. I quickly threw together new rural Germany mountains horizons, hastily reskinned CMSF2 T62, then brought it into CMBS as a 'proof of concept' test. The response was 'Dang, this could actually work!' These are the very first screenshots from the very first test of what would eventually turn into CM Cold War.
 

I'd say this is why we can't have nice things, like being told in advance of new products.  If they tell us it's cooking we will all be complaining incessantly about 'when will it be ready'.  (I am included in this complaining.)  I really like this surprise.  It killed my work productivity this morning but I am recovering finally.  This is a dream come true.
And so now I start complaining about not have Brits, Dutch, Germans, Belgians, French, Czechs, Poles, ......

I have a feeling there are going to be more posts made in this forum in the first day than in are in the entire CM:Touch section! 
Stick that in yer' App Store! 

METT-T Analysis
MISSION
 “The Army I grew up in was focused on high-intensity conflict against a peer competitor called the Soviet Union.”
Mark Esper
 
Mission:  Seize and control the village of Dolbach that sits along an important Main Supply Route (MSR) which runs east to west just north of this village.  Advance to contact and “convince” the Soviets that this is not the village they are looking for.
I think Warren once described this type of fight as "two fat men fighting over a donut".    

 
So the mission is simple... at least it sounds simple.  However this is 1980 and the US does not have the technical advantages they will have a mere two years later. 
 “Everything is very simple in war, but the simplest thing is difficult.”
von Clausewitz
This is basically a meeting engagement, and our forces will be, in numbers at least, relatively balanced.  However there is a capability gap at this point in time in favor of the Soviets as you will discover.  
Bil

This bug really affects the Syrians badly. Many of their units are handicapped by it. Spec Ops, Airborne, Republican Gaurds, etc. It's pretty much halted development of my campaign as almost anything I try to do ends up with broken radios.

Yes, and it should be Fulda Gap!

Just found this topic... you guys are just awesome. This is amazing!

I started this as a kind of a joke, but it actually worked out surprisingly well...
... not the battle though, that went FUBAR.

2:24 Now THAT is some stellar voice acting! That guy deserves a statue!
4:53 That was so nonchalant and badass. That's one of the coolest things I've seen in the game in a while.
Mord.

In the best traditions of the British Army, the officers eat slightly better than the men
 

This isn't a bug.  It has always been this way.  When you are playing a scenario against the AI in any mode, AI controlled passengers will not show up as separate icons even in scenario author test mode.  You can't select a passenger when it is controlled by the AI, you can only select the vehicle they are riding in.  Now if you are playing as that side and the passengers aren't selectable well then you have a problem, but since AI passengers only dismount when the AI orders tell them to dismount then there is no need for the passengers to be selectable.  Obviously in other modes showing the passengers would be a major fog of war issue.  That isn't an issue in Scenario Author Test mode obviously, but I'm going to guess that it would have taken special 'override' coding of some sort in order to make the passengers show up in that mode and since you can't manually dismount them when they are AI controlled then really, what's the point?

Aha,  you're right!  The troops are indeed there and when the vehicles arrived at their destination, out they popped!  

Thanks for the clarification @ASL Veteran
 

Dialing in the Reshade and messing with filters and camera angles for screenie taking.

 

 

 
Mord.
 

Russian Antigrav Stronk! 

"fixed wing Mi-24 Hind"? Seems legit:
 

I was able to create this all in the new editor:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tauwokwzzt2qggy/Terrorists in hummers.btt?dl=0
 
Using the supply platoon removing everyone but the HQ (and I made him part of a Reinforcement group that will never arrive) and adding unconventional specialist teams as needed.
When deploying in the editor:

When playing the scenario - no HQ unit:

 

Well, there is a completed "2018 Turkish Army" mod pack that I've still got to upload one of these days.
That'll get you a little bit closer to 'modern war' timeframe. It'll take some imagination to concoct modern Syria battle scenarios out of what's in the game but that's half the fun! It wouldn't be fun if it was easy.

To round out the Turkish mod pack, here's my almost-completed Dutch-turned-into-Turkish troops. Their new uniform  camou scheme looks like it might've been bought from Russia because it resembles the new Russian camou pattern. And yes the 'Artic Warfare Sniper Rifle' is used by the Turkish army.
Next up, assembling the full mod pack. I hope its not too large.
 

Bad thing: i hate be patient 
Good thing: Im easy to distract
Solution: Just give Gary Grigbys a next try and let time fly while read the Novel,... ähm i mean the manual,... 
 
Devs, just take ur Time and thx for the amazing franchise !!!
 

The first mission of the custom Rattenkrieg campaign utilizing the Stalingrad mod. All orders are given by interface, so this is suited as a learning resource for new players.
Enjoy!

Good news for you Dutch armor fans, an improved texture for CV9035 just slipped in under the wire. MUCH better looking than the original CMSF1 texture, and better looking than the texture in the game a week ago.
 

I think patience is key. Let Battlefront decide when to release the game, they know best about their product. It is not that we will really miss about something, just that we have to wait a little bit longer, which is fine.

Thanks! The attack was loosely modeled after a Soviet style tank assault. What would the Soviet equivalent of "Ride of the Valkyries" be?
Thanks for the feedback! The pacing was much easier to do as the action was more straightforward. Simplicity has a beauty of its own. 
I have a soundmod, among many others (some I've made myself) that I play SF2 with. However, the showcase video's I've made are intended to show off vanilla features, how a newcomer would first experience the game out of the box with no mods installed. I don't want to mislead anyone into thinking that the game looks/sounds one way, only for them to buy the game and have it look/sound differently. 

Here is a second showcase video, this time showing a successful Syrian armored assault against defending Germans. This was taken from a modified version of the NATO scenario "Bier un Brezel." Some of the better Syrian equipment is on display here, such as the T-72AV equipped with the TURMS-T as well as the BMP-2. This should pain the Syrians in a more favorable light compared to the first showcase video. Hope everyone enjoys!