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If it is not it's just the one of hundreds of deep fakes I would make

Agreed. Perhaps a club is what we need. When Adobe switched to rent only and many complained, including myself, Adobe ignored us and other users bitched at us even though all we wanted was to be able to own. We never said they could not rent if they wanted to. It keeps happening over and over. Sigh.

Not really. Steam has their terms of service that we all signed up to and they can revoke your ability to play the games you lease whenever they need to change what OSes they support. It's very well established space. Extremely frustrating but it is a done deal now. This is what we all have to do - buy from other sources that have better terms. Sadly this is like a handful of us screaming against a hurricane for all the good it does us. There are just too few people who care about this issue.

Yeah, I only meant in a particular moment you don't always know the condition of an enemy tank. The overall performance difference is some of the other issues being discussed.

I don't think we will ever get that ability in the general game. I could be wrong of course since I don't speak for CM. I have no idea if Steve will drop in and comment. His previous stated stance - from my memory so forgive any mistakes I might make - is that he has no desire to do that for two reasons: - the game is a historically accurate simulation so allowing people to uber their favour tank for nerf the "bad" guys' rifles etc is not a good idea - the multi player community would be come fractured and or be exposed to cheating because only people with the same capability mods could play against each other and the development effort required to ensure that works without cheating is huge I, personally, agree with this 100%

There are a couple of things to note. First when you are shooting at an enemy tank you don't get perfect information about its condition. You only know it's knocked out when your soldiers know it's knocked out. I know I've relayed this story before (plus the original post which I was not able to find). I had a Sherman put 7 rounds into a PzIV at close range before knocking it out. I thought it must be a bug. Turns out since this was in the woods the visibility was challenging and my tank crew just did not know they KO'ed it with the first or second shot (I cannot remember which) so they kept firing. Then there is the issue of armour vs ammo. The ability to actually cause system damage, crew casualties and knock out a tank depends on the energy left in the shell after it has penetrated the armour. At the right distance any gun can just barely penetrate a particular tank's armour. So, its not some uber property of a Panther vs some terrible property of a Sherman. Its how the engagement falls with in the damage capabilities vs armour. What you are seeing is the long 75 on the Panther has serious energy left after penetrating allied tanks out longer than the guns of the allied tanks have against it.

You have to activate (via license key) the various modules and packs. The installer brings in everything even stuff you haven't bought yet. They greyed out stuff is things that the game thinks you have not purchased yet. To activate everything you purchased you need to enter the keys you received. There is a link that was installed called something like "Activate keys". I'm not in front of my gaming computer but it should be find-able. Run it as many times as you have keys to enter and it will get you sorted.

Oh good to know - thanks for the save @BFCElvis

I don't have the steam version installed but check your documents directory on a path like this C:\Users\<your name here>\Documents\Battlefront\Combat Mission Red Thunder. I typed that from memory so take it as a guide not a perfectly correct path.

The Blitz is running two scenarios this month. Sign up for the September Scenario of the Month has started over at the Blitz. This month the scenarios are: CMBN: H2H Hameau CMBS: UA in Unity is Power The forum post on theBlitz for sign up.

The Blitz is running two scenarios this month. Sign up for the September Scenario of the Month has started over at the Blitz. This month the scenarios are: CMBN: H2H Hameau CMBS: UA in Unity is Power The forum post on theBlitz for sign up.

One possible explanation is that is the only "safe" way citizens can get out their frustrations with the war. Yelling at one solider who is now a civilian is a lot safer than joining a protest march. Yeah, thankfully more people seem to have learned that the political decisions about going to and conducting the war are not being made by the people who fight them. I'm glad we have done better at that recently.

I built models as a teenager - I played several miniature rules based table top battles. Sadly that had the down sides we are all familiar with, that meant I didn't get a much out of it as possible. I tried a few board games which helped with the resources and time issues but still no really good FOG. I never found computer games satisfying. One day I was talking to some friends at work who were recounting exploits of yore playing a game called Combat Mission via email. What they were excited about was CM Beyond Normandy had been announced. I was shocked because this was exactly what I always wanted but never found. I immediately bought all the CM1 games and started playing with them and when CMBN came out I started playing that. I play pretty much every day now. My only regret is that I didn't hear about CM1 when it was first released. My other regret is my friends that introduced me to CM no longer play. While I totally embraced the new game they either found it too much work to play or became frustrated with the more realistic spotting in the new game. I have tried a few times to get them on board but they would rather play other FPS games that I cannot care less about. Sigh. Thankfully there are lots of people on line who are happy to play.

For sure the more I play CM the more I realize that using the terrain for your advantage as much as possible is super important.

Nice, thanks for sharing. My favourite quote from the article:

Oh I get that. Sometime wild claims get made and it's nice to check for sanity so they don't get absorbed into the form lore. Thanks.

And what were the shots to first hit of the first PzIV? I think I can guess but I figured you had the data

Remind me again what is the first rule of "what the Russians say"?

I agree with the above but it's worth remembering that Ukraine now has probably not just the most effective army in Europe but also the most effective anti-Russian security services. They have rooted out Russian networks in controlled territory quite effectively since the war began and would efficiently do so in Crimea too. Added in, no language barrier and the high likelihood that Russia's most vehement supporters will flee to the mainland and I like the GUR's chances. @The_Capt sounds right about a lot of points of failure. If @billbindc is correct that will help a lot but the big factor is good governance. If the Ukraine can make the previously occupied territories livable and even marginally prosperous they have a slot at preventing insurgencies from getting going. There is a lot of moving parts there. A lot.

For sure. I'm not sure that's equivalent though. Yes, my car seats 5 but honestly you don't want to be the 5th. Four is what is actually comfortable. But this is a private plane with a standard configuration for 15 or 8. I'm sure there are customized versions too. The point is my car has four real seats and a fifth can be squeezed in you hypothetical SUV has four real seats and six can be squeezed in. This plane has an 8 luxurious seats configuration or a 15 super comfortable seat configuration. No one is squeezing 8 or 10 people on that plane all those passengers are supper comfy right up until the missile blew holes in the fuselage. Assuming they were actually alive before take off Oh yeah - guilty as charged - except I have a small car at least. Yep

Indeed 10 people on board - 7 passengers and three crew works for the Embraer 600's 8 passenger configuration even.

I totally agree that it was unwise to all travel together. I'm not sure about that last part though @Battlefront.com No, I was literally responding to the implication that the jet would not seat 10 passengers. You can feel I missread that but I don't think I did. Bottom line the plane can easily hold the passengers and crew reported to be on board.

Lets nip that in the bud. While it is entirely possible the occupants were not who we were told or already dead - but the size of the plane is not a problem. CNN reports the type of plane as and Embraer Legacy 600 which has a 13 passenger configuration and and 8 passenger configuration. So 10 passengers is a totally normal number. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_Legacy_600

I think it is also possible that it could have been just some one in the military that was sore about the Wagner guys shooting down Russian pilots during the coup attempt. As many have said Putin is weaker why not have a few Generals decide its time to get rid of Prig and ordering some Air defence forces to take down his plane.

Now we just need and eye witness with video of Prig getting on the plane...