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Have you seen this? https://www.thefewgoodmen.com/cm-mod-warehouse/combat-mission-black-sea/cmbs-other/battlefront-official-briefing-templates-cmbs/

To be fair he's not in the best of health. It may not be as much a surrender and he just cannot do the job any more - or can see that day coming rapidly. He certainly has given enough service to get a break.

I do love that saying - it is always a good avenue of thought when trying to figure out if some conspiracy theory is true or not. I fear in this case there is some malice too - those agents are likely fully aware of the **** they are sending people too.

No one took a shot at this. I don't have a source that proves it but I think you can look at the attack actions and infer the plan was to take out the head and end the whole thing in a few days: Columns of mech streaming in from the north and just trying to drive on the roads to Kyiv Air mobile landings at air ports around major cities especially Kyiv Saboteurs activated in the capital as the attack got started. You don't drop air mobile guys that far behind enemy lines with a plan that says it will take three weeks to get to where you dropped them off. You don't just start driving on the highway if you expected significant resistance. The combination of these actions points, in my opinion, strongly towards a 2 day plan. Or at least a quick win plan. To me it looked like a plan to attack on a broad front in the east and south but the victory path was to take over the capital. Decapitate the current regime and insert a favorable one that would then take over the army and have it stand down. With that new government in place your forces in all parts of the country can then concentrate on mopping up those that choose not the listen to the new leadership. Maybe not a 2 day plan but 2 days to be a unstoppable several week process.

Excellent. BFCElvis is the support professional so follow his advice and you will get sorted out in the end.

Correct that is the user to user self help forum not the location for official support. For that go here: https://battlefront.mojohelpdesk.com/ The correct thing to do. Oh that's not a good thing. That will revert the version you have. So, for openers uninstall what you have and reinstall using the Download for the Base Game v2.18. Stop downloading and installing anything else - unless the pros at the help desk tell you to. You have it. That is what the base game download for v2.18 is version 2.18 of CMBS based on game engine 4. No stop downloading random stuff. Just stop. No. Entering your keys is not order dependent so no order. There is no deactivation. Over time more activations are supposed to automatically be made available. You can confirm with support thought to be sure.

User name doesn't check out To be clear just funning ya and I am not actually doubting you.

No. All that does is place your email in a place that your opponent can see when you start up a game. Very good advice. I have had that happen. Not just to Slytherine's mail but lots of things I actually want. Partly this is some pattern matching by the email providers and partly it comes from user interaction. Have you ever been annoyed at a news letter that you don't remember signing up for or that comes way more often than you are happy with? We all have. If you and a bunch of other people mark them as spam then at a certain point the system may tip everyone's stuff in to the bin. Recently Google prompts with a message checking if you want to unsubscribe instead of report spam for those messages that have an unsubscribe link. I do hope there is careful consideration happening there because unsubscribing from actual spam must confirms a human reads that email box.... We know what that means

We better start soon. A few more ships and there will no longer be enough to create a full bingo card.

First off nice overview of how to make a QB map. Did you mean AI group here instead of plan? If there are three platoons I would think they would be assigned to different groups.

It would be super cool to see soldiers with four arms handle two MGs at once and 12 fingered soldiers will be better for throwing grenades. That's what I currently think of when I hear AI image generation. On a side note someone even 3D printed an add on finger you can wear so you can later claim that any video capture of you was actually a deep fake

The other way to go would be to give the Soviets x points just straight up. Then the US earns up to y points by preventing the forces from exiting. If they prevent none from exiting have the soviets get all of x and the US gets zero for y. Tweak the values so that if the US prevents half from exiting you get the victory conditions you want. This utility created by @Ithikial_AU really helps no matter which path you choose: https://www.thefewgoodmen.com/cm-mod-warehouse/uncategorized/ithikials-combat-mission-victory-calculator-version-2/

Nice. Glad to hear it. What made you suspicious and decide to reinstall it? Or did you have an error message about the update that you fixed and that fixed your CM problems too?

Oh not me I am super glad he clarified - I had no idea what chapter two was.

Same .exe used in all installs - occasionally there can be secondary file install issue but all the versions are the same code. Good to report that though - I'm just clarifying. Not uncommon. I'm an i7 and a 3080. I do not have this issue. Sorry so I'm not a lot of help. Yeah that's the engine 5 upgrade and its not mean to fix bugs like that but help out with general graphic performance issues. Given what you are experiencing I would recommend asking the professionals here: Battlefront Help desk

Hold up. This cannot work, currently. I reread your instructions and though what about the rare occasion that a new scenario or campaign is added. What does that look like? So, I cracked open the "CM Final Blitzkrieg v211 Update.rar" file and found that what @JM Stuff is suggesting is not possible to do. There is no new game .exe and no new .btt files available for you to. They are wrapped up inside the setup program. You need a new game .exe to make a valid patch. So, if you were just talking about a hypothetical new way to distribute the patches OK but if you are patching your games using this then you are not correctly patching your games. Do not actually try and follow these instructions - they will not patch your game.

Yeah no worries. Everything we write is clear in our heads. Occasionally it doesn't all come across.

Your original post did not include copying the .exe file into the correct place (and presumably moving the old one out if you want to roll back). That's all.

That is far to complicated for most humans to follow. Worse it will not work - you missed handling the .exe file. You are correct, the most common problem people have is installing to the wrong place. My personal suggestion is to have a check in the install that verifies that the .exe and .brz files already present are where they are expected to be relative to the user chosen install location. That way the install will not proceed if it is all going into the wrong place. I should probably pitch that idea My personal strategy to handle any roll back need is to copy the current install to a new location. In windows I just <ctrl>C <ctrl>P and end up with a new install of the game. I tweak the folder name to show which version it will be after the patch and install the patch there. I actually do this to allow continuing to play PBEM games with opponents who have not upgraded yet.

There are additional factors to, the AFU have smashed more than they have lost via counter battery fire. Plus, my impression is the RA cannot replace worn out tubes as quickly as the AFU can. Just like sanctions it all adds up.

Indeed But wake me up when they actually do it. Don't tease me with hypotheticals and rumors of it being discussed. Just. ****ing. Do. It.

There is no customer facing bug portal to report too. You can bring things up here and a tester - who does have access to report things can verify there is an issue and report it. You can also open a support ticket. So, opening a thread here is a good way to go.

LOL bring on the penguin wave attacks

You can see a break down of each campaign on my site here: https://www.combatmission.lesliesoftware.com/FinalBlitzkrieg/Campaigns/index.html In the list you can search for campaigns that require the Downfall module and the see the individual scenarios and the various pathways through the campaign. I am in the process of updating the listing. Final blitzkrieg is up to date now but not everything is.

Indeed the target machine specs need to be carefully chosen. I am fairly sure that BFC will not force us all to upgrade to some 2026 level of tech that we don't even knows the vocabulary for but they will also not likely support really old or low powered stuff just because a handful of people are using it. When I refereed to legacy systems above I really just meant that if you needed to use a 32 bit library that only exists as a 32 bit library or you are fixing bugs in a 32 bit app that your company released years ago. I did not mean it was worth staying with 32 bit programming for new products so they run on Windows 95. That ship has sailed.