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Somehow I will get over it There might be a few that benefited from the 15 minute early warning and I just wanted to express my excitement. Trey

And we are booting up. Good luck in the East! Trey

Just got the download email too Trey

34% Complete. 1.97 GB. 13 Minutes left. Trey

Check your download link. I'm running at 1.46 MB/Sec. CM_RedThunder_Setup.exe. Trey

Folks, it is here. Trey

I didn't get the email but I went to the link sent to me in the email when I pre-ordered last week and now I'm downloading. Trey

Long time lurker here and first post but I have followed this thread with interest. Although, I haven't played enough of the demo yet to pass judgement on the effectiveness of mortars, I will make some comments based on my experiences as a Company Fire Support Officer for the 1-13 Armor out of Fort Riley and as a Battery and Battalion Fire Direction Officer for a Self-Propelled (M109A5/A6) unit and Light Towed (M102A2) unit. My experience with mortars (107mm) has been that wind speed plays a huge part in mortar effectiveness. On the open and windy plains of Kansas, the 107mm Mortars would have a hard time hitting their targets consistently. Once the winds would calm down, they were very effective. Mortar effectiveness is much more effected by the weather and atmospheric conditions (Meteorlogical conditions) than their heavier artillery counterparts because of the lighter shell weight and the fact that mortars always fire in a high angle trajectory. The lighter shell weight impact is pretty obvious. Throw a ping ball and a baseball into high winds and which one deviates more? With mortars using high angle, it means the shell is in its trajectory much longer and achieves a higher max ordinate and all of these means that the meteorlogical conditions have a longer amount of time to affect that shell's trajectory. Also, company mortars would not have access to meteorlogical data helping to comensate for those variables. The first several rounds in a fire mission are almost always going to be off target unless the mortar section registered prior to the fire mission. Registrations would have be conducted 2-4 times a day (every 6-8 hours) in order to keep the targeting accurate with the ever changing weather conditions. Artillery and Naval Artillery will almost always be more accurate than mortars since their trajectories are flatter, have a higher muzzle velocity, and have heavier projectiles. Also, these units have dedicated gunnery sections that calibrate their powder charges by lot number, track tube wear and its effects on muzzle velocity, and utilize meteorlogical data into their calculations. These units will often be closer to a first round fire for effect than mortars will be. When artillery units account for all of these variables, they normally will not need to register to achieve these results. Anyways, going back to the demo and looking forward to release. Trey