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Your force has successfully taken that map hex and the new OOB is pasted below.

A very nice sequence of AAR action.

No problem, you have 1 other small Panther platoon (4 tanks) on the map. Still 2 small platoons of PzIV's left (4 in one and 7 in another).

Kate and Heidi full body massage! Unfortunately, I have to watch things which get the heart rate elevated....

mirek's battle is over. Standby for some analysis and new axis OOB and headcounts. Then...on to the allied op level moves and assaults.

I will evaluate the battle losses and provide feedback to the Allied OOB and headcounts. @SLIM Do you want to specify some operational level orders?

My sincerest thank you to all the well wishes. It made me feel very happy to see so many folks that care. I am back home just now and on light duty for about a month or so. I thought I just had some type of stress issue or indigestion but the ER has a blood test that shows immediately it is the heart muscle screaming for help. They tried to do the stint but it was a failure and we had to go open heart and they rerouted the flow of another artery (mammary artery) to my troubled region. Anyway, the docs said my heart looks perfect other than that one bad spot they fixed so I should make it another 50,000 miles! Thanks again and my sincere appreciation to the support from all of you.

A PzIII shooting up a T-70. Needs a better coat of grey paint, some turret numbers and LSSAH shields!

Pz III. Not Pz111. Like this guy shooting up a T-70 but with a better coat of grey paint and some turret numbers and LSSAH shields.

Damaged Optics! Ooooh, that is expensive to repair. Never covered by the warranty. I know this guy in the city...take the tank there and say you know me. But keep quiet.

What will they call this family? Combat Mission: Final Countdown?

My thought today is to offer a Russian Doll type nested download of the mod files. Strictly to keep the downloads small so folks can try it and decide if they want to continue onward with the download. Right now I have a folder of about 500MB so I just have to make subfolders and divvy it up. Tier 1 would be basic outdoor environment. A jpeg and readme would try to guide you to what map elements are covered. Tier 2 would add more outdoor environment and some simple buildings. A jpeg and readme would try to guide you to what map elements are covered. Tier 3 would capture more outdoor stuff, as many trees as end up looking winterized. More buildings. A jpeg & readme would try to guide you to what map elements are covered. Tier 4 will be special stuff I actually create fresh. All previous stuff is just copy and paste from stock CMFI GL and other previous mods.... Tier 5 I would hope is stuff people start to make if this flaps its wings and takes off. WInter Camo Vehicles and uniforms.... Edit: Which would be something they'd upload to the CMMODS/repository outside of this project. And umlaut already has a significant set of axis frosty vehicles. And frosty greatcoats/helmets as well.... That is my strategy right now...

@kevinkin Welcome to the CMRT WInter Mod thinktank! Thanks for your offer to serve a shift down in the coal mines. I forget. Do you only do maps? Or are you a modder as well or know the data files real well to do some renaming and tagging? Let me know! Thanks.

GIve them the death of a thousand cuts? Mobility kill or the optics. Keep peppering them Snols! Sappers to the front!

Bulge pre-order now with a free bottle of Swedish "glögg" and an autographed photo of Heidi Klum in a schwimmwagen.

I had that series of solitaire games also... Dang! I wish we all lived closer. Fire up a hot seat battle with the new game. Maybe some eggnog with a couple shots of "petrol"...Heidi can be the axis.

Everybody has their opinion and that is fine. SeinfeldRules did a 208 x 208 map and scenario "Amongst the Ruins" and I haven't forgotten it. The smallest map size available but filled to the brim with CMRT goodness. If he did that in a weekend then I want what he puts in his coffee! A great job. IMHO much more memorable vs the big Cecil DeMille scenarios you often get with the main release. Short and sharp to me is more playable and those giant beasts against the AI like "Chasing the Bug"..well, they are a bear to create and the author said he looked at the blank map before he started and his jaw dropped and he felt the weight of some insurmountable climb. Months later it is done maybe. BFC has to hit all the desires. JonS has some smaller ones, some larger ones, the other main authors have a style. It is all good. We live in great times. @SeinfeldRules If you want to do a CMRT winter scenario using this mod I am scraping together, that would be very cool, da? PM me if interested.

Bulge AAR? I got a crisp new $50 on Standartenfuhrer Hardenberger's Kampfgruppe attacking Major c3k's engineers at a bridge in Belgium....

Sounds like a glide path down to a 16 December game release for dramatic effect? Really looking forward to this game just in time for my annual winter Ardennes hankerings. You guys are awesome. That schwimmwagen is gonna be sweet.

A ha! My plan worked...Steve came out of Heidi-ing.

Alright, I am kicking the tires and thinking of putting together a CMRT WInter Mod to hold us over until the real deal arrives whenever that may be. Maybe a holiday present to the community. At first I was calling it a CMRT Kharkov '43 mod but now I see that is probably too much of a stretch as my other ambitious mods have exceeded my own talent and forum harness-able talent. Vehicle modding and uniform modding just make me feel like a kindergarten kid using crayons! Phase I So, for this mod I will just gather together [snow] tagged terrain bmp's from CMFI GL and have them in a folder in my CMRT z folder and we have a mod tag file called snow.txt and it all shows up when desired. We'll see what snow covered roofs cross over to CMRT as well. And the snowy tops of walls and such. Then we could have the ground condition be "muddy" which would cause bogging for our ersatz snow terrain. Make it overcast and maybe some heavy wind, cool weather, ignore the date range stuck as June-Sep and dial the time to early morning or semi-dark evening and we might have a passable winter effect. It is in the eye of the beholder and if it isn't good enough for you, then no problem, you can choose not to download it and just wait til the actual module is released. Fair enough. Oh, and some new snowy horizons. Phase 2 For a 2nd part to this we can get gloves on our troops, roll in the greatcoat mdr files and such. We might get some talented vehicle modders to slide us a snow camo vehicle or 2. We'll see if anything percolates... I am open minded to anyone's suggestions or recommendations. I guess the old greenasjade site is vanished and those items are being migrated to the new depot thingy? Anyone wanting to collaborate, send me a PM. Thanks! Seinfeldrules' "Amongst the ruins" map is a nice testbed for this winter effects mod.

I hope you are right but I personally think all that efficiency just helps them get more product to sell for less work not for more to offer necessarily or to offer sooner. They have to stay in business so the product must be choked and throttled at times for economic reasons. No more CMBB! Correct me if I am wrong but look at my chart October 2013 and Waffen-SS is debuted with CMBN-MG but now almost 2016 and still not in CMRT. I think they are pacing things out for a certain sales strategy. I do not have an MBA so I will pass on any further sales and marketing elaboration aka BS. Maybe a good analogy is the restaurant. They have only 1 or 2 waiters and no matter how much food is prepared it can't be served except at a certain rate per year. They couldn't do a quick CMRT module to sell Waffen-SS because that requires coding and beta testing and folks expect content such as scenarios and campaigns featuring the Waffen-SS against the Soviets. The same half-dozen or so guys are doing everything. So, it is scheduled in the pipeline for sometime in early to late 2017...all just my imagination? Then somebody gets jury duty and the whole schedule slides a month. What a bunch of headaches. Bless their hearts. I am glad to just be a customer. Now if I get some vehicle modding support we can pump out a CMRT winter mod to hold us over til then.

Hmm. Looking at the CMX2 timeline chart I whipped up for that road ahead thread...that CMRT module could be a very long time from now. I think 2017 even. I have a couple feelers out for some vehicle mod support so maybe I will do this CMRT Charkow '43 mod....

On the way via PM sir!