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Thanks Tommy, I am whittling away a bit at a time and have a few partners. Room for more...hint hint

I think we need this damn war to end so BFC can publish CMSU "Combat Mission Slava Ukraini" and sell 100,000+ copies. THENNNNNNNN Steve comes back to bust out some early war. No, not early war as early last year 2022 for Ukraine War! I mean early in the last century 1939/1940/1941.

Italian Brixia 45mm mortar team will be modded to be the early war German 50mm mortar at the platoon level. Gotta do what I gotta do

@Falaise I am bringing the Soviet leather rifle ammo pouches over to CMFI for the mod. They look great BUT I need to adjust in Blender.

@Suchy I now have French forces armed with the Hotchkiss HMG...

when I win the powerball, you'll get a hefty raise and we'll hire 2 fine lasses to carry your climbing gear

There are many beautiful mods out there that we can use. I am trying to carefully get permission before use. @EZ Can I please use your stuff for this CMFI France 1940 mod? @Jorge MC Can I please use your stuff for this CMFI France 1940 mod?

I can make the 3D model (a simple rectangle) to have your nice texture so optical illusion is not necessary.

I tried to PM but no results for EZ. Tried to search. no luck Hello sir. Please contact me as I want your permission to use your great stuff in a CMFI France 1940 mod. Thanks @EZ EDIT: now it seemed to offer your forum name. Ooops.

Maybe I should do the leather items because we need a different gear shape for our soldiers. The US style of cartridge belt 1944 is not proper of course for 1940. I know I can find an existing gear and change the name. I WILL DO. Thanks for your help guys. The first test scenario will go this weekend to the "Mod Team". All scenario filenames and scenario titles for this mod will have prefix FR40. It is called FR40 1914 DEJA VU A Waffen-SS infantry platoon must attack a farmhouse to eliminate a French artillery spotter/OP/FO.

@Falaise @JM Stuff We need some leather cargo cartridge pouches.

I think/guess Finland only came up as a "discussion purposes only" example of how they can't invest to do Barbarossa. I just went into conjecture & hypothesis mode about what it would be like. KURSK Steve could just say that they will do a cmx2 Kursk title and end all the worry that WW2 has been ditched until CMX3 Normandie starts the whole cycle over.

Steve has dropped a few light mentions of BFC doing Finland in the course of his lectures, er..I mean posts. He said it would be a more modest effort versus Barbarossa. I just want to say I would welcome this but I will try to don my Steve hat and explain what the module would be like. My opinions/thoughts: To maximize previously created content it would be a module to CMRT. It would not be the winter war of 1940. Nope nope nope. It is just the 1944 phase of the continuation war. If it went back into 1943 I would crap my pants. Just some modded uniform art, some new UI stuff, they'd pull their existing Finnish voices from CMBB and maybe supplement them with new stuff for artillery request wav files. Probably no new flavor objects. Maybe some new building art with the Russian words changed to Finnish. 5 minutes to do. A new region modtag of [finland] would be encoded. They would only crank out a very few new 3D models. Just a few. Finnish SMG, Finnish LMG. Very very low effort 3D modelling. You'd have the same vehicles as current CMRT but probably nothing new. Just new textures with the Finnish camo and markings. If we got even 1 new vehicle it would be for marketing reasons. One morning the new Finnish TOE stuff would be written up and encoded...then they'd go to lunch and leave early. Oh, they would fire up the campaign writers and the scenario writers. 2 campaigns and 16 scenarios would be asked for. That could take a while as they call up the BETA boys for testing. Check those sprockets please! Just trying to be realistic. Maybe I am all wrong and we'll get 1940 and T-26. BUT NOT THE 1944 part. Or we'll get both? But I doubt it.

We are not asking that BFC's TOE attention to detail would be lowered. This was part of a one-sided beg and argue with BFC to try and get then to produce some dang version of an early war module. A vehicle pack. We have asked for JUST a vehicle pack and we'd do the TOE stuff on our own. Then we are told how that is too much time/cost/lost opportunity to do the 3D modelling and for Charles to code in each bogey wheel's movement in the z dimension/etc. Smoke and a pancake!

Hey! You better not use my lucky numbers... j/k

I speak for myself only. I respect that aspect of BFC with getting the nitty gritty of TOEs correct by date and such. I do. But my play style came from once having a low end PC and still having a low end brain and I better enjoy the type of small scenario where the unit has been ravaged and the TOE is no longer intact. So, in the editor you have an HQ and purchase the teams tucked under there and you get your red lines. Like an adhoc force. Not a day 1 of the invasion TOE. I think there should be room for both types of approaches.

There are maybe 3 or 4 greatcoat skeleton mds files. I think that might be the British one because there are gaps where the universal cargo carriers clip on? Looks great.

I have a model that I am trying to convert so it enters CM thanks to @Ivan Zaitzev

Trying to make a Panzer III Ausf F with 37mm gun.

Merci. the resources are excellent and abundant... But my skills are mediocre Nonetheless I will try

Merci! I will try my best within the constraints of the editor and modtags and "secret kohlenklau tricks"...

Come on Powerball

The 88 was modded by somebody but I forget his name. I am sorry. I pulled it from the download folder and it came in several versions. I went and made it grey. I made the vehicle grey also. I used Blender to join them together in an mdr shenanigan. It seems to function properly for the most part.

I had fun today. I am back in Blender and am messing around. @Ivan Zaitzev gave me a 3D model of the MAS36. It is an obj file format. I have not cracked it yet. I know I can. It just takes time. PzIII Ausf F. I am working on the short barrel 50mm PzIII Ausf G to do a few tweaks to make it more F-ish. Remove the turret bins and make it a 37mm. The Bufla lives! Inspired by @Heinrich505 I have it functioning and just need some new textures. Edit: Because I spend time in Blender and Gimp, I will not be making any AI plans. I have several PBEM buddies...and we'll have a blast!