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    CMFI CMAK2 TUNISIA 43 PBEM DAR

    in CM Fortress Italy Maps and Mods

    Posted · Edited by kohlenklau

    OK, I finally nailed one of his tanks with my 57mm ATG. 3 rounds in the front hull. It shrugged off the first low hit and backed away, then the 2nd shot brewed her up and the 3rd was my guys just wasting precious ammo.

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    He has 1 other tank immobilized due to sand in the bogey wheels or whatever. It is in a bad spot and maybe I can get a rear shot and brew her up later in the battle. I am coming around his left flank...

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    He hit my M7 Priest with an HE round that killed a few of the crew but "The Texas Special" still lives. My old 2 cent mod and the vehicle name covered by gear. Oops.

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    My tanks in the main town Sidi Bou Zid fired and hit his Panzer III &5mm. It just caused spalling. 2+km range.

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    Then one of his Mark IV's nailed one of my flanking Shermans. It HAD been cruising along very fast but then went offroad and slowed significantly. Oops.

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    Annual look at the year to come - 2023

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

    Posted

    Another comment on official BFC battle packs...

    For whatever reason, it seems they routinely pile the entire battle pack on a single guy. This started with the CMBN battle pack with Jon Sowden. Then the GeorgeMC battle pack for CMRT and now the future CMBN battle pack by Ithikial.

    I am not a big battle pack fan, not bashing them, did they all have to be done by the same guy? Maybe they had to. I don't know.

    This seems inefficient in a way. Maybe in some circumstances they should/could have their "stable" of BFC approved scenario writers all or some of them kick in a scenario and get it out quicker. Right?

    CMFI battle pack is dead quiet. Maybe nobody wants to do it or they backed out? Mentioned by Steve under an assumption or what? I don't know.

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    Annual look at the year to come - 2023

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

    Posted

    From my point of view you have these "official" BFC endorsed battle packs that are integrated into the DRM with a license key and such and make a small bit of money for BFC to do whatever. The guys who make them do a top quality job and have the BFC template briefings and I guess the proper playability in all 3 modes (H2H, vs axis AI and vs allied AI). These guys do it out of pride and loyalty to BFC and I guess do not get a sliver of the profits. I have no idea. None of my business.

    In my 2 cent opinion, I think BFCElvis is the only real productive member of the BFC team. He is on top of so much and can be on the Golf course and handle an issue with somebody. I THINK he is the guy who mails/mailed the old hardcopy CD-ROMS and booklets. I think. Steve is 24/7 manning the Ukraine Thread working on his PhD thesis for post-war exploitation and sales of BFC training products such as "CM Pro" or whatever it is called. Charles works 60 hours a week according to Steve. Maybe we'll see the fruits of Charles's efforts at some point. Picture in picture drone video? Flares? Jack in the box turret explosions? You got me. I do sincerely wish BFC the best of success. 

    I am obviously disgruntled to some degree because BFC doesn't do what I personally want. That is life. I moved on and try to extract the maximum joy out of the game.

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    CMFI KOREA 1950 MOD scenario creation thread (and later with PBEM DAR)

    in Combat Mission Fortress Italy

    Posted · Edited by kohlenklau

    I admit it. When it comes to CM stuff, I am like a guy with about a half-dozen girlfriends. I get all into one and spend a lot of time with her and then - "poof!" - she just doesn't do it for me as much anymore and I head over to another hot chick instead. :D FRANCE 1940 keeps calling me but it always goes to voicemail and I haven't taken her on a date in a while. CMAK2 AFRIKA I have some excitement going on. With that series I can roll in the hay (sand?) with British and various Commonwealth birds, French Mademoiselles, exotic Polish and Indian ladies, Italianas, German frauleins and even some 1940's Apple Pie American babes.  I have a real faded relationship with my Russian Barbarossa beauty. I built a sauna for my fond memories of my time or 2 with that fine female from Finland. I confess I have been eyeballing a Spanish Blue Division senorita upon occasion. ...BUT...KOREA 1950 has got me doodling her name at work and daydreaming of her all day. I told her to enjoy it while she can.

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    In this thread I will yammer on about my creation of a scenario for the CMFI KOREA 1950 MOD. It should eventually end with the PBEM DAR. It is another ASL translation. Gary and I just finished it in VASL and I lost. Sort of just barely I lost. ASL scenario victory conditions can be complex and always need the human player(s) to be involved in the victory analysis and determination. Right now I enjoy ditching CM's normal points and victory determination and shifting over to the ASL style.

    What is the scenario you big mouth?

    It is another great scenario based on historical events written by Pete Shelling. It came out just this year in an ASL related periodical PDF I pay for. 

    "ROCK OF CHICKAMAUGA"

    KADONG-NI, KOREA. July 15, 1950.

    Here is the publicly available online description of the scenario. https://www.aslscenarioarchive.com/scenario.php?id=66450

    Here is the ASL map...

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    The US Army official history is free online https://history.army.mil/books/korea/20-2-1/toc.htm

    Here is page 136 that covers the action the scenario is based upon.

    Page 136 SOUTH TO THE NAKTONG, NORTH TO THE YALU

    The men in B Company saw an estimated 300 to 400 North Korean soldiers on high ground southwest of them-already safely across the river. And they saw that crossings were still in progress downstream at a ferry site. Enemy soldiers, 25 to 30 at a time, were wading into the river holding their weapons and supplies on their heads, and plunging into neck-deep water. [44]

    From his observation post, Colonel Meloy could see the crossing area to the left but few details of the enemy movement. Already B Company had called in artillery fire on the enemy crossing force and Colonel Meloy did likewise through his artillery liaison officer. Capt. Monroe Anderson of B Company noticed that while some of the enemy moved on south after crossing the river, most of them remained in the hills camouflaged as shrubs and small trees. Lieutenant Early, fearing an attack on his rear by this crossing force, left his 3d Platoon and moved back to a better observation point. There for an hour he watched enemy soldiers bypass B Company, moving south. [45]

    By this time it seemed that the North Koreans were crossing everywhere in front of the regiment. As early as 0630 Colonel Winstead had reported to the regiment that his command post and the Heavy Mortar Company were under attack and that the center of his battalion was falling back. The enemy troops making this attack had crossed the river by the partly destroyed bridge and by swimming and wading. They made deep penetrations and about 0800 overran part of the positions of A Company and the right hand platoon of B Company behind the dike. They then continued on south across the flat paddies and seized the high ground at Kadong-ni. Lt. John A. English, Weapons Platoon leader with B Company, seeing what had happened to the one platoon of B Company along the dike, ran down from his hill position, flipped off his helmet, swam the small stream that empties into the Kum at this point, and led out fourteen survivors. [46]

    This enemy penetration through the center of the regimental position to the 1st Battalion command post had to be thrown back if the 19th Infantry was to hold its position. Colonel Meloy and Colonel Winstead immediately set about organizing a counterattack force from the 1st Battalion Headquarters and the Regimental Headquarters Companies, consisting of all officers present, cooks, drivers, mechanics, clerks, and the security platoon. Colonel Meloy brought up a tank and a quad-50 antiaircraft artillery half-track to help in the counterattack. This counterattack farce engaged the North Koreans and drove them from the high ground at Kadong-ni by 0900. Some of the enemy ran to the river and crossed back to the north side. In leading this attack, Maj. John M. Cook, the 1st Battalion Executive Officer, and Capt. Alan Hackett, the Battalion S-1, lost their lives. [47]

    Colonel Meloy reported to General Dean that he had thrown back the North Koreans, that he thought the situation was under control, and that he could hold on until dark as he, General Dean, had requested. 

      

    [44] Interv, Blumenson with Early, 26 Aug 51.

[45] Ibid.; Ltrs, Meloy to author, 4, 30 Dec 52.
 
[46] Ltrs, Meloy to author, 4, 30 Dec 52; Notes, Logan for author, Jun 
52; Ltr, Meloy to author, 29 May 52. 

[47] Notes, Logan for author, Jun 52; Ltr, Meloy to author, 29 May 52: 
Interv, Mitchell with Meloy, 30 Jul 50; Intervs, Blumenson with Early, 
26 Aug 51, and Cutler, 27 Aug 51: 24th Div WD, G-3 Jnl, entry 583, 
160730, Jul 50.

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    Later I will show the Google Earth image of the actual area and slowly develop my CM map and scenario. Then eventually Gary and I lock horns and go at it. Along the way I will try and develop some new [korea] flavor objects and try to make a quality KOREA 1950 map.

     

     

     

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    Generous help needed

    in Combat Mission Cold War

    Posted

    Vojo, think hard, how many folks over there do you have some "influence" with? Maybe you might get a promotional copy of the game and in return write up a quality review or whatever to boost sales in your country/region? Staple flyers to a couple dozen telephone poles? That MIGHT be what @The_Capt is driving at. :D

    Disclaimer: I am a nobody. I don't even own CMCW. 

     

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    CMFI CMAK2 TUNISIA 43 PBEM DAR

    in CM Fortress Italy Maps and Mods

    Posted · Edited by kohlenklau

    Dang. I already have a vehicle immobilized. Maybe it bogged first. No idea. The squad will hoof it onward or maybe I send an available half-track to pick them up. Pappagoat's usfieldjacket mod and his half-track with 48 star flag and dust.

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    I just had 2 other boggings but the drivers worked it out on their own and were able to press onward. Now a tank bogs but makes it out ok. Pappagoat Tunisian Sherman with yellow band around turret.

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    I am sending the mortar platoon HQ with binoculars up to the top of a big hill. LT "Jerry" Springer is tiring but still headed up.

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    I haven't spotted any of his forces yet...BELAY THAT! We have spotted several tanks. Panzer IV's. No Tigers yet.

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    CMFI CMAK2 TUNISIA 43 PBEM DAR

    in CM Fortress Italy Maps and Mods

    Posted · Edited by kohlenklau

    The PBEM commences. A big desert map. 4km x 4km. I forget who made it. Did I make it? I forget. It doesn't say who made it. I don't think I made it.

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    I have it on meeting engagement medium battle size so I think that is around 3000 points we both get. He will buy some Tigers I bet. Ouch.

    2800 points or so it gave me. I got a platoon of Detroit's finest Shermans and some armored infantry in half-tracks with 57mm ATG's plus some more 81mm mortars and an M7 Priest. I have a few jeeps with a flamethrower and a breach team. GAMEY aint I? Everybody is regular and normal just like me and my friends.

    From my US setup zone (a strip along the northwest edge) I race a jeep to Poste de Lessouda. Private Ronson has his flamethrower. The jeep took thr paved road most of the way but then popped it into 4WD and will make the final approach off road. I imagined a German AP round coming straight down the road and nailing the jeep.

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    What I hate in mission combat! (22.5 ° angle road)

    in CM Normandy Maps and Mods

    Posted

    5 hours ago, Widukind said:

    Z folder?

    Yes sir. For CM mods, they go in your z folder. Then restart the game! But this particular mod is a special case because it is used by scenario maker at the time of creating the map. Unlike most other mods, it will not make a visual change just by being in the z folder. Unless you have a scenario where it was used to make the map. Then definitely you need this mod in your z.

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    CMFI CMAK2 TUNISIA 43 PBEM DAR

    in CM Fortress Italy Maps and Mods

    Posted · Edited by kohlenklau

    1 hour ago, AlexUK said:

    It seems like forever since there has been a DAR - great that you are doing one🙂

    I have done a couple lately. Here are links...

    https://community.battlefront.com/topic/141673-cmfi-cmak2-afrika-mods-explosion/?do=findComment&comment=2009797

    https://community.battlefront.com/topic/142292-how-to-make-a-big-mod-test-dummy-log/?do=findComment&comment=2006188

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    CMFI CMAK2 TUNISIA 43 PBEM DAR

    in CM Fortress Italy Maps and Mods

    Posted

    Nope, not an ASL translation. Just an old map I had that I spruced up a bit. Dusted off some old mods as well.

    It is a QB map but doesn't have any AI plans for playing against the computer enemy. 

    My buddy Chris is Scottish. I think he prefers a QB so he can exercise his national attribute of being a bit...shall we say frugal(?) with his unit purchases. :D 

    I am just joking. He likes QB versus a scenario with particular units mandated.


     

     

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    CM KOREA 1950 MOD

    in CM2 Scenario and Mod Tips

    Posted

    I had a blast playing that PBEM. Hearing my scrounged up set of Korean voices, seeing all the UI changes and names and uniforms. The uniforms went from a C- to a B+ as I tweaked the bmp's. I can do a few more tweaks to them I suppose. 

    Gary and I will play some more Korean ASL starting tonight. I have a few candidates for transformation over to the CM world. I do have one FRANCE 1940 scenario to knock out first.

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