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Ah, you’re missing out Centurian. Multiplayer is where it’s at. Well worth the time. In my humble, but correct,  opinion. 

Too bad you can’t Kickstarter feature requests a la cart. E.g.
Replay feature $20,000.00
BAOR $5,000.00
BOAR Space Lobsters $20,000.00
Sewer Movement $2.00
😝
EDIT: Actually… I’d back the Space Lobsters!

I’m going to get the new module regardless but try a PBEM with a Soviet battalion using their best weaponry in 1982 vs Abrams and Bradley’s. If you’re playing the Soviets you are not going to have a fun time. 

This was made using the Fight Club version and I was able to edit the CSV's to recreate light infantry Ukrainians with Javelins and AJAX support against Donovians. 
 
 

Nicely said! 👍

Dang... I was hoping the BOARs would be the chink in the armor that finally got us Space Lobsters...

That description of how much the CM2 engine has to work almost makes me think that there's a great need for making a new game engine that can deal with all that much easier.

China is in a position in which they can wait and let the tides change on their own.
 
My fear is that if Battlefront releases a game on this topic, then the topic will come to fruition as their mystic powers manifest yet another real-life conflict.

@Free Whisky & @domfluff, what a difference a bit of organization makes!  I'm still playing the campaign game and I've gone from decimated in my first game to barely scratched in my second game. I've coordinated my artillery, used my echelons to pave the way for the next echelon and stuck to a single plan.  I'm pretty much using Domfluff's AoA 2 route.
Practically all of my casualties have been from air strikes, which I really couldn't do anything about (so don't count ).  My first two echelons were just eventually chewed up by US airpower, but not after achieving their objectives of scouting the enemy and prepping the route. As soon as my main body arrived the US airpower was just swatted out of the sky.

WTII will notice that a file has been downloaded when you are playing the turn. As long as you do not tell WTII to so start managing that file it will do nothing. Even if you do I highly doubt it will cause a problem because it will copy the file but not delete anything right away.
Regardless don't tell WTII to manage a PBEM+ game file. You will be confused and so will WTII.

@Free Whisky & @domfluff, what a difference a bit of organization makes!  I'm still playing the campaign game and I've gone from decimated in my first game to barely scratched in my second game. I've coordinated my artillery, used my echelons to pave the way for the next echelon and stuck to a single plan.  I'm pretty much using Domfluff's AoA 2 route.
Practically all of my casualties have been from air strikes, which I really couldn't do anything about (so don't count ).  My first two echelons were just eventually chewed up by US airpower, but not after achieving their objectives of scouting the enemy and prepping the route. As soon as my main body arrived the US airpower was just swatted out of the sky.

That's what makes this such a great game system, Greg.  Will be interested in discussing how you got on with your Soviet campaign.   My units were easily devastated playing the US against you.

And we were a Charles S Roberts PC Wargame of the Year nominee as well, tell your friends!
Very glad you are enjoying the game.  It is remarkable to me our little baby is still gaining followers almost two years after it debuted.

I just started this one up and while my CRP did in fact ID some tanks and a TOW m113, I didn't get to destroy/suppress them before the FSE came in. Although I could adjust my 122battery fire onto the observed mech infantry on the edge of the town on the right. When my FSE spawned I dismounted my infantry fearing a big slaughter but the firefight quickly went my way. Did lose two BTR (sans passengers fortunately) but the tanks and ATGM-BTR did good job. One ID'ed enemy tank left but it can't shoot down on the right flank. Shilka took down a chopper (and did a good job suppressing an m60 as well), but is now out of ammo while another chopper is coming overhead.
Anyway that's how far I got until a PBEM turn came in.
Have all my TRPs on this side of the mountain, not sure if that is wise but I thought at least the rest of the map can be observed from the mountain once we get there. So at least my start isn't that 'unpleasant', perhaps got lucky or have a different AI plan.

I think the first campaign mission is pretty great. It's brutal, sure, but it's doable with minimal casualties, with a sound approach.

A quick sketch of the first part:



Each element in the Soviet scheme sets the conditions for what follows.

The CRP's first role is to find the enemy units on the near hill. This means taking up forward positions in the treeline, and also calling in fires on the obvious AT positions. Since AT 1 won't have line of sight to where the FSE is coming in, AT 2 is the focus of these preliminary fires.

The FSE will then turn up, and will start to engage targets. The gamism here is that these won't benefit from the spotting contacts from the CRP, but you the player can still do so, and should. The FSE should be able to fight it's way up, with the intention of forming a base of fire on the hill.

When the main body arrives, they have two potential avenues of approach. AoA 1 will be faster, and will push across the open. AoA2 is using the dead ground to follow the same axis as the FSE.

Again, each element enables the following. In this case, the FSE's base of fire includes getting line of sight to AT 1. AT 1 is far too large to deny with fires in total, so you need the ISR picture from the FSE to discover where things are, for the main body to exploit.

There are still some high levels of variance in this scenario - CAS and AA in Combat Mission don't offer much in the way of deep decision making, so the losses there will be fairly random.

So no, I don't think it's a bad scenario. I'm not sure it's a particularly pleasant one, and you may well take extraordinary losses, but you have an enormous force and all the tools you need, and I think it does a good job of making you use those core ideas in terrain that's pretty challenging. I don't think the scenario is without fault, but I've seen a lot of people rage at it, and I just don't think that's remotely deserved.

I have not had any success in getting out of my setup areas in that first scenario either. It is just a bitch of a scenario. I gave up trying the Soviet campaign (I probably don't have the proper mindset for it). Other scenarios, especially the ones demonstrating Soviet doctrine specifically, are much better at showing how to make Soviet doctrine work. The campaign designers even say in several threads it is a very difficult campaign.
Here is a thread by someone that got a victory in the campaign.
What I have found to be successful, but can't really be used in that campaign scenario from what I have seen, is massive arty prep, direct fire support from tank guns, and rolling forward as fast and hard as possible while the enemy is discomfited from the prep and support fires.

I'm playing the Soviet campaign Ride of the 120th and just getting slaughtered.  All those tanks on the high ground, its like shooting fish in a barrel.  I'm obviously doing something wrong.  Can somebody explain how to effectively use Soviet doctrine in Cold War?  Or maybe link me a couple good articles to read about it.  Those RPGs just don't have the range to take on long range targets.  Also the Soviet Tanks (T-62s) are really having trouble hitting their targets.  Is it just me, or is the T-64 a much, much better tank?
EDIT: Ah, I see Domfluff has some videos.  I'll watch those and see what I've been missing...

Not an expert on PBEM++. but I heard my friend talked about a very similar issue in a different game. Flashpoint Campaign Southern Storm. It looks like PBEM++ will leave a seed file on our save folder to help reading the game later. Sometime this seed might be corrupted. So he remove all the save file into a different folder. Unload the turn from PBEM++ again, then everything goes back to normal.
 
Hope that helps

Yes! They can sell emotes and skins for your soldiers and tanks.
 

There's something wrong with 'me tanks. They keep explodin'!

I guess I should rummage about in the garage and dig out my FC2 box, and try this. Been a *very* long time.

Got FC2 working again in DOSBOX and Windows 3.1.  That was a trip.

Got FC2 working again in DOSBOX and Windows 3.1.  That was a trip.

Dunno, there are other security risks to consider:
 

Is the latest release the battle pack for Red Thunder? It has some good games on there. Just started one from @George MC.