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I'd like to play that! Where could I find this "Road to Mortain" campaign? Or did you mean to say "Road to Montebourg" instead?

I concur. The Mortain battles of that German offensive 7-13 August 1944 comprise a dynamic situation. I actually did a moderate amount of research on the US 30th ID battles for that operation a decade ago with an eye towards developing CMBN scenarios from that. RL intervened and I never got back to it. I still have all my old files for it.

I have the 14 Aris did for CMBN. It's a 4.4M zip file and won't upload here. Where can I send it?

I should have posted an update after Thanksgiving. I think a Win11 update fixed this back then. The Steam version of this game now works for me on Win11 since early December.

You should be okay. I updated to Win11 on a recently acquired gaming desktop which I had previously installed CMBN, CMFI, CMFB, and CMCW when it was still a Windows 10 PC. All those titles seems to play fine on Win11. However, I am unable to run Combat Mission Cold War using Steam on this Windows 11 PC. I originally purchased CMCW from Battlefront. Last week I was able to successfully obtain my Slitherine Steam Key, add this game to my Steam library, and download the game from Steam. Yet when I try to start the game from Steam on a Win11 OS PC, the game fails to run. When I press "play" in the Slitherine game window, the Windows little circle shows up for a moment and then goes away. I've restarted my PC and changed the Steam Library CMCW executable on my PC to Win8 compatibility without success. So, I have no problems playing the Battlefront versions on Win11 but I am unable to play the Steam version of CMCW. Support tickets are logged. Go figure . . .

You might find it at FGM among some of the ASL websites noted here --> SCENARIO DESIGNER’S WORKSHOP – Scenario Battle Resources

@IanL - "Sorry, we can't show this content because you do not have permission to see it." ??

Duh, I should know that! 1989 was when the Berlin Wall came down . . .

Gosh, Dave, I should remember that but can't. I only recall that Chernobyl was in 1989 and a lot of dynamics changed after that. What was the 1988 incident you reference?

If no one takes you up on this here, check out the CM forum threads at The Few Good Men - CM Modern Titles forum.

During WW2 (the time period of your question) at the line company/platoon level, aligning the FO along the same directional line as the guns was the preferred option. The techniques WW2 Forward Observers used to adjust fires, Fire Direction Centers used for re-calculations, and crew drill traversing the guns were not as good as those used today (even without computerized FDC's). I don't know how the WW2 CM games might handle it as opposed to those historical experiences.

Yes, those would all be "Danger Close" fire missions with extremely limited visibility to adjust rounds. There was enough grousing about Friendly Fire casualties, warranted or not, as it was.

Thank you for the correction. I did not know this pre-1942 history behind the KMT/PLA conflicts. I think of the KMT in WW2 anti-Japanese USA alliance terms. I forget the deeper history before then.

That picture is nonsense. The Chinese Nationalists (aka Kuomintang) were US equipped. Helmets were GI steel pots. Arms were M1 Garand, BAR, Thompson smg, and such. It's the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) which wore soft caps and used bolt-action rifles (German stocks from old Imperial arsenals and US Springfields left over from US WW2 lend-lease). In the 1950's the PLA adopted Soviet style equipment, especially in Korea.

WW2 units tended to be racially (USA) and ethnically (European territories) segregated although there are exceptions. Here are faces at The CM Mod Warehouse which someone can mix and match from other CM titles for a more integrated look (depending how CMCW labels those files). Aris Faces Mod CMRT JorgeMCs CMRT Faces German Winter Faces CMBN & CMFI Aris US Weathered Faces JorgeMc UK Moustaches CMBN Mod Japanese Forces (Brits, SS) I also have Aris's mods for African-American-Faces-CMBN, Asian-Faces1-CMFI, and Asian-Faces2-CMFI which are too big to post here but I can email to someone who wants to host on a file share URL. Yo, @Mord - what are the URL's where I can find your FOG2 mods? I'd like to check them out. Thanks.