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  1. I find, and I mean no offence, for any game I'm really invested in, do research, provide a lot of feedback, get involved with the community, particularly Grognard games, I'll get burnt out and take a year or more off the forums. There are a lot of reasons, one of them is that the time between patches or developer updates is really difficult, especially when many of these titles are so close to what I'd like them to be, with mostly janky issues, engine problems, etc. holding them back.
  2. Do Dutch engineers still carry two rifles? I haven't been able to check. I'd just like to know if our bug reports are seen and acted on, is all. What were the major fixes here? "Matrix/Slitherine Tournament scoring fix" does not really address the bulk of the problems. I'm a little disappointed, if I'm being frank.
  3. Hopefully that net can be widened for the Jewish Brigade, Greek Brigade, Co-Belligerents, RSI Partisans etc. I would just say to look at what Eugen did in their Italy DLC for Steel Division 2. It was the most multinational theatre of war for the Western Allies, there's a great opportunity there to showcase it. e: I did not read the preceding discussion and don't want to cause trouble or anything. I just like reading the OOBs for the Italian Campaign and think Eugen did a good job. I just happen to believe Battlefront can do it better.
  4. My only feedback would be that I'm personally a bit put off with the bias towards Axis scenarios, in what feels like all titles, and would like to see more Allied and Soviet long campaigns. I realize that's a personal feeling and a lot of people are here for the Panzers and "against all odds" thing, but I would have appreciated to see more of Soviet forces and doctrine at the close of the war, and a Canadian campaign for Fortress Italy. I would gladly pay for a battle pack across all WW2 titles that gave care and attention to the Allies and Soviets in a Huge and very long campaign. I realize that researching the Soviets in particular can be more difficult, but there are mountains of information on the Free French, Canadians and Poles in Italy, and I feel like they deserve a capstone campaign each.
  5. As a Professional user in my day job and what feels like a lifelong fan, I do think they've done a good job balancing development with a small team. War gamers and staff officers are a tough crowd to please, but their passion comes through in their work and their adaptation of Steam after years and years of discussion shows a willingness to be responsive, listen to the community and reach new fans. I imagine the Professional orders have taken up a large amount of time, in part because we're a demanding bunch, and also because of the nature of government procurement and contracting. Beyond that, current events sunk a Black Sea module that seems to have had a fair bit of work invested in it. The important thing to me is that they're communicating with the community here, and have remained committed to it even when people are disappointed. This has often been a point of contention, and again shows a lot of positive development. I don't want all that to get lost. In terms of specifics, of course I would like to see Partisans, Co-Belligerents and RSI in Fortress Italy, and a fully developed TOE and OOB for Italian forces in Sicily which right now are lacking a lot. I'd love to see Brigade Piron and the Princess Irene's in Battle for Normandy/Final Blitzkrieg, and the Scheldt and Rhine Crossings for the Commonwealth in Final Blitzkrieg. Finally, as with it seems everyone else, minor Axis / new Allies for Red Thunder, particularly the Poles and Romanians who played a huge role in critical operations. This is my "Christmas list" every year, and I want to point out again that in Fire and Rubble, we got partisans. That's a major item was on the list addressed, just as Rome to Victory crossed off nearly all of my wishes for Allied forces in that title. These aren't small things, and I just want to take the time to show that they don't go unnoticed. The new year is sure to be marked with some frustration, disappointment and delay, like every year, but there will be high points too, and sometimes that gets lost in the moment. Merry Christmas everyone.
  6. There were a lot of guys rocking Wheeler (CP Tech) vests when I was there, in both flavours of CADPAT. I had one in TW. I don't think I saw any of the Bosnia vintage stuff, other than the flannel shirts and bush hats guys had squirrelled away and not returned to clothing.
  7. I came in expecting all Campaign plausibility discussion to be about BS.
  8. Battalion v Battalion on Huge would be my ideal QB for every game in the series, and I agree that on CMFI it can feel like watching a slideshow. Hopefully the move to steam and the Engine 5 stuff lets those older titles really enter this decade.
  9. I think all titles should have Huge maps. It’s 2022, our PCs can handle it! Hopefully this is kept in mind as Steam allows for easier updates, maybe making QBs out of the master maps?
  10. “Viking Summer” is also really interesting. Forget the full title offhand.
  11. I'm positive that Ukrainian Mountain Battalions have these in the weapons company in base game CMBS.
  12. Would you say these are the contender for Fortress Italy's Battle Pack? A combination of all three? (You've had 6 years to work on it ) What I would hope for is focussing the pack for Fortress Italy on filling out the Italian roster in Sicily, then moving on to add Partisans, RSI and Co-Belligerents. The upcoming Steel Division 2 DLC, "Tribute to the Liberation of Italy" is doing just that. Working on the Italians would add diverse content for the full period from 43-45. Much of the equipment and vehicles could be used in a great variety of scenarios, and by a variety of forces under the Italian Banner, RSI, Co-Belligerents, and impressed into German Service. It's the most bang for your buck! I hope you take this under consideration, as Italy's continued role on both sides after the Armistice, as well as the Italian Civil War are often forgotten, and I think there are some opportunities here for very unique OOBs and TOEs adding a lot of diversity and fitting well into existing modules and scenarios. Happy New Year!
  13. I'm a little concerned reading some of the feedback here - I was looking forward to buying FR, having just read The Wehrmacht's Last Stand, The End, and Violence In Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil. I would have really liked to see the Wehrmacht as a broken force fighting a lost war, with cobbled together groups of stragglers, depleted and disorganized units, and disheartened Volkstrum clinging to the field mostly out of fear of falling into Russian hands rather than anything else. That's a Wehrmacht we hardly ever get to see in wargaming, while we've all seen the force depicted at its apogee.
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