DougPhresh

After reading up on night battles during Bagration, and trying to create them in CMRT, I think we are in desperate need of illumination missions.
My carefully planned ambushes of tank columns turn into slugging matches at less than 100m as there is no way to light up the enemy when they enter the kill zone besides leaving my prepared positions and wading in.
The quality of night combat in CMBS thanks to NV just illustrates how badly a way to fight at night is needed for the other titles.

It's small potatoes, but I'd like to see the Tigr have the GMG and MMG
Much more useful

As Graviteam’s creations and those of Battlefront.com regularly find themselves rubbing Schürzen in forum posts and reviews, I asked Vladimir if he felt BFC was missing a trick by not making the Combat Missions available through platforms like Steam. Given Graviteam’s own distribution approach, his answer came as a bit of a surprise:
“They have their own audience and their own tried-and-tested platform. Going to Steam would probably make it not as profitable, and the effect of the transition may not be significant given the percentage that Steam takes. After all, wargames have their own audience, this genre is not very optimal for mass distribution platforms aimed mainly at games of simpler and more popular genres.”

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/06/29/the-flare-path-ukrainian-edition/

Wargamer just covered Battlefront though, it's not all bad.

https://www.wargamer.com/articles/combat-mission-screenshots-battlefront-shock-force-2/

As Graviteam’s creations and those of Battlefront.com regularly find themselves rubbing Schürzen in forum posts and reviews, I asked Vladimir if he felt BFC was missing a trick by not making the Combat Missions available through platforms like Steam. Given Graviteam’s own distribution approach, his answer came as a bit of a surprise:
“They have their own audience and their own tried-and-tested platform. Going to Steam would probably make it not as profitable, and the effect of the transition may not be significant given the percentage that Steam takes. After all, wargames have their own audience, this genre is not very optimal for mass distribution platforms aimed mainly at games of simpler and more popular genres.”

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/06/29/the-flare-path-ukrainian-edition/

I don't think "balance" should be an issue at all. The K98 is hardly balanced against the Garand, but I wouldn't want full German squads of G43s.

I had submitted a request in for selecting Mod Tags by individual unit in the Editor in the “Appearance” tab a while back. It’s a big wish list item for me as well. Hopefully it gets implemented at some point.

I don't think "balance" should be an issue at all. The K98 is hardly balanced against the Garand, but I wouldn't want full German squads of G43s.

Good point! Would be interesting to see the next Ukraine campaign focusing on the "second rate troops" fighting it out with the top of the line Russian armored spearheads.

I agree that QB selection should mirror editor. The addition of the tank platoon into the Russian Recce Battalion (Old) is pretty important, as well as organic jeeps and trucks in the ww2 infantry battalions.
I would also like to be able to add special ammo to at least supply trucks if not more vehicles. Having extra 82mm mortar rounds for my on-map mortars or being able to reload a purchased ATGM team without having to get a transport from the ATGM platoon of a separate battalion would be a great addition.
 

I agree that QB selection should mirror editor. The addition of the tank platoon into the Russian Recce Battalion (Old) is pretty important, as well as organic jeeps and trucks in the ww2 infantry battalions.
I would also like to be able to add special ammo to at least supply trucks if not more vehicles. Having extra 82mm mortar rounds for my on-map mortars or being able to reload a purchased ATGM team without having to get a transport from the ATGM platoon of a separate battalion would be a great addition.
 

We often talk about the game in terms of the reality on the ground today but don't forget that BFC have created a fictitious back story that includes a non trivial effort to modernize the Ukrainian army before the conflict starts. So, we can feel free to try to simulate on the ground now scenarios but the game design defaults are *not* simulating that.

That's my thinking as well. It's with courage and tenacity that Ukraine has held out so long, not weapons systems.
I hope any future module will bring the hundreds of BMP-1s and BTR-80s to the UKR side, not the latest gizmos that have a single unit in service. Heck, even for support D-30 towed guns make up a huge part of the UKR inventory but are absent.

I think this is similar to questions about echelon elements like signals, engineers, medical, logistics. I always though CM engagements started after recce and maneuver, and ended before vehicles were recovered from the AO, fully supply was established, etc.
As much as I would like a 50x50km area to operate in complete with little MPs directing traffic and cooks busy in the field kitchens, managing the forward elements of a battalion is already a big scale for the level of detail in the engine.

I'm excited to see this play out. Bill has a good grasp of recce, it's a joy to see such good planning.

I don't want to get into this too much, but this happened while I was with Battlegroup in '08,
https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/capt-robert-semrau-dismissed-from-the-forces/

My $0.02 CAD is having 12th SS kill Canadian prisoners out of hand in CMBN doesn't improve gameplay or immersion. Similarly, I would like to be able to treat enemy casualties in accordance with the LOAC, but I don't think that there should be systems to enable war crimes.

I don't want to get into this too much, but this happened while I was with Battlegroup in '08,
https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/capt-robert-semrau-dismissed-from-the-forces/

My $0.02 CAD is having 12th SS kill Canadian prisoners out of hand in CMBN doesn't improve gameplay or immersion. Similarly, I would like to be able to treat enemy casualties in accordance with the LOAC, but I don't think that there should be systems to enable war crimes.

I don't want to get into this too much, but this happened while I was with Battlegroup in '08,
https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/capt-robert-semrau-dismissed-from-the-forces/

My $0.02 CAD is having 12th SS kill Canadian prisoners out of hand in CMBN doesn't improve gameplay or immersion. Similarly, I would like to be able to treat enemy casualties in accordance with the LOAC, but I don't think that there should be systems to enable war crimes.

I don't want to get into this too much, but this happened while I was with Battlegroup in '08,
https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/capt-robert-semrau-dismissed-from-the-forces/

My $0.02 CAD is having 12th SS kill Canadian prisoners out of hand in CMBN doesn't improve gameplay or immersion. Similarly, I would like to be able to treat enemy casualties in accordance with the LOAC, but I don't think that there should be systems to enable war crimes.

That's a warcrime, in case you weren't aware.

Slitherine seems to be doing very well on Steam.

Crossposting:
In light of the R2V revelations, I'm guessing Co-Belligerents, RSI and a second-look at the Italian OOB in Sicily would be it's own module? 
What were the most surprising TOE notes? I think I read somewhere that the Commonwealth used Sherman 76s in Italy, which I don't recall them doing in North-West Europe.
 
Looks amazing!!

Also with my experience even 2000's vehicles like LAVs and G-Wagons aren't just really to roll as soon as you start trying to turn it over. I wouldn't turn my engine off unless I wasn't expecting to go anywhere soon and not expecting contact.

I'm hoping for this too! I need my Emchas!

Whole lot of people who have never served obsessed with toys ITT
What's that saying about amateurs studying tactics and professionals studying logistics...