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Yeah, I know, I know. It’s probably due to my age, that I not necessarily a fan of such external solutions. Plus years and years ago, when Dropbox was still quite new and I still quite stupid, I lost several years worth of photos due to Dropbox “abuse”. But that’s a different story.

Hm, I would not upload real private stuff to Dropbox anyway. Nothing what you would not like to share with everybody. Certainly not your tax declaration or similar....

Yep, that is the updated version. Unfortunately, the original mod description got lost, when Bootie migrated the stuff from GaJ‘s site to the FGM site. If it is of interested: There should be another „splash mod“ with the overture from „A bridge too far“ on the FGM site. Fit‘s nicely to MG scenarios. If you don‘t find, drop me a line.

Hi Umlaut, I searched for "Herr von Albert" , but found nothing except the original mod. I.e., if you have time and patience, I would very much appreciate, if you could try to reconstruct a psd file. Actually, it would make sense to have something like that in the Mod Depot. IIRC, there is already a collection of the various CM logos, which would fit nicely to such a template.

@umlaut Hi Umlaut I long since have your force specific backgrounds (those screens which pop up during scenario loading) for CMBN installed and recently found some others in the Mod Depot, which are just photo collections without the Combat Mission frame. I installed those together with your collection, with the result that I now get a mix of pic´s with and without frame as loading screens. Now I wonder, if you would share a template for this frame, into which I can paste the pic´s without frame. My goal is obviously to have one set only and to have them all look similar in the end.

Thx, Vanir. That helped indeed.

Ah, thanks for the hint. I’ll check that tomorrow. How did you avoid that the patch creates it’s own folder?

@BFCElvis: Stupid question: Should I see the V1.01 on the CW start screen? I installed the patch, have the v101.brz file in the Data folder, but otherwise I don’t see a change (without searching for the details).

Well, there is an easy fix. Just create a collection of „force specific backgrounds“ with all the pic‘s you want, submit it to @Bootie and ask him to upload it to the CM Mod Depot. Have a look there first, you will find plenty of examples of force specific background mods for other CM titles in the Mod Depot.

Eh, why don’t you just leave it to the guys designing new scenarios? I would assume, their intend is to have fun with the design work and I am quite sure they spent a considerable of their free time doing so. If we (and you) like the result: Great! And don‘t forget to say „Thanks.“ If not, shut up or make a helpful comment to the scenario designer. As others stated, even an assault against a well placed, completely motionless Defense can be an extremely challenging task for the attacker and may be thrilling for the hard pressed defender.

Yep, I have a copy of the “No Retreat: North African Front”. Actually, I have the complete series. Excellent very grand strategic games. Very manageable, but not too simple. The Russian Front game uses only about 70 counters for the whole War in the East from 41 to 45.

Hi Erwin, “Campaign for North Africa” goes for USD 700 on EBay: https://www.ebay.ch/itm/324555356555 So, yes, there is some interest in WW2 Afrika Korps, if that is what you want to say...

Well, a long time there were „Achtung Spitfire“ and „Over the Reich“. Both excellent games. But unfortunately really not up to today’s technical standard anymore. Though, I tried Achtung Spitfire recently again and found it at least fun.

Tja, become a member of the Bltz and request a name change.

TWC means the scenario has been made by „The Blitz Wargame Club“, if I recall correctly. VP means „Vehicle Pack“ and indicates, that you need to have the vehicle pack to play this scenario. Such scenarios use some of the equipment, which was included in the VP only, like the Crocodiles or minesweepers.

If I recall correctly, the weight info may have a practical use, since there is a weight limitation for different types of bridges. The other data a probably more „for your information“. Resp., they are certainly built into the game system, but we without practical use for the gamer. Except, they give you an impression of what you can expect from a vehicle. E.g., a heavy tank with little (motor) power will probably have a poor acceleration and climbing rate. But such things you will quickly learn anyway. Forgot to say: Welcome to the forum!

That‘s a good question for @BFCElvis...

Let me try to give some answers: 1) CM2 does not have very high hardware requirements. I personally play it on a 5 years old gaming PC with an nowadays almost ancient Nvidia GTX980 graphics card and I am perfectly happy with it. Many people here play it on a lap top. So, in general terms: CM on a lap top? No problem. Though others are more competent to give you spec’s. @Schrullenhaft comes to my mind... 2) Nowadays everything is download content. Sadly, no more DVD’s. 3) The CM games require only a few GB of your disk. Your potential new lap top will probably have a minimum 1000 GB SSD. Space enough for all CM games plus many many mods, even after Win10 reserved it’s share. Good luck and have fun with Combat Mission.

Whow! That one looks good, indeed. Let’s hope it comes out well.

Now we know, why the Russian Navy is not included in CM: https://www.20min.ch/video/raketenstart-von-russischer-kriegsflotte-missglueckt-677351963543 And: No more complaints about “Blue on Blue“ incidents in CM!

That's the first scenario I played with CMCW. I just left the M60's in a hull down position in the sunken "Bundesstrasse" and sent an infantry squad forward into the small village in the center. The result: A total US victory after 40 minutes or so. It felt more like a target practice on the shooting range. One M60 killed, two badly damaged and else a M113 killed by an airstrike and some jeeps plus infantry lost to arty. Ah, plus 12 (or something) T72's burning... Only one T72 made it to the small hamlet in the mid field.

Ooops, must be case of „selective memory“ on my side. I remember only a lush, green, rural countryside and a pitoresque medieval old town. But you are probably right, Braunschweig and Kassel sport a similar beautiful architecture. Why not Fulda, too.

Yep, you won‘t see many of those in the area CMCW covers...

Could be worse. I once had a business trip to Bahrain scheduled just when a new CM game came out...

What? Don’t you believe this perfect as usual?