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Since I´ve just uploaded a few Red Thunder mods and I´m probably going to upload more, I´ve decided to start a single thread dedicated to all my mods. Rather than begin a new thread for every new mod.
 
The latest mods are weathered Hetzers - in German and Hungarian versions (the ones in the picture are hungarian)
 

 
 
Previous Mods:
 
 
Nashorn:
 

 
 
 
Decalled King Tigers - Henschel turret
 

 
 
SdKfz 251 Ausf. C halftracks
 

Vin's Animated Text mod CMBS v1.03 (Graphics version)
 
Concept by Vin
Graphics by Marco Bergman
 
Thank you Marco for updating the graphics version. This is only compatible with CMBS v1.03. If you are using the mod and are getting screwy text you are not using a compatible version. To use put either the "Light", or "Heavy" folder in your mods folder. Only difference in the two versions is "spotting".
Light maintains the word as a filter that can be ignored making the symbols stand out, while Heavy uses the graphic of an "eye" instead of the word.
Enjoy!
 
 
Vin animated text CMBS v103 light.zip
Vin animated text CMBS v103 heavy.zip

Had to evict them out.
 

11,000+ pics. Should keep a few of you off the streets for a bit. The France category is very heavy on Normandy on D-Day and beyond.
 
http://www.worldwarphotos.info
 
Mr Trowbridge has done himself proud. Just one of his treasures. School of Armor Technology study on attacking the Panther and Tiger 1. Rejoice all ye ordnance and weapon effectiveness grogs.

http://jtrowbridge5.smugmug.com/German-tank-evaluation/TIGER-1-and-PANTHER/
 
One of myriad treasures, amid a sea of pics of AFVs (many unseen before by me) and other weapons in the field, wrecked, captured, in museums, etc. B&W and color. Any SAN loss is your fault, not mine. 
 
http://jtrowbridge5.smugmug.com
 
T-34
 
http://jtrowbridge5.smugmug.com/SovietTanksatWar/T34/
 
British wartime assessment of KV-1 provided by Russia

http://jtrowbridge5.smugmug.com/NEW-2015/In-Depth-view-of-Russian-KV-1/
 
M-3 Grant
 
http://jtrowbridge5.smugmug.com/Other-1/M3-Grant-medium-tank/
 
Tiger 1 command tank pic which is pretty strange
 
http://jtrowbridge5.smugmug.com/Photosyoumaymissedinlst10years/Part-1-3/
 
Panthers in every state imaginable.
 
http://jtrowbridge5.smugmug.com/Photosyoumaymissedinlst10years/Part-8-1/
 
A thoroughly misnamed juicy  file which includes a pic of the mythical Bren AA tripod mount!
 
http://jtrowbridge5.smugmug.com/Shermansatwar/Part-One/
 
If those don't whet you appetite, I believe a toe tag may be in order.
 
 
Regards,
 
John Kettler

1940 was preparation time, but not war. 1939 was the winter war and 1941 started continuation war what lasted to 1944. After that we fought against the germans in lapland. I think you meant the 1941.  
 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162625/
 
btw, if someone want to see serious kick-ass movie about russo-finnish winterwar, check this clip:
 

 
Here is the whole movie with subtitles:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWEt20DwcmQ

QB mech inf, auto buy
 

^ Battlefront, fix the hand posture, would you?

runs same on my pc (gtx 970  +4690k 3.9ghz turbo boost) ,
i decided to play all cm games on fastest or faster and  /Improved textures, aa: off ,vs:off, High priority process:off (gives smoother keyboard/mouse reaction). i was looking at 3 battalions (US) and i had 60-40 fps, its totally different feeling. giving orders in 60 fps, smoothness outweights 'bad' graphics. 
 
This game's realistic settings is faster models and maybe best textures (not sure about how much we can push textures yet), AA is Luxury here  ,should be off, not to mention supersampling, thats sci fi. VS and other minor things dont count for much in most cases
 
i see same pattern everywhere, developers (and i am not attacking them) want to have beautiful games , but in reality they cant (unless you think 15-35 fps is playable) , i can understand that , but from now on i ll just play realistically , on fastest/faster + improved.
 
FPS > graphics 
Gameplay>looks 

Yep, conscript quality Volkstrum companies. Module includes new vehicle:
 

Open letter and personal statement
 
I would like to express a few words on a recent situation that came out in the gaming community: pay for mods. I have no intention to, I never had intention to and I will never ask for money for my mods. I strongly belive that my modding is something done for myself and my tastes (first of all) and for the benefit of the community (or at least those who might be interested in trying/using such mods). I belive that a lot of credit should be given to BFC (in this particular case) for making not only a great game but also a good mod support (instruments for unpacking/packing, file priority upload for the game mods, dedicated modding folder, easy to work with file formats).
I am for FREE modding, I respect those modders who ask, or are open to, donations and such, but I do not support any kind of paywall for mods, which are, in my opinion, a form of player-generated, free content for a game. 
 
I kindly ask not to start a Whole discussion about this matter here, but in case use another forum section. At the same time I had the desire to express these few lines here because I felt as part of the matter in question.

Thanks! Will try and report later.

I think the Reptilians from Alpha Centauri are causing this. If they planned to invade earth, they would certainly strike first where the "people who know more about military tactics than any man living" reside, to quote JasonC, which would be here, at the Battlefront.com forums. I hope you all have your tinfoil hats on.

Some Combat footage.
 

I have the pleasure to present you  HQS 2.0  -   huge modification for CM Battle for Normandy/ CM Red Thunder/ CM Fortress Italy - adds or replaces almost all the sounds in the game. That's more than 2,100 sounds, a lot of improvements and modifications really improve immersion in the game.
 
Changelog 2.0
1187 additional sounds
- Italian voice
- Americans voice
- Russian voice
- improved Poland voice
- new air support
- new background
- new explosion
- improved soldier movement
- new incoming artillery
- new bullets and shells/impact/penetrations/ricochets/zips
- new air weapons
and of course lots of other fixes and improvements
 
http://cmmods.greenasjade.net/mods/5486/details

Youtubes fine on my end, and this really isn't the place for a post like this.

Just last night, I was watching a bunch of real world goodies pertinent to CMBS and had excellent audio. A short time ago, I watched TV programs online. That was fine, too. But in looking at an array of things on YT just now, nothing has audio. It's all got the dread "X" on the speaker image. I thoroughly checked at 3:30 AM (3:42 AM, 03/14/15 where I am presently) to make sure my sound was on and volume adequate. 
 
T-90 (in Russian)  A tremendous vid, may I add? Not a sound. 
 

 
Dad used to crack wise about easy college courses, such as Basket Weaving and Canoe Tilting, rather than Engineering. Guess what? The audio there doesn't work, either.
 
Making Willow Baskets
 

 
Kelly's Heroes Showdown with a Tiger scene
 

 
I don't know what's going on or why, but I absolutely hate this and am concerned this is some insane new YT policy. If so, someone needs to replace YT. Stat.
 
Regards,
 
John Kettler

Zveroboy1,
 
If the Eastern Front is the redheaded stepchild of the CM2 family, take heart that the child was ever born to begin with. Some of us have been trying to get a PTO game since the first CMx1 game, CMBO, came out. But we can't so much as get mating to occur. There are people who've done some amazing PTO mods, but it's hardly the same. We'd be thrilled to have something as simple as a Vehicle Pack, so we could go do the rest ourselves, but that isn't happening, either. If you want more Eastern Front love, then make the kind of argument which will get Steve's attention and magnanimity--greatly improved CMRT sales.
 
It probably doesn't help your cause, though, that the whole area of GPW conflict is presently akin to a pressure cooker with a marginally performing, worsening, safety valve. I could be wrong, possibly hugely so, but sales might be better if 1C, the Russian firm which created CM:Afghanistan, which BFC developed, had done CMRT. I say that because there is apparently a large Russian gaming community and having a Russian firm create it would theoretically have gotten the locals excited, generating a lot of sales from motivated buyers interested in the GPW. This is, of course, pure speculation, since I don't know how many copies of CMRT BFC has sold and expects to sell. Nor do I have even the remotest idea how big the Russian gaming community is and of those players, how many are GPW buffs, care about Op Bagration, and at what price point they would buy. Way too many unknowns, but what I do know is that Steve's not about to bet the firm on a hope. He, like investigative reporters, has to follow the money. Unless and until the European side of the gaming community begins to be a significant part of the gaming market, the reality is that BFC's game and module choices are going to be heavily skewed toward what the principal customers, Americans, want and have shown they're willing to pay for.
 
Also, it occurs to me that Op Bagration may not be floating the boat of the panzerphiles, if you will. CMRT doesn't have much because the German mech forces had been wiped out wholesale in many areas and were mere shells elsewhere. The Germans aren't on the strategic offense or teetering into the strategic defense. They are deep into it and trying desperately to hold things together. Mainly with infantry.
 
This sort of stands Panzerphile World™ on its head. In order to really be able to play with lots of tanks, one has to be Russian. A lot of gamers aren't interested in that (I know someone who always has to be the Germans, as a case in point), so this may be a further factor working against CMRT. There's heavy armor, but it comes with red stars and "Za Stalina" on the turrets.
 
As if that weren't enough, there's the whole Cold War thing. Russia was our ally during WW II but became our enemy after the war. And like it or not, to this day if you call the average 30-35+ American adult male a commie, there's a high likelihood you'll get rapped in the chops, for to us that is an insult and not a small one Thus, taking Russia in CMRT, I suspect, brings up strong negative associations of being a commie. True, calling someone a Nazi is also not going to go well, but the Germans are seen as having the cool toys (oh so many sizes and shapes, forget the logistics nightmare in the real war) and the cool camouflage, too. Russians have only a relative handful of AFV, gun and vehicle types, and they with very few exceptions come in either Russian green or whitewash over same.I guarantee you far more people in the US have heard of a Tiger tank than have heard of a T-34. And hit movies such as SPR and Fury have only made this even more true.
 
This split has been true for decades when it comes to WW II models as well. Model competition after model competition in the US will show German AFVs, guns and softskins to be the dominant category, with Tiger tanks of every stripe guaranteed to be prominently featured. I've been a student of Russian armor going back to high school, and I built the Tamiya SU-100 back when models came with rubber tracks and motors, but the meat of the market was the German stuff. I say this not just as a former modeler, but as someone who set up and ran a hobby shop; who knew and dealt directly with all the model builders in a good sized city. Anything German was hot, even if it was a staff car. I'd say the situation has begun to reverse itself somewhat in the last decade or so because Russian and other regional firms have put out a slew of Russian models on every conceivable subject. If you want a T-26 model of a chemical warfare variant that is armed with two big Flash Gordon style mustard gas rockets, you've got it, but there used to be almost nothing. 
 
Summing up, I believe the factors I've listed probably have exerted  a strong negative cumulative effect on CMRT sales and constitute a real and financially significant inertia which BFC has to contend with every time it seeks to do something Eastern Front related. We got Op Bagration because it allowed BFC to leverage a huge outlay in units, models, weapon characteristics, animations and more done for CMBN and CMFI to get us a new game faster than would otherwise have been the case. But I am dead certain that had the first Eastern Front  release been CM:Barbarossa, BFC would be a lot happier with the sales figures. And the CMers and the overall computer wargame market would be a lot happier with BFC. Part of the problem is simple ignorance. American school children were/are taught about the invasion of Russia, but unless it's a specialized history course, even college students (barring those in military academies) won't ever have heard of Operation Bagration. Had to look it up myself. Nor does it help there's been little mainstream stuff on it or, for that matter, much on the Eastern Front in English from the Russian side at all. When Ballantine Books published Jeffrey Juke's Kursk: The Clash of Armor in 1969 as part of the Ballantine Books Illustrated History of World War II, it was practically a revolutionary act, sad to say. The same was true of Douglas Orgill's  T-34: Russian Armor from the same sprawling series. It was published in 1970. These were probably the first times the American and British mass reading public got to see things from the Russian side of the fence, using Russian sources, in a context that was neither exclusively invasion (Barbarossa) nor besieged cities (Stalingrad, Leningrad), and wasn't the Battle of Berlin, either. Yet neither Jukes nor Orgill was  Russian.
 
Though I don't own currently own CMRT myself (resource constraints and successfully seduced by CMBS), I do hope BFC puts out a Module for it. BFC has said it intends to do a series of games for the Eastern Front. But the likelihood of that is very much tied to how this Eastern Front game does, despite what I perceive as a stack of obstacles in its way. My short term solution? Find a millionaire. Have that person buy lots of CMRT games, give them as gifts, sponsor tournaments and the like OR have said millionaire commission BFC to create the desired Eastern Front product, paying for same with a big fat check having enough zeroes following the first nonzero digit to make it worth BFC's while to make it and generate a nice profit, too. Regardless of any subsequent sales. A more practical and realistic approach would be to talk up the game someplace other than here, get people to play the CMRT Demo (the first E-crack's free) buy extra copies as gifts and do anything else you can think of to get people to buy CMRT. Good luck!
 
Regards,
 
John Kettler

Takign out light vehicles with .50 cal is great fun. Much more satisfying than blowing them up IMO. I mean just imagine the carnage that those rounds caused in the crew compartment when they hit the BTR!