HerrTom

While waiting for the New Year hubbub to die down and for my buddy to get me his turn, I tried making a video!  (Spoilers to Ambush if you haven't played it already)
I've got the introduction and the first 5 minutes.  I can say making videos is a lot more work than the text AARs - so let me know if you think it's worth my time! 
Oh, and happy new year to everyone!

I thought this was excellent. I liked the opening view and narrative, which I thought was very effective at setting the scene.Likewise, the footage and editing have been very well done. I look forward to the next instalment. Happy New year!

While waiting for the New Year hubbub to die down and for my buddy to get me his turn, I tried making a video!  (Spoilers to Ambush if you haven't played it already)
I've got the introduction and the first 5 minutes.  I can say making videos is a lot more work than the text AARs - so let me know if you think it's worth my time! 
Oh, and happy new year to everyone!

While waiting for the New Year hubbub to die down and for my buddy to get me his turn, I tried making a video!  (Spoilers to Ambush if you haven't played it already)
I've got the introduction and the first 5 minutes.  I can say making videos is a lot more work than the text AARs - so let me know if you think it's worth my time! 
Oh, and happy new year to everyone!

+1  YEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!!!

If it came at no other cost it would be cool to actually see a mod before applying, but to your point there is a cost and yeah this one wouldn’t be on the top of my list at that point. I can accomplish the same by creating mod pack brz files of my own and applying them. Not as slick, but if I am gonna somehow have my wish list on BFs project plan I would pick things I can not do.  Like a unit pack of Fulda gap units.  👍

Thanks! I try my best 
I'm considering trying video AARs... we'll see if Fuzzy lets me - she thinks my books are boring!

Merry Christmas everyone!  Fröhe Weinachten, alle! Cчастливого Рождества!

Figured I'd drop a Christmas bone of my own - haven't gotten very far due to all the holiday obligations, but I do have a turn for you guys!

Eventful in the explosions, but uneventful on the manoeuvring.  1. Platoon, 2. Company managed to reach the copse to the east of the dachas without losing any more vehicles.  For now I'm going to keep the rest of 2. Company in cover until the smoke starts raining down in the next few minutes.  The smoke screen will be kept up for the next ten or fifteen minutes as the companies stage and start the crossing.  2/4 PTRK (ATGM teams from 2. Company weapons platoon are doing a number on the Ukrainians - knocking out 4 BMPs with the help of the battalion tank, and another tank got blown to smithereens by a well placed shot from 5. Platoon, 1. Company.
Buddy's been on vacation so it's been slow going getting these turns in - hopefully we can speed it up again with the new year!  I'll make it my resolution 

A Ukrainian BMP eats an ATGM.

The ATGM teams at the Dachas are doing great work, quickly enaging and launching missiles at the number of visible enemy vehicles on the far bank.

One after another, three BMPs are perforated by the skilled operators.

A fourth BMP gets exploded by the battalion HQ's tank, avenging the demise of the BTR crew the last minute.

Kablooey.

5. Platoon, 1. Company watches over the bridge.  The gunner of the westernmost tank spots a little shimmer hidden behind the trees - another T-64!

He fires a shot that lands squarely on the glacis plate, brewing up the enemy tank in a pillar of fire.

Hello names Hector. i live in Puerto Rico and you may know what hurricane Maria did to our beautiful island. We have no power only 3 hours a day, and as a CM fan had really missed playing. I had a little problem with the game installation  since they were downloaded (i had the cds also) and tried to contact battlefront but was hard with no internet so I managed to get on for a bit and found a phone number and called Steve whom I really dont know who he is but he answered. I want to say Thanks for the conversation we had. He offered to help and eventhough I got everything working offline after, it was refreshing to hear he was available to help. I really appreciate his gesture and will continue to support Battlefront knowing that behind this company are great and caring people. Again Thanks Steve .
Hector 

A bone within a bone, alluding to a bone. It's like Dune minus the floating fat guy...
 
Mord.
 
P.S. Did you see my PM about the pic?

Believe me, it feels like a completely different game.  So many things have changed that you can't even begin to go through them all - stupid little things like walls with gaps that weren't in CMSF.  Map development will be a whole lot different with all the new capabilities.  Moving flavor items with alt-click.  Moving way points after you've placed them.  Then you get into things like target briefly which didn't exist.  BF reworked almost everything so yeah you have to buy it again at a discount.  You thought it should be free?  Damn I need you to come over and work in my yard digging trenches if you think labor should be free.  Let me know when to expect you.
The big items are ToEs, models etc and ALL the CMSF content that is available.  However don't be fooled. the small things are what will catch you probably more than the big items.  Try building a map with the same level of detail as the later titles and you'll quickly find yourself frustrated by what you can't do that you take for granted now.  Ooh did someone say overlays?
I get that everybody has their favorites and we all want our favorites at the top of the list, but those that revel in CMSF have waited the longest for an update over any other title.  You've been waiting 3 years since CMBS release for a module?  4 Years since Gustav line for CMFI?  It's been over 7 years since the NATO module and NONE of the version improvements have been applied to the BEST CM game.  So get the hell back in line and wait your turn.  If CMSF isn't your fav then so be it, but don't crap on those of us who have waited all this time as the LAST title to get 4.0. 
You know what the title will have.  4.0 and all the stuff that made CMSF what it is.  Not to your liking?  No one is making you buy it.  However if like me you find CMSF as the most appealing game of the CM titles, then you really really want CMSF2.  Even at full price it would be a deal.

@HerrTom  +1  Nice screenshots and interesting battle. 

Figured I'd drop a Christmas bone of my own - haven't gotten very far due to all the holiday obligations, but I do have a turn for you guys!

Eventful in the explosions, but uneventful on the manoeuvring.  1. Platoon, 2. Company managed to reach the copse to the east of the dachas without losing any more vehicles.  For now I'm going to keep the rest of 2. Company in cover until the smoke starts raining down in the next few minutes.  The smoke screen will be kept up for the next ten or fifteen minutes as the companies stage and start the crossing.  2/4 PTRK (ATGM teams from 2. Company weapons platoon are doing a number on the Ukrainians - knocking out 4 BMPs with the help of the battalion tank, and another tank got blown to smithereens by a well placed shot from 5. Platoon, 1. Company.
Buddy's been on vacation so it's been slow going getting these turns in - hopefully we can speed it up again with the new year!  I'll make it my resolution 

A Ukrainian BMP eats an ATGM.

The ATGM teams at the Dachas are doing great work, quickly enaging and launching missiles at the number of visible enemy vehicles on the far bank.

One after another, three BMPs are perforated by the skilled operators.

A fourth BMP gets exploded by the battalion HQ's tank, avenging the demise of the BTR crew the last minute.

Kablooey.

5. Platoon, 1. Company watches over the bridge.  The gunner of the westernmost tank spots a little shimmer hidden behind the trees - another T-64!

He fires a shot that lands squarely on the glacis plate, brewing up the enemy tank in a pillar of fire.

well the car was in the woods, so if it had done it in the car it would I think still qualify. However no, it was just from climbing all over the seats.  Chewed a hole through the back seat because it apparently smelled something in the trunk. How it can smell anything over it's own stench is a freakin miracle.   It found a pack of instant oatmeal, opened it and apparently didn't like it.  The insurance company forms were fun to fill out, but they did pay for the window and replacing the seat.  Oatmeal however was not covered.

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Twas the night before CM-mas and all through the bunker
not a 'truppen was stirring they were all down and hunkered
The frags were all hung by the rifles with care
In hopes that Santa Steve soon would be there
The 'truppen a snoring and dreaming away
of the hookers they'd met, on leave last May
When out in the minefield there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from my bunk, my skivvies all tattered.
Away to the gun sites I flew like a plane,
pulled back the bolt and steadied my aim.
When from mod weary eyes I spied from afar,
Some northern Maine dude with a brain in a jar,
Santa Steve! I shouted with excitement and glee
but in response, just some bitching about TO&E
On Stragglers, on Sicherungs, Luftwaffe and Herr
on Jagers and Gebirs, and others more rare
He droned on and on as the brain kept a coding
and I knew deep inside this was no normal foreboding
For once in a while a reference to Syria
and with that little gem I was sent to hysteria
For amidst all that heavy WWII talking
Toward Shock Force 2 I knew he was walking
Patiently on the desert I'd waited
and soon it'd be real and my lust would be sated
Back to the sand! Nato, Uncons and pals
but with 4.0 flare and friggin' hit decals!
My head filled with war and the toys that it brings
I was hoping I'd see it before G**D*** spring!
Then brain in arm, he turned toward the west
to continue ever onward the Combat Mission quest
Teeth clenched and jaw set against the snowy wind
he trudge into the night, a phantom again
And as he passed by the bunker and out of our zone
I chewed on the annual Christmas bone.
 
Merry Christmas, fellas!

Mord.
 
 

As of yesterday I am receiving this error message from CMH and don't know what to do to have it go away, nor if it actually affects the functionality of the application (see attached screen capture-which does not attach. Error message is "Oops, couldn't update my CM version catalogue, so CM 'Installation Info' might be out of date").

I loaded the CM games onto my laptop and also set up Dropbox on the laptop while continuing to return PBEM game turns on my main PC. I could see that Dropbox on my laptop was being updated with no problem as I was changing game files on my main PC. The problem started after I told CMH where the individual game files were located in Dropbox. I then started seeing multiple screen notifications on the laptop, pretty much 100% stating that so and so has modified, deleted, placed chat files over and over again. There was also one of those pop-up screens with a a bunch of text and a call back error or something (I did not pay attention to what it was).

Then the weird thing is this exact same problem has propagated to my main PC as well.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

Doh! It was transparency anti aliasing being set to supersample - off or multisample are acceptable.  I guess it was different for FB than the other CM games I have.

The below was not produced very rigorously, but it's been helpful for me to balance intensity and duration of fire vs. ammo consumption.
It's US only.  Wouldn't expect a huge variation for other armies, but who knows.

My son tried banning sex when he became Lord Protector after me. No wonder they called him "Tumbledown Dick".

Premarital sex was punishable by death in 1675 wasn't it? Better that you played with your ASL counters and lived to pontificate on the various intricacies of Waffen SS shoe strings, than be burned at the stake for wielding a warlock boner. What you lost in wicked and amoral belt notches, we gained in WWII wisdom and your effervescent spirit!
 
Mord.

While am sure that we can all agree with the preceding statements, the relativity of the discussion is quite simple and yet complex.  While the explicit comments are unassailable in the relative sense it can be argued in the reverse directions as well.
This may help: 
 

As far as I know, it's not possible to mod the core gameplay of Combat Mission.  I think there's some "research" into changing models around, but nothing so far as AI or other gameplay changing mods.  Balance-wise, it's up to you, the player!
Shameless self-plug, but if you like explosions you might like mine:
Graphics-wise I run with a lot of Kieme's work, and in some places I use Aris' textures.

- a cinematic mode without transparent buildings and crosses for casualty s
- a new advance movement order where a unit advances until contact, engages until contact is lost, waits a choosable amount of time and continues the advance. Preferably the advance state could be toggled on/off for all movement states.
- boarding rearming and disembarking vehicles in the same turn.
 

Having the graphics show what the actual conditions are. How dark is it? How foggy is it?
Right now, we have to guess, because nights are always a sort of twilight, and even heavy fog only shows as a kind of mist at long distances, but these things have huge consequences for the battle.
Also, I would love to see an update that fixed the graphical glitches such as shadows popping on and off, houses flickering between shaded and full-bright depending on the angle of the camera, etc.