Anonymous_Jonze

82nd airborne beat back Panzergrenadier offensive. Holland 44.

82nd airborne beat back Panzergrenadier offensive. Holland 44.

I believe they do use Assault Movement (ie: squads split and use bounding movement), the AI will also use sub-units in a group in similar fashion if an Assault AI Order is given to multiple units that can't normally use the Assault Movement command (ie: uncons & teams).
If the AI can use Hunt, I wish someone would show me how to make it do it (TBH it can't). 
PS - An Assault AI Order can also trigger Blast Movement (by setting waypoints each side of a linear obstacle).....This works well with walls & buildings, but I haven't got it to work on Barbed Wire yet, I suspect because that is a unit rather than a map feature.  However (& it's a big however) there must not be an alternative route close by, or the AI will take it, so much testing is required to get this to work reliably.

My sense is that men will always bail rather than face being burned alive (regardless of STAVKA orders).

Can you elaborate more on the features of the Engine 5 Update?

Is it possible to get a variation in the headgear of the wehrmacht/ss as well? Or perhaps modded? You often see fieldcaps sprinkled in with the stahlhelms. Especially in this timeframe. 

Is it possible to get a variation in the headgear of the wehrmacht/ss as well? Or perhaps modded? You often see fieldcaps sprinkled in with the stahlhelms. Especially in this timeframe. 

Liking that snow camo on the SU!

No one wonders  "what's going on", Marvin Gaye told us the answer to that one back in 1971.
In the meantime I think that a certain someone is not just "stubborn and stupid" but so arrogant that he feels the constant need to tell us what we think about the way Steve and the other boys in the band run their company.

I get that some people, a small vocal group of people,  are disappointed. I just wish they'd have the humility not to constantly flood the forum with petty bitching

You could always use the editor to change existing maps to look the way you want by adding houses, elevation and other things. And if you change a quick battle map, or a few of them, you could change the AI-movements and actions a bit to be more to your liking. You will then have a quick battle map to which you can add the units you want for each side and have fun with that edited quick battle (those edited quick battles).

I keep seeing people mentioning this and understand its correct.  But BFC knows that when they lay out their plans.  After 20 years, you would think that someone at BFC would know the company's capabilities.   Its not like people complain about just the pace of releases, granted it is agonizingly slow.  The main complaint is that BFC seems unable to predict anything even close to what they can do.  Every year we get a list of what's going to be released and less and less of that list gets realized. 
And maybe even worse is the communications on where things stand.  We don't need to know every intricate detail of BFC's plans, but please be more realistic in forecasting what BFC capabilities are.  And this isn't some anomaly of missing almost everything on a list because its been going on for years.  In 2020, it was partnering with Slitherine, in 2019, it was something else, etc.  I have slowly realized that missing almost everything on a list is not some random event every year, its the inability of someone at BFC not learning from past experience.
Instead of a little self reflection, I know the reaction will be to throw hands up in the air and declare no more plans.  Then we go back to 2018 or so and no one from BFC posts anything for over a year, to the point of beta testers openly complaining.  The solution, to me, is a simple list every month or quarter with updates on a few of the developments.  This removes the main issue of everyone running around trying to glean info from minor comments from BFC and jumping to conclusions or developing bad expectations.

Maybe the development time has been longer because they wanted to add more campaigns/battles? From what they've described were getting a plethora of missions. Can't complain about that. As long as there is some sort of communication/screenshots every now and then I'm fine. The only part where I get anxious is how lacking Red Thunder personally feels to me. I just can't get into it as much as the other titles. I'm very excited for the heavy urban battles in the module. Fire and Rubble could very well be the linchpin that makes Red Thunder my favorite of the series. It'll be worth the wait.

I don't really get your point.
But I do find that there's a small gaggle of really vocal weirdos on this site who work hard to create the impression that the customers are dissatisfied.
Having played the game since the last Millennium, bought every game and module except Afghanistan, played them incessantly and enjoyed them all, I feel some loyalty to the BF team and would like to play my part in dispelling the impression that the average, normal buyer is unhappy.
They're a small development team. The product is amazing. I don't care how many delivery dates they overshoot, I just hope they keep going.

Haha my girlfriend only describes Combat Mission as the "loud game."

Are we playing the same game? The mg42 absolutely shreds in CM. Even far away it puts enough bullets downrange to suppress a whole platoon. 

People say that a British squad's firepower isn't that dissimilar to a German one.
All I'll say is that in one of my early experiences playing the Brits, a full 10-man squad found themselves in a building opposite three Germans across the road. With excess of a 3:1 advantage I thought they've got superior firepower and left them to it. Two minutes later the Brit squad had been wiped out and the Germans had taken a single casualty.
So I removed the Germans with a tank.
That's sort of how I find Brit scenarios go.

Are we playing the same game? The mg42 absolutely shreds in CM. Even far away it puts enough bullets downrange to suppress a whole platoon. 

Happy New Year 2021 everybody!
The Missus and I played a game of scrabble as part of our celebratory evening for two. The deal was the winner would get the opponent to perform 1 request. I won! But instead of asking her for some intense, amorous type of action <<wink, wink>>...I said I wanted her to watch me play a short, small scenario in the CMRT Winter Mod and see some of the stuff that was done over 5 years ago! This morning over coffee, she sat next to me and it was fun to explain it all to her. She even made a few tactical recommendations.
I am still looking forward to the real deal from the BFC folks. 
Best wishes to all.

Lol, I also made this mod, or at least a very similar mod, a month or two ago, in preparation for Fire and Rubble's arrival. It's all ready to go for CMFB and RT-F&R when the module arrives, just need the fieldcap model and a texture as a guide. Adapted some of EZ's uniforms too, but need to work in some of those warm jackets, what's great is that the gebirgs tag works with models too. You obviously know that though as you mix helmets in your screen shot.

No problemo, we will forgive you but only if you continue to break radio silence 😉.

yes we need a mod...one that change the sidecap to the m43cap...

We need someone, who can make a good texture for the (new, coming) fieldcap to use for the gebirgsjäger (edelweiss):
 
This could be eventually a fine mod!

I've suggested in the past that Uncons should be able to administer Buddy Aid to opposing units, essentially finishing them off (all wounded would be killed) and stealing their guns.....This would give a player a genuine incentive not to leave anybody behind in the presence of Uncons and it would make them a much scarier opponent to boot (as they should be IMHO).

Wow. Awesome job! Is it possible to add some of those field caps to the wehrmacht/ss?