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First off thanks to all those who have supported the Battlepack by purchasing it, and a shout out to those who have provided their support in the creation of this project – and a huge shout out to those who have freely given their feedback and additional support publicly via various means – online streaming vids, DARs, AARs and various forum posts etc, Its truly heartening to read and see these. 

It’s just as well, being Scottish, that we are renowned for being slow to anger and not prone to unprovoked outbursts. On a personal note a mahhoosive amount of work went into the battle pack, at my end. Work of which I am truly proud off. The lion’s share of research, mapmaking and AI plan stuff was devoted to the two campaigns and the Rakow and the Dying Sun scenario. These all involved painstakingly creating huge new maps from primary sources. Research turned up several ‘loose’ ends regarding accepted historical narrative and I’m as chuffed with these as the scenarios!

I digress… In short this sucked up a huge amount of time and I was also involved in several other projects (which I was keen to be involved in including CMFR and CMCW). Creating new content, AI plans etc for the Battlepack was a significant endeavour. So yup I used bits of various previous maps (which were my own creations and made available publicly) which I then significantly tweaked – mainly because I could not positively ID RL locations, or the fact is I thought the map – like Der Ring (which by the way took nearly a year to produce) to have a new life after some major tweaking. I’ve done this on previous game families with other maps. A few astute observers might have spotted them. 

But, and I should stress this, in the case of Der Ring it was heavily reworked and I created brand new AI plans (I had to as I’d chopped and reused bits) etc. So yes whilst some stuff is based on sections of der Ring they are more the offspring – rather than the map wearing a false wig and a pair of dodgy specs…

Re the rather offensive swipes about scamming, well,  re the master maps it’s pretty clear that as stated on the BFC website that they are “New maps based on maps from the Battle Pack missions”. 

Years back I used to be with a punk band – another life another story…. One of the bands (way more successful than we were) we did some gigs with, had their singer on one of their records state this quote, it was along the lines of – “Whatever you do they’ll slate you off and criticise you to the ground…” It’s stood me in good stead through life.
So aye happy to take the constructive knocks, but I’m less inclined to give credence tae whingers.
 

I've stitched together a custom horizon texture at 2x the resolution of the original textures. Sampled from pictures of the ukranian countryside

some pictures of it in action:
https://imgur.com/a/vg0eTJH
a subtle difference, but the more pixels the better, right? hope you beautiful people enjoy
http://www.mediafire.com/file/mj48x5pesk89g6s/cmbs_horizon.zip/file

This has been sitting in my capture folder for over year...
This is from a scenario I played long ago which I'm pretty sure I lost but even in loosing, opportunities for small victories present themselves. Here a squad shows that at least one of them has nerves of steel. Thankfully it was the Javelin operator. He maintained his composure while everyone else was ducking for cover

and got the shot off

With the desired results


Afterwards his squad mates renewed their resolve

 

Impressive work! Took a look at the MiG-21. Culprit is that the mdr requires texture files to be lowercase. Suggest you incorporate sbobovyc's 'exporting checklist' to your written tutorial  https://github.com/sbobovyc/CM2Tools/wiki/Blender-plugins

I ran into the same issue but wasn't able to find a free program that lets you manipulate the alpha channel. I was working with GIMP so what I did was save the file in a format that supports transparency such as .png and use "greenfish icon editor" to convert it to a 32-bit .bmp

Impressive work! Took a look at the MiG-21. Culprit is that the mdr requires texture files to be lowercase. Suggest you incorporate sbobovyc's 'exporting checklist' to your written tutorial  https://github.com/sbobovyc/CM2Tools/wiki/Blender-plugins

Some screens from "Passage to Wilcox"

scouts report good effect on target
 

bad idea to surrender while getting shot at
 

our syrian friend didn't make it
 

1st platoon forms up in preparation to move on objective lima

I know there have already been a few of these released, but thought I would show a preview of what I have been toying with...
These are based on the US Army's FM 101-5.1 .... with a little license taken to make them clear at any distance.
This image is an overview of the first AAR map I was playing with @Baneman.. yellow are FOW icons of course.  

This set includes special colors for each nation... 
...in this image I have selected a Bradley Platoon, which if you remember was playing red in this action.  The icons remain the color I chose for the US side (Infantry Blue) while selected.. they will be red when not selected.  

FOW icons showing a selection of different unit types... very easy t tell them apart.  All nations use the same FOW icon set... so no clues as to nationality until you fully ID a unit.

The following image illustrates Syrian infantry.. also note the Blue infantry.. that is one of Baneman's irregulars and was on Blue.. Ihave included an inset of that icon selected, showing that when playing blue, Syrian units will highlight green.

BMP-3 (with one infantry unit selected) showing the darker red Syrian highlight:

On the blue side...highlight insets show a British vehicle (khaki) and a German IFV (gray)...

And finally, the overview I started this post off with, but with one US Platoon highlighted...

Coming soon.. probably this weekend.  Just need to run them through some thorough tests.
Bil

I've stitched together a custom horizon texture at 2x the resolution of the original textures. Sampled from pictures of the ukranian countryside

some pictures of it in action:
https://imgur.com/a/vg0eTJH
a subtle difference, but the more pixels the better, right? hope you beautiful people enjoy
http://www.mediafire.com/file/mj48x5pesk89g6s/cmbs_horizon.zip/file

cool little cinematic scene

cool little cinematic scene

Hi everyone,
Here is a cinematic video featuring Shock Force 2! This is meant to be a showcase, similar in concept to a gameplay trailer. Keep in mind this is footage taken from a beta build of the game, and things are subject to change and all that. Hope you all enjoy!
 
 

I liked what ||CptMiller|| did for the 101st airborne (http://community.battlefront.com/topic/127064-187th-infantry-regiment-“rakkasans”-–-101st-airborne-division-air-assault/) so I created a similar mod for the 3rd Infantry Division. These are the guys manning Task Force 3-69 as depicted in the stock campaign.
I intend to do 2nd ACR from the battle pack campaign at a later date

 
grab it at cmmods! https://cmmodsiii.greenasjade.net/?p=7196

I liked what ||CptMiller|| did for the 101st airborne (http://community.battlefront.com/topic/127064-187th-infantry-regiment-“rakkasans”-–-101st-airborne-division-air-assault/) so I created a similar mod for the 3rd Infantry Division. These are the guys manning Task Force 3-69 as depicted in the stock campaign.
I intend to do 2nd ACR from the battle pack campaign at a later date

 
grab it at cmmods! https://cmmodsiii.greenasjade.net/?p=7196

Some simple solid beta YouTube clips basicly equals self marketing... Google cmsf-2. Not a whole lot out There.
i mean i understand its a really small dev team. But Some YouTube clips showing Some features or beta AAR sure wouldnt hurt Sales if your ask me..

Bil, we are talking tree farming for crying out loud! Shoot something.

I've stitched together a custom horizon texture at 2x the resolution of the original textures. Sampled from pictures of the ukranian countryside

some pictures of it in action:
https://imgur.com/a/vg0eTJH
a subtle difference, but the more pixels the better, right? hope you beautiful people enjoy
http://www.mediafire.com/file/mj48x5pesk89g6s/cmbs_horizon.zip/file

I've stitched together a custom horizon texture at 2x the resolution of the original textures. Sampled from pictures of the ukranian countryside

some pictures of it in action:
https://imgur.com/a/vg0eTJH
a subtle difference, but the more pixels the better, right? hope you beautiful people enjoy
http://www.mediafire.com/file/mj48x5pesk89g6s/cmbs_horizon.zip/file

A small note. A new set of accurate Canadian infantry textures just got turned in 5 minutes ago. So however lovely the Canadians in the AAR looked they will look even lovelier in the release game.

TF Spartan Resolve continued. CPT Grammont, CO A Company, 503rd Airborne assesses the battlefield as his soldiers reinforce UKR 1st Tactical Battle Group in the nick of time

Soldiers pull security while another tends to a fallen comrade injured during a brief altercation with the enemy.
As seen during the first mission of the excellent TF Spartan Resolve campaign

Soldiers pull security while another tends to a fallen comrade injured during a brief altercation with the enemy.
As seen during the first mission of the excellent TF Spartan Resolve campaign

Soldiers pull security while another tends to a fallen comrade injured during a brief altercation with the enemy.
As seen during the first mission of the excellent TF Spartan Resolve campaign