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Looks more like Massada to me. 😀

Everybody beginner can use tanks, but to use infantry takes experience and skill. 

I'm younger 😊

I would like the option to add fallen soldiers. In the past people were often offended by that suggestion, but this is a wargame. 

Flavor objects provide cover, but not concealment.
I keep this link handy, for every time I forget myself:
 

Kind of like a Hit Decal.  But bigger and multiple Burn Decals.........

It's a good time to be an eastern front fan, GG's WitE 2 just came out, currently waiting on that sweet sweet manual, and Fire and Rubble should be out "soon" tm.

To be fair, Steve and Elvis always have been very patient with me. Even though they have been bombarded with requests to remove me permanently from this forum. So no complaints there.
I'm one of the few critical forum members, but my arguments are always based on facts. Also in this case. I've become a Don Quichote charging towards the huge BFC windmill. 🙂
What I hope to achieve by all this? That BFC frankly admits that the handling of FR has been a shambles from beginning to end and a sincere apology, instead of denying what happened and ridicule those who are upset about that.

Not even remotely fair? 😃 Some examples...
June 1, 2018
Steve: The one you're all interested in is the first Module for CMRT.  Let me tell you a bit about it. When will it be available to you?  As always we have to be vague about it, however we're very sure it will be before the end of the year. 
Steve: It's been in the works for a significant amount of time already.  Most of the forces have already been plugged in and all of the vehicle models are done.  As you can see from the snapshot of the Berlin map, there's been substantial work done on the scenario side of things already.  What's really helping is that the CMRT Module doesn't require much internal development resources at this stage, which in turn means it's not being held up by CMSF2 or CMFI R2V work (or vice versa).
July 11,2019
MikeyD: The CMRT and CMFI modules have been 'almost complete' for awhile. Much of the CMRT module artwork was finished 2 1/2 years ago.
 
 

Appreciate all the explanations about R&F's development. I dropped out in 2014 then coming back at a few months ago, and for me it's just a wait of a few more months. I have to say though that upon coming back it was a bit of a shock that in 6 or 7 years no other content was officially added on to Red Thunder, other projects or no. I realize that BFC has been anything but a 'regular' game developer studio(which is a good thing in my book) but coming back to see a game has sat dormant for 6+ years left me wondering. Glad to see it was not forgotten(no pun intended, Olga Berrgolts😃).

Don't change your ways, lol I mean hell yeah I guess we'd all like a title / add on quicker. But I love the way you guys have stuck with these titles offering us upgrades. Fantastic way to keep game fresh and playable 💪

That's really cool umlaut. Great try. But I was thinking more of a active transfer, like once the unit is hit. And only when it brews up, it could change the skin to show blackening around the hatches and entry hole of the hit. Would be really nice affect if able to be done. 

A couple more things about 2.03.
1. CMFB 2.03 and the latest CMBS patch are filling my temp folder with little 2kb files with a prefix of SS_ and the a 4 hex file name. I assume they can be deleted safely (except when the game is running - this is how i identified their origin and I wondered where they were coming from for a while). 3 new ones are created per session. Looks like a small executable or dll. Maybe SoftwareShield DRM (SS prefix??) is responsible -just guessing. This is new since 2.03 however.
2. There is a new Jagdpanzer IV 70 V (early) model in the 2.03 patch. The reason for this inclusion isn't mentioned in the readme notes. The only reason I'm mentioning it is it includes some new texture errors as well as some old ones. The sparetrack options (on the back of the hull) are now using the wrong texture (the jpz skirt texture is used instead of the correct one), this is a brand new texture bug for this model introduced with 2.03. The sparewheel option is using the wheel texture. It shouldn't, it should be using the hull, there is a spare wheel on bottom left the hull texture for this purpose (this error had been around since the release of CMFB). Also the mudguard options are using the skirt texture and not the hull (again a long term graphics bug).

You can actually see the mudguards and track using the textures from the side skirts in this image.
However it is relatively easy to fix the model, here is what it should look like (I edited a fix of 2.03 model):
The track is from the pziv skirt texture, while the spare wheels and mudguards are from jpz hull. The correct texture names were identified by looking at other jpz models lacking the error.

I confess I've gone back to 2.02 now, I mostly play QB's and the inability to buy cheap observers is a bit of a pain.

Always onboard with adding more content. Cheers.

Some 'other' projects you just can't say no to, especially if that 'other' project was something you wanted to see happen for 20 years. So you do the 'other' project.

Slitherine and Steam are very enthused about Cold War and played a big part in pushing for the very quick turnaround. Slitherine, being a proper company, is used to operating on deadlines. We're on track to hold up our end of the bargain, what Slitherine and Steam are doing on their end is beyond my field of vision.
Progress on Fire and Rubble, by comparison, is being driven by embarrassment that its taken so long. Its now a matter of self esteem that we get this darned thing out the door at last. A couple months back there was a request for significant 'other' work ('other' work has plagued the F&R schedule) and Charles said no. No more interruptions. We finish what we got and deal with other stuff later.

Yep. I did a bit of experimenting with that, but never finished or released it. Mainly because using these mods leads to a string of new problems:
If they are flavor objects then they do not provide cover - and cant burn.
If they are used as destroyed and/or burning units, they do provide cover, but then the "live" units of the same type will look damaged too.

Perhaps I´ll give them another try some day.

lol, just in @89

I need a drink...

Precisely.If MJ is right (he usually is, but don't tell him I said that) and it is a matter of commitment to Steam and Slitherine I have been right all along and Fire and Rubble is a sideshow with low priority. CMCW shows what's possible with a good and strict schedule.

I'm agree with Aragorn2002. Why CW has a release date and FR hasn't? Apparently CW is more ambitious project since it's a full new family and FR is only a new module based in a base game with seven years old and with the mostly of the incoming stuff tested extensivily in others Battlefront WW2 tittles.

I sure hope Berlin winds up being convertable. Its probably a lot to ask. But you'd be able to fight in Berlin with CMCW!!!

Warsaw 44 is on Amazon Prime.  Very well made and gritty movie about the uprising.  Lots of fire and rubble.  Wonderful inspiration for those Partisan scenarios.

It's a harsh reality.
from 2014－2021,seven years!😭