Ironcross12

One of my ongoing side projects (aimed, mostly, at the new influx of Steam Players) is to host an 'All in One' for every CM game here.
This is my initial effort for CMBN & its primary feature is a large collection of weathered vehicle & guns mods (almost entirely by @Aristoteles & @umlaut). It also features terrain mods by @SeinfeldRules, @Falaise & @patboy. UI mods by @Juju, @Marco Bergman& @Mord alongside loading screens by @umlaut. Infantry mods by Vincenzo21, @Damian45, @Vein, Jacquinot, @EZ, @mjkerner,  @Jorge MC, @nik mond& @Aristoteles. Building mods by @Tanks a Lot & @Juju as well as the ME effects package, ME soundscape, subdued @Taranis& HQS voices plus many others.
It has integrated & default early summer & early autumn (using the [holland] tag) options as well as a couple of zip files which can activate a late autumn & late summer look.
Additionally it comes with a vast quantity of content (hundreds of scenarios, scores of maps & 20 odd campaigns).
Here's a taster of some of what you can expect...
 







Here's the link for the CMBN 'All in One'...
https://www.mediafire.com/file/bplqhvfkl4da5pq/CMBN_Initial_%27All_in_One%27.7z/file

Ambush in the snow...

@De Savage

In urban terrain even more than anyplace else, follow the mantra...
Never send a team anywhere a scout hasn't been. Never send a squad anywhere a team hasn't been. Never send a platoon anywhere a squad hasn't been.
Never send armor anywhere infantry hasn't been.
When you have time and opportunity, never send anyone artillery hasn't been.

The vibes i'm getting from this interview is that CM2 is indeed nearing its end...No more larger game-engine updates, no more major editor updates but rather...
"adding a host of “niceities” "
And the "having at least one Module"   comment kind of sounds like these three modules will be the last ones...After these three have been delivered...
CM2 is finished as far as BFC goes....
any battlepacks and such can (and probably will) be made by 'partners'...
Hopefully this means that CM3 is not all that far away 😎...two years ??? 😊
 

"We are also interested in adding various types of Packs to other Families."

Somewhat relevant and another point for the arty vs tanks argument (4:45 if the timestamp doesn't work):
TLDR: an airburst round went through all the way through the barrel and through the front glacis plate and into a track adjustment mechanism... which would not necessarily disable the main gun in the sense that you couldn't fire it, but it would not be a good idea.
 

Tiger 131 was disabled with a shot that grased the Gun barrel and jamed in the turret ring. Im guess the Panzer man did not want to try and fire the gun while it was stuck.
Not directly knocking out the gun but put it out of action.
You can see the damage here at 2.55 min
 

Interesting video. Thanks for sharing.

The 1st SS with there Panthers in Oakleaf camo attack!!!

The 1st SS with there Panthers in Oakleaf camo attack!!!

The 1st SS with there Panthers in Oakleaf camo attack!!!

The 1st SS with there Panthers in Oakleaf camo attack!!!

1st SS attacks

The older Gambler did not win today.

1 KingTiger und 3 Sherman zerstort
 

The older Gambler did not win today.

1 KingTiger und 3 Sherman zerstort
 

3 Shermans make a move under the watchfull eye.

1 KingTiger and one Tiger 1.
 

I have some content but it's for my first campaign compilation, Rollbahn D.
I started building in March. It's based on KG Peiper.
The ambition is/was to produce an historical scenario for every 6 hours or so of the KG and associated units, their advance and eventual destruction, from the 16th to Xmas. 
So far in the "can" I have 
Murky Merlscheid (Fallschirmjäger) Leaving Lanzerath (Fallshirmjager) Minen The Gap (Losheim/Scheid, Spitze) Breakthrough (Bucholz/Honsfeld) Bull-in-gen China Shop Butchers Of Baugnez (thanks for the Cafe/Hotel/Signpost mods Kohlenklau!) Storming Stavelot Trois Is A Crowd Jabos! (Cheneux) Probe At Stavelot Neufmoulin Rouge Duel In The Mist (Stoumont) Too Tight At Targnon Ster Way To Heaven (Parfondry/Stavelot) For the remaining 15x scenarios I will be using mostly maps already created... but realistically it is still going to be next autumn. 
I've made my own maps apart from Cheneux with some edits. Working on KG X and Y/Skorzeny's attack on Malmedy and the 82nd's first attempt on Cheneux (including using the captured Stummel) at the moment.
Considering releasing some or all as individual battles and maps?  Open to requests. Stick with it? Release  a map or 2? Release a battle or 2?
I've published 3x scenarios in the past with mixed reviews,  Mission to Mass V2, CMBS Korsun 2017 and Summer In The City. 
I enjoy the research/creative process, you think you know stuff, then you realise you don't quite know as much as you thought you did.
Bibliography:
The Devils Adjutant by Michael Reynolds
The Leibstandarte Map Book Part IV
The Leibstandarte IV Ralf Tiemann
Duel In The Mist Parts 1,2 and 3, Vosters, Weber, Haasler, Meyer, MacDougall
Jochen Peiper, Patrick Agte
A Time for Trumpets, Charles B MacDonald
Battle of the Bulge Then and Now, Jean Paul Pallud
Panzer Truppen 1943-45, Thomas Jentz
Tigers in the Ardennes, Walden
Ardennes the Secret War, Whiting
KG Peiper:The Race to the Meuse, Cooke, Evans
Battle of the Bulge: Thee 3rd Fallshirmjager Division in Action
The Longest Winter, Kershaw
A Tour of the Bulge Battlefields, Cavanagh
Smashing Hitlers Panzers, Zaloga
Ardennes 1944, Beevor
And last but not least Combat Mission Community Forums

Made a cool winter one myself months back
 

If you look at the scenarios that have been created in the Scenario Depot you will find very few comments. Maybe if more people made some comments on how the liked them or what needs improvement we can get more user created scenarios and campaigns. 
There have been quite a few new scenarios created for Normandy over the last two months, some quite detailed and are worth looking into and playing.

The better QB got the fewer 3rd party scenarios got made. Back-in-the-day if you wanted to fight specific units against specific units you needed to make it yourself because the QB engine wasn't mature yet. Now you select what you want, select the map, weather, season and region you want, and have at it. A well constructed scenario is of course much preferable but its more work.
When making scenario orders a pen and pad of paper at your elbow is your friend.😥  It seems a lot of new scenario designers suffer from being over-ambitious. Scenario making is hard if you make it hard, and its easy if you make it easy. Choreographing the movements of an infantry battalion across a 3km map for a 2 hour battle really is hard. Doing a company-scale battle across 1.5km is easier. Doing two squads crossing an 800m map is even easier.