FlammenwerferX

An idyllic country scene, if it wasn't for all the bullets flying around...

There is nothing like CM.  The micro battles within the battles are absolutely riveting and at times even more memorable than battle itself.  Here, our last turn ended with two hardened enemies, facing off at almost touching distance, neither team intimidated by the bullets flying past, and the grenade is in the air...
Every meter I take, every new ridgeline or clump of trees, every direction I turn another group of these guys pop up to ambush and harass our attack.

Thanks, no relation to the BP… I hope to release this battle next month.

Unreleased 'Churches of Glory'...still in testing 

Thanks, no relation to the BP… I hope to release this battle next month.

Unreleased 'Churches of Glory'...still in testing 

We are now under the 30 minute mark.
These men were victims to a nasty ambush from a PPsH squad of @FlammenwerferX Soviets.  C'est la guerre.

Columns of smoke rising from burning vehicles marks the path of the German advance.

Panthers prowl on that deadly deadly hunt...

Success!

I do wish that in the set-up phase there was an option to turn the set-up zone shading on and off (like objectives shading in-game).  I find it makes it much harder to assess terrain for setting forces up. 
I have not noticed a performance hit though I may check on that next time I set up a game.
And I do hope that with Engine 5 that BFC spends the majority of effort in optimizing game for newer hardware (e.g., make use of multiple CPU threads).  I hate the draw distance limitations on trees for example on the larger maps as an example.  Have an option to specify draw distances for users to accommodate all types of computer capabilities.

From my point of view you have these "official" BFC endorsed battle packs that are integrated into the DRM with a license key and such and make a small bit of money for BFC to do whatever. The guys who make them do a top quality job and have the BFC template briefings and I guess the proper playability in all 3 modes (H2H, vs axis AI and vs allied AI). These guys do it out of pride and loyalty to BFC and I guess do not get a sliver of the profits. I have no idea. None of my business.
In my 2 cent opinion, I think BFCElvis is the only real productive member of the BFC team. He is on top of so much and can be on the Golf course and handle an issue with somebody. I THINK he is the guy who mails/mailed the old hardcopy CD-ROMS and booklets. I think. Steve is 24/7 manning the Ukraine Thread working on his PhD thesis for post-war exploitation and sales of BFC training products such as "CM Pro" or whatever it is called. Charles works 60 hours a week according to Steve. Maybe we'll see the fruits of Charles's efforts at some point. Picture in picture drone video? Flares? Jack in the box turret explosions? You got me. I do sincerely wish BFC the best of success. 
I am obviously disgruntled to some degree because BFC doesn't do what I personally want. That is life. I moved on and try to extract the maximum joy out of the game.

 

@Phantom Captain's forces on the move

Playing a 1979 CMCW scenario that so far is one of the best of any CM title that I've played.  Large meeting engagement with lots of options for offense & defense.  So far things going pretty well for the US.
Set up: advance mech infantry & tanks through possibly observed area using smoke to get to some of my objectives.

Saw 'em coming and got into good firing positions across the valley.  M60s & TOWs had hard time but finally knocked out RU tanks:

BMPs used terrain to mask movement but got caught by another group of M60s w TOWs I had rushed to the RU side of the valley on the right of the battle:

With those threats mostly dealt with, time to begin my big flanking operation.  But to do that I first have to knock out the reverse-slope ambush-roadblock in the woods.  Fortunately my scouts heard the BMPs so I knew it was there.  Organized a big infantry-tank attack from three sides, and it worked .


One last thorn in my side needs to be handled:  Four T72s(64s?) have been sitting at the edge of some woods in overwatch position the entire battle.  My artillery knocked out two, but two were still stubbornly constricting my ability to poke my head of the slope on my side of the valley.  But with the roadblock gone, I could come at them from behind, from the woods.  Lost one M60 but knocked out the bad guys.  Four lovely smoke plumes.

Now forming up for what I am hoping will be a rampage through russian backfield on their reverse slope.  Takes time as my forces all thread their way along single forest track.

Russian infantry with some tanks still moving on my side of the valley in dead ground, but hard to engage them so will have to wait until they crest the ridge.  Gonna be quite a shootout at that point.  

FlammenwerferX & PhantomCapt, keep it coming!  This is great stuff, I really enjoy it.  Thanks!  I gotta add some of my recent to this thread, some CMCW fighting.  

@Phantom Captain's forces on the move

And dying...  What a fight!

@Phantom Captain's forces on the move

I don't think I am spilling anything by saying my attack is now in full swing.  I think @FlammenwerferX is pretty aware of that fact. 😁
Advance!

Battle for the high ground

 

Battle for the high ground

 

Battle for the high ground