Artkin

You don't want to roll over Berlin with your T80B's? The consider - every blown out wall (A majority of the buildings are damaged.. it's well done) can have a dragon/tow fire from it comfortably I know how to make it work for CMBS too What's the weather like in Hungary? Either country - house combat with CM isn't awful, but it would be great to see it improved. And that'd be no reason to stop me from buying this, since this is the pinnacle of Battlefront mapmaking atm.

Oh no I will convince you. Here is the CMRT Berlin map. It's actually two maps put together down the center, where they overlap. I combined them both in MS paint. Ignore the red circles

Yeah I agree. I never play with APS, so my judgement was from the ERA and the individual soldier's body armor. You can't grow feelings for your troops in cmcw or you will be disappointed. I find SF easy since the majority of the maps have long open lines of sight, and the ground is mostly barren and featureless. There is some "micro terrain" here and there but it gets boring quick to play on. With the tools provided to you as blufor it's the easiest title in my opinion. It could be the hardest if I was basing my judgement on the Syrians vs blufor, but I don't think that's a reasonable stance. This is true, if you get a good ambush in you can do a lot of damage. But in my opinion, less than what you would have done in a near peer engagement like the rest of the titles are. I find that since only one side is kitted up with body armor it makes a large difference how it plays out. But yeah every solder's life is valuable like no other in CMSF. I feel like there was little effort put into mapmaking and unique things for their factions, if there is any to begin with. idk. Does anyone else know brazilian military vehicles in the 1940s? Most of the other vehicles are all recycled from the other games. You get an elephant but how will you possibly kill it? Maybe the allies didn't have anything huge in Italy either. That makes sense. In terms of maps - I can recall three that I enjoyed. Monte Cassino, East of Menfi, and Venafro. Otherwise meh. CMCW comes packed with the most maps I've seen in a BF base game release, though they are master maps. If you combined their area it would probably be the most of any title on launch day. I would expect the next module to be just as good, like always. There is more Soviet kit than US in CMCW I think, just enough to keep the game fun with converted maps. Oh right and remember CMFI can't have most maps converted to it. On the flip side CMCW will accept maps from any game with no issues (Except CMSF). Even CMFI I believe. If not, most maps. Buy CMRT + CMF&R. The Berlin city map will blow your mind! Look at the map and then look at google maps! If not, then it depends on how big of battles you will want. (REAL TIME): CM can handle multiple battalions of troops at the same time, but only on the newer games. I don't want someone getting the wrong impression that all CM games run slow or something. So the performance metric is something to pay attention to. CMCW can handle ~4 battalions of infantry (2v2) on a large map with a decent frame rate. You can probably push it further, but that's what I've been getting on an i5 9600k @4.8Ghz or something. CMSF2 can't handle much, like less than 1v1 battalions with a liveable fps rate. It's true that I like the Russian kit. Honestly I like any kit that isn't US. It was just really boring up until SF2 times. I just prefer the games with better performance admittedly. It's all good, it was my opinion and I chimed in. Once you start buying titles you can start converting maps from one to the other, dramatically expanding the amount of fun you can have on the games.

In my opinion CMRT is the most enjoyable CM title I would rate the titles in this way: Performance/fps under big map/high troop count (Higher is better, JUDGED BY EYE): CMCW (Seventh and latest CMx2 release) CMFB (Sixth CMx2 release) CMRT (Fourth CMx2 release) CMBS (Fifth CMx2 release CMBN-CMFI (Second-third CMx2 release) CMSF2 (First CMx2 release - re-released after CMFB and before CMCW) Diversity of official maps in regards to geological features (Including all modules): CMRT (Hungary, Germany, Soviet Union - from plains to cities) CMBN (Holland, Normandy - some places have bocage, others towns in huge forests) CMFB (Ardennes - All maps in general same location geographically, they are all vast hilly maps covered in forest) CMBS (Ukraine - lots of flat, villages, forests, repetitive) CMFI (Most of the maps feel extremely similar, mostly hills and mountains) CMCW (Most of the maps are huge farmland spaces with towns plopped around them) CMSF2 (Maps are mostly desert spaces, very little vegetation) Fun of official maps: CMRT/CMFB (These are the best maps done by Battlefront) CMBN (These maps are incredible) CMCW (These maps are huge, clean, and represent a modern society) CMBS (Maps are smaller, seemingly lifeless, some ported from CMRT base game) CMFI (Tiny-medium maps with not much going on with the landscapes. A couple large decent maps, including monte cassino) CMSF2 (Tiny-large maps which are mostly barren. Pretty lifeless) Diversity of forces: CMFI (BFC almost couldn't fit all the factions they added on the HUD) CMBN (A lot of factions, not as many as CMFI, but more equipment for each) CMRT (SS, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Heer, Volksturm, Soviet Army, Guards, Partisans) CMSF2 (A lot of factions, not as many as CMRT. Some factions aren't fleshed out well) CMFB (The most vehicles of any ww2 title ,at least considering there are only 2 factions so far) CMCW (Only two factions which have a good amount of vehicles) CMBS (One more faction than CMCW but slightly less equipment for them each) Fun of forces (Not influenced by mood or game performance. This one is mostly subjective): CMBN (British faction is heavily fleshed out) CMSF2 (Marines and British are moderately fleshed out) CMCW (A lot of variants of tanks, armored cars, and things that go bom) CMRT (Eastern front stuff man) CMBS (Just not a lot of toys, and javelins kill all) CMFI (A lot of factions but not much to them, mostly use the same equipment too, mostly infantry and American equip) CMFB (Bored of the US v Germans by now, but there are a total ton of toys in this game. When british are added this place will change dramatically) Value (Before mods, added maps -> after mods, added maps. Not including performance of game): CMBN -> CMBN CMRT -> CMCW CMSF2 -> CMSF2 (Doesn't like imported maps) CMCW -> CMRT (CMRT gives its maps to all the other games except CMSF2 and CMFI) CMBS -> CMBS CMFB -> CMFB (CMFB gives its maps to all the other games except CMSF2 and CMFI) CMFI -> CMFI (Doesn't like imported maps) Features added for game release: CMSF2 (Top attack munitions, air burst munition, precision munition, explosive reactive armor, started the best game series ever made etc.) CMBS (Active Protection Systems, drones and amphibious abilities too I think?) CMCW (Cluster munitions) CMBN (MINE FLAIL MAY WE NEVER FORGET YOU) idk the rest Deadliness of games: CMCW (No body armor) CMBS CMFI CMRT CMBN CMFB CMSF2 If I think of others I'll post them If you don't own CMRT + F&R you are really missing out.

The biggest issue in researching russian/soviet toe information is barely any of it agrees. 423rd MRR wasnt mentioned in the original post that I quoted. If it was, I would be able to understand where the "120x bmp-2 and "36x btr80" place in the other MRRs.

I actually used this source to make the 20th CAA sometime around a week ago. They use t-72b3 and bmp-2 still. Does anyone know if these regiments/brigades come with 3 mechanized battalions and 1 motorized? Look at 49th CAA's inventory.

There were supposed to be three large panels of era on the front hull sides right? The purpose of those panels are to stop single charge heat warheads like a rpg-7V/VL. Of course no mbt will survive a side hit to a semi-modern LAT.

True but the era on the t72b3m will definitely stop a rpg 7vl

What was the rush? After ukraine recieved its first shipments of javelin and nlaw it was already too late.

How expensive has this war been per time spent fighting? I guess the Arab-Israeli wars were a taste of what was to come. Everything about this operation has been totally bizarre - to echo this thread. Considering both outcomes put russia in a worse place than it was before, I thought I was dreaming when I first read the news of this

Epic. The big map with the rivers is awesome.

If you have played Battlefield 2 Project Reality you will recognize this map! Night time bombing the base:

Kashan Desert preview + small scenario! (Player v Soviet) https://www.dropbox.com/s/k44c12mtzxf8g9j/CMPR Kashan Preview exp2.btt?dl=0

Now I wonder who this work would be for??

And nobody is complaining about spotting when moving.

I haven't seen people complain about the spotting in CMCW with a situation like this - which is a very condensed tank formation likely firing multiple rounds in rapid succession. The amount of smoke in this situation is a lot. If you never spot your enemy, there isn't going to be any smoke in front of your gun barrel. And if you aren't moving the amount of diesel given off at idle would be much less.

So what?

Sure, but it seemed in bad taste. These look like somewhat large scale exercises given the amount of smoke bring given off from engines and guns. I wouldnt expect a bmp-1 to have all that great of vision anyway. No ifv from this time period was given priority in vision besides the bradley.

Yeah a consistent flow of information can be a huge issue.

How biased of a post can you make?

Well they were M60A1 if I recall correctly. I also avoid M60A3 TTS and Abrams.

I'm saying pretty much every single one of my opponents t62 were opened up and never really got a spot on my tanks. It isn't unrefutable evidence, but it is some. Halfway through the scenario I had like two losses. And they were infantry. My opponent had over a dozen smoldering vehicles if not more.

The T-62s had some seriously abysmal performance in the CMCW tournament Slysniper is hosting. My opponent had unbuttoned tanks totally oblivious to huge m60's for like half a turn within 300m. So I also think something isnt right there.

Fall Blau would be incredible.

They appear to be working for me still, maybe try a diff browser?