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Congratulations to everyone on the year 2022, and what are the rough plans of the Battlefront developers for the Combat Mission series ?

We keep getting these posts where people ask about the games...
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HEY! THERE AINT ONE!!! WTF?

How about Scotland inviting Russians to help fight for freedom?

As I recall, there was no expectation of Russia moving into Crimea either. As the article says, the expected areas of interest to the Russians would be those with large ethnically Russian populations such as the Donbas(s). 

How do you feel like modern russian doctrine differs from the US? For example, the first mission of the Russian campaign. How would they approach things differently?

CMCW will offer you the most content and the best experience overall. It has the best performance of all the games, has vehicles that span ~20 years of development, and has a lot of maps. 
I dont even consider CMSF2 because of its abysmal performance. CMBS is good, but needs a module already!!! 
CMCW also accepts converted maps from every single title. Including CMBN. So you can have near endless enjoyment from CMCW. 

Cold War is SO GOOD it's ridiculous.  

Same, especially if the new content is of the same quality as CMCW.

lcm1947,
I started with WWII back in the ole days of CMBO and CMBB.  Now though, I pretty much only play modern and find it very difficult going back to anything pre CW.  To me, modern is so much better, faster, deadlier and more fun than WWII that there is no comparison in my mind.  Be warned!  It can hook you bad.  Shock Force is really a great intro and I love it.  But Black Sea and Cold War are really where it's at, imho of course.  I'm literally dying for a BS module about now.  

It would be good the winter war of 2022 doesn't happen, and we have to keep guessing about the performance of all this equipment.
 

Ah, I see. Yeah, I'm mostly playing smaller scenarios and non-monster campaigns. It takes me long enough to get through a game with a small number of units!

Huge agree! A peer vs peer conflict without the US's overwhelming technological advantage sounds way more fun.

I am still gnawing on this years bone, CMCW!
But any news about the engine 5 upgrade and the CMCW module are welcome

In Soviet training missions they show how to concentrate your forces and to use them en masse under heavy artillery support, you gather momentum and rush with all you have in one focused blow. 
In the campaign and many other single scenarios it simply doesn't work. To deploy this tactics means to lose your forces quickly and to do little or no damage to the opponent. The peculiar thing with the Soviet campaign is that it literally asks you to do the opposite things you had learnt from Soviet training missions. What is required from you in the first mission of Soviet campaign is to carefully scout enemy tanks and TOW vehicles and call pinpoint artillery strikes on them.
Cold War Red Army is described as heavily dependent on artillery assets and massive artillery support to pin down the enemy. But in CM world  artillery strikes on areas simply don't do anything to the vehicles, the only application they have is to bombard towns or infantry positions. At best areal artillery strikes can kill one or two lightly armored vehicles, which is far from being enough to suppress enemy defense. Many times I called pinpoint strikes on single M60 tank to find out 10 or 15 minutes later that bombardment didn't scratch the tank, it seats in full health in Moon landscape among craters with no trees around. 
In reality it should be completely destroyed or severally damaged. IRL photos from the tests:

 

 
That's one of the biggest drawbacks of CM engine and inconsistences of CMCW. In theory artillery plays major role in Soviet military planning, but in game practice it has little effect on the enemy. This virtually strips Soviet army of one of its most powerful forces. 
So does "Soviet tactics" work?
In my experience it does, but primary in Quick battles. To work it needs certain conditions. First of all, Soviet forces must have serious numerical advantage. In Quick battles this condition is met by assigning more points to the Red side than to the Blue. Second, the terrain conditions should be more or less equal. This is also true for the most of the Quick battle maps. Even artillery, which is relatively weakened under CM engine framewok, could be applied to block enemy infantry from reaching certain zones. 
But it definitely ineffective under conditions that differs from those of "equal" conditions of Quick battles.  
 

When I played this scenario about 10 of 12 AT-4 missiles hit the ground. 
I noticed that it's a common thing for AT-4 if they there is big elevation difference between firing team and the target. 

I have not done give away yet. In 3 hour there will be message to winner and they will have good christmas war gaming!

Ukrainian ATGM team tested Javelin against turret-top slat armor. Looks like the turret of tank just put on BTR hull, but maybe would be better to hit real  decomissioned T-72
 

Posted my Steam review of CMCW a couple of days ago.  Enjoying the game 

I wanted to remind that I'm giving away 3 CM games for Christmas. I will make a Discord offer https://discord.gg/Aggnw37g  for a fair chance to the entire CM community. The gift will be released on December 23rd so you can play on Christmas Eve. I will write a message to the chosen people.
Merry Christmas and God's blessings!

I like how he's pal is watching him with a bino assembling the launcher 😂

Summer afternoon assault

USSR mechanized unit in Austria.

I am on the "unofficial" server and the quality of the admin team leaves something to be desired. There is a lot of "good old boys" atmosphere that allows their preferred users to act without moderation.

https://imgur.com/a/o0AgROV


@MikeyD and @Bootie may be interested in this. But this sort of content has been posted for MONTHS without reaction from the mod team and in some cases in conversations they are participating in.