quakerparrot67

Very true.
In the meantime I am heading over to the Smolny Institute Recording Studios to watch Johnnie Lenin and the Rubber Bone O Band recording their new single "Give Paragraphs a Chance". According to bass player and co-manager Terry Trotsky it is going to be a smash. In fact the Petrograd edition of Melody Maker is saying that the Kronstadt Pressing Plant is taking on extra staff, at gunpoint.
After that I'm off to puzzle why the Septics named a Scout Car after a motorway in Kent.

I think it's Sickboy.....Don't quote me, I'm not that big a fan TBH. 
The late Iain M Banks (PBOH) did a similar thing but much, much better, in 'Feersum Endjinn'.....Wrap your head around some phonetic dyslexia:
"Woak up.  Got dresd.  Had brekfast.  Spoke wif Ergates thi ant who sed itz juss been wurk wurk wurk 4 u lately master Bascule, Y dont u ½ a holiday? & I agreed & that woz how we decided we otter go 2 c Mr Zoliparia in thi I-ball ov thi gargoyle Rosbrith.
I fot Id bettir clear it wif thi relevint oforities furst & hens avoyd any truble (like happind thi lastime) so I went 2 c mentor Scalopin.
Certinly yung Bascule, he sez, i do beleave this is a day ov relativly lite dooties 4 u u may take it off. ½ u made yoor mattins calls?
O yes, I sed, which woznt stricktly tru, in fact which woz pretti strikly untru, trufe btold, but I cude always do them while we woz travelin.
Wots in that thare box yoor holdin? he asks.
Itz a ant, I sez, waven thi box @ his face.
O this is yoor litil frend, is it? i herd u had a pet.  May i see him?
Iss not a pet, iss a frend; u woz rite thi furst time, & iss not a im iss a she.  Luke.
O yes very pretti, he sez, which is a pretti strainge thing 2 say about a ant if u ask me but thare u go.
Duz it - duz she ½ a naim? he asks.
Yes, I sez, sheez calld Ergates."
https://www.pauladaunt.com/books/Classic Science Fiction/Ian Banks/banks_feersum/Iain M. Banks - Feersum Endjinn v1.html#one_4

No, I just don't believe in nagging about something like this.....It'll be ready when it's ready, or it won't.  Nothing we type here will make the slightest difference. 

If I were to say that very idea is under review & active discussion amongst the H&E team, would you be interested in joining in? 
I'm hoping to use CM:FI for 1950s-60s pseudo-South America.
@MOS:96B2P has plans for mercenary stuff in Africa.
& @37mm is considering WWII SEAC & Pacific theatre mods.
I'd prefer to go the fictional/semi-historical route again rather than attempting to model anything from WWII.....CM players know their TOEs too well for an attempt at a historical game to be convincing (IMHO).
PS - CM WWI was also briefly discussed.....Very, very tempted by that! 

Why not send her some Irving Welsh novels too? 
"I’m afraid there must be some mistake, Rents sais. The rid-heided **** kin be quite ****** stylish, ah huv tae gie um that; he’s goat style. — There were no cards to indicate a seat reservation when we boarded the train at Edinburgh."
I found that quote here:
https://dspace.ut.ee/bitstream/handle/10062/57592/priimets_ma_2017.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Which amused me. 

A friend of mine from across the pond is studying "Received Pronunciation" online. So just to mess with her head I sent her "Ullo John, Gotta a New Motor". It gave her a giggle.

Thanks! I'll probably do a few more installments, if the action warrants it. Will be a weekend thing.

What he said.
Distracted in a good way at the moment with Fire and Rubble but this will be finished.
Final three sections will be:
5 - Campaign Briefings (drafting now)
6 - Campaign Scripts
7 - Testing and Balance
(Dad is also out of hospital doing well)
 
Cheers
Ithikial

Happy new year for you and your Staff Steve
It s very comforting to receive new information, including very beautiful screenshot, thank you for that.
I am really excited while waiting to see what the Fondation from the two "BF Sitlerine" (Les Deux Grands du Temp) will reserve us and will produce for us, and I am full confident to the alliance, and, for the time I can already remember a little text that makes me happy and smile, which is the word, "MIX", included many time in your text... for the time you can be sure that this serie of game that you and your staff created since loong tiime ago, are and stay for the TIME, one of the best reference and Masterpiece "I wait and will see" for the rest...
JM

Follow me, and I'll show you where the fashion outliers grow... 😀

I wonder if translation isn't the issue here too, I suspect the author probably meant 'concertina-wire':
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concertina_wire
Just got the wrong type of musical instrument. 

The way i see it is...Combat Mission is a TACTICAL SIMULATOR...
The majority of the other, prettier games are TACTICAL GAMES...
What I wan't to play is a....
TACTICAL SIMULATOR !
That's why i'm here 😊...

To me what is surprising is not the length of time it takes BF to produce product given the tiny development staff, but the fact that BF is still in business after 21+ years and AFAIK the only and last surviving developer making realistic and brilliant tactical wargames for our tiny niche within a niche market.
We should not begrudge these guys from wanting to make some money from MOD even though that surely has delayed all entertainment product development.  My only hope is that BF is making the money they deserve and are not getting exploited.  My experience in the US DoD development game is that the sort of products that BF has been developing for us gamers would cost million of dollars - and many millions more when developing for a government agency.  These products would cost the customer many hundreds of thousands of dollars - very easily many millions.  We are getting them for $60-$70 bucks!  The biggest software bargain of all time.
The choice may be slow development of entertainment COTS vs no product at all.  Yes, we're all impatient.  But, we must consider the commercial realities.
 

No one wonders  "what's going on", Marvin Gaye told us the answer to that one back in 1971.
In the meantime I think that a certain someone is not just "stubborn and stupid" but so arrogant that he feels the constant need to tell us what we think about the way Steve and the other boys in the band run their company.

I get that some people, a small vocal group of people,  are disappointed. I just wish they'd have the humility not to constantly flood the forum with petty bitching

I don't really get your point.
But I do find that there's a small gaggle of really vocal weirdos on this site who work hard to create the impression that the customers are dissatisfied.
Having played the game since the last Millennium, bought every game and module except Afghanistan, played them incessantly and enjoyed them all, I feel some loyalty to the BF team and would like to play my part in dispelling the impression that the average, normal buyer is unhappy.
They're a small development team. The product is amazing. I don't care how many delivery dates they overshoot, I just hope they keep going.

these are looking great, but wasn't the M43 hat more common that the peak cap? will we see the M43? one thing that has always impressed me was the details in the uniforms...HAPPY NEW YEAR BATTLEFRONT TEAM!!! 🙂

Nice stuff there, Macisle!

"It says here that a lot of men fire their panzerfausts too early."
"Yes, my Heinrich has the same problem."
 

yes we need a mod...one that change the sidecap to the m43cap...

I don't remember there being a "promised" release date of 8th January. @BFCElvisdid mention the fact that the 8th is the birthday of the lead singer from Bromley Dave and the Self-publicists. Of course my old eyes may have missed the word "promise" and I am happy to be corrected on that.
Exits stage right humming "Hot titties and worn-out shoes, Barry Obama always sang blues. Ribble Valley I like your style, Ribble Valley go that extra mile." ------------------------------------------>

We need someone, who can make a good texture for the (new, coming) fieldcap to use for the gebirgsjäger (edelweiss):
 
This could be eventually a fine mod!

It was certainly a lot better than Xmas '44. And the chaos of the spring '45. But it still couldn't have been much fun.
Of course there weren't any "Brits" there, although there was a number of British troops in the city. As for "Soviets", they were freely elected workers councils, and ceased to exist when the Bolsheviks banned any non party member from standing for election.

I'd imagine xmas 1945 was an awful lot better than 1944. 

Unabashed self-promo
Available here:
and on the CM mod warehouse IV:
https://www.thefewgoodmen.com/cm-mod-warehouse/combat-mission-battle-for-normandy/cmbn-other/cmbn-lucky_strikes-hedgerow-hell-or-how-not-to-be-seen/