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@Thewood1: 
it's probably an "occupational disease" of mine, in my trade (guitar teacher for...let's say "unpopular playing techniques" ) such terms as the one you highlighted in bold are on the agenda - with the result that after a few years you have to deal with a small but very reliable fanbase. 
you can find my approach ridiculous, you're welcome. it's also moaning on a high level, slitherine does a lot of things right. 
for me, video games are on the same level as artwork, be it a song, a movie or a painting and i'm a bit emotional about it in this context my "responsibility" is to be seen. if in my branch only popularity would be published...one would have to rewrite the music textbooks, "there are only four chords... "
one will probably still be allowed to wish for things? maybe a misunderstanding: i never said a word about a company releasing a game for free. maybe it's because english is not my main language. sorry for that. my main criticism of slitherine is that they use the popularity of panzer corps (1) massively to promote panzer corps 2. up to a certain extent this doesn't bother me, but if i find five posts regarding panzer corps 2 (in the period 09.06 - 16.07.) under "activity" on the steam page of panzer corps (1) (!) then this really annoys me. apart from the unspeakable panzer corps gold-edition...

I totally agree with that statement. Problem I've noticed with Arma is that while the AI can behave realistically when modded correctly, they don't pose enough of a real threat:
What I like about CM:SF2 is that the AI behave realistically in a firefight (cover, morale, rate of fire, accuracy, etc.) and are not invincible to stupid decisions. You can overcome ridiculous odds in Arma due to the fact that you aren't restrained like the AI are. And the moment you buff up the AI reactions the game becomes arcadish. CM:SF2 finds the right way to solve this issue by removing control from the player as the one actually engaging.

the ARMA player video is probably the one that can be found on the video tab when you click on the Shock Force game on Steam.  It has something like 83k views in one or two days when I last checked.

With the help of @sPA505 I have posted a full translation with some commentary of the German pamphlet:  Tactically Correct Driving Armored Personnel Carrier (Shützenpanzerwagon (SPW) .  Enjoy!  And thanks for the translation Holger!  

 

Armour without good infantry support is extremely vulnerable in built up areas or any terrain with excellent cover for infantry. This is historically true, which is why you shouldn't use armour that way.
Combat Mission handles close assault pretty well, given the potential complexity of the variables involved. 

I'd love to have those so I can examine them closer.  Please PM me so we can work out how we can make that happen.
Happy my little blog has been of interest to you, Bil

Hi Bil, sounds good, I´m really looking forward to new content; your battle drill is bookmarked in my browser.
Thanks to "armor forward! but with intelligence" in your battle drill I became aware of two other interesting...eh..."small books". "Fibel" we´d say in Germany.
1. Panzer helfen Dir! (Merkblatt 18b/38 vom 15.9.´44. Was der Grenadier vom gepanzerten Kampffahrzeug wissen muß)
"Tanks help you! (Leaflet 18b / 38 from September 15th, '44. What the Grenadier needs to know about the armored combat vehicle)"
2. Taktisch richtiges Fahren mit dem Schützenpanzerwagen
"Tactically correct driving with the armored personnel carrier"
While "Panzer helfen Dir!" is in the style of the "Tigerfibel" / "Pantherfibel", the "Taktisch richtiges Fahren mit dem Schützenpanzerwagen" comes as a very specific instruction: therefore, two pictures are shown for each situation, a short rhyme per picture explains why and how to proceed (take a look on the last two pictures). Maybe this will be a future project of yours to process this content for the battle drill (like you did before on "armor forward!", sharing your personal thoughts on the given situations).

Hi Bil, thank you very much for your battle drill blog. It is fun to try out the new knowledge, it is very educational. Keep it up, greetings. 

This one that Fiskerby mentioned can be particularly useful.  Use XO teams to act as liaisons to other friendly units that are not in the same chain of command.  The XOs will then provide horizontal C2 to the other unit (if the XO teams have radios).  

Don't. There's a bug where your guys do suicide runs towards the enemy. Wait till that gets fixed.

Sadly @Bulletpoint is right. Carry on with Engine 3. There are only a handful of scenarios/campaigns that have been designed specifically for Engine 4, which leaves you with plenty of content to play whilst we wait for the hedgerow bug to eventually get fixed.

Lightweight 😉

Interesting, because someone is not actively playing the game and don't really care about updating the engine. When the later version of the game gets new material, they feel they should get the later version of the game for free. With the purchase of the material.
Where as BF sees it as they offer products for the latest version of their products.
Really, Ok, maybe it is a little harsh to the casual player that does not use the product much. But If $10 is the make or break of them buying the latest material and version of the game, then I doubt they are  serious about buying the game anyway.
And would anyone not serious about buying the game even be on this site. 
So get you $10 extra and get the game and start playing.
(dress up like a beggar and get the money for the whole game in a hour or 2) you will have better luck doing that than getting BF to change how they sell their product.
 
 

Hi DerKommissar, I´m absolutely into COBI - you won´t find anything better concerning "Klemmbausteine" / LEGO-like-bricks and WWII. Just give the german yt-channel "Held der Steine" a try; it´s in german, but maybe DerKommissar understands it.  Otherwise there might be subtitles. He has done a review on the Leopard 2 A4 for example. I´m pretty sure your younger brother would love the COBI-stuff if he´s already into LEGO-like-bricks.
Well...the figurines...some say they don´t look so good... I have no strong feelings one way or the other about them. 

Hi Wicky and thank you for the quick answer. Got it! I´ll do the mission again and mow down that shed asap. 😎

Finally, my first comment on this board. Greetings and sorry for my English being not so good, hope you understand me anyway.
Just got commonwealth + market garden and I´m very exited to give the new scenarios a try. Scenario: "18 platoon". It seems that I cannot deploy my mortar, the box to click on doesn´t appear:

I tried many different spots to deploy the weapon...no success. Any ideas for me? Thank you and see you soon on the board.

Hi Wicky and thank you for the quick answer. Got it! I´ll do the mission again and mow down that shed asap. 😎