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I imagine it might. I haven't had an 'install issue' with any CM stuff so far but I may have been lucky .

Perhaps awkwardly these days, I'm a 'Europhile'. Always will be. But I agree with most of your comments and it's your choice of course. I will probably play Cold War straight away, even though I have little clue about some of the hardware involved (shame on me, but we have a lot of people with personal knowledge here). And yes, Americans are generally great (with the odd exception ) but that's true of any country.

That's pretty hard core, respect . But what about the British? Being British, of course I usually play on the Axis side but I do still like to play as the Allies and a lot can be learned about your 'enemies' by playing as them. Plus a lot of the content is designed for play as Allies only. Thinking a bit more about it, I'm quite partial to Russian armour anyway. My introduction to CM was playing Monster Mash in the RT demo. Badly as the Germans first time. Successfully as the Russians second time (which was great at the time). And then finally successfully as the Germans, but obviously with too much 'intel'. Thinking even more about it, I'm partial to armour full stop, so if it's a couple of Shermans that's fine and perhaps raises different challenges to a couple of Panthers or Tigers. It's all good . EDIT: So your quote above suggests Cold War may be problematic?

Yes @Kandu has been busy, which is great. I have the Buron overhaul, but I have not found time to play it yet . Edit: maybe the link to Kandu is an old one, it shows last visit a long time ago in 2016...

Not from Bil's perspective . Liking your graphics by the way .

Grey Wolves was (and is) an amazing transformation. I chanced across it looking for a realistic flag - how lucky was I? Sadly I have none of it or SH3 installed on this PC or I'd be tempted to fire it up again. Life is too short... I do have War in the East however, which I have not spent more than 1 hour on so far and may never get round to it at this rate.

@Falaise my friend, is there meant to be a download link or am I being typically dense? By the way it looks great .

If anyone else is looking for the btt file, the link at the bottom of Mike's opening post still works: http://s3.amazonaws.com/cmmods-zips.greenasjade.net/CMRT/Rossmann_at_Kodersdorf.rar If it doesn't at some point, send me a PM and I can pass it on. And now to play it (if I can find the time)...

Joe, if you have activated F&R you may (or may not) want to cast your eyes over the thread below (just the bits about activation, not the missing textures). Several of us noticed that we could activate F&R and did so, with little result except for some extended QB dates. Steve's advice was to undo the activation using a tool which can be had from @BFCElvis by registering a ticket at the Helpdesk (or maybe otherwise, which is why I've copied him in).

Really?

Indeed, growing up in a coal mining area (not Somerset) that's part of something I often chant. To myself, as no-one else gives a flying ****. We are better served now of course , and I'm happy to wait for 3 weeks (+) for something to arrive from the continent...

I'm not sure. Steve, Bil and Warren sitting in an office devoid of their pants? At least such a scene won't appear in the game, or will it?

Not leather pants, but hopefully some kind of undergarments and pants . I'm trying not to think too much about this...

Quick, call the off-topic police. I had not heard of Sabrina Salerno until now, but I imagine what you describe was quite memorable (or should I say mammarable?).

That's a nice page!

Errmmm I assume your concentration shifted mid-post?

Not if you're playing as Axis . But if you're Allied then the following applies... Following some limited use by the British where the fuses would not be 'captured', and some use in the South Pacific, Wikipedia says: The Pentagon refused to allow the Allied field artillery use of the fuzes in 1944, although the United States Navy fired proximity-fuzed anti-aircraft shells during the July 1943 invasion of Sicily. After General Dwight D. Eisenhower demanded he be allowed to use the fuzes, 200,000 shells with VT fuzes or (code named "POZIT") were used in the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944.

That is true for F&R, but I think for Cold War the wording on the website was a small error and is going to be changed (if it hasn't been already) as it will be a downloadable base game not a patch? I will await correction and punishment should this be wrong .

Fair point, but we can be hopeful. I imagine ideally F&R would have been shunted out before Cold War was announced, but I assume there are still a couple of hopefully* minor issues yet to be resolved and Cold War couldn't wait or was about to blow cover anyway. * That's my second use of 'hopeful' in the same post .

@Aragorn2002 Steve said yesterday 'Well, the wait isn't much longer' so my fingers and toes are crossed .

Yes, agreed. Of course we may not have proximity fuses available to us.

I hadn't really thought about this, but of course we do it all the time albeit manually. For example we use more points if crossing bridges, negotiating narrow village streets, woods etc. So you mean you would be able to issue an order 'get to Point X using (for example) 5 waypoints' and the points would be automatically positioned to avoid obstacles? Might not allow for precise control of exposure etc. but then that doesn't always work anyway. Or am I misinterpreting your tool? Using the swamp example (or bocage), it also occurs to me that you can sometimes tell if the game will not be able to drive a tank through as it will not let you plot a waypoint where you want it. However, sometimes it will let you plot it and then sends your tank off on a sightseeing tour of the battlefied, ending up eventually at your waypoint if it hasn't been shot up on the way.

I was just typing this when you replied . If you mean F&R, it hasn't been released yet (it will be very soon). So you are in the same boat as all the other F&R pre-orders, mine included.

I'll do that as I always do. I might be wrong but in the UK unfortunately it now seems like BFC games are more expensive than anywhere else in the world? Not my fault (I voted otherwise) and not BFC's fault (just saying).

So for someone who has only played the WW2 titles... sh****t!