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Thanks John. Agreed trawling thorugh the list of 'forgotten' films was a little odd, having watched several of them many times (Cross of Iron for example). Anyway the photos were great, as were the following Kursk photos, although they're a bit better known than the Canadian photos.

Well the first time I loaded up a QB with snow was just to check it was there. However I liked the modded snow, with whistling wind, so much I am now playing a QB on a huge map with it on. It doesn't melt but my panzers seem to bog a lot. All have managed to free themselves so far...

I wondered about that and didn't think I had, but on checking just now I have a folder in Z called 'Mod1' and inside it has lots of Winter mod stuff. Thanks for clearing that one up! Having the mod presumably explains why I actually got deep white snow on the ground as well?

I can confirm that it's there, just tried it to make sure. I had deep snow on the ground and heavy snow falling, even though it was June . Rather nicely some of the troops even had whitewashed helmets.

Loving the video, but this is big news?

Agreed . I got introduced via Google looking for pictures of a Jagdpanther for a signature on another website. Any way that works I suppose .

No problem good luck and hello to Vancouver, nice place.

I'm on PC but I think all of the CM2 stuff (if not earlier) and patches included, has Mac versions. For example the CMBN big bundle patch has the Mac version as the first download file. Hope I'm helping here...

Avalon Hill's Advanced Squad Leader was the last board game I played, quite a while ago. Excellent game but rather heavy on the rules (there was a massive folder full of them). I used 1/300th scale metal tanks on the boards, looked good. Of course there is no Avalon Hill any more... A very good attempt at converting most of it to PC has been made by Peter Fisla, called Tigers on the Hunt. It's like a board game on your PC, and you don't need to consult the rule book every 5 minutes. But you said you don't want PC games . If you did, I'd recommend Combat Mission.

@John 1966 this is Holy Ground right, as per the other posts we exchanged? I put my Stugs behind the walled farm as well, but a lot of the Cromwells never made it that far thanks to my stalwart infantry, so I didn't have the same issue. And at the end I was able to manueouver the Stugs across to the other flank and take out the last two pieces of pesky Allied armour. Great stuff and kudos to the scenario designer CW (I would link but not sure which user to link to)!

Got a bit of success with the Stugs and the same with the ATGs but less so. Was running out of infantry AT ammo by the end so I was glad to still have the Stugs hanging around - they actually finished the battle for me. Just thought, I didn't comment on the subject of the original post. I didn't notice blocked doors in the towers or other buildings. Perhaps I was lucky to chose the direction or time so that it didn't matter.

Played it recently myself. Starting off thinking it was not an easy fight. It wasn't. However, getting meagre resources into place and dealing out sufficient damage was a great experience. Infantry AT weapons saved my day to be sure

I would have thought BFC will have looked at the numbers/value of sales for WW2 and modern titles and will be roughly guided by that (including MoD type customers of course). I'd love to see the figures but not sure they will want to disclose... Anyway you can probably guess what my preference would be (already registered in the poll), but I may dabble my toes in the modern stuff at some point... As a fairly new arrival I am of course already presented with more content than I can shake a stick at .

Just thought I'd pop back and confirm that I have now witnessed medic / buddy aid behaviour. Probably it was happpening all along, because for some strange reason I was looking at the icons in the middle panel expecting one or more to display 'medic' when actually it appears in the status text for the individual troops at the bottom left of the screen. For example a radio man suddenly went from 'spotting' to 'medic'. So it seems my observation was to blame .

Agreed. TacAI forethought in glorious action...

I agree, that'll be the one. Nice little introduction...

I see 5 Germans I think, but they are either sleeping or in a state where they no longer care.

Totally agree, and it's a great scenario. Played it in the demo and that persuaded me to buy CMRT - my first CM but already not my last.

+1 from me, both to Elvis and the beverage

FWIW I'm using Defender (or at least whatever the Microsoft protection is called these days) here with no problems...

Erwin, I honestly feel your pain. However, I installed RT and BN Bundle on a fairly new Win10 'gaming' laptop (Asus GL702VM) recently and have not had any issues. Luck, possibly. Types of hardware involved, possibly. Anyway, I know this isn't helping you and I hope you get sorted somehow!

Real Life getting in the way, sort of You're not that far behind...

@Warts 'n' all Strangely I know more about Normandy than I do about Kent, and have been there more often too. History drives geography eh? Actually looking at the title of my post again, it could be misconstrued out of the right context

I would agree with all of that, so I think hide under/in the trees, but don't obsess about being in shadows. It looks good and feels right however

I've been playing battles in Normandy and Holland a lot as Axis and have been religiously hiding my panzers under trees (in the shadows) whenever I can as I think that's what RL would suggest given Allied airpower. However I wondered whether being in the shadows does actually make a difference to being spotted in the game a) by aircraft and b) by units on the ground. Units on the ground might be at a similar level so would not necessarily have LOS blocked by the tree. I'm asking out of curiousity as a search of the forum suggested being in the shadows makes no difference. Not sure it would change my behaviour but intersted nevertheless.