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Of course. Personally I think I'm more at ease playing games based 60 years ago (on whatever side).

I just thought I'd add for the record that Slitherine got back to me with the answer the very next day. Not bad, not bad.

Me too JM. Good to hear from you my friend. So it seems that picture is totally 'advertising blurb'... would love to know who produced it though .

From the BFC store: https://www.battlefront.com/red-thunder/cmrt-battle-pack-1/ See the pink bit near the top, under the title 'Overview'. In short, yes it needs F&R. EDIT you beat me to a reply . F&R is worth the extra.

Think I forgot some StuGs as well.

I'm playing CMFB 'Hot Time in Hatten' as a PBEM. It is hot, my opponent has flamethrower Hetzers. I don't like them. Two down so far, at least two more to go. Doing okay against the deluge of Panzer IVs though and not so bad against several Panthers and some Jagdpanzer IV/70s. And some Stummels. Jeezy Louisy, it's a big battle...

I don't really know GMT, but I think I prefer BFC's stance on this. Disclaimer - I only play WW2 BFC games anyway.

We might be tarred and feathered for it, but that's where I'm at so far.

Cool, and like that I didn't have to watch the whole video - good job . No disrespect to the 'Tea time' comms, as I think they're a good thing. So 50% off - if I didn't already have all of the WW2 stuff, my credit card would be sizzling. It has tempted me towards modern, but I don't think I have the time or the knowledge. Hmmm!

You may be right Ian, I noticed the positions as well (i.e not sat down on the engine covers). I had also wondered whether someone didn't actually know Red Thunder was WW2, but I may be going too far there. EDIT: I hope your Canadian cat is still with us? I have a British cat who looks very similar and he's fast asleep next to me after a night out last night at -5C.

Well in current or just finished PBEMs I'm playing Hot Time in Hatten as US, Monster Mash as Soviets and admittedly Boy's against men as Germans. So I'm not really that bothered. I'm not the 'Nazi in the village' if you read that somewhere else on this forum .

Although looking again, the Copyright 2023 Battlefront caption suggests it may have come from BFC?

Just for clarity, the 'digital camo' only appears on the Slitherine / Steam advertising pages and the pre-load 'Play' page on Steam as far as I can see. So it no doubt came from Slitherine (how, by using a mod or fiddling with the picture? I don't know) and transferred across to Steam. having said that I haven't tested the actual Steam version of the game much yet, as I'm happy using the BFC one in which I have all of the after-market mods, user made battles and campaigns. I'll replicate them in the Steam file structure at some point.

Let me be clear, you mean point 1?

Okay . I don't know about 10 years ago, was that CM1? I've only ever played CM2, so... I'm not sure about point 1 - I've never seen that. And point 2 - if you're playing on say 'Iron' and you've selected a unit, others that they don't have any sort of contact with will disappear. But if you de-select the unit by for example clicking on open terrrain, all units will reappear. Nothing disappears. At least that's my experience.

Yep, that's what caught me out. Anyway, not a biggie as I'm not playing the games on Steam yet anyway. EDIT: Slitherine also have Downfall on that list...

Thanks, you beat me to my edit when I realised the same. Oh well, you live and learn... John, you can stand down my friend.

I decided to get all WW2 titles and DLC bought from BFC onto Steam. Doing this via Slitherine (I already had an account) all went well, until I got to CMFB. The BFC Activation Code is not recognised by Slitherine. I've filed a ticket with Slitherine, but @BFCElvis I wondered if you can help? Putting this here in case it might help anyone else. I have some experience with the key process if anyone is struggling. EDIT: So looking again I think it's because I hadn't realised the CMFB Base Game isn't on Steam yet? It's on Slitherine of course, but not being on Steam means you can't generate a Steam key. Correct?

Thanks Ian. While you were kindly typing that, I was downloading it LOL. Looks good, thanks to @Ithikial_AU .

I also have a snag. I didn't know there was such a thing as this . Mostly I would tend to think of an ambush as part of defending, but I suppose you're right it's not always.

I have done, but oddly after playing a certain game called Combat Mission they seemed very old skool. Me too except only WW2 so far. Controversial I know.

I'm not a fan of our UK government, but I am a fan of their support for Ukraine and I don't think there's any call in the country for that to change. For example see PM Sunak's speech today in Parliament, and the agreement of the opposition leader Starmer. They both mentioned a hope that renewed UK support will become a model for other countries...

Okay, I was wrong (no surprises there), it does need both modules. It might say so in the readme, which for some reason I can't find on my PC. I did have a 'replace computer and start again' experience fairly recently, so that might be why.

I think Steve suggested by or before the end of the month. I think...

Congratulations, I had to pay full whack for all of those, and for FB . They were worth it though.