Vacillator

Thank you
The mods work for all titles 🙏. However, it is sometimes necessary to rename BMP files. All the elements contained in my file for FI posted on the Bootie site are compatible with FB, without the need to rename the files apart from those for Sherman 3. 
The 2 versions (Archer, Morris Bofor) that I posted are therefore also compatible with FI. The Crusader MK2 AA and the Challenger don't appear in winter in FI, that's why I didn't do them.
My winter mods for German RT and FI vehicles are also compatible with FB (I will post updates to some of them soon).
I use in FB all the winter mods already made, by other Umlaut, Aris and Kohlenklau, for FI, RT and FB. In these games almost all of my tanks in ground snow conditions have winter textures replacing the originals. I'm still missing about ten armored vehicles, Allied and German combined. 
I just realized that I had already made a version of the Sherman M4A2-75, and M4A1-76 from the original BF.C last December. I'll put them in the final file for Bootie.

2 snowy US tanks from Downfall (2 versions each), 
M4-75 latest
View:
https://www.mediafire.com/view/vlqd5rkgnc2vqib/M4_75_Latest_snow.jpg/file
Zip:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/u3qe3dhb59l3gp2/M4_75_latest_snow.zip/file
Zip white:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/daaieahyxp6yp8n/M4_75_latest_White.zip/file
 
M4 A1-76W
View:
https://www.mediafire.com/view/4s5h8mai84r8en1/M4_A1-_76W_late.jpg/file
Zip:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/vblut98s4zrlrp1/M4a1-76w-late_Snow.zip/file
Zip white:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/d8gewslo7iw0iq0/m4a1-76w-late_white.zip/file
 
I would redo the tracks for the final file for CMOD.

Perhaps I'm an odd one out.  I do live in the countryside and do spend my time 'spotting' other people when I'm out.  No I'm not the phantom flasher, I have two crazy (well mostly barky, so not so bad) dogs and I like to be on top of the 'approaching dogs/people/horses/farm animals' intel.
I also spot (or sound contact) tractors, but in my mind I'm imagining they're T34s 🤪.  Of course I always carry a Panzerfaust just in case.

As posted by someone else the other day, here's another one with John Cleese and company:
And with that I shall stop, it's silly and a bit suspect I think...

I have some thoughts about your post, but you'll have to wait a few months before I post them 😉.

Yeah, I'm with you on that.  He's 'just up the road' from you in TX of course 😉. 
He's a good friend to me whatever, we had a great time on his UK visit, including Bovington, beers and curry ❤️.

Hi Diego, welcome.
Sadly @kohlenklau has taken leave of the forum for a while.  I'm trying to persuade him to come back, we'll see...

Try hard!
🙏

Perhaps I'm an odd one out.  I do live in the countryside and do spend my time 'spotting' other people when I'm out.  No I'm not the phantom flasher, I have two crazy (well mostly barky, so not so bad) dogs and I like to be on top of the 'approaching dogs/people/horses/farm animals' intel.
I also spot (or sound contact) tractors, but in my mind I'm imagining they're T34s 🤪.  Of course I always carry a Panzerfaust just in case.

Me too Frank, great work and it deserves the 'exposure'.  Hope all is well with you my friend 👍.

I'll add my sig to the conversation. It says it all for me!
 

Perhaps I'm an odd one out.  I do live in the countryside and do spend my time 'spotting' other people when I'm out.  No I'm not the phantom flasher, I have two crazy (well mostly barky, so not so bad) dogs and I like to be on top of the 'approaching dogs/people/horses/farm animals' intel.
I also spot (or sound contact) tractors, but in my mind I'm imagining they're T34s 🤪.  Of course I always carry a Panzerfaust just in case.

I think there are a number of problems here.
1. The graphical representation of the terrain is far from perfect, so there is not a 1 to 1 relation between the battlefield you are seeing and the battlefield your pixeltruppen are seeing (though if you want to have a slightly better idea of what your pixeltruppen are seeing, it helps to turn off all of the icons). 
2. People tend to lack direct experience with trying to spot similar objects under similar conditions to our pixeltruppen. They generally don't live out in the countryside. Those that do live out in the countryside tend not to spend their time looking for people hundreds of meters away wearing dull clothing, or looking for vehicles hundreds of meters away with dull paint schemes. Even fewer people have any experience with scanning the countryside for dull colored people or vehicles hundreds of meters away through periscopes or vision slits. Hapless actually has a great video demonstrating this last point. At about the one minute mark he gives an excellent demonstration of how difficult it is to see out of a BMP-2 using Steel Beasts (playing any vehicle based game which limits you (or which gives you the option of limiting yourself) to viewing the world through the vehicle's internal optics, such as Steel Beasts or Enlisted, will instantly make you much more forgiving towards the spotting ability of your tank crewmen).
3. People routinely underestimate how much more difficult tasks, which are very simple out of combat, become under combat conditions. Not only spotting, but also marksmanship and basic decision-making all suffer severely under combat conditions. It's easier to provide numbers for marksmanship than it is for spotting, but hopefully this is enough to illustrate how strong of an effect combat can have on normally simple tasks. The book War Games: The Psychology of Combat, by Leo Murray, claimed that soldiers are about 1/6th as effective with their fire in real combat compared to realistic exercises* (I've lost my copy so I can't provide the exact quote and page number). Keeping in mind that accuracy in realistic exercises is already much less than accuracy on a shooting range, where soldiers are firing at fixed targets at known distances from stable positions. In the Napoleonic era (because I have access to better data than for more modern eras), an accuracy test of assorted smoothbore muskets resulted in one hit for every 4-5 rounds fired (21%-28% hits) at a target roughly the size of an infantry company placed 320 yards away from the shooter, while in real combat somewhere between 200 and 500 rounds tended to be fired for every 1 casualty inflicted (459 rounds for every French casualty at Vittoria according to R. Henegan, 224 rounds for every British casualty at Hougoumont according to Mark Adkin). That's a difference of 40-100:1 between a shooting range and combat. Again, I'm using marksmanship because it's easier to provide data for it than it is for spotting (and because I'm always happy for any excuse to pull out any data that I happen to be keeping in my back pocket), but it's still very relevant because many of the factors that make hitting targets more difficult in a realistic exercise compared to a shooting range, and in real combat compared to a realistic exercise, will also make spotting more difficult.
4. Last, and probably least, maybe the spotting system in Combat Mission isn't quite perfect.
*I should mention that the book never specified how much of the estimated sixfold reduction in fire effectiveness was a reduction in the accuracy of the fire, and how much of it was a reduction in the volume of fire (because soldiers were more suppressed by the cracking of real bullets).

Perhaps I'm an odd one out.  I do live in the countryside and do spend my time 'spotting' other people when I'm out.  No I'm not the phantom flasher, I have two crazy (well mostly barky, so not so bad) dogs and I like to be on top of the 'approaching dogs/people/horses/farm animals' intel.
I also spot (or sound contact) tractors, but in my mind I'm imagining they're T34s 🤪.  Of course I always carry a Panzerfaust just in case.

Any reason why Mikey?
Oh, I see.

Me too Frank, great work and it deserves the 'exposure'.  Hope all is well with you my friend 👍.

Yup, maybe another one for @BFCElvis to consider?

@zastincahvsoz8689 Describe the tactical utility of space butter

There must be at least a dozen who have previously said they would buy it 🤣.  Me being one.
If they adopted your trademarked name, who could resist it?

I reminded you just the other day not to post here, Mum.

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Mr.X

Ah nice one  it’s a handy wee AI plan device for sure. I’ve also used it for having the turrets of advancing tanks swing about as though searching. Just plot the area fire point out of their LOF. They’ll swing the turrets to face the plotted area fire point but not fire. 

But otherwise I tend to use it is mainly for effect as you have to make an educated guess where the player might be defending. Latest etc can make this more educated and less guess though!
 
So in this case I’m glad it gave the impression of engaging a more sentient enemy! Immersion is what I’m shooting for!

All I can say is it's @George MC.  I would expect no less 😉.

All I can say is it's @George MC.  I would expect no less 😉.