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The file is .rar / .pkg files are dated 4/29/21 on the downloader page, so I submit that those who guessed Thursday the 29th are technically correct! .. Is anyone buying that?

Most hints we've received point that it's STILL an April release, and since this is the last day of April... Wink wink hint hint. Woops! Had to get up for a few minutes and didn't see Elvis had posted a reply already!

I think that's my favorite answer!

We just got this recently

Well, it's better than death! Thanks for the links! I'll grab the first one and see how it goes.

I'd have been 1 or 2 at the time, but I grew up on bands like Motley Crue! But is your signature from a Motley Crue song, or was that a bit of a tangent thinking about the 80's?! I was thinking of "Down in It" by NIN Also, regarding Judge Dredd - and please don't be mad with what I'm about to say - but I got into Judge Dredd with the Stallone movie. While the movie was pretty bad, you could see that there was a huge world to discover in the Judge Dredd universe, and I absolutely stories with rich / complex worlds. I especially like the theory that Judge Dredd is part of the Warhammer 40K universe I've never actually read the comics though - do you know if there are there any good collections / omnibuses that would be good to start with?

Even if Black Sea's scenario might not be too difficult to predict, they do really seem like modern oracles. Fingers crossed that they aren't right on a very, very late Cold War scenario! PS. Your signature is from one of my favorite NIN songs, and I also love your avatar. By law we are friends now.

For the Steam version, it's June. But if you buy it on Battlefront you'll get access access to it in the next few days / next week, hopefully!

I have a strong gut feeling that's saying (err, gurgling?) 'Thursday' the 29th. And my gut is right all of the time, about half the time! Here, here! I've always been told we do it because it helped farmers. As much as I respect American farmers, why can't they just wake up at a different time and work with the light instead of altering time itself (for everyone) just to help farmers get 1 more hour in? I realize that a huge portion of the country used to be farmers in the past (~90% in the 1800's, ~40% in the 1900), but it's something like only 1.3% of the population today. Also, light and electricity tech / capability has come a long way since then. Now, if it's not for farmers I'm going to feel a tad foolish, but I'd love to know the truth if I am wrong!

This is really great advice! Start small and be realistic! In the hobby of painting (model / miniature), it's pretty common for newbies to run into this issue you're describing too. I will often hear about people who spend substantial amounts of money to buy sable brushes, paint sets, airbrush(s), etc.. But when they find out that they are no good at painting they tend to give up, and I don't think many return because the gap between reality and expectations becomes perceived as impassable. I say all of this because this is effectively true for most sports, hobbies, games, art, etc. - pretty much everything that takes skill to do, including map / scenario making. It's going to take time and effort to get to where you want to be, and you will still fail even when you're at your best. It's great to have big dreams, but delusions of grandeur never tend to end well! And then this leads to one of my favorite quotes that's (mostly) applicable: "Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty … I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.” - Theodore Roosevelt

Thank you for the warm welcome! While I'm not usually an active forum user, I do plan to stick around for quite a while. I'm usually the quiet type, but when I get comfortable in a new setting and interested in a specific subject, people seemingly can't wait for me to shut up

Been lurking for a while and decided to sign up for the forums and hopefully add to the discussion since I'm all hyped up for CM:CW! I was browsing the Googles and found this bibliography file of 10 Cold War related books and figured I should share. I believe almost all of these have already been mentioned, but I like the brief description for each book. I'd like to make it clear that I did not make this list - I'm just sharing (and formatted and edited it a tiny bit to make it easier to read!). https://img.lib.msu.edu/general/events/contest/2006/2006GrevstadBib.pdf written by Ted Grevstad-Nordbrock For those who don't want to click away: copy/paste below the break - book names are in bold, author names in italics. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Ten Literary Accounts of a War that Was Never Fought” Ted Grevstad-Nordbrock Bibliography List: - World War 3. Bidwell, Sheldon, ed. (1978). Though non-fictional, Sheldon's work takes on an air of fiction when it hypothesizes about how a third world war in Europe might realistically start, and how it would play out. Like other books in this collection, slogging but indecisive conventional warfare inevitably leads to the use of nuclear weapons. - Red Storm Rising. Clancy, Tom. (1986). Clancy is, of course, the best-known author of the group included here. This work, one of his earliest, describes a NATO-Warsaw Pact conflict on land and on the seas. - Armor at Fulda Gap: A Visual Novel of the War of Tomorrow. Cook, J. L. (1990). Cook's illustrated work is an unusual mix of fact and fiction-of real-world armaments that would have been used to fight a third world war as well as fantastic imaginings of what the near future might hold. The title of the book makes reference to two common themes in the theory and literature describing a NATO-Warsaw Pact confrontation in Europe: the Fulda Gap, a historical passage-a "gap" in the otherwise rough terrain-from eastern Europe to the west, named after the German city; and armor, the tanks and mechanized vehicles that would contend for this strategic region. - Team Yankee. Coyle, Harold. (1987). This best-selling work intimately chronicles the efforts of an American tank platoon in defending a small swath of West Germany during a Warsaw Pact invasion. The story is based on the Hackett's The Third World War: August 1985, which Coyle acknowledges in his introduction. - The Third World War: August 1985. Hackett, John, General Sir. (1978). This influential account of World War III is told by a British general. The illustrated edition features images of the battles, including the two terminal moments of the short war: nuclear strikes on Birmingham, England and Minsk. - The Third World War: The Untold Story. Hackett, John, General Sir. (1982). Hackett's follow-up fleshes out and expands the narrative begun in "August 1985." - First Clash: Combat Close-Up in World War Three. Macksey, Kenneth (1984) First Clash offers a Canadian take on NATO's efforts to repulse the Red Army during its invasion of West Germany. That this fiction is based in fact is emphasized through the use of annotated maps, images, and text boxes that contain discursive notes on tactics, armament, military organization, etc. - The War That Never Was. Palmer, Michael A. (1994). Written after the Cold War ended, this book describes World War III on a global scale (a war that "never was"), as told by a fictional Russian character to his old enemy and new ally: an American. - Red Army. Peters, Ralph. (1989). Peters's book is unique in that it tells the story of a conflict in Europe from the perspective of soldiers in the Red Army. This is perhaps one of the best written of the books of this genre. - Red Thrust. Zaloga, S. J. (1989). Though no less fictional than any of the other works included here, Zaloga's text reads almost like a casebook. He offers a series of hypothetical NATO-Warsaw Pact battle scenarios in Western Europe, each with an accompanying postmortem: tactical strengths, weaknesses, and what might have been done by military leaders to affect a different outcome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hope this helps some, and also thanks for all of the recommendations so far. I currently have a few of these on the way! -RT