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OK!  Now my hopes are really up.  Have you guys seen Elvis' last posting on the Grogheads Forum website?
On 12 April "Zulu1966" posted:
If cold war makes an April release i shall eat my hat and several other peoples as well.
Today, Elvis posted:
Ya might want to start looking for the tastiest hat you can find. Just sayin. 
Hope that is not a teasing statement.  As an optimist I have cleared all social events from the calendar for this Saturday night in anticipation.

I usually find it much easier to just say 1300 ET,CT,MT, or PT and let the other guy figure it out. When it's the same time for 6 months, why bother to specify standard or daylight savings? By the way, the concept of different times have been around for a long time, and everyone you ask why we use it gives you a different answer. The one I like the best is that it started in Scandinavia so people could have an extra hour of sunlight in the parks in the summer evenings!

I still have 3 and a half'ish hours left before I am wrong, c'mon BF, do something.

In that case I'll be cautiously optimistic for tomorrow. My wife wont appreciate it but, it'll be worth it.

We just got this recently
 

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!

Cold War - Middle East with new terrain and new forces.
Cold War - Nordic with new terrain, winter and new forces.
Ah, the possibilities
Dreaming!

The signature is from Down in It
Regarding the Stallone movie: That's 10 years in an iso cube!! j/k Some of the movie is ok but Dredd 3D is a lot better.
If you want to read the comics I would recommend the Case Files, start with number 1 : https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/GRN260 
https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/graphic-novels/dredd-case-files

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?

Great song and comic.
Judge Dredd  & Mötley Crüe - Shout at the Devil brings me back to 1984/85 (12-13 years old)
Maybe I'll make early Crüe my soundtrack for CMCW!
So how does it look for a CMCW release this weekend?
If not, I am ok because I am having a lot of fun with CMFR, actually it would mean less stress trying to decide which game to play! (+ Elite Alpha).
Ah... scrap that...  I hope it's released today/tomorrow anyway!

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

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.

I bet if it was an armor related thing you'd have dug a lot harder.    

CMSF - Problems in Syria for real
CMBS - Problems in Ukraine for real
CMCW - ???! Hopefully we are safe because it's more like "history"
Still waiting for the game and hoping for an April release.

Oh yeah and I forgot to add that NATO doesn't fear the Soviets!
The U.S. Army had United Federation of Planets technology. They had "starships". 🤣
For those who remember this "wunderwaffen" 🙄

Hey if you hold onto it a bit longer and keep it in working order, you might be able to sell it for a good chunk of cash to some millennial antique collector! Hopefully he understands that it goes up to 11...
My personal favorite Soviet tank is the T-80BV, followed quickly by the T-64A. But I know many (myself certainly included) have been hoping and begging to see the T-80 in a CM game, and now we finally have it!

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

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

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.
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“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.
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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

We're not fools, we are the only sane ones. Challenging our ageing brains with complex strategy games is an excellent way to keep them in shape. And that is a proven fact. 

Pizza ordered. Bottle of red wine breathing. Wife off to her parents (not permanently, mind you). Long weekend ahead thanks to His Majesty, the King. Fire and Rubble released.
Life is good. 🙂

Very glad to see this module released. Sadly, next week is finals week for me, so the temptation to buy the module and play instead of studying is gonna eat me up all week😂.

Somewhere, Aragorn is doing the Superiority Dance™

@markus544, call me crazy, but something tells me that patience is not your strong suit. 😄