Lieutenant Ash

Who stole my barn? Anyway the french got there first

Next new weapon? https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/thermonator-proves-americans-idea-of-self-defence-is-increasingly-unhinged/ar-AA1nvWUU?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=NMTS&cvid=8f26b13f6ae840c095bf6b23ae0fb6e8&ei=124

Welcome to the community. Combat mission is the only series of games I still play on a regular basis, in my later years, still not bored of it yet! Regarding your armoured car query, not sure, could be a an accidental omission by the developer or possibly something to do with unit availability at certain dates. Have you tried changing the date of the quick battle to see if that makes a difference? Anyway I'm sure someone with more knowledge will be along to answer at some point.

Roasty Toasty

Don't think the Scheldt estuary clearing operations have been touched on yet, these are in the timeframe of Final Blitzkrieg (autumn 1944). Shame we didn't get any amphibious vehicles like the 'Buffalo' in the expansion.

Play CM on 'basic training' skill level. Seriously though, to still be a battlefield simulator you cannot ignore the drone problem, how to incorporate this and still have a fun game I don't know.

Thanks for the reply. Looks like anything was possible then, it will be interesting to see how they are deployed in game (assuming they make it in).

So as far as I can tell from the above video, during the timeframe of the module (late seventies) the swingfire atgms were under the control of the Royal Artillery, which makes me wonder how they would have been employed in action? Keep them togeather as a larger unit or split them up and dole them out to various other units.

Checked the 'scenario depot' and the author of the scenario is listed as 'Bootie', hope this helps.

Link for 'All in one' mod pack is in this post.

Pleasant for the operator, very suboptimal for the target

If we get the ability to shoot atgm's around corners (swingfire) I'll be pleasantly suprised.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/cutting-edge-tech-gives-uk-soldiers-high-probability-of-shooting-down-deadly-drones/ar-BB1jrHWN?ocid=socialshare&pc=NMTS&cvid=65d90f9565674ec79b3a0b0c1f1fe4dc&ei=160 Just spotted this, might be relevant to the drone discussion.

The Matilda mk2, 'queen of the desert', pretty much the early wars equilivant of the tiger at least in terms of its armour, still had a crap gun though.

When CMSF was first released (2007?) I played the first couple of missions, then put the game back on the shelf, where it remained until the marines module was released. The game seemed very different to CM1, almost 'bare bones' in lacking features which were standard in the older games, also it was 'buggy'. I decided to give it another try when 'marines' was released and I loved it, there had obviously been a lot of post release development going on between the two releases, and it has only got better over the years since (there are still a few things that CM1 did better in my opinion). But onwards and upwards to CM3!