CarlXII

I do not see that...When i split a squad all i get is the same infantry icon for every typ of split-of part. Playing on elite difficulty. Are you using some kind of incon mod ?

Perhaps give the player the option to change the floating incon graphics of desired units. In somewhat larger battles, atleast when you start splitting the squads, it could be a handy feature to be able to designate varios teams as brech teams, AT teams, fire support teams, recon teams etc instead of simply having them displayed as a regular infantry incons.

Correct. but IIRC BFC made some improvements to this a few years ago. It used to be far worse than it is today.

That's what it sounds like to me

I understand now What i like about the way that BFC does their TOEs is that it will allow you to use a more or less 'correct' force structure when designing a scenario even if you don't really know all that much about how it was/is set up IRL. Simularelly other designers will have a nice base to start with when designing their scenarios. Hopefully leading to fairly realistic force structures in the community scenarios. I originally did not like the way it worked with you as the designer having to delete the parts of a formation that you do not want to use in a particular scenario. Today however...I really like this design and i find it really easy to use...It still has its limitations but i find it to be good. A do not in any way want to prevent a player (QB) or scenario designer to tweak the original formations as desired to fit their needs but as i said...i like the current design with having to start with a 'realistic' base and tweak it from there... If only BFC was not this tiny little company...How wonderful it would have been if they could do more, faster...

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I'm one of the guys who would NOT like to see a lowering of TOE attention to detail. IMO it ups the immersion when playing and it is also helpful when designing scenarios on my own.

Let's keep our fingers crossed ...

Yeah...where's all the friendly rich guys when you need them. Some are willing to spend 5-10 billion dollars on a soccerteam....How about throwing BFC their fair share ?

There you have it....Unfortunatelly the others guys can't make any campaigns or scenarios if they don't have the neccesary units ...

I would buy such a pack day 1 but this has been requested before and i think BFC have rejected the idea stating that it is the development of the TOEs that is the main timesink when it comes to their workload. Scenarios and campaigns are not the problem.

That's the spirit ! go, go ,go

To put your mind at ease....YES ! they have. If they did not like the game why then would they ask for more.

JasonC made a whole bunch of postings on CM tactics back in the CM1 days...It might have been him. I belive he got thrown out the CM forum a few years ago...For what reason i don't know. His posts are still intresting readings though for anyone intrested. I remember he had lenthy discussions about fire and movement...among other things.

At the risk of sounding tedious... The campaignscript is yet another detail in the scenario editor that BFC would be most welcomed to have a look at and provide us with an updated version. The campaignscript is unneccesarely complicated and limited in several ways hampering flexibility, varaity and ease of use. Updating the campaignscript would just like many other potential editor changes be possible without impacting gameperformance or of putting a higher demand on the AI. More intresting, fun and variable campaigns could be made if we are provided with an updated campaignscript function.

Clever man ! But this comes with limits i'm guessing...It will not really work with larger scenarios with multiple objectives will it ?...Neat trick though Yepp...having a feature in the editor that would allow us to do this more easily and in a bigger way would allow for some cool things. Perhaps not a thing for every scenario but it would give the scenario designers some added flexibility to do different things.

I belive these tricks are the best options avaliable currently. Sadly the textstring we can add in these messages is fairly short. Having a simple way off adding in-game messages is one of many request for improvements to the editor. Perhaps even include an option to add a soundfile instead of a text message. Many of these small improvements ought to be doable within a fairly short time frame as they require pretty much nothing else than a slight remake of the editor UI. In some cases also a remake of the ingame UI. But a whole number of these small suggestions will have no impact at all on FPS or put higher demands on the AI. An updated UI is all that is reuired. Hopefully we will see atleast some of these suggestions included some day soon. They could add quite alot to the enjoyment and flexibility of the game.

You can do this already. Simply click on any waypoint in the string and asign target or target arc orders as you please for that waypoint.

Yes ! Or release a new game engine (CM3)

Rumors/ speculations of an entirely new CM gameengine have been floating around on these forums for several years.... CM2 is starting to show its age and it seems to be quite hard to upgrade in any significant way. BFC have never confirmed or denied actually working on a CM3 game as far as i know but an updated game engine have been asked for for several years now by several comunity members. If you search for CM3 i belive you will get quite a few hits...

Unless BFC have scrapped the plans for releasing a CM3 game (if they ever planned to) i don't think we will see much in the way of new theatres in CM2. They still have some work left to do with the current projects (CMFB module, CMCW module and possibly CMBS module) it seems. I kind of doubt that they will develop an entirely new theatre with entirely new units and timeframe unless they feel that they will be able to release a bunch of additional modules for such a theatre. That would mean sticking with CM2 for another 5 years atleast i'm guessing.

When i'm not busy complaining i can jump in here and confirm that this is actually one of the things that most CM players absolutely like about your games i belive. Your efforts to get things as realistic as possible. Thats part of what makes CM...CM and the reason we play this game year after year... Don't stop !

An updated version of this campaign is something i have wanted for a long time...More AI groups, triggers, flamethrowers, Indoor AT fire possibility, more AI orders, area fire, reverse command, facing command and a whole bunch of additional vehicles. Having this campaign updated to 2023 standards will make for an intresting playthrough indeed. I hope you will be able to pull it off. I have more then ones contemplated updating this campaign myself to see how it would play out with all the new toys/features but i soon realiced that i probably would not manage it (time wise) and it would also be sad ruin such an impressive campaign ... Best of luck with the project !

Some details here and there might be wrong or missing but compared to the competition CM is miles above the rest when it comes to authenticity and realism.

If the quality of their BPs are on par with official BFC products i belive they most certainly could. I would buy it in a hartbeat...