Canada Guy Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 I know that CMRT has not yet been released but what are the current plans for upcoming Mods? I know that we will probably have multiple skins for vehicles but there is one mod I would like. I currently have the unit icons modded to show the allied symbols for the allied side and the German symbols for the axis side. Is there a planned mod for the Soviets (as I am hoping that the German icon mod will work with CMRT and I will install). I would also like to see the Soviet icons in Red and not green. To me Brown = Commonwealth Green = American Grey/Blue = German Red = Soviet I though have never seen what symbols the Soviet military used to represent their units on maps. Did they use the standard Western allied symbols or have a unique set like the Germans did? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canada Guy Posted February 11, 2014 Author Share Posted February 11, 2014 On an interesting but totally unrelated note, I was listening to the music of Ennio Morricone on Last.fm and one of the suggested youtube videos was The German Infantry Squad In Action: A demonstration of minor Field Tactics Very strange. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terkin Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Brown = Commonwealth Green = American Grey/Blue = German Red = Soviet I though have never seen what symbols the Soviet military used to represent their units on maps. Did they use the standard Western allied symbols or have a unique set like the Germans did? Soviets were using red to mark their own forces and blue for enemy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umlaut Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 On an interesting but totally unrelated note, I was listening to the music of Ennio Morricone on Last.fm and one of the suggested youtube videos was The German Infantry Squad In Action: A demonstration of minor Field Tactics Very strange. Not so strange, I believe. Google (ie YouTube) keeps track of what videos you´ve been watching earlier - and makes suggestions based on that. Via the IP adress, I think. YouTube keeps suggesting Curious George videos to me - because that is what my daughter mainly uses this computer for. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ithikial_AU Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 More for the western front games but it would be good to have different colour icons to separate out the Commonwealth and American forces. Same for German and Italian/any future minor Axis nations that may get added in. Just makes life a lot easier when you have forces from different nationalities on the one map. Thinking one of the CMFI scenarios where there were significant Italian and later German forces via reinforcements, being able to distinct which is which from a distance without clicking would be great. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canada Guy Posted February 12, 2014 Author Share Posted February 12, 2014 Curious George, yes, I had that a few years ago. I have never used Last.fm though to listen to music that is why I thought it was strange (and it was on a work computer) that they new of my hobbies. The video was interesting though. As for the Icons, yes, red would be nice but what about the symbols? The Americans (and I think Commonwealth) used the X in the box to represent infantry and the German used the circle with the line sticking straight up. What about the Soviets? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akd Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Guys, the icons are placeholders taken straight from CMFI. Note the tanks profiles are Shermans, etc. 2D art like this is one of the last things to be completed during development. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canada Guy Posted February 12, 2014 Author Share Posted February 12, 2014 Yes, and those are the ones I wish to replace. I really do not like the stock icons and have always replaced them with a mod that used the actual military icons for the home country (e.g. Allies - the X in the box to represent infantry Axis -the circle with the line sticking straight up). That is why I am looking for (or hoping someone is thinking of modding) the actual icons used by the Soviets in WWII. I did some searching but have not yet been successful. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddball_E8 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 I know this isn't about WHICH mods are coming, but since the title makes it sound like that, let's put up a notice of what modders are going to release new stuff for CM:RT. I'll be updating my soundmod to fit with the new front. Alot of the sounds will be the same as in the CMBN/CMFI mod (no need to replace the german weapon sounds just because there is a new front), but the russian weapons will have all new sounds I'll be releasing it in two versions: Complete version: Includes all the sounds from the previous mod (sans us/uk/italian sounds) Patch version: Only the new sounds for those who already have my mod and don't want to download all of it again. Anyone else releasing something? Surely waclaw will be releasing an updated mod now that the front is moving closer to his home And I can't imagine that Aris/Fuser will be idle for long with all these goodies coming out 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baneman Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 I'm sure Marco Bergman will be adding his usual UI mod ( absolutely indispensable ) and naturally I hope that Vein will work some goodness with the flamey stuff in line with his excellent flames for burning vehicles. Fuser's work is now so ubiquitous that it comes as something of a shock to see a clean vehicle :eek: ( Sherman I, I'm looking at you ! ). But that usually comes once one has a few of his installed already. Poor guy is probably already running away. One of the problems I face is that I no longer know exactly whose/which soundmods I'm running, especially as I disliked some in the latest mod and replaced them with older ones from a different mod. So EF soundmods is going to take a while to bed down. Just want to add that the mods people tirelessly churn out do add immeasurably to the game as a whole and all modders have my heartfelt thanks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terkin Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 That is why I am looking for (or hoping someone is thinking of modding) the actual icons used by the Soviets in WWII. I did some searching but have not yet been successful. Here you go: a list of tactical signs used by the Soviets in WW2 (at least in part of it, as this book dates to 1942). It's in Russian, but I think I could try translating it, if anyone needs it? 9it will take some time though). http://www.maps4u.lt/lt/includes/siuntiniai/Z/Taktiniai_zenklai/Taktiiniai_simboliai_1942.pdf 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audgisil Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Is there an floating icon mod that uses historical tactical symbols that is completely up to date with both CMBN and CMFI along with all of their modules? Any of the mods that I can find are all out of date and missing some icons. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Canadian Cat Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Is there an floating icon mod that uses historical tactical symbols that is completely up to date with both CMBN and CMFI along with all of their modules? Any of the mods that I can find are all out of date and missing some icons. I don't know of one. Bill has one that uses US symbols for everyone. I prefer one that uses US symbols for the allies and German symbols for the Axis but it is very out of date. I keep meaning to look at tweaking it but spend my time playing instead :cool: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agusto Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 I think i am going to make a splash screen / music mod for CMRT. All other splash screen mods i ve found at the repository for all other ww2 CMx2 titles were all in black and white. I feel that is taking the life out of the pictures, IMO it is much more immersive to have colored ones. I already started to collect appropriate pictures, examples below: http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/3887/panzerivfarbbild2012pic.jpg http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/WW2+Color+Combat+Photo+Whermacht_2c40a8_3803259.jpg EDIT: btw, i would be very happy if anyone could point me to any eastern front high quality photograph in colour. High quality color photos of that period are quite rare, even on the internet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG TOW Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 I would like to see some soviet graffiti on the tanks. Didn't they paint slogans and banners as a form of battle honors. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bil Hardenberger Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Is there an floating icon mod that uses historical tactical symbols that is completely up to date with both CMBN and CMFI along with all of their modules? Any of the mods that I can find are all out of date and missing some icons. My Period Icon mod for CMBN can be downloaded here: CMBN Mods Page and for CMFI: CMFI Mods Page These are both up to date and include icons for all unit types. As mentioned they use the US Army military symbols from the period. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
76mm Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Terkin, thanks, that's cool, I hadn't seen that before... The infanty "icon" is the top one in Section 3 on page 13, but note that it is not a symbol per se but rather a trace of the unit's position, with the unit designation inside. The one below that is for a cavalry position, third one for tanks. MGs are the top three entries in Section 4 on page 15. Arty pieces are the top several entries in Section 5 on page 15-16. Tanks are the top four entries in Section 6 on page 17 (respectively, light, medium, heavy, and amphib). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audgisil Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Way cool Bil. Thank you. This is exactly what I was hoping to find. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Do we need different mods versions for CMBN and CMFI? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bil Hardenberger Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Do we need different mods versions for CMBN and CMFI? The CMFI version includes Italians the CMBN version does not. That's the only difference. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Will the CMFI one work ok in CMBN then? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bil Hardenberger Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 That is correct. The naming is exactly the same. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt. Smash Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Are there any new floating icons included in CMRT? We've seen some new ones (light machine gun, flak, various FOW, various light trucks, and new classes of tanks) since the series started. I'm curious if Battlefront is adding an more for the Eastern Front like a flamethrower? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Der Alte Fritz Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 With the Soviet uniforms being fairly standard brown colour it would be good to get some camouflage versions for the Recon units (as we will not get any Airborne units until later with their camo uniforms.) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Der Alte Fritz Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Also without wanting to open up the endless debate about the colour of Soviet tanks, the current ones look too olive drab for my liking and I would welcome the return of the old CMBB blue-green alternative 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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