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Looks like the Russian journalist who recently reported on the Wagner Group, even attending some of their funerals, tripped and fell to his death from his 5th floor balcony in Yekaterinburg.

Doubtless he was pondering the worth of his words on the way down.

Link to interview w/ Gen Braga.

In addition to the story being recently confirmed under oath by the CIA director, it had previously been substantiated in an interview with the US JSOC commander at the site of the battle. Little need at this point to go counting empty graves.

The ulterior question is why this topic was spun the way it was, quite fitting a biased pattern, on preliminary information in the first place?

Couple of hundred KIA scattered among several RU federations isnt going to be traceable to mass interment at a single cemetery or two. Particularly if those casualties were obliterated by kilotons of US airstrikes at night on the defacto eastern border between Syrian and anti-Assad forces, neither side being noted for humanitarian truces to gather wounded and dead.

Jeez, even the CIA Director believes this fake news.

Lotta 3D work just to use a slight oblique (85° ?) of the roof and a ray tracing for the bldg shadow.

My original CC1 setup.exe wont install on Win10 64 even with compatibility set to Win95. Maybe DOSBox or a VM might work.

You inadvertently left out "There will be new features that we totally love" Smile

Im just grateful that my wargame of choice, a very niche product, is still alive and kicking going into its third decade.

Due to the obvious difficulties in scheduling matches, you need a large, engaged beta group to thoroughly test MP, particularly for a one-off game engine.

Small Unit Actions During the German Campaign in Russia is a worthy companion to this. You can stock a military history library with the online publications available from CMH.

Steve, TBFs lead dev, and Shaun, AoCs project cmdr, worked together on the COI-LSA re-releases so they had a good grasp of each others capabilities. Unfortunately AoC has been stalled for over a year. Any competitive pressure between the two CC redesigns is gone. However, in this recent interview Steve admits to a different source of pressure - from all the old CC vets! As an old CC fan, modman and toolmaker himself, and since, a long time official CC dev, 'The Blood!' McClaire has more than just a professional interest in making TBF the best new CC it can be. After ~20 years of investing himself in the game, more so than any 6 of us put together, its surely become a deeply personal commitment as well.

Having seen the wonders he was able to wring out of the creaky CC code to create CCM AT/JTAC, I have faith he'll deliver a solid TBF. Will it please all and be perfect right from the start? Of course not. But it will be mod-friendly and those so inclined can please themselves in changing it to taste. As for the inevitable baked-in bugs...its his code for a game that could just as well be titled "The Bloods!: The Bloody First" so I'd expect he'll expend every effort to correct any errors.

IMO it was high time that CC moved on from the clunky 10x10 or 16x16 pixel grids underneath the map grfx. Coding these for terrain type and elevation was a thankless task. The results were riddled with errors and omissions. And god help the mapmaker trying to code anything not perpendicular to a map edge. That gave us soldiers who looked like they were outside a bldg on the map graphic that were actually in it according to the map.txt. 3D means true slopes and contours rather than a layer cake in 1/2 meter increments. TBF's new viewshed tool, which wasnt feasible in 2D, ought to make us realize how little team-level situational awareness was available doing 'radar sweeps' with the LOS line.

The transition to 3D alone is probably enough "drag the game kicking and screaming into the present day" for the devs I'd imagine. Plus, from the features section of the TBF product page - "For the first time the armed forces of Italy appear in an official release". Dollars to donuts we'll be able to swap the Eyties with 1ID and have an Italian GC.

What geographic area are you looking for? I assume when you say "images" you want aerial imagery.

Setting the Weapons.adb - Backblast value (Col U) to 0 will allow AT teams to fire from bldgs. You wont be able to easily test this unless you also change the Valid Targets value to 6 (Vehicles and Terrain). Not sure about the Germans but US troops frequently targeted bldgs with bazookas.

Changing the oneway VL going from Stalingradskii to Tsarista Woods shouldnt pose an issue as long as you did it prior to starting your camp. My CC5 v1.2 Stalingrad mod already had this VL as two-way, possibly thanks to you.

The mis-coding of the To Opytnaya Stansia deploy (entry) VL as 100 points rather than 50 is causing the game to deploy arriving BGs on the To Stalingradskii VL. When a VL is mis-coded like this the game selects an alternate entry VL on, or closest to the 'home' side of the map for that force. In stock CC5, if you change the Tare Green VL to 100 points youll see US BGs arriving on that map also use an alternate entry VL. This mechanic is similar to how the game selects an entry VL for sarriving BGs in a custom scenario.

The save file tracks VL control separately from map control. The order in which VLs are listed in the BTD is also the order in which they are tracked. Editing BTD files during an op/camp can cause a mismatch between the map control tracking and the VL tracking in the save. eg. after an edit the save file map control tracking may specify the Allies control a megatile occupied by a VL but the VL control tracking says its an Axis VL.

Although it doesnt seem to matter, stock CC5 BTDs list VLs in a particular order - starting top left on the map, down the leftmost column of megatiles, then from the topo of the column immedaitely to the right to the bottom of that megatile column, and so forth to the bottom right corner of the map. I tend to think there was a purpose for doing it this way but it may just be that Atomic's BTD tool autosorted the VL list that way. OTOH, Mafi's BTD lets you list VLs in any order.

Rather than delete the To Opytnaya Stansia VL and risk a VL track/map control mismatch, I'd suggest just changing it to a normal -52 VL. Another possible issue to deleting a VL is that the save file may track cumulative VL scores for each player. If so then deleting one would alter one player's score and/or the total VL points available in the scenario.

I have no answer as to why the game chose that turn to crash apparently due to that mis-coded VL. I'd be interested in having a look at your save file.

Rename the plugin files from .pln to .zip and you can open and extract them like a normal zip file to do a manual mod installation.

According to Pip a year ago, there will be MP H2H but probably not co-op. According to the Features list, co-op but no definitive mention of H2H. Recall Steve saying we'll be able to solo play battles as the Axis. Im hazy on whether that includes playing Axis in the campaign as well.

The README.doc (attached) included in the game install has the the campaign flowchart youre probably looking for.


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