CM Cold War - Proxy Wars Campaign Test

[Rico]

Discovered something interesting in CM Cold War ... if in Scenario Editor (or settings of Quick Battle) you select location as the NTC (National Training Centre) any map will change from this... QB, scenario or campaign maps.

...to this:

All trees/forest gets changed to small trees & bushes... all ground changed to dry/semi desert scrubland... houses look a little weird (although can be edited to get out the "German"look)


US vehicle camo adjusts automatically (although not all vehicles have desert version -- late M-60, Abrams and Bradley don't seem to...



Soviet vehicles keep their green paint scheme ... but doesn't look too bad either.



Thinking definite proxy war campaign potential (not to mention we are already very close to Arab/Israeli 1973 War DLC -- just need Israeli Centurions) ;-)

 

[Rico]

Played around with some rough, simple mods a few weeks back for the proxy wars idea's forces...

The Western equipped side's "Cavalry" Brigade -- kitted out with M-48's and M-113's...



The Warsaw Pact-equipped forces... roughly camouflaged T-55's and a BMP from the Black Star Brigade...

 

[Abbasid111]

Well Cold War is meant to be a sandbox...so the more new kit and countries that get added the more possibilities will present themselves.

 

[DoubleDeuce]

With so many nations using old USSR/US kit, most conflicts from the later Cold War can probably be accomplished with visual mods.

 

[Rico]

Played around with some simple desert(ish) camo T-62's...

 

[Rico]

More playing around this morning with improvised camo mods for BMP's and T-62's of the Red faction's 201 "Black Star" Brigade ... blending in nicely

 

[Rico]

A couple more mods ... Soviet Infantry helmets modded to match dry semi-desert terrain (uniform colour works ok as is) ... BTR 70 camo'ed and in "Black Star" markings... also a ZIL truck in back... and BMP 2 from above (needs some work ;-)

 

[Rico]

What's this all about, I hear you ask?... well, I have been toying with a little fun small-scale FICTIONAL Cold War era proxy war... a little fight over the small barren island of Raffa ... (think Persian Gulf or eastern Med) - long ago deforested and soil-eroded...home to a few sheep farmers and small fishing communities and a few small coastal spots and beaches with a few German tourists.

Thanks to off-shore oil and gas discovered in Lefkara Bay in the 1978, suddenly Raffa is hotly disputed between two small countries (with not-so-savoury govts of the socialist or military dictatorship flavour, and respectively kitted out with US and Soviet equiment -- not of the newest models either) -- nationalistic fervours are stoked and a small-scale conflict escalates as both sides drip-feed in reinforcements from the nearby mainlands, mostly at night via clapped out surplus ex-WW2 LCT's. The fact that neither side has much of a navy beyond a few mine sweepers and patrol craft, and the few modern planes of their air forces too precious and expensive to risk -- doesn't help here either.

Units are platoon-sized mech infantry or infantry with some tanks thrown in -- M-48's and T-62'smostly. A few attack choppers here and there etc etc...

 

[Rico]

Slightly more toned-down semi-desert camo for BTR ... less 'yellow' than first version and T-62 in background -- interesting how colours differ from when working with them in Photoshop to in-game graphics.

 

[Punky616]

This is exactly what I wanted to see coming out of Cold War, sign me the hell up

 

[Rico]

Adjusted more muted colours for T-62 camo ... much better methinks ... they actually do blend in with the terrain pretty well now .

 

[Rico]

This is exactly what I wanted to see coming out of Cold War, sign me the hell up

Thanks for vote of confidence -- still a LOT of fiddling and testing with this idea.

 

[jobu88]

I have been working on a big Suez Canal map to use Cold War as a proxy for Arab-Israeli wars. Still in progress. Hopefully someone will make a pontoon bridge mod, I've had to use solid ground to represent the bridges.

 

[Rico]

I have been working on a big Suez Canal map to use Cold War as a proxy for Arab-Israeli wars. Still in progress. Hopefully someone will make a pontoon bridge mod, I've had to use solid ground to represent the bridges.

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Niiice ... yeah, you don't need Centurions for the Suez/Sinai bits of the 1973 war (although some halftracks would be handy)

 

[idilix]

What's this all about, I hear you ask?... well, I have been toying with a little fun small-scale FICTIONAL Cold War era proxy war... a little fight over the small barren island of Raffa ... (think Persian Gulf or eastern Med) - long ago deforested and soil-eroded...home to a few sheep farmers and small fishing communities and a few small coastal spots and beaches with a few German tourists.

Thanks to off-shore oil and gas discovered in Lefkara Bay in the 1978, suddenly Raffa is hotly disputed between two small countries (with not-so-savoury govts of the socialist or military dictatorship flavour, and respectively kitted out with US and Soviet equiment -- not of the newest models either) -- nationalistic fervours are stoked and a small-scale conflict escalates as both sides drip-feed in reinforcements from the nearby mainlands, mostly at night via clapped out surplus ex-WW2 LCT's. The fact that neither side has much of a navy beyond a few mine sweepers and patrol craft, and the few modern planes of their air forces too precious and expensive to risk -- doesn't help here either.

Units are platoon-sized mech infantry or infantry with some tanks thrown in -- M-48's and T-62'smostly. A few attack choppers here and there etc etc...

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This island reminds of another one Malatya is placed wrong btw it is in the mainland.

 

[Rico]

This island reminds of another one Malatya is placed wrong btw it is in the mainland.

I know -- It's all fictional for fun and games

 

[Stafford]

Very cool stuff! I don't own CM:CW and currently don't intend to buy it, but will be following any tourney or campaign featuring it with great interest!

 

[Rico]

Messed around with some uniform modding ... adapted the US uniforms to a lighter version that matches the arid campaign setting terrain a bit better.

 

[Rico]

A quick note on the mods -- they are all basically tagged [ntc] (National Training Centre) and will kick in when the NTC is selected as a battle setting - converts any existing map into a dry/bush/semi desert scrubland map like the ones I screenshotted from above.

The idea, if this campaign ever flies, would be to issue a mod pack for all the players to use in their battles.

 

[Rico]

Modded T-64A and M-60A1... and a few other bits and bobs...