Free France Campaign

[bru888]

Welcome back, Bru.

Thanks, Erik. I missed everybody, and the game. Three months is a long time when you are not having fun! (Actually, I was, but I have lately found myself thinking of OOB again.)

[Mascarenhas]

Glad to hear this! Very much welcome back, indeed!

[conboy]

Welcome back Bru.
Was hoping you'd show up again.
Missed you, dude.

conboy

[ColonelY]

Hip hip hooray! Welcome back!

[bru888]

Meanwhile, I see there is something special cooking in the official beta forum right now . . .

[kondi754]

Meanwhile, I see there is something special cooking in the official beta forum right now . . .

Hush hush, a great mystery for now
Hello back, it's very nice to come back after a few months here, I also experienced that in the spring

[Shards]

Loose lips sink ships!

But welcome back soldier, you're always missed!

[GabeKnight]

Any warm feelings toward Bruce's return are now overshadowed by envy. There's obviously some hidden OoB sub-forum...and everybody else is invited...

[conboy]

Not me Gabe, I'm clueless too.

conboy

[Shards]

Ignorance is bliss

[Erik2]

Apply for the next beta and everything will be revealed.

[Mascarenhas]

Apply for the next beta and everything will be revealed.

I see no link to apply for this.

[Erik2]

The current beta has been going on a while. I think you need to wait for the next one. Sometimes they add more testers later in the beta.
Or the next campaign.

[Shards]

The current beta has been going on a while. I think you need to wait for the next one. Sometimes they add more testers later in the beta.
Or the next campaign.

Or even for us to announce what you scallywags are winding people up about

[LynxCom]

I am happy this project is not dead. Free France Campaign is one of those unique campaigns we don´t see very often in pc games. It could be a little bit didactic as well because personally I don´t know much about the history of Free France army.

[conboy]

Yes, Lynx,
and on top of that you might learn something...

conboy

[bru888]

Well, that is what I am trying to do. Tell the story, that is, of Free France up to the Liberation of Paris.

[bru888]

You know, I opened up FF for the first time today in nearly three months (last save timestamped 09-09) and I look at the complexity of it. My gosh, what is going on here? What is this contraption?

Then I started methodically picking my way through it. "Oh yeah, that's why I did this . . . that module works with this objective . . . Campaign variables, what the heck? Um, yes, yes, that's what I had in mind . . . Colonel Bagnold? Who? Why is he important? Say, now I recall him . . . Why are Allied AND Italian units out on the Red Sea? Are they both supposed to be amphibiously landing at Massawa? (No, I had constructed the armies just prior to my hiatus and had left them there for subsequent placement on the map. On land.) . . . How do I take a screenshot in this game and how do I post it? Hoo boy, now I remember about this forum and adding images to one's posts."

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And so it goes. It's like an engine that is well-maintained but hasn't been started in a quite some time: It takes a while to turn over but when it catches, it positively purrs.

[rafdobrowolski]

Welcome back Bru, looking forward to some more content! And, now, I am also in anticipation of the news coming out of the beta....

[Shards]

I like the idea of collecting the order of battle on the map to be moved into position