Fishra

Just finished Royal Opponent as the Germans, managed a total victory. A few small mistakes but generally did an infantry wave supported by tanks, using halftracks to shuttle the additional platoons forward. Made it all the way to railtracks in the end. The 200m visability made for some interesting engagements. I'm pretty blown away at the power of the King Tigers. I started most of my Combat Mission playing in 39-42ish, and T-34s used to scare the crap out of my. It was strange how easily the King Tigers dispatched them. As for the Meeting Engagement debate, I would just define it as defenders not having dig in time, so no trenches, roadblocks etc. I can see your point GreenAsJade, but Runes makes sense too. Sending in infantry halftracks first like that should be risky I think. During the battle I caught some russians moving troups forwards, so the meeting engagement setting of the scenario seems to have had it's intended effect. Fishra

Hello again, Well I figured out the rules, its like you said. The first setup takes a while but after that everything makes sense. I'm pretty much doing the Deutches Afrika Korps campaign, but I chose PzKw IIIH's instead of G's. On my third battle right now. Seems like some pretty interesting situations come up, for example, I had an Exploit battle with me as an Italian Mechanized division (plus my core units) against an infantry only British division in rural arid rock desert (early morning with fog so visibility was around 100m). Obviously not a hard battle, but it didn't take long and it was interesting to see how overpowering even crappy Italian tanks are against unsupported infantry. Thanks again RobO, really enjoying this. Fishra

The ability to save a finished battle as a movie file that others can download and watch (with the ability to see it from the axis side / allies side / show all units) How awesome would it be to watch other peoples battles...

Yup, just reading through the rules to get familiar enough to start a campaign. I remember when I was playing Panzer General II (my first wargame) and one of my favorite aspects was developing a core force throughout a campaign. I know it's not entirely historicaly accurate, but it really adds to the immersion factor. Looking forward to starting up my first campaign soon! I'll let you know how it goes. Fishra

This is amazing RobO, great work!

Nice to hear others are having problems with this scenario. I thought it was just my crappy skills... )

lol Sergei. That email spoofing virus is getting pretty nuts though. I assumed that was it at first COG.

Awesome posts JasonC, after a semi-frustrating first attempt at learning combat mission, I've started playing again. Looking forward to any others you might write up.