MichaelWittman

Hi all, Well the slugfest between Sly and myself is finally over and I'm happy to report I got my first draw (54 to 46) in my favour. I knocked out 36 of his 39 tanks with 17 falling to 2 crack Panthers alone. I myself lost 15 tanks and 10 h/ts but held the hill overlooking the battlefield. We both had the same amount of infantry left although he had taken more casualties from the heavy shelling I had given him. So although not as robust as the mighty Tiger the humble Panther came through for me. Great battle George MC and thoroughly recommended.

Great AAR Tux. It reminds me of the Eisen-Faust AAR by Warhawk which was sadly never finished. I hope this one gets finished eventually! Oh yeah make sure you keep that Tiger alive mate.

A long time since I have posted in my thread. ****SPOILERS**** Sly and I are in our 2nd battle in Glowaczow and after a tough first battle attacking the hill I am giving Sly a very hard time defending it with my Panthers. He has taken many casualties from mainly two of my Panthers who have racked up around 15 kills between them. He still has a few enemy tanks near the hill but not nearly as many as he started with. Still this has been a brutal battle and it hasn't been decided yet...

Heh and Sly is it my fault that I love beautiful German engineering re your comment about GST? OK I admit it I just like to kill the ENEMY. Thanks for the props though.

Yes Crow Warrior I would be happy to continue against you or anybody I have played so far. I'm new to PBeM but as Sly can attest a challenge for young and old.

I did give poor old Mntineer a bit of a whipping in my battle against him. But then Bert gave me a good old fashioned hiding in the same battle as McCobbler.

His opponent was absolute ****e! Or else he got very lucky! :eek:

Hi all, So there we have it eh? 29 kills with 2 Tigers against the incompetent AI but just 6 against a seasoned PBEM veteran with the surviving Tiger in the same battle. Sly said I did well with what little armour I had. Not bad for a noob. We have started another clash of arms in the above mentioned Glowaczow battles with me as the German attacker and then Sly will take me on in the inevitable Russian counterattack. I will keep you posted.

No, that was my Rocket Salvo dropping right where it was needed, on your head. Your fire, is the arty on the hill top, if you have rockets I have not seen them. </font>

Ah but what about rocket attacks? I just played a turn in a PBEM versus slysniper where my FO brought down a salvo on my own troops over 2 km away from the TRP I was aiming at. What gives?

Hell yes I'm converted alright! I've never had so much fun before in a battle, even if the odds against me were pretty stacked from the beginning. Well done George Mc for such an entertaining battle but the best part is it's historical which is important to me. Now I'll have to check out this other scenario that has been mentioned. Perhaps it will be the next chance to test my skills versus slysniper.

It's a blowtorch scenario by GeorgeMC set during Kursk (historical) and because it's a rescue mission it's very challenging. You have to rescue Col. Peiper and his forces from being overwhelmed by a superior Russian force. The first time I played it I annihilated the AI's tanks but this time it's played very different versus a human opponent. I recommend it to anyone.

And the aura of Tiger invincibility comes to an end. No need to worry though. I was in for a rough ride during my first PBEM games too. I still had a blast though; losing to a human is still always more fun than stomping the AI. You learn quick from playing a human too. </font>

Hi all, My first PBEM battle against slysniper is progressing well and we are both losing many tanks in the process but I'm having fun and never had as much challenge before. He's very devious but I'm holding my own and I still have an ace up my sleeve (my Tiger) but not many turns to go now. I've played 50 out of 65. I've yet to exit any troops yet though...

I'm about to start an ITO scenario in Cassino which depicts the 3rd battle. This battle includes a British contingent of Churchill IVs but the BFC default look a little plain. I have got a zipset from Gordon Molek of hi-res Churchill IIIs but that is from CMBO. So modders would it be possible to use these (renumbered) for the C-IVs or wouldn't that work? The only other thing to do is use Wicky's mod mentioned above but that wouldn't work either as it is a non-snowy scenario. Ideas?

Well I just finished a Seelowe scenario and broke the record for most kills by a single Tiger. Admittedly it was a Tiger 2 but hey that's still a big cat. I got 20 T34-85s with an elite crew before running out of ammo and then the survivors getting their revenge by pummelling it with multiple rounds, got gun damaged and I reversed it out of harms way. Distance to the targets was just over 500m - what a kill-zone! In all I knocked out 51 enemy AFVs for the loss of a single Jagdtiger (immobilized then later abandoned) 2 Panthers and 2 HTs. I got a total victory in a battle where I was outnumbered by at least 10-1! I was seriously disappointed by the accuracy of the Jagdtiger. With 30 rounds of AP they only managed 5 kills at a ridiculously short 300m range. Pathetic!

That was not very nice rum. I was only stating what happened. There was no need to belittle me like that! The reason I'm taking on a human opponent is to get more of a challenge and so far I'm enjoying it. And slysniper is far from stupid.

Ahh JK I just finished that battle recently and it was a lot of fun. However my opponent was of the binary kind and despite this he gave me a pretty good fight. I got a major victory in the end. *******SPOILER ALERT!******** I had only had 3 fully functional KTs at the end but I pretty much annihilated his infantry and held the main town in the center with the church, the aforementioned hill, and Poniki was taken with barely a scratch. The IS-2s that appeared in the gloom gave me a major fright though, but I hit them in the flank with one of my KTs but not before losing one KT (brewed up) and one immobilized, and it's a shame the battle ended when it did. I only lost 60 men while the computer lost over 300! So the AI had at least 10 JS tanks at the end with the odd T-34/85 here and there against my 3 KTs and 10 Pz IVs. Perhaps slysniper will play this one against me next... I'm currently playing him in a battle at Kursk. [ November 18, 2007, 01:59 AM: Message edited by: MichaelWittman ]

Yeah Siv this in particular cuts deep. It's from the very well known Russian tactics know-it-all JasonC "The AI is weak about escorting its Tigers with infantry and reckless about where it sends them, compared to humans." That's exactly what happened! [ November 15, 2007, 05:33 PM: Message edited by: MichaelWittman ]

I lost one of my precious Tigers to an enemy tank hunter team quite close to friendly lines which both surprised me and horrified me. I will get bloody revenge that is for sure! :mad: The feeling of being surrounded in this battle is quite intense. It's not for the claustrophobic. And already slysniper has surprised me by coming from a completely different direction then the AI did!

You mean to say Siv that this bug made it through to the new game with a different engine as well? Oh dear I wonder if it was deliberately left in there. Rebooting the PC seems the only way to fix this annoying little quirk. It doesn't happen too often though.

OK I'll answer myself. It seems it's just a strange bug that happens now and then... http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=23;t=011038#000002

Er has anyone ever seen a strange bug in CM where all your men look like stickmen (standing bolt upright) and then when you hide/unhide them they go back to normal except for accelerated head swivels. And no my men haven't been taking speed LOL. I just received a file in my PBEM vs slysniper where this was taking place when I was setting up a turn. :confused:

Perhaps I should rename this thread to anyone want to PBEM me?

Yeah Siv after some teething difficulties it's finally on the way. I gotta say I was a bit nervous setting it up, I have no idea how Brent plays... I hope I don't get too much of a kicking LOL.