Crushingleeek

thanks. I love the anything can happen aspect. But i'm play testing my villiers-fossard scenario, and i am testing the mission. my mid-production m8, buttoned armored car is reproducibly having all four crew members quickly (one turn) killed by machine gun fire. anyone have insight as to whether the armor of an M8 permitted this outcome?

can machine gun fire penetrate and cause casualties in a mid-war M8 light armored car? this is what I observed and was skeptical

so if your leader, say -2, is a casualty, is it possible that the next-in-line is -1 or higher? or is it only equal-to or lower than the one originally in command?

probably a re-hash, but, is a a -2 leader better than no leader at all?

Question: Leadership vs Experience. Can anyone give an example of how a unit with great leadership and green experience will differ in combat from a unit with poor leadership and elite experience?

:)I'm glad you had a blast. Let me know how things continue to go

yep, we are saying the same thing. my alternate-universe fantasy: could it have been possible, taking into account what they knew at the time, that Germany could have turned the tides once again, and wwii lingers on for years? ie, tens of hidden infantry divisions in the heartland; the reich secretly having allowed more women to work on the home front therefore amassing huge amounts of armored vehicles and aircraft, just being pressed into service summer of '44; instead of having murdered millions in the death camps, using those victims as more industrial man(person)power. (the extent of death camps being another example of something well hidden from allied intelligence); huge oil reserves secretly withheld from their temporary gains in the caucuses. i'm daydreaming

i'd agree, but allied intelligence was also in multiple instances overly-optimistic. hence the catastrophe of market garden. fiasco in hurtgen. and allies also failed to ever imagine Germans could launch a large scale attack such as operation "wacht am rhein" known to us as "the bulge" so late in the war. so maybe on a grand strategy scale, the allied conclusion was founded more soundly than Reich hubris, but in light of so many miscalculations of enemy strength and tenacity, i wonder if allies could have been even more wrong, without some luck on their side. at some point in july '44, some commanders thought it'd be over by september. the way moscow would be in german hands before the 41/42 winter. if you look at it like that, German Moscow by the end of '41 actually seemed much more likely and realistic, even in hindsight.

Thanks! Well-stated. Please press "1" or "2" periodically, when you take for granted what you can see, and become unforgiving toward what mere mortals can see!

lets be honest, im just trolling. i know how serious ppl get about "news"

i heard that its going to be the release of a patch for CMBN touch

Yes, I also feel that way about the Allied conclusion in mid-1944 that the war was won, and Germany would crumble, all was just a matter of time. After all, the German military minds felt the same way about Russia (and Britain, in a way) in the fall of '41, then again in '42. Nothing was ever for certain!

it was originally planned for june 5. they took that into account already

view from tankers' position

American 3rd Armored Division route of advance:

from the northeast

east side of town facing west

Villiers-Fossard

that pretty much sums it up right there.

of course, too many to name!

stop trying to foil my secret corporate plan to boost CMBN enthusiast morale so that more WWII CM's will come out. Troll.

Much appreciated. For added immersion, I recommend using with EZ and MJ's normandy uniform mod, and selecting the 29th uniforms! AARs, whether by scenario or campaign, are welcome; I'd enjoy hearing about it.

I forgot the "88's" mission: two platoons with one platoon reserve

I tried to replicate the positions of actual weapons nests on dog green sector. The 50mm tank turret is substituted with a 50mm pak 38.

and fyi, Vierville Draw is meant to be on the heavier side of the history:gameplay ratio. so if you're not familiar with it, this was the exact location portrayed in the opening scenes of Saving Private Ryan. However, cinematic liberties were taken, if you recall Cpt Miller (Tom Hanks) and his buddies opening the draw. That never happened, and it was actually General "Dutch" Cota - assistant commander of the 29ers - and a handful of men from the second mission in Blue and Gray ("Hamel au Pretre") who secured Vierville Draw from behind. Don't expect a total victory! Actually the threshold for victory from a campaign standpoint is a minor defeat, so if you have that, you did pretty well. Minor spoiler alert in next post (but who are we kidding, everyone knows there was a crapload of stuff shooting down) --