hellfish Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 I commanded the 151st Brigade of the 50th Northumbrians. I was the guy that let - nay, encouraged - Elvis to get his ass kicked. He passed through my lines to move north and I wheeled south. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 That crossing was always a high-stakes gamble. All the best Andreas 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellfish Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 I still think we could have pulled it off if we'd had the ability to get the Churchills across the river. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Bloody bridging rules. Well, a bit more support from Corps wouldn't have hindered the operation either. As DW points out, that could have really changed things. Of course, bloody nobody up there wanted to listen to me or my CRA. Ah well... Andreas 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellfish Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Corps was too busy sacrificing all of our tanks to the Panther and Tiger gods up north to care about what we were doing. Do you have any idea who the GOC of the 50th was? I can't remember for the life of me. Good chap, he was. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 That must have been Leland, the chap who gave us Mapping Mission. It was a re-run of the Ardennes. Corps was fed high-level faulty intel, and when my lot told them that this was plain wrong, we were labelled defeatist. Lesson is - never have an ex-intel officer as your head GM. Mind you, I am not complaining, 43rd got a riot of a fight out of CMMC1, and in my view (despite being pretty much annihilated) was the division that ensured that we did not lose the campaign very badly with all of the credit going to my CRA and my Brigadiers by the way, my contribution was to select them and let them get on with the job. I did a bicycle ride along some of the main battlefields of 43rd around Louviers a while back. If anyone is interested I can post the pictures here. In particular - I crossed the field of the very controversial battle where the Panthers were ambushed by one of my battalions. I am sure some people do NOT want to see those pictures. All the best Andreas 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirtweasle Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Pictures? Yes, go ahead please. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellfish Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Yeah, Leland! My major gripe with CMMC1 was not the faulty intel - because that didn't affect me too much at my level - but how the powers that be gutted the Brits. Having read the histories of the 50th Division and the 151, they had been involved in many years of fighting from France to North Africa, Sicily, and the several weeks of fighting in France before the CMMC, yet my troops were mixed Green/Regular fighting Crack/Elite Germans. As I was also a battalion commander (6th Durham Light Infantry), this affected me more than anything else. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Yeah, I wasn''t happy about that either. It seemed to help though that some of those Elite German commanders had never heard of the 17pdr, such as the chap who IIRC motored his Tiggers into the ambush by a battery of my divisional AT Rgt. Of course, later we were at least given the right amount of artillery, and a 25-pdr shell does not distinguish between a green and a crack target. My favourite battle for amusement value was 5th Glosters in their ACs shooting up that hapless German column of MG armoured halftracks, and the reaction of some Germans players when they were told about the mass surrender that had taken place. Snicker... Ahh, happy memories... All the best Andreas 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Originally posted by Dirtweasle: Pictures? Yes, go ahead please. Will do. It is primarily the SW-corner of Louviers, and then down to La Haye Comté, Les Mesnil Jourdain, Canappeville, and Acquigny. All the best Andreas 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellfish Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Originally posted by Andreas: Yeah, I wasn''t happy about that either. It seemed to help though that some of those Elite German commanders had never heard of the 17pdr, such as the chap who IIRC motored his Tiggers into the ambush by a battery of my divisional AT Rgt. Of course, later we were at least given the right amount of artillery, and a 25-pdr shell does not distinguish between a green and a crack target. My favourite battle for amusement value was 5th Glosters in their ACs shooting up that hapless German column of MG armoured halftracks, and the reaction of some Germans players when they were told about the mass surrender that had taken place. Snicker... Ahh, happy memories... All the best Andreas I never heard anything about that, or your ambush! My knowledge of what happened out of my AO is limited to the Flash movie somebody made of the campaign's first day. Hell, I barely even remember what happened after we were pushed out of Cailly. I remember I had a few engagements later, but no serious pitched battles. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 http://www.cmmc2.org/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=305 http://www.cmmc2.org/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=333 Of course, me being me, I could just not resist the temptation to rub our former opponents noses in this. All the best Andreas 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellfish Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Well, probably against my better judgement I signed up for CMMC2. I was reading all the AARs of CMMC1 and I remembered why I liked it so much, despite how ponderous it could be. With what info I can glean from their forums it looks like this iteration is a little more fast paced. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 I wish I still had the time for that. Here are the photos. Enjoy All the best Andreas 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirtweasle Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Originally posted by fytinghellfish: Well, probably against my better judgement I signed up for CMMC2. I was reading all the AARs of CMMC1 and I remembered why I liked it so much, despite how ponderous it could be. Me too. Originally posted by fytinghellfish: With what info I can glean from their forums it looks like this iteration is a little more fast paced. I hope you have fun. For some reason I just could not get into it this time. Probably going to drop out as soon as the division I'm in picks up some new recruits. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirtweasle Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Originally posted by Andreas: I wish I still had the time for that. Here are the photos. Enjoy All the best Andreas Thanks. A very nice area. I really have to get over there one of these years. Those CM maps really were pretty good. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellfish Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Originally posted by Dirtweasle: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by fytinghellfish: Well, probably against my better judgement I signed up for CMMC2. I was reading all the AARs of CMMC1 and I remembered why I liked it so much, despite how ponderous it could be. Me too. Originally posted by fytinghellfish: With what info I can glean from their forums it looks like this iteration is a little more fast paced. I hope you have fun. For some reason I just could not get into it this time. Probably going to drop out as soon as the division I'm in picks up some new recruits. </font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonxa Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Here's one who's enjoying himself in CMMC2! (Just to shift them negative vibes ) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Originally posted by Dirtweasle: Thanks. A very nice area. I really have to get over there one of these years. It's great - much prettier than I expected, and than the pictures show. If you ever go there, make sure to go through Paris, so that I can buy you a drink. All the best Andreas 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigduke6 Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 Andreas, Nice pix! That's a great thing about this hobby, you fight a battle over virtual terrain, and then when a subsequent visit to the real thing is just fascinating. It's like you're a war veteran - I had a similar experience in June when I "returned" to Berlin, where I had "fought" in 1945. One guess as to which side I played. And a general advertisement for CMMC: CMMC2 is going great guns and it's a ton of fun these days. Well, at least I think so. There are something like a dozen battles in progress right this second. Death and destruction and mayem and and not a peripheral action among them. Real nail-biter stuff, and all sorts of war stories. The operational discussions up and down chain of command arguements are at least as entertaining as the actual battles. One of the sides has published a newspaper, even. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 That would of course be the better side, and the only one worth fighting for! The pics are really nothing special, but I agree with you on the sentiment of going there. All the best Andreas 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirtweasle Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 Originally posted by fytinghellfish: That doesn't bode well... Nah, not really. It's more about me and what time I have free than the scenario, the GMs or the players. One example is the corp IT weanies blocked access to the site so I cannot get into the forum unless I happen to be working from home that day. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirtweasle Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 Originally posted by Andreas: If you ever go there, make sure to go through Paris, so that I can buy you a drink. All the best Andreas Thanks, I think if I ever do get over the plan would have to be France and Germany. I'm two years, (or is it three now?), overdue on collecting many many rounds from Jochen. One day I'll show up and ruin his finances for years. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 Beer is cheap in Germany. All the best Andreas 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PSK Posted August 10, 2006 Author Share Posted August 10, 2006 Sigrun: Lots of Roleplaying... and crosses to be won for the worthy! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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