George MC

Its up on TSDIII https://www.thefewgoodmen.com/tsd3/cm-red-thunder/cm-red-thunder-add-ons-scenarios/cmrt-german-tank-tactical-problems/
Enjoy!
Cheery!

Its up on TSDIII https://www.thefewgoodmen.com/tsd3/cm-red-thunder/cm-red-thunder-add-ons-scenarios/cmrt-german-tank-tactical-problems/
Enjoy!
Cheery!

Hear, hear. I know you don't have the time, George, but you really should write books. Bloody brilliant.

If find it a bit wonky. To play PBEM++ (including the tournaments) you need a Matrix account. It seems that if you create one for the forum community that one can also be used to play. But you can also create one for playing PBEM++ but that does not automatically create a forum account. If you log into both sites you will have two different log in experiences and even though the user name and pw are the same and clearly some syncing happens, they are really two separate accounts.
Its not how I would set things up but it is what it is. Things like this often happen organically and then get resolved to various degrees of seamlessness. At any rate anyone that created an account to play and didn't bother to create a community account first is probably not a good candidate for checking their DMs anyway so C'est la Vie.

I'm matched against chic44 in another facet of the tournament. I looked for him on the Matrix forum and didn't find him there either. Two out of my three opponents are not on the matrix forum and do not appear to be on the other popular war gaming sites either.

None of my business George but I can't see anyone with that username on this forum, which I guessed from it not being highlighted in your post?

Quick reminder to my fellow CMRT players, you can’t save a game and return to it later. So for the German defender with lots of fortifications and freedom to make their own defense setup. This can take awhile. So if you need a break, dinners ready, baby’s crying, etc, either leave the game running or alt-tab to minimize the game.
Also completely ignore any tourney files that show up in your saved games & PBEM list. These will not get sent to your opponent. Only play the ones under PBEM ++ in Progress list. 

Yeah turn rate should be about the same from me too!

I'm calling this one done now.
I've created a wee handbook to go with the scenarios.
@Bootie would you be  able to do the honours and upload to TSDIII please? I managed to lock myself out of my account and currently trying to reset my password...
DONE - got back in and uploaded.
Everything you need is in the zip file. There is a website blurb, accompanying website image then the zip file with the scenarios and the accompanying PDF.
https://www.thefewgoodmen.com/tsd3/cm-red-thunder/cm-red-thunder-add-ons-scenarios/cmrt-german-tank-tactical-problems/
Many thanks!
Cheery!
George
 
 

Excellent  Glad you like em. Aye I think they complement the BP1 SPW lessons, but be interested to see how it works out.
Yeah the maps allow various options to be used and there are multiple AI plans so hopefully lots of replayability.
Oh and glad you like the PDF
Thanks for your comments very much appreciated ta!

He! I'd love to, but aye time. I do enjoy 'technical' writing though. I'm chuffed you enjoyed it though, thank you. 

Oh very clever.  Ok let’s have it out on infantry vs tanks moving forward.  Infantry are extremely cheap.  Putting human life aside, Russia has demonstrated that infantry, though soft and squishy can be replaced in the tens of thousands.  Tanks are big expensive and hard to manufacture at scale.  Infantry as humans do need a lot of support - likely why we will see more unmanned.  But they also do not need a recovery vehicle that also weighs 40tons, nor do they burn tens of thousands of gallons of gas per day.  An infantry soldier can survive on a few kilos of support per day (food, water and ammo), a tank needs hundreds of kilos all on vulnerable trucks.  Infantry can be pushed to keep going, when 50tons decides to stop moving it is done.
This whole “infantry can die to” as a counter argument to the continued trajectory of obsolescence of heavy mech and armour is not only illogical it is deflecting.
Infantry can disperse, dig in and hide.  They are able to cross terrain impassable to tanks.  They break down but are easy to replace.  They can fight in built up areas.  They do not weigh 50 tons each and give off enough heat to be seen from space.  They are cheap, light and now armed with ISR, comms and weapons systems that can kill a tank out past 4km (and with NLOS tens of kms).
Infantry have completely different roles on the battlefield and we have yet to find technology to replace infantry…we may never.  So come on the board and bleat all you want about the life left in heavy armour but for the love of gawd can we put that stupid “infantry die too and we are not getting rid of them” argument in the ground?  As soon as we can produce thousands of fighting tanks per week out of a global civilian tank population of 8 billion you may have a point.

Just to provide the links to the Demo pages for each game with a demo. CM Cold War (CMCW) does NOT have a demo unfortunately, but each of the other games does. The demos are NOT Engine 4, which is available for each game except CMA; so they don't show the latest improvements, though there is not a massive difference with earlier engines. CMSF2 and CMBN do have module content within the Demo. The other games do not have module content (such as CMFI). Browsing for the links you will find them on the Store page for each game's main engine, within the left hand 'Game Info' column:
 
CM Shock Force 2 (v. 2.00, Engine 3):
https://www.battlefront.com/shock-force-2/cmsf2-base-game/?tab=demo

CM Battle for Normandy (v. 3.11, Engine 3):
https://www.battlefront.com/battle-for-normandy/cmbn-base-game/?tab=demo

CM Fortress Italy (v. 1.10, Engine 2):
https://www.battlefront.com/fortress-italy/cmfi-base-game/?tab=demo

CM Red Thunder (v. 1.00, Engine 3)
https://www.battlefront.com/red-thunder/cmrt-base-game/?tab=demo

CM Black Sea (v. 1.02, Engine 3):
https://www.battlefront.com/black-sea/cmbs-base-game/?tab=demo

CM Final Blitzkrieg (v. 1.00, Engine 3):
https://www.battlefront.com/final-blitzkrieg/cmfb-base-game/?tab=demo

CM Afghanistan (v. 1.01, pre-Engine 1):
https://www.battlefront.com/soviet-afghan-war/cm-afghanistan/?tab=demo

Thank you for the TTPs! I've only just found out about them and have only had the chance to make sure they load up correctly. I've the enjoyed the Lessons found in BP1 and found it very worthwhile for honing tactical skills.  So, I look forward to going to panzerschule.
The maps are very nice! The PDF is very well done and quite readable!

My game can't see the scenarios. any tips on what I might have done wrong? I have the CMRT steam version.
[EDIT] Ah never mind, I placed them at the wrong location d'oh!

Ah brill ta - great tae hear

Cheers ta  Aye hopefully the PDf is of use, so glad to have it confirmed it is. 
Cheery!

I'm calling this one done now.
I've created a wee handbook to go with the scenarios.
@Bootie would you be  able to do the honours and upload to TSDIII please? I managed to lock myself out of my account and currently trying to reset my password...
DONE - got back in and uploaded.
Everything you need is in the zip file. There is a website blurb, accompanying website image then the zip file with the scenarios and the accompanying PDF.
https://www.thefewgoodmen.com/tsd3/cm-red-thunder/cm-red-thunder-add-ons-scenarios/cmrt-german-tank-tactical-problems/
Many thanks!
Cheery!
George
 
 

I'm calling this one done now.
I've created a wee handbook to go with the scenarios.
@Bootie would you be  able to do the honours and upload to TSDIII please? I managed to lock myself out of my account and currently trying to reset my password...
DONE - got back in and uploaded.
Everything you need is in the zip file. There is a website blurb, accompanying website image then the zip file with the scenarios and the accompanying PDF.
https://www.thefewgoodmen.com/tsd3/cm-red-thunder/cm-red-thunder-add-ons-scenarios/cmrt-german-tank-tactical-problems/
Many thanks!
Cheery!
George
 
 

Cheers ta  Aye hopefully the PDf is of use, so glad to have it confirmed it is. 
Cheery!

The PDF is great

Cheers ta  Aye hopefully the PDf is of use, so glad to have it confirmed it is. 
Cheery!

Many thanks George.  Just reading the pdf has reminded me of various things I 'knew' but have been bad at implementing (recent PBEMs confirm this).

I'm calling this one done now.
I've created a wee handbook to go with the scenarios.
@Bootie would you be  able to do the honours and upload to TSDIII please? I managed to lock myself out of my account and currently trying to reset my password...
DONE - got back in and uploaded.
Everything you need is in the zip file. There is a website blurb, accompanying website image then the zip file with the scenarios and the accompanying PDF.
https://www.thefewgoodmen.com/tsd3/cm-red-thunder/cm-red-thunder-add-ons-scenarios/cmrt-german-tank-tactical-problems/
Many thanks!
Cheery!
George
 
 

I'm calling this one done now.
I've created a wee handbook to go with the scenarios.
@Bootie would you be  able to do the honours and upload to TSDIII please? I managed to lock myself out of my account and currently trying to reset my password...
DONE - got back in and uploaded.
Everything you need is in the zip file. There is a website blurb, accompanying website image then the zip file with the scenarios and the accompanying PDF.
https://www.thefewgoodmen.com/tsd3/cm-red-thunder/cm-red-thunder-add-ons-scenarios/cmrt-german-tank-tactical-problems/
Many thanks!
Cheery!
George