Commanderski

Ask and ye shall receive. 

WooYay! 
I'd judge it to be this bit:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Berlin,+Germany/@52.5146526,13.3979185,15.25z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x47a84e373f035901:0x42120465b5e3b70!8m2!3d52.5200066!4d13.404954

Thanks for all the tips. I definitely see where some of my problems are now.
Thanks again! 😀

Bridge crossing with paras firing from the back of Panthers.
 


 

RTO send the message:  1st Platoon FJ and a platoon of Panthers has crossed the bridge.  

First, yes, the title is a pun.  As this is foundational data, but it was also drawn from playing around in the CMBN first Basic Training Mission. 
I realized that one of my biggest problems is time and space.  Like last night, I was playing a small scenario of 45 minutes with 5 spatial objectives.  I realized I was running into trouble when the clock said +28m remaining and I had only completed objective #1.  Too much cautious recon (night mission).  So, I pulled out a Major Victory, but it required me for the rest of the scenario to double time it with split squads moving in leap frog bounding over watch.  And I truly finished, right as the clock struck 0m.
Thus, today, I decided to do something about my playing style.  One YouTuber had said he plans based what it would take to just walk the map.  Realizing that I had no concept of time and space, I decided to do some analysis which I will share here.  I realize that most of you ubermensch, do much more rigorous data collection, but I think this should be sufficient to get me started.
 
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***** MOVEMENT (Scout/Squad) *****
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RESTED/FIT/REGULAR SCOUTS (MIXED/OPTIMAL CONDITIONS)
Walk:     50M
Quick:   120M
Run:     140M (1t tired)
Hunt:     40M
Slow:     15M (2t tired)
RESTED/FIT/REGULAR SQUAD (MIXED/OPTIMAL CONDITIONS)
Quick:    80M (complete in 1 turn) (same final dispersion as assault)
Assault:  50M [lead team] 0M [rear team] (for long assault)
          20-25M (completes in 1 turn) (same final dispersion as assault)
          100M (completes in 3 turns)
          (linear spacing is very much a function of the waypoint placement)
          (at 30M/min, it is slower movement than manual player bounds)
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* Squad movement standing seems 66% of scout movement.
* If there is overwatch, and the enemy is suppressed.  QUICK is probably your best way to cover ground.
* HUNT is too slow to cover a map in most time frames, and is in the same class of commands as RUN and SLOW.
* RUN is best used to sprint between cover to cover; especially as teams which find cover easier.
* ASSAULT is probably a toss up between manual squad command and TACAI coordinated.  An ASSAULT should probably be no more than 100M to avoid the squad from getting too spread out.  Additional suppressing fire advised.

The smoke screen was still forming so the upper floor of that building was not yet blocked by smoke when the screenshot was taken.  Below is a screenshot of the tank that won the bottle of schnapps.  On the right you can see the roof of the building through the smoke.   A marksman on the back of the Panther is still keeping an eye on it . 
   

Images from the game so far...

'Quantity has a quality all its own' ...here comes the swarm.

I set up a very simple AI plan (because I'd played that map twice before, so I was familiar with the plan) - but the AI was able to surprise me brutally. Well-placed mines everywhere...

Friends and relatives come through the door, Father Christmas comes down the chimney...
...but Red Army Guards sappers come through the wall...

What SMGs can't reach, flames might.

In urban fighting, training is less important than morale and a high rate of fire.

 

He was clearly inspired by the movie "T-34" in which a Russian AT gunner waited for the exact same opportunity.   The fidelity of this game is always astonishing.

Share the map? Sure, if you want it - I'll upload it tonight.

I agree to all this.  I still do that on car trips.  I bike to work and picture AT guns and tanks and infantry battling along the bike path & streets.  And to Markshot's point, yes, this is chess.  History chess.  Chess that's more open ended and lots more fun.  
 

Screenshot was auto levelled in photoshop with a 25% sharpen filter (because anti-alias made it pretty blurred).
For a "completely" undoctored/unedited version see below. I don't use reshade or anything, those colors are vanilla plus it's pretty dark.
 

"I'm telling you, there's a fat bloke and a reindeer in that barn."

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This is one thing I would like to be able to do in the new module.
This was taken from WWII Colourised Photos Facebook site:  Half-hidden behind an ‘izba’ (Russian peasant’s dwelling), a German Nashorn tank destroyer (said to be from Schw. Pz.Jg.Abt. 519) waits patiently for a target.

All great comments and advice above. 
I would only add that if you are playing a quick battle, purchase on-map mortars instead of off-map artillery... much more accurate, timely, and flexible.  Down side is that they can be neutralized by enemy action, and you need to maintain a radio link if using them indirectly.  I am always willing to risk those though, plus you could also purchase trucks to provide resupply rounds to some mortars.
Bil

Looks like the trenches are dug 2m into the ground. Try 1m.

Glad to see you're back! Hope you had a good sabbatical. Have you heard/seen the news of the upcoming module for Red Thunder? If you haven't I hope I'm the first to excite you by telling you that the module will be adding winter to the CM Eastern Front, among many other things. 

Thanks for the responses.
Elvis, Item 4 on the ticket, would that be my name and email if I was the person gifting it?
As far as discount prices are concenred, I have to admit I have limited sympathy with those of my friends who say they can't afford it.  Rather than save they dribble their money away on inferior games and probably end up spending more in the long run and have nothing in their collection to compare to Combat Mission 😉

So fekkin feed me! 
 

The commentator mentions both the Greyhound and the HMC in his preamble. But from that point on when using the name "M8" he clearly means the Greyhound, and obviously knows the difference. Whether the video is accurate isn't for me to say.
But according to family legend, Kay said to Ike "Give me one tonight". Ike said to Monty "I'm too busy to sort out the Ardennes, you'll have to do it". Monty said to Jorrocks "I'll be buggered if I'm going to send good Anglican boys down there to help out those non-conformist colonials, who have you got to spare?" Jorrocks said to Paddy "Stop the Jerries on the Meause tonight." Paddy said to John Martins, "Give me five Bedford loads of yer'se strongest Guinness, I need to set it alight and roll it down a bone dry hill in the middle of the desert, so that dumb movie goers in ten years time will think that it is how we beat the Gerry in the middle of a Belgian winter". 

Is this the new module?

I'm crossing fingers for a Xmas bone with some news about this module.