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I'm making a series of battles. It covers the battles around Vuosalmi and Äyräpää villages on the last two weeks of the Winter War, 1st - 13th of March 1940. Finnish 2nd Division was defending Vuoksi riverline, it was the last line of defence. Russians made continuous attempts to breakthrough with four divisions, strong artillery barrages and air attacks. Weak Finnish forces managed barely to hold the line until the peace on March 13th.
The first six battles (from 1st to 5th of March) are available from The Scenario Depot.
VC-1-Cemetery
VC-2-Counter Attack
VC-3-Wave after Wave
VC-4-Islands
VC-5-Church Hill
VC-6-Too Late
Matti
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Please send me a copy too. My email is in the profile.
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Thanks for your update. Could you email me ( matti_vesanen@hotmail.com ) your last save? It's hard get playtest feedback because the operation is so big.Originally posted by demoss:Lots of fun, but I sure need a break after those 30+ turn battles!
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I have made two Winter War scenarios:
Making Motti
Breaking Motti
Both are 30+ turns long and best played as Finland against AI. They should be available at The Scenario Depot soon.
During the Winter War Soviet Union made several attacks into forested wilderness of central Finland. Usually a whole motorized division advanced along a single narrow road through endless forests. When the division was stopped at Finnish roadblock, there was no space for flanking manoeuvre. There was no other possibilty but to stop the whole column and wait until the roadblock was cleared.
The Finns did move light ski troops through forest to the enemy flanks and made local attacks to cut the long Russian column into small isolated pieces called "motti". This fictional scenario describes such operation.
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Yes, it's a problem. I put there few sissi squads with satchel charges. You could also fire on vision slits with AT-rifles and AT-guns.Originally posted by demoss:Naataoja (also available at the Scenario Depot) is fun. Unfortunately, I think anything involving infantry vs. bunkers (especially Finnish infantry, because they tend to have lots of molotovs) is a bit broken right now - infantry with molotovs but no explosives (not counting grenades) won't attack bunkers. :eek:
The bunkers were hard to destroy in real life too. When the Näätäoja line eventually broke it took hours to clear all russian dugouts.
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I'm interested. Send me an email and let's think about it.Originally posted by vils:I need interested players for brainstorming! a virtual finnish war against russia is about to be born in near future on a small scale basis. ANY experienced players please contact me!
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The operation is now available at The Scenario Depot
The overall scale is abour one regiment/side, but reserves arrive gradually.
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I'm making a small fictional scenario about destruction of Russian motti. Finns have encircled and starved a small Russian detachment. Now it is time to take out the weakened troops.
About one battalion/side
forest, snow, night, freezing
35 turns or until Russians surrender
I have playtested it against computer, briefings are not ready yet. Mail me if you want to playtest.
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Add landsverk anti to that list and I'm happy too. As noted before, those babies saw frontline action as much as the rest of the armoured forces in general.</font>Originally posted by Keke:</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Juha Ahoniemi:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Sardaukar:
- JU 87 dive bomber for Germans in Finland, June-July 1944
-FW 190 F, ditto
- KV-1 m42 and KV-1E from summer 1942(only one each, but they were used as lead vehicles in armoured column's advance)
-T-28 m38 and T-28E, first from start and second from late summer 1941.
- T-20 Komsomolets gun tractor from start
-somewhat better FOs for Finns (not asking them to be better than others, but they sure were not that much worse than others).
-ISU-152, July 1944 (this I can live without, however)
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I have made a huge 11 battle historical operation. It's a Finnish assault against a fortified Soviet line on summer 1941. Email to me if you want to get it.
Title: Näätäoja
Type: Finnish assault operation (Historical)
Date: July 17th, 1941
Time: 0700 hrs
Location: Karelia, north of Lake Ladoga
Region: Finland
Weather: Clear, Dry and Warm
Battles: 4 days, 2 battles/day (nights not playable)
Turns: 30+ turns/battle
Background:
On the north of lake Ladoga the Finnish Karelian Army began it's offensive on 10th of July 1941. The objectives were to reach the northern shore of lake Ladoga and advance to east to the old border. In the middle sector 5th Division advanced fast to SE. Recon battalion Kev.Os.4 (light infantry detachment 4) covered 70km in 5 days. On July 15th they arrived at Näätäoja where they met enemy in fortified positions. On the next day reserves were called to replace light recon forces and to make a breakthrough so that the advance to east could continue. This followed 12 day long continuous battle in which both sides suffered heavy losses.
Historical: 2 player or Human Finland vs. Soviet AI
The map is based on 1:20000 topographic map (printed 1939).
Author: Matti Vesanen, matti_vesanen@hotmail.com
Matti
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I have made a huge 11 battle historical operation. It's a Finnish assault against a fortified Soviet line on summer 1941. Email to me if you want to get it.
Title: Näätäoja
Type: Finnish assault operation (Historical)
Date: July 17th, 1941
Time: 0700 hrs
Location: Karelia, north of Lake Ladoga
Region: Finland
Weather: Clear, Dry and Warm
Battles: 4 days, 2 battles/day (nights not playable)
Turns: 30+ turns/battle
Background:
On the north of lake Ladoga the Finnish Karelian Army began it's offensive on 10th of July 1941. The objectives were to reach the northern shore of lake Ladoga and advance to east to the old border. In the middle sector 5th Division advanced fast to SE. Recon battalion Kev.Os.4 (light infantry detachment 4) covered 70km in 5 days. On July 15th they arrived at Näätäoja where they met enemy in fortified positions. On the next day reserves were called to replace light recon forces and to make a breakthrough so that the advance to east could continue. This followed 12 day long continuous battle in which both sides suffered heavy losses.
Historical: 2 player or Human Finland vs. Soviet AI
The map is based on 1:20000 topographic map (printed 1939).
Author: Matti Vesanen, matti_vesanen@hotmail.com
Matti
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NWT results were interesting, our difference would have been 7 points. But I hope you beat them in the final, it would give some bragging rights to me and DrAlimantado.Originally posted by Tuomas:Hmmm interesting. I browsed through NWT-thread and found out that I should not have even qualified if that tourney had finished in time. Does this mean I will be the punchbag of these finals?
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Hauskaa Vappua! :cool:
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Tuomas, I'm waiting for your next turn. I have sent the file 36 to you, have you got it?
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Sign me up. (Überfinn)
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Espoo, Finland
Vuosalmi Campaign
in Combat Mission - Scenario Talk
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I have got some questions about the series:
- I recommend to play the scenarios in order.
- #3 is huge, if you think it's too large you can skip it, it's not decisive battle. I just wanted to make one larger scale battle.
- I'm making more battles. If you want to be beta tester send me email (address is in profile)
Please, send feedback. Are scenarios too small, too long, too hard, boring, ... ?
Matti