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    Two stupid battles

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

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    I'm playing CMBB using Biltong's Campaign Rules, where you play a QB after QB as Germans using predetermined parameters. Lately I've had two strange battles.

    First is a battle with German pure armor against Russian armor. I (the Germans) had 50% casualties and 10% ammo. I gave one set of orders for my tanks, watched the turn and then the game ended. A ceasefire and total defeat! WTF? I didn't even have a chance to try to advance and win at least one flag. That wouldn't have been impossible.

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    Then the second one. This time the Russian assault. Again I have 50% casualties and 10% ammo (both these battles have been in winter 41-42 in extreme cold and blizzard). I've got a mix of Germans and Italians against lots of Russian armor troops. I have a lot of AT and AP mines and barbed wire, which I used around my defences. The game lasted 45 turns and I didn't see a shadow of enemy during the whole time.

    This is the map after the battle. The Russian troops are all exhausted and far away from my troops. This was the most boring battle I've ever had.

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    Has someone else encountered this, especially the last one?

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    Biltong's Campaign Rules

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

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    Well, well. The next battle after the one above: 5000 point allied assault with 150% high quality Soviet troops (armor, mechanized) against my 50% green German+Italian troops (armor, mechanized) and 10% ammo on a huuuuuge map in extreme cold and blizzard. So my luck continues...

    This time I have 3000 points worth of arty (about 20 FOs!), so I'm not that nervous about the assault. Those Italian peashooter tanks and TDs don't raise my confidence very much, though... I have A LOT OF minefields, roadblocks and barbed wire around my defences, so let's see those Russkis pass those! :D

    Too bad that I didn't get most of my battle group tanks and assault guns. Of course the trucks and the Kubelwagen showed up...With delayed armor replacements I may be in trouble in future battles.

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    Biltong's Campaign Rules

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

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    Hwo bad luck can one have? I'm in February 42 at the moment. I've had three battles in a row with 50% troops and 10% ammo, blizzard and extreme cold. In every battle the Russkis have had 150-200% more troops. Plus I've only reveived green replacements.

    In the battle last night (Allied probe) I was defending a hill with about 80 men, 2 PzIIIJ's, one StugIIIB, one PzIIc and one one 251/1 halftrack. Like I said I had only 50% troops and 10% ammo. I had only one HMG. I surrounded the hill with barbed wire and mine fields on two sides but had to left the right flank "unwired and unmined".

    I couldn't believe my eyes, when I saw the partisans coming! They were literally flooding the base of the hill. I let them come until the barbed wire until I pulled my PzIII's to the front and let them shower the Russkis with MGs. I would have given my Führer's mustaches for some artillery. That would have been a carnage!

    The partisans had divided in two groups and were attacking from the front and from the right flank, which was open for them to come. I had to withdraw my tanks from the front and drive them to the right flank to defend that. All the time the AT rifles were hitting the tanks, at least ten rounds per turn bounced off the armor. Luckily, the tanks survived.

    When the tanks withdrew from the front, the partisans had it easy to pass the barbed wire. I had some troops in trenches waiting on top of the hill, but with low in ammo I let them hide until the very last moment. Of course my only HMG soon got jammed due to extreme coldness and was captured with a platoon commander and one squad.

    I already though that this is now the end, when to my suprise, a ceasefire and the result of the battle: Major Victory!

    My about 80 men plus some armor with 10% ammo against over 1300 men, and I got a Major Victory... One of the PzIIIs killed over 230 partisans and the other over 150.

    What a great battle! But I hope that with the next battles I have a bit more luck with the dice smile.gif

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    Biltong's Campaign Rules goes 'GOLD'!!

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

    Posted

    Originally posted by Blackhorse:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Apache:

    Supersulo,

    I run Win XP Home. Should your die app. run on that OK? I have DL it a couple of times and, each time I go to the zip folder I open it up and see what looks like an auto-exec type file. When I double click it I get 'This application has failed to start because vcl60.bpl was not found. Re-installing may solve the problem'.

    Am I doing something wrong? I do use the die sheets but it does seem to have quite a lot of the same number, especially high ones. I may even try to dig out one of my old ten sided die :(

    Same problem here. Any idea where we can locate the vcl.60bpl? </font>
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    Biltong's Campaign Rules goes 'GOLD'!!

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

    Posted

    Originally posted by Biltong:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by SuperSulo:

    .... As you now know, you really should lose those 200 pts, according to the rules. But what you do in the privacy of your own home, Biltong will never know. ;)

    I knew it!! :mad: I knew it!! :mad: I knew it!! :mad:

    Seriously Jig:

    See No 5

    BCR’s Goal is to:

    1. Enable players to play a Campaign from June 41 through all of the CMBB terrain until the final day of battle in Berlin.

    2. Make sure that the Campaign never becomes Boring – the difficulty must increase, it must be varied and the Campaign must end in a climax.

    3. Keep the Campaign as Historically accurate as possible.

    4. Keep it short and simple enough to allow most players to understand and use it.

    5. Enable anyone to Expand or Modify BCR to his own taste.

    6. Provide Excitement, Tension and just good old-fashioned Fun!

    ;) </font>

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    Biltong's Campaign Rules goes 'GOLD'!!

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

    Posted

    Originally posted by SuperSulo:

    JigVictor07, yes you will lose those 200 points. With the remaining 350 you should buy (at least) one 81mm Mortar FO and then you can buy whatever you can afford in that category.

    So you will only be allowed around 1578 pts (653+225+200+150+350) against the soviet 2000. Sucks, huh? smile.gif

    So far that's by the rules. But rules are ment to be broken, right? ;) So if you want, you can spend those 200 pts on something else "arty-like", maybe some inf guns (not very practical in a meeting engagement) or some self propelled guns? Totally against the rules, but if you want those 200 pts... Just do it! smile.gif

    Another idea (but more complex) would be to use the scenario editor. If you set up a map (or load one in), you can add 200 pts worth of arty and then import this map to your QB and choose to import the troops with the map. Then you buy your 350 pts allowed in the QB, you get your 550 pts! Sweet! smile.gif

    EDIT: Oh crap, me and my slow typing... question already answered, I believe...

    Thanks! (My previous thanks was for the dice program that now works. Slow typing from me also smile.gif )

    I may try that last option where you use the scenario editor. I don't know, but maybe one could do so that the "extra" arty worth 200 points enters the battle as a reinforcement with a certain chance (50% perhaps or maybe I roll the dice again :D ), so it wouldn't be automatically available...?

    I don't have the CMBB with me right now at work and I haven't used the scenario editor very much, so I don't know if that's even possible...

    [ February 13, 2003, 05:25 AM: Message edited by: JigVictor07 ]

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    Biltong's Campaign Rules goes 'GOLD'!!

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

    Posted

    I've read the instructions and the posts here many times and I still don't get it all...

    I may be confused with the same things as Lt Bull, but perhaps this is a different thing.

    I rolled the die and got all the parameters down for the first battle. The force size ended up being 2000 points (see lower). Battle type ME. Armor/German/Infantry.

    Inf Co & Armor: 653

    Attached units: none

    Infantry/Support: 225

    Vehicle: 200

    Armor: 150

    Arty: 550

    Purchase point total: 1778

    Provisional force size: 1778 (rounded up to 2000)

    I then run a 2000 point QB with the parameters and get the unit types for the Task Force.

    Now, I'm going to set up the real battle. I have 550 points for (large) arty, but the maximum that CMBB allows for 2000 point QB ME is 350! Also, what I got in the first QB (to determine the Task Force units) was one 81 mm mortar spotter.

    What do I do when I set up the real battle? Do I purchase only one 81 mm mortar spotter and use the rest of the points for what ever I want in that category or do I only purchase more of those same spotters?

    What about the 350 point limit mentioned above? Will I just lose the remaining 200 points? What's the point of getting a lot of points for arty (550 in this case) if you can't use them all?

    Am I missing something obvious here? :confused:

    [ February 12, 2003, 02:56 PM: Message edited by: JigVictor07 ]

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    Telekinetics? Aliens? What's happening in CMBO???

    in Combat Mission Archive #4 (2002)

    Posted

    Originally posted by Michael emrys:

    I suggest that to placate them you rub yourself with chicken blood and run naked down the main street of your town shouting, "George Bush is Colonel Sanders!" at the top of your voice to everyone you meet. If you follow this advice, I guarantee that you will have no further problems with disappearing troops.

    :D

    Michael

    I'm sure if I followed that advice here in Finland, disappearing troops would surely not be my biggest problem :D
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    Telekinetics? Aliens? What's happening in CMBO???

    in Combat Mission Archive #4 (2002)

    Posted

    I'm playing the scenario Commandos Strike in Norway as a PBEM. Strange things started to happen from the very beginning. First at around turn 3 one of my teams disappeared. It was there when I watched the "film", but after I received the turn from my opponent and it was my turn to plot the orders again, it had disappeared. So it couldn't have been killed in action.

    Next, around turn 10 or so one of my mortars disappears! I'm like WTF, what's happening now!? But the strangest thing is, that in the next turn when I watch the "film" my opponent had sent me, I see some movement on the other side of the map (which is quite large, BTW) and yes, that's my mortar crew there all alone!

    I haven't found the missing team, yet :(

    So what's causing this? Any ideas? :confused:

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    The "One Hundred Minutes" Tournament

    in Combat Mission Archive #4 (2002)

    Posted

    Originally posted by Gpig:

    Mechanized Bushmen; I'll let jyrki tell you about this one. Suffice to say it's a rough day for the Brits. 3 turns to go.

    Gpig

    Thanks for giving me the pleasure :D I've never been crushed, beaten, humiliated or what ever so badly as in this battle. I may have slightly hurt maybe one of his men, and I guess even that was only a scratch :D Me, I have one full squad left...

    I'm lucky if I get even 5% of the points :eek:

    I feel ashamed :(redface.gif

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