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I thought there was a Tunisia mod? I remember downloading some scenary? And maybe a scenario?

Hmmm, well from a recon/scout perspective, that's what I was doing..advancing one team while using the other two for overwatch..but now I am in contact, so we shall see if the fire and maneuver part works as well. Of course, that could just be their command element Good point about splitting a squad to defend a building or location..I just finished a QB where I had a whole squad in a building that ate a tank round...not pretty. And yea, I definitely feel like it's better to split squads in a smaller scenario where you don't want to blunder your entire squad into a MG nest or ambush. More learning to do, I suppose...thanks for the responses..I have just come into contact against my PBEM opponent...it it going to be interesting.

This is sort of a general CM question I figured I would throw out in this forum. What is the utility of splitting up a squad into teams? I am playing a PBEM Scenario right now with some of my squads split and some not. Tactically, my fear is that split squads don't have a lot of firepower and can get cut up piecemeal in a firefight. I guess my question is do other players have good tactics for using split squads, especially in different environments? I can see the use of split squads in an urban setting to provide covering fire for building assaults, but in more rural settings I wonder if keeping squad together is better to provide more firepower. Thanks in advance.

There are some excellent tutorial sites out there... http://www.armchairgeneral.com/combat-mission-battle-for-normandy-tactics-a-video-series Like the name says, it's a collection of YouTube videos that goes over aspects of the game in detail http://battledrill.blogspot.com/ Is a really outstanding site that covers a multitude of topics. I definitely recommend the CMBN Task Force Raff campaign OR Devils Descent..they are both fun and challenging campaigns that are not TOO hard and a very good way of getting your feet wet with a variety of missions and toys to play with. As far as CMBN vs CMBS, yes gnarly is totally correct, CMBS is so much more lethal and fast. I think you have the right idea...learn the basics of fire & maneuver, combined arms, scouting, etc with CMBN..and then take a stab at CMBS...OR if you want to dive into CMBS, maybe start with infantry or mech infantry battles to get the hang of the modern battlefield before you throw in armor, drones, artillery etc. FWIW, that's why I REALLY like the QBs..I can control the forces both sides get so I can try out things like infantry only battles...or throw in a few tanks...you get the picture. And, most of all, there is always trial by fire...I have a lot of that.

So... @kohlenklau will we get another rollup post with all the downloads... Hopefully from your dropbox, o great and powerful oz?

Yea, I did pick that up a little bit......just noting his pictures, he clearly thinks the Germans were the better soldiers tactically...but then again, so did Martin van Creveld in his book Fighting Power: German and U.S. Army Performance, 1939-1945...which I also think was MORE than a tad one-sided in his analysis. I just flipped through it today...so haven't dug in...will see just how biased he is, although he does at least seem to acknowledge the many German atrocities committed during the battle...

Wow, these are awesome...I have always enjoyed the detailed defensive works and terrain features on your maps, and it looks like this will have a WIDE variety of terrain to fight in...looking forward to it...

Got this for my birthday this year...absolutely magnificent book recommended by others in this thread. Just the front and end paper maps alone are the best I have ever seen. Superbly illustrated with many pictures I have never seen before..with many if them in excellent photo essays and the appendices contain highly detailed OBs (ORBATS) (TO&E) and fantastic endplate sideviews of most of the armored vehicles that participated in the battle. It is a tad pricey, but I was able to get one from a used book dealer for about $30 that was in Like New condition. Even if you're read MacDonald or Beevor this is still an awesome book.

Ok, thanks....

OH, yea...Stalingrad...

I guess what I was trying to ask...and not doing very well at it, is that these mods can only be used in USER made CMBS scenarios using the proper mod tags...they WON'T work in CMBS QBs?

Just downloaded your helper app...very, very nice...easier to setup than CMH...up and running in under a minute...thanks much for coding that...

@BarbaricCo and @kohlenklau and @kevinkin This has truly been an excellent labor of love...or at least mild obsession.. I posted a reply in the CMBS forum after seeing some guys load the terrain mods in CMBS...does this mean that the terrain mods are not mod tagged? or whatever the technical term is? I would love to load them up and use them for some CMRT or CMBS QB. Thanks for doing this...really awesome.

So, exactly which CMRT Winter mods did you use for CMBS? And in CMBS, are these affected by mod tags?

Ok, thanks much...just checking..what a wonderful tool...

Hi, Is 1.8 the latest version of the Scenario and Campaign Decompiler (CMx2_ScAn_CaDe)? Thanks

Thanks very much for the update...really looking forward to the first module for CMBS...VDV and Marines, and Naval Infantry...very, very cool... Hopefully everyone at BFC got some well deserved R&R...it has been a very busy and productive CM year.

My experience with jeeps is they are pretty darn fragile from any angle. With the .50cal you can use them sort of as a standoff weapon...but I wouldn't leave them stationary for very long, and for sure wouldn't engage anything but dismounted leg infantry with them. I think you can reverse them toward the enemy and shoot...but remember Combat Mission ain't Rat Patrol....

This is also my experience playing deep snow scenarios in CMFI...troops tire out VERY VERY quickly...I assume it will be the same for CMFB....and I assume vehicles will bog pretty darn quick just like they did in CMFI...

Thanks for the recommendation...hadn't looked into that book...it's in the Amazon cart now.

That was a great find...lots of material on the Benning site....

You know that'a good question...to my knowledge all the of the campaigns I have seen are Blue (Human) vs Red (AI).....

Roger. PM sent.

Hi @kevinkin so I tried out the scenario Happy New Year. Some screen shots attached to see the Winter Mod. Ok, didn't last long....one PZ IV is immobilized at the start and I managed to bog down and immobilize my other one very quickly...no mas good as the HORDES of T-34s come sweeping over the river. Overall, I could see the butt whipping coming a mile off, so am going to restart... This is going to be a challenge...not a lot of AT weapons to slow down those tanks..and the darkness does not help a lot...will try a different set of ambush tactics...see if my Germans can use their Panzerfausts to slow them down...but DANG, that's a lot of tanks to stop with a couple of platoons and 2 banged up tanks....

Just to be sure..is this the complete set of mods? They look great..playing PBEM with kohlenklau now...