MeatEtr

Nice @The_Capt . Congratulations to Kees, @Lethaface, gfs26 who came in the top three. @MeatEtr was close and I finished middle of the pack (to be fair to me I lost a few points when my opponent surrendered, awww well).

Poor M1

 

Wow that guy lived through that. What a beast! Really need this interview with subtitles.

"Harmata" in Ukrainian means "cannon" common name for all barrel artillery assets.
In more narrow sense it means exactly "gun", not "howitzer" (ukr. "haubytsia")
But in this case "harmata!" is a command, which gives after charging of gun before the shoot. After this command a crew have to stand on own positions and to be ready to repeat charging routine after the shoot. In Russian the same command sounds like "orudiye!"
When after "harmata!" command a crew had been prepared for shoot, a commander gives "vohon' !" ("fire!") command
Often before salvo shoot, especially on camera, for bigger "immersion effect" ), commander instead "vohon' !", commands "Trysta! Trydtsiat' !! Try!!!" ("300! 30!! 3 !!!"). This is Soviet code command for arty fire, some sort of "ready-steady-fire"

Yeah I think this is a good amount of time. Current tourney feels a bit short on time but I think this new one will be just right. 👍

The One Hundred and Tenth Minute
KG Leino -  Die Mitte
Not much to report, the Tigers are gathering along with a SPW to push over the bridge and hit the forces that he has attacking KG Perala in the rear. The SPW will go first to scout the approach.

KG Koskela - die Links
Further confirmation that he can hear me, the contact keeps moving and settles on the left edge of the treeline, that way is blocked.

Meanwhile to the rear of the position Heinz now has the angle he needs to start inflicting pain on the Reds brazenly marching across an open field like they are on the parade ground. His blood like ice in his veins Heinz calms his breath and squeezes the trigger.

The call goes out on the net for backup and the nearest 251/17 turns to join in the fun.

It quickly becomes a turkey-shoot, the pictures tell the story.

KG Perala - das Rechts
THe infantry pull back until I can deal with that T-34 at the crossroads.

On the left the last T-34 from that platoon is spotted as it pulls back. We get no hits in.

SITMAP

In the middle the forces are pushing up to at least perform a holding action, if not hit his remaining T-34 in the rear. On the right I need to wait until Leino's forces are across the bridge and at least have his attention before moving on GRAU to deal with that T-34. Time is ticking down though and my chances of clearing the objective are rapidly getting slimmer.
On the left my SPWs are moving in for the kill on what looks to be a platoon-sized force caught out in the open. I'm also moving one of the MG teams on SCHWARZ down to the woods in case any of them slip through.
MMM

The One Hundred and Ninth Minute
KG Leino -  Die Mitte
2 Zug continue to move forward. It's gone very quiet.

Did I say Kein Kontact last time? Well we get contact from the farm area in the form of my scouts blowing up. Looks like he hasn't taken his panzers guarding the road off to attack KG Perala in the rear. This is good. Of course he may well do so now. Who knows.

KG Koskela - die Links
The experiment draws some conclusions. I'm moving the mobile Panther and a SPW through the trees, and there's a reaction.

One of his T34s backs off, I imagine it's moving to over off the open ground on the left. This confirms that he most likely has an infantry screen in the woods and I do not have enough guys to clear it out. Likely he has at least a platoon in there. I may have to give up on advancing on BLAU from this approach and try and take GRAU and then push through instead.

Something...interesting...happens over near SCHWARZ. I have a SPW overwatching, they're just chillin'. Kinda bored and trying to stay warm.

Suddenly the gunner, Heinz, notices something out of the corner of his eye. He is a veteran of the Eastern front so not much the Reds do surprise him, but this baffles even this grizzled veteran. "Heiliger Strohsack!" he mutters to himself, followed by "Alarm Rechts!" to his crewmate, who quickly catches on and and starts turning the vehicle toward his quarry.

KG Perala - das Rechts
The attack on GRAU begins, infantry supported by SPWs start to push forward. Several things happen in this turn so I've split them up.

Nummer 1
The attack starts. The men push forward, only to be met by more firepower than we were expecting. Casualties start to tick up.
The SPWs push up to support, they are area firing the buildings.

But I continue to take casualties. Then some big booms.

The culprit is spotted sitting at the crossroads, this is a problem.

Then from the treeline on the left a shell rips through the 251//17 supporting the infantry. There are no survivors.

Nummer 2
My armour is overwatching where the armour contacts appeared in the treeline.

The Tiger spots the 251/17's killer seconds after the shot was fired. It's a T34-85 and interestingly the commander's hatch is open, but no commander. I think this is the remains of the platoon that was on ROT as suspected, the commander was obviously taken out when they were in the trees and I was area firing HE into them.

It only ends one way, one dead T34.

SITMAP

I've updated the blood board.

The contact that walked out of the fog over on the left is strange, I'll be moving two SPWs over to deal with that next turn. It may be a team, it may be a company, I'm going to assume it's at least a platoon for now. I can only assume it was the one that was guarding the road that he's moved back to maybe try and take SCHWARZ?
In the middle now I know that the T34s are not in the way I'm going to push the two Tigers over the bridge with a SPW leading the way to try and hit them in the rear. If I can deal with the remaining T34 then I can attack GRAU from that angle too.
The right is interesting. GRAU is very heavily defended by the looks of it, I haven't spotted any but I assume there is infantry in the buildings. I have to assume where there is 1 tank there are more but if there's a platoon at the farm, 2 on the left and 1 left in the middle then that T34 at the crossroads could be the only one, perhaps even a company or battalion HQ? I have taken a lot of casualties, I can't really afford to take much more so I will pull them back while I try and take care of the T34.
MMM

@MeatEtr : Sorry for the delay... i had a busy week with my job... Not the best scenario, but i will play to the end... maybe this week still a bit slow.

LOL!
 

Age old? not so sure.  Don't take the bait, I'm just being cute.
Just for fun though, what could we argue to be the world's earliest 'precision weapons'? (let's talk actual battlefield weapons, not kamikazes or bomb dogs, or Viking longships or Mongol horsemen bringing 500 warriors out of nowhere to achieve overwhelming tactical odds).  Rifle musket?
...But yeah, this old anyway (speaking of being a Doumer 🤪)
Of course, the confident voice over sounds just like some of the folks on here lol. Pride goeth before a fall.
....so how long before we get to here?
 

Ahh ok there ya are! Wow the overlord cam is from like a decade ago. I remember that one, good times. Good luck! 

Ive nearly wiped out the US forces with the Soviets. Only one M1 and one Bradley survived, everything else destroyed. Though it helped that my opponent didn’t move much allowing me to position and attack spots with high numbers. But I did take heavy losses too. So it’s possible just not easy.
 
Will toss up some pics soon…

Round one I was doing great with USSR :). Round 2 you put a stop to that, although my USSR troops are doing quite some work. But indeed RED is more challenging in the 2nd battle. Still it's not impossible as  @MeatEtr got a win, job well done  and looking forward to pics!.
I have a video of our game when you moved a platoon of T-80B forward against my Abrams Tentcamps with their bbq smokers ;-), while artillery was falling everywhere. I'll upload it on YT in a bit. While I picked a different area to stage my main effort I don't think yours was necessarily bad, but you spread out your attack in waves and didn't continue moving. That helped me arranging my forces against your attacks.
Video done (HD will probably take some time). Full spectrum engagement!:
 

Ive nearly wiped out the US forces with the Soviets. Only one M1 and one Bradley survived, everything else destroyed. Though it helped that my opponent didn’t move much allowing me to position and attack spots with high numbers. But I did take heavy losses too. So it’s possible just not easy.
 
Will toss up some pics soon…

Ive nearly wiped out the US forces with the Soviets. Only one M1 and one Bradley survived, everything else destroyed. Though it helped that my opponent didn’t move much allowing me to position and attack spots with high numbers. But I did take heavy losses too. So it’s possible just not easy.
 
Will toss up some pics soon…

Yeah I often refer to my tank gunners as lumberjacks! 🤪

We haven't seen much footage so I'll post some.

One of @jheinrichks Bradleys showing off it's natural behavior of deforestation with 25mm HE-I, is caught in the act and stopped cold by my RPG-7 forest ranger. This is the wind-down phase of the battle. 
Most of my FSE has been turned into smoldering wrecks, but with 4 out of 5 Abramses destroyed my troops can ascend to the eternal pixel hunting grounds feeling satisfactory.



 

shoving in all armor at one location enforce made sense to me.  i was surprised that a break thru did not succeed despite not a single unit appeared to back up when everything started exploding.  wish i could get CMCW on my faster pc to open the saved game files to publish a video of these turns (i had to do these turns on a laptop on the road).  here are some pics tho

hehe I'm not afraid of a lil area firing myself but @jheinrichk was really putting effort into the goal of having most of his Bradleys be out of ammo at the end of the battle. A lot of it fell on innocent trees / grass without any of my troops nearby, but he did force me to advance through a hail of 25mm fire which was an effective tactic I guess.
 

Yeah I often refer to my tank gunners as lumberjacks! 🤪

This guy wasn't high-ranked officer, but info just for fun. 
On 5th of December Russian Martial Arts Union established own volunteer detachment "Union", consisting of martial arts coaches and fighters - total 98 men. Looks like they were sent to frontline immediately, because already on 31st of December was killed Sergey Uvitskiy, general secreter of Russian Kyokushinkai karate Federation. 
 

Give me his performance in "War and Peace" anyday. Ah, we were all so much younger then.

Sometimes mods can screw this up. Try booting up with out the z folder there. But might have to do full reinstall to fix this.