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    Road to Montebourg

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    This campaign is phenomenal; I'm halfway through mission 3 and can barely tear myself away.

    The infantry modelling in CMBN is perfectly suited to these sorts of battle. Gotta love those big ole US infantry squads - that's some firepower.

    As if all this weren't impressive enough, if you look at Ecoqueneauville on satellite view of Google maps you'll be stunned by the similarity to the mission map.

    Paper Tiger - I salute you sir. How many man hours did this monster consume in construction?

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    Looking for a couple of PBEM opponents

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    Looking for a couple of PBEM QBs, subject to the following parameters / conditions:

    Not too big (medium map?)

    Not too long (45 mins?)

    Armor / Infantry mix

    I'll play either side

    Can probably manage a turn a day

    Not new to CM but newish to the CM2 engine (loving it though) and not done much PBEM before - should be easy pickings ...

    If anyone fancies it PM me and let's get going!

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    Demo next week?

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    What its it with you people?

    A 3rd party’s review “suggests” a date and suddenly its Gospel.

    I’m sure it be out soon enough so you can all then complain about “How dare it be released with the massive flaw!” or some such.

    For a minute there I was getting excited - thanks for stamping out that sentiment so thoroughly. This forum really would be a cold an unfriendly place were it not for warm, welcoming folks like you; if you ever leave the army a career in customer relations surely beckons...

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    Naval artillery support

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    There are, however, some interesting examples of naval guns being used in a reactive role. This account of the 101st's actions north of Carentan on D-Day describes the USS Quincy providing fire support to suppress mortar and 88 fire (p32 onwards):

    http://www.history.army.mil/documents/WWII/Lock/lock.htm

    NB - there are also some amusing typograhpical errors in that document, the best of which is:

    "By a fluke, a part of the leading serial, including the regimental coriander, dropped nearly on the right ground". Love it.

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    Building scenarios with depleted units.

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    I'm sure this is common knowledge so forgive my ignorance; I played lots of CMBO / BB / AK back in the day but not a lot of SF as I moved to a Mac around that time - hence my ignorance.

    Anyway - to my question:

    I seem to recall in CMBB / AK that you could build scenarios starting with partially depleted squads. I've been reading about some of the actions of the 82nd and 101st on D-Day and the following days and was considering trying to build some small scenarios around some of this stuff. Given the mixed / incomplete nature of the units which participated in these actions it would seem appropriate to build forces with depleted squads to represent the hotch-potch of troops which were often thrown together for these actions. I appreciate it's not essential, but can it be done?

    Thanks in advance for your responses.

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