General Jack Ripper

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmW_vcwM_qxukdDjpfUEerpICUzTrTKek
The full playlist for the Combat Mission: Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures project is linked above, including:
Combat Mission Normandy Tactics - by Jeffrey Paulding Combat Mission Tips - by his1ojd Combat Stress, Combat Shock & Morale - by Josey Wales Combat Mission: Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures - by Chris Maillet (Me) New, completed videos will be posted into this thread. Feel free to ask questions, make observations, or criticize anything you see.
This project would be worth nothing without your feedback.
 
Using excerpts from: FM 3-21.8 The Infantry Rifle Platoon and Squad this video gives a brief explanation of how to utilize an infantry rifle squad in Combat Mission.
 
Using excerpts from: FM 3-21.8 The Infantry Rifle Platoon and Squad and Bil Hardenberger's Blog: Battle Drill this video gives a brief explanation of how to utilize an infantry platoon in Combat Mission.
 
Using excerpts from: FM 3-21.10 The Infantry Rifle Company and Bil Hardenberger's Blog: Battle Drill this video gives a brief explanation of how to utilize an infantry company in Combat Mission.
The old thread in the CMBN forum is deprecated, and I will no longer be following it.

See title.
Anyone else got simple advice for new players?
Here's a short list of mine:
Do not get shot at. Shooting makes you easier to see. Cover arcs are not magic. Maybe allow your troops to wait a minute before flogging them onto their objectives. Don't call in that airstrike. No seriously, don't. It'll hit your own guys. It doesn't matter how thick your armor is. You don't assault a position by running straight into it. Use more ammo, you don't get bonus points for frugality. Limit your leaders exposure. Split your squads. Three guys in one action spot are not as vulnerable as six. Maybe we can make a community contributed list Murphy's Laws of Combat Mission.
At the very least, let's have a fun thread for once.

Just realized I haven't been keeping up on this for those who follow here instead of youtube.
Sorry, the holidays have been insane.
Y'all shipped a BILLION packages this year.
 
 
 
 

Just realized I haven't been keeping up on this for those who follow here instead of youtube.
Sorry, the holidays have been insane.
Y'all shipped a BILLION packages this year.
 
 
 
 

Here's another one I've been ruminating on for quite some time now:
If you're going to drive your vehicle Slow, ask yourself why you're not driving Fast instead. If you can't think of a reason, why not do it?

Just realized I haven't been keeping up on this for those who follow here instead of youtube.
Sorry, the holidays have been insane.
Y'all shipped a BILLION packages this year.
 
 
 
 

Here's another one I've been ruminating on for quite some time now:
If you're going to drive your vehicle Slow, ask yourself why you're not driving Fast instead. If you can't think of a reason, why not do it?

See title.
Anyone else got simple advice for new players?
Here's a short list of mine:
Do not get shot at. Shooting makes you easier to see. Cover arcs are not magic. Maybe allow your troops to wait a minute before flogging them onto their objectives. Don't call in that airstrike. No seriously, don't. It'll hit your own guys. It doesn't matter how thick your armor is. You don't assault a position by running straight into it. Use more ammo, you don't get bonus points for frugality. Limit your leaders exposure. Split your squads. Three guys in one action spot are not as vulnerable as six. Maybe we can make a community contributed list Murphy's Laws of Combat Mission.
At the very least, let's have a fun thread for once.

Just realized I haven't been keeping up on this for those who follow here instead of youtube.
Sorry, the holidays have been insane.
Y'all shipped a BILLION packages this year.
 
 
 
 

Here's another one I've been ruminating on for quite some time now:
If you're going to drive your vehicle Slow, ask yourself why you're not driving Fast instead. If you can't think of a reason, why not do it?

See title.
Anyone else got simple advice for new players?
Here's a short list of mine:
Do not get shot at. Shooting makes you easier to see. Cover arcs are not magic. Maybe allow your troops to wait a minute before flogging them onto their objectives. Don't call in that airstrike. No seriously, don't. It'll hit your own guys. It doesn't matter how thick your armor is. You don't assault a position by running straight into it. Use more ammo, you don't get bonus points for frugality. Limit your leaders exposure. Split your squads. Three guys in one action spot are not as vulnerable as six. Maybe we can make a community contributed list Murphy's Laws of Combat Mission.
At the very least, let's have a fun thread for once.

Here's another one I've been ruminating on for quite some time now:
If you're going to drive your vehicle Slow, ask yourself why you're not driving Fast instead. If you can't think of a reason, why not do it?

The absence of 4 is the perfect illustration of the misdeeds of 3
of course nobody sticks to the application to the letter of all its rules, they are like the resolutions of January 1st trampled under foot in the 1st rounds of the battle.
despite it, some become dogmas
thus the rule described by General Jack Ripper in his video which consists in sending scouts with a short target arc is the rule to which I stick the most.
happy new year to you too comrade

First rules
1 -Wait until the children are at school or in bed
2 - Wait for your wife to watch television or pour a sleeping pill in her glass.
If she resists and tells you about her colleague who put on her green necklace with the blue dress, yes, the one she wore when on her birthday and you should remember it given the way you looked at her (don't answer the trap)   it's lacks taste especially since she wore it with the red shoes the same as she saw that she had copied  and besides the green necklace will go well with the her dress of the same color (message to grab) and then also blah blah blah…. There, don't hesitate to make a backup and double the dose of sleeping pill.
3 - Drink water and avoid beer or that little Alsace white wine that I'm sipping while writing these lines
5 - Turn off the television in order to concentrate as well as possible
6- Finally, for old people like me, don't hesitate to cover yourself with a little wool
only after applying the rules above!!!!

Good idea, my golden rule is if you can hit something, something could also hit you. 'High Ground' you see lots and a lot of people could see you. make your units Situational Aware. The fact that Hawkeyes got LOS doesn't mean his friends have it too. Combat Shock and Combat Stress learn the difference. You will be shocked if somebody loses a limb if you lose your limb you have Combat Stress from which you won't recover. Don't ignore buddy aid a number will bleed out. 

Are you kidding, I’m the first to comment? Lol, 11 minutes and no one else has jumped on this?

Imagination is a powerful thing, but in reality the Target Light command is your friend.
Tactical Tip #1: DO NOT BE AFRAID OF RUNNING OUT OF AMMO, BE AFRAID OF SPENDING IT INEFFECTIVELY.

See title.
Anyone else got simple advice for new players?
Here's a short list of mine:
Do not get shot at. Shooting makes you easier to see. Cover arcs are not magic. Maybe allow your troops to wait a minute before flogging them onto their objectives. Don't call in that airstrike. No seriously, don't. It'll hit your own guys. It doesn't matter how thick your armor is. You don't assault a position by running straight into it. Use more ammo, you don't get bonus points for frugality. Limit your leaders exposure. Split your squads. Three guys in one action spot are not as vulnerable as six. Maybe we can make a community contributed list Murphy's Laws of Combat Mission.
At the very least, let's have a fun thread for once.

See title.
Anyone else got simple advice for new players?
Here's a short list of mine:
Do not get shot at. Shooting makes you easier to see. Cover arcs are not magic. Maybe allow your troops to wait a minute before flogging them onto their objectives. Don't call in that airstrike. No seriously, don't. It'll hit your own guys. It doesn't matter how thick your armor is. You don't assault a position by running straight into it. Use more ammo, you don't get bonus points for frugality. Limit your leaders exposure. Split your squads. Three guys in one action spot are not as vulnerable as six. Maybe we can make a community contributed list Murphy's Laws of Combat Mission.
At the very least, let's have a fun thread for once.

See title.
Anyone else got simple advice for new players?
Here's a short list of mine:
Do not get shot at. Shooting makes you easier to see. Cover arcs are not magic. Maybe allow your troops to wait a minute before flogging them onto their objectives. Don't call in that airstrike. No seriously, don't. It'll hit your own guys. It doesn't matter how thick your armor is. You don't assault a position by running straight into it. Use more ammo, you don't get bonus points for frugality. Limit your leaders exposure. Split your squads. Three guys in one action spot are not as vulnerable as six. Maybe we can make a community contributed list Murphy's Laws of Combat Mission.
At the very least, let's have a fun thread for once.

Imagination is a powerful thing, but in reality the Target Light command is your friend.
Tactical Tip #1: DO NOT BE AFRAID OF RUNNING OUT OF AMMO, BE AFRAID OF SPENDING IT INEFFECTIVELY.

I always wanted to make a scenario based on that.

I agree that excitement/action with a favorable outcome is probably the most common determining factor in most wargamers' minds. I know it is in mine!  And yeah, what constitutes a raid, anyway?
Regardless, I'm going with St. Nazaire.  But Pearl Harbor comes to mind, if it can be classified as a raid.  Successful in the short turn only, though.

I just remembered to post this.  A genuine American hero, Chuck Yeager died a couple days ago at 97.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Yeager
Had the good fortune to meet him in LA when "The Right Stuff" was published and got him to autograph the book that the movie was based on.  Still have it around here someplace.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_Stuff_(film)
 

Don't ask your troops to do anything you wouldn't do in real life. Would YOU charge across an open field into the teeth of a machine gun? I doubt it.
3/4 of gameplay is the terrain.
Basing your strategy on the assumption that the enemy is going to be blind and slow to react is a losing strategy.