Hansson

That time when he (Hassel) dressed up as a German soldier apparently was the only time in his life he wore a German military uniform. The occupational authorities thought he was a nuthead and he was later released. Do a search on google newsgroups and you'll find several articles about it. Edit: I just reread the post I was refering to, and saw that he indeed was caught several times imposting a german officer... [ May 25, 2003, 06:37 PM: Message edited by: Hansson ]

Ok, a few comments. I've never written an AAR and I didn't make any notes during the game so this is just from the top of my head. First I want to say that this was the second PBEM I played in. Ever. So my experience with CMBB was about a week when we started off. Since then I've finished off a few more and I've learnt a lot since. My OOB was: 1 x Rifle 41 infantry company (regular) 1 x Sharpshooter (crack) 2 x 81mm mortar spotters (regular) 1 x MG 42 LMG (points filler) (regular) 4 x 50 mm AT guns (regular) 1 x wooden pillbox w/ mg (regular) 8 x AP mines 4 x AT mines 2 x TRP's The battlemap from my perspective is here. I have an unhealthy love for bunkers, mines, static defenses and fanatic defenders. Had I been head of the OKH I'd probably made the same mistakes the führer did. In this game I had a wooden MG pillbox surrounded by mines and a rifle platoon as support. In front of the bunker I had a TRP. You can see it here. I had a platoon defending the bridge and the rest spread out among the buildings. My guns were spread out - two to take on any vehicles that managed to get into the village on short range and two in a battery overlooking the hill crest. My sniper's mission was recon and trying to nail a few TC's. When the game started my sniper discovered we were facing a horde of light tanks. Kommissar Butscher held his TC's buttoned but my sniper got a few chances of which he missed all. Died without doing anything usefull. Later on I saw a larger bolshevik force gather at the hill east of the bridge. In the vicinity two AT guns were setting up. Time for some shelling, I thought. You can see the guns to the right in this picture. Apparently, the results were good. My biggest disappointment was the ease with the Soviets passed and went round my glorious bunker. Not a single kill! The defending platoon was soon routed. Soon the attackers closed in on the buildings and the odds started to stack against me.. I was quite happy with the draw as I thought I was heading for a total loss. I guess I was very lucky in the end. All in all a nice game. Great, *fast* opponent (we played the game in ten days). I got some good pointers about the map and have made some improvements on it. I also learned a lot about CMBB in general.

Great stuff. I'm working on getting my homepage to work so I can upload a few screens. I'll add some comments too then! :cool:

Can you post a link here when you've added them to the database? Great work.

Maybe because they have to use phone cable to call in the strikes?

Is it correct that selected groups cannot be assigned multiple waypoints? If no, why do I sometimes get the cube (allowing me no set more waypoints) and sometimes not?

No, the nordic foreign divisons were called 'Freiwilligen', like SS-Freiwilligen-Panzer-Grenadier-Division 'Nordland'.