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BFC's marketing decision notwithstanding, I think the fact that the CMBS setting depicts what would happen if NATO intervenes with all the superior weaponry and technology makes this a go-to title for me. It's not too far of a stretch to imagine that NATO intervention might have spawned a mobilization of higher-quality and trained Russian manpower so the discrepancies with what we are seeing today as far as Russian troop quality can be rationalized away for me. I'm playing the Russian side on the "Crossing the Dnieper" campaign and it's really quite fun. 4 games in and I Just had my first encounter with a Bradley and learned a few hard lessons on the outskirts of Dnipropetrovsk.

Anyway, on to the next scenario at Bucholz Station where it looks like the map nailed this location nicely.

The Our at Ouren is definitely an obstacle as you say. But Ouren is more than 50Km downstream from the Our at Losheim which begins as a trickle 5km upstream near Losheimergraben.

I'm starting the 3rd scenario with Peiper's Spitze group in the Losheim area. I've read good things about these maps and was a bit discouraged to see the Our River depicted as this major river obstacle on this map when in fact it is little more than a ditch with driveway culverts in this headwaters area. Looks like this one relied more on modern day google maps than the period topo used in the briefing, which is odd. Using the river tiles forced the topography to warp it all to fantasy land. I know I'm being pedantic here but it didn't make sense to me when the historic topo seemed to be available for these maps.

Oh yea I recall that now as well but I had forgotten the particulars. I'll keep going then assuming these things are just helping me out. I am getting batted around by the Germans pretty badly so this makes sense. Thank you.

I'm playing the revised Nijmegen Campaign with the latest engine and I've noticed two anomalies occurring in the Airborne infantry battles after the Neerpelt breakout scenario. There may be more to come, and I may have missed it in the first couple of scenarios, and I'm getting old, but here's what I can confirm: 1. When I saved and exit, and then reloaded I got nearly 3 hours to complete the scenario, instead of the original time limit. I noticed this in 2 scenarios. 2. One of my airborne 60mm mortar units that had 3 casualties before the reload, came back with a full fresh compliment of men. This happened in the infantry battle where the airborne has to capture the windmill and the hotel. I have a saved game that shows the 2 hours and 50 minutes on the clock if needed.

I just recently started developing a Lorraine project of my own so I'll be following this thread with interest. My intent is to keep them medium size and under, so just cherry picking certain moments from the campaign using historical mapping and OOB's whenever possible. My first scenario, only in it's embryonic map making stage (as I learn this new editor) will cover the remnants of Pz Bde 106 trying to extricate themselves from their predicament near Mairy, France (working title: The wind cries Mairy). Others on my tentative list will be small-medium actions at Gremecy woods, Luneville, Pont-á-Mousson, Dieulouard bridgehead, and others. Hopefully at least a few of them come to fruition.

This was a great effort and contribution to the game but I personally couldn't get used to the quirks of that road-straightening mod thingy that is required for the scenarios to look right. Too many WTF moments when I thought I had cover but didn't and paid the price.

Circling back to the Lorraine battles, I finally looked into the Scenario Editor for CMFB and the chronology starts in October 1944, so I will be doing these for CMBN for September 1944. I haven't done a CM scenario since the old CM1 days with Steve Overton and his "Historical Scenario Group". Bitmap overlays for the map editor and elevation auto-interpolation! That will save some time indeed.

I'm hoping to find enough time soon to start a CMFB series on Patton's Lorraine battles. I have all the topo and research from producing Command OP's (as yet to be released) "Bradley at Bay" scenarios but I just need the time and inclination to start in. I'm surprised there are only a smattering of battles from this campaign available for CM.

Yeah I was being an arse; just not used to seeing this kind of malaprop on this forum.

What's a "Panther IVJ"?

I noticed a few games back on playing as the defense (and depending on the design) that I could win by "ceasefire" before I got wiped out. It seemed strange and I would think the offensive player (the AI in this case) would take great umbrage that I snatched away his victory like that....

I have an isolated British tank crew HQ surrounded by Germans, with nothing but a pair of binoculars, and no C2 whatsoever able to call in fairly accurate offboard 81mm mortar support. They are in a building a few feet away from their destroyed Cromwell. This can't be right, can it? shouldn't the OBA display so "no contact" and disallow this action?

Also, I have two sources that it was the Mk V (Panther) Battalion that attacked Ouren, not Mk IV. Perhaps something to adjust in the CO2 scenario? According to the unit history, The II Bn reported losses of 15 MkIV on December 16th (probably the losses outside of Lutzkampen), while I Bn reported no losses. So probably whatever tanks showed up above Ouren on the 17th were mostly from the I Bn PzV as you say since II Bn had only 8 operational tanks available. So it appears that II Bn was committed first and the CO2 scenario (semi-historical) assumes this. I Bn is available if the player starts the game requesting additional reinforcements.