Chainsaw

Pictures from the most excellent CW scenario "The flowers of the forest". for a Churchill lover like me there can't be a better scenario! /Chainsaw

Ah I see. yeah the advance was grueling indeed. the worst part is that it matches what I have read (been reading a few Bn war diaries and personal accounts). What impresses me the most is that most of the scenario plays out like any ordinary british assault that I read about. So you really got that right! One other odd thing that I came to remember now is the Artillery in the begining. you get 4th Bns Mortar platoons, thats totally fine. but then you get 75mm pack howitzers? whats up with that? no 75th pack howitzers was used in NWE by the british as far as I know (excluding the airborne lads). Wouldn't ordinary 25pdrs be more representative? I will definitely give this scenario another go when the patch comes out! Here is the ending screen of my battle, as you can see I got some heavy casualties... /Chainsaw

To my suprise I just finished this with a Mayor Victory with 35 mins to go and not even started to attack the town itself. I just cleared Hill 274. One reflection is that you should add allot of german reinforcements that will spawn after the game time is up so the overall morale of the germans are a bit stronger. was a bit suprised to see the town surrender after just som arty on it and with tanks on the outskirts and nothing else. But it is a great (and huge!) scenario and I recommend it to anyone who want to play a larger Brittish scenario!

Im almost half-way in it and its a bloody slaughter! never had so much enemy artillery falling on my head before!

Yeah, I'm Kingtiger at Sb.com, the Quartermaster

He didn't. Those vehicles are from Steelbeasts Pro PE.

Well, don't start up a business is my advice :cool:

Decals are available in some vehicles in Steelbeasts Pro PE. Guess what most modders do with them?... REMOVES them! to much pain in the *ss to work with and often placed in wrong places compared to where you want the decals to be. So I rather have the markings as a new layer/overlay then work with decals and alpha layers again. DC: your work is impressive! You haven't thought about adding links to every mod here so you get directed to the repository directly? Cheers! /Chainsaw

Yes, to be precise: trying to learn how to! Right now I'm trying to get the hang of AI plans, waiting for CMBN 2.0 with the overlay feature to do the maps. meanwhile Im doing the research for the scenarios. By the look of it right now it will be a 6 mission campaign, thinking of splitting up Tilly-Sur-Seulles to a 2 mission mission, same with Bois de St German, then it will be a 8 scenario campaign. "With the Pompadours through France" Mission 1 Juane Mondaye – Butte Du Gros Orme. 10:e June Mission 2 Essex Wood 11:e June Mission 3 Tilly-Sur-seulles 19:e June Mission 4 The advance on Bois de st German 8 July Mission 5 taking on the panzers. (Boise de St German) 9 July Mission 6 Launay Ridge 31 July

Thank you! Now i can play as my favorite unit, the 2nd Essex! "The Pompadours"

Nice. I already have them from another webpage but here they are more structured. like that!

hehe yeah, "logic" and "army" just doesn't match, kind of like "military" "intelligence" The sources you have, are they for up to 20th Aug or after 20th Aug? Because after 20th Aug when the brigade became a fixed part of 49th I can understand they got those numbers. What makes 56th so hard to figure is that they were a independent brigade that was army corps asset and therefore didn't follow division/brigade logic (obviously...) But so far I haven't found a single error in this book (compared to the Essex War Diary and the book "The Essex Regiment" by T.A Martin so I believe it is accurate. at least for the period 6/6 to 20/8. But it is your mod so you do what you feel most comfortable with Im hunting for a picture, so far without luck. 56th brigade just didnt like to get in on pictures

Sorry, no picture, just the book (and the book doesnt contain a single pic!) Indeed, finding info about 56th Ind. Inf. Brig is hard as hell.. pretty much just this book is around and then some few books about the separate Battalions. Hardly any pictures or anything around... :/

That update, is that for the Brigade when it was independent or when it was a part of 49th Polar bear? because I got some info regarding the vehicle number markings for when the brigade was independent. From the book "The 56th Infantry Brigade and D-day" by Andrew Holborn page 68. ""56th Brigade vehicles had a brown square painted on the mudguard and white numbers painted on these, 69 denoting 2nd Essex, 68 2nd Gloucester and 67 for 2nd South Wales Bordereres. All the vehicle had a big white stars across the width of the vehicle for identification and a sphinx on a yellow background on the other mudguard." /Chainsaw

the whole duffelblog is fake/ humor I frequently visit it to get the latest sarcasmen/made up stories

Nice find Erwin! Well you can not remove the material superiority from the equation, but still i agree with Scott that it was the auftrag tactic that lost the war for the Germans. Especially the part where it taught the soldiers to always think aggressive. Sure army's don't win by sitting tight doing nothing, but the German aggressiveness became predictable. My focus is mainly on the British sector of North West Europe in 1944 but after every British attack there was a German counterattack. And that counterattack was always expected so the first thing the Brits did was to dig in and range the artillery and then just pulverized the German counterattacks as they materialized. So the Germans just sent units into a certain failure that they could have used later on to defend a new line of defense. Sure sometimes the counterattacks did manage to send the Brits hurrling back for old lines, but most of the times German units was used up in pointless counterattacks, and the aggressive auftrag tactic was the reason for it. So in a way you can say that the auftrag tactic shortened the war...

same here. Im redoing all the CMSF campaigns right now after getting bored with WW2, so CMSF2 gonna be kickass!

Im not very keen on Italy, but the CMBN 2.0 Engine have some long missing features! But, there is no mention of the Brits. will they be added as a addon later on with a Commonwealth module like for CMBN?

My attack in "In the shadows of the hill" that we play PBEM right now is a set-piece attack. and considering how its turning out you can see both outcomes. ones that succedes and one who didnt.

Well, I have a dream about doing a campaign thats centers around 2nd Bn, Essex Regiment in Normandy. There is enough for abought 8-9 semi-historic scenarios in that campaign. But learning the scenario editor is a big curve and Im having a hard time to motivate me to sit down and learn it when I have so much else to do. atleast I got the title ready "The Pompadours in Normandy" :cool:

Btw, what terrain tiles are around the tanks? in a PBEM I managed to imobilize 1 cromwell and a few carriers because I put them on firm ground, but around me was swamp so they could never move out of the spot.

Sorry no. But I have never heard of this book I have to confess. Is it any good? I am building up a library regarding British forces in WWII so if it is any good I will start looking for it

that one is TacAI. if the unit comes under fire etc (just bypasing bullets not intended for them) makes them change command, they want to get out of the area faster then move would make them.

But it sure looks good

Looks wonderful M1A1TC!