Jaeger Jonzo

Great work umlaut, the ruins look very realistic. Bfc's damaged buildings are a bit weak looking for a 21st century PC combat sim

Great video, thanks for sharing.

Ps, this is Tilly la campagna for the Canadian battles/offensives. Not Tilly sur Seulles I spent an hour or so using Google street view of the whole area south of Caen and it gives you a real appreciation of how exposed those poor guys were advancing up the steadily rising ground against dug in determined defenders, backed up by extensive artillery and dug in panzers. Ps have you guys seen ' the horror and the valour'? YouTube has them all, episode 3 on covers the Normandy fighting.

As far as I know this isn't possible in the sim yet but having read a lot of accounts recently about the fighting south of Caen, it would seem even 56 ton Tiger tanks were dug into the cornfields so that just the commander could poke his head above the wheatsheafs! The Pz4's were likewise dug into rubble pits in and around Tilly too. Should it be a viable option in CMBN? (are BFC intending to release Campaign packs based on the series of offensives that took place in Normandy?) It would be fantastic to re-fight these out, brutal as they were, or are they just too immense in scope to recreate at the tactical combat level? Has anyone created a map for the south of Caen region? Believe I saw one for the Buron area but not sure if anyone has covered this area (Bourgebus, Verrieres, Tilly, Fontenay). Reading the book the battle for Tilly at present hence all the interest! Its a great read, though shows the sheer mayhem and losses at tactical level.

You mean I have to flatten the pretty hilltop town of sante Maria? My Italian wife will not be happy my FO is still alive but I will see if I can accomplish victory with my two remaining Sherman's and a handful of tough commandos first

I am finding the Italian troops a lot more lethal in this round. It's ambush country. They have systematically picked off my men quite efficiently in the early minutes.

Great effort on the Omaha map & assault,thanks for sharing the vid, enjoyed watching it all. The defence line is a bit linear, should be bunkers dotted about on the slopes too and some zigzag trenching. I've walked that beach upto the top of the bluffs. Very Poignant place.

I'm surprised some are reporting concrete bunkers being ko'd easily. In a current pbem battle I have battered a conc bunker with direct 75 & 95mm tank fire as well as numerous US airborne LMG's and a bazooka team at close range (100-200m) and the bunker is still operable. In fact another German squad took over occupancy after I withdrew a little as I assume the previous occupants were whittled away by slit penetrations. I thought the 95mm CS Cromwell would make short work of it!

Just read about this battle in a book about Montys Ironsides, the 3rd infantry division. It was a brutal slogging match by all accounts. The US 7th got a real bloody nose with 38 tanks lost and near 500 casualties and was repulsed. The British moved in with 3rd inf and Guards armoured backed up by 3 regiments of arty and slogged their way through the mud, extensive minefields and fanatical defence that they likened to the fighting against 12th SS before Caen. One arty regiment pumped 9000 25lb shells alone! The book has some maps and good write up if it helps your scenario design Sounds a fierce fight!

Battle 2 complete, round 3 started, another very nicely made map with a typical Sicilian town surrounded by olive groves. Cowboys and Indians amongst the buildings!

Really enjoying the 2nd battle too As a Brit myself, getting to use various commonwealth elite troops &specialists in challenging tasks is great fun. The maps are a delight and watching my marines or paras clambering over the rugged Sicilian terrain is very immersive. Great work mr X.

I'm still on the first battle, it takes an age! Only got a couple of mins left though

Pretty much the same for me as Paras comments. Also I was a tester for Umlauts scenarios so never thought to add comments on the repository as I had given a blow by blow feedback to the author throughout the testing battle. Guess there would have been no harm in also adding a feedback in the repository. Am also intending to give feedback on Mr X's CMFI campaign...but im still fighting it out! But keep up the great work chaps! New scenarios and campaigns are what keep these sims alive imo.

sadly have to wait for the download. Cant face giving her Majestys customs yet more of my money for doing nothing.

Nice job, thanks !

I meant forgotten by the players rather than BFC, this board is already way quieter than the Normandy/MG & Red Thunder boards Understandably so, but a shame also.

Heh looks like the Italian theatre is heading for the 'Forgotten Front' status all over again. History repeating itself ;-)

I wish BFC would sort out a European supplier for all these titles. I bought the first few modules outright with mail and dLoad but after getting stung for nearly 80 bucks on one of them with postage and import duties, I now have to wait for download only, so BFC get less money from me for future developments and I have to wait until downloads only are available. Surely your euro order numbers warrant it?

Interesting, hope to see it. 70yrs anniversary this year, lest we forget

Just to round this thread off and in case anyone else is suffering the same; I applied the latest update to Avast and it fixed the problem instantly. If anything, my turns now upload even faster than before

Okay think I may have found the culprit after digging around different forums. Seems Avasts last software update had a bug in their web shield that borked file uploading in DB. There were many complaints on their site and they have released an update fix in the last week. Will update later and find out!

hmm, 38mb in 15mins, that's interesting and a complete contrast to my experience. As I say, got the line and upload speeds checked and told they were normal for a domestic residence. So it may be something else that's choking the syncing by dropbox. No problem with h2hh, I realise its the dropbox side of things. Will do some more googling to see if I can find out what it may be.

Can anyone recommend a decent alternative to Dropbox for pbem games? I had been using h2hh successfully for quite a while but in the last couple of weeks it's become ridiculously slow to upload game turns once they get above 10mb in size. It's literally taking 24 hours to upload a 20mb turn and longer still if you dare to upload 2 or 3 pbem fights. A 4.6mb turn uploads in minutes so it must be a bottleneck that Dropbox enforce for larger files. It just endlessly syncs for hours and I am having to leave the PC on for hours on end to allow it to complete. I even got my line and broadband checked in case it was me but all was good on that front. I have also over ridden the bandwidth option on Dropbox to give if full priority but it's made no difference. Any other suggestions? Think 20mb is too unwieldy through email as well. Anyone else suffering this problem for large turns?

No it was the War and Peace show in Kent, an annual spectacular! They normally gather the largest collection of military vehicles and reenactors in Europe and put on a good show with mock battles etc. plenty of great hardware on display. Bovington is great too but mainly static displays.

Plenty of good original and replica Afvs in the UK...Just shared some files using @Dropbox https://db.tt/6OuT6S0P Hope that link works