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Jaeger Jonzo

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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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!

  4. 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!

  5. I hate the repository and so do not go back often, if i can help it. I have though previously left (not nearly enough) comments.

    I do really appreciate the hard work you fellas put into the maps/scenarios.

    ps I also appreciate BFC having the depository just find it very frustrating to use

    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.

  6. 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?

  7. 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.

  8. 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?

  9. Yes, it works. Great pics.

    Was that Bovington?

    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.

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