LUCASWILLEN05

Iagree the AI is very week for the QB function which is why I hardly ever play it.The best games you can get are the scenarios and campaign games. You can, if you are willing to do the work set up your own scenarios using the editor and thre is nothing to stop you doing so using a QB map. Luke

You need to extract the file using WinRAR. Which can be downloaded fromthe internet.

I know Battlefront regarded Shockforce as a finished project. However, in the light of tee recent real world events on the Syria/Turkish border pershaps they might like to reconsider and add a Turkish expansion. I suspect many of the basics for Turkish equipment is already there with the NATO expansion although some additional work on the Turkish TOE would be required. While you are doing that you could also open up the month and year menu to allow for battles with more variety in season and Syrian weather. I for one would be happy to pay the usual sort of price for a module expansion.

It was clearly an explosion caused by on board ammo etc "cooking off" as happens in real life. That halftrack got too close the burning tank and paid the price being caught in one of the secondary explosions.How often secondary explosions may occur might depend on the amount opf ammo still on board the burnig tank.Moral of the story is don't get too close to burning AFVs or you run the risk of a "sympathetic" explosion as the posterfound out.

if someone doesn't like a product nobody is forcing them to buy. $50 comes to aboyut £25 in UK terms. The price of a bookor a meal in a reasoably prices resteraunt. No need to go OTT - he could just have walked away

I like the sound of the next Combat Mission modern. A war between NATO and Russia in a Eastern European setting (Ukraine, Poland. Baltic States, Russia) using the most modern equipment sounds great. Any firmer idea of the timescale for bringing this one out? Other than "when it is ready" The other WW2 games are also on my "to buy" list Luke

Would be nice to have an orders function button to set infantry squad/team and tank platoon formations. Could be something as simple as setting a group formation to wedge, echelon (left amd right), line or march column. Could work for larger formations like platoons and companies. Luke

Well, I might match it against a Stryker except the guys inside have the Javelin ATGM :cool:

Put her in handcuffs. Apparently some women enjoy that

You might deal with this in the scenario briefing indicating the presence of minefields in a certain area and perhaps showing areas where minefields exist. However, not all minefields are known and a nasty scenario designer could position unknown minefields for you to blunder into. It might be argued that in a fast moving situation unknown minefield might be more of a risk but some warning might still be given in the scenario briefing.

Quite so. Of course there are other options with a four company battalion. You could for example advance with one company forward, three in reserve. Or you could have the companies in an echeloned line. Or you can combine deployments for example one company ahead, three companies in reserve advancing in echelon. A wedge or column formation are also options. At company level you might do something very similar except you use platoons.

Also remember to use the artillery The Germans called it Trom melfeur (Drum Fire) for a good reason. At battalion level I prefer to lead with two companies with the remaining two in reserve.

If you have several companies (eg a battalion) you can use fire and manouvre tactics at this level. Lead with one oe two infantry companies to find and fix enemy positions. Have between one and three infantry companies plus armour as your reserve/manouver force. When your lead companies engage an enemy they cannot defeat on their own your reserve force attempts to flank the enemy posdition either to bypass it or to attack. It is exactly thesame principle at company level.

i am particularly fond of putting y squads on Assault orders instead of splitting them up. The squad advances using fire and manouvre but the point about the artillery threat is well taken,

This only works if you are commanding Waffen SS, particularly those fanatics in Hitler Jugund and Liebstandat=rte

The US army found it hard to crack the Bocage. Don't rush ahead with your tanks. Use them to provide support to the infantry. When you have Rhino equipment use it to breach the hedgerow. Use artillery (including mortars0 and air support. Use fire and manouvve tactics at all levels. Use smoke. Don't rush and be patient. British forces may well be operating in open country/ It is good tank country but also good anti tank country and one suspects this benefits the Germans who might often use buildings (farms/villages/towns) woods and hills around which to plave defensive strongpoints. Using several anti tank guns in a strongpoint with infantry support setting up an interlocking defensive line of these and backing this up with mobile forces could be a tough nut to crack. Against this strong combined arms forces backed with air and artillery are required.

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Looks great and well woth the wait. Thanks Battlefront. Still no German Falschirmjager who fielded four divisions (2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th FJ divisions during the campaign,

That would be me. This Luke fell to the Dark Side many years ago

Though the earlier Siegfried Line battles around Stolberg, Aachen and earlier operations in the Hurtgen Forest should be possible with the introduction of new organisations like the Volksgrenadiers. This part of the campaign might cover the September and October time frame. The November Offensive might be a Bulge option or it might be included with Market Garden if they stick with the 3 month format. Covering the forgotten campagns to clear the Scheldt, Overloon and the Channel Ports would be good particularly if they could find a ay to do "funnies" like the flail tanks which would be really nice although maybe hard to program and get the graphics right,

I think Market Garden actually needs to cover the autumn/early winter (Pre Bulge) campaign on the Siegfried Line. Personally I think Siegfried Line (aka Hanging out the Washing) would be a better title than Market Garden, I would rather see the next two or three games as expansions to Normandy covering the rest of the NW European Campaign. No need to reinvent the wheel which you could better achieve in future releases covering the Russian Front, Mediterranean and early Blitzkrieg campaigns.

Free the monkey! :-)

You need to be much closer and trying to get a shot at the flank or rear. It looks like there is some drifting smokepartially obscuring the Panther and some vegetation which brobabky didn't help your bazooka team.

So, as Monty said "We will be in Caen soon". Took him around 5 weeks I think :-)

That's what I always say to my opponents in tabletop miniatures scenario games. You are, of course, quite right George