Seedorf81
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Bil has updated his description. Apparently, the stream on his right is NOT an obstacle to movement for vehicles or infantry. Points to GaJ.
All of Bil's vehicles are non-turreted.
Ken
Ehm, did you see that Bill has also 4 pzIV's? The H-version.
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Bisu,
You were spot on with starting this thread!
And Baneman, you picked it up while a lot of us (including me) thought "Gosh, yes, I experience this problem too; why doesn't anyone -other than me that is - do something."
You two boys show how to handle problems, WELL DONE!!
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Feel like a little kid just before opening birthday-presents!
Edge of seat excitement!
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Bisu, I agree. Even stenguns (from remarkable distances like 100m.) seem to get very easy kills on those Hanomag gunners.
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(Boy, I didn't know anatomical parts were censored.)
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Thanks John,
re the user name, I did realise it was an open spam invitation but couldn't see an obvious way to change it. Can you help?
Thanks
Well, maybe if you HAVE your ***** enlarged, you wont get any spam on that subject no more!
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Your AAR, or DAR (During Action Report) in fact, is very good. Screenies very nice and explanations to the point. Love it so far.
BTW, what video card and processor do you have?
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Maybe you're right about the tank being empty. But wouldn't or couldn't Jihadists have their own little Medal of Honor winning Audie Murphy's?
"Courage is being a little mad" kind of thing?
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That depends crucially on how you use them, how they're organised, and what's opposing them.
See: Tobruk 1942. Medenine and Kursk 1943. The Admin Box, Kohima, and Imphal, 1944. Dunkirk, La Rochelle, Lorient, Saint Nazaire 1945.
FWIW, I'm not sure that any of your examples, or these ones, have anything useful to say about playing CM.
Well, we could argue on this for days, I guess, but that would put us way off topic. My point was that I think that GAJ had better invest his points in mobile forces then in fixed defenses and fortifications. As I see it, the latter can slow an enemy down or make him choose another route, but never will win anything. Whether in CM or in WW2.
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Hasn't history proven that fixed defenses and fortifications are useless if you want final victory?
Maginot-line, Brest-Litovsk, Sevastopol, Bir Hakeim, Atlantik-wall, West-wall, all of Hitler's Festungen (Brest, Konigsberg, Channelports, etc.), Singapore, Bataan, Japanese "bunkered up-islands", just to name a few from WW2.
Mobility and flexibility give GAJ a better chance, I think.
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I like his comments. You always know exactly what line he's going to take.
It's 'Allo 'Allo humour - how can you work the same joke(s) into every episode...
Maybe it's an "English" thing
Still, I know that in my AAR, even though I'm defending, his advice will continue to be utterly reliable
Me like too. Tallyhoo, and all that..
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Gaj,
Since this Elephant-monster is new in the game, and it arrives with a phenomenal reputation, there seems to be an all-exited expectation by the forum-members. Maybe a warning is in place: don't be fixated on this Elephant-thingy.
Suppose it gets bogged early on! (See it's weight!!)
And though it's frontal armor is impenetrable, it's sides and rear are not.
Air-support is nice, but I think that Bill (AKA "The Elephant-man") won't leave his armor stationary for too long, so hitting it might be difficult.
I think mobility will be the key, but I'm very glad I don't have to choose the troops for this battle.
Good luck!
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Actually he did die in a sickbed 12 days after his accident.
I'll bet the GI that got slapped in the Sicily hospital for being a coward (in Patton's view) must have had some interesting thoughts on that.
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Useful indeed. I would never have guessed that the 81 mortars would destroy any bridge other than the wooden one.
I can't imagine they would destroy a stone bridge in real life and most certainly not in two minutes.
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If you dont mention wich scale you are using for comparision of the strings lenght every number greater than 0 is always a potentially correct answear.
Are you really sure???
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Whaddareyewaidnfor?? C'mon, c'mon, c'mon!!!
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While walking my dog I ran by a beautiful car.I did not recognize the model.
Looking closer I saw the emblem with the characters M and G and, believe it or not, my first thought was a stunned: "Market Garden??", before I realized that it was a "Morris Garages"-car.
It's really, really, really time that Battlefront provides some substantial info on Market Garden, it seems. This waiting takes an awful toll..
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I really hate the music.
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Once ATG are spotted by infantry, they're often easy meat for area-firing shoot'n'scoot attacks from tanks, especially a couple of tanks in concert, if they can get at the gun from different bearings. A keyhole narrow enough to prevent such an approach looks like it might be difficult to find on that map. You could surprise an incautious opponent round corners, but Bil isn't an incautious opponent.
Anyway, assuming that your opponent doesn't have any indirect fire assets at all would be the height of folly. Also, I have no feel for how the increased punch of MGs would shape up against ATG. I reckon, from what I've read on here, and what I've seen MGs do before they got their mojo handed back to them, that sneaking a couple of HMGs into a position to suppress an ATG would probably be enough to drive off the crew.
On top of that, if the ATGs are well enough keyholed to prevent them being taken out by tag-team shoot'n'scoots, they probably won't be very effective at keeping the armour from shooting at the broad screen of infantry that are supposed to be protecting them. Driving all over them, yes, but keyholing works for both sides and is a double-edged sword for both too.
Yes, ok. I can see your point(s).
In the game I very rarely have any success with AT-guns, which seems understandable. But, since BF is representing combat as realistically as possible, I wonder why in WW2 anyone would still use AT-guns if they were as useless/vulnerable as in the game.
Or doesn't the game portray the use of AT-guns realistically?
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I like the white smooth virgin snow..
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No I don't think so... I think he needed to stay mobile.. AT guns once spotted would have been sitting ducks and very hard to re-deploy.
Yes, but since you didn't have arty, wouldn't it be difficult to put them out of action if Gaj used enough infantry as a protective screen?
Or do you think your tanks would have had a reasonable chance to engage any (theoretical) AT-guns?
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GAJ and Bill,
thanks for nice (plenty) screenshots and thorough descriptions of motives, plans and doubts.
Alas, I must confess that I had hoped for a more vicious and lasting battle. I think the terrain on this specific map doesn't allow for a complex "hide and seek" battle because of it's relative openness.
And so I wondered; suppose Gaj had bought AT-guns instead of mortars (and maybe even in stead of his tanks)?
I'm no fan of AT-guns in the game, mainly because they're mortar-magnets, but do you think that two or three of them on this map could have made a big difference?
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Well considering literally all Eastern Front threads in this forum so far ending in an Neonazi debate and going down the toilet eventually I find it quite appopriate
Now with Steiner14 gone, maybe we can have an EF thread that stays on course.
Steiner14 gone? Did he leave or was he banned?
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Luckily you can always save the day with c3K's usual advice
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Market Garden????
in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
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Early this year I expressed my expectation (or fear for that matter) that MG wouldn't arrive before the second half of 2013. Some people blamed me for being a little negative, but now I fear that I was too optimistic.
OTOH, maybe BF surprises us with two releases at (nearly) the same time?