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OK, I have thrown in the towel and all my remaining troops will hide with a small covered arc I guess so he can head to the exit zone. Then we will determine if he is victorious I guess. This is a player determined conclusion. He KO'd my last tank...

THE LIBRARY: The suicide duo take out or force to surrender the US forces INSIDE the library and grenade away a 2nd US charge. The leader is killed by tank fire but his #2 seems still in the fight. The surrendering conscripts did not return to the fight... THE HOSPITAL: The gun crew got there safely and eventually the surrendering conscripts stopped that action and grabbed their weapons again. JEON'S TANK: He pulled out into the street and got hit by a Super Bazooka. It killed 1 of 5 crewmen and they are in panic mode. Looks rough. THE POLICE HQ: He is blasting away but all my guys are surrendering.

Here is an overhead view of where things are at. It looks bleak for my Commie Ba$tards. I had the gun crew ditch the weapon and head into town to earn their pay. I moved a broken conscript team to another building. AND of course the suicide-hero's big charge to the library to return that overdue book before it closes. This next turn I also move the tank to a new spot with some pauses during the movement. Below you can see 3 small smokes he dropped which billow out bigger so my tank might get smoke cover courtesy of Uncle Sam? The Police HQ boys were AGAIN close assaulted and are either KIA or in panic mode and will give up the ghost any second in the next turn.

Suicide guitar hero makes his attempt to stop those conscripts from surrendering. Video on the way... seen from the US side

LT Jeon's tank is ordered to speed forward near the high school, pivot and reverse into a good spot. I guess FRAPS only allows me 30 seconds of movie time. The clip ended before you got the chance to see Jeon's gunner fire off a shot "on the fly" which tore into the right drive sprocket of the Easy Eight. The Sherman backed away so it is still in the fight. In the distance by the corner of the walled Police Headquarters is SGT Song's now burning tank...

In a back alley of Osan, some broken KPA conscripts have ambushed a US Army team and then forced the survivors to all surrender. Not depicted...My remaining suicide-hero is trying to get to the Library to stop an entire squad from surrendering. We'll see about the results of that in a turn or 2.

We didn't lock horns last night but I did play a few turns back to see the US assault on the police headquarters. In hindsight after those reviews, it wasn't such a big assault. Maybe he sent in wisely just 1 detached team? Maybe 3 or 4 guys. 1 with the BAR got pegged but the others made it out amazingly. Now he is using his tank to blast holes in the walls. He blasted in the corner by SGT Song's KO tank. He blasted in another part of the wall as well.

I believe this is the police station and it is where that final HQ is with a few detachments of one of his squads.

Let me conduct a mouseketeer roll call and give out my status of forces., a.k.a. what guys are still alive? I quickly looked and report I have only one HQ unit still out there, 3PltHQ. Then a suicide-hero breach team. AND then about 2 squads of men in broken status. Mismatched detachments mostly. AND the gun watching the left flank. PLUS THE LONE FALCON T-34/85.

The battlefront briefly stabilizes in the center just as my right flank collapses. But one of my teams was on antiarmor purple arc and was getting fired upon by one of his squads in a building. I moved my tank up on FAST with pretargeted brief fire to that building at the end of the movement. A position that SHOULD shield me from his tank. Hmmm, I also did NOT yet detect his Super Bazookas. Hmmm. I do fear those weapons!

All is cool. I love the specific feedback so my efforts might achieve a better success.

Bonjour Pierre, I don't think there is an easy way but it is better than you describe with clicking. Do the "scrub" by holding down LMB while set to clear and move hand and cursor all around. No clicking. Wax on, wax off Zoom in to get all those black boxes!

I will strive to make a better map here soon... Thanks for your inputs!

I recall that arcade game. Lots of quarters down the slots. I am from the US, born 1964. So maybe we are of a similar vintage. I think you are a Canuck originally? Best wishes

ahhh, the old "my computer is on another continent excuse". j/k, you ARE helping me. Like me, you are a "modaholic" probably, so it is best to abstain and just stay away from any modding like you said. I will "get sober" and retire from CM modding sometime in 2024 I think.

We'll shut down for the evening... My opponent's wife, and my wife too, right around this time of night - usually come out in lingerie with champagne. Nothing like a nice back rub and they just love to hear all about the battle. We're lucky guys.

A suicide guitar hero with a trainee doing a "crawl along" have left the market and see their target! Lieutenant Jeon in the remaining tank backs up at full speed to get into a better firing position. He has a keyhole position toward the road obstacle. The suicide duo are spotted and taken under fire. 1 man is killed. The other returns fire at a house with what looks like a meeting of the Knights of Columbus? Wow. That is a lot of soldiers in 1 house. Did they find some rice wine in there maybe? The tank rotates its turret and fires an HE round at the threat... Just the chance that Jeon's gunner needed to line up the shot...? That is affirmative. (Some of) The crew gets out! His last tank is stacked and ready. My right flank has heated up!

I sincerely appreciate your tutelage style comments and will roll them forward as I make more Korea 1950 maps/battles. I gotta look around CM or Blender mod some water jars I guess. Bambo fencing is probably out there somewhere as a 3D object. I used CMRT stick fence. Spooky Korean graveyard for a Halloween scenario I guess! hahaha

Eventhough I made that derogatory comment about that surrendering soldier, at another place, the boys are valiantly holding them up by the barbed wire obstacle. I fended off a probe on my left flank, he is pretty weak over on that side I think. He lost that tank early on and those rice paddies were no fun to walk through. My right flank is oddly quiet. They may be creeping around slowly. I have not much there but I have a few guys. The center is where all the action is...I had a team holding him back... but then whammo, they were gone. Direct fire from the tank? Now, let me check with Steve...I thought that outhouse shack flavor object provided cover & concealment and soft toilet tissue? The remaining tank is gonna have to move around and make him think I have an entire battalion of tanks!

Oh well, it did not go my way at all. Suicide guitar hero took off like a bolt of lightning and even made it into the walled area... ..but then got greased by the bow MG. SGT Song whistled his way to heaven too. I've got some not so enthusiastic soldiers imagining life in the land of the big PX.

oh boy oh boy This next few turns should have some juicy excitement. SGT Song is slowly coming around one of the heavy construction buildings, I guess built during the Japanese occupation? A suicide hero soldier is ready to run at the US tank

Alright, as the battle progresses I am trying to improve the KPA uniforms a bit. But alas I am not a talented young Aussie modder! @Damian45 In this image you see the stock US uniforms and also on the KIA commies my attempt at the KPA uniform in a yellowish color with sneakers and cap. I had to edit the mds file to add back some gear. His left flank Easy Eight went cuckoo and turned his hindquarters towards me! At first it was both the hull and turret. As the turn progressed the turret rotated. I sent my other tank out for a chance to nail him. But Lieutenant Jeon couldn't detect the enemy tank and reversed back to safety after 00:15. Meanwhile in the center along the paved road - a regular Korean Boulevard for those days I suppose, right LLF? @LongLeftFlank I have pinned down some US infantry! Four of my riflemen fire from the market houses... But the center Easy Eight is nearby and lends them some HE support. SGT Song is on the way!

OK, yardwork is done for the day. Dining Room project takes a pause. Turns kick back in... A tank duel takes place on my left flank. The Easy Eight is focused on the ATG! This allows SGT Song's T-34/85 to creep up behind a small barn. His first shot is way high. A clean miss. The next was a hit at the very end of a turn and it took me a while to see this... It went right through the turret MG .50 cal ammo box. A little lower Song! The next was a hit again. It gouged a bit off the turret side. Still...a little lower Song! The next shot was just right! That is my favorite song, SGT Song!

We should kick back in later today with PBEM turns. Meanwhile here are some short action videos!

I remembered. It was @pappagoat