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***For those who are offended easily...this may have spoiler info***** In the Battle Livorno Pride, I have an off board 65mm battery. I am 28 minutes (of 60) into the scenario. All my reinforcements have arrived. It is the only off board battery for which access is denied for ALL HQs; Battalion commander on down. Is this a known issue? Or does it become available later? I really need it now... BTW...that US naval bombardment is just horrendous to be on the wrong end of.

He was a radio man for a very good reason...(can't really see his radio just the antenna)

The weird thing is that in the briefing doesn't it say to ignore the US troops and by pass them? I figured that you'd have to include armor and infantry and attack the troops in the trees at the far end of the road...those AT guns are just too dug and too dangerous.

Care to share how? I tried twice and left it. Ended up with very little armor.

In "War without Garlands" I read an account where a light PAK (37mm or 50mm, can't remember) kept firing at the heavier Russian tanks. They couldn't destroy them. The gun crew had learned after one tank crew bailed out, after receiving 6-8+ hits, that the sound was so deafening they'd rather take their chances OUTSIDE the tank rather that sit inside. Evidently the gun crew had some success with this method.

I'm just about to finish Lemon Hill. It's been a roller coaster: 1. Cool battle! 2. I hate this battle! 3. This was what I planned all along! 4. ...if I can just push those men a bit more, the top is in site Regular Italians go from Ok to Rattled very quickly

How did you get those icons shown in the overhead shots? Added them in manually?

I was somewhat confused after the battle. 1. The briefing stated to bypass the US forces and "let them wither and die." So I tried my best to bypass them and exit the troops only to find at the AAR that: 2. I failed because I did not destroy enough US troops? It's either get'em off or destroy the enemy, I don't see how both can be done in the time allowed. I may revisit this one, now the 4th and last battle is somewhat anti-climatic...

The only way to overcome this is to put the guns so they have direct LOS to targets, which; exposes them to enemy fire. Almost Napoleonic in nature...

And since there are no radios, you never get to hear the "Fire Mission Request" in Italian...took me a minute to realize why...

As Steve said this would be over five years. All things considered, this is an extremely cheap hobby. We're talking $120 a year. My other hobbies; photography and cycling, are financial black holes.

I just finished the second scenario and devasted the US troops. I didn't feel bad, I was proud of my Italians. Besides, it looked like the AI had designed the US to exit off the map. They did an okay job falling back, but retreating in open fields cost them dearly. I do think this campaign is amazing; no reinforcements, no ammo resupply, take what you have and do your best. The first scenario was great, close right down to the finish. I am loving using the Italian engineers, the Semovente and the R35 are great as infantry support tanks...as long as there is no enemy armor lurking around.

I was hoping Bagration came next. Anyway, I could use a few months with CMFI...

So when do we get mules?

I am loving this game. Started "The Fleeting Moment" Italian Campaign and just having a lot of fun. The engineer squads are interesting. You can see what you get below.

Those Renault mufflers are super quiet.

Try the "Fleeting Moment" campaign, beginning in the second scenario, where the Italians have trucks for everyone.

HA!!! NOT!!!!

Here is something new...Italian victory!

Just finished the first scenario of A Fleeting Moment as the Italians. Superb scenario, right down to the minute. Really enjoying this. Climbing those hills takes a lot out of the troops.

Yeah, I've used that, but I'd still like some visual distinction when looking at the map to see where senior HQ's are. And Robert wasn't who he said he was...more like Roberta.

I'm running an iMac with 12gigs of ram. It takes a long time to load the scenario and then it tends to hang up/fereeze when I scroll across the map. I turned off shadows and changed the graphic settings to Faster, but it still tends to freeze for as long as 30 seconds and then allows me to srcoll again.

I would like that for all armies. At least a distinction between company / battalion and platoon/squad. It takes too long to find the highest level HQ on the map. Just a different looking flag icon.