DougPhresh

That was really great! Thanks again. I'll play another Battalion Attack and pick your brain some more if I have any questions. The Russians are a lot trickier than the Western Allies!

I'm really appreciating this discussion! I was handling armour okay before but my infantry kept getting shot up. If I suspect the Germans are in the treeline that I want my company to advance to, do I use pre-planned fire to hammer them until my guys are right on top, or should I be shifting further to the rear? Are guns or mortars (if so, from what level?) providing the fire? As far as commands go, am I using "fast" the whole route of advance, or Quick-Fast-Assault? At what distances do I use which move orders? The trickiest thing is what to do with the infantry weapons. Are the weapons platoons advancing with the companies? What the heck do I do with the Battalion weapons company? I have no idea what to do with all those machineguns!

I know it's the wrong period, but I thought that this seems to be a pretty good illustration of what an attack in echelon would look like. I'd love to figure out how to use this properly in RT/BS.

That's a lot of tubes allotted! It should make scenarios much more interesting. Thanks! I'm starting to see why the Russians were able to roll up Army Group Centre. With so many guns per km, digging in will only do you so much good! e: Having that many moving pieces at different levels might explain the Russian reputation for excellent Staff work. I can imagine putting so much firepower in the hands of higher formations means a lot of planning and coordination, and having "experts" manage it makes a lot of sense. e2: I'm a little out of my depth here, but David M Glantz' titles "Soviet Operational and Tactical Combat in Manchuria", "The Soviet Strategic Offensive in Manchuria", and "A History of Soviet Airborne Forces" all grace my shelves. I'm just having a very hard time applying the lessons contained therein to my CM games! I'd love to blame this on lack of Morskaya Pekhota and VDV, but that may not be it. I might have better luck against the Kwantung Army than the Wehrmacht! Has anyone read Glantz' books on Soviet Doctrine? The Soviet Conduct of Tactical Maneuver: Spearhead of the Offensive and Soviet Military Operational Art: In Pursuit of Deep Battle are supposed to be very good titles, but I'd love to know the key points if anyone has read them.

For a "typical" scenario, how much Division/Corps guns would a Regiment have? A battery of 122?

It's a bug. I hope it gets fixed whenever RT is patched next.

Did they have all the ammo the Western allies did? I know P-39s (and allegedly P-63s, despite not being supposed to be used in against the Germans) were not "tank busters" in Russian service as the Russians never received AP rounds for their 37mm cannons. I'd love to see more lend-lease in the next module.

Wow. That's a lot more Shermans than I expected! I guess M4 units will be added to the OOB with the RT expansion. Thanks for the info, I had no idea they were used in such large numbers.

I'm not sure if this is the place to ask, but I have a very similar question. At what level were lend-lease Shermans distributed? Were they in mixed units or M4-Only battalions/regiments?

Is EZ checking PMs these days? Would love some of his stuff.

Where can I find these? Is Veins still active in the community?

Hopefully Vein is still around! I'd love his Soviet/German stuff!

I'm also looking for EZ's stuff if anyone has a link

Where can I find EZs content for RT?

It didn't work for me. I still get the 36% hang making most big/interesting scenarios and all QB above small unplayable. I miss having access to more than company level engagements, artillery above 60mm mortars!

Hmm. I haven't tried that. Scenarios and Quick Battle above small work without the 36% hang?

Can we get some kind of patch? The fact that Battlefront is still selling a Mac version they've known to be broken for some time now is deplorable. Please let us get our $55 worth!

Did they ever patch CMSF for Mac or are they still in the denial phase and blaming Apple? Apple won't change OSX to accomodate Battlefront, let's be serious for a moment. It's up to the devs we paid $55 to make their software work for us.

I'm confused. What is being done to make sure that the copy of CMSF that I purchased for $55 works on my Mac? I don't care whose fault it is, I just know that I would rather have one application conform to the rest of my OS than downgrade my OS and risk many more applications not running.

Terrific. It will still have all the modules, right? I bought CMSF + Marines and am running them in Parallels until the Mac version ships. So far, it's been amazing. I'm loving this game as much as I hoped I would. Will the Mac version be able to support .brz mods?

Really hoping the Mac version is still happening. If pre-ordering will help make this happen, just tell me where to sign up. There hasn't been news since March, I'm getting worried.