Chudacabra

@Mark_McLeod Awesome! What map is that?

It's getting hard to keep track of all the varieties of Russian armour.

A nail biter continues! I think you've done incredibly well considering the numerical and quality imbalance. When I played this as the Russians, I wiped out every Ukrainian vehicle on the far side of the river in a few turns with minimal losses.

I agree. All three armies in CMBS have their strengths and weakness, but these need to be balanced with extra points in QBs depending on the circumstances. I think tactics matter a lot more in this game than anything else. People seem quite obsessed with tank spotting capabilities, although I'm generally of the opinion that a guy with binoculars should be doing the spotting first then directing a superior number of tanks against the enemy accordingly. Of course that doesn't always work out as intended, but if it did then this game wouldn't be any fun.

I recently played a huge PBEM as the US against an attacking Russian force with a +25% bonus. The lack of any AA assets beyond Stingers for the Americans was a serious problem. His helicopters accounted for most of my tank loses. I unwisely opted for more tanks without APS, when I should have bought a smaller number of APS Abrams'. I did managed to destroy all my opponents T-90's and his Khrizantemas, and knock out something like 30 BMP-3's. Still, I was eventually overwhelmed by numbers, copious amounts of support weapons, and my own tactical failings.

Wow! This looks great! Thanks so much for taking the time to make a scenario. Just gave it a quick glance, but will give it a go once I have more time.

This is one of my favourite videos ever. It goes great with music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ScYz9sNaQk

Yikes! Is the ford mined at all?

It's a great map. I would probably give the Ukrainians more stuff to start off with though. Maybe Bulats instead of T-64's too.

Ah shucks. Do you plan on releasing this as a scenario?

Even better, two mortars and their associated teams!

Best ya be keepin' them trucks away from exposed high ground.

I have to wonder if we'll ever see a return to multiplayer campaigns.

Also, do you have any CMBS campaigns or scenarios in the works?

Indeed it is! The finest CMBS map re-purposed for a brutal quick battle that is now down to its final, horrible minutes.

Just in the nick of time... A Russian ATGM takes aim at an Abrams... But there is a precision round incoming on the pair of ATGM teams... Great success! Great timing! The missile impacts on this shed. Poor shed. I loved that shed. Overview of a level of carnage that only CMBS can provide.

When do your reinforcements arrive? They are all BMP-2's and T-64's, correct?

http://below-the-turret-ring.blogspot.ca/2017/01/hardkill-aps-overview.html Not sure if this warranted its own thread, but I found this rather excellent overview of APS systems (some of which are Russian).

This looks great, but shouldn't your opponent be forbidden from viewing this thread? Is it an open PBEM relationship?

I think this is the most challenging small scenario in the game. I had to try it a few times before I got a victory. I used scouts with tight cover arcs to figure out where the Ukrainian armour was, and used a lot of area fire on the near side of the highway to clear it. I used the machine guns on the BTR's to keep heads down and tried to pack as many men as possible into a building to gain overwhelming fire.

When my opponent and I upgraded to 4.0 in a PBEM, we got two turns of weird smoke that looked like explosions then everything straightened itself out. All other features worked fine. Your opponent doesn't seem to be making much use of area fire, which is probably the BMP-3's greatest strength. Does he have any dismounts spotting?

ATGM team of the year! Are you playing PBEM or against AI?

This issue sorted itself out after a couple turns for me.

PBEM game smoke turned into explosions-like clouds after upgrading. Any word on whether Ukrainian tank commander bug has been fixed?

Everything seems okay in a PBEM, except that smoke has turned into explosions. I shudder to think what kind of horrible cancers the pixeltruppen will suffer from after inhaling such nasty stuff.