Warts 'n' all

I concur, that campaign is a brilliant piece of design. Beautifully crafted maps, a great challenge, and a LOT of fun to play.

I've been back a few times since. I always walk to the Airborne Museum in Oosterbeek, then return to Arnhem via the Cemetery before rounding off my trip in a bar not far from the bridge. Incidentally, there is a famous picture of The Beatles taken in the cemetery on their way to Hamburg in the early days.

IanL .... No, the grinning leopard in my picture on the previous page beat you to the fish.

But, they also had to trade in their Shermans, and get used to fighting with the Cromwell which they were none too happy about.

That is pretty impressive, obviously took a lot of work. The first time I went to Arnhem it was with an old girlfriend's brother-in-law, poor bloke suffered from vertigo and didn't join me on my walk across the bridge.

Great pictures, and wonderful story telling.

Thanks. Although truth be told, if I had been alive in Old Wart Fizzog's times I'd have been swinging from a tree like the Diggers, Levellers, and other assorted oiks who thought that he'd sold us out.

Sssh, do not mention the D-word. My scribe's grandfather was from County Meath. He had the temerity to enter service with that odious little Anglican Montgomery.

I attempted to volunteer for service in WW2, but the army rejected me on the ridiculous grounds that I'd been dead for nigh on 300 years. They got some chap called Lord Gort to take my place, and we all know how that turned out. In the meantime I can assure people that the working class oik who writes my letters has indeed read the manual.

This is turning into a Social, rather than Military History thread. No need for your "?" M.E. you're spot on, us Limey oiks do call perambulators "prams". And my muvver didn't 'ave Mary Poppins to push us sproggs around, she 'ad to do it on 'er Jack Jones.

If someone walks towards me with their head down gorping at their phone forcing me to swerve around them, I usually let out a loud "Don't worry, I'll do your looking for you" as I pass them.

Haha.... Brilliant reply ME.... In fact it comes from very old Limeyland slang. "Don't spit your dummy out of the pram". I'm not even sure that mothers actually push their sproggs around in prams any more. Ah, I must learn to type quicker.... Well done PhilM

The phrase "good riddance and goodbye" does brings the words "spat" "dummy" and "pram" to mind. I think it is sad that anyone should leave this forum in ill humour. But it quite often seems to be the case that we get visitors who seem to think that everything they say is "constructive criticism", whilst any argument running counter to their own is somehow invalid. I have often freely admitted to being rubbish at this game, and I have always found the advice given by IanL, sburke and others a great help. To take just one point raised above. Just making use of the replay and studying what goes on during a minute of WEGO action it is obvious, or should be, that the TAC AI is NOT cheating the Human Player. Our troops do sometimes react "in an instant". How else do you explain it when one of your tanks uses it's Bow MG against one target whilst the Main Gun engages a different one? Or when a full squad of infantry divide their fire between two or more targets without us giving them any orders? If people take the trouble to study what is going on in front of their own eyes then they would enjoy the game more. Although possibly not when they are causing friendly fire casualties like I did this morning.

@ Ales.... Hahahahahahahaha

"you have the audacity to threaten me with a severed head?"..... I've never threatened anybody. I just signed the death warrant. Joking aside, please try to get a sense of humour, stop calling the regulars "fanboys", and take on board the advice given by people like IanL, and then you'll enjoy both the game and your visits to the forum more.

I do wish people would stop calling anyone who tries to explain how this game works as "fanboys". I can't speak for Mikey D, but this is what happened the last time someone said it to me.

I'm not sure about the convoys of trucks. But, with regards to the fuel dump part of your question. Taking the square will trigger the off-map capture of the fuel dump. You do NOT need to go beyond the town square. As for the role that capturing the fuel dump plays in the campaign itself. it means that you have enough fuel to feed your hungry King Tigers all the way to the Meuse, i.e. the end of the campaign

I think IanL has nailed this right on the head.

@ the Good General. The third time I tried remounting even with the crew sat in the HT it still said "Dismounted". But I didn't go back and check it again, and the Germans threw in the towel a couple of minutes later anyway. @Swant .. No, this ISN'T single soldier getting stuck somewhere problem. The entire Squad were laying directly underneath the vehicle. @ MOS ... I didn't know that "Pinned" units would respond to Instant Commands. I know that units Evade on their own, and that you can click and drag the Endpoint if you want to.

I should have made a "Save" but at the time I was far too busy wanting to win the battle. Obviously, when you have so many units to play with you just press on. In smaller engagements having a Squad get stuck like that would have far more impact. To be honest playing WEGO I never use any of the Instant Commands, thanks for the tip, if it ever happens again I'll give it a try. As for the Company HQ by the time it occurred to me to try that after messing about with the driver not obeying any commands etc the battle had moved on very successfully.

@Swant... No it was a full Squad. I knew that there had been problems with Mortars and MG Teams when CMFB was first released. And contributed to the thread that was running about it some time back, But, thank you for your answer anyway.

I'm not sure if this has been talked about before, although I couldn't find it when I did a search. I've just finished the mission "Concentration No.9" from the US campaign "Courage Conquers" and encountered a problem that I have never faced before. I had a platoon caught by German mortar fire. Two Squads were emerging from buildings and the Platoon HQ got killed. The third Squad were dismounting from a HT some distance away and were "Rattled" despite not taking a casualty. They then spent the next 50 or 60 minutes of the battle laying underneath the HT. Whilst the HT would not move in any direction due to the fact that the back door was open. I even tried dismounting the Driver and remounting him. Nothing worked. Meanwhile the Squad's morale just seem to switch back and forth between "Rattled" and "Broken". Has anyone else encountered something like this?

I love Mord's portraits. And whilst it would be great to have them updated beyond Oct '44 if he has other things going on in his life then fair play to him. The same goes to the rest of the modders.

First thing I did when I bought CMBN was to create a Battlefront folder in my e-mail account, all purchases, order numbers, licence keys etc since have gone into it. Luckily I've never actually had any problems, downloading or activating and playing the game.

With Sonnie Terry and Brownie McGhee's "Move into Germany" blasting from your speakers this campaign is so much more enjoyable. On a more serious note, take benpark's advice on board, make use of your firepower. And also, remember, these are not "old men and boys" that you are facing, you might be confusing Volksgrenadier, with Volksturm. Just for the record, playing on Iron I managed a "Major Victory" for this campaign, and I consider myself to be pretty rubbish at CMx2.