Warts 'n' all

And that's the perfect time to call for a can-opener:

What else is fun is following the battles geographically on google maps.  Right from the start I could identify what section of bocage/fields and roads, etc are on the modern day map from a top down view because in most cases not much has changed in that area.  Paper Tiger does an excellent job of recreating what is actually on the ground.

Yeah we have the same problem. We allowed thousands of Angles, Saxons, and Jutes into this country.

As Bobby McFerrin once said.

If you do a quick search you find that this has been discussed quite a bit on the Final Blitzkrieg section of the forum.

Impressive. It's not an easy one.

I like Stummels and also Wespes etc.  But, you have to have long range LOS to targets just like with any other halftrack and that makes em hard to use in the relatively short LOS CM2 maps.  It's the challenge of using a vehicle with a pretty big HE gun but with paper armor that makes em fun.

In the words of a certain USatian tennis player who now works for Aunty Beeb, "You cannot be serious". A movie based on a flawed book, made by "Darling Dickie" who had established his directorial credentials with "Oh, What a Lovely War", and was then leaned on by Hollywood agents to give their clients more scenes. Doesn't equal "historical" in my book.

It may be a language thing, but, to me the phrase "too historical" suggests that the movie stuck too closely to the facts for your liking. Whereas, for me it strayed too far from them. 
Yes, a good enough good job, Whether it deserved an Oscar, I don't think so. As mentioned previously, I think that Simon Russel Beale gave a far more convincing performance in Aunty Beeb's "Dunkirk". And lets not forget Albert Finney's "Churchill" and Vanessa Redgrave's "Clemmie" in The Gathering Storm, probably the definitive portrayals of both of them. Even the toilet scene smacks of a rip off of the bath scene in The Gathering Storm.
  

You're right Oldman did deserve an Oscar.... For "Sid and Nancy" and for "Prick up your Ears". But his Churchill in "Darkest Hour" doesn't really compete with Simon Russel Beale's in  Aunty Beeb's three hour "Dunkirk".

In the words of a certain USatian tennis player who now works for Aunty Beeb, "You cannot be serious". A movie based on a flawed book, made by "Darling Dickie" who had established his directorial credentials with "Oh, What a Lovely War", and was then leaned on by Hollywood agents to give their clients more scenes. Doesn't equal "historical" in my book.

It's just another example of Hollywood sensationalism. Feel free to ignore.
Michael

Select the artillery unit you want, select the type of mission (point target, area target, line) and then you will be able to select Mission as Heavy, Medium, Light, Harass, Smoke.
But only if the battery you selected has smoke ammunition.  If, for whatever reason, it doesn't have any, you won't be able to fire smoke.

I will ask the dumb question but have you tried pressing alt-k to make sure smoke it turned on?

YES an AAR!!!  Thanks for taking the time and putting in the effort to provide us with this AAR.  Looking forward to it. +1  

I love this battle. A really beautiful map. I'm looking forward to seeing how this AAR pans out.

This is a true After Action report (AAR).  I played this game last year against one of my most skilled opponents (ScoutPL).  The scenario was Green Hell, my goal was to protect the Farm and Cafe objectives, and if possible, try to take the la Madeleine objective.  Simple no?  This was the first time I had played this scenario and the scenario and sides were chosen by my opponent.
I will give a general overview along with a quick and dirty METT-T analysis, then I'll get right into the action.  A word of warning though, there will be no long range tank fights in this AAR, it will be a tough costly mainly infantry slug-fest for both sides.  I do hope however that I can at least show my philosophy when on the defense.  I will be honest, I struggle the most with the defense, I am very offensive minded and just can't help myself sometimes and overextend, right Baneman? 
MISSION
The mission is simple, hold the enemy at bay and force him to waste his combat power on the drive to my objectives, so that when he arrives he will have a spent force.  My main goal is to protect the two objectives in my zone, and preserve my force as much as possible.

ENEMY
I have been told to expect German FJ troops in unknown strength, though if I go by the tactical map above I can expect a combined force of infantry and armor.  All I really know is that they should be entering around the a Madeleine objective area... if the tactical map above is correct.
TERRAIN
My force is sitting on a ridge-line, so I should have good lines of sight across the entire map.  Whether that means I will be able to spot much is another matter.  The map is also broken up by bocage lined fields.  However they are easily penetrated, so will be easily flanked, also those fields will mask movement wonderfully, for both sides.

TROOPS
I command Baker Company, with a weapons company (Dog) in support.  I will get into my initial plans for this battle in a future post.  Initial deployments are shown below.. Baker is spread across the entire ridge-line and Dog has been broken up evenly to support Baker's Platoons.


TIME
I have 1 hour and 20 minutes to hold off the enemy.  That is a long time, but will also mean that ammo supply could be the deciding factor at the end.

I won't spoil things for people who haven't played this excellent battle. But, Bill hits three nails smack on the head.

A couple filtered pics of a lonely panzer.

Having played @Bil Hardenberger in an AAR and watched all of his other ones, I can attest to the fact that Bil hits more than just nails smack on the head. If your tank even peeps out a little bit...he's there with a hammer. Sigh. The worst part? How polite he is about it. 

I completely agree that signs and wonders would be nice to see.  I completely disagree that "no screenshots equals no progress".  Given that Battlefront has a very small staff and must choose between developing the game or developing work in process marketing collateral, I prefer that they focus on developing the game first and then spend post development efforts to market the game when it is ready for sale. 
I don't mind that what I think doesn't matter though.  Battlefront knows better than me what's best for it's business.

Ahh, ok, that's what threw me off. I didn't take "development" to mean graphics. I figured you were talking game features.
 
I find the pines to be more piney in CMx1. But over all, CMx2's trees are waaay better. Much more variety too. In the old games, IRC, trees were chosen by the ground tile; the heavy forest tile was pine and light was deciduous. You couldn't place trees without a forest tile.
 
Mord.

Funny how the birch tree's bark looks better in CMRT but, the leaves looked better in CMBB.

Shouldn't that read "Certain members of the Royal Family, and some aristocrats". And remember, I'm speaking as someone with previous when it comes to killing royals.

I've not seen Fury, might watch should it happen to be on television when am bored. I only saw Hacksaw Ridge for the same reason. The scenes with the bar gunner carrying an torso as an bullet shield before tossing himself an grenade. The scene with the medic swatting grenades away in mid-air. They did not work for me and just seemed more comical than gut-wrenching. Not sure about the story either, gibson wanting an religious viewpoint on everything I guess.
Dunkirk I went to see. As the subject matters more interesting to me. I thought was alright film I guess. The sound was great, every time they are shot at scared the crap out of me. The messing with the timeline was confusing at first until you realise that each story/timeline are merging together to become the same story/timeline towards the end. Some things grated on me though, to try and keep it short;
The germans are being kept back from the beaches by an perimeter that seems to be about two streets away? The Andrew appearing to be fecking powerless in the whole matter. But the smalls ships appearing are Christ reborn. They have an boat loaded with soaking wet and oil covered troops but sail down to fecking Dorset rather than return them into Ramsgate like everyone else would have? The director I believe said that using an French post war destroyer rather than CGI should not be noticeable unless you know what an British destroyer from the era looks like. Well I do know, so was rather noticeable to me. I echo Warts also in remembering the BBC's Dunkirk being rather good however.