Warts 'n' all

Oh dear. You seem to not to understand irony. 
I slip in and out my alter ego's personality many times on this forum. And as mentioned previously on this site if I'd have been around at the time of the Putney Debates, I would have been one of those "strung up".
You might even wish to go back to Page 3 of this thread where I make my real views on Fascism crystal clear, via the late great lefty Woody Guthrie.

Well played chaps! 
We did finally get it right with the A34 Comet.....Took us a while though. 

Oh dear. You seem to not to understand irony. 
I slip in and out my alter ego's personality many times on this forum. And as mentioned previously on this site if I'd have been around at the time of the Putney Debates, I would have been one of those "strung up".
You might even wish to go back to Page 3 of this thread where I make my real views on Fascism crystal clear, via the late great lefty Woody Guthrie.

Goodness, my apologies if I misunderstood this.  I am very sorry about that and to have sullied you in any way.  I was surprised to see someone call for lefties to be killed here and perhaps over-reacted since I didn't understand it.  Some of us in the US are a bit sensitive these days when, for example, man that can actually start nuclear war tweets about actually starting nuclear war. 
I'll leave it and that and return more to listening to the forum than talking. 

Now that would make a great movie.

Now that would make a great movie.

Oh dear. You seem to not to understand irony. 
I slip in and out my alter ego's personality many times on this forum. And as mentioned previously on this site if I'd have been around at the time of the Putney Debates, I would have been one of those "strung up".
You might even wish to go back to Page 3 of this thread where I make my real views on Fascism crystal clear, via the late great lefty Woody Guthrie.

I'm starting to believe you might actually be an old English oil painting who gets on the computer when the lord of the manor is away...

The backpack radios had a battery that was, I think, the size and weight of a car battery. I think that after a day of lugging that around, you'd know you'd done a day's work.
Michael

Taking out a Stummel with a 60 mm mortar:

Don't yer just hate it when the flyboys do that?  Grrrrrr...

I had the following notes on buddy aid and radios.  It is from Engine 3 however still works the same in Engine 4. 

Thanks very much.
I'm really happy that people have played the campaign, and posted such great video AARs (and the people like yourself that have posted astute comments on them). It makes me (hopefully) better at scenario design when I see how they are played in such detail.
Erwin's additional mention of use of smoke also highlights another important tool- particularly when you absolutely have to cross the street, and suspect unpleasant results. Remember to set the facing, then pop the smoke.
Also- The "corner peeking" in 4.0 is a great help with getting smoke on target, as well as urban combat in general.

As far as the Aachen campaign goes- it’s helpful to divide the maps into “sectors”. This could be a single city block, for instance. Have a plan for the order in which you will tackle each consecutive sector, ending with the intended objective. Like any battle, if you have a fresh reserve, that can handle any mop-up or unforeseen circumstances. If not, focus your available forces in roles like "support", "assault", etc. Know the capabilities (fatigue state, etc.) prior to the battle. This will help with figuring out how to use them best, and which forces can do the heavy lifting of clearing any surviving defenders from VLs.
Have an AFV and some heavy weapons and a few squads to lay down suppressing fire, then have a few squads as assault forces. I generally split these, and basically do the same thing as the “assault” order, but I’m choosing which men enter the building, and with which buildings. 
I generally play RT, so I am not splitting forces extensively.
I am also surprised when I watch the great AARs on Aachen about how much covered terrain is underused. When I made the campaign, I figured people would be using a particular stream, or a particular route of attack- but they rarely do! As the maps are based off of period maps, these "covered routes" are maybe not as obvious as maps made "from scratch"- but they are out there, as they were when the battle was fought.

Blimey.....You don't look a day over fifty!  Glad to see you got over that nasty wasting sickness by the way, you look much healthier again now. 

You guys are so weird...

@weapon2010  I use the direct elevation and elevation lock until it looks the way I want.  Use on bridge end point action squares and on water squares.  Also page 93 of the 4.0 Engine manual may help some.  It is talking about large bridges but some of the pointers are still applicable. 

Two things are important. That the water squares are at a lower level than the ground and the ends of the bridge are resting on land squares of the same height.

Yeah I think the actual boat crossing wouldn’t be that appealing to play.  Just getting shot at for an extended amount of time.  There is a reason it is considered an amazing feat. I think even C3k’s men would object. 

The stand alone battle "Back to the Waal" allows us to do just that, without the need to model the boats.

Thanks for sharing this with us.

With all hundreds, perhaps thousands, of CM games I've played, statistically improbable events should be expected - but it was still fun to watch!

Who said I didn't? 

Unlike Old Crommers, I'm from Kent.

It is that!    
But the dogs like it. 
Where abouts are you based, if you don't mind me asking?