Warts 'n' all

Dude credit where credit's due.....I've learned more about the minutia of playing CM from your threads than anywhere else I can think of. 
A lot of your techniques have become SOP for me in CM:SF & CM:A, they make these old-timers almost as playable as the newer titles.
Outside 'The Old Banqueting House'.....Thank god your lot didn't get at the ceiling in there! 
 

I must say, W'n'A, that judging from your picture you need to update your style a bit. 
Uh... but now, uh, now that I look at my own picture, uh, people like me that live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. 

On the recommendation of a Limey in this thread I started watching Jamies Games' channel. I'm enjoying it enough that I've gone to his first videos and begun watching them in sequence. Tons of content.
 

Oh no, in the words of the song, "It's too darn hot" down there for a red headed pom. In fact my plan would have us fit giant hedge trimmers to our ships. they'd slice off the green bits of Oz and leave the rest. Then we could slot one slice into the North Sea, one slice between The Hebrides and Scotland, another between Wales and Ireland, and the final piece between England and The Channel Islands, and Bob Hawkes is yer uncle.

You're damn right you will - and you won't regret it one second. You have years of content to immerse yourself in. What I like to do is read a book about the battle or setting I play to really appreciate how CM can be a realistic reenactment of those battles. It has come to the point that when I read about WWII to my imagination, the "inner eye" - it is most times in the form of CM.

I never liked WW2 era in gaming. Mostly due to its overuse for decades and how games, namely of a strategy genre, represented it.
Vehicles were little more than variations of same stats and shared the same function, be it a light tank or a heavy tank, they just dealt a different amount of damage, chipping off those health bars or armor digits. Most were just destined to be discarded as you raced for the best tier to rule the battlefield. Yes even Men of War was quite guilty of this. Same very much goes for Steel Panthers, Close Combat and CMx1 games - because of all the abstractions, even grounded in reality, but still abstractions, that these games had. Sure enough Graviteam Tactics made WW2 just 'acceptable' to me, mostly due to its awesome representation of tank combat, but I always felt like something was amiss.
That's why I like a modern era a lot more. Even in simpler games like Wargame series or Call to Arms due to era's sheer difference in weapon design and technological imbalance every side always felt like it had its own style. I was always playing Steel Panthers MBT and hardly ever touching WW2 versions. Even mediocre Close Combat Modern Tactics was interesting to me. And CMSF and CMBS just set the quality bar absolutely high.
But then I got CMBN. And for the first time in my life I felt excited about WW2 era in games. Due to a sheer realism and precise representation of everything - every single vehicle, or even every firearm soldiers carry feels unique. No "better tiers", even light tanks can have their moments of glory versus bigger and meaner brethren when lucky or used cunningly. All the weird looking armored cars, these boxes on wheels can contribute a lot to battles. If it takes part in a mission - it can and will be used and it will matter. And due to all the variety of OOBs that a full CMBN bundle currently offers - it delivers what Graviteam Tactics does not: countless ways to have the same battle in - and an amazing infantry gameplay to boot, making tank battles actually feel superior in Battle for Normandy compared.
Furthermore CMBN is, because of how many WW2 games are there and what they are, an example of why realism matters, why just having an abstract "frontal armor" receive less damage before an invisible health bar runs out, or just shrug off hits from calibers below some predefined penetration threshold - will never make an important difference that makes a game truly memorable. Exactly that difference between 75mm tank cannons of USA, Germany and UK.
Damn it, I'll have to buy all WW2 CM titles now, right?

I've always been of the opinion that if you are moving/deploying AT guns in sight of the enemy, you are using them wrong.....This isn't the Battle of Waterloo! 
just saying. 

No probs Dan, my Limey humour isn't to everyone's taste.

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.