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Well, he did win a Distinguished Service Cross that day in reality ;). Hey @SLIM I'm glad you're enjoying Duel in the Mist, hopefully its playing out a bit better than my earlier cracks at scenarios. I'm curious if you'd like to test out the version we're making for singleplayer, from Abram's perspective. Its for a little project being cooked up with people much more skilled than myself. PM Me if you're interested. From the same scenario. Subtlety rolling terrain, coupled with a light afternoon mist that limits visibility to 500-700m, allows for a clever treadhead to move large amounts of units at a time unseen.

Indeed, thanks for the quick response. I know what you're talking about, a lot of shoulder board insignias with only a small white border leading platoons struck me as odd.

I remember BF pointing out the dearth of officers and how it was common for NCOs to lead platoons (which it was, at least in Normandy) - why the change; to reflect the influx of "fresh" men? What I was hoping to see, thanks so much guys!

My dream of dreams is Israeli-Arab wars of 1967-1973 and the Korean War. BFC hasn't shied away from hypothetical campaigns in the historical titles, as Gustav Line for FI showed us, and to be fair to my own delusions a '67 title would almost certainly have to drift into the fantastic to get the ball rolling. Its probably way too sensitive and niche to be anything but fantasy ultimately. I also don't think its very fair or accurate to deem the Korean conflict 'Pacific' in nature if we're using the common association there. If anything it would be quite a bit like Fortress Italy in terms of hilly terrain and head-to-wall smashfests for dominating ground.

Stunning. Mind sharing your config with us for this?

You're correct, it's not WEGO per se, but rather a more classic turn-based game. Atlantic Fleet is a port from a tablet game, and I can't believe I forgot to mention it myself; perhaps because I haven't touched it recently. You honestly cannot go wrong with that type of game: Its dirt cheap (10.99 CAD), looks good and has a fairly customizable level of 'realism.' If you find the campaigns clunky at first, you can definitely get your feet wet for a while playing the historical engagements.

I thought I recognised your handle. I definitely second the Darkest Hour recommendation despite an archaic and generally inaccurate (or more fairly: hit and miss) armor code. I have sunk more hours into that game then I care to admit. I've played with 1Cs Theatre of War series, the execution is very uneven. I remember enjoying the African title and the original - the rest not so much. The rest of my WW2 gaming is limited to Silent Hunters 3 & 4 and flight time in Aces High.

I agree with @Heinrich505; I think you can afford to sit and wait for a few minutes. If you had the luxury of it, now would've been a good time to start putting harassing mortar fire down in the treeline or on a few houses you suspect were occupied.

In his unit's eponymous history, Hubert Meyer (who was the Ia of the 12.SS during the Summer fighting) whines that the Canadians 'liked knives' and that it was barbaric in the extreme. Given that the author was a member of the SS and a life-long member of HIAG, the irony, I trust, is lost on no one.

LMFAO - We're truly through the looking glass now, its like I just read a Wehrmacht pamphlet

I didn't realize I had pooched the resolution by accident until I had recorded most of the footage, apologies. The scenario is by the brilliant @SeinfeldRules and links to it are in the description.

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It is, its been out on Blu-Ray for a while. I'm a fan of putting my money where my mouth is, and I took an opportunity to see it - not only is it actual cinematic garbage, but its apologist trite.

Well, when the entire narrative is basically propaganda, like this movie by Pepe is, there's nothing left to filter out

Well at least now I know the answer to my first question.

That's...not how that works, no. I respectfully disagree; spewing outright falsehoods right back just means you now have two extremes, there's no 'happy middle ground' in having a Red Scare on one hand and Communist Utopians on the other. I also find it completely laughable that everything Soviet 'was sacred' in the United States just because Roosevelt was a bit more amicable mid-war to the Soviets than Churchill was. Considering men like Mellenthin's 'contributions' to the historiography of WWII can be summed up as 'well Ivan knew how to dig in, but his attacks were always brutish blunders' and 'actual Asiatic hordes', I'm not certain I'm ready to hand-wave such narratives away as necessary in the Cold War world. There's also the stickiness of German generals decrying the horrific atrocities they suffered at the hands of the Soviets while passing the buck for their own onto their now conveniently eradicated regime.

Should I also start fashioning a tin foil hat? I also see how either of those two books fully addresses the fact that the Germans wrote the crushing majority of immediate the post-war history on the Eastern front.

I understand this completely, and I also agree. I don't subscribe to the 'roving bunker' philosophy whatsoever with armor. Terrain dictates who leads/who supports but a tank is ultimately a tank; its made to do anything the situation demands - including fighting the big cats. Your attack on that Panther was definitely the highlight of the match for me thus far.

Nazi Apologia doesn't for good cinema make. This trite about 'Victors writing history' is basically spoon-to-mouth apologism. The overwhelming majority of the US Army's history of WWII was greatly aided by the 'losers' offering their often arrogant and self-serving views of the conflict (Franz Halder, anyone?). To say nothing of the fact that until the wall fell the majority of our English language sources on the Russian Front were from the Germans themselves; which has lead to disastrously ingrained tropes about the Red Army that are often falsehoods with racial undertones. For losing the war so totally the Germans have been able to shape a fairly decent narrative of themselves regardless. Sounds like the Director popped a stiffy for a criminal organization and can't get it to deflate. I'll take a pass on this.

Like I said earlier, you have him penned in. You're also starting to attrit the forward edge of his combat power. Time to sit back and let him bleed a bit.

That video was phenomenal, the cut-away of the Cupola right at the end was unexpected.

I've been in a playtesting mood as of late. I'll give it a whirl soon and let you know how it went.

Ditto, good to see this active again.

Yes, that was my first thought as well. Whoever made Colossal Crack poured so much effort into the map and scenario. I can't stand trying to form AI plans, so I can't even begin to fathom what they went through. Hats off to them. Perhaps I'll post a link to the final .pdf when all is said and done.

After blunting and halting a counterattack by the 1.SS Panzer's Panther battalion, "A" Squadron of the Fifes launches out a troop to try and take the enemy remnants in the flank. Thick smoke masks Borguebus; only the church steeple rises above the dust and confusion. Taken from a written AAR I've slowly been working on. I can't even begin to imagine doing this mission in head to head as the Commonwealth.