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I've been in the process of building a campaign for most of the year and during recent scenario testing I'm seeing incidents of friendly fire from my panzergrenadiers!
CMFB, V2.03, Engine 4
MAC Catalina 10.15.7
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it was not designed to be overly historical or to play H2H.
It was designed to try and give a flavour of the whole battle in a single scenario. Think Battle of the Bulge the Movie
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Saying that I have no problem with anyone amending and republishing as a H2H scenario should they wish to do so.
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Appreciate the great responses, every post really useful advice.
Will take all on board and see how testing pans out.
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I wondered if the CMFB community could offer any insight or thoughts into the soft factors of the forces involved?
A quick reminder from the Manual
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Regular: professional soldiers who went through extensive, quality training programs, but lack combat experience. Or, Regular can represent troops that received mediocre training that have a fair amount of combat experience.
Also @Josey Wales
wrote a brilliant piece on The Relationship between Soft Factors, Morale & Fatigue
So far into my campaign build I have 40x or so German platoons, excluding Fallshirmjager, from the KG involved in various scenarios and ranked them as follows
10x Crack, 10x Veteran and 20x Regular, experience
12x Extreme, 28x with High motivation
7x with a +1 and 23x with +2 Leadership modifier
The Fallshirmjager of the 9th Regiment a mix of Green, Regular, Veteran with High motivation 0 and -1 Leadership. Who doesn't go for plan B after trying to charge uphill against dug in machine guns and then repeats, come to think of it who'd see it as a good plan A. May downgrade to -2 Leadership.
The Fallshirmjager of the z.b.V, Crack, Extreme motivation and +2 Leadership
On the Ami side
Where units of the 394th Regt/99th Infantry Division made a stand, e.g. Lanzerath the I&R Platoon, and the M platoon on the morning of the 16th at Buchholz, I've classified as Regular, High motivation and +2 Leadership.
Realise M Platoon was brushed aside by the KG in the early hours of the 17th, but they had done a solid job the previous day.
Other units of the 99th Division in the rest areas of Honsfeld for example, Regular, Low motivation and 0.
Where Ami reserve units made tactical errors, for example initially at Stavelot, Regular, Normal, -1.
117th and 119th Infantry Regiments of the 30th Division, Veteran, Normal,+1
Any additional insight or opinion is welcomed.
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I didn't suffer the bridge bug in testing Mission to Maas, but that was well before latest patch.
But I've hit the issue once whilst testing a new CMFB scenario at Trois Ponts with the new patch.
A panther was tele ported on to the top of a railway bridge. Eventually managed to reverse off.
Anecdotes aren't data, but it may be back
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Scenario 6 of the Rollbahn D campaign I'm building. Will release the individual maps and battles after the campaign. Would post more screenshots but they're not over generous with user space.
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Hi Kohlenklau
Currently the campaign is linear
. I wanted it to be as historically accurate as I could. I am thinking about doing a follow up YouTube on this element of the wider battle incorporating this campaign build AAR.
There's a lot of "what ifs" with KG Peiper as there were initially numerous tactical errors on both sides, primarily down to strict instructions to keep driving West and literally the fog of war, so a follow up version 2 would be fairly straight forward and quite interesting.
As to availability it depends.
I could release a Part 1, covering the period up to the 19th at Targnon over the next few months. I have one more large map to complete covering Neufmoulin. I finished testing Trois Ponts last week. Trois Ponts was a challenging map, viaducts, railway and road bridges in close proximity at different heights, embankments, changes in river elevations between the Salm/Ambleve.
A lot of the subsequent engagements were fought over the same/similar ground as the first part of the campaign, so potentially much less work and a quicker turnaround.
Re modding, I've never attempted it, so that puts you at genius level compared to me, any help would be gratefully received.
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KGs lead Panther from the 1./Kompanie engages 57mm AT gun at the Trois Ponts viaducts
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Much appreciated for the steer in the right direction, thank you.
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Cheers Ben.
So far I've used 1000 points per scenario to keep things simple for my abysmal maths so every individual scenario has equal weight.
I'll start experimenting with having lower points available for the early missions / higher minimum victory levels to proceed.
I do have exit and touch objectives and in one scenario a friendly bonus.
I take it the game mechanics for the campaign are...total the points achieved by both sides up to that specific scenario then issue a result.
Is...[RED DEFEAT TEXT] You lost! Sie haben ein Auto, das darauf wartet, Sie nach Alderhorst zu bringen, auf wiedersehen
a bit harsh?
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After a bit of guidance around designing victory points calculation within a campaign and specifically the final campaign result.
During testing, scenarios are working ok. Germans achieve tactical victories or better and progress.
But if I throw in a draw or German defeat I can still achieve a German campaign victory.
However I only want a campaign victory if they win the final battle.
Thoughts?
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Yorckscher Marsch, Der Hohenfriedburger, Preussischer Präsentier Marsch, Westerwald, Lore, Alte, Preussens Gloria along with the Panzerlied when playing FB or listening to Hapless or Mr Wales.
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Cheers Fella, work in progress.
I've learnt a lot around the tactical mistakes made on both sides and the mechanics around CM campaign design, enjoying it so far.
I thought I knew about the battle until I started to write info down, build the individual scenarios and organise into a campaign.
I'm going to upload the individual maps later in the year.
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If anyone of the brilliant modders has anytime to help me out, it would be much appreciated.
I'm building a campaign Rollbahn D. I've six battles designed and tested atm. The plan is to take it thru at least to Targnon, maybe thru to the 24th.
Leaving Lanzerath -Fallshirmjagers
Minen the Gap -Spitze / Losheim
Breakthrough -Bucholz/Honsfeld -Fallshrimjager+
Bull-in-gen China Shop -Spitze+
Butchers of Baugnez -Thirimont/Baugnez/Ligneuville -Spitze+
Stormin Stavelot
One of my issues is around RoadSigns, would love to have accurate signs for roads / restaurants / hotels / Stavelot Cinema for added realism.
If anyone with the tech ability could spare the time?
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According to Duel In The Mist Volume 1 footnotes on Page 28, the Fallshirmjager that were with Peiper in Stoumont weren't from the 3rd Fallshirmjager Division that provided the KG support from Lanzerath to Honsfeld.
From PoW records, those Fallshirmjager who were captured in the Stoumont area were "almost certainly" 12./FSJ Rgt z.b.V, from Skorzeny's Panzer Brigade 150.
So for my campaign I'm going to use 2x separate groups of Fallshirmjager.
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When creating a campaign does the refit, repair, resupply and rest % affect only the troops involved in the last battle.
Or does it affect every Core unit, including units not involved in that last battle?
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Thank You Mr Coal Thief.
I'll give it a try.
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5 hours ago, Wicky said:
In the Scenario Editor goto
Mission > Data > Force Vs. Force change it to Allies vs. Allies add the Sherman to Axis in Units page - then revert it back to normal
Very Happy! Works a treat and now the KG has its Sherman.
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Thanks for the swift reply but could you possibly add some detail?
If I'm in the editor I can add German units to the German order of battle and vice versa.
But not US tanks to the German order of battle.
It's probably me but could do with some further clarity.
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Making a scenario around Skorzeny's attack on Malmedy.
Would be nice to include a Sherman in the German order of battle for Kampfgruppe X if anyone could help me out?
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My favourite hobby. Thank You!
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Added The Leibstandarte Part IV and Map book by Ralf Tiemann to my collection. The Map book does contain the missing maps I was after.
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Hi
I stumbled across these resources in researching map making for a campaign I'm building.
The detail of the Stavelot Town Plan is fantastic. If anyone has similar for towns and villages on Peiper's route including Malmedy for Skorzeny's attack and Trois Points I'd be grateful.
http://www.oldhickory30th.com/Stavelot PDF Map File.pdf
And
http://www.oldhickory30th.com/Maps.htm
If anyone has access to the 16th/17th for the above, I would really appreciate it.
Found these useful from the late 1890's.
http://www.deutschefotothek.de/documents/obj/71056459/df_dk_0010001_5502
I'm also using old post cards and the occasional German recon from their 1940's advance in the same area.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gare-Stavelot-CPancienne.jpg
Cheers
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16 hours ago, Lt Bull said:
I forgot to add and perhaps ask...
While researching the battle of Stoumont I discovered one book that has actually been published specifically about that 19th Dec battle.
I would of definitely bought it already however there is something about it that is making me hesitate:
Duel in the Mist: Kampfgruppe Peiper, Stoumont, December 19th, 1944 v. 1
Would really like to hear from anyione who has viewed the book, let alone own a copy of it. Really curious to know what kind of new info/photos etc it contains.
I bought the book off eBay for £450 a couple of years ago. A lot of money but its not going to ever go back into reprint and I'd been tracking for along time. It covers the KG on a single day the 19th in great detail (36000 words). The photos and maps are large and clear. I don't regret the purchase and my family can sell on when I'm gone. I own vol2 and 3 which contains great source material too. The Devils Adjutant is my favourite read on the KG. Major Reynolds the author also features on a Youtube video driving around the La Gleize area with Jay Karamales
Friendly Fire bug? since upgrading CMFB
in CM2 General Tech Support
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thanks, I'll drop you message the file is too big to upload here.
It's happened on 3 occasions whilst testing. I do play in iron mode but never noticed being shot at by my own side
Fallshrimjager and Grenadiers in earlier scenarios.
This latest incident 2./Zug HQ Pioneer team start shooting at Grenadiers 1./Zug 11th Kompanie who are in a building opposite, 2nd and third floor.
They are in the eastern group of German forces.