Doc844

Thankyou very much Kieme, you were spot on. Deleted the Red Thunder files now everything is spot on. So I take it when you unzip a patch just make sure you do not have it in the folder with the rest of your zipped stuff.

Hi Doug cheers, I followed your AAR against Bill with great interest, very exciting stuff. I think I'm getting to grips with the game now, WOW what a learning curve but well worth the patience. I have BS and RT just now so anyone who would like to break me in lol I would be much obliged.

Ok thanks for clarifying the ammo sharing, makes sense now. However 2 mins for an ammo replen is in RL practical terms ALONG time. Speaking from experience if your getting ammo from a bradley/warrior, you grab the boxes bang it in your daysack and off you go, you then sort it once in position because you don't go for a replen after expending all your ammo you go for it when your down to minimum scales, if possible. So 8n game although its automatic how you get the ammo ie belts etc this can be seen as the troops breaking down the ammo later. The mechanics aren't a game breaker just really annoying at times. Was just hoping I'd missed a button or something where u could do it an easier way.

Yeah I noticed that about pause and drop off. Still figuring out the time and distance in regards to my pixel truppen but I'm getting there slowly. Patience is a virtue lol. Thanks for the YouTube video advice reckon that will be my TV time when the wife's watching her *rubbish* on telly. One other thing I would like to know about is how does the auto ammo refill work and also why do you have to tell your squad to get in a vehicle just to acquire say a javelin. This wastes 2 turns minimum which is alot especially if u only want/need some extra rockets for your javelin. Cheers Doc

Lol I've got a friend who's like that, anything to do with computers and it just goes wrong. Anyway battles and AAR content for me/us to read is the best priority, keep it coming.

Been following this along, exciting stuff, but now reading about how you are meant to embed pics im a bit confused. I use photobucket and the way i do it is upload my pics, sort them in order of how i want them then I click on them one at a time. When the pic comes up in large you get the little box at bottom right This is the easiest way i find to do it, however it does mean transferring pics around which can get confusing, I normally do it in batches, say between 5 and 10 turns depending on how much action is going on. There probably is an easier way of doing, in fact im hoping there is, but it always works for me on whatever forum im on.

At this point the russians retreated, well what was left retreated, most of the Russian brigade is left lying on the field a mangled wreck. Two after battle stills, I was going to do a few more ie showing where the russians suffered the heaviest casualties but it was reeeeeaally late so I called it a day. Thought i had a couple of the masses of dead russian infantry, think i might reload the end and take a few cause it was a slaughter, especially over in the left villag, those Latvians fought like tigers. This is the only surviving russian tank on the whole of the field And this is the new modified version of a Gaz Coming up The Water Dogs

A Brad on overwatch pumping in the cannon shells as the heavy armour moves up. Scratch 2 BMP's. My armour sweeps on in a glorious text book mechanised attack The ruskie armour belatedly tries to move down from the crest but some fast gunnery from WO3 Randy Bow soon puts a stop to it And my Abrams that i sent out far right swings up the hill and over the crest to pop the trailing tank, didnt even know what hit him In the last few minutes of the battle this was the ruskie traffic jam on the center bridge And this is after my Abrams brought it under their guns from the left

With the heavy enemy armour presence on the crest stalling my attack one of my brave HQ teams decide to lend a hand Who says Officers are useless There choice of cover and concealment does, poor brave buggers About 10 secs later a Jav team in the town shows how it should be done Back into cover not even spotted, scratch 2 tanks How often do your reserves turn up in the right place at the right time, well today was the day, my reinforcements on the left flank. This is gonna hurt. A few minutes of setup and my combined armour attack rolls out Another tank on the right falls to my Jav team in the town. All those boys have earned their pay today.

One of my Abrams strikes back against the russian armoured follow on column My brave Latvian troops continue to exact a heavy toll on the russina infantry over on my left This is the crest where i displaced my Jav teams from a few turns ago, not the best pic but its meant to show the barrage of airbursts it is receiving, guess the ruskies got annoyed at them blowing up some of their expensive tanks Now these next few pics show the mad few minutes of what a few well placed Jav teams can do, the first is my displaced team from the crest Another expensive pile of scrap

Ah ok but I don't have CMBN only the demo so if I delete CMBN demo everything should be fine? Hopefully role out the rest of the AAR for the first battle either today or tomorrow.

So we are starting to get a foothold in the town on the right but I am getting concerned over the amount of armour on my left so I have displaced my 2 Jav teams so that they can engage. One of my Brads hunts through the town. (and a little + rep for Kiemes mods with the graffiti on the back door). Ah bugger Head to head the brave Brad crew let loose but are overmatched and get knocked out. WTF things just got bad, real bad. now its a ****storm, one of my Abrams goes down to multiple missle hits That is one very dead Abram, he got hit by so many missles its actually left a big crater So as my right flank goes to hell the Russians are now doing it properly over in the left hand village and the pressures mounting as russian infantry storm the town But the Latvians arent ready to give in yet and the russian squad are mercilessly gunned down.

So as the Russians were busy pounding my poor Latvians I managed to determine which way the russians were leaning and so I brought up my Abrams to the right flank, with Brads in support and hid them in the dead ground. I then tickled the Russian armour with my Jav teams on overwatch on the crest in the center and lo and behold the russians changed direction and moved towards the center. So my Abrams were sent hunting. And here is the result Some nice burning russian wrecks Now with the armour out of the way the soft underbelly awaits. And the end result is beyond doubt In the center 3 ruskie tanks get popped by my 2 Jav teams on the crest. These boys deserve a medal, if they live. An aerial overview of how things stand, I have split my armour into 2 teams, one will sweep across the center while the other provides fire support for my Brads to roll in and debus the infantry in the town. More to follow as i progress, hopefully it doesnt all go balls up.

Just wanted to say a big thanks to Dragonwynn for creating this campaign, this is my first go at it and im on the first mission Never Cry Wolf, and i am thoroughly enjoying it. However one question first, a couple of days ago I updated Black Sea with the new patch and now i seem to be getting some kind of weird crossover from the Normandy CM and i dont even own that below is some pics to show what i mean. and more here Also in the description of troops some of these are messed up also, well quite a few actually. The Cromwell troop, really in 2017. Plus quite a few of the weapon description are FUBAR also, so can anyone tell me what may have caused this and im hoping it won't involve a total re-install of the base game, mods and campaigns, please say it aint so. So any way on with my little AAR, I never actually meant to start one for this because it was just meant to be an initial play through but since im doing so well i thought what the hell, by the way this is some tactical skill but also alot of LUCK.

It's all good Veins was kind enough to forgo my stupidity for not actually taking in what the first post said and sent me a PM with his mods download links.

Help please cant find where to download veins mods for CMBS.

Thanks womble that is a massive help because I just had another squad wiped out while trying to attack a building so I think I'll do a load and replay it. Hopefully with a better outcome.

Thanks for the tips everyone seriously a big help. Now next question how does the assault command work because on numerous occasions I've told my men to assault a position and they just seem to bimble up to it without bothering to throw grenades or anything and by doing this I always lose 2 or 3 men. It's bloody frustrating.

That's a shame about the replay option especially since games like Wargame AirLand Battle and Red Dragon have a auto replay save function, even in MP. However I would imagine their budget is significantly bigger than battlefronts. But we can dream.

Yep thanks baneman. Just done the canarius scenario and beat the Russians cold I only lost one tiger knocked out and one damaged. I'm now playing the army group North scenario. One thing I find at the moment is that I'm wasting a fair bit of time on my approach marches and de-bussing troops too early. Still haven't got the hang of the Spotting mechanics and I'm afraid of running into ambushes but I did wipe out the russian column on the left for the loss of two men, so I'm getting better. I think. Lol.

Thanks for the reply I'll be trying it out very shortly when I do the re-run and hopefully not get my t34's killed.

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone. Just playing through the tutorials on CMRT. Not doing badly but I dropped the ball on mission 2 and got 2 of my t34's killed by the panzer 4. The AI is sneaky on this game, the panzer 4 shot the first tank over on the right. I then followed up with my more central tank expecting the panzer 4 to be in the same place but no the sneaky bugger had displaced off to the left so bang went my 2nd tank. However not sure why my infantry couldn't get eyes on. I do however have a question, I play the game in WeGo mode and I would like to know if it's possible to dismount tank riders mid turn then give them a move order to carry on with. I was trying to get them to do this but couldn't figure it out and it wasted about 40 secs of their turn. Any answers would be greatly appreciated. I'm gonna have to figure out how to capture photos and post them here it'll make life so much easier. I also used to do AARS for the mod NTW3 HB battles and I would like to do the same here.

I actually came across videos of CM on YouTube and then went searching for the games on Google and happily found myself here. Hurrah for YouTube.

Hi everyone, I have only recently stumbled across the CM titles and battlefront.com, from there I ended up here and boy am i glad. I initially read the AAR from Bil and GAJ on the Gustav line, eye of the elefant and that was it i was hooked, i have now read a few more and i just love the detail you guys go into and also how some of them have storylines to go with them, it makes for excellent reading. Anyway I have been playing the demos and trying to get a feel for the games and their mechanics which basically boils down to me getting shwacked at every turn and losing LOTS of men and armour, but heyho its a learning curve and im loving it. I have now bought CMRT, I chose this one because the Eastern Front is my favourite so hopefully after a bit more practising I will be in a position to get into a MP game with some of you fine gents, and get my ass kicked again lol. Thanks for reading Doc P.S. I am ex military, i served 8 yrs in her majesty's RAF Regiment, deployed on numerous tours to countries of a middle eastern persuasion. I am now a civvie but I still serve in the reserve forces.