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    What should I play next?

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    4 minutes ago, Vacilllator said:

    I think I got them at @Bootie's fine site here:

    https://www.thefewgoodmen.com/tsd3/category/combat-mission-battle-for-normandy/cm-battles-for-normandy/

    I'm sure you've been there already, but well worth a look if you haven't.

    Thanks

    I have been there - the site is a great resource, but I always find it a bit overwhelming. (I can't see an obvious way to sort by highest rated or anything like that.) I'll have a rummage!

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    What should I play next?

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    29 minutes ago, Vacilllator said:

    If you wish to try scenarios as well as campaigns and you're happy with those that are on the larger side, can I suggest both of the Wittmann scenarios in BN?  They're both excellent and both by @George MC.  Another great one which is also a lot smaller is Barkmann's Corner Revisited by @GhostRider3/3.  To be honest I don't remember if I played the original Barkmann's Corner, my bad.

    There are of course lots of other great scenarios, they're just the ones I had a lot of fun with when I started.

    Thanks, I'll check them out. Do they come with the base game?

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    What should I play next?

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

    Posted · Edited by zaybz

    TLDR: I've played Devils Descent, Road to Montebourg and Road to Nijmegen - what should I play next? (Preference is playing as Commonwealth, or secondarily the US)

     

    I’m a relatively new player looking for suggestions as to which Campaign to play next. My preference is to play with Commonwealth forces, but I will play as the US too. Really not interested in playing as Germany. I've worked my way through several campaigns already but consider myself a decent, but not elite, player.

     

    These are the campaigns I’ve played so far, in the order in which I played them, with some brief comments:

     

    Training Campaign - really enjoyed these scenarios.

     

    Devil’s Descent (Major victory) great campaign. Enjoyed the small scale and role-playing elements, really suited the game engine and helped me learn the game.

     

    Road to Montebourg (Major victory) great overall - one or two scenarios seemed needlessly punishing, but that’s okay I guess... I watched some of Totally Hapless' videos which helped guide me along the right path when I was stumped.

     

    Road to Nijmegen (minor victory) - mixed feelings. The ambition of it and the attention to detail were great, but at times it felt like it was made to be difficult for the sake of it and so it  felt like hard work. Having said that it gave me some of the most epic / cinematic moments I’ve had with CM.

    I restarted quite a lot of the missions, (e.g. when losing two entire platoons to artillery fire on the first turn during one of the Riethorst missions), which broke immersion. I missed out on the Hunner Park scenario (perhaps partly because I lost Heuman Lock Bridge after ceasing fire due to the bridge glitch, and ceased fire on the first turn of the final Riethorst scenario because: a) I had no AT assets at all remaining, which meant facing lots of tanks wasn’t going to be much fun, and: b) I was bored of that map, having fought on it 3 times already)............ I read someone say this campaign was designed for the game the designer wishes CM was, rather than the actual CM that exists - and that seems spot on to me. The time limits also meant that the scenarios felt unrealistically rushed - so once I got given the increased time limits I enjoyed it a lot more.

    Also - I just played the Copse scenario with the Sherwood Rangers, which I found to be really great fun.

     

    So, some possibilities for my next Campaign are:

     

    Amiens Tonight - is this still fully functional? Looks tempting.

    Courage and Fortitude - punishingly hard?

    In the Fields Where the Poppies Grow - haven’t seen much written about this…

    Lions of Carpiquet - 4 company scenarios? Too big for my taste.

    Scottish Corridoor - punishingly hard? Short time limits?

     

    Which would you recommend? Or am I missing a good option? Ideally I don’t want something as difficult as Road to Nijmegen. Thanks!

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    Let's talk about the Road to Nijmegen

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    11 minutes ago, Erwin said:

    Don't forget that the designer cannot accurately predict what may be damaged.  So, one would still be faced with a map that will show different damage than one had in the previous scenario.

    Hi Erwin - I'm not talking about damage to maps - see my past few posts above. I'm talking about scenarios setup zones reflecting what objectives you take, when playing on the same map across several scenarios in a campaign.

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    Let's talk about the Road to Nijmegen

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

    Posted

    14 hours ago, mjkerner said:

    "... impossible as that may be"

    Yup, there's your problem right there.

    Forgive my ignorance - what are the criteria for determining the next scenario, and how many different scenarios can there be?

    Is it just a matter of Win / Loss branching off to different scenarios (in which case my suggestion is impossible - and it's just a matter of campaign designers working around this limitation in a better way), or is it possible to have more than two (in which case as far as I can see my idea might be possible)?

    Thanks!

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    Let's talk about the Road to Nijmegen

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

    Posted

    I see, so presumably the nature of the subsequent scenario is determined by whether the player achieves a win, draw or loss (tactical, total etc) and not by what objectives they control.

     

    In which case (in case any future campaign designers are reading!) I think it's imperative that the win/draw/loss corresponds with particular objectives being won, so that the following scenario's setup zone or held objectives match those that the player won in the previous scenario.

     

    Difficult or impossible as that may be!

     

    Otherwise it's too peculiar to have to win back the same objective 4 times in a campaign.

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    Let's talk about the Road to Nijmegen

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    18 minutes ago, Warts 'n' all said:

    It's nothing to be sorry about, you're just asking questions. Having to fight over the same ground again and again can feel more like a chore, than fun. 

    In 1944 the US Airborne faced a heavy counter-attack around Riethorst and the neighbouring villages. In fact the situation got so bad that the Guards Armoured Divsion had to send tanks from the Coldstreams to help force the Germans back. It would have nice if the scenario designer had worked that into at least one mission.

    I don't mind fighting over the same ground so much, it's more that either:

    I) it needs to be explained why so in the campaign in a narratively convincing way, or preferably:

     ii) the missions should respond more flexibly to the objectives you take. I.e. if I took the windmill in the previous mission then my setup zone should include the windmill in the following mission.

    Otherwise there is so much attention to detail from the designer - it seems to me kind of odd that these overarching points aren't implemented.

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    Let's talk about the Road to Nijmegen

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    9 hours ago, Warts 'n' all said:

    It isn't a glitch, it is how the campaign designer created it. It is a representation of the ebb and flow of the battle around Riethorst.

    Thanks for the reply.

    I just completed Night Fight - I rushed my troops unopposed into the objectives I'd previously occupied, so in the end it didn't have too much effect on things. I then successfully defended them.

    Now I've loaded up the next mission and, LOL, once again the hotel and windmill are out of my control! It does create quite a peculiar dynamic, and certainly for me it breaks immersion. 

    (Sorry if this seems moany).

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    Let's talk about the Road to Nijmegen

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

    Posted

    I have just played the Heuman Lock Bridge scenario and can confirm that the bridge is still bugged / broken / impossible to cross. Likewise, the ditches do not provide any cover (in fact it was straightforward to attain enough suppression to cross the open ground on the far left of the map, so this wasn’t game-spoiling).

     

    I have now reached Night Fight and am somewhat dumfounded that, having taken Riethorst Hotel and the Windmill objectives during For Those About To Die, I now have to retake them. I can’t fathom why this is. Is this a glitch or as intended but underexplained? Perhaps a glitch due to me ‘losing’ with a tactical defeat despite taking those two objectives during FThoseATDie??

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    List of all missions for all scenarios?

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

    Posted

    1 hour ago, IanL said:

    Indeed. While the stock scenario flag is not in the main table the Links column does not have a green download icon (download.png) for stock scenarios. There can be a blue information icon (info.png) but no green download icon.

    When you click on the details for a campaign the window that opens up has detailed info about the campaign including an indication that it is a stock scenario followed by a campaign decision tree that shows the scenario flow followed by a table of details of those those scenarios.

    Thanks very much! Just the info I needed.

    It will allow me to identify the base game scenarios, and see how best to get [British/CW] bang for my buck!

    And thanks for the great site.

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    Elefants and Tigers

    in Combat Mission Fortress Italy

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    Well, I went back a few saves and didn't commit fully to the attack from the left, instead keeping up some supression fire (not much of it in any danger of harming the Germans), and shifting more of my troops round to the right via the UCs and trucks, forming a double pincer.

    I still felt that the loss of life in moving up to the dug in position was far too much, but: maybe perception is everything! Because the result was a Major Victory!

    31 Killed, 27 Wounded, compared to 39 Germans killed and 32 wounded! They lost 2 vehicles, I lost 1 (although 3 or 4 more were immobilized). I'm stunned that my losses were less than theirs!

    In retrospect, I think I probably had the scenario won even in my first playthrough (which I never saw through to the end). I was just a bit too fixated on wiping out all the Germans, even though I controlled all the objectives except for the High Ground.

    Thanks for all the advice about this scenario. I think I'll be buying Battle for Normandy first - I just need to figure out which exact items to buy in order to get a good British / Commonwealth experience, whilst attempting not to break the bank.

     

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    List of all missions for all scenarios?

    in Combat Mission - General Discussion

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    7 minutes ago, BornGinger said:

    The title to this thread is a bit wrong. In the first post you ask for missions to campaigns but according to the subject title you ask for missions to scenarios.

    If you would like to know about which scenarios, and how many of them, there are in a campaign, you can search for combat mission universal utility 1.0.0.1 which is a tool that allows you to open up a campaign so you get all it's scenarios in a folder. You can then open each scenario in the editor or play them as a separate battle if they are moved to the scenario folder.

    It's possible that there is a new version of this universal utility tool. If there is, I'm sure you'll find it.

    Thanks for the reply.

    You're quite correct, the title is a bit askew.

    You're correct - I'd like to know about which scenarios there are in the base campaigns. How many / what they are / what forces you control.

    I don't own the game so I'm unable to use the utility tool you describe. The reason I asked the original Q was that I'd like to know more about the scenarios and campaigns before I buy.

    Thanks again!

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    Elefants and Tigers

    in Combat Mission Fortress Italy

    Posted · Edited by zaybz
    Typos and clarity

    12 hours ago, Bearstronaut said:

    What I did for the mission was use the town to set up a base of fire with my Vickers teams in order to suppress enemy teams on the opposite ridge and then sent my dudes up the left side of the map and swept across the ridge laterally.

    That's more or less exactly what I did, to disastrous effect! I'm curious as to how you managed effective firing angles as you swept across laterally.

    Also, so many of the enemy's troops are not visible from the town as they're dug in on the reverse slope, so there's no suppression value from the town for them.

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    Elefants and Tigers

    in Combat Mission Fortress Italy

    Posted

    14 hours ago, Ts4EVER said:

    I played this a while back:

     

    Thanks very much - I've watched several of your videos to help learn the game, in fact I searched for this scenario but couldnt find it.

    Look forward to watching how you approach it and hope to learn a thing or two. I've skipped ahead quickly and seen that you flank right, not left. I also watched enough to hear you say that the scenario is "pretty unbalanced and actually quite unfair" or words to that effect, which is reassuring! (Not that I'm holding you to those words!)

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