Dermax

That is really awesome! I look forward to digging into this!

I am really enjoying Combat Mission Shock Force 2. I was late to the party, having followed Battlefront games on and off for years. Getting into CMSF 2 in the past month or two, however, has been an absolute blast. I treated myself to all the DLC for Christmas and have been really enjoying those as well. On this forum it probably won't stand out as weird, but I really enjoy studying military organizations and orders of battle. There's probably a way to view campaign forces in game somewhere, but in lieu of knowing how to do that I've actually been filling out an OOB and TOE for Task Force Thunder as I go through the campaign. One thing that I've been kind of - bummed out seems too strong - about is the "lack of identity" to Task Force Thunder's component units. While the other campaigns are quite descriptive down even to the company level, about all that you get from Task Force Thunder is you're commanding the 2nd Battalion and it's built around a Striker Brigade Combat Team. We know from the Highland Games intro that the US 1st Cavalry Division has operation control of the attack into southern Syrian, but unless the units to link up with in the Dutch campaign are named - I haven't gotten that far - it seems like 1st Cav is the only named US Army unit in the game. We can also assume from the Task Force Thunder intro map that a brigade from the 101st Airborne is there given the presence of an airmobile brigade. Overthinking? Yep, but as a military historian writing that imaginary history of imaginary wars is half the fun of wargaming. Unless the campaign designer weighs in, I guess we'll never have a "this was the unit" answer, but for those that know the campaigns inside and out - are there other indications or hints as to who these units are? I'd hypothesize that 25th Infantry Division was probably running the central invasion into Syria, so - I don't know - maybe Task Force Thunder is one of the SBCTs from the 2nd Infantry Division? There were only... seven or eight SBCTs active in 2008... but again - overthinking!