12th SS campaign

[Baneman]

Excellent looking work.

I find CM2 much more rewarding on large/huge maps and so I take my hat off to you mapmakers especially when you're creating these. And when they're based on reality, it is even better since there's no "scenario-agenda".

Cheers

[Broadsword56]

I'm a little sad that I couldn't stick to my usual "keep the roads straight" maxim, especially with the railway, but the scene just didn't allow that.

No sweat. The compromise I make on my historical maps is to orient the map so the main highway(s) can be straight, but then all the other roads can curve as needed. Also, I find that for country lanes, etc., plain dirt or gravel tiles actually look better and blend better than road tiles sometimes because they don't have that hard edge.

[Rokko]

It worked really well on the other map, which is up at the repository BTW.

I just had to stretch and straighten things here and there but actually managed to keep dimensions mostly correct.

With it's usually acceptable to make a few zigs along there line for me, but for railways I just can't stand those 45° turns normally.

I also rate looks higher than thruthfullnes to reality and scale or, as in your case, being able to match the edges of many different maps, so that's why I try to avoid zig-zags.

[Aragorn2002]

Great job, Rokko, my compliments.

[LUCASWILLEN05]

Sounds great Rokko. Are you intending to publish some of the more intersting historial actionsfrom this campaign as standalone scenarios?

[zmoney]

Has the campaign been released?

[Rokko]

No of course not. I'm in fact still mostly occupied with mapmaking at the moment.

I am considering to release selected scenarios as stand-alone version as they become finalized.

[Aragorn2002]

Any progress, Rokko?

[baron Jacquinot]

*possible spoiler*

Baron

Played your Buron scenario as Germans and enjoyed it. Your love of artillery is apparent.

I didn't play it historically as set up - I moved the German trenches and placements into Buron rather than on the outskirts and that was much more survivable for the landser I suspect.

The point I wanted to ask you about - the flak guns behind the flanking hedge are set up outside the set up area and so can't be moved (which I assume was deliberate and I don't have an issue with). My problem was that they could not get LOS / LOF from behind the boacage on any of the Canadian assault force as set up - maybe a similar problem to Marders behind bocage. They were however fully visible to the Canadians and got pounded to bits by direct and indirect fire without being able to return fire.

I think infantry must stand in trenches, this can stop British tanks a little.

Yes, better to change position of Flak guns, but I try to all be closer to history, and I don't know about Marders in bocages, I just place them in bocages because I use after battle plan which show tanks in bocages.