The Sheriff of Oosterbeek – A Scenario Design DAR/AAR
Hi folks,
Creating a scenario in the Combat Mission editor has been described as the-game-within-the-game. I know a number of people who’ve spent more time playing with the editor than they have playing the game. Creating a good scenario - and hopefully getting positive feedback on it from players – can be an incredibly rewarding process, and I think it’s a shame more people don’t give it a go and use the scenario editor they’ve bought and paid for.
Over the next couple of weeks I inte
10 – German Forces “You haven’t been to war until you’ve fought the Germans.”
Winston Churchill
Before getting to the Germans, I want to talk a bit about unit experience ratings.
In the NWE campaign in WWII, so called 'veteran' units - especially infantry units - were predominantly manned by men with less than a couple of months service with the unit. The proof of that is in the casualty stats. For example:
4th US Infantry Div suffered 250% of TOE strength in casualties (299 days in comb