Bulletpoint Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 13 hours ago, Bil Hardenberger said: German player must assault and clear the heavily mined enemy strongpoint through very restricted terrain, time is short Sounds like quite a challenge. Germans attacking Russians. In woods. Through a minefield. With little time on the clock No wonder it's labelled as "advanced" for the German player... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bil Hardenberger Posted December 5, 2018 Author Share Posted December 5, 2018 6 hours ago, domfluff said: Just looking at the screenshots above, this feels like that AAR you did based on the "Germans can't win in the woods" comment on CMRT. Nothing like it actually... 2 hours ago, Bulletpoint said: Sounds like quite a challenge. Germans attacking Russians. In woods. Through a minefield. With little time on the clock No wonder it's labelled as "advanced" for the German player... Heheh.. make sure I get feedback when you guys try this one out. Bil 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethaface Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 These sure look interesting! anyone up for a PBEM? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domfluff Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 @Lethaface I am. I've posted on a FewGoodMen, but haven't had any pickup yet. Can't start it tonight, but tomorrow? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethaface Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 @domfluff lol I literally just setup both game with someone that replied yesterday. Any other CMSF2 pbem game instead? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domfluff Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 Yeah, happy to fire something up. More than happy to take any side, quick battle or scenarios, all modules. If you wanted to do a Blue vs Insurgents then that's cool - but I'd ask for daytime and a city to hide in 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethaface Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 Just now, domfluff said: Yeah, happy to fire something up. More than happy to take any side, quick battle or scenarios, all modules. If you wanted to do a Blue vs Insurgents then that's cool - but I'd ask for daytime and a city to hide in I'll PM. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IICptMillerII Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 Are there any plans to make one of these tactical problems in SF2? I think it's a great idea, and setting one in the modern setting would be a really interesting way to show how the tactical principles are the same, but the tools can drastically change how they are specifically implemented. With SF2 being the hot new title right now, you might get a larger pool of people looking to try it right away too. Plus, it would selfishly be a scenario I could play! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bil Hardenberger Posted December 7, 2018 Author Share Posted December 7, 2018 7 minutes ago, IICptMillerII said: Are there any plans to make one of these tactical problems in SF2? I think it's a great idea, and setting one in the modern setting would be a really interesting way to show how the tactical principles are the same, but the tools can drastically change how they are specifically implemented. With SF2 being the hot new title right now, you might get a larger pool of people looking to try it right away too. Plus, it would selfishly be a scenario I could play! Yes, that is in the plans. CMSF2 will feature one of these in the near future. Bil 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IICptMillerII Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 14 minutes ago, Bil Hardenberger said: Yes, that is in the plans. CMSF2 will feature one of these in the near future. Bil Great news, looking forward to it! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethaface Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 Have started both drills with @BletchleyGeek. Done setup for Allies in drill 1 already, sure is an interesting tactical problem! Apart from a thumbs up for some nicely crafted scenario's, no real feedback yet. I have made a conceptual sketch of what I want to achieve and why. We will see how the execution fares and, later, whether my 'solution' makes sense to others . Will think of how to share experiences without spoiling too much. The idea of both players having to figure out stuff themselves is a good one. It might bring new dynamics, we will see! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bil Hardenberger Posted December 8, 2018 Author Share Posted December 8, 2018 16 hours ago, Lethaface said: Have started both drills with @BletchleyGeek. Done setup for Allies in drill 1 already, sure is an interesting tactical problem! Apart from a thumbs up for some nicely crafted scenario's, no real feedback yet. I have made a conceptual sketch of what I want to achieve and why. We will see how the execution fares and, later, whether my 'solution' makes sense to others . Will think of how to share experiences without spoiling too much. The idea of both players having to figure out stuff themselves is a good one. It might bring new dynamics, we will see! Definitely let me and ScoutPL know how these go... you guys know howto get in touch with us. Bil 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slysniper Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 Just wanted to report the results of playing the first battle. Played Ian, he wanted to check these out so we are. He was the Germans, I selected the Americans. My briefing did not give a clear objective as to what I needed to focus on. I had to determine for myself what the key areas were and then I was informed to react to what the enemy was doing. (That is what the challenge was that you gave us) The briefing did a good job of setting that up. The bridge and crossroads were the obvious key areas in my mind but because I had them right next to me they were not objectives I had to go obtain. So I felt I needed to be aggressive and attack and get other objectives. So that meant I needed to push for other objectives. But with the M8’s being my only assets with any real fire power, they were too brittle to risk. Losing 1 or 2 of them would for sure be costly to my side in any efforts in the battle. So it meant any aggressive actions on my part would be a slow action trying to use my infantry. So after moving across the bridge and getting units at the cross roads and coming into contact with German units I began a slow process of moving infantry units forward on my flanks. Ian was focused on the center of the map objectives, so my flanks were able to get to the next objectives without too much problem I was surprised by what the German units were, but since I had the m8's in reserve, they were used to react to any areas I felt I was getting out gunned in. As the battle progressed I could tell Ian was going to stay focused on the crossroads and that I needed to make sure that I had good fire on areas he would likely approach to taking that objective. Having taken the flanks, this became somewhat easy in that I had units holding those objectives but they could also support the center cross road area. So that was really the cause for the win in that the Germans lost most of their units on that approach which I had prepared for. Holding the flanks also cause Ian to divert some forces to his flanks , so that prevented him from using them in his main attack. So I hope this gives you some insight without me giving too much away about the scenario for others who have not played it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BletchleyGeek Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 FWIW I played the Germans against @Lethafacein a similar way as you played the US side @slyniper. I didn't win 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Canadian Cat Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Here are my thought's from my match up with @slysniper. It was a different experience not having known objectives. I decided that I needed to press for a crossing and attempt to deny others. So, I decided to go for the bridge and the hill while keeping LOF on the ford. The German ACs only had 20mm and the HT based 75mm and 37mm, while nice to have, are very fragile. The briefing warns of the possibility of enemy armour. Facing off against even one Sherman tank with only HT mounted guns is a scary proposition. So, I proceeded with caution at the start. Things went OK at the beginning I took up positions that had LOF on the ford and parts of the area around the bridge. I met resistance on my way to the hill (not a surprise) so I spent time just pining them down. I started taking casulties in my platoon working its way to the farm near the bridge and I should have pulled back. The enemy's mortars were very deadly and I thought I knew were they were and were peppering them but it turns out there was at least one unmolested that did a lot of damage. Then the M8s showed themselves after I scored some victories vs the US HTs the M8s made up for it eventually by picking apart my HT based SP guns. In the end I fought longer than would have been reasonable IRL but typical for the game. And I lost. I thought I had the end screens on hand but I don't. I'll have to post them later. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethaface Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Interesting to read your experience! We send feedback to @Bil Hardenberger via PM. I did enjoy the experience not knowing objectives. As the US my idea was to aggressively take and hold the bridge area and hill. @BletchleyGeek made sure the holding part of this idea turned out to be quite a challenge :). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletpoint Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 I tried downloading "A Rifle Behind Every Tree", but I get an error message - the file is no longer in the dropbox. Does anyone have the file and want to share? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletpoint Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 On 6/19/2020 at 9:08 AM, Bulletpoint said: I tried downloading "A Rifle Behind Every Tree", but I get an error message - the file is no longer in the dropbox. Does anyone have the file and want to share? Got the file, thanks 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bil Hardenberger Posted July 15, 2020 Author Share Posted July 15, 2020 Sorry about that, those links have been updated and work again. Bil 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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