New Afghanistan inspired campaign: Valleys of Death

[Heinrich505 188]

It's all well deserved.  You did a fantastic job!

I've been following the Vietnam mod with great interest.  I will look forward to seeing what magic you can put together for that campaign.

Thanks for all your dedication and hard work.  It really shows!

Heinrich505  

[hundtand 26]

I had great fun with this campaign. Every single mission offered up, at least a handful, of those moments of tension that keeps me coming back to Combat Mission. Some missions seemed droll at first glance, but they all ended up offering great and immersive experiences. To top it all off, it all feels very grounded and realistic.

The campaign also manages very well to tell a story. I think having all but two missions play out on the same map helps greatly with that. Strangely enough, watching pixeltruppen crest a ridge, becomes more interesting when that ridge has been crested before. When there's occassion for me to project my own memories of casualties inflicted by the enemy onto my pixellated platoons.

Thanks for letting us play! I hope you got as much enjoyment out of making this campaign as I got from playing it.

Spoiler follows, highlight to read: That RPG in the epilogue mission was a great touch.

Edited July 11, 2019 by hundtand
Fixing the spoiler marking, etc.

[puje 41]

@hundtand

I'm glad you caugh that surprise at the end. That AI for that simple little thing really drove me nuts because the AI is so unpredictable 😅

[borg 56]

I’m now in the third scenario of this campaign. Just went up the hill  to check the IED ‘incident’ down hill .... perfect vantage point  

[Sgt.Squarehead 1,202]

On 9/19/2019 at 8:31 PM, borg said:

perfect vantage point

Yes.....Yes it is. 

[Sgt.Squarehead 1,202]

On 6/22/2019 at 5:42 PM, puje said:

Right now I'm working on a campaign for 37mm's Vietnam mod. I can't spend as much times on it as I did on this campaign, but I hope I can somewhat live up to the reviews of Valleys.

You knocked that sucker well & truly outta the park mate!

@puje's 'Year Of The Rat' campaign for CM:SF2 'Heaven & Earth' is available here:

 

[JulianJ 116]

Reading  all this I am already excited to try this one.

[MeatEtr 34]

Sounds good, already downloaded and will give it a spin!

[Bigsocrates 0]

This may be the dumbest question of all. I downloaded the Campaign and have the .cam file. Now What? I put it in my Z folder, nothing. How do I install the campaign? 

[Combatintman 1,149]

@Bigsocrates - there is a folder called (helpfully) Campaigns - bung it in there mate.  The filepath goes something like this:

C:\Users\yourname\Documents\Battlefront\Combat Mission\Shock Force 2\Game Files\Campaigns

Then launch CMSF and you should see it when you go to campaigns.

 

[Bigsocrates 0]

Thank you so much. That was the ticket. Appreciate you. 

[Roter Stern 38]

Started playing though - I'm only three missions in and already had to come here to say how well done this is!

Being rather burnt out on "shock and awe" from the official campaigns and majority of scenarios - this is a breath of fresh air!

Never has poking your head over the crest of a hill as BLUFOR has been so tense! The fewer assets you have, the more you care about them.