Anonymous_Jonze Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 It's been confirmed that Battlefront will create a module that covers the final months of the war on the western front. I think a Remagen bridge campaign is already pretty likely. That or the Americans at the Ruhr Pocket. My number one hope would be adding the Free French Forces with more assets at their disposal. I'd love to see a French campaign for the Colmar Pocket. Brits/Canadians in Northern Germany would also be cool. I'm not sure what a German Campaign would be... perhaps a desperate defense with ad hoc formations? [Paderborn comes to mind.] It would even be wild to see the 101st capture Hitler's Eagle's nest but I'm not sure how much actual combat took place there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerKommissar Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 Fingers crossed for Scheldt! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anonymous_Jonze Posted October 17, 2020 Author Share Posted October 17, 2020 35 minutes ago, DerKommissar said: Fingers crossed for Scheldt! Yeah it would be interesting how Battlefront would implement all the amphibious landings. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Combatintman Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 22 hours ago, Anonymous_Jonze said: It's been confirmed that Battlefront will create a module that covers the final months of the war on the western front. I think a Remagen bridge campaign is already pretty likely. That or the Americans at the Ruhr Pocket. My number one hope would be adding the Free French Forces with more assets at their disposal. I'd love to see a French campaign for the Colmar Pocket. Brits/Canadians in Northern Germany would also be cool. I'm not sure what a German Campaign would be... perhaps a desperate defense with ad hoc formations? [Paderborn comes to mind.] It would even be wild to see the 101st capture Hitler's Eagle's nest but I'm not sure how much actual combat took place there. The honking great tunnel on the sausage side of the river will put the dampeners to that aspiration. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ts4EVER Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 Well the latest Fortress Italy Module didn't even have a German campaign, likely because there weren't many interesting offensive battles this late. Maybe it will be the same here. On the Eastern Front at least you had the offensives in Hungary, but on the Western front not much was going on after Nordwind. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glubokii Boy Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 A defensive campaign will do nicely ... With brancing options...to hold current terrain for one more battle or fall back ...? To defend in place or try to launch a local counter attack...some night raiding or recon missions perhaps... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ts4EVER Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 Not sure, I don't think defensive missions are necessarily a strength of this system. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glubokii Boy Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 12 hours ago, Ts4EVER said: Not sure, I don't think defensive missions are necessarily a strength of this system. True...but if any one will be able to do it it ought to be BFC...They have the required amount of playtesters atleast. It will be a nice challange for them ... Being able to play a defensive campaign for a change would be intresting... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
black_prince Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 Operations Veritable and Grenade? Veritable saw extensive use of DUKWS and Buffaloes by the Canadians in areas flooded by the Germans. Could be interesting. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warts 'n' all Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 "I don't think defensive missions are necessarily a strength of this system". Well BFC did do a rather lukewarm job of defending themselves when you called them "Mother****ers", but perhaps they didn't want to descend to your level. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anonymous_Jonze Posted October 26, 2020 Author Share Posted October 26, 2020 Well that accelerated. Let's talk about the game instead. There are some defensive missions on the German Campaign "A Moment in Time" in CMBN that I enjoyed. There's one where you defend a bridge with inferior Kriegsmarine troops against paratroopers. It's at night, so they just rush the bridge with SMG's. I also recall some huge scenarios of CMFI where you defend from a massive German counter-attack at Anzio. Can't recall which one specifically but taking out their tigers was pretty challenging with only m4 Shermans. I think a German defensive campaign could be done right with a couple of small counterattacks added. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerKommissar Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 (edited) In an offense mission, the Player can rush or take it slow. In a defense mission, the pacing of the gameplay is entirely up to the scenario's designer. Defense missions must take extra effort to set up AI plans and such. Maybe that's why we see less of them? I did enjoy the defense missions in Combat Mission: Afghanistan -- they felt very thematic. CM:SF2 Highland Games also had a very fun mission, where you hold off a Soviet-style mechanized assault. With QBs, it varies widely from "too intense" to "waste of time". Edited October 26, 2020 by DerKommissar 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glubokii Boy Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 48 minutes ago, DerKommissar said: Defense missions must take extra effort to set up AI plans and such. Maybe that's why we see less of them? Most likely...it is far, far more difficult for a number of reasons to design a player defensive mission. Many would say...close to impossible ! with the tools currently avaliable in the editor. One thing is for sure...playtesting and tweaking will be massive..and it really requires very good understanding of the ins and outs of the editor to even have a chans of pulling it off... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markus544 Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 Bridge at the Rhine...would be cool. M-26 Pershing being employed would be cool also. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 Remagen bridge scenario, the tunnel entrance is RIGHT THERE. No avoiding it. Maybe they're going to be 'remarkably clever' and find a way to include it, or maybe they're going to cut the map right at the tunnel entrance. I know 'important people' want to see the bridge but it may be more trouble than its worth. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vacillator Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 There was a smaller but nevertheless creative tunnel entrance in the CMBN 'Cats chasing dogs' scenario. Slightly abstract admittedly but it worked for the purposes of the scenario. The scale of Remagen might be a different proposition... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StieliAlpha Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 (edited) On 10/17/2020 at 8:42 PM, Anonymous_Jonze said: ... perhaps a desperate defense with ad hoc formations? [Paderborn comes to mind.] Yep, coming from that region, I would love to see a TF Welborn scenario. As I recall, this was the last larger tank engagement of the war and therefore certainly is some sort of „milestone“. There were one or two scenario attempts for CMx1, but they were not very convincing. Otherwise, I remember a pretty good Northeim campaign for CMx1, which I would love to play with CMFB. And the Harz should offer room for small scale actions in extremely difficult terrain. Edited December 6, 2020 by StieliAlpha 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 On 10/18/2020 at 6:36 PM, Combatintman said: The honking great tunnel on the sausage side of the river will put the dampeners to that aspiration. Maybe embed a bridge & a couple of single tile buildings into the terrain and use it as a spawn/exit-zone location (I've done something similar to this with the subway tunnels in some of my Trumpton experiments).....It's about as close as we can get. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockinHarry Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 Would love to finally see the Scheldt, Blackcock and Veritable going. Defensive campaigns should be doable if single battles are at reasonable size and scope IMO. In Veritable germans even would have some local offensive options and surely both challenging and fun to create. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anonymous_Jonze Posted December 6, 2020 Author Share Posted December 6, 2020 10 hours ago, StieliAlpha said: Yep, coming from that region, I would love to see a TF Welborn scenario. As I recall, this was the last larger tank engagement of the war and therefore certainly is some sort of „milestone“. There were one or two scenario attempts for CMx1, but they were not very convincing. Otherwise, I remember a pretty good Northeim campaign for CMx1, which I would love to play with CMFB. And the Harz should offer room for small scale actions in extremely difficult terrain. I hiked the Harz a couple of years back and was surprised how rugged they were! Especially in the Northern German plain. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warts 'n' all Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 It's twenty years since I've been there. Such a lovely area, it would (almost) be a shame to fight over it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesertFox Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warts 'n' all Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 @DesertFoxSomething you are working on? Or just wishing for? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesertFox Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 5 minutes ago, Warts 'n' all said: @DesertFoxSomething you are working on? Or just wishing for? I am wishing for it. I hope at least parts of it are being realized in the next module. Good scenario could be Hochwald Gap, Canadian Heroes - Private Loren Nelson - Battle of the Hochwald and of course all the Reichswald action. Maybe we´ll see the CW module 44/45 in 2022? I hope so. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warts 'n' all Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 I have a copy of the Whitaker's book about this battle. It's about thirty years old and the pages are turning brown, but I'll have to read it again sometime. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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