Updating Hasrabit

[Kohlbie]

18 hours ago, Paper Tiger said:

This also allows me to add a second, frontal defensive line to the  map and have the first mech company dismount to attack that line while the second waits and then goes after the back line.

Oh wow, this just made me realize that we really don't see properly layered defenses in CM as much as we might should except maybe in CMCW. Sounds really cool!

The screenshots of the revised maps further up the thread look really good. How many scenarios are there in this campaign? Reading through the thread I am seeing a lot of scenario different names 

[Paper Tiger]

There were originally ten missions in Hasrabit. But I added a new opener which is staying so right now there are eleven.

However, I've got a possible two extra missions as well at Adan Airfield, one of which is already finished and tested but the second of which would require me to make up a whole new AI attack which can be a lot of work. I'm humming and hawing over including this short series because scripting AI attacks can be fun if you're in the right frame of mind so we'll see.

I'm also considering removing the Heavy Metal mission as it's a strange one and too similar to what I have already done in the earlier Hill 142 mission. It may require too much work to update. But again, we'll see.

There are so many AI meeting engagements in this campaign and they're the hardest to make challenging. It was not much work when the AI was simply move group 1 to A, then B, then C and just co-ordinating these groups but now there are up to sixteen of them with triggers as well. It gives much better results but is commensurable to the effort put in by the designer. (I haven't used that word in a long time)

Edited January 6 by Paper Tiger

[Erwin]

..."better" or "but"?  Will PM you re M4 of "Gun Ho!"  (Another great mission.)  

[Boche]

Never got around to playing Hasrabit back in the day so looking forward to playing the updated version. Thank you for updating all your campaigns.