What battles were left out?

[Thewood1]

The tactical maps look an awful lot like Armored Brigade.  With some overlays.

[Centurian52]

1 hour ago, Thewood1 said:

The tactical maps look an awful lot like Armored Brigade.  With some overlays.

In the Operations Room video? Yeah, I suppose it does look a bit like Armored Brigade. Both The Operations Room and Armored Brigade use 2d maps with a similar balance of detail/abstraction and what looks to me like a similar art style. But I doubt they're actually using AB to generate their maps. The locations depicted in most Operations Room videos aren't present in any of the stock AB maps. So that would mean they would have to be creating custom AB maps for each video. Possible, but it's probably easier to just use a dedicated graphics program at that point.

[user1000]

neat

[walrus-w]

I rather like the idea of an alternate-history campaign starting with 11th Armoured Division capturing the Lauenburg railway bridge intact and racing to Berlin from there. In large part this would be an excuse to test the Comet against substantial German armoured formations under varying conditions.

[Warts 'n' all]

Not a great fan of alternate history such as the above. Paddy hasn't seen my mum growing up, and needs to get home sharpish.

[A Canadian Cat]

14 hours ago, Warts 'n' all said:

Not a great fan of alternate history

Other than the alternate history where you are still alive that is

[Warts 'n' all]

2 hours ago, A Canadian Cat said:

Other than the alternate history where you are still alive that is

In the Commonwealth of Nostalgia Magna we forge our own history.

[Vacillator]

52 minutes ago, Warts 'n' all said:

Commonwealth

Ah, the Commonwealth.  Ian will appreciate that I'm sure .

[Vacillator]

On 4/25/2024 at 3:57 AM, walrus-w said:

the Lauenburg railway bridge

Is that the one that was built starting in 1950?  That would definitely be alternative history.

[Warts 'n' all]

2 hours ago, Vacillator said:

Is that the one that was built starting in 1950?  That would definitely be alternative history.

I'm not a train spotter, but I suspect he means the one built in 1878. Exits stage right singing "Over the points, over the points.. " You know the rest. ------->

[Vacillator]

13 minutes ago, Warts 'n' all said:

I'm not a train spotter

Me neither, probably explains the question.  Google is a little vague on the matter...

Okay I found this:

The first construction of a bridge over the Elbe near Lauenburg took place in 1878. This was blown up by the company's own troops at the end of World War II to prevent the advance of British troops.

Edited Friday at 11:11 PM by Vacillator

[walrus-w]

I should have stated at the outset that I'm certainly not suggesting this to be an omission from the module. Generally, I don't go for such specific counterfactuals. In this case, I'd like to mess around with the Comet, which requires some modification of the actual historical situation. Taming the Panzers provides a brief description of the bridge at Lauenburg being blown with tanks of 3rd RTR only 200 yards away. This, in my opinion, gives a vaguely plausible excuse to build a campaign involving 11th Armoured Division crossing the Elbe in mid-April and, in doing so, encountering some hypothetical German armoured formation still capable of manoeuvre.  

Edited Saturday at 08:06 AM by walrus-w

[Warts 'n' all]

Paddy lifts his eyes from his pint of black, and says, "Fer feck sake man, I just wanna get home to Caitlin and the girls."