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[Erik2]

Normandy UK & Canada 1944 2.1
Link updated in first post.

04Juno:
Ger stab/cargo trucks will try to exit when spotted by Allied land unit

13Caumont:
Fixed air exits again...

18Epsom4:
Sec objs fixed.

20GoodwoodOA:
Reduced no of turns from 24 to 20

34Falaise:
Added sec obj all cargo trucks destroyed

[CoolDTA]

Cool, thanks for these maps. Four so far? They will help with this Winter War 1940 campaign and Continuation War, despite the dates of action. It's the place names and their geographic relationships to each other that I am looking for, as well as troop movements.

Yep, I understand those are the most useful things to know, when you are planning the location of objectives, villages, roadblocks etc. It just would help me a lot to get more info. Just a name of a scenario is very little.

The fourth scen is named 'Hotinen'. Well, it seems to be a name of a single house. Now we are going to a very small scale stuff. This map is hopefully useful (I put an arrow there to show 'Hotinen'). The filled red circles are bunkers, the
hollow ones are just shelters for troops.

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[Mascarenhas]

Normandy, once more

Playing new 2.1 version. From Sword, Le Bény-Bocage mission. No Off Map AF functional as exit points, only for entrance. My planes are doomed unless I finish this trap before turn 10.

Sorry to report, Erik, sometimes I feel myself as somewhat obsessive

[Mascarenhas]

Normandy, once more.

Well, I managed to get a minor in 11 turns, and so doing didn´t loose my Typhoon. But, still, this scenario has a problem already pointed: incorrect number of German units. I left 2 alive, but the counter kept saying that there were 3 alive.

Regards.

[ColonelY]

Want some more challenge?

Hey hey , there is another great campaign that has yet to be created: a Flying Tigers campaign!


I think that many of us have already heard about them...

The elite Flying Tigers on their famous P-40, the America’s Legendary Volunteer Fighter Group... three squadrons, around 60 aircraft.

Their leader, Claire Lee Chennault had a new fighting theory for its planes and wished to apply it...

His pilots have fought around 50 major aerial battle and have never lost one, although they were always outnumbered (sometimes even up to four versus one); many of them were able to gain their "ace" status by shooting down at least 5 Japanese planes.

These young Americans (as Bounty hunters because officially no longer part of the US-Army) have arrived at the remote outpost of Toungoo airfield, in Burma, in Fall 1941 (so before Pearl Harbor!). However, their epic fights lasted only about 7 months...

They have participated to the defense of Rangoon (in Burma), then retreated into China and pursued there their fight...

By May 1942, they have been able - almost by themselves only - to stop the Japanese 56th Division marching into China from Burma. This Division had to cross the Salween River; if it did, then only little could still stop their advance to Kunming (headquarters of the Flying Tigers) or Chongqing (China's wartime capital)... Hopefully, the Japanese Division had to cross a gorge. The Flying Tigers dropped their few bombs not directly on them but on the rocks, thus creating a tremendous avalanche, making the Japanese lose hundreds of their soldiers and many tanks... and closing this gorge once and for all. This Division was then forced to go back to Burma!

(If required, here are few sources, a somehow classical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Tigers & about less known facts: https://militaryhistorynow.com/2017/09/ ... -squadron/ )

So, such a campaign can include as well tons of action, as the interception of bombing raids, aerial battles, bombing Japanese columns advancing along roads across jungles, destroying Japanese airfields, protecting our own airfields, etc. As well, of course, Rangoon and about this Japanese 56th Division...

With around 50 major aerial battle as well, there should definitely be matter to make many great scenarios!

In short: many ingredients for another epic saga!


And, this time, there should be no problem at all related to units still not in OoB!
And I've heard of you planning maybe something related to jungles...

So, what about creating a Flying Tigers campaign?

[ColonelY]

Oh, and by the way, when I’ve written that the Free French have taken part in the battle of El Alamein, I was of course thinking to the second battle of El Alamein…

The 2nd battle (from the 23th of October to the 3rd November 1942), and not the 1st battle (from the 1st to the 27th of July 1942). To not be confused either with the battle of Alam el Halfa (from the 31st August to the 5th September).

[Erik2]

Mascarenhas

Keep 'em coming, please.
I've started a new Normandy list.

[bru888]

And ColonelY, you keep 'em coming, too.

Your thoughts and suggestions as they occur to you, that is. Know that we take them seriously and appreciate them, although you may not see all of them come to fruition because campaign and scenario designing is a long and laborious process. There's only so much time that can be devoted to it.

[Mascarenhas]

Normandy, or Sisyphus works

Found another slight problem at Les Grands Bonfaits scenario. Albeit I completed every secondary tasks - and primary, of course - I got only a minor victory, again.

Please, add this to your new list.

[Mascarenhas]

Normandy, once more.

Well, I managed to get a minor in 11 turns, and so doing didn´t loose my Typhoon. But, still, this scenario has a problem already pointed: incorrect number of German units. I left 2 alive, but the counter kept saying that there were 3 alive.

Regards.

Report Rectification:

I checked again the number of German units in this scenario and it is correct. I repeat, it is correct. Just air exits should be fixed.

Sorry for the mistake

[CoolDTA]

Free France campaign:

This one would be somehow challenging to develop amongst others because it is (again! ) rather difficult to gather information about the units opposed to the British and Free French at the beginning of the campaign… :roll

I think this would be a very interesting campaign. It'd have many battlegrounds, some of which are covered quite rarely in wargames like for instance Italian East Africa and Syria.

[bru888]

Normandy, or Sisyphus works

Found another slight problem at Les Grands Bonfaits scenario. Albeit I completed every secondary tasks - and primary, of course - I got only a minor victory, again.

Please, add this to your new list.

Found it, thanks. Erik, since this scenario is meant to go to Scenario turn limit, then this objective should be evaluated then. However, for that to happen, you need to change both of these to "Turn Start" event:

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Normandy, once more.

Well, I managed to get a minor in 11 turns, and so doing didn´t loose my Typhoon. But, still, this scenario has a problem already pointed: incorrect number of German units. I left 2 alive, but the counter kept saying that there were 3 alive.

Regards.

Report Rectification:

I checked again the number of German units in this scenario and it is correct. I repeat, it is correct. Just air exits should be fixed.

Sorry for the mistake

Thanks for coming back and correcting yourself. It saves time looking.

[bru888]

Free France campaign:

This one would be somehow challenging to develop amongst others because it is (again! ) rather difficult to gather information about the units opposed to the British and Free French at the beginning of the campaign… :roll

I think this would be a very interesting campaign. It'd have many battlegrounds, some of which are covered quite rarely in wargames like for instance Italian East Africa and Syria.

I have to admit, this idea is growing on me.

[ColonelY]

[Erik2]

Normandy UK & Canada 1944 2.2
Link updated in first post.

30Bonfait:
Fixed sec objs

[ColonelY]

Free France campaign:

This one would be somehow challenging to develop amongst others because it is (again! ) rather difficult to gather information about the units opposed to the British and Free French at the beginning of the campaign… :roll

I think this would be a very interesting campaign. It'd have many battlegrounds, some of which are covered quite rarely in wargames like for instance Italian East Africa and Syria.

I have to admit, this idea is growing on me.

It would be so great!


The Free France contribution to the war effort wasn't in any way negligible at all, as the Free French forces have actually played a CRUCIAL role in the Second World War; they may even have fought a battle that has changed the ENTIRE course of the war : Bir Hakeim, 1942, versus Rommel's Afrika Korps! (It was their very first opportunity to strike again the Germans on a large scale...)

There about 3'700 men (at least! ) resisted for more than two weeks to an enemy up to ten times more numerous... It is said that it became, per square meter, above Verdun in terms of artillery bombardments and above Stalingrad in terms of air bombardments... The French have had time to prepare themselves (but without knowing what was going to happen to them!); still, it was quite the challenge!

More info here for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNTJRm46ee4


I do really, really hope to see a Free France campaign come to fruition.


Already some more info to this regard:
1. Before this major battle of Bir Hakeim, the Free French had launched raids into the desert to capture some Italians... sometimes they succeded (so maybe a small scenario covering this "tiny" part, before the main battle's scenario?).
2. Many of the Free French were actually wearing the British colonial helmet (so some of the units of the Free French could use in OoB the British "Colonial Infantry" unit with their own flag)...
3. The fighter group "Alsace" and the bombing group "Lorraine" had been fighting since October in the skies over Cyrenaica, alongside the British.
4. French paratroopers were training... and had the opportunity to act several times. Some small scenarios related to their actions could also be added as well...
5. Before this famous battle at Bir Hakeim, the Free French had then two ways to act: to push towards Fezzan, from Chad, the Saharan column prepared for a long time by Leclerc, or to engage in Libya, alongside the British, the mobile forces set up in the Levant by Larminat. General De Gaulle decided to do both; the "Front du Tchad" was to remain a truly French front, but Leclerc had to wait to push hard towards Fezzan until the situation in Cyrenaica turned to the advantage of the Allies... Larminat commanded two light divisions and an armoured regiment; the 1st Light Division, commanded by Koenig, settled at Bir Hakeim...

[ColonelY]

I'm looking forward as well to test the new Winter War campaign.

[bru888]

I'm looking forward as well to test the new Winter War campaign.

You mean Winter War 1939, out in beta? Or Winter War 1940, currently in production? Here is the beginning of the latter.

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The Face Of The Enemy
Stalin is not pleased with the campaign so far. The Red Army has been humiliated. Soviet propaganda is working hard to explain the failures, blaming bad terrain, harsh climate, and claiming that the Mannerheim Line is stronger than the Maginot Line. Semyon Timoshenko is the new Soviet commander. He brings a new set of tactics.

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The Extent Of Our Aid
It is now evident that the shelling of Mainila back in November was a deliberate act by the Soviets to provide a casus belli for this war. While other countries sympathize with our plight, as evidenced by this cartoon, we receive little or no aid from them with the exception of Sweden. And that is not nearly enough. We still face the enemy alone.

[ColonelY]

You mean Winter War 1939, out in beta? Or Winter War 1940, currently in production?

Well, both actually...

Have I missed something? Can we already try the Winter War 1939? If yes, could you remember me the link to it, please?


Wonderful; I would have chosen the same cartoon for "The Extent Of Our Aid"!

[ColonelY]

Do not bother, no need, found it!

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Sorry for this... I've missed it , but now I'll try it for sure!