Campaign Series Vietnam

[Jason Petho]

Well here we, we dove back into the West Front scenario, Blunting the Sword. We are playing as the Germans and doing everything we can to destroy as many UK tanks that come into view. The buggers have isolated our western flank, but we're making progress into our attack into Cagny. At the end of the session, I decided to adjust what the victory conditions will be for me (not the official, since we're playing the AI) and I think it will make it a far more challenging battle. We're up to 150 Allied tanks destroyed, with a few hundred left to take out. It is an exciting battle we are in!

[Jason Petho]

Well then, we had a plan but Murphy decided to visit. Our initial attack in the Viet Cong ambush area seemed to be going well, but them boom. Losses started mounting and even though I am holding the line, it is turning into the grinding affair where I'm running out of time to destroy the Viet Cong regiment and advance the supply and engineer vehicles towards Minh Thanh, which is the ultimate goal. I'm nowhere near victory at the moment, but I have all the positive vibes. What a fight, what a fight indeed!

[Jason Petho]

What a fun scenario. We are destroying tanks left right and center and our advance towards the outskirts of Caen seems to be going well. The catch is that it seems I ran into the artillery park and I'm suffering severe casualties because of it. On the bright side, my  Tigers have just arrived into the area, so that will hopefully bring some peace to the sector. Around the village of Ifs, the German infantry unit that had held out again many Allied assaults has finally been relieved. They suffered horrendous losses, but persevered until the panzer grenadiers and Panthers crested the ridgeline in the south!

[Jason Petho]

The beauty about Campaign Series Vietnam is that you can have the best plan in the world and the AI tell you to go firetruck yourself. This is definitely one of those cases. Our counter-ambush was going well, we were making some progress and making some ground with our troops on the flanks of the Viet Cong Regiment. Alas, there was another major Viet Cong attack that caught me completely off guard, especially when my helicopters were off getting refueled. Talk about timing. We're creeping to the end, for better or worse!

[Jason Petho]

The allied forces are in for a world of hurt. We have started to counter-attack in the jaws of the allied tanks. We have taken a few losses, but our advance is going very well indeed. The plan is to secure all of the map from the allied forces, and see about creating some pockets to corral them into before we decimate them. I think we will play this from the Allied side after we finish to see if we can give the Axis a thrashing too. Exciting times indeed!

[Jason Petho]

We cleaned the XXX Corps from the map, that was a rough go for the UK AI. After that we decided to flip sides and see if I could do any better as the UK and attack into the German lines. We are in a few turns and while I am suffering some losses, it isn't too bad so far. Our plethora of Firefly's against the King Tiger's turned out well in our favour. We lost some tanks across the line, but I'm feeling confident so far. We are still waiting for the infantry but using our tanks like water flowing down a river, trying not to get bogged down. The Germans are in for some challenges indeed.

[Jason Petho]

 It is an interesting experience playing this from the XXX Corps side. We're doing quite well breaking into the rear of the German defences, just by acting as a river and proceeding through the weakest areas. We're still losing some tanks here and there, mostly due to infantry close attacks that pop out of nowhere. The interesting part of this so far is that we haven't focused on the objectives so far this scenario, merely focusing on isolating all of the German Hedgehog positions to isolate them and destroy them in detail. We have run into a panzer battalion, and while we haven't come away unscathed, we're holding our own indeed. 

[Jason Petho]

Back to the Normandie area and the attempt of our XXX Corps to break out of Caen. On the bright side, it is going quite well, overrunning German positions in the rear and starting to methodically destroy some of the hedgehog positions. I'm attempting to break into some of the trenches after isolating the various towns and doing my best to assault. It seems my infantry strength needs to be increased, so I'll work on that in the coming turns. Some silly mistakes on my end, as you'll see, but that's the beauty of playing like these larger scenarios, there is a little forgiveness. 

[Jason Petho]

After a brief reminder about what is going on in the Campaign Series world, I dove back into the Campaign Series West Front scenario, Blunting the Sword. We are in the final stages of the scenario and our XXX Corps has been advancing. In these final stages, I am slowly whittling down the German defences and dealing with the trickle of reinforcements as they reveal themselves. In one sector my memory failed me and were engaged by some Tigers that definitely left their mark on my Shermans. It's some good progress, but bloody as we are rooting out the Germans.

[Jason Petho]

This is the first of two videos from April 15th live stream. I went over the latest news and then we dove back into the XXX Corps dominance in this scenario, the sword was strong in this scenario and we have pretty well overran the entire German line. It was a fun scenario and I can see rebuilding this, but will definitely add scripting to make the AI more of a challenge, especially for the defender. That being said, this is a very challenging scenario to defend against a competent British player. 

[Jason Petho]

This is the second of two videos from April 15th live stream. We fired up East Front and started the High Price for Silk scenario. This is a larger scenario with a fairly low turn count. We are playing as the Germans and will be assaulting the city of Mogilev on the Dnepr River in 1941. This is an infantry fight where we have to break into the city, seizing it and capturing the divisions worth of Russians that are surrounded in the city. This will be a hell of a fight indeed.

[Jason Petho]

This is part two of the Sunday stream (20260419). We started up the Campaign Series Vietnam scenario, Quest to Kem Pass. It's a doozy of a scenario as we're forcing our way along an ambush laden road that is in poor condition. We are already starting to make progress, but looking at the distance we need to cover, this will be a doozy indeed. On the bright side, the guerrillas don't seem to be that well armed - yet, as I've only lost a single armoured car in a failed assault. I should know better than that though, lessons learned.

[Jason Petho]

After a brief discussion we fired up the Campaign Series East Front scenario High Price for Silk that is available in the 2.05 UPDATE available at matrixgames.com.  We are the opening phase of the battle as the Germans, slowly trying to break into the outer defences of the city of Mogilev. There are a lot of Russians in there and we are suffering some casualties, but I show you in a deliberate fashion how to slowly reduce a city. It's messy, it's bloody, but it's a good challenging bit of fun!

[Jason Petho]

After a brief overview about all the goodies going on with the Campaign Series, we continued on with the Quest to Kem Pass scenario. We were nearly at the end and were suffering a minor defeat but we managed to turn the scenario around and dealt a hard blow against the Viet Minh ambush locations. After that we fired the No Sign of Relief scenario which was the attempt by the ARVN forces to break the siege of Plei Me in 1965. The ambush is in full swing and it's a hell of a fight. Some Hogs have arrived on scene to help out. Hopefully I don't lose them.... 

[Jason Petho]

We returned to the Campaign Series East Front game and continued our assault into Mogilev in the High Price for Silk scenario. Our German infantry divisions are scrapping for each metre as we advance into the suburbs. It's a nasty fight with lots of casualties, but we're making excellent progress as we advance towards the city proper. Our river crossing is slowly expanding, but the Russians are doing everything they can to keep pushing and assaulting our forces to contain the bridgehead. It's a fun and challenging scenario though!