I've got a FRIDAY for a mouth and a bullet with your name on it!

[Father Ted]

I can't believe in 2016 we're discussing the newest A Ha releases. 

...on a forum for computer wargaming

[Anguille]

I can't believe in 2016 we're discussing the newest A Ha releases. 

...on a forum for computer wargaming

Well...it's the friday thread.... ;)

[Boggit]

So I spent most of my very limited quiet time this weekend advancing my CMBN/ MG Campaign, Mission 1. SPOILER ALERT---- Among other targets you have to take-out a German flak battery in an entrenched position.

I spot the flak guns with my paratroopers, get an FO in position and call in 81mm mortars and they hit nothing. 100 Rounds and nothing. Damn those Germans make good trenches. A strafing run by a Brit. Spitfire also hits nothing. I get one gun, 20mm, of the 3 there with indirect 60mm mortars, but the rest we have to do the hard way.

So I carefully maneuver my paratroopers into hedgerows on three sides of the position close enough to do the job, while running into several German ambushes from a few MG's guarding the place, losing more men as well as anybody that the flak gunners see and always seem to hit with one shot.

My plan is to call in another strafing run and when it begins, I open up on the flak guns with everybody on all 3 sides. Perfect plan. Until..... The Brit Spitfire arrives and mistakenly strafes my own troops.  DAMMIT!  I mean the Germans are right out in the open, in trenches, with big AA guns. And this guy misses them and hits my guys hiding behind hedgerows.

That's what I love, and hate, about this game. It lets your most meticulous, perfect laid plans-- fail epically. Because one guy couldn't pick-out an elephant in a field of weiner dogs.

The story has a happy ending though. When Pilot Magoo came around again, he hit the right target this time and everybody he didn't kill on the first pass opens up and in 3 minutes the whole German position is full of Red Crosses and Skull & Bones. Giving me the Mission Win. And a great story to tell.

Sweet! O0 I just love that game.

Spoiler alert - you will have SOOO much fun with that campaign. Just wait till you get to mission 12 (the Aalst scenario IIRC). That is a bloodbath. There are so many varied scenarios in that campaign.

If I wasn't doing the Road to Montebourg campaign atm, I'd be inspired by you to have another go at that Market Garden campaign. :)

[Sir Slash]

Thanks Boggit. If I wasn't doing the MG campaign, you'd tempt me to re-do the Road to Monteborg. That one is my favorite CMBN campaign.