CMBS Highway to Hell AAR [looking for C&C]

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Ladies and Gentleman!
Welcome to my first ever AAR!
Please feel free to comment anything, I AM looking for feedback.
Thank you for your time in advance!

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Th-Th-That's all folks!
Looking forward to your opinions and insights!

[OldSarge]

I haven't had the chance to go through all of the slides, but it looks very well presented.

Slide #2 is pretty busy/noisy. It would be useful as the final slide for your battle plan - where you put it all together. I think breaking each TF's Course Of Action (COA) into its own slide would make it easier for the reader to follow along. It would also then give you more text space to explain without intrusion into the area of operations.

I'm not a PPT presentation wiz, but I've sat through enough 'Death by PowerPoint' presentations to know that keeping the slide concise is very helpful. This is especially true when there are a number of key points being expressed. I do like the color coding for the different TF COAs!

Hopefully, this is a helpful comment as it is intended.

Regards.

[TFLProductions]

I haven't had the chance to go through all of the slides, but it looks very well presented.

Slide #2 is pretty busy/noisy. It would be useful as the final slide for your battle plan - where you put it all together. I think breaking each TF's Course Of Action (COA) into its own slide would make it easier for the reader to follow along. It would also then give you more text space to explain without intrusion into the area of operations.

I'm not a PPT presentation wiz, but I've sat through enough 'Death by PowerPoint' presentations to know that keeping the slide concise is very helpful. This is especially true when there are a number of key points being expressed. I do like the color coding for the different TF COAs!

Hopefully, this is a helpful comment as it is intended.

Regards.

Thank you so much for these insights!
Especially the rec. about breaking down the slides! I already had a similar comment in reddit, talking about noise. There I proposed splitting the slide into two: One with graphics and color coding, the other with text. But your Idea sounds even better! It might get me 3-4 slides per turn (depending on how much is going on), but hey! If that's what makes it better, I'm all for it.
Thank you once more for your time!

[OldSarge]

An additional recommendation that I can make is with the beginning of your AAR.

Consider your audience. Are you reaching out to fellow CMBS players, who already have BP1? Are you reaching out to players of other CM titles to get them interested in CMBS? Or are you reaching out to the general wargaming community?

Unless the reader has CMBS+BP1 they will not know where to find the Highway to Hell mission. So, it would be helpful to point out that it is a mission within the "The Push From Dniprodzerhyn'sk" campaign found in BP1. You might also add little pieces of background information about this being an element of a BTG from the Russian 205th MRB.

Additionally, you could add some information about the state of your on-map forces. Are they full strength? Have they suffered any campaign losses, et cetera.

Anyway, I hope this is useful.

Regards.

[TFLProductions]

An additional recommendation that I can make is with the beginning of your AAR.

Consider your audience. Are you reaching out to fellow CMBS players, who already have BP1? Are you reaching out to players of other CM titles to get them interested in CMBS? Or are you reaching out to the general wargaming community?

Unless the reader has CMBS+BP1 they will not know where to find the Highway to Hell mission. So, it would be helpful to point out that it is a mission within the "The Push From Dniprodzerhyn'sk" campaign found in BP1. You might also add little pieces of background information about this being an element of a BTG from the Russian 205th MRB.

Additionally, you could add some information about the state of your on-map forces. Are they full strength? Have they suffered any campaign losses, et cetera.

Anyway, I hope this is useful.

Regards.

Hello OldSarge!

When I started reading your reply, my knee-jerk reaction was to say that the absence of info is by design. But by the end of it I understand your real message:
I should provide at least SOME info. So, eve if I didn't want to overload ppl with OOB from the game, I should've stated: "If anyone is interested, you can find this mission here and here, get it there and there (CMPS:BP1)"
Going forward, I will keep this in mind and provide rudimentary information at the least.

Once again, a big thank you for your time and input!