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After testing LV and finnishing LV several times, I can give the following advice: Smoke and hand grenades are your best freinds. Nothing can quite beat the feeling of slamming a few AT rounds (of any callibre) into a KV, then droping smoke from your 81's on him and getting stuck in with the German equivlent of Rambo.

They Don't like it up them.. [:D]

I have just gotten to Sevastopol after taking out Festung Maxim Gorky. If you think Festung Stalin was bad, you ain't seen nottin' yet. Oh, and for those of you who haven't gotten there yet; you are going to hate the Donetz River; I fought eight battles in the same spot for over a month[X(].

The battles where as follows: Attacking Izyum (twice), creating a bridgehead over the Donetz at Izium, expanding the bridgehead East, holding the bridgehead against a Soviet advance, evacuating the bridgehead to avoid being cut off, holding Izium againts a two pronged attack, and finally defending against a major assault by Ivan over the frozen Donetz along the entire front which was defended by KmpfGrp Vebber, along with 2 PzIV and 4 Pak-50.

Needless to say I was more than glad to be transfered to Crimea, even if it ment taking on the monster at Maxim Gorki. One observation though. After closing the Ring at Kiev I had not encountered any KV's or T-34's till the last Battle on the Donetz where a stream of T-34's poured across the ice.

I must go now, Sevastopol awaits; house to house fighting. If Kharkov was any precedent, this is going to be rough. [8D]

Oh crap, Sevastopol has fallen, and with it so ends Lost Victories! That was loads of fun but I feel cheated; how many battles yet to come did I miss? I guess I should have lost/drawn more battles.

I am thinking of getting Watch Tower or Desert Fox. Any suggestions?

edit: I just noticed that was also the same battle after which rbrunsman's campaing also ended.

I have played the first 3 MC and love LV and DF;so I would suggest you to pick up MCDF if you like big battles with panzers and mechanized forces go for this one.It will be also shorter than MCLV but you willl probably enjoy it a lot as I did.
If you prefer close infantry combat choose MCWT and IIRC the battles are smaller and the campaign is shorter than MCDF.
To be honest I have not finished WT as I don't really appreciate this kind of fight even if it is true challenge against all these samourai.
Definitively I vote for DF.
Hope this help.

Thanks Pumba, I was leaning towards DF since "Panzer Battles" has been my daily reading for the past two weeks. The Ost Front has been my main theater of operations since I downloaded SPWaW; LV didn't disapoint[&o] As of yet, North Africa has remained a mistery, but reading von Mellenthin's accounts of DAK's battles has really wetted my appetite.

My campaign is still running on...

Some more battles have been played, one lost badly. And one was a great victory I thought, except for the small fact that that Pe-2 that bombed my HQ and killed two of the men in there, seems to have killed ME ? Huh? Aargh... No points there for me, in spite of a very nice win points wise...

Further things I noticed....

1) 88s rule! Hmmm okay, I knew that before I got them, but they do!
2) Finally got some Stuka's! Absolutely devastating against infantry, that's a fact... Their use against tanks seems more limited though, and what I need is... Tank killers!
3) Pz IIIH's showed up as well now. Nice tankies Finally I can get those T-34s and KV-s with tanks...

Current Battle is a Soviet counter attack against the German supply lines... Brrr... At least 10 T-34s were spotted so far. With the usual huge amount of smaller tanks. Some T-26s and BTs have been killed, but... I don't see how I will win here...

My current tank force?

--> Three (out of five) Pz IIIHs. One was destroyed by a BT, one got a turret damaged hit and I retreated it with its malfunctioned MA.
--> ONE Pz IIIG (of 6). One is immobilized far from the battle due to breakdown, one retreated with a malf'ed gun, 3 were destroyed by BTs, T-26s and BA-10s.
--> A single MG Halftrack
--> All three Stug IIIBs with HE ammo only, they ran out of AP.
--> Two Paks. 3.7cm versions, of course.

And that's it! Versus at least 9 T-34s (one is gone ), lots of smaller tanks, quite a bit of infantry and some Gaz-4M-AAs.

This will not be pretty...

B. out.

Oops...wrong thread. Sorry.