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ORIGINAL: Tazak

Mike, I'm in the middle of a 2nd run through but at work and my notes are at home but will post what I have in a few hours unless you produce a newer version then.

Just a couple of general tips:

Version control your files V1, V2 etc, it makes it easier to track what changes your making and people can tell at a glance if its the latest file

I also use the game version in the actual scenario (in the version box) so people know if its up to date - although not that important if 2.09 is the last patch before the devs start on southern storm

ORIGINAL: Tazak

Okay some feedback;

ran this twice, first time I ran a standard forward recon 25-30min ahead of main force, recon encountered red recon and wiped the floor with them, then I got hit by a Bn of T80 just as my first mech coy was crossing open ground towards the town where the T80's were......end result was not pretty

2nd time I ran it with a mass gamey rush to the urban areas ending in hold orders and fared a lot better.

Impressions:
I think a battalion scale action needs more than 4 hours if you are attacking or running a meeting engagement with such a wide gap between force balance. Don't forget that infantry is really only useful in urban areas against tanks, and after a road move of 10km your troops are going to lose 20-30 points of readiness reducing their ability to fight tanks.

I do like underdog fights and I think there is lots of possibilities in this for brawling fights.

Suggestions;
1. maybe spread the VP locations out, this way the AI has to spread its forces out, I think I have a save game where there is a 2 deep carpet of red forces in 6 of the 7 hexes on and around a single VP, the US don't have the firepower to push that amount of red troops back.
In addition as the VP are so close the soviet forces will automatically gain control of all the VPs, this leaves the player with destroying 2000 VP more red forces to counter. This may also provide a tactical option to draw the soviets out from 1 location while the player launches a flank attack to capture a weaken VP location

2. Maybe put 1 company forward, the rest then have to move fast to reinforce before the lone company gets overran and destroyed, if you lock them into position at least 1 hex from any bridge then they wont have enough time to move and destroy any bridges before encountering lead soviet forces.

3. put 1 VP closer to the player starting area, this will make the AI advance towards it providing the player with the choice setting an ambush at some point

ORIGINAL: Tazak

Mike, huge difference and allows for a lot more tactical options and fun. I had 3 different engagements occurring simultaneously (mech vs mech, mech vs tank and recon vs recon) at different points on the map.

I'd like to suggest 1 minor change - downgrade the soviet 203mm off map to 2S1 on map
It'll stop the CB off map spam - this is more down the high EW levels, plus a 2S1 on map will likely be out of range of the US SP Mortars. A 2S1 will still give a mech unit a bad day and be more in line with a mobile force.

other than that I think you may have a winner here

ORIGINAL: Tazak

Thank you for giving us another user created scenario.

You may want to post it on the OTS server so it doesn't get lost in 'old threads heaven' and if you use Steam make a post to raise awareness