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I finished "Manstein's X-mas Present" thinking I had about 5 more scenarios to go and BOOM, or should I say, WHIMPER, Lost Victories ended. I got a 234 campaign score for a marginal victory. There was no fanfare, just "game over."[:(] That was a HUGE campaign.

I loaded Desert Fox last night. This one looks to be alot smaller. I've only moved a few of my units in the first scenario and I've already found two mine fields. Thanks alot, WB! [:@]

Anyone have any recommendations for me?

Bob

To avoid some of the HUGE battles that you just finished with, pick some of the alternate choices rather than the default battle. Most of these seem to be a bit smaller. Not that even the big ones here can rival LV, though.

Oh and one other thing... 37L46 guns sux. You'll just LOVE it when those Matildas come calling.[X(]

Congratulations RB!
I'm about 9 battles ahead of you in DF, and all I can say is "Achtung Minen!!" (hope I spelled that right). I believe this is where WB got his well deserved notariety for devious and deadly minefields, and they're everywhere, especially where you don't expect. Have fun!
Tim

I've been play'in that game off and on for 2-3 yrs too. I'm at the Ft Stalin scenerio how many more after that? I'm kinda getting tired of it and want to start it over again and try and do better or try some of the other choices I had. This game was totally worth the money (I think $50). What other game can you play for 2 yrs and not replay once??


I would be very happy with "marginal victory". You did better than the real guys. I think that Army Group South actually suffered what would have been a "marginal defeat"? or was it a major defeat? I'm talking about before they were pocketed and destroyed of course. After finishing LV I feel I should get a Barbarossa Campaign ribbon or something.

Paul:

I got this file from someone (I forget who) who actually kept track of his progress. The scores reported are his.

This should help see how far you have to go.

I got to scenario 48 out of 54 when it ended. Kind of strange. 6 more scenarios might have given me enough points for a major victory.

ORIGINAL: rbrunsman

I finished "Manstein's X-mas Present" thinking I had about 5 more scenarios to go and BOOM, or should I say, WHIMPER, Lost Victories ended. I got a 234 campaign score for a marginal victory. There was no fanfare, just "game over."[:(] That was a HUGE campaign.

I loaded Desert Fox last night. This one looks to be alot smaller. I've only moved a few of my units in the first scenario and I've already found two mine fields. Thanks alot, WB! [:@]

Anyone have any recommendations for me?

Bob

[&o]Wow! I never finished the first scen![&o]

ORIGINAL: rbrunsman

I finished "Manstein's X-mas Present" thinking I had about 5 more scenarios to go and BOOM, or should I say, WHIMPER, Lost Victories ended. I got a 234 campaign score for a marginal victory. There was no fanfare, just "game over."[:(] That was a HUGE campaign.

I loaded Desert Fox last night. This one looks to be alot smaller. I've only moved a few of my units in the first scenario and I've already found two mine fields. Thanks alot, WB! [:@]


Anyone have any recommendations for me?


Bob

glad to hear somebody finally tamed the beast![8D] Congrats Rbunsman![:)]

Thanks rbrunsman that will be helpfull.

I had thought that LV wasn't a linear campaign and it wasn't possible to play all scenarios? If you received a DV for all scenarios then you would miss the scenarios that would take place when you lost and vise versa. Also, I had thought that if you did poorly early on the game would end very soon for you.

Paul, it is not linear. A lot depends about which alternative scenario you take or not... When I completed LV something like an year and a half ago I fought some 50 battles (approx as I lost count [:'(]) with a final score of 271

Voriax

And I thought I was the only one to take years to finish an MC!! I just got done with NA!! So don't think your getting off easy with NA!! You'll be shaking the sand out of your boots for a long time!!! [:)]

One piece of advice. You might want to play it in no later than version 7.1. I don't believe they adjusted v8.2 to play NA, LV or WT correctly. They'll play, but you'll notice icons and sounds that don't match what they should be.

Congratulations

I just installed the Mega Campaigns yesterday and started Lost Victories...

Woohaa... Pillboxes galore! Call in the Flame dudes

B.

Forts, pillboxes, and KV-1's are the ire of us all in the LV mega campaign!

Rich

Mission 1: Accomplished. The choice for extra Assault engineers seems to have been a good one indeed, since they helped quite a bit in taking out the many bunkers and pillboxes the Russians had.

My Germans succeeded in taking all of the objective hexes, except for a single one in the south where we ended up one hex away...

Question:

How come that some of the artillery keeps firing and firing but I couldn't seem to influence where it hit ?

Starting mission 2 now, I opted to attack immediately without waiting for the bridge to be finished and the StuGskis to cross... With any luck, the Russians are still not too organized, and maybe there's less pillboxes and bunkers a little further from the river...

I hate the anti climax when you have spent so damn long playing a game and when you finish it says game over well done.

What did you guys want? A sexy girl shaking her stuff at the end of the campaign while a "welcome home soldier" WAV file played in the backround?[:'(]

Now that you mention it that wouldn't be a bad way to end it

Rich

Forts, pillboxes, and KV-1's are the ire of us all in the LV mega campaign!

Only at 8th battle, but I already hate those KV's with a passion

I'm at my first big tank battle now (5th battle? Something like that) and I'm beginning to see what's so great about the T-34...

It's like my Panzers are thrwoing eggs at them. One T-34 was hit over 10 times so far by the Pz IIIs and is still unscathed. And that includes side and rear shots!

Russian Tanks are tough. Well at least, the KVs and T-34s are.

It's a lucky the russians have such a low morale, otherwise they would be unbeatable.

But...

Radziechow is mine! My best battle so far, scoring over 4800 pints, with the Russians getting around 480. And not a single KV or T-34 was alive at the end of the battle...

Losses on my side? A Pz IIIH, a IIIE, all my 2cm wheeled thingies and three Pz IIFs. Oh and a Motorcycle Squad as well, in the last turn...

Hmmm so those monsters can be defeated

Next up? Russian counter attack. And I get... Four 88's woohoo!