Norway Invasion Campaign

[ILCK]

I tried starting the Operation: Weserubung scenario but the first battle has me flummoxed. Not the actual fight but deployment.

Before the fight various FJ units drop an an island- I'm guessing scenario specific troops and there is a landing force on the south of the map also scenario troops. My unit deployment zone is a 1 hex strip running all up and down the right side of the map. I thought something was up and let the CPU deploy for me and it deployed in the same zone.

Is this the proper deployment zone or am I not doing something right?

[BruceAZ_MatrixForum]

The campaign was designed in SPWAW 5.0 over three years ago and will not work with 8.0 or 8.2. The campaign is currently being revamped and hopefully will be included in the next patch.

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Semper Fi

[ILCK]

Well define won't work

I'm currently wading through the damn norwegian defenders. The deployment was a bit goofy and likely made things easier but it is still pretty fun right now.

[ILCK]

Nevermind, while the first battle played out I see that the same deployment issue appears across all the battles. I'm looking forward to this being updated as it seems like it'll be a lot of fun.

[Poopyhead]

When you enter the deployment phase, and choose to do it yourself, the computer puts all of your forces along one or the other sides of the map, A0 at the top and the rest of the units in order from top to bottom. Of course, you don't want to fight from those positions, so you can move the active unit to a better position by clicking it and then clicking the hex where you want it. You can only put the unit on your side of the map, or use special forces to infiltrate or load some units in a vehicle or a plane for air insertion. I think in the scenario you mention, it is not clear that your setup area is the southeast corner below hex line (xx, 68) or so (if you put the cursor over a hex, it gives you the hex number). I never let the AI deploy my forces. During this phase, it is also safe to move a unit along the border of "no man's land" and sight into the enemy area. In some scenarios, you can see enemy units this way, and target them for artillery barrage.

[Mormegill]

Just wanted to add that I played through the Norway campaign (Operation Weserubung) with 8.2 and found it the most fun since Russian Steel! Lots of opportunities for precision strikes with infiltrators, gliders and fallschirmjaegers to knock out the norwegian HQ, coastal guns and tactical important defences. The only map (#7 [&:]) that wasn't that great was the one where you advance up a winding valley under constant air attacks.

I did however find an error. Some of the scenarios in the middle are set at a date in 1949 which messes up the upgrade as you are forced [8|] to upgrade to late or after-war equipment.

In all, a fine campaign IMHO.