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Unfortunately no.

Quick battles (QB) are different. The AI allocations can exist without being assigned to a unit. But you need AI plans for both sides in QBs. You can use more than one plan and you can use as many groups in each plan as you like. In a QB the AI player will randomly assign units into groups. QB AI plans due to their nature really have to be very generic. They are not soemthing i tend to create as a rule. The CM game engine manual covers QBs in detail if this is your thing.

It’s a screen cap from a while back. I’d have to go back and check which one. It was a community made scenario I picked up on the unofficial Discord. IIRC it’s set in Mariupol in 2022.

Oh and used a series of mods. It’s a very intense and brutal scenario!

This is it community.battlefront.com/topic/142403-battle-for-mariupol-my-first-created-mission/

He! Ta! Hopefully encourage others to try their hand :)

Cheers ta! Glad you enjoyed it.

My pleasure. Glad you found it interesting. This creating scenarios and AI plans is the game within the game. I enjoy it as much as playing it.

Ah fantastic! That’s great to hear thank you. I’m working on Part 3 now so aiming to release it end of next week. All going well. Thanks again for your kind comments.

Aye you missed the last line - me saying oh FFS!!! :)

It was emotional 🥹

Glad it helped! I’m working from n the follow up which looks at the process of using the tools to create a simple AI plan. I might just release the ‘set up’ part as an episode on its own right as when you start talking about it there are more parts to that phase than I realised! Challenge is you realise how much you unconsciously in regard design decisions and intent!

My pleasure. The unit would withdraw from its previous location. The map zone shown is where it would end up - so it would reverse or pull back to that map zone. That’s something I’ll show in more detail in the next video.

@@George_MC Ah, I see.. so it withdraws from it's previous position to the position with the Withdraw location added to it? :)

@@MrFusselig Aye - the image in the vid was to illustrate the facing options within the map zones. It links into how orders work. The time period between the first and second settings is the phase where the AI attempts to carry out the planned order. The behaviour affecting this order is allocated in the next order. But more about that in part 2 as that's the crux of the whole AI plan thingy :)

Glad it was helpful! Part 2 will be a video walkthrough and show how to create a simple set of orders and co-ordinate units within a plan.

@@George_MC Yes, it'll get even more interesting, as setting timers and triggers and making everything work together is the hardest part!

@@PEB14 aye for sure. I’m debating doing triggers as a separate video as it can be super complicated. So part 2 probably just focus on the Exit after and before times and getting heads around the game clock and impact on orders timings. First triggers to shine the designer needs to get their head around the while in game clock concept. In saying that I use triggers a lot so… ;)

Ah brill! Hopefully might get designers more into AI plans. I’ll be starting Part 2 in a week. Aim for that to be a video walk through, and will show how to create simple AI orders and co-ordinate them.

Thanks - aye the thing with a game is if things don't go to plan you get to rerun it. I don't envy those who have to do this job for real.

Yup my sentiment also - though might have used more colourful words...

Aye did swither to do so. Not sure a broad Scots accent makes it more accessible though ?

@@George_MC As long as its remotely English it does I usually have this running on the side so I cant watch it 100% but the narration would make that possible

I'll experiment I think with a narration. Appreciate the feedback thanks.

For US forces the principles apply. Soviets have a different doctrinally take but US concepts of flexible defence more akin to German approach on Eastern Front.

​@@George_MCthanks you of useful information and helpful answer, Sir.

@@nothingnothing8503 my pleasure :)

Thank you! Appreciate it :) Next one is on training - which has been a rabbit hole so trying to whittle it down - I suspect training might be split into two parts!

@@George_MC Well the work you are doing and the time you have put into these is just First Class! Excellent presentation and explanations. Just excellent work. Semper Fi.

Thank you! Nice to know :)

Ta! Aye the last thing you want or need is the boss becoming a traffic warden!

He! I’ll admit prior to ‘Brad go boom’ I was feeling rather smug. So when ‘Brad go boom’ there was a wee moment of WTF! I’ll admit it was tempting to rage quit… But I play a lot of PBEM so when playing the AI I imagine I’m playing a human so have to suck up stuff going awry. I helps develop adapting plans on the fly and having to make do with what is now a sub optimal situation. But hey everyone can play the game in any way they want :)

Actual game footage was way smoother. The slight stutter was vid settings I used when compressing the original footage.

I like your positive attitude :)

And distressing!

Yes and no... I'm playing the game with everything graphics wise at 'Best'. I've fiddled with my Nvidia settings as well. But the actual vid recordings via 'Shadowplay' seem to 'flatten' the textures so not as crisp as what I see in-game. I'm using a Nvidia GeForce 3060 Ti.

@@George_MC Oh, thanks much 🙏

For the video I used the mouse. But normally on-game it’s a mixture of mouse and WASD key board. Camera movement is generally really smooth for me, so not sure why yours would be so ‘jumpy’.

@@George_MC ​ @George_Mc Maybe I need to change mouse from FPS games to turn-based games :)

I thought the Polish units in the Red Army were pretty much kitted out and organised as any other Soviet unit? I know some folks have modded tanks with Polish insignia and I think infantry also.

Yes organization and command were on the Red Army side in case the Polish Army was inclined to be too independent. The Polish army also had its own specific variant of uniforms and of course emblem - eagle without crown.

@@Strategos44 ah aye forgot uniforms. There are vehicle mods - T-34 for example - with the Polish eagle on the side. A Warsaw Rising mod was also done by someone (not me) which might be of interest to you? community.battlefront.com/topic/139971-new-scenarios-with-mods-warsaw-uprising/

@@George_MC Yes, I saw the uprising mod, but I haven't tested it yet - it looks very interesting and climatic. Do you have a link to the T-34 with the Polish eagle? I looked for it but didn't find.

@@Strategos44 I've been looking for it but can't find it myself. I might have been on the old BFC mod site and never made it across. I'll ask about. Stand-by!

Cool anecdote! Thx for sharing it. :)

Never said they were.

Luckily for the allies being successful at war fighting involves a lot more than creating innovative manuals.

Well not lucky - the Nazi regime was screwed from 1941 just they didn't know it then.

@@George_MCMembers of the Nazi government knew they were stuffed in 1943 (like Herman Goering according to his diaries) but it was politically “unacceptable” to mention it to Adolf Hitler.

Agreed. Post Stalingrad what passed for strategic thinking with the Nazi regime began to focus more on containing the Soviets rather than defeating. By 43 they were goosed. Just a matter of how long it would take.

Thank you - glad it was of interest. Think it’s a bit niche but enjoyed the digging for info :)

It certainly is for me :)

@@DarkIsToNight its a very modded CMSF2 :)

Yeah my apologies for that! I'm a slightly dyslexic Scotsman transcribing German words. I even have one slide where the spelling in the images above is correct. I'll blame my word dictionary as I okayed the incorrect spelling! Glad is does not detract from the content - it is an interesting wee pamphlet. The Germans did produce a lot of these type of pamphlets in that style in 44 as teaching/learning aids for troops. Prior to then manuals were, well, manuals, text heavy. The Tiger and Panther fibels are other examples of this style of pamphlet.

@@George_MC No need to apologize, Germans are always petty when it comes to their language. It's an annoying habit :) Except those small mistakes your translations are top! Panther-/Tiger-Fiebel as well as Panzer Vorwärts are great! When I served as a Panzeraufklärer on Luchs/Fennek, I remember that some of the images were still used during our training

@@PaulBoe8765 Thanks Paul. That’s an interesting bit of info re the illustrations. Still using vintage illustrations - if it ain’t broke! :)

Cheers ta - glad you enjoyed it. Yeah Schneider's book is defo an excellent resource. I'm in the process of putting together another part re training, whilst Schneider mentions training its pretty light on detail so I've been doing some digging! Hence taken waaay longer than planned. But nearly there - at least can start editing down info I have. Spelling typo noted thanks. Thanks for the feedback and appreciate you taking the time to watch my stuff and comment - many thanks :)

Yeah I was lucky in many respects. The MG gunner in the left SPW was nearly nailed. I was confident I’d nailed the AT guns though. Still did surprise me when I pulled it off!

Thanks Jim :) always a challenge selecting suitable and appropriate music. Cheery!

Its part of 37mm's All In One mod community.battlefront.com/topic/140143-initial-all-in-one-modpack/ its very well done.

@@George_MC Ah thanks, you always have everything Tip Top George. Cheers!

He! My pleasure :)

It’s out. It’s one of the scenarios on the Red Thunder battle pack. :) you’ll need CMRT and CMFR to play it as uses elements from both game families.

@@George_MC Thanks! Just downloaded the BP

Excellent! Much appreciated thx :)

Ah excellent, thank you@@briansmithwins

Ah thank you :) aye it was a while in the making but I’m happy with it.

Aye that call is one of the things I find challenging and interesting when using mech infantry - from WWII to modern. In this case I feeling chuffed as thought I’d got it covered. Keyholed RPG team had the casting vote though!

@@George_MC RPG29? Bradly with ERA should be pretty immune to regular RPGs, so that wasn’t a bad bet

Aye sneaky badgers! Still not located the team that did it, as yet.

@@briansmithwins Do you see any ERA on this Bradley?

@@JAnx01 you’re right, it’s a variant w/o the ERA, just the extra side shields.

Yup I start nice and slow then do shit like that! Never fails. Well actually it does fail. Spectacularly!

Yeah that’s what I thought. But I pushed the BIFV just a wee bit further forward so reckon the RPG was in a key holed firing position. But at the moment I’ve only a clue via the noise of the RPG being fired. Time to get some dismounts in to clear a sector. Something I’d hoped to avoid :)

Yea use dismounts to recon instead of relying on armor bounding cover

Aye just got a bit too complacent and was hoping not to lose dismounts clearing angry bees from buildings. I’m more an urban remodeller when it comes to MOUT…

Cheers ta :) Aye I thought moving the M1s and other Brads up gave enough overwatch. But I pushed the doomed Brad a bit further into what must have been a keyholed enemy firing position. I should have pushed my other dismounts up sooner and further. You live and learn.

Hi Brian Its not been publicly released - but you can grab a beta version at this link community.battlefront.com/topic/142317-red-do-of-tv98-3-%E2%80%9Cattack-in-brandenburg%E2%80%9D-as-redfor-vs-opfor/ I am working on a Syrian though at the moment its on the back burner due to other projects! Thank you for the kind feedback, it does help motivate and always great to hear that people a/ play my stuff and even better enjoy it. Thanks for taking the time to post and feedback, very much appreciated. Cheery!

@@George_MC Oh sheesh, I didn't realize there was a whole forum post dedicated to the mission. Sorry for the bother but thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

@@brianlivingstonjr.7324 Nae worries - it was a while back and stuff gets buried pretty quick in other posts.

Thank you! Much appreciated:)

Brill - thank you :) Someone's made em discord.com/channels/750359959237034206/750367904700039309/1049084535897329705 if struggling to download PM via the fourm and I'll send you them via DB link. Cheery!

Ah thank you! Appreciate your kind feedback. I’m nearly finished part 3 so all going well should be out late next week. Cheery!

Ah excellent thank you :)

Thank you - appreciate it. I’m working on Part 3 currently.

Ah cheers ta - noise me up when you up and running :)

@@George_MC finally got my new PC, just downloaded every copy from Steam since all my passwords from before got lost. I should really start checking out Pbem. Got done playing "Into the Dying Sun" Holy macro that was gnarly.

@juergenGDB Ah great to hear. Yeah I should see about sorting all my stuff out via Steam! Aye glad you enjoyed 'Dying Sun' I think that's one of my favs. Its epic. Unfortunately playing it PBEM we ran into memory issues, though it plays fine versus the AI. If you ever fancy a PBEM hit me up via the BFC forum and we can get one up and running? Cheery!

Cheers ta! Appreciate it :) Ah top tips - I think generic stuff would be start small scale scenarios - getting used to handling units and how the game works. Take time to do terrain analysis and how your force might best be used on that terrain, but equally think about what the enemy might do on that terrain. www.youtube.com/@usuallyhapless9481 has a tonne of stuff regarding CM and CMRT that might be of interest? Enjoy! Cheery!

@@George_MC Thanks! I finished the tutorial campaign and watched some "basic combat videos" from hapless, very interesting indeed, I even discovered stuff I never knew was part of the game😊

Ah excellent. He does excellent stuff. Bil Hardenberger’s battle drill blog might also be of interest?

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