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Combat Mission : Buron - Sticking it Out Part 2
Eighth video in the series looking at the Commonwealth forces involved in Operation Overlord.
D+,32 Day one of Operation CHARNWOOD
Gameplay and brief history.
Timestamps
00:00 Intro & Blooper
00:45 Restart
53:58 End & Outcome
01:01:05 Short History of the Battle
History has not been kind to the British soldier in Normandy. The accomplishments of the Commonwealth fighting man has been overshadowed in the post war years either due to their quiet humility, or humble nature. Most simply wanted to return to civilian life and maybe with their undeniable victory they felt no need to boast or explain their actions.
Coming up to the 80th anniversary I wanted to take a look at the challenges they faced using the commonwealth module for combat mission Normandy.
I bought this expansion a few years back and completed the campaign, but despite the beautiful and detailed effort put into their creation couldn't shake the intimidating scale of the standalone scenarios.
Indeed the historically accurate maps show the size of the Overlord undertaking, with 21st Army group being the largest and most complex organisation the British have ever placed into the field in living memory.
Am I particularly good at the game - No
Am I historian - No, I've seen a few films, read a few books and could name the codenames for the beaches but my actual knowledge of the campaign is minimal
But I hope to use that and see how I can learn and mature over the course of the battle, because its worth reminding ourselves that the victory in Normandy was by no means a foregone conclusion
and I hope my contribution, even in a small way, can go some way to correcting the unfair understanding of the quiet competence of these courageous men
D+,32 Day one of Operation CHARNWOOD
Gameplay and brief history.
Timestamps
00:00 Intro & Blooper
00:45 Restart
53:58 End & Outcome
01:01:05 Short History of the Battle
History has not been kind to the British soldier in Normandy. The accomplishments of the Commonwealth fighting man has been overshadowed in the post war years either due to their quiet humility, or humble nature. Most simply wanted to return to civilian life and maybe with their undeniable victory they felt no need to boast or explain their actions.
Coming up to the 80th anniversary I wanted to take a look at the challenges they faced using the commonwealth module for combat mission Normandy.
I bought this expansion a few years back and completed the campaign, but despite the beautiful and detailed effort put into their creation couldn't shake the intimidating scale of the standalone scenarios.
Indeed the historically accurate maps show the size of the Overlord undertaking, with 21st Army group being the largest and most complex organisation the British have ever placed into the field in living memory.
Am I particularly good at the game - No
Am I historian - No, I've seen a few films, read a few books and could name the codenames for the beaches but my actual knowledge of the campaign is minimal
But I hope to use that and see how I can learn and mature over the course of the battle, because its worth reminding ourselves that the victory in Normandy was by no means a foregone conclusion
and I hope my contribution, even in a small way, can go some way to correcting the unfair understanding of the quiet competence of these courageous men
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Active Defence section of Kriegsburg after action review Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:00 A Cold War standoff 03:05 The mission and planning 06:24 The Battle of Kriegsburg (1980) 08:58 Outro Music Komiku - La ville aux ponts suspendus Komiku - Bleu freemusicarchive.org/music/Komiku/Its_time_for_adventure_ Tomas Herudek - Apocalypse at the Disco library.tomasherudek.com/track/80240284
seriously high quality stuff, subbed
Why does anyone care what your opinion is if you don't know what you're talking about?
I'm no expert but I *think* the FO should stay put and receive fire requests (at 17:00ish). I think it works by the section relaying info to platoon commander and then up chain of command and across to FO.
I really liked watching these scenarios in this real time type of way. I'd usually play them myself right after.
I'm still waiting for waiting for the royalty check from Aunty for their use of my portrait on "Time Commanders". Exits stage right humming a certain Diana Ross number.----->
If you are not familar you should check out GI history handbook. Its a youtube channel about WWII infantry tactics and ideas of apporach you might find interesting and informative.
I salute your recognition of the history that these men forged. I did a career in the infantry because I realized that someone needs to carry forward the torch lit by the sacrifices men such as these endured. They gave us the world we know today. It takes ordinary people with the courage to do extraordinary things that makes the diffierence.
Awesome video! That moment with the slow-motion RPG miss on the Marder was actually insanely well edited and cinematic!
Your channel is outstanding.
The first poor video that you have served up. The super sped up section hurt my eyes so much it rendered it almost unwatchable. It also exposed the fact that you were toggling the trees, making it look like you were fighting in Telegraphpoleland, rather than Normandy.
I've never liked the stock music that came with the game. I send my boys into battle with a mod called "Hot Club de Limeyland", which as the title suggests, consists of tunes recorded by Django, Stephane, and the other boys in the band in London just before the war.
What's the book you're referencing at czcams.com/video/Jiy-XHlAvT4/video.html? Oh, you do mention books at the end of the video so it's prob one of those. Also, thanks for the amazing video and footage! It's interesting seeing it in tandem with authentic original photographs and battle plans. Makes it all so much more real. Great job in both tactics and videography!
Hey thanks 🙂, I think that's Operation Epson by Tim Saunders, which was part of the Battleground Europe series. I've got a habit of finding references online then end up buying them but if you want a skim there's a copy here erenow.org/ww/operation-epsom-viii-british-corps-vs-1st-ss-panzerkorps/
Incredible job man!
Very well made video!
Another excellent blend of history,, and CM. Keep 'em coming. Please.
God I hated this game... broken physics, dog shit graphics, bad sound, unoptimized game....
Thank you for your kind words in reference to my scenario "Bloody Buron Overhaul". (Kandu)
Fantastic work 🙂
love your vids man
Excellent video and presentation style. Where could one find the manual/briefing you showed at the beginning of the video?
The first one with the maps was The D-Day Atlas: Anatomy of the Normandy Campaign and you might have caught Images of War Normandy 1944: The Battle for Caen as well. I think I picked up the Atlas from a book shop and Images of War second hand on eBay
What is this first book friend?
The first one with the maps was The D-Day Atlas: Anatomy of the Normandy Campaign you might have caught Images of War Normandy 1944: The Battle for Caen as well, that takes a primarily visual exploration of the battle for Caen.
That custom scenario looks like the one you try out on a free day
You can deploy tanks behind tall bocage and get a LOS through the hedgerow. If you had done that with your last TD you would've probably killed those two tanks without them spotting you.
I'm going to have to give that a go now 🙂 I keep having a nightmare with armour and bocage LOS
Please don't repeat Monty's BS about Caen. It was A d+1 objective. Instead, the battle lasted 2months
real time isn't my own favorite as I feel the tacAI needs too much micromanaging for me to be comfortable leaving it on its own
I'd agree, I'm much more of a turn based player myself. Being out of control for that minute whilst everything runs is stressful in a different way, but when you put together a good turn and manage to nail coordinated movements its very satisfying. If there's one thing we took away, off recording, from real time, it was the idea of having designated fall back paths planned in but paused so we could un-pause units as required for a withdrawal.
What is the book you are talking about at 30:00? I caught Battlegroup but there are numerous books with the same title.
Its Battlegroup!: The Lessons of the Unfought Battles of the Cold War by Jim Storr. Really enjoyed reading this one, very clearly put and concise observations covering a range of cold war armed forces
@@unremarkablesunray I have seen that one yes and it looks interesting. I just read First Clash by Kenneth Macksey, might be of interest to you?
loving the time commanders deep cut
I remember reading somewhere that German commanders (I think) ensured their troops always followed a barrage closely. They were happy to suffer some casualties from their own artillery as long as they could storm the objective before the enemy had time to recover and reset their defence.
Good
Very nice video's that u make really looking forward watching them, if u search for an opponent for a scenario hit me up. Also where can i find the big buren scenario?
I believe it was this one www.thefewgoodmen.com/tsd3/combat-mission-battle-for-normandy/cm-battles-for-normandy/bloody-buron/
I just want to say, these videos are some of the best presented and delivered that I have seen. Your use of Combat Mission is excellent with great graphics and walkthroughs of your thought process. Big Bravo Zulu from me, keep it up!
Funny how you reference that training manual. I kinda learned the hard way to do what it describes in this mission and did so for this when I played it. It's great to see that you do learn military tactics and how to apply them as you play this game.
Firefight mentioned, I need a combat mission of that soon! <3
Im about finishing my novel its happen in similar cold war era and in western Europe Atmosphere. Hope i didn't any tactical mistakes
how are you not going to list the title for that amazing track playing during the intro?
You're giving Usually Hapless a run for his money.
I wouldn't say I'm on their level, but I'm a huge admirer! It always cheers me up to get a Hapless video on a Friday or follow the end of year turn by turns
Thank you for covering this battle 😊
I LOVE this series, please keep the going.
Hey Sir, what mod are you using?including soviet infantrymen their camo, and can you provide the links? so please?
So looking at the mod folder its primarily the CMCW Initial 'All in One' pack that you can get here www.mediafire.com/folder/izmk6muctniv5/Combat_Mission The soviet camo was me trying my hand at a bit of modding, I'll see if I can find the files to share somewhere.
@@unremarkablesunray thank for main links, hope you will provide the soviet camo on one day, by the way, your video are very great, sir.
your video looks very well made, sir, I salute you.
First video of yours that got recommended to me. I'm not a big Combat Mission guy (Mainly because the games are so damn expensive!) but I thoroughly enjoyed this look into a historical battle. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos in a similar format to this. Subscribed!
Steam sales are a definite perk of the games being available there now, but judging by my Battlefront account, this hobby has already been...well-funded, to say the least 🙂
How is this channel not bigger? Wow! Keep crushing it!
Really useful observation about scenario design. CM is not made for a mass market or the COD generation. Scenarios are made by the community for all sorts of reasons and to test, examine or demonstrate a variety of things so it was really good to include the insight from the designer that this scenario is designed to illustrate the trade-off between minimizing risk by doing the whole village and taking on some of that risk to your own forces by being restrained - on Herrick 5 we often said "War on the cheap is called "loosing" ". This series of videos has been really good, thanks for sharing.
Absolutely, I think my favourite parts of CM are the ability to learn by doing and the ability to experiment in a sandbox environment.
I love a good spreadsheet! Also, top CM content. Oh, and are you in UKfightclub? Should be.
Thanks! I'm not currently involved with UK Fight Club, but the concept behind it and games/simulations they cover is right up my street 🙂
Great videos, would love to see some PvP!
This battle is one of my favourites from the Commonwealth Forces module. And this is a very interesting way of looking at it. Probably the only thing that could have improved this video would have been the use of 15th Division uniform and vehicle mods.
I'll actually try to bear that in mind going forward. I was tinkering with the idea of modding some of the Brits for CMFB Downfall and bumped into The Commonwealth Troops & ModTag Project. I think that has everything to play the final eight scenarios with the correct units represented.
Good stuff! You should read Mark Milner's "Stopping the Panzers" for a better reassessment of the Canadians in the first week of the Normandy campaign, especially 9 CIB's battle on 7th June.
Excellent! Thanks for the recommendation I'll pop it on the reading list 🙂
@@unremarkablesunray Mark Zuehlke’s Juno Beach, Holding Juno and Breakout From Juno are a great trillogy as well if you want more info on Canada in Normandy
Excellent stuff.
You’ve been putting out bangers quicker than just about anyone else when it comes to CM, take your time.
Very impressed with the quality of your work. Please keep them coming, but only do so at a pace you can maintain.
Just superb!