CMBN: The Scottish Corridor 13: Crescendo of Doom
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- čas přidán 12. 10. 2023
- The 9th Cameronians hold Grainville against a battalion sized attack from the south.
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My favorite part was when the Germans used their hoplites to threaten Athens, but Hapless used his triremes to force a landing in Spartan territory!
Underrated comment from someone who obviously thinks Hapless should only do his channel full time. I'm in concurrence
Sadly, War Room episodes take a lot longer to write than these. Otherwise the channel would be swarming with hoplites and longbowmen and cuirassiers and whatever else
@@usuallyhapless9481 we take what we get and we are happy about it!
- 13th mission.
- Uploaded on Friday the 13th.
- Its called "Crescendo of Doom".
Man the stars really aligned on this one.
Totally accidental too. Spooky.
This gives me Apollo 13 vibes
15:12 The loss of the Churchill was a setback, the loss of the outhouse - a calamity.
Definitely. Though at least the outhouse will get Marshall Plan support in the aftermath.
@@usuallyhapless9481😂
"Try yet again, but at nigh" Falkenhayn really be commanding this campaign for the germans from beyond the grave
I bought the entire combat mission series largely based on your videos mate; I want to thank you for the continued uploads.
Same. They should be paying. him.
Seconded. I love these vids.
Oh wow, well hope the channel is helping! There's a hell of a learning curve
Same on both counts. Hapless should really have a referral link to make a few dollars in commission . This channel stands head and shoulders above any marketing from battlefront or slitherine for these games.
I'm very surprised how weak the Churchill was to the Panzer IV's 75mm... I wouldve thought it would've been way more protected.
In my experience, the 75mm high velocity gun is a match for just about anything in these games other than a Soviet IS2.
The earlier Churchill Marks aren't that powerful (at this point anyway), once you hit the Mark VII though it's practically immune to the Panzer IV
@@TheCovenantKiller oh? They weren't Mk VIIs?
Yeah, the long 75 on later Panzer IVs is a damn good gun
@@eaglestrike211lel2 Had to double check, the 57mm-armed ones aren't but the 75mm are. Which would be why some of them go down straight away, but then there was that JP and Churchill just pinging each other over and over to no end.
@5:50 one of the worst weaknesses of the spotting model in these old Combat Mission games is that MOVING vehicles do not receive nearly the penalty they should. ...oh my and again here @13:55
Your PLATOON of tanks sitting in a tree line is spotted over-and-over again by German tanks that MOVED up...saw them...stopped, rotated turrets...fired...AND WERE STILL NOT SEEN by the British "waiting in ambush". I am 'not' saying it is impossible, just that it is routine in the game and that is wrong.
If I'm not mistaken, the advantage German armor holds in spotting in game is explained by the superior quality of their optics over the allies (and especially soviet) armor
@@spencersmith4373 I swear, if I had a dime for every f-ing time I have heard/read "superior German optics" I could retire....but you are correct: that is the rationale they use; and it does not hold water at-all. Those "optics" of which they speak would be the sights that allowed for better ranging, and in (some only!) AFVs in the early war better vision ports (Soviets tanks sucked buttoned up....not so much the US Sherman).
Yeah. It's frustrating. Not much to be done about though, so...
@@usuallyhapless9481 I don't know: People can post/mention their concerns and not simply look for ways to rationalize it away as the fanboys tend to do on the Battlefront forum. Without feedback how can the development team understand there is a problem with their product?
IMHO If people just rationalize constantly and heap praise with no constructive criticism then there is no motivation for change whatsoever (imo: one could say the same for politics and many issues as well).
Sometimes there is a bit of a motive to "grumbling" :)
@@spencersmith4373 what a wehraboo take.
19 tanks and tank destroyers would be a significant chunk of the available German armor at the time. Plus, the Germans are never going to get that capability back. The Brits will have more tanks available and be able to crew them using the surviving tankers as cadre. It really was a downward spiral for the Germans from ‘44 on
Yep. The Germans are in the doom-spiral
What an incredible defence. The amount of armour moving forward was insane. Still. Great set up to absorb and stop the attack. Incredible.
Thank you for this upload. I love your campaign videos. The narration and the
camerawork are fantastic. It's a great day when I see one of your uploads.
Quality as always! I am looking forward to hearing your cumulative thoughts about the campaign and its design as a whole. I think it definitely had some high points but it felt like this campaign exposed the ai's shortcomings a bit much. Would also be interested to hear if your opinion of Commonwealth infantry as modeled in CM has changed much since your British rifle company unit video.
The quick version is that my assessment hasn't changed: the British infantry struggles when it's not part of a combined arms team. I am looking at replayed one of the missions with the Americans to try and highlight that.
Sounds top, could be a really interesting video.@@usuallyhapless9481
Very cool to see 2nd panzer division make an appearance. From the looks of it you took on the Panzer IV battalion of Panzer Regiment 2 as well as panzerjaeger regiment 38 with the jagdpanzer IV. Infantry could be panzergrenadier regiment 304.
I like seeing the allied side of these engagements I am currently reading about. Great video!
what a great battle from the pope of CM content on youtube
A glorious Happless video to cap off a busy week. Cheers.
Where will the Germans attack: Yes.
In hindsight, the Germans "smashing the 7th Highlanders" was the indicator that you're in for some serious enemy tank-based firepower in this battle. It's interesting to see the kind of foreshadowing used in the mission briefings for this campaign.
Thank you for continuing to put this amount of work into your channel, especially committing to these campaign playthroughs. Yours is one of the few channels I have notifications turned on for and I always get excited when I see a new upload. I don't know if I'll ever end up purchasing FI, BN, RT, or FB but I will definitely keep watching your content for as long as you make it. I think for the time being, I'll stick to Close Combat :)
This may have been the bloodiest battle yet, but you still hold the line.
While you probably can't withstand another attack like that from the Germans, the Germans also can't withstand sending another attack like that.
I don't wanna be Private Fritz explaining to Kommander Klaus that in one hour we lost a battalion worth of Panzer 4s and accompanying infantry.
Also given your positioning and the quality of the German attack I personally don't think the Germans are recovering many of their armored losses. Even if they do they likely won't be meaningfully repaired in the remaining time frame of the war.
(UK vs German armor "recovery" was very different. The UK is more conservative with "last light count" marking functioning tanks at the end of the day. Meanwhile, the Germans would call any chassis they still had regardless of functionality as part of the active force. That's why Germany "lost" 15 Tigers during their crossing into the Nederlands. They were already dead-weight wrecks that were shed on the way.)
Adding up all the battles off the top of my head this campaign you've been out fighting an entire SS panzer division. (yes technically you've been fighting detachments from multiple different divisions in the area. Division sizes vary wildly based on a metric tonne of different variables. For sure a regiment has been rendered non-combat functional.)
Some units and equipment are overrepresented (e.x. armored scout cars) or not available (e.x. AA batteries and quartermasters.) for this example.
You've functionally destroyed a company of rare heavy tanks (The Cats of previous missions), over a battalion of medium tanks, an assault gun company, an entire recon company (at least), and close to a 1,000-trained Heer.
It takes years to train/equip formations back to the level you've taken them from.
The Germans are clearly in the middle of their diminishing returns phase of the war as these repeated failed attacks and counterattacks need to go perfectly with practically no losses to be justifiable.
Maybe someone in the comments (or probably me in my free time) should go back through and keep a running total of losses so we can compare them to the real-life results. Armored wise you've already outperformed your IRL counterparts.
(I'm aware the campaign tracks losses but it loses its depth. "tanks" could be a Panzer 3 to a Jagdpanther for instance.)
Well, the caveat in CM is that the AI has a much higher threshold for giving up disastrous counterattacks than the real Germans did, so enemy losses are likely to be higher. And again, it's a pity the wrecks are persistent between missions. That would make counting everything a lot easier!
@@usuallyhapless9481 That's fair. I would be remiss if I didn't mention that initiative and "disobedience" were rewarded if it was a success "worth the cost" in German high command.
Maybe this commander is seeking more glory compared to IRL.
Maybe they have a grudge from the Great War still.
Maybe the actual usable number of tanks was improperly counted IRL.
(As mentioned in the above comment this was a common problem that even on paper full strength elite German units suffered from.)
Maybe it was just "a good day to die."
Maybe I just like making excuses...
The world may never know.
13th mission on 13th
and title is fitting
perfect
A great result. It should easily be enough to get you to the bonus mission.
Thanks! It does qualify me for the bonus mission, but I have something else up my sleeve instead
@@usuallyhapless9481 Hopefully it will be just as much fun to watch.
verygood!
I did not do well on this one. Great positioning of your tanks; I just didn't get that right and tried to be too clever with the AT guns (didn't work).
I definitely haven't much luck with the 17pdrs (outside the first Grainville defence). And, as you may already know, things get a lot worse in the next mission!
@@usuallyhapless9481 Oooh yes.
Hell ya!
To bad😢 I hope there will be more narrative campaigns on this channel.
And yes... Cameronians for the win!🏴
Well, there's still one mission left, then a bonus mission... then I should really finish the Cold War NTC campaign, then... well, there's plenty of campaigns out there ;)
@@usuallyhapless9481cold war ntc?
Beautifoul.
I would have killed to see some of the kill counts after the battle, the FO and some of the flanking units must have had some absurd numbers!
Bravo! Superb effort. The bonus mission is pretty interesting so looking forward to that. With this campaign almost over I've been meaning to ask. Any chance you could tackle the infamous Courage and Fortitude campaign? I've seen quite a few people complain about the difficulty in that one over the years on the Battlefront forum, on reddit and most recently on steam. Would be interesting to see how it compares to the Scottish Corridor.
Ooh, not sure I dare tackle Courage and Fortitude! :P
Mostly because it's an older campaign and a little... less nuanced, should we say? It's not off the table, but it'll probably be a while before I tackle a CMBN campaign again.
I remember that tank choke point from somewhere before... maybe one of DoubleVision's videos? Do you know what ever happened to him Hapless?
Yep, Double pulled off an anti-armour ambush there in his playthrough. I don't know what happened to him though. Hope he's ok.
Babe! Wake up! Hapless’s Scottish corridor campaign video dropped!
“Crescendo of Doom.” Was that the name of one of the old Squad Leader modules?
yes it was. I think the 2nd module, in fact. (First one Cross of Iron?) Was a long time ago.
That would fit. CM is suspected to be heavily based off ASL
Are the Force structures historically accurate, or someone's estimate? It seems like basically an attack at 1:1 (or perhaps slightly worse in terms of Infantry), yes the Germans had more armour, but it seems well short of the preferred 3:1.
You don't always know the size of the force you're attacking in real life.
@@Coddykin Well usually your Int Cell makes an estimate. If you don't have some idea of what you are attacking (or why) then you are pretty much destined for failure.
absolute slaughter but i guess they were nazis, damn