Seasoned Hapless viewers will note the amount of exasperated sighs in this one. Still a great video as per usual. This campaign seems brutal.

Nothing says 'end of the work week' like a video from Hapless

That panzerfaust boy was a true gamer

that panzergrendier lol "say hello to my little friend"

I feel like sometimes the mission briefings are a bit too cryptic for their own good. I've definitely had cases where points assignments surprised me, where I was unsure which units / ammo counts would effect future missions and where I misunderstood what kind of mission I would be expected to fight. I think they want to be a bit vague to discourage super gamey play styles (like treating attached units as much more expendable), but in the end it is a game and I kind of want to know the rules of the game I'm playing especially if I'm going to get judged by the game in the end. Like in the valley of death mission you can beat back the better part of a BTG while taking minimal losses and end up with a defeat because you thought you were fighting a delay while you were actually fighting a defence.

The simple maps you make are so helpful. Feel marginally better at Battlefront and even graviteams

@9:30 The briefing is wrong about the defenders of Tourville. There was no "29th Panzer Division" in Normandy, the village was defended by a scratch force of infantrymen and local security troops.

That panzerfaust shot is basically the CM AI unfair advantage of being able to make a hit like that. No doubt when I try that even on a tank it will miss and I get blasted for trying.

By the way for anybody wondering about the final scoring of this mission I have the explanation, which IMHO battlefront does not do a good job of explaining. I only know because I have started trying to create my own scenarios. Maybe the best way to understand the scoring for exit objectives is not thinking of them as adding to your score. Instead think of them as subtracting from enemy score. Example you have 10 tanks to exit worth 1000 points total, or 100 each. The enemy starts the mission with that 1000 total already on the scoreboard but for every tank that exits they lose 100....

great editing as usual, does really help understand the battle.

This was the first campaign I played all the way through and I play it again every so often. So it's awesome to watch you go through it. Don't worry! It gets worse! You can get a lot out of your carriers in this mission. You'll have to watch for panzerfausts, as well as infantry in the second and third floors of the buildings, but the absence of armor or any real AT threats lets you be aggressive with them. The infantry gun is a bit worrisome but once you get the spot you should be able to throw mortars at it till it dies.

Amazing video as always Hapless, always a cheerful sight seeing one of your videos come up on the feed! I'm dying to buy the WW2 titles on steam, but they seem to never come unfortunely! Keep the amazing work!

Been meaning to give this campaign a try for a while now but seeing these videos and how brutal some of the missions are I rather just watch. Great content/video as always hapless

Nothing better than a Usually hapless video.

Watching you play battle for Normandy makes me want to buy that game lol. I’m still fighting through some FI campaigns, and watching you helps me think about the missions and how to tackle them. Keep up the good work dude!

Cleaning out the Hitler Youth from that town is absolutely brutal. They're extremely well dug in and half the time when you flank them they'll just turn on you with automatic weapons and smoke your entire team even though completely flanked and under fire.

@6:20 I thought that mining what is meant to be a railway station platform was a bit mean, when I first played this.

I'm suuuper late but I hope you see this anyways, a quick suggestion/tip if I may, when I play combat mission and the point values aren't clearly layed out I have the habit of making a save and then immediately calling a cease fire, that way I can check what exactly the point values are for all the objectives. I feel that it reduces some of the frustration related to the score system, maybe it could do the same for you? Anyhow, wonderful as always Hapless, I'll head over now to the next video of yours I have saved up! 😊

Another great video Double and a really tough scenario. I always admire the logic of your plans and clarity of your commentary

I personally don't mind the vague scoring description, makes it feel more like a really operation to me. You know what your objectives are: take control of the 2 villages and exit B company by a certain time so you can keep the operation moving and on schedule... in light of that vague description only getting 1 of the 2 villages and B company not moving onward does seem like a major defeat to the operation as a whole. Getting a list of exact points for each thing feels a bit gamey, although I can see why people prefer it.

High quality video making as always.

So, in this battle the German’s greatest advantage was bestowed by the British staff officer giving the brief?

Excellent as always.

Great work! I didn't jump on this campaign until watching your videos so fortunately had a bit of a heads up on what to expect and strategies I could implement myself. Except I couldn't wait for this episode to be released so gave it a crack myself! I lost far too much time being overly cautious at the rail crossing choke point, and even more time subsequently creeping up to Farm du Colleville and into the right hand orchard due to early spots along the Bocage line on the far fight flank that was before wheat field. No contacts and a waste of a TRP. By the point I was ready to echelon through B Coy to advance up to Tourville I was running out of time which led to a quite hasty assault including expending most of my artillery and smoke, my Bren Carriers acting as mobile MG nests, and the 6-pounder throwing rounds into any building with a contact. This campaign is a killer for sure.

Always a lovely surprise to see you have uploaded a video!

Hello Hapless, I feel like reconnaissance could've greatly sped up your progress in this mission. (Admittedly I've got lucky by taking out the IG-gun with a lucky round leaving the right flank open for a "mechanised" assault with the brencarriers). Would it be possible that you dedicate an episode to "Reconnaissance". Something along the line of "The patience to see" on the Bill Hardenberg er-Blog? (I know your episode on "Spotting", but this goes a little further with a recon plan and dedicated recon-units). I'll hope you have the time and interest to devote an episode on it. Keep up the great work!!

It might just be American bias on my part but the British rifle squads really seem anemic when compared to their German and American counterparts. The Bren is fine (certainly better than the BAR) but they just don't seem to compare to American squads who get carried by their Garands and Germans who get carried by the MG42. In any case though this is a great series so far and an absolute ballbuster of a campaign.

a hapless loss to the A.I. is has hard to find has rooster teeth........ yes this campaign is bringing some painful memories to me... i have been watching your vids for years now and always wanted to see u in this campaign.... but the main one i wanted to see u try is the battle pack campaign for CMBS... charge of the Stryker brigade i think its called not that i want to see u lose or anything ... but it does somehow ease the pain i felt in this campaign...

This was hands down my least favourite mission of the whole campaign. I do not do well with attacking, aggressive time limits, and traversing large maps. Also it's emblematic of some of Paper Tiger's harsher practices with scoring, as you have discovered.

Love these videos!

The best movies.

Apart from the unfortunate objective misunderstanding this was another fairly successful infantry attack. You know, despite you constantly bemoaning the British Infantry's lack of firepower they seem to be holding their own fairly well.

I have had the exact same "problem" with some of the vague mission objectives in CM.

I played this campaign and found it really difficult. One way to speed up infantry fighting is to put squads into Brens and having them closing up to enemy infantry holding in buildings and fox holes. The light armour and MG on Brens are usually enough to deal with sole-infantry combat as in this scenario. This campaign is frankly not enjoyable to play with all those time limits. It does show how difficult breakthrough operations are without mechanised equipments.

You seem to conserve your artillery support very frequently. Were the 15th Scot supposed to fight this much in Normandy with so little support?

Anyone have any idea when CMBN is hitting steam? Feel like it's taking forever.

When there are exit terrain objectives in a scenario, there are also units assigned that must exit. If any of those units do not exit by the end of the scenario, the program counts them as destroyed and they are added to the victory points calculation.