It was great to face off against you in this mission. I agree with your commentary on REDFOR, I felt that I didn't have enough personnel or equipment to defend the village, in reality a full company group would have been much nicer to have. From my side I knew I couldn't hold you at range outside of the OBJs, the UK kit is simply much better (as in reality). My general SOM was to repeat what I did to poor 3rd Sect when they approached and attempted the left hook, with reinforcements being timely to prevent you from coming all the way around and outflanking me. I had kill zones established in the streets in anticipation that the best place to destroy your forces was during their break-in, which is exactly what happened. This would be assisted by fire from the BMPs (those which hadn't fallen prey to your AS90s). From my side, the things which kept me on my toes the most were the AS90s which were completely devastating, combined with the isolation element using Javelins on the right. They completely threw a wrench in my reinforcement plans. Looking forward to the next one!

22:10 NLAW gunner definitely had an ancestor who was a Victoria Cross recipient PIAT gunner.

The RPG shot that knocked out your Challenger is the kind of shot that every soldier who's ever fired an AT weapon has wet dreams about... that was both incredibly satisfying, and painful, to see

Sort of disappointed by the extremely limited timeframe of the mission, it feels to me like it would have been a really interesting engagement with just a little more time to develop

Can't wait to see some proper brawling after the "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" approach of the previous missions. At least, that's what the Challengers imply...

Your self-criticism at the end was accurate. I would like to add that your decision to attack with one Inf Platoon at a time was a mistake as well. One route of attack can always be shut down by a concentration of enemy artillery, so it is important to use two prongs of attack if possible. By using only one platoon at a time and feeding the rest of your force in afterward, you gave the enemy time to attrit your force (if you spend enough time in front of an enemy defense, everything can happen: remember the key holed BMP and the RPG hit on your MBT). When 3rd platoon attacked into the village, it was already down one squad and quickly shut down by artillery. Even so, it managed to enter the village before becoming combat ineffective. An attack, performed by 2 platoons in line, could have gained a stable foothold for the last platoon. As for the game engine: while I don't own combat mission professional, I like to split my infantry squads during the deployment phase and put them into different vehicles (example: split 1st and 2nd Squad into A and B teams and then put both A teams and B teams in the same vehicle) this way a squad can dismount and occupy two locations during one turn.

Planning stage was exceptional this time round. The visualization of the triangle you’re going to create was an ahah moment for me since I feel like in my own plans I tend to go for more flat deployments with depth, instead of planning around certain shapes in terrain

Overall, I think you did well with the assets you were given, but I think a little more aggression might have been called for-especially with your armor. For instance, when you did that thing and your opponent [reacted/didn’t react], I might have pushed harder to [gain a positional advantage/destroy his ability to resist/seize the objective/all of the above]. Hindsight is 20/20, though, so overall nice job. (This comment was written before the video was released.)

I love these videos that show what Black Sea could/should have been. I understand now it's too late to add expansion packs due to current events, but I'll never understand why Battlefront didn't add a NATO module - just ported over from SF2 - way back when. Any chance modders can do it?

I enjoyed this one. Your explanation was wonderful, as always. The time limit really required you to play aggressively, and meant this scenario didn't seem to be so much your cup of tea. I think it's fair to say you much better suit a more patient style of play.

Very interesting and enjoyable, would be great to see more CMPE British games

The time limit made things tough! Though it does suggest a modern peer to peer (is that the correct term) engagement would be expensive and bloody, and probably reduce both sides to using much simpler, cheaper and less accurate weaponry very quickly. A 20 minute dump of artillery followed by an en masse attack would probably be the only way to go. Can't wait to see more PvP from you!

Excellent! Looking forward to this...

Fantastic video and analysis as always, Hapless.

that nlaw gunner from 22th minute, how the hell did he fit in that boxer with size of his balls?

It's good to see the t72b3's armor being effective for once, although I don't think the roof era could've stood up to a javelin atgm though. The atgms in these games seem to be a little bit too good at outspotting the tanks. Supposedly in Ukraine atgm teams have complained about being not only outspotted, but also outranged by tanks as well. The defender did a great job at positioning his forces. I probably would've left an mg team and a bmp to cover the north, but that's just because I personally would send forces from both sides. The rules of war state to take ground you need to surround, isolate, and then destroy your opponent. Good job on your use of artillery to cover your assault, and your use of hmg/gmg fire in support of your advance.

Love me some good industrial metal.

The time limit really killed this one, would have been a much more interesting fight with an hour to spend on it, and perhaps a bulked up red side to make the fight a bit fairer in manpower

What lost you the battle was the time limit...I assume its low due to the fact CM:PE is meant for PVP and it would take ages to do a 45-min-1h battles but...still its so limiting I find it unrealistic. Its my biggest gripe with CM scenarios.

I do have a few issues about this senario since normally the russians would have setup some scouts, atgms, foward observers and agl in the woods arround the village. Thus you would have been forced to either go tru the forested minefields or engage the troops in the treelines, likekely getting targeted by krasnopol or losing a couple vehicles to well hidden atgm teams. There is a senario in black sea called brutal somewhat similar to this one were you play as the afu and defend a river town from the ruaf. The key to win is to place atgms or a spotter in the treelines arround the town to pick off some attackers before they reach the river and cross it.

I think will was watching this video 😂 that spotting round on your inf was just painful!

Man we need some of these features in civilian CM games. The ability to call in coordinates based arty without eyes on is awesome even if slower or less accurate.

Time limits really do not mesh well with your strengths as a player I think. You have this incredible talent for attritional warfare and are capable of these absolute masterstrokes sometimes, but time crunch seems to unravel a lot of that. Understandably! Aggression is hard

I was under impression that Boxer had STANAG 4569 Level 6 protection. Shouldn't it be rather harder to colander with 30mm through the front?

Industrial Metal - Agent of Chaos // Royalty Free Copyright Safe Music is my favorite song!

Even after reviewing the actual redfor, you still had only a slight numbers advantage. Attacking into a defensible position with a time limit really asked for an overwhelming advantage for success.

Good fight :)

They won the psychological game.

Not sure when u plan to do a campaign again but id love to see how you'd tackle the Netherlands campaign in shock force 2

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Do you think this scenario would've been meaningfully easier to handle with an actual IFV capability, whether something like the Bradley or even a substantially less capable platform like Warrior or its now dead intended CT-40 upgrade?

So do the vehicle GMGs operate properly in the professional version or are they broken like in SF2?

Great stuff. What's Combat Mission Proffesional? are all the other Combat Mission games different?

Just a quick question regarding a different CM, will you try to attempt either the Soviet or American campaign in CM:Cold War in the future?

What combat mission version is this please?

At about 22:10 a situation where a 30mm on the boxer would have been the difference between life and death.

If it looks risky ,just pretend to do it. Then reverse behind the smoke. You know they are professional so have to asume They will catch you if doing sensible thing.

Boxer falling prey this easy to 30mm? Huh… the time limit is crazy too. Nice video and the battle but the mission maker could do better.

I don't know if they broke something (or modern hardware broke something) but I've noticed a reoccurring problem with the modern setting combat missions where APCs and IFVs randomly bug out and stop firing their weaponry despite having ammo available.

RPG Gunners in Urban combat are OP in Combat Mission. BF need to tone them down. So may times they're basically a guaranteed enemy squad wipe.

13:30: Why did the ERA stop the Fin round? Presumably it is modelling say Kontakt-5 or maybe Afganit?

does time limit matter in single player??

what is music in trailer?

What makes it a "professional" version?

Is there any given reason why the Battlefront devs don't allow non-LOS plotting in their regular games?

How do we get this game? Looks heaps better than black sea and SF2

I’m sorry what game or brand of combat mission is this?

I went right. It is viable and you shwack the AAA in the arse, which is nice.

🥺 I want a Boxer too i wish i could get CMPE 😭

Game?

This video should not been shown to any of the British Army chiefs, they'd have a heart attack from seeing this!

Your Challengers gunner's accuracy is atrocious this time.

the time constraints on TOO MANY missions in this franchise are ridiculous. artificial fake difficulty/ it is almost as ridiculous as its 20 year old engine barely chugging with these graphics.

The challengers in this scenario saw more action than the ones in Ukraine!