-USN: How many supporting assets do you need for this? +UH: Indeed

Cobra pilot be like: You see that TAXI cab? Co-pilot: Yes Pilot: I don't want to see it anymore.

US vehicles will still be armed with .50 caliber mgs in the year 2251.

Oh yeah, another campaign episode. We are so up right now!

Man these new ARMA opening cinematic things you are doing are fucking amazing. Keep up the great work!

"Extensive urban remodeling." Are you family of Drachinifel, or are all Brits like this? XD I understand the previous mission now; it's to teach you how to play around with heavy firepower. This one simply ads more toys into the mix. Love the briefings, by the way. Reminds me of those old desert storm documentaries.

Ah yes send in the lunch boxes

Say what you will about the protection offered by the AAVs, but they will at least protect against mortar fragments. :P

Awesome editing, very immersive. Keep it up, Hapless!

Played part of this campaign recently & one thing to be aware of is a bug in a later scenario (“Flirting with Disaster”) where no reinforcements arrive to back up a small troop of scouting Humvees. Shooting up tanks & BMPs at long range w the TOW vehicles is great fun but eventually the missles run out & the tanks close in! This has been mentioned a few times in the Battlefront Forum but apparently never addressed. I haven’t gone back to see if things run to a better conclusion if one takes *Route Tiger* in the campaign-branching “Breakout” scenario. “Flirting with Disaster” is part of the *Route Eagle* branch

As a newb, this is the first mission I won without any guide and what makes me addicted to this game. I focus all 2 AAV platoons in a single focal point where I suppressed the Syrian with Mk19 as I moved up my AAVs next to their position. Once I reached their position, my infantry would just jump in and fight at close range. Only 10 men died, which was when I paused the assault to hold my position and ran out of Mk19 to suppress the enemy and I was busy micromanaging Fox company. I tried this in the US army campaign's first mission and it worked out well too. It's the riskiest tactic so far but it's the only one I'm good at as I always get absolutely decimated when I'm more careful with my assault.

really looking forward to seeing you do the next mission (provided it hasn't been changed in CMSF2) as that one stumped me for a long time back in the day

Great stuff as always. It's really quite a change of pace when you don't have an IFV you feel safe moving around in. I decided to 'hop' single squads (which is still a fair few men!) up the map in the AAVs, one vehicle at a time, which went well enough - if I had lost one it wouldn't have been too bad, though in part because CM doesn't cover the loss of strategic mobility that would cause. Later on you get scouts with Humvees and LAVs, which are much better for testing the ground to see if it's covered by an ATGM.

Thanks for this Hapless. I love this format of you videos. It's entertaining.

Reminds me of Arma 2 single player mission where your squad drops in by heli, all goes well....until a bmp shows up

Probably my favourite mission in the campaign. Just pure fire powers awesomeness.

I remember in the demo version of SF2, there is an amphibious operation that I played quite a few times. I ams surprised that wasn't part of the campaign.

I'll second what someone else has already said - excellent editing and narration. Really brings these missions to life!

Just wanted to say that I recently discovered your content and I've binged all your AAR's and quite a few of the few full game replays

Praise be.

Woo Hoo beer time just got getter! 🍺

Wonderful video once again!

Awesome second episode! Loving this series!!

Damn you are so good at these games man, always a good experience to hear your though process and see your gameplay

excellent video love the cinematics

Interesting approach! I’ve been playing this campaign myself lately and I used the reinforcing Fox platoon as a maneuver element rather than trying to rush down the MSR. I found that maintaining the relatively longer engagement ranges on that left hand side flank was a key combat advantage and I really didn’t want to close up with the buildings. Definitely could have used the AAVs more myself but like you I was scared of anti tank emplacements. Loved the JDAM power in this engagement too! Thank you for posting your playthrough, it is very illuminating.

Am I the only one who saw this get posted 5 or 6 days ago and then suddenly vanish? Nice to see it back!

Good stuff :) As always, keep it up!

The mix with the Arma 3 scenes is veru good!

12:04 I think that "injection of Speed" isn't the best metaphor here Unless you fancy doing drugs

Nice video! I discovered your channel recently and am enjoying learning about this game. Your grasp of tactics and terrain is impressive. Have you considered roleplaying ROE more? ROE imposes significant real-world restrictions not modeled in the game itself that would make these engagements more challenging in reality. For example, you cannot occupy a mosque that is not first occupied by enemy combatants. Similarly, it is unlikely that non-precision fires would be approved for use against buildings that might contain civilians (at least until you positively identify armed defenders in them). It is surely more effective to plaster the likely defensive positions with indirect fire and air support before closing in, but actions like that tend to cause more collateral damage than U.S. forces (or any allied powers) would be willing to accept.

how much fire support do you need? thats too little but i didnt even... more!

I really enjoyed this one. How many jdams did you drop in the end? I like seeing the characteristically American generous employment of air support. In most CM videos, fires tend to be limited to artillery. It would be cool (for the viewer, not sure if it would be cool for the redfor player) if in a future pvp game of yours, you had no gentlemen's agreement about limiting air support.

The production values on this channel are just going up and up and up and up. Love it. I hope the time investment is proving to be worth it!

Pretty smooth sailing so far, but I do wonder how long the USMC fire support hose is

"Residual Syrians" lol

Are Marine Corps 81s the most responsive off map battery in all of CM?

Love your content and dedication to the Battlefront series of games. I'm trying to get M Herm and yourself persuaded to play against each other in a match.... Let me know if your up for it I'll try and put it together of you could reach out to him... He is also posting BF videos on this platform and would be VERY interested to see you both go at it...I think it would be an epic video from both sides... Mirror? ;-)

whats the first game?

Gaza strategy?

Good stuff :) As always, keep it up!