Pathing was the real OPFOR this mission

Ah, getting Battlefront 2 related ptsd over that map

Love the high pace and violence in still engagement. Those light vics are really fast and really fun to sieze key terrain in the first minute. The only downside to them is that since they crew the vic, you can only dismount them at the start of the next turn which could mean loss seconds that could vital to feeding more info to you

The voices, they never stop. 24/7 KARKAND INF ONLY FF OFF

General Erwin Rommel (no relation) of the Bundeswehr leads his Syrien Korps into battle against the British 7th Armoured Brigade ("Desert Rats"). History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.

Looks like the spirit of Battlefield 2 was kept with the unusually fast and brutal tempo of this fight. Massive casualties, everything going in guns blazing, infantry and armor, oh my!

Uf PR map of Grozny would be fun experience as base for Combat Mission battle.

Sweet memories from BF2, when I had the optimal hand-eye coordination of my age back then... *grumbles*

Javelin really is an insane weapon for infantry AT.

Luka makes some good maps. We kicked each others ass on an Urban CW map he made and it was extremely fun. Glad Combat Mission devs added the map maker. Great video as always Hapless!

This was great, took a moment to remember why Karkand seemed like familiar name 😃

Awesome video! In my opinion, peer vs. peer engagements are always more fun due to how hectic and bloody the fights can get

Incredible video mate, sniping from spawn to spawn on Karkand is something I didn't expect to see today but hey, it's a great surprise!

I always love your videos but saw this title and had to click right away! Please replay this scenario in the style of Battlefield 2, USA vs Syria assault

hey hapless just wanted to say how much I enjoy your videos man, i’ve been watching for about a year now and just bought my third combat mission game. I absolutely love your way of narrating and almost explaining the mission like a story. Keep it going brother🤝🤝🤝

Unless I'm blind and/or not paying attention, it looks Luka did not bring any Challengers. I'm not as skilled as y'all are, but that seems to me like an error given that the heaviest AT weapons that the Germans in CMSF2 are bringing are the Panzerfaust ("short" range"), the MILAN (SACLOS operated attached to the Marder), and the Leopard's cannon. But I'm not exactly what the Challengers would have done here besides being tanks (which is seldom a _bad_ thing).

Wow, what a slaughter, great plays and counter plays from both players, the lethality of everything in the modern titles always catches me off guard. Great vid!

amazing video and narration!

I loved BF2 so much.

Excellent video (as usual). A 'very well done' to both sides.

Thanks for sharing. Great video, as always.

Absolutley love those battle reports! Nice to see the difference between a slow firing Autocannon and the 20mm Rheinmetall rapid fire cannon. Usually people only focus on the caliber. Impressive how Luca came back into the game.

after seeing this, i remembered there was a CMSF2 Kokan map, ohhh it was awesome. Other PR map that i would love to have in CMSF2 and thats Kashan Desert!

that was very brutal and also was a great show.

pzh2000 wonderfull artillery piece made with german finesse wunderwaffe when works

Amazing map. Brings back a lot of memories.

I enjoyed this one. Nice to see a tight battle without gamey points accounting.

I realy enjoyed it :)

it loks like in CM its very much infantry-oriented map maybe few armored cars like humvees but thats all. Introducing thermals and high calibers just leads to this instant combat. Great map from Luka as always.

great battle!

MEC theme on repeat, lets goooooo!

Luka represent CM's Brazilian community more than anyone ! Cheirs to my cumpadre!

Ah right in the nostalgia

FYI, this appeared on my "subscription" list a few days ago, prior to me being able to actually play it.

If u knew he is going to bring a ton of javelins, arent leopards a bit too much expensive to exchange with them if u have those weasels?

Ouch. Medic!

You have to wonder how this meeting engagement would have turned out with hordes of FPV drones from both sides hunting for targets.

Military History Visualized has a video about the Wiesal

Great video as always. As others pointed out, some rules in terms of what players are bringing seemed to be off as javelin spam just wrecked the tanks!

I remember playing bf2 as a 6 year old spamming artillery strikes and running over enemies with the abrams in this map 😂

Someone please make a single player scenario for this map.

How suited is any map for Shock Force 2/Black Sea/Cold War engagements would be a better question. They're either entirely too small for the weapon systems to work with of start chugging before action even starts.

Hi Hapless I just fired up Black Sea and set everything to the max but my graphics look bad compared to yours. Im running a 4.5 ghz new I5 and a 2060 6gb oc card with 16gb ram. Are you using mods for textures or models or do you have a link to the page with the vooddo recipe? Cheers fella great channel.

Now that we've seen the slaughter of Blue vs. Blue, some of your older vids on Syrian vs. Syrian, what about Uncon vs. Uncon? Complete jank-fest gameplay wise, but interesting when looking at some of the early Kurdish vs. IS engagements?

5:10 lmao

You forgot to make suppression fier missions on the hills in airburst mode and low rate of fiere. This would scare off damage or even kill javelins teams. Javelins might be powerful but they need to be outside and 155 airburst is very deadly against infantry. I would have choose a big area on the enemy hill side and kept a constant suppression mission up to force the enemy to stay inside his ifv´s or scare him so fff that it becomes no mans land and no atgm teams will or want to be there.

I know this map better than my house.

I feel like some "gentleman rules" are needed when javelins are present in a faction, he didnt bring a single tank, yet he slaughtered all 6 leopards, very EXPENSIVE leopards

Should have used some dolphin diving.

Which CM game has the most small-scaled scenarios? As a newbie, I feel under pressure when a scenario gives me too many troops. I just look at the map and I don't know what to do when I have so many troops. But this is not the case when I play small-scaled scenarios.

Luka probably one of the best Combat Mission players, top 1% definitely. OTAN should hire him to design real urban maps and battles.

11:23 Jeez those Marders were eating 30mm rounds like nothing. Was that superior German engineering or is the Rarden just that bad?

Mass javelin sure seems to reinforce the "tanks are obsolete" claim. Mobility appears to be the best way to make use of tanks, the Leopards died almost as fast as the lighter vehicles.

Really puts into perspective just how scary western units are - HQs can and will take out your heavy armour, single AT teams can and will take out entire platoons worth. Every unit is capable of trading itself 1:1, and more often than not does so. Every fight costs you, there are no complete victories, it simply doesn't matter how good your technology or your tactics are when you're fighting troops at this level, they all sting you in their death throes. Personally I think taking as many tanks as you did was the real mistake. Against an inferior opponent, the armour and detection ability means those tanks can rampage if well handled, but against a peer enemy, it's only a matter of time until they're knocked out, and there are far more threats that can knock them out too. They have to work much much harder to pay for themselves. Personally I think I would have opted for an infantry heavy set-up, and discard the marders for the same reason as the tanks. AT teams will happily pick off armour that dares to sit on the edge of the 'bowl of death' - in the age of laser guided top-attack munitions, hull-down doesn't mean much. Force the opponent to make an assault on the city and turn it into a meat grinder, and have the PzH 2ks ready to shatter the forward positions as they are lost - scorched earth style. Still, I like the aggressive approach and the plan to sneak down the beach and break out of the bowl. Perhaps if you had committed more troops to this and earlier, you'd have been in a good position to mop up the British troops!

I really enjoyed that video, im autistic and I enjoyed it more than other of your videos (Not due to content since I love your content but the pace) I was full locked in and I hope u wont take it personally

that rarden fire rate is just pitiful haha

There is no need to take such risky maneuver trying to flank the British, It seems that the British commander didn't take tank nor artillery, It should had been very difficult to break into the city if German used most of their unit to fortify the perimeter.

Game?

1v1 me in Gulf of Oman.

Please bro, I know the creator of this map also made a very well done recreation of a map from PR based on Chechnya/Caucasus. I’ve wanted to see some gameplay of it forever now, one of the nicest maps I’ve seen.