The immersion of the briefing! There are actual flies!

your introductions to this campaign are things of the legend

"It always comes down to the infantryman and his rifle" or something like that...

I love the Arma cinematics. Reminds me of your old Ukraine campaign.

good play. I suffered much more casualties in this one

See this is where I'm appreciating your view on the campaign - I instinctively pulled my light infantry force behind my ridge in order to protect it from fire, just the same, but I'd have struggled to articulate it in those understandable terms (and therefore limiting my ability to work out when and how to adapt to a changed situation). There's one or two other missions where I went heavily on 'gut instinct', and I'm curious to see how you analyse them. This was probably the first mission I really enjoyed in the Marines campaign - the previous mission was all fun, games, and firepower, but here it was a mission where the over-sized and high-quality infantry platoons got to show both their strengths and their limitations. Funnily enough, my read on the use of the weapons was for the javelins to be on a no-fire arc until actual armour showed up, while using the SMAW to exchange fire with the BTRs. As the return MG fire wasn't very effective, the SMAWs could afford to miss, reload, and try again without being instantly vaporised as they would be if they missed a tank.

This one was a rough one for me I had to play through a few times. I was very surprised how tough Marine infantry is against light skinned vehicles.

Topography... Topography never changes...

Love the addition of ARMA.

i loved this mission because i did the opposite and rushed forward into the dead ground. This was much riskier than i initially understood and my marines were totally outnumbered and desperately trying to hit enemy apc's at max range with their grenade launchers. We won via pure determination without even a dozen casualties. Scrappy, daring, and dangerous. probably my favorite mission in the whole game

Awesome series / campaign, as usual! This mission seems nicely (and deviously) constructed with the tank push near the end, and your AT reinforcements only arriving at the 11th hour

Loving the style and effort gone into these marine campaign videos. Also having an objective with

Great video! Next missions will be tough and the mud will pose a bigger danger than the Syrians... Good luck

Been on a binge of your channel for the past month or two and this is the first CM campaign series I'm watching as it comes out. Keep up the good work!

Not much to add here. Excellent as always. :) You did the right thing: if the enemy has more long-ranged firepower then you, make sure he can't shoot at you, and deploy your units behind a reverse slope. Just let him come forward under the watchfull eyes of an FO. Some hit-and-run attacks from an ATGM-team not withstanding.

love the custom intro briefings man, keep em up!

If I remember correctly you get an extra scenario if you lose this one.

Rarely, do you get to use the AT4s but every time you do, you realize how important it is for every squad to carry one.

Hapless I beg you to try a Soviet Red Thunder campaign this one! There is so much variety and uniqueness to them that often are overlooked.

It would be interesting to see an Army IBCT platoon put into the same situation. I'd think the extra javelins would be a big help, but the lack of close range AT firepower would get sketchy faster than I'd like.

Great video, as always. Have you considered doing a Graviteam Tactics Mius Front playthrough?

Interesting mission from an experience standpoint. When I picked up CM, I pretty much knew nothing about tactics (what’s a reverse slope?). Since then, I’ve learned a lot, and this mission now looks completely different to my now more astute and trained eyes. Before, the Syrian attack looked like a senseless, jumbled mess. Now I see recce elements followed by a main body, with tanks in reserve to be deployed against identified enemy positions. Completely different. Good vid as always. I’m replaying this campaign at the same time as you, but it seems I’m now falling behind 😅

08:52 that BTR-60 got the most unluckiest moment.

Ngl sick vid.

If you were playing as the Syrians, what would you do to counter the strategy you used in this video?

You can easy make 3d model map of terrain, buildings etc with one mod

Groooooming standaaaards!

I've played this mission a few times and I have consistently experienced the Syrians starting off the battle with an artillery bombardment on my FO Team on the far right of the map. Did you have the same issue in your play through?

Off topic: I'm a amateur with this series and prefer the modern titles, simply as that's the "Gulf War" style feel of era I am more at home with. I did want a WW2 title though and picked up FB as it's the cheaper of the two, even though I think I would prefer BfN thematically. Decent choice from a content standpoint?

Cada día tus vídeos son mejores macho

Lets gooooo!

Man I got absolutely rickrolled by the damn BTRs. I mean straight up overrun. My dudes missed almost every AT4 shot and my fire missions were mostly ineffective. I started wondering if I actually had army troops instead of Marines!

You gunna do a video on the fight club staffex? Sorry if you’ve answered this already

When I played this, the T-62's headed straight down the ravine and I sent my reinforcements scrambling up the slopes on both sides of it. I think the tanks ate like six AT4's, four SMAW rockets and god know what else before I knocked them out. It was like my guys were aiming exclusively at the ERA panels, probably just a skill/positioning issue on my end.