[CC:TLD] Arclight vs. Dowly Grand Campaign

[Dowly]

Arclight: Allies
Dowly: Germany

Rules:
-AI on veteran
-30 time limit
-2min warning after all VL's taken
-Morale win on

DAY 1 TURN 1
St. Germaine de Varreville
The first battle was at St. Germaine de Varreville. It was a cluster**** with Arc's game freezing during the deployment phase and my PC running out of memory due FRAPS and crashing the game, so we decided to start over and truce the battle.

St. Marie du Mont
Second battle was 795th Ost/709th INF DIV against 506th RGT/101st AB DIV at St. Marie du Mont. I was horribly outgunned here, the ost troops tend to panic very easily. The main battle of the game was for the control of the church situated in the center of the map. Arclight had deployment zone inside, but still I decided to go with 3 squad assault against it and eventually got the victory location for a brief moment before Arclight killed or captured my troops inside. I had PaK giving support from the south road, which initially kept Arc's soldiers' heads down at the church flag, but lost visual after the first clash. After I lost the church, Arc started to advance from north, I had very little to throw at him at this point so decided to go with an final attempt to assault and gain some ground. That didn't work at all, Arc massacred my boys like there's no tomorrow and soon my morale broke and Arc got major victory on this one.



Aftermath

[Oberon]

Ost troops are horrible. Still, when you get the proper guys in, then Arc won't find it so easy

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Ost troops are horrible. Still, when you get the proper guys in, then Arc won't find it so easy

Aye, got 2 panzer divisions in the rear ready to rumble. Just need to hold Arc back long enough so I can get them to the front.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Aye, got 2 panzer divisions in the rear ready to rumble. Just need to hold Arc back long enough so I can get them to the front.

Let me guess...the Fuhrer has taken a sleeping pill and asked not to be disturbed?

Good luck, both of you.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Let me guess...the Fuhrer has taken a sleeping pill and asked not to be disturbed?

Aye, not answering my calls.

[Dowly]

DAY 1 TURN 1

La Fierre Causeway
I had an advantage on this map as I had 3 tanks and 2 guns. On top of that, Arc had pretty crappy deployment zones. (fire directions of my tanks and guns marked)



The first sight of the battle was in the southern sector where we immediately clashed, Arc had his AT gun there so I peppered it with mortar and destroyed it after a few rounds.


In the NW sector, Arclight assaulted southwards and tried to take hold off the church, which he did briefly, until I drove the tank forwards. With the support of the tank (which BTW was immobilised next to the church by something) my infantry got hold of the church, but not without casualties.


Arc still had lots of resistance up there.


On the southern sector, my two tanks had done their job and I started to capture the buildings and the bridge back. Again, not without casualties.


Last remaining pocket of Arc's resistance.



End result



On a side note I must say that Arc is putting up a good fight considering this is his first time playing CC.

[Dowly]

DAY 1 TURN 2

729th RGT / 709th INF DIV vs 507th RGT / 82nd AB DIV

Amfreville

(see post #13 for the starting positions on this one)

I'm tired and encoding the videos that I shot from the match takes too long, so you'll have to go with written AAR on this one.

I decided not to hold on to the church that I captured on the last match, instead I went with similar plan as the last time, box Arc in and have him attack.

I didn't take any AT guns with me this time, could come in handy when I meet his tanks rolling out from the beaches later on in the campaign.

We made contact immediately in both South and North. South had maybe 3-4 squads near the intersection, my Marder there kept them at bay, but lost one MG42 squad sadly.

In North, after the initial contact with Arc's engineers I assaulted the northern town with a squad of grenadiers, also fought back Arc when he tried to capture the church and manned it in return. Lost quite a few men during the assaults, but IIRC, the MG42 squad I lost in South was the only fully KIA squad from my side.

After the first few assaults from both sides, it became more of an trench war in North, with both sides shooting at eachother from their positions. MG42s drew the longest straw on it, sweeping the buildings Arc was positioned in, killing quite a few of his guys.

South sector was rather uneventful, Arc was on the east side of the village, I was in west. I tried to approach his SE flag with a few squads from North but decided to cancel it so to not lose any men trying to take it.

My game crashed as the match ended, but the forward observers reported seeing the allies running like puny wabbits; Total victory for the germans.

[TheSatyr]

Woohoo!!! I have COI,WAR,TLD and LSA. Not a bad series of games at all.

I'd also recommend Panzer Command:Winter Storm and Panzer Command:Kharkov

[Lzs von swe]

Hi Dowly, nice reports

What version of the game do you use?
V5.50.07 or 5.50.09 beta?

[Arclight]

We're on 5.50.00.

[Lzs von swe]

Thanks Arc.
Have just installed this, on V....07.

Played all the old CC games and loved it, will probably love this too.

But how to find time to play all these games

[Arclight]

Originally Posted by Lzs von swe

But how to find time to play all these games

Don't even get me started on that problem. PC gaming is dying my ass.

[Dowly]

DAY 1 TURN 2

WN 72/716th INF DIV vs 116th RGT/29th INFANTRY DIV

Dog Green

So, another beach map. Again, as usual, not much for me to do here, except to watch Arc capture the front flags I left undefended. I decided to defend the cliffs South and North of the map and try to lure Arc to the narrow path leading to my last flag.


The game started with Arc blowing up my other AT gun, which kinda sucked.


Then my mortar managed to hit two out of 20 of his guys who were running all bunched up in the open, that sucked a tad more.


Then Arc ate, nom nom nom.


After that we had a smoke grenade battle, I call it draw.



Then Arc blew up my 88, which wasn't very nice.


88 being in pieces I called for some running exercises for my men, blindfolded and to the general direction of the enemy to end this goddamn map.


Total Victory for Arc

[Arclight]

I thought exercise was supposed to be healthy?

[Dowly]

Obviously, you thought wrong.