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[Crni vuk]

cant say I liked this kind of missions in MoW. 2-3 men beating a whole army. Not my taste.

I think MoW really shined where you had either a whole army under your hood or at least a tank with some men to achieve your targets while some allied army was attacking together with you. So obviously the missions I liked most have been in the Soviet champaign. It feels to me anyway like most of the time and resources went in to that and the rest like the German or Allied missions got not so much attention. Sad actualy. I would have loved to get more of such situations. It would have been great to see some fighting in the ardenes against Panthers, Kingtigers even ~ there have been quite succesfull American defences around Stravelot, Bois Jacques or the attack on Foy (not very far from Bastogne) and of course LA GLEIZE where the US captured a Kingtiger in perfect conditions!. Missions like the battles around Caen or Market garden which seen much use of Jagdpanthers and Panthers against the Brits equiped with Fireflies, Achiles and Cromwells one very interesting operation was the fighting around Arnhem (a bridge to far) which involved British paratroopers. The Soviets could have got as well Kursk, Operation Bagration (sandomirz where they captured a couple of Tiger II). The Rhein and Ruhr Pocket would have allowed for some action of Jagdtigers and Pershings.



The foxholes near Bastogne (Belgium)

[Nikitns]

Originally Posted by Crni vuk

cant say I liked this kind of missions in MoW. 2-3 men beating a whole army. Not my taste.

I think MoW really shined where you had either a whole army under your hood or at least a tank with some men to achieve your targets while some allied army was attacking together with you. So obviously the missions I liked most have been in the Soviet champaign. It feels to me anyway like most of the time and resources went in to that and the rest like the German or Allied missions got not so much attention. Sad actualy. I would have loved to get more of such situations. It would have been great to see some fighting in the ardenes against Panthers, Kingtigers even ~ there have been quite succesfull American defences around Stravelot, Bois Jacques or the attack on Foy (not very far from Bastogne) and of course LA GLEIZE where the US captured a Kingtiger in perfect conditions!. Missions like the battles around Caen or Market garden which seen much use of Jagdpanthers and Panthers against the Brits equiped with Fireflies, Achiles and Cromwells one very interesting operation was the fighting around Arnhem (a bridge to far) which involved British paratroopers. The Soviets could have got as well Kursk, Operation Bagration (sandomirz where they captured a couple of Tiger II). The Rhein and Ruhr Pocket would have allowed for some action of Jagdtigers and Pershings.



The foxholes near Bastogne (Belgium)

agree 100%! Those sneak missions were pretty much useless. Only ones I liked are the ones where ur sneaking acutally has consequences for the main battle (Seelow, some of the german missions)

[TodaysKiller]

Pretty much for the german missions it's all defence...which isn't to my liking either :/.

[Korsakov829]

Originally Posted by Crni vuk

cant say I liked this kind of missions in MoW. 2-3 men beating a whole army. Not my taste.

I think MoW really shined where you had either a whole army under your hood or at least a tank with some men to achieve your targets while some allied army was attacking together with you. So obviously the missions I liked most have been in the Soviet champaign. It feels to me anyway like most of the time and resources went in to that and the rest like the German or Allied missions got not so much attention. Sad actualy. I would have loved to get more of such situations. It would have been great to see some fighting in the ardenes against Panthers, Kingtigers even ~ there have been quite succesfull American defences around Stravelot, Bois Jacques or the attack on Foy (not very far from Bastogne) and of course LA GLEIZE where the US captured a Kingtiger in perfect conditions!. Missions like the battles around Caen or Market garden which seen much use of Jagdpanthers and Panthers against the Brits equiped with Fireflies, Achiles and Cromwells one very interesting operation was the fighting around Arnhem (a bridge to far) which involved British paratroopers. The Soviets could have got as well Kursk, Operation Bagration (sandomirz where they captured a couple of Tiger II). The Rhein and Ruhr Pocket would have allowed for some action of Jagdtigers and Pershings.



The foxholes near Bastogne (Belgium)

Each mission follows specific soldiers and commanders. The Soviet missions have Kuznetsov and Smirnov (I don't believe they were at Kursk)

You could put these extra missions as bonus maps, but they won't go into the campaign.

[KnightFandragon]

Kuznetzov and Smirnov were really people then? I figured they jsut came up w/ a good storyline and went with it.

[Crni vuk]

Originally Posted by Korsakov829

Each mission follows specific soldiers and commanders. The Soviet missions have Kuznetsov and Smirnov (I don't believe they were at Kursk)

You could put these extra missions as bonus maps, but they won't go into the campaign.

Well then they could have made it bonus missions at least. Thing is just that I have the feeling a lot more attention was spend to the Soviet mission. Particularly the Allied mission was extremly boring. Except for 1 or 2 missions. And the end came way to sudenly. It was like "ok last assault by the Germans now letz get to Itally/europe!" but nothing. It was simply over. kinda sad

[Korsakov829]

The allies were really boring in real life. Most of the heavy fighting took place on the Eastern front.

[Crni vuk]

wong:

Falaise pocket

Operation Totalize

Operation Market Garden

Battle of the Bulge

Operation Overlord

Crossing of the Rhine - Ruhrpocket

Allied invasion of Sicily, Anzio, Avalange, Gustav Line, Monte Casino etc.

~ and to some extend there are the operations of 1940 during the German invasion in France where the British and French troops saw fighting. Not every battle there was a clear victory for the Germans and in some indidivual cases the allies proved a hard defence though as whole they could not gain the tactical iniative.


Granted the west didnt saw some of the battles like in the east with operations that saw men advancing in the million but Kursk was also not something you had every day even though champaigns in the east involved a lot of contingents but many battles have been as well siedges or encirclements. But here the War started in 41 and had much room for the Germans to operate. The first major operations with the US primarily was in Africa around November 42 (Operation Torch). The battles in france have seen quite a lot of heavy fights particulary around Caen (Operation Totalize) where the British forces at some point faced aprox 70% of the in France deployed German armored forces. And those have been quite a lot. One could also name the operations in the Netherlands (Market Garden) which was the bigest paratrooper operation since today even biger to the D-Day operation or the Ardenes (Wacht am Rhein - Battle of the Buldge) to name a few other situations with heavy fighting. The Falaise Pocket eventualy was a pocket which traped aprox 100 000 German soldiers inside exposing them to heavy artillery fire since the Allies didnt managed to close it completely in time so the Wehrmacht managed to almost remove all their men under constant shelling and bombing. But they had to leave any heavy equipment back though. I think only a handfull of vehicles made it out from the thousands of armor which was left behind.

It is plain wrong and historicaly very questionable to simply say the east would have been the only location wich has seen heavy fighting.

[Nikitns]

~ 85% of Wermacht KIA happened in the East.

4.3 million axis KIA, 6,8 million Soviet+allies KIA... very bloody

[Korsakov829]

The only thing I thank the allies for was the trucks for our rockets, North Africa, and Battle of the Bulge.

The allies were somewhat lazy to begin with while in the East our people threw rocks at tanks. The war could have been won in 3 years instead of 6 if a little more effort had been put into it.