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Post by Stanenberg on Oct 31, 2016 23:08:35 GMT 1
Finished Mission 5! Decent map overall, interesting concept. Edit: Rushed Mission 6. Also a cool map. Actually cool mapping, looks interesting.
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Post by bb on Nov 1, 2016 0:47:24 GMT 1
LOL, you will walk through the chapter 2. But chapter 3 will kill you.
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Post by Stanenberg on Nov 2, 2016 22:36:55 GMT 1
ok, Mission 7 very fun experience. When you attack the village in the center the germans get an infinite amount of stukas while the player has zero air support and 2 completely useless aa-guns. I guess i just lack the amazing soviet gzm playing skill that you need to beat this map?
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Post by bb on Nov 3, 2016 0:00:15 GMT 1
Come on, Stan! Things werent't easy to the Soviets in 1941! Try to capture one 88mm gun (there are 4!), also is possible to try to capture a Flak 36 in the village at the south. In the first village the Germans have one 2 cm flak and you should have 3 25mm 72k. The last option is to try to atack in the rain time. Or ask for the help of the partisans!
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Post by Stanenberg on Nov 3, 2016 0:29:26 GMT 1
Yeh ok. If you know that you have to capture the enemys aa (its not like any sane player would try to destroy an 88) its possible. Still really annoying how a few planes can destroy a regiment sized combat group. GZM hasnt changed much from vanilla there... I wont miss these guys...
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Post by bb on Nov 3, 2016 18:50:35 GMT 1
The enemy aviation can be very painfull for people not used with GZM. I learnt how to deal with stukas after playing the Stalingrad missions in the campaign. The best option is move your vehicles to covered positions, keep your AA guns very close and change your infantry to defensive mode. Stukas have a preference to attack light vehicles (trucks) and infantry,so, meanwhile they attack your poor soldiers the AA guns can destroy then.
Obvious, I like the aviation feature in GZM once the air support can change the entire development of a mission. But everything is a matter of balancement and meaby this time I messed up. But you was the first to complaint about this mission, so I'll wait before change it.
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Post by Grenadier on Nov 3, 2016 18:51:19 GMT 1
Interesting post Squire James concerning the bad AA in Bk. Wondered back when the game was released why it sometimes stutters during AA firing.
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Post by bb on Nov 3, 2016 18:51:38 GMT 1
. I wont miss these guys... Dont worry, they will back soon.
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Post by Stanenberg on Nov 6, 2016 22:31:56 GMT 1
Okay, Mission 8 (Yelnia) was a first highlight for me in the campaign! Really long and epic map, i like it For me as a mapper its always very motivating to see people play your maps and its even more motivating when they post reports or screens from playing on the forums. Its a cool way to give smth back to the mapper. I tried that by posting videos, but to be honest its quite boring to watch 40 minutes footage of bk playing. So i gonna try to just make a detailed playing report i guess... The map comes with one main Objective, to take the German HQ in the middle of Yelnia. There are 3 objectives around this main target which each give an advantage to the player when he accomplishes it. My choice was to attack the German Luftwaffe HQ, remembering the Stukas from Mission 3 and Mission 7 The T34's and heavy artillery made it fairly easy to penetrate the first German lines of defence: When i attacked further, the German Luftwaffe became very active, bombing my troops. The German bombers did not only only shot down my fighters, but also my bombers. Interesting balacing there! Taking the Luftwaffe HQ provoked a pretty big counterattack and a huge battle which looked like a Russian War Movie started I then used to position to flank the Germans, taking out their heavy artillery and taking the factory to cut off supply Storming Yelnia should be easy now!
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Post by bb on Nov 7, 2016 3:30:21 GMT 1
Thanks for the report, Stan. About the next chapter: you probably will have some random crashes in the next two missions, save it the most often possible.
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Post by longfellow on May 22, 2017 13:00:57 GMT 1
Great missions....thank you
Cheers
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Post by mariotim on Oct 10, 2017 21:21:50 GMT 1
Great mod! Gameplay is awesome. Big plus for : using resuppling units for limited time, the mission with mobile defense, inteligent counterattacks. I had some problem at the third mission( couldn't load a saved game, defending the 2 bridges in the end for nearly half an hour without finishing the chapter). Minus: little marketing for this mod.
Just another question for bb: beside road to leningrad and this superb mod, do you have another mod realeased on gzm platform? Great work guys!
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Post by bb on Oct 11, 2017 17:11:29 GMT 1
thanks a lot mariotim I'm working in a really big soviet campaign, the convertion of GPW (originally made by Ocelo and Leon) to GZM. Most of the missions were allready released but I made several visual changes and improved some of the scripts. Also you will have at least 10 new maps made by myself. I'm thinking in release it until november. You can check the capaign development here: blitzsrbija.proboards.com/thread/2010/gpw-gzm?page=3It should be my last big work to BK, but the comments allways encourage me to work a little more. I'm not sure, but meaby I can make a new chapter to German side. Meaby about the Caucasus campaign? Who knows?
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Post by Stanenberg on Oct 11, 2017 18:47:46 GMT 1
Hype!!!!
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Post by ricz on Oct 13, 2017 21:53:35 GMT 1
WOW..That would be Awesome BB...
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