CMBN: The Scottish Corridor 09: The Odon Bridges

[@dadoogie]

It's a shame Josey Wales and double vision stopped but your content keeps the combat mission after actions so brilliant. Be good to see you and gunsalot going head to head again as his videos and yours paired are great.

[@markchorlton60]

Was just thinking this exact thing this morning.

[@annoyedbipolar7424]

Great job with this campaign. So far (I say as the series is almost finished) this was the best mission yet. Yes, you got a bloody nose but made them pay tenfold for it. The worst you lost is some scout carriers and infantry, not an entire mechanized company.

[@sullybiker6520]

This epitomizes the drama of this campaign! It's like a little feature film. When those half-tracks turned up, my heart sank a little bit, but oh, what's this? It's Hapless with the steel chair!

[@usuallyhapless9481]

Never underestimate the late game steel chair! ;)

[@malarauko]

I think a 25 pdr round hitting your sdkfz 251 definitely qualifies as a significant emotional event

[@usuallyhapless9481]

Definitely.

[@awordabout...3061]

That point-blank grenade attack just made me giggle - the image of this german soldier just plopping agrenade in as it drove past was just too funny! Obviously, not very funny for the poor Jocks in the UC, though.

[@jsteel35]

Best CM content anywhere! Keep it up!

[@gareththompson2708]

7:55 I did not know that. I think that might influence how I use TRPs from here on out.

[@harryknight3114]

I've been really loving this series, great work! It's even inspired me to start working on some 15mm WW2 miniatures to play Chain of Command's Scottish Corridor campaign with some mates, so I'm applying fiddly highlights to some Bren guns while I watch this. Despite the fact I can't play Combat Mission on my already abused laptop, I'm a keen watcher of all your videos, keep it up!

[@aaronjones2117]

I'm making some 15mm troops for Chain of Command and IABSM too! You using PSC or Battlefront?

[@harryknight3114]

Battlefront, I just found their sculpts a little crisper (and easier to get at my LGS). I really think 15mm is the perfect scale for platoon size games, it's just so cheap and easy to get to the table.

[@aaronjones2117]

Cool. I might have to pick up a box to prepare for when me and my friends finally finish 29 Let's Go and 29 Let's Go Large. They always looked nice, I just wish the company boxes had an actual company of miniatures in it instead of 2 platoons and an HQ

[@TheAdronio]

Good job. Good to see the AI being able to pull off a pretty serious attack there that didn't just bounce off your defences, although you smashed them all the same. The one thing I'll say is that I don't see the why you had to defend the centre line firmly enough to lose two platoons over it, especially when you already acknowledged it as a weakpoint and had TRPs and artillery prepared to smash the line when it fell. If you held it more lightly with some Bren teams and fell back more easily you could have saved some pain I think. It'd leave the Gatehouse objective in a more precarious position if they turned towards it from the centre but you already have a TRP there and could probably easily conduct a counterattack from the wooded area behind and to the left of the objective.

[@usuallyhapless9481]

Yeah, going into the battle I was looking at the ground and the assets thinking I had too many troops for the job, I just needed to get the enemy onto a target reference point. I only had 3 TRPs though- one in Gatehouse, one at the top of the main road and then one back near the bridges as a final fall back. If I had one more, then I could have popped it in the centre, which would have totally changed my defence.

[@DwarfElvishDiplomacy]

Oh nice, thats where the famous Odon noodles come from

[@blackvulture6818]

Those german halftracks sure are a fan of that scene in "A Bridge too Far"

[@usuallyhapless9481]

Not any more

[@JuergenGDB]

Would love to see this played out in a H2H match. Hapless always does a first-class job! Cheers! GhostRider3/3

[@JuergenGDB]

On a fact note. It is always hard for a Commander to call in Arty, knowing you probably have wounded men in the area where you could not extract them, but knowing the enemy has taken those positions always falls heavy on the Commander.

[@hohahohaya]

would be great to see some mods that you can recommend for every CM game.

[@Vatniks_are_clowns]

Thank you for these uploads! Ive been really enjoying this campaign.

[@usuallyhapless9481]

Thanks so much man!

[@Vatniks_are_clowns]

@@usuallyhapless9481 no problem!

[@Lazuli2-6]

This mission was really interesting to see as it expanded the last defense with a larger defense. Maybe this can be used as an inspiration for the PVP Road to Demascus campaign where it starts as a small battle probe into a larger city size battle with the map expanding based on Blues progress on taking the city

[@jhudrickwrayterrado8791]

Babe, wake up, a new hapless video just dropped (Hoping to see you cover other campaigns in Battle for Normandy!)

[@GrumpyReaper2525]

That was a disaster for Germans. And a good practical illustration of the value of speed and violence of action in combat.

[@Secondconvex]

Only just got my hands on the ww2 games, currently trying to finish all the CM:SF2 campaigns. Love your videos, entertaining and gives me ideas for tactics in my current games.

[@thespfgirl]

Great to see a new video!

[@YourRulerSkeletos]

I do wish the carriers were more survivable, they seem like such a useful asset on paper.

[@usuallyhapless9481]

To be fair, they're a lot more survivable when you don't park them right where enemy armour can see them

[@YourRulerSkeletos]

@@usuallyhapless9481 The lack of protection for the gunner on the MMG carriers really stands out as limiting their utility. But also that, yeah.

[@usuallyhapless9481]

Well, the MMG carrier is a little different. For direct fire, the better option is probably to dismount and set the MG up somewhere sensible, but they were also used en masse for indirect fire shoot and scoot.

[@aucklan9930]

love this series

[@azizalshatti488]

Man love your vids but your volume on the vids are really low but this channel makes the best cmb games keep it up.

[@ccccccc95]

Well played once more.

[@renes9966]

Holy shit what a nail biter !

[@wartsnall7332]

A bit bloody, but a good result.

[@ilboche]

Wait what?!?! TRPs work as Range cards too?!?

[@usuallyhapless9481]

Well, they sort of more work like known points on a range card. But yeah, easiest way to explain it!

[@ilboche]

@@usuallyhapless9481 well yes. Ive used Rangecards but damn, never expected that. After more than a decade playing you find out new things all the time.

[@yunusemreakca626]

What firearms mod for kenshi would you reccomend?

[@System-Update]

Great Vid. AI is still poor at attacking.

[@robertkalinic335]

AI is kind of meh, it would be awesome to see this vs human. You could do each battle again vs random viewers for each one. This mission particularly calls for germans to use flank effectively but ai isnt up for the job.

[@PNJ452]

[@h.m.stanley]

I love this game.. but the advance is a flawed AI design.. the AI does stupid things that are easily countered.