Practical Exercise - Combat Mission: Black Sea - 01

[@KilroyJTF2]

Hey man, long time CM player here. Loved the AAR. You did great in the game and from what I can see you have understood and applied the rules of small unit infantry assaults. Your use of smoke and cutting off lines of retreat are some nice things that I even forget to consider when playing. All your casualties were caused at the point of contact but fire superiority was always quickly established. It’s just how operations in dense terrain go so I’d say you did a superb job. I very much look forward to seeing your future CM videos.

[@WekBenHelix]

Thank you! Really really great to get this kind of feedback. CM has a really great community, it seems.

[@AR-GuidesAndMore]

In regards to tutorials Usually Hapless has a great series alllready on basics. On more specific aspects that i didnt find covered there, you can find a growing list of guides on my channel as well. 😇 Edit: Really well done. You certainly nailed it for a first go, extremely well orchestrated.

[@WekBenHelix]

Thank you!! You and Hapless have both been my go-to tutorials. You guys are the reason I'm even playing this game.

[@AR-GuidesAndMore]

@@WekBenHelix Your answer just made my day. That is really nice to hear 😇, i hope you will enjoy this game as much as the rest of us.

[@CODRD]

I recommend splitting the squads more often than not - I'm not an expert by a long shot but I've done away with using the Assault command. Splitting squads into fire teams appears to reduce the moral and surpression of casualties sustained. As well as allowing a greater control of the map, and in turn of the spotting. I noticed during your Fortress Italy AAR, the first platoons casualties probably could have been reduced by spreading out your teams, or at least have 2 squads firing with one in the rear as a reserve, or being used in the assault.

[@WekBenHelix]

Huge advice. Thank you!!

[@WekBenHelix]

Just tested this. It adds to the micro but it makes a huuuge difference. I'm going to have to do this all the time now. The downside seems to be that you have more C3 lag between spotting, but it's small. Just takes a little more attention to detail when one fire team spots something and they still have to pass it along to their neighbors quick enough to get volume of fire out. Very easy to lose fire superiority at first engagement when in fire teams, by this game's mechanics.

[@CODRD]

@@WekBenHelix You can fire the general area until the unit is actually spotted by the other teams, also it will highlight if they can actually see said area. In FI and RT, the Italians (if they allow their squads to be split) and Russians I think suffer a moral penalty if they're split up from their squad and outside the coms of their platoon leader.

[@ERMAKREV48]

Please upload more please, and consider the WW2 games such as BN or FI :D

[@WekBenHelix]

I will! And I own FI so I will definitely be uploading that. In the future I'll probably pick up BN, FB, and maybe RT!

[@ERMAKREV48]

@@WekBenHelix Cool! For FI, I have completed the Invasion of Gela campaign and GL Foiling Fustian, but there’s many others I’d like to try!

[@mikevargas809]

great work

[@4rnnr_as]

Awesome! More CM:BS please! It's a treat to see a competant and knowledgeable wargamer play this game. What mods are you running? The terrain looks great!

[@WekBenHelix]

Thanks! I have a Fortress Italy video coming up, but then two Black Sea ones after that. And I'm running the all-in-one mod! I found it on the CM forums.

[@PlanofBattle]

Bravo Sir.

[@GeneralShiba_]

Game looks pretty interesting man, good stuff 👍

[@wojszach4443]

edited aar, commetary? explaination of what happens there? okay im in, waiting for next vid

[@brightwizard12]

This was really good, could you post links to a few of the bits and pieces you read about tactics and planning, ect?

[@WekBenHelix]

I went through this list: armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/FM.aspx

[@brightwizard12]

@@WekBenHelix wow thanks!

[@vampyrcat866]

One game I want to recommend for your own fun if you're into WW2 (although it contains a few early cold war scenarios) is Graviteam Tactics: Mius Front. it costs quite a bit but you could get it through... other means... It's a great game, extremely realistic though it can take some time to get used to. not to mention it takes a lot of time to play a single battle (can take up to two hours, depends a lot on if you planned your orders since the start and if you fast forward the game).

[@WekBenHelix]

This is a great recommendation! Once I get more of my fill on the CM series I'll check that out.

[@WekBenHelix]

How are their other games? I noticed "Tank Warfare: Tunisia 1943" is on sale for $8 right now.

[@vampyrcat866]

Same as Graviteam Mius Front but set in africa, other than that you have one older graviteam title of the same style and then 2 tank simulators, the older titles were simply predecessors which lead to the current Graviteam Mius front game.

[@W0DAN88]

If there is no town you dont need to clear the town.

[@wojszach4443]

1:28 you mean detailed simulation of aerodynamics of fart of squad leader of 1st squad in 2nd company and how it affects tank commander nearby? on serious note, me thinks that optimalization is due to how detailed it is and how much it simulates 2:24 and whats even more weird is that it did almost 1:1 ambush near brovary from battle of kiev in one of campaigns from black sea, seriously, same place same objective normal games: shoot to kill more "special games": shoot to not get killed

[@kashawashatvop203]

How did you fix the fps problem like I play the game in a modern laptop with a ryzen 5 3300 u and 20 g of ram hyper x

[@WekBenHelix]

Hey--I play the game with "3D Model Quality" set to "Balanced". On maps with a lot of trees, that jumps my FPS up from 17 fps to 50 fps.

[@kashawashatvop203]

@@WekBenHelix I will try because went I play just by having a lots of unit in my screen make my fps bad and I love the game is perfect but is the fps thing the problem

[@WekBenHelix]

@@kashawashatvop203 I hope it works for you!!

[@benblogsandgaming8933]

Yo dude how are you doing these days :)

[@WekBenHelix]

I'm doing well! Stressful new job but not *too* stressful, and it's interesting work. Still got time for gaming though :) How about you??

[@benblogsandgaming8933]

@@WekBenHelix hey man yeah I’m doing good thanks learning to drive and everything haha, I wish you luck with your new job and everything glad to see you still have time to game have you played helldivers 2 at all ?

[@WekBenHelix]

@@benblogsandgaming8933 Yes! Helldivers has been awesome. I like to fly with the MG and jetpack with a 500kgb bomb lol. My friends and I have so much fun in co-op. I wasn't recording but a few weeks ago before they patched it we had to fight 5 bile titans at the same time on difficulty 6. Woof.

[@benblogsandgaming8933]

@@WekBenHelix holy crap 5 bile titans oh my god I would have been like it’s soo over boys 😂😂😂