Hasty Attack: CM Cold War US Training Campaign 1
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- Mission 1a of the US Training Campaign in Combat Mission Cold War: conducting a Hasty Attack on an OPFOR Forward Security Element at the NTC.
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Combat Mission Cold War is set in the tipping-point years of a conflict that gripped the world for 45 years. Between 1979-1982, both the NATO and Soviet Warsaw Pact militaries began the shift away from industrialized warfare of the early 20th century and towards the modern digital battlefield of today. Combat Mission Cold War simulates several “what if” conflict scenarios between US and Soviet forces centered on the strategic Fulda Gap and environs in West Germany.
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Your channel is criminally underrated. These have got to be some of the best CM videos on the net.
The best.
I second this mate. By far the best combate mission channel out there!
@@System-Update totally agree.
100% this man is in a class of his own
Every Friday is never complete unless I watch a Hapless video.
"Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter"
Till you're there in the winter freezing your ass off.
And lastly...OPFOR scout platoons...out the previous night generally won the surveillance battle early which often led to uneven fights...so KUDOS to you for grabbing the high ground early....as one of the guys on the other end of the AK47 (and yes we carried them and PKMs) we would habitually blind (read KILL) BLUFOR recon hours before the battle even started during the counter recon phase (think beefed up FSE) so you would have had to fight a lot harder for those crests...once the attack got rolling we were encouraged (well doctrinally trained at the OPFOR Academy) to “smother” BLUFOR with tempo....
That paragraph you wrote is so awesome, I had to re-read it a couple times. Red Army recce was generally considered excellent (if not the best), right? Being literal OPFOR means you are going to be a goldmine of info for this title. I'm going to need to remember you for future questions.
Sending the Cobras to scout was a particularly inspired move, and not one I would have thought of. Thanks for once again illustrating why the gamey "zone" mechanic should often be ignored in favor of good positioning.
Great content Hapless...especially the inclusion of the FM-100 graphics....Lol...as a member of the OPFOR at Ft Irwin from 89-93 in what was at the time 177th AR BDE aka 32 Guards MRR....I can tell you that a rotational units first fight outta the gate NEVER went this well (and that’s form my experience over 23 rotations)...we usually curb stomped BLUFOR ( and no it wasn’t cheating for all you folks out there who suffered thru NTC...it was our home turf and we were very cohesive armor and infantry BNs). This early time frame must have been doubly tough for BLUFOR as they simply didn’t have the firepower of later (my years) M1/M2 and M3 mix,...this era highlights just how firepower deficient the US mech forces were
"Welcome to the National Training Center...." Congratulations, you just caused violent and potentially-lethal PTSD episodes within all the veterans watching this video xD
A good buddy of mine is in 11 ACR. He's actually been pretty helpful with this game. Glad to see NTC getting some recognition.
Give us more!
Great job.. this scenario was intended to illustrate the aggressiveness that OPFOR often brings to the fight. You did an excellent job blunting their spear and your reverse slope LAW defense was inspired.
Loving these videos.. keep them coming!
After you complete these retry it using the other battle selection. Much different fight.
Bil
Thanks very much! I did quickly hop into Spoiling Attack to take a better look at the terrain and thought: this is going to be more complicated, let's keep it simple.
I'm absolutely going to tackle it at some point though.
It would be nice if they modeled smoke generators on the tanks and or from M113 smoke platoon as these were widely employed while I was at NTC in the 89~92 timeframe...the smoke dispensers or mortar delivered smoke does NOT do justice to just how much smoke was on the field every day! If we could post photos I’d probably be able to scrounge up some funny shots I took back in the day...
Nutty. I went hasty and misunderstood what the "scaled down map" thing meant and had the wrong preliminary plan in my head lol also totally wasn't expecting to take a fight in my deployment zone. Made me feel I was doing something wrong, though I guess that's the point.
Take me quite a while to understand that "scaled down map" is just a sandbox for tactic planning XD.
Nice job! It interesting to see how you exploited the minor changes in elevation to gain an advantage over the BMPs and T-72s, especially on such an open map. Also, heads up, the second Decision Point is bugged and will only let you choose the holding action option and not the counter-attack.
Okay, it's official: I think this game is badass. This is super interesting for me to watch as someone who loves playing Wargame: Red Dragon. Seeing the Combat Mission take on this time period is really cool!
This video is giving me flashbacks to countless NTC rotations.
Very well edited as always. I actually did fairly well on this mission, only losing one M150, half a squad of infantry and an M60. Another was immobilized though and not available for the next mission. NTC is sadistic at times!
Nicely done; Soviet doctrine had plenty right on the power of reverse slope defense. Ironically the lesson I had to learn playing as the Americans was the same one the Iraqis didn't learn quick enough, and thus gave a bad name to reverse slope defense: if you're facing beast-mode tanks, you better make that reverse slope arrangement POINT BLANK. No sense setting it more than a klick out when you're facing M1A1s with thermals, or T-64Bs with terrifying levels of turret armor.
I'm really enjoying getting to grips with the new tactical environment. It feels very WW2 in that your tanks need to spend all their time with the commander hanging out of the turret, and you need to guess right on the enemy's intentions if you're going to scoop up the all-important hull down positions you need. On the other hand, BRDMs in tree-lines and squad level RPG allocation make you much more paranoid than you would be if you were doing the same in a Panther.
It feels weird seeing the Dragon actually hit the intended target
They work well in game as long as the squad is not suppressed
They were NOT that consistent...lol
Spent Many a night in Brown's Pass during several NTC rotations.
Was so glad you did this! I picked this module up the other day but have not had time to install and play it. It seems to be the 80’s for sure with the Tows and M60’s! Looks fun! Thanks for the video!
Really enjoyed this. Played the scenario this afternoon before finding the vid. I tried to get guys up the hill, but they were spotted and killed. Also I pressed the attack for too long before reverting to the reverse slope defence and so lost some vehicles needlessly. Once the reinforcements turned up, things stabilised, and we picked off the recklessly advancing OPFOR vehicles regularly. Annoyingly, both my CAS missions ended with aircraft destroyed for no profit. Towards the end the AI and I entered a stalemate phase with our remaining AFVs lying either side of a ridge just outside my deployment zone. With a few turns left, I launched a mass charge over the ridge in the hope that the remaining BMPs and T72 would target the APCs and allow my two M60s to pick them off. Unsurprisingly that failed, and the ceasefire revealed a draw.
Nice presentation. Really look forward to your Friday posts.
Colour me impressed :) that was an excellent performance. And an equally excellent video. Top notch! Really enjoyed watching and listening to this.
I believe i posses the ability to describe this here video with one word: "Cool"
Excellent video, always a pleasure to watch!
Great video for a great Friday, thank you!
Cheers.
Thanks for the great video as always!
Your M150's seem very competent compared to mine. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but mine seem to have a very hard time spotting targets / getting a shot off before they get creamed by enemy cannons and/or ATGMs.
God the maps for NTC is damn accurate I get a rush if nostalgia looking at this lol
IIRC at least one of the CMCW team leads spent a lot of time at the NTC
Great video, as always.
My Dudes....get a load of the phase line names for this scenario!
The poor ol M60s are closer to Sherman’s than M1s
Also, when using ATGM teams, split them up, don't send the whole squad to a spot where a 2 man team will do. To find the controls to do that, select the team and look under the "A" or "Admin" tab on the unit control panel. With the entire squad combined, you can select "AT Team" and the game will detach a 2 man AT team. You can also reconstitute the groups. For example if you start with 1st Squad Team A a Team B and sometimes Team C and D, move them next to eachother, then go to the same Admin tab, and select "Combine Group", and you'll be able to have the entire squad together. This will depend on which country you're controlling, what time period (it works for WW2 as well) AND what kind of squad it is.
Welcome to Fort Irwin!
keep it up bro
When going against BMPs, don't forget to use your .50s!
And it looked so good for Team motherland (for a while)
Great video. Is there any more news about the release of the World War 2 titles on Steam?
I wonder if the US infantry ever get to put on full camo gear? Maybe there's an option like in CMBS where you can change the appearance?
If your playing in the latter years of the game they get more and more camo up
since they only got full camo gear in 1981irl, i imagine it won't be an option for the earlier period (which i believe is set in '79)
All CM:CW has taught me so far is that ATGM trucks/vics are God's chosen vehicle.
TOW jeeps FTW!
@@usuallyhapless9481 I think the most embarrassing thing to ever happen to me in any Combat Mission Game or match I’ve ever played occurred in a recent battle where my reinforcements plopped onto the map (an entire Soviet motor rifle company with a platoon+ of armor and shilkas) in front of some M113s and M60s, and immediately tore them to shreds. But, immediately afterwards in less than 2 minutes, a single Tow M113 variant killed 3 BTRs and BRDMs and a shilka. My guys couldn’t even spot it, they’d try to engage it and promptly die - to the shittiest mechanized vehicle ever invented no less.
I got almost plastered in this mission 10/10
OPFOR NTC 1994-1996
Man, this may be a Kobayashi Maru-type trick on the part of training establishment - HAHA, YOUR HASTY ATTACK IS ACTUALLY A HASTY DEFENSE, think on your feet - but as a non-military dude playing it, I was very annoyed by this mission, esp. when the solution I eventually found workable turned out to be "turtle in your deployment zone, shoot anyone going over the crest"
Nicely done, UH. I got spanked :(
More please?!?!
Hey Hapless,
Recently bought CM:FI after watching too much Combat Mission content. I am having issues with the resolution not matching my monitor when set to "Desktop" mode. Do you know any solutions?
There is a display.txt file in the root folder that you can use to set the resolution. I think. community.battlefront.com/topic/139034-cw-tech-support-graphic-issue/?tab=comments#comment-1867287
@@usuallyhapless9481 Cheers!
Should prob deployed f16 and Apache mission at start, 5 and 10, 15 min marks
Hi Hapless, would the game at this current state be a good purchase ? Or should I wait ?
There are a few minor things that are going to be fixed in an upcoming patch pretty soon, then there is Slitherine's PBEM system that will be added when the Steam version comes out in a few months; further modules are off in the future.
Basically, if you like the setting and you like CM then it's worth it right away... if you would rather wait a little while until it comes to Steam then you can avoid manual patching and requesting a steam key... if you think US and Soviet forces alone aren't enough then wait for the first module.
Which enemy team nailed the M60 tho?
It was a scout team with an RPG-18. They had one shot... and they bagged themselves an MBT at something like 120m.
Is there a new icon mod for CW ? Or its just an older one
Vin came out with a new one: community.battlefront.com/topic/139099-vins-geometric-icons-cmcw/
a question, you play Real Time or Wego?
WeGo. It's very hard to make a video out of a real time game.
@@usuallyhapless9481 The Virgin Realtime player VS THE WEGO CHAD
13:07 what the hell did I just see?
Did you see a black cat?
Then you saw nothing.
that was a break from the campaign
I just can‘t deal with the camera. control .