kurtbj
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I myself also just started the MCLV for the first time a few days ago (I didn't start earlier because I was waiting for 7.1 and the MCLV patches). This is the first MC I'veplayed and it's brilliant, utterly impressed and kudos to the designers who did such a good job. If anyone still has doubts over buying an MC then I can definately recommend it!!
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My AAr so far....
I managed a DV on the first battle by advancing quickly and bypassing any bunkers and fortifications, I think I completed it with 2 turns to spare, casualties were extremely light...a good start. Selected artillery support at the start of this battle.
Decided to attack the castle and town immediately for the second battle, no point in waiting and giving the Soviets time to prepare, casualties on my side were minimal so I give the go ahead to attack immediately.
Managed a DV again, tried to advance quickly but had some initial difficulty to the west of the castle with fortifications so I had to re-adjust my attack and move south then up to the castle. Moved recon units south around the city and into the rear objectives, no problems there. NCO cadet school proved quite tough nut to crack and they were doing well for a few turns until I finally managed to break through. A more difficult battle than the first one, slightly higher casualties but still low.
Feeling good about myself and the speed of the german advance going into battle 3 to relieve the Brandenburgers on the bridge.
The obvious route down the road is bound to be heavily defended but there is an objective hex there so I need to send some men that way..... decide to send 80% of my forces down the main road and detach my recon platoon and a unit of PZ-IIc to take the eastern tracks and come to the bridge from the south, ultimately I think this decision saved my bacon and the arrival of these units to help the Brandenburgers meant that I held the bridge and all Victory hexes and destroyed most of the russian tanks trying to cross the bridge. My main forces took the other victory objective and held it without any difficulty. The scenario ends a couple of turns early but I still only get a moderate victory, I suspect that I did not inflict enough casualties on the soviets but I am happy with the battle overall. :)
Next battle was moving onto Rad.....chow (can't remember the name), I was told not expect much resistance!!!!! I encountered hell on earth as I ran into a large russian armoured column. Initially my recon units forged ahead and captured the middle objectives and my northern troops cleared out the town relatively easily. My armour held back slightly overlooking the cenral objectives expecting a counterattack. I was soon looking at numerous soviet tanks including KV models and T-28s (these looked exactly like T-34s and were probably just as tough...I was a bit confused by them). Anyhow my shells bounced of almost everything, I ended up picking off the smaller soviet tanks first before concentrating mass fire on the larger models. I seemed to be slowly wearing them down with several crew abandons and suspension disables but more soviet T34s attacked from the south. I had 80% of my armour in the north and concentrated on the T28s and eventually managed to kill them all, I left it up to a platoon of Pz-IIc to contest the southern objectives and they had to fall back allowing the soviets to retake the southern central objectives (my Pz-IIc did wipe out a platoon of sneaky cossacks who tried to take my rear objectives ;) ). I concentrated on minimalising my casualties and slowly wore down the soviet morale before my recon units flanked him from the north and captured one of his rear Victory hexes. At the end of the battle the russians were in full retreat and I owned all middle objectives and one of his rear objectives, managed to get a moderate victory but it was hard fought, casualties were not too bad, lost about 5 tanks and a couple of infantry squads.
Thats where I'm up to so far and loving it!!! I was a bit worried that my usual cautious style would make it difficult to obtain DVs but so far I'm more than pleased. One question I do have is that in every battle I've really concentrated on minimising losses but in the following battles I seem to get all my units back up to full strength, I presume that the mega campaigns don't require me to purchase replacements for my men and simply top my men up after each battle. Thinking about it this sort of reduces the need to worry about losses BUT I can't change my playing style and having more experienced troops is certainly going to be a bonus. :)
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