I am completely new to Combat Mission Shock Force. I love the pace of play and the variety of scenarios. If I need a Modern Combat fix I play this game first.
Tonight I played James Allen's Al Hawl battle. At first, you feel really good about things. You are in command of a Stryker Infantry company and the enemy opposition is a company of tanks and a mechanized company. I've played enough of these scenarios to know the Syrian armor isn't the best and in the open US armor can smoke them.
What I didn't know, is that it is really hard to hit tanks that hang back in cities and use buildings as cover.
I started out like this:
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Looking like a cake walk... |
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I ended up like this:
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Less cake and more pain. |
And the result, a minor defeat with heavy losses in men and armor is definitely a black mark on my record. Wow.
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The painful truth. |
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