BTL Tigers At the Gates Of Zarubovka

[Thad]

UPCOMING TANK MISSION! 

 

Non-Historical Single Player Set Piece Mission

 

PLAYER: German Tiger

 

MAP: Lapino

 

MISSION: Capture the town of Zarubovka .

Time: 09:15
Date: 25th September 1942
WEATHER: Clear

 

MAIN OBJECTIVE: Destroy Russian forces and Capture the Towns of Spas and Zarubovka

 

SITUATION: In the pre-dawn the fatherlands elite paratroop forces captured or overrun the towns of Volnoye, Orehovka, Snegiry, and Rodnik. Most importantly, they captured the airfield at Rodnik. The operation was an outstanding success with limited casualties. The weather has cleared and enemy forces have scattered to the east and towards the towns of Spas and Zarubovka.

 

High Command is delighted with the turn of events and has ordered you to quickly gather your forces and take advantage of the situation to capture Spas and more importantly Zarubovka with its train depot and supplies.

  

RE-ENFORCEMENTS: All available ground and air forces shall be directed to move in support of your efforts.

 

A Mission by: wdboyd

 

NOTE: About 75% complete! Commanders, stay near your enigma machine for updates.

Edited April 15, 2019 by Thad

[Scalpay]

Sound good to me look foward to try your mission good job

[Sessine]

Looking forward to it

[E69_julian57]

[CanadaOne]

1 hour ago, Thad said:

UPCOMING TANK MISSION! 

 

Non-Historical Single Player Set Piece Mission

 

PLAYER: German Tiger

 

MISSION: Capture the town of Zarubovka .

Time: 09:15
Date: 25th September 1942
WEATHER: Clear

 

MAIN OBJECTIVE: Destroy Russian forces and Capture the Towns of Spas and Zarubovka

 

SITUATION: In the pre-dawn the fatherlands elite paratroop forces captured or overrun the towns of Volnoye, Orehovka, Snegiry, and Rodnik. Most importantly, they captured the airfield at Rodnik. The operation was an outstanding success with limited casualties. The weather has cleared and enemy forces have scattered to the east and towards the towns of Spas and Zarubovka.

 

High Command is delighted with the turn of events and has ordered you to quickly gather your forces and take advantage of the situation to capture Spas and more importantly Zarubovka with its train depot and supplies.

  

RE-ENFORCEMENTS: All available ground and air forces shall be directed to move in support of your efforts.

 

A Mission by: wdboyd

 

NOTE: Preliminary work has just begun on this mission. Commanders, stay near your enigma machine for updates.

 

 

Will you be using any AI KV-1s?

[pilotpierre]

Bring it on and thanks for doing it.

[photog95661]

Can't wait!  Please finish and post sooner than later.

[Thad]

Salutations,

 

I will be putting in a LOT of hours into this mission. I try to create quality and challenging missions that are also fun. To approximate this takes time. Not only time to put together the basic mission but the time required to 'play test' everything in the mission to ensure it plays out as intended.

 

I promise to get the mission onto the battlefield as quickly as possible but remember, quality takes time. 

[Yankee_One]

Thank you Thad!

 

I love single player missions. There arent too many out there and every missions is welcome!

 

S!

 

[Thad]

On ‎3‎/‎20‎/‎2019 at 5:26 PM, Thad said:

UPDATE!

 

Tiger Mission Update!

 

I am about 75% through with this mission. Playtesting currently. 

 

You shall be commanding the southern Battle Group, shown below, to take Zarbovka.

 

Edited April 14, 2019 by Thad

[SAS_Bombsaway]

Thank you for all your hard work on this Thad I'm looking forward to it.

Edited April 14, 2019 by SAS_Bombsaway

[BP_Lizard]

Thank you very much for your contribution and continuous support, Thad. Can’t wait to play this mission. 

[SCG_Neun]

Thanks Thad.

[SCG_Slater]

Oh man I love that, been waiting for some SP missions to test. 

[1./KG4_OXO123]

thank you ! great work and look forward to playing !

 

[Adler23FalkeAuge]

Really looking forward to seeing and playing another one of your outstanding missions! Thank You!

[crash1988]

Cool! I will definitely be playing this once you have it done. Thank you!

[saldy]

And today 90% done ? 

[Thad]

Nearly. I put a few hours into it yesterday. 

 

I'm working on the final stages of the assault on Zarbovka. I want it tough but not overwhelming.  Still tweaking.

 

I have to add a couple AI air flights too. I still haven't added any voiceover files.

 

I do them last because one can't increase the speed of play for play testing after such an audio file plays. 

[Dogbert1953]

Thanks for this Thad, sounds really good.

 

Appreciate all your hard work.

[CanadaOne]

Well!

 

Is it done yet?

 

 

 

 

[Thad]

☹️ Sorry. Not yet. Working on final details. Perhaps tomorrow sometime.

 

Sometimes it sucks to be a perfectionist type. Things are seldom as good as desired.

[Blitzen]

OK then!

[photog95661]

I vote for perfect.  I would dislike finding a glitch or inaccuracy in the middle of play.

[Thad]

Salutations Tankers. 

 

Attached below is my newest Tank Crew Single Player Mission.

 

On ‎4‎/‎14‎/‎2019 at 2:24 PM, Thad said:

You shall be commanding the southern Battle Group, shown below, to take Zarbovka.

 

 

Please consider this a alpha version. There are still some things I desired to do with it but one has to let go sooner or later.

 

You shall be commanding the Southern Battle Group, shown above, to take Zarbovka.

 

Please report any problems with the mission.

Please report if you find the mission too hard or too easy. (I can change that ?)

 

There are actually two battles taking place during this mission. I trust it won't tax your computer systems too much.

 

Place the included Mission Files and the Audio folder in your games Missions folder. Good luck

BTL Tiger At The Gate.zip

Edited April 20, 2019 by Thad

[Dogbert1953]

Many thanks and appreciation Thad, i will give it a run tomorrow (nearly midnight here).

 

Thanks for sharing.

 

Mike.

[photog95661]

Downloaded and played the mission.  Many thanks!!  I especially enjoyed the multi-layered defense approaching the river.  As I have told you before, I appreciate that there are people such as yourself who create and share these pieces of magnificence.

[Blitzen]

Downloaded and driven...Terrific !!! One of the best tank missions so far.Of course I'm saying that because I got over the bridge & through the town leaving 5 Soviet tanks in my wake..Loved it!

Edited April 20, 2019 by Blitzen

[Thad]

12 minutes ago, photog95661 said:

Downloaded and played the mission.  Many thanks!!  I especially enjoyed the multi-layered defense approaching the river.  As I have told you before, I appreciate that there are people such as yourself who create and share these pieces of magnificence.

 

Was it too easy?

6 minutes ago, Blitzen said:

Downloaded and driven...Terrific !!! One of the best tank missions so far.Of course I'm saying that because I got over the bridge & through the town leaving 5 Soviet tanks in my wake..Loved it!

 

Was it too easy?

[Blitzen]

No...but that Tiger is damn strong and has a very big gun!

Many tanks for the sheer number of vehicles involved & the Stuka(s?) circling overhead!

[photog95661]

No, I would not say it was too easy.  I applied several of the strategies and maneuvers I learned playing other tank missions.  Had I not had that practice and experience I would have certainly ended up dead.

[Thad]

4 minutes ago, photog95661 said:

No, I would not say it was too easy.  I applied several of the strategies and maneuvers I learned playing other tank missions.  Had I not had that practice and experience I would have certainly ended up dead.

Thanks. Any suggestions about how to make it even more challenging?

50 minutes ago, Blitzen said:

No...but that Tiger is damn strong and has a very big gun!

Many tanks for the sheer number of vehicles involved & the Stuka(s?) circling overhead!

 

 

Yes, the Tiger is very tough. One on one the German tanks (overall) are simply outclassed at this time. I have to be creative in any attempt to even things up a bit.

 

I have the mission set up to have a 50% random air support flight. Either 2 109 G2  or a single Stuka. I can be different each time played. I may do the same for the Russian air side in any update.

[photog95661]

If you can do it, add a few gun emplacements on the far side of the bridge with the capability to blow it.  Eliminating the emplacements prior to crossing the bridge should be a must.  Also, a time element would be interesting.  Say X minutes upon the attacking unit reaching the bridge.

[Thad]

6 minutes ago, photog95661 said:

If you can do it, add a few gun emplacements on the far side of the bridge with the capability to blow it.  Eliminating the emplacements prior to crossing the bridge should be a must.  Also, a time element would be interesting.  Say X minutes upon the attacking unit reaching the bridge.

 

That sounds interesting. Implementing it might a fun challenge.

[Cybermat47]

Just played it. I think it would be a good idea to replace the BTs with T-34s, to make it a bit more of a challenge and to add some more historical authenticity - it would be pretty unlikely for the Germans to be encountering BTs on the Eastern Front in Autumn 1943.

 

For the same reasons of challenge + authenticity, I’d also recommend getting rid of the short-barrelled StuGs and Pz. IVs.

 

Those things aside, great mission, can’t wait to see more from you 

[Thad]

1 minute ago, Pb_Cybermat47 said:

Just played it. I think it would be a good idea to replace the BTs with T-34s, to make it a bit more of a challenge and to add some more historical authenticity - it would be pretty unlikely for the Germans to be encountering BTs on the Eastern Front in Autumn 1943.

 

For the same reasons of challenge + authenticity, I’d also recommend getting rid of the short-barrelled StuGs and Pz. IVs.

 

Those things aside, great mission, can’t wait to see more from you 

 

Thanks for the comments.

 

It is a non historical set piece battle. It's hard to have a balanced battle with the currently available tanks.

 

The problem I observe is that the T-34s and heavier are just too powerful for the current German tanks... aside from the Tiger that is. More T-34s wouldn't be amiss though.

[SCG_SchleiferGER]

9 hours ago, Blitzen said:

The picture reminds me of "Otto Carius: Doromamire no Tora".

It's a snippet of "Tiger im Schlamm" or "Tigers in the mud", but magazised.

https://mangarock.com/manga/mrs-serie-188911

 

I will try the mission today or tomorrow.

 

[Dogbert1953]

Excellent thank you Thad, i am not very good at any sort of game.

 

But i must have done something right buddy.  ?  ?

 

 

Mike.

[Thad]

Congratulations. 

 

You didn't find it too easy did you?

[Dogbert1953]

I like it easy Thad, hahahahahahaha.

 

I just kept going, picking off targets when able and using cover quite a bit.

 

Good fun thank you buddy. You obviously put a lot of work into it.

 

If you fancy updating it, perhaps some Soviet anti tank artillery would be good  covering the river crossings.

 

Thanks again.

 

Mike.