Hi everyone, new missions!

[Kyth]

Hello again!
Here's the 4th mission in the series, following the events in mission 3:

Kyth Mission 4

The enemy is planning another of their pre-dawn attacks. Your kampfgruppe's task is to launch a pre-dawn attack on the pre-dawn attackers!
Just don't let them pre-empt your pre-emptive strike...



Please download the mission here:

http://www.4shared.com/file/FORxPxHZ/KythMission04.html

And, add in this extra line to the 'user_camp.engcfg' file:

New_KY_04, txt_mc_mymission_4, 1, 0, Back_KY04.tga, txt_cit_02, 20, txt_history_tky_1, hist_map_teach, levels\levels\cm_users\New_KY_04.level;

Careful with this one, there's a lot of maneuvering to be done!

[frinik]

Hi Kyth! Yeah a new mission!I finally mastered the last one after 9 attempts.My Panzer III got badly conked but 11 Sov tanks destroyed and 59 infantrymen zapped.Looking forward to playing this one( just downloaded it!How come you're using a French download site?)

Ther' s a guy on tanksim  HQ who wants to buy SF but Amazon is asking $55.60 for a copy!!!!Talk about extortion....

Do you know an alternative where he could buy it at a reasonable price?

Cheers

[Kyth]

Hi Frinik,

Gamers Gate has Steel Fury available for digital download, at $19.95.

I assume you aced the mission at level 10! 
What tactics / strategy did you use?

I had no clue about the download site! Anyway, it's reliable and user-friendly. The mission-building videos by Fabianfred are hosted there, so that's where I got the idea to use them. If you decide to post your missions, that's a good place,

Regards,

[frinik]

Hi Kyth!

Well after butting my head too many times and getting killed by assuming my natural offensive-minded posture I wisely decided to stay behind and let my fellow Panzer III deal with the brunt of the first Soviet attack. I then used a burning T34 as a cover to deal with the second wave.I used my HE against the first wave and kept my Pzgr 39 to cope with the KVs.I tried, based on experience, aiming for the fuel tanks ( to the rear of tank low just above the tracks). I only killed 8 tanks( slow day for me) including 3Kvs but finally the entire Sov attack was repelled with the enemy leaving all their tanks wrecked and only a few infantrymen who managed to flee the battleground.Only one Panzer III was left and mine, both damaged with  sights and my loader killed.All the At guns were gone except for one Pak38.It was a skin-thin victory but the Mission Successful message indicated MIssion Accomplished!Good solid mission with lots of manoeuvring, positioning, tactics and shooting skills required.Perfect training mission for future panzer crews!!!!

Played your mission 04 twice. First time, I took out 6 BT5s but then my wife started to talk to me and I was distracted for 2 minutes which was enough to get myself killed by another BT5....

Second time, I destroyed 3 BTs and one 76 mm but the mist( nice twist of yours ) prevented me from spotting the other 76mm AT ( as I said before I avoid looking at the in-game map once the mission has started to give more realism to the missions.) near the edge of the woods and my Panzer III was blown up by a flank shot which sent my crew ablaze and running wildy about( this is a gruesome but very realistic feature of the game which I like.).

Will go for 3 rd try tonight .Again mist and overcast skies and precious little light on the battlefiled which makes your mission all the more tough. Kyth.I'll bet you your favourite time of the year must be November or March!!!!!

Anyway very good mission

BTW where t do you get the name Potatopov?A joke? I believe the village name is Zelevnyii Gay or something like that....

Thanks for the info but Hemisent, the guy whom I was trying to help, decided to go for the Amazon rip-off.He said that he lives in the boonies and his limited download rate does not allow him to use digital downloads....Bummer.

He blames both you and I for his purchase as he said my beating the drums for SF and your missions have created an unbeatable addiction.

Keep-up the goodwork

Regards

[Kyth]

He blames both you and I for his purchase as he said my beating the drums for SF and your missions have created an unbeatable addiction.

Heh heh 

I have no idea what to say 

[Kyth]

Hello!

I wonder if anyone has questions about my missions,

One thing I haven't gauged yet is, Are they too easy?  Too difficult?

Please drop a line!

[frinik]

Hi Kyth!I definitely wouldn't call your missions too easy.If people think so let them play them at level 10 on the diffuclty slider.I think they offer a good balance of tactics and fighting skills.My only criticism would be to add to the variety of tanks on the German side, add Panzejäger, stugs, panzer II and may be another player tank than the Panzer III?

I like the weather that you use, gloomy, rainy, overcast perfect atmosphere for gritty, hard fought sluggers.

My advice you're good at making them .Keep them coming!

Best

Frinik

[Stig]

Not questions, but perhaps comments and suggestions...


1) None of the missions has anything like a briefing. Just "" And judging from the comments above, #3 seems to cry out for a custom briefing!  Do you plan to write briefings or... wait for it... create a tutorial on how one amends/adds mission briefings to scenarios ?

2) You've got 4 missions now, and seemingly more to follow! Great! Now they begin to scream to be their own little mini-campaign. So again, the questions on how to edit the files and .engcfg files to get them out of the "User Made Mission" section of the interface and into a "Kyth's Missions" (or perhaps something with a different title...) section.

[Kyth]

1) None of the missions has anything like a briefing. Just "" And judging from the comments above, #3 seems to cry out for a custom briefing!  Do you plan to write briefings or... wait for it... create a tutorial on how one amends/adds mission briefings to scenarios ?

Hi Stig,

Now that's a little baffling, all the missions have a short writeup, useful information and a list of objectives in the briefing screen...

You were able to complete the missions without all that useful stuff?? 

I know Mission 3 is a tough one, mainly because of the enemy hordes. 

If you don't get the briefing as shown below, that could be a problem,

[Kyth]

Yes, in the coming year I will post a tutorial on 'stringing together missions for a campaign'; look out for it at the SimHQ forum 

By the way, this is no mini-campaign, I've barely gotten started 

[Stig]

Great to hear you're thinking BIG!!!!

Looking forward to any and all tutorials for this sim! The more people who know how to do stuff, the more contributions there'll likely be.

[scottyd2506]

Hello!

I wonder if anyone has questions about my missions,

One thing I haven't gauged yet is, Are they too easy?  Too difficult?

Please drop a line!

 Thank you VERY much for the missions Kyth.. although I could not download no 2,, the link is bad or something, but I'll enjoy the 3 I have.. thanks again.
 

[Kyth]

Hi Scotty,

The link for mission 2 seems okay now, please give it a try, it's a short, fun mission. 

[scottyd2506]

Hi Scotty,

The link for mission 2 seems okay now, please give it a try, it's a short, fun mission. 

 still not working, 1,3 and 4 links are ok, tried it just 20 sec ago.. no go..

[Kyth]

It looks like a problem with the link. 

I'll have to do something about it,

(Edit)

Okay, re-uploaded Mission 2. All is right once again.