QGIS is a good place to start if you want to learn more about map elevation data. It's a free download from here: http://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html There are some great tutorials on youtube on how to use it, but be warned, it is a very complicated process. Klas Karlsson...

I have been playing quite a bit of Warhammer Total War. The cinematics of the battles are amazing. I probably watch guys playing it on YouTube as much as I play the game itself. I have had to start sharing my computer, and steam account, with my grandkids when they come to stay, as they have...

Thanks Davide. I'm struggling to get back into Command Ops at the moment, because I have felt the irresistible pull of another game. I'll be back, because it is most certainly one of the best games I have ever played. The other units deployed in St Vith have the cover of the town buildings...

Some tips to help blow them bridges: Use an engineer unit with the deny crossing order. Ensure they are deployed in cover, if it is available. Set them to max losses Set them to max ROF Set them to no rest. Set them to ambush. Ambush will stop them engaging the enemy at long range, and prevent...

In my experience, the command overload delay is not a linier effect. Up until, roughly double the command overload, there is a very small effect, of maybe a couple of minutes, on an individual units orders. After this the curve becomes considerably steeper, with additional overload increasing...

I agree. Like you I love the game, and have managed to work out some of these questions to a degree, but I'm still unsure if I have managed to work out other aspects of it correctly. I often answer other peoples queries in the hope that if I have surmised something incorrectly, someone will...

If I remember correctly, the retreat recovery mechanic was put in place to slow the pace of the game, several years ago, specifically for attacking units. I assume this was to simulate the attack coming under intense fire from defending units, causing them to either pull back a short distance to...

I think one of the first things is to check you have read and understood how to use the Delay, and Withdraw order, as per the manual instructions. I have included the relevant sections below.

I agree Jim. I have just finished reading Blood Red Snow. Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front; by Gunter Koschorrek. Fantastic book, about a young German heavy machine gunner, but its a very harrowing read. Don't read it if you need...

The withdrawal and delay order have never worked satisfactorily in my opinion. I think its the retreat recovery mechanic that is to blame. Units with withdrawal or delay orders should be able to ignore retreat recovery. I have found that a work around is to give units under pressure individual...

I often think about what the troops went through whilst I play the game as well. When I do an AAR it's even more immersive, because I often find myself looking for photographs and historic accounts of the battles I am playing. This game is great as a historical learning aid. It gives you the...

That's one of the things that makes this game so great, is the fact you can play it in many different ways, depending on your; style mood expectations of how you thought the game was meant to be played time available trying to obtain an historical outcome will to win role play making an AAR 30...

It's entirely up to you how you want to play the game Chris. Like Kurt said, the thing you have to bear in mind (if you play with orders delay on) is the load you place on the On Map Boss. Too many individual orders will overload it. The way I play is mixed, depending on my mood and how much...

Hi Chris. The last update to the PDF included the last few pages I had. The German reinforcements that arrived north east of St Vith got completely wiped out, in that pocket against the northern map edge, with no loss to my own forces. It's a long time before KG Peiper arrive on the map so I...

Here is another article from early on in the war (1941) that demonstrates the effectiveness of the German Artillery procedures and the use of forward observers, from the Lone Sentry website: http://www.lonesentry.com/articles/ttt/artillery-observers.html In the observation of fire, the greatest...

I have found a good discussion regarding German Artillery procedures here: https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=149187 Of particular note to me was this statement by Mitchate: "Recently I stumbled about this: The Arko of the I. SS Pz. Korps after the war claimed in a study, that...

Keep it going mate. Nearly there :)

Great AAR Bie. From my experience with the game, Gavin and Browning, who advocated the importance of holding the Groesbeek Heights were spot on with their assessment. The heights are needed to control Nijmegan and its approaches from the south and because of the defensive nature of the heights...

Hi mate. I subscribe to the Adobe CC package. It has taken me a long time to become proficient with it, and it is expensive, but allows an unprecedented level of manipulation to just about anything than can be rendered on a screen. The Adobe apps I use the most are: Photoshop - for cropping...

There is still a bug in the code, where a formation with an attack order, after a long drawn out fight, will report (via the message log) that the attack has stalled. Instead of bunkering down like it is supposed too, the AI turns the assault into a move to the attack waypoint in road column and...