FFT (Fast & Furious Tournament)...

I hope I write in the right section here.


Dear Comrades,

I´m preparing a monthly battle feast for CMBB and CMAK at the FGM. The whole thing is named "Fast & Furious Tournament". There are 7 scenarios to play - WARSAW 1939, FRANCE, 1940, WAKE ISLAND 1941, CHOLM 1942, KURSK 1943, PEGASUS 1944 and RHINE 1945. Turn number will vary from 15 to 30 turns - depending on the scenario to play.
There will be a monthly winner and an overall winner. That is to hold the tournament flowing and allow later participants to fight also for a title.
As the name says in most of the scenarios one has to go hard and fast as possible. But one shouldn´t be light headed. Because of the limited turns one should think carefully how to advance or defend. The maps are 400 x 480m till to 640 x 640m.

Info to the Battles and Rules:
- all battles are mirror games
- for the first scenario (Warsaw 1939) all opponents will drawn randomly
- the best player can chose his next opponent but all others will be drawn randomly again
- the best player is not allowed to play against the same opponent except he has already fought all opponents at least one time
- games what aren´t finished till to the set date will been calculated as Total Losses
- You will given passwords and You have to use them (games with other passwords, if I have to run after You to get the right password, will been calculated as Total Losses)
- should the password arrive in time all is fine
- results of one opponent will be added and then divided by two so we get an average
- if two players have the same average they do an decision match
- all sceanrios will been played in tournament mode - means You can´t look into them before the game starts
- both games, CMBB & CMAK, will needed
- TM can order You to send all files if needed for a decision - not following or to late following is punished with Total Loss(es)
- battles will fought monthly
- it will give a monthly winner and an overall winner
- I try to establish a "Ladder" if possible
...to be continued

I´ll try to add pictures of the maps and more info soon.

Greetings

2.) FRANCE 1940 560m x 560m, dawn, 20 turns, June 1940, warm and damp, weather is foggy. Battle type is attack.

Parts of the Ghost Division try to capture a french holded village. The battle situation is going to become a mess. And as wouldn´t that be enough the morning mist makes LOS difficult sometimes. The picture is with fog off to get a better look of the map.
After the campaign in Poland the Wehrmacht changed it´s working horse, the Pz-II, for the stronger Pz-III. But even that tank had to be upgraded because of his shown weaknesses during that campaign.
The campaign in the West, means France, runs successful till to the moment. The french armor forces are surprisingly strong but they lack of experience and teamwork. They are simply annihilated by the sheer numeral superiority and the new tactics of the Wehrmacht.
Routed british troops assemble in the forest in the West. There all escaped british forces shall meet to regroup and retreat orderly. The village before that forest is holded by french troops as a strong point to hold back the Huns so long as possible and to gain more time for the british troops.
The battle situation is unclear because it seems parts of the Ghost Division had out flanked the strongpoint and stand somewhere behind the village.

4.) CHOLM 1942 480m x 400m, dusk, 20 turns, February 1942, cold and light snow, weather is clear. Battle type is assault.

Russians second onslaught on the german defenders of Cholm. The new T-34s shall show their advantage the soviet leadership hopes.
Cholm is encircled. Since weeks the town is an encirclement. It´s the first time during that war that german troops are trapped/enclosed for a longer term.
The Russians send one wave after another to break the resistance´s will of the Germans. Often the german lines are only metres wide or even broken after such an massive assault. But they manage it always to close ranks after the assault is repelled. So ammunition and heavy weapons become fewer and fewer. But at least the ammunition can be restored from time to time by air supply.
Another russian assault is ongoing. The earlier ones were merely ventured by partisans. The current assault is one of the first of the mighty CA (Covietskaya Armya), the russian army. The new T-34 version, the 1942s version, is deployed heavily. The russian leadership sets great hope in that.
Seven T-34/42 face only 2 early Pz-IIIJs and two light guns. But the german Infantry shouldn´t understimated. They are used to use infantry anti tank weapons in great number.

6.) PEGASUS 1944 400m x 400m, night, 30 turns, June 1944, warm and damp, weather is clear. Battle type is attack.

British 6th paratroopers/airlanding brigade assault the Pegasus Bridge by night.
Major Howard and the first of his men are landed and have caught the Germans by surprise. The whole actions was undetected till to the moment. Now first weak resistance is established and the bridge crew tries their best. But that isn´t enough. Only the fortified 50mm gun seems to be a slight harder opponent.
For the scenario I set a Pz-IIIJ with short barrel to show the outdated second hand gun the so called Germans (in reality foreigners with no combat value) had to their use. Further I added a gun on the other edge of the river what wasn´t there in reality.
The whole scenario is still in test phase.