Re: Close Combat: Last Stand Arnhem Game Hack
Sandrine Willert
Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far is regarded as one of the best of the Close Combat series. It is the essence of "close" combat. Small maps, intense engagements and unforgiving firefights makes it a favorite among fans of the series, and I'm not alone in believing the rest of the series, specifically the re-releases, aren't up to par with it, that fact being plastered all over the closecombatseries.net forums.
Panzerschrecks were deployed as seperate company (battalion?) level sections.The main priority is to kill the German tanks, frequently the last infantry
run away when all their armour is destroyed, and in these cases your infantry
units just have to take care of themselves. You need to keep AT teams out of
the way until his tanks close up, then micro manage stalking them. Sometimes
you get lucky and some heroic infantryman will blow the tanks themselves, but
that only happened twice for me.It is really just a matter of combined arms - mortars are good against open
topped vehicles, HMGs can kill almost any AFV at close range, flamethrowers
are wonderful all over, and obviously AT teams and ATGs primary targets are
AFVs.
>guns takes away the first shot opportunities I
>used to have, which turns out to be the only shot
>I can get without being destroyed by someone else.I used to hate them as well, but now I've figured out that you need to deploy
them in good cover with flank protection ( a rifle squad/AT team work well)
and with a good field of fire over a _short_ distance (to maximise first shot
hit probs), they are just wonderful. The German don't like driving tanks down
narrow streets so you can usually figure out the best place to put your ATG,
and then it is just a matter of hiding the gun (to save ammo) and watching
like a hawk for some dumb tank to motor into its line of fire and then blow it
away.In restricted terrain you can almost always get a flank shot, but even
frontally you can take out Tigers and Panthers (at very close range). Ideally
you want a crossfire of bazooka, ATG and flamethrower fire, which spells
instant death for any AFV foolish enough to enter it.>Of course sometimes I get lucky, but the chances
>are slim and that anti-tank gun sucks up 14 points.Well, it depends where you put them. I've had ATG teams rack up half a dozen
AFV kills, one got four tanks in one battle (Schjindel Dunes). To save points
always try and prevent your teams being completely wiped out - if necessary
exit the last man of a squad, they will usually come back full of replacements
for the next battle at no points cost. Equally, try and wipe out some of the
enemy squads totally rather than damage them all.
Stevens and Moffat in crowd of French civilians, French girls talking, Stevens signing autographs. Solow, Stevens and others in front of Scribe Hotel, crowds in streets, blue and white sign: "M.L.N." in window of Scribe. American GI taking picture with speed graphic. Shot of weapons carrier and jeep with camera set on tripod. Hamilton holding and kissing two girls. Shot of several Americans and French girls driving past in jeep. Large numbers of civilians walking past, American jeep "Flash Gordon." Six or seven men crouched behind jeep firing at sniper in window. Stevens puts rifle on shoulder. Walks past jeep. More sniper activity, people evacuate jeep. American GI takes rifle from jeep, some action in distance, VS of building where sniper is and shots of street which is now empty. Men prepared to fire at building from seated position, women running down streets. Large black truck with many flags. CU of blonde French civilian. Men passing out champagne. Series of green staff cars drive up to reviewing stand. This begins reviewing stand sequence. There are many generals evident in this sequence, including Bradley. They turn and salute toward camera. Reviewing stand as Bradley and De Gaulle mount the steps, apparent in front row of the reviewing stand is General Montgomery and another American three-star general. Vehicles coming toward reviewing stand with Arc d'Triumph in the BG, members of the camera crew standing beneath reviewing stand. Shot of De Gaulle and Bradley. Stevens with troops in BG. All on reviewing stand salute, followed by shots of armed jeeps passing reviewing stand, tanks passing, American flags visible. Stevens salutes. More tanks passing, crowd waving as jeeps pass, both sides of the street are lined with people. Vehicles driving toward Place de Concorde. Trucks towing large field guns, last trucks come by with bicyclists behind. De Gaulle leaves reviewing stand. Bradley salutes De Gaulle, who enters his car, car drives off with Cross Lorraine on the side.VS of Paris at what seems to be a different time of the year. Camera crew sets up on top of jeep, French guards in silver helmets and black and red uniforms arrive, tanks lined to the side. Many bicyclists passing by, two-engine, high-winged plane flies by. Gene Solow, Stevens and two other officers. Gen. Eisenhower leads group of dignitaries to Tomb of Unknown Soldier, all salute, band leader starts band music. Pan to Eisenhower. aide presents Eisenhower with wreath which he puts on tomb. Eisenhower walks to microphone and speaks. Shot of camera crew covering speech, pan to Eisenhower speaking. Onlooker, including four-star general. Band leader conducting band, panning shot of Allied officers, entire group exits. Pan of band and drummers drumming with camera crew above them in BG. Stevens and possibly French officer holding film camera, Gene Solow in shot.Series of shots of tanks moving out. Stevens and French girls (This footage appears to be from Liberation of Paris that according to logs was shot two days earlier). Pan to Ivan Moffat, Bill Hamilton kissing French girl, CU of French girl, vehicles moving down the Champs Elysees with British flag. People toasting, pigeon on jeep, CU of French woman. Stevens and Hamilton talking to French civilians. Pan of Eiffel Tower, people carrying umbrellas, rainbow in BG. Stevens, Solow and other officer in front row of Eiffel Tower. Solow taking shots of Stevens. Crowd gathered at large stone building, panning from Eiffel Tower down to crowd with military band playing. Seine River. Sailboat coming through under bridge. Men fishing along side of Seine near bridge. Shot of Notre Dame Cathedral. Boys choir, in blue suits, short pants, and white socks singing. A series of shots covering this, including the chorus leader. VS of street, across Seine with Eiffel Tower in BG. Winter scenes around the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, snow on ground. Champs Elysees with slush/snow on ground. Vehicles and people walking around, CU on sign that reads: "Champs Elysees." French girls walking up Champs Elysees in snow. VS of sidewalk cafes and French civilians, vehicles moving on snowy streets, men shoveling snow.
Sign: "Rn 3 Chateau Thierry Aisne." Stevens and man walk across town square to monument. CU of flowers on monument. "Maison de L'amitie Franco-Americaine." Pan from Stevens and Bill Hamilton to bridge with vehicles crossing it. Shot of horse drawn carriage crossing bridge. Rectangular monument/building with two statues on side. Sign reads: "This monument has been erected by the United States of America to commemorate services of her troops and those of France who fought in this region during the World War. It stands as a lasting symbol of the friendship and cooperation of the French and American armies." Stevens and others inspect monument. Pan from town to valley. Sign "time will not dim the glory of their deeds." CU, "1st Division, 2nd Division, 3rd Division," etc. carved in stone. Over men's shoulders shooting toward town in valley beyond monument. "Of the 310,000 American soldiers who fought 67,000 were casualties." Pan of town with river in BG. Insert sign "Bellau." Sign in English pointing left "Marne River 9 miles (to left), Reims 45 miles (to right)."
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