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Brettevillette

Brettevillette - South west of Caen - Normandy 1944
Historical skirmish mission for MowAS2 (German side vs UK and Canada)
Creator: Bassmaniac

VERSION V8 (10/10/2022)
{MinGameVersion "3.262.1" / MaxGameVersion "3.265"}
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* Sp mission in classical skirmish mode (hard challenging mission to play a lot of AI snipers and hidden AT riffles and guns). Tested by me and others players in sp = ok.

* Mp missions in all modes: Skirmish coop, combat, capture the flag and Assault zones (as it's a huge map, maybe it can be very laggy in mp..)
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Historical and classical Skirmish mission, made originaly for MowAS1, modified to work under MowAS2 with some improvements.

The map is centered on the village of Brettevillette, situated 16kms at the south of Tessel and 15kms at the west of Caen, Normandie. It had been made on the basis of the real terrain, from a satellite view of Google earth (with little changes to adapt it to the specifications of the game).

This mission describe the heavy fights of UK (Brits and Canadians) against Germans, during the operation "Martlet" launched on 25 June 1944, were the most intensive fights were in Brettevillette, Rauray, and Tessel villages.


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INSTALLATION:
- Use Steam installation: The files will be located at the root of your Men of War Assault Squad 2 game directory: C:\Program Files\Steam2\SteamApps\common\men of war assault squad 2
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History:
Operation Martlet (also known as Operation Dauntless) was the name given to a preliminary operation, undertaken on 25 June 1944 by XXX Corps, to capture the area around Noyers, to protect the right flank of VIII Corps on 26 June, when it began Operation Epsom, an offensive into the Odon Valley. The 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division and the 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division were to capture Juvigny-sur-Seulles, Vendes and Rauray, to prevent German counter-attacks against VIII Corps from the area of the Rauray Spur and then extend the attack towards Noyers and Aunay-sur-Odon. It was the first time in Normandy, that the 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division operated as a complete unit.

The attack front was held by the right flank of the Panzer-Lehr Division and the left flank of the 12th SS-Panzer Division Hitlerjugend, with the support of 60–80 88mm guns of the III Flakkorps. The attack failed to achieve its objectives by the end of 25 June and the 49th Division continued the operation until 1 July, when the division saw off an attack by Kampfgruppe Weidinger of 2nd SS-Panzer Division Das Reich and the 9th SS-Panzer Division Hohenstaufen....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Martlet

UK and Canadians:
- 1st Battalion Tyneside Scottish,
- 70th Infantry Brigade,
- 49th Infantry Division (Polar bears)
- 11th Battalion Durham Light Infantry,
- 8th Armoured Brigade

Germans:
Kampfgruppe Weidinger, 2. S.S. Panzer-Division Das Reich
- 9. S.S. Panzer-Division "Hohenstaufen"
- S.S.-Panzergrenadierregiment 26, 12. S.S. Panzer-Division Hitlerjugend
- Panzer-Lehr-Division

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Changes in V8:
- Now the tracks of the Panther can be repaired ;)
- Delay time to auto supply player's soldiers when they are near boxes on each flag had been changed from 10 to 30.
- All players soldiers can capture the flages (except Lehr vehicules crews).
- I've suppressed all new soldiers voices and light arms sounds because of their poor quality after applying too much compression on it to help the sound engine of the game (sorry, my bad).

You can find in this mission:
- some Mow models conversions for MowAS2: Sdkfz 250/9, Sdkfz8, Morris cs8, Matador Truck and Humber scout car are made by Normand (author of Valour Pack)

Squad Historical shield Icons for all Germans units:
- 2 SS "Das Reich" which was present in this area on june and July 1944
- Panzer Lehr (all Germans vehicules and crews).
- 9 SS Panzer-Division "Hohenstaufen", which was also present in this area in 1944, had been added.
- 12 SS Hitler "Jugen" changed to "Jugend" (typing error)

- Names of UK AI squads are accurate to "operation Epsom".

- New Music:
- 2 songs : main menu (snare drums) and read mission song (Lili Marlene)
- 2 original skirmish songs (made by me)
- 3 new WW2 German songs (when you win a flag / 3 differents songs)
- News AI soldiers added to follow some Ai tanks
- All AI guns are now presents in all difficulties levels
- Changes on the place of some AI units, and the waypoints of all Ai reinfs
- new ambiance sounds status

- Colored labels for all player's units (blue for riffles, orange for MG, green for smg, pink for medic and tank crew, light green for Sniper, etc..)
- skins for vehicules (trucks, tanks, Sdkfz 251) with specials 3D skins "Busches camo" for a lot of German's tanks.
- German's elite soldiers skins
- New ground seamless map textures (made by me)
- A lot of new sounds : 88 gun, Tiger Maybach engine (Dowington museum's Tiger), jeep, mortar, new ambiance sounds like animals, birds, insects, etc.. and a snare sound for the arrival of the reinforcements
- 3d characters :rabbits, dogs, roosters (3D Models by Ironweapon from "FFI" team)
- animals skins (cows, chickens)
- interface (icons, screens, menus, portraits, etc..)

It was a huge work to do such mission alone, and i want to thanks for their help :
- Ultimaratio (Austria) who help me to traduct the new voices for Germans soldiers, and for his help on beta testing this mission and give me suggestions to improve it.
- DjSatane (USA) to help me to debug the coop mp mod.
- Steven (USA), who did the first skirmish script (90% of this mission script). I hope he can see how his work is appreciate by all the players who enjoy chalenging missions..
- Cromtec (GER), Kir the great (Ger) and Normand (Rus) for their good additional vehicules models and to agree the use of it.
- Mopar(Australia) for his help to edit and port my missions in a pack for MowAS2.

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Note: I tried to make a more realistic mission as possible, to simulate the famous Normandy bocage with lot of bushes, with a more lively atmosphere by adding sounds, new textures, animals, to increase the gameplay (just compare it to the original missions!).

Everything I created in this mission is based on historical research, and as i'm alone, keep in mind all that work took me a lot of my free time.. My goal is not political, dont' glorify any ideology. I don't belong to any political organization, and I do not support the ideas of the Third Reich. I just tried to transcribe the facts of the fighting in 1944: It is not possible to understand the history of the Second World War without reference to the Axis forces, and in particular the SS divisions which any specialist admit they were great fighters, and were very present in Normandy, mostly against UK and Canadians around Caen..

I tried to be as accurate as possible : the German uniforms have the runes, the squads icons are the real germans division of the sector, and you should know that most of the villages of France during World War 2 had a "kommandantur" (or at least one house with a German military presence) and had flags with Swastikas..
Like many, I love playing the German side, not for their ideology, but because their technology was ahead of thoses of the allies (If the man has set foot on the moon, remember that this is because the Nasa hired Wernher von Braun) and aesthetically, i prefer the design of a Tiger or a Panther much more than a M4 Sherman or a T34 ;)

Thank's to all the players for their comments and to vote for it on Steam and Moddb.
if you like it, don't forget to give me your feedback to improve this mission, and the next ones!

Regards.
Bassmaniac