Operation Baltic Shield Missions 3-4 is out for Patrons! (Patreon)

The much awaited conclusion to the Battle of Narva! Mission 3 is not particularly exciting, so it's been folded in to Mission 4 which... well, IS particularly exciting.

If you like artillery bombardments, this should float your boat. Or sink your city. One of those two.

I had a blast with this and all the data has gone off to Fight Club so they can track XYZ. If you haven't seen the kind of spreadsheet that CM:Pro kicks out they run to a couple hundred thousand lines and- to me at least- are pretty impenetrable. But people who have stronger excel-fu can crunch those numbers and come out with interesting results.

Also fun was being able to follow the battle along via Google Street View: the map is accurate enough you can get a really good feel for what's going on.

Of course, this is a kind of filler video because I've had a busy week. I've sorted out the second Tournament map and accompanying video for Slitherine and Fight Club's JL28 STAFFEX has come to a close.

Plenty of lessons learned. The end result probably works out to a draw: the Chinese have been foiled (or foiled themselves) in their attempt to invade Luzon, but Blue has gotten a good kicking in the process.

Definitely changed up my concept of modern air-maritime warfare: there's nowhere to hide, battles essentially come down to missile attrition, but there are basic basics that hold through, like concentration and flank protection.

Really looking forward to the AAR, it'd be super-interesting to turn the battle into a War Room-esque faux-historical video.

Anyway, with all that stuff out of the way, this coming week its back to Syria to punch down Route Eagle with the Marines and tackle mission 5. This looks like it could be a tough nut, but there are two hours on the clock and the Marines have plenty of firepower. I think.