Dinant attack

A nice screen shot from today's attack in Dinant. Rag doll physics.

Christmas 2015 patch

Well I had fun this Christmas! Following the release of the Christmas patch and during the holidays, I have had the most fun in years in this game.

Many players logged in, Allfor had good numbers, and we helped pushing the front line eastwards.

And it was about time - it looked like a certain defeat for the Allies. Since than we slowly but steadily march east!

A few days ago the Germans received Tigers, which surely does not help us in our advance, but on the other hand surely helps our kill statistics...

The new patch brought a big change: mobile spawn points are now only placed by lorries, not mission leaders on foot.

I was not convinced at first that this is a positive change, but I am convinced now. It looks like people are cooperating and communicating more. I also have the feeling that the amount of mobile spawn points available for spawning and attacking has increased.

I do not think the detectability of a lorry is a big issue - one day, Pictboy3 placed a great spawn point 400 m from an army base in a big city - it survived for more than an hour, during which we (unsuccessfully) tried to capture the army base.

Yesterday, a new player, Chev, joined our squad. He subscribed immediately for a year (!). Squadies, please help him grind trough the ranks as fast as possible!

Idea for a game starting page

I think that especially new players should be able to quickly and easily enter the fight. At the same time, it should look nice. This idea is based around a front lines map showing recent and ongoing attacks and defences, while at the same time offering five most populated/interesting missions to choose from immediately. Map is from Wikipedia.

Bohain attack

We had a wonderful opportunity of taking Bohain easily. We setup nicely and were taking all four capture points simultaneously. However, after capturing three of them, including our spawnable at A1, Axis responded and we were not able to hold.


















First the western, spawnable CP went down. War49 was guarding, but there was little help from other Allfor members. There were four Executive Officers online at that time, but two of them were fighting over an enemy forward base at a different location.

So, due to bad communications, a conflict between War49 and Richard over command, but also due to bad play on the Allied side in general, we were beaten. I am not sure who was right, because, as I said, two officers were in Bohain, but two were not.

Update: War49 has left the squad a short while after this conflict occured.

Pictboy3 back ingame

I have had really much fun playing yesterday and today. Allfor had very good numbers of players ingame on both days. Also, Pictboy3 is playing with us again, which is indeed good news.

He is a extremely good tactician and a field commander. He is surely one of the best players to play with.

Yesterday the Allies pocketed and destroyed two Axis divisions, captured many towns and moved the frontline eastwards.

We tried to attack several towns today, and Allfor participated heavily in preparing these attacks. (first picture)

However, we only succeeded after someone captured a spawnable CP in Diest. We switched and an extremely intense fight broke out. In the end we prevailed. (second picture)

The sss14 bug solved

I hope I am not announcing prematurely, but it seems that the bug that made the player Sss14 offset in the virtual world from the perspective of other players, and which gave him a considerable advantage, is solved.

Fiero of Lancers made a nice video showing the bug by following Sss14. Fiero reported today killing Sss14 several times without trouble.

This is the video showing the bug:



Another fine gameplay video from Fiero:



Original forums post.

All time kill/death ratio sorted list

Using the new statistics tools I have created a short list sorted by kill/death ratio. List includes only squadies active during campaign number 96.

I am really impressed by our player Legear. I am not surprised about other players, because for example I know very well about the skills of Eroberts7.

                                       sorties       kills           deaths        ratio

legear	5044	10739	3210	3,35
cyalater	559	272	124	2,19
eroberts7	13711	11577	6157	1,88
blh77	12274	7442	6410	1,16
yarxie	5447	4116	3818	1,08
dubane	70518	54210	50301	1,08
malvoc	25515	14292	13401	1,07
smithy	4065	2718	2733	0,99
valinsky	2969	1846	1861	0,99
andrews	11181	6655	6791	0,98
kemarik	5324	2949	3136	0,94
wwader	3756	2193	2350	0,93
dog3	14266	3289	3561	0,92
kolby	2426	1263	1436	0,88
wyliec101	530	309	352	0,88
mullins69	217	109	136	0,80
toyprius	2370	1139	1431	0,80
stathis	4485	2603	3294	0,79
war49	20539	9127	11868	0,77
grouch	2078	793	1079	0,73
lvt	8458	3361	4607	0,73
m60a3tts	12371	6278	8845	0,71
malikai	6562	3311	4751	0,70
blipoop	8083	2568	3692	0,70
oddyss	8024	3275	5106	0,64