Combat Mission Shock Force 2 News

Just a few days left until the start of the Round 2 of the Combat Mission Grand Invitational Tournament. For the second round you'll play a scenario called "Into the Valley", where Syrian armored assault group undertakes raid to clear Route Lightening of rebel insurgents who have interdicted this vital supply line.

Once again, "Usually Hapless" has created a video about the battle, offering tactical advices and explanations regarding the situation, terrain, ORBATs, capabilities, strengths, weaknesses and multiple courses of action for each side.

Enjoy and have fun.

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Dear partecipants,

we wanted to take a moment to express our sincere gratitude to each and every one of you who participated in the Grand Tournament series. Your enthusiasm, skill, and sportsmanship have made this event truly special, and we hope you enjoyed the streams, videos and articles we made for these tournaments

You know, for every competion there must be a winner, and here are the final results of the Grand Tournaments on Battle for Normandy, Cold War and Red Thunder.



Based on your remarkable performances in the Grand Tournaments, we are thrilled to announce the participants drafted for the Grand Invitational. These players have demonstrated exceptional skill and will be competing in the next level of our tournament series on Combat Mission Shock Force 2.

• Cargol
  
• Tyrandar
  
• lawran
  
• sohzaz
  
• MeatEtr
  
• Jackal2100
  
• AtlasActual
  
• Fizou
  
• MHerm
  
• Andrew Kulin
  
• Dawntaker
  
• Artkin
  

For the first time in the history of our Combat Mission tournaments, players will fight for a coupon prize pool. The amount of money will be given based on your final placement:

• Top 1: $60 Coupon
  
• Top 2: $50 Coupon
  
• Top 3: $40 Coupon
  
• Top 4-8: $20 Coupon (each position)
  
• Top 9-12: $10 Coupon (each position)
  

The Invitational Grand Tournament will start on March the 5th at 10.00 GMT.

The tournament will feature 3 different scenarios with 40-days round length:

• Round 1 : Wadi Armor Clash
  
• Round 2 : Into the Valley
  
• Round 3 : Ambush Alley
  

For this event we have prepared a series of contents for you:

• Round 1 and round 3 will see Richard Yorke and XTRG fight each other in a 1 vs 1 on our Twitch channel to showcase the scenarios.
  
• For round 2, UsuallyHapless will create one of his cool videos.
  

Last but not least, a big shootout to George McEwan (George MC), one of the greatest scenarios designers that created a lot of new content from scratch.

Once again, thank you for making the Grand Tournament series a tremendous success. We look forward to seeing the drafted players showcase their skills in the Grand Invitational.

We are proud to announce our new Home of Wargamers live event, which will take place on September 12th at 5 pm UK time.

Join us on our Twitch channel to know more about our biggest franchises. You can set a reminder here.

We will talk about a lot of important updates for some of our Matrix Games best sellers and coming soon games, such as:

• Modern Naval Warfare
  
• Nuclear War Simulator
  
• Command Modern Operations
  
• Flashpoint Campaigns
  
• Rule the Waves 3
  
• Strategic Command
  
• Combat Mission
  
• Valor & Victory
  

Beta Tournament

Join the first tournament for Combat Mission Shock Force 2. Due to this being the first one, we are classifying this as ‘Beta Tournament’, so please bear with us if there are any issues and contact [email protected]. 

Join the tournament here.

This Tournament will feature 3 rounds with 3 different scenarios:

• Round 1: Matrix Tournament #1: A 25 minute battle of a US patrol against a Syrian ambush.
  
• Round 2: Ambush in al Fubar: A 50 minute battle. Stryker platoon is stopped by an ambush. Rescue is on its way, but will it be too late?.
  
• Round 3: Wadi Scouts: A 45 minute battle. Stryker cavalry unit is tasked with scouting out defenses along a Wadi.
  

Before joining the tournament, please take a moment and carefully read these instructions that are specific to all Combat Mission Tournaments:

• Because of the way that Combat Mission’s original “play by email” system works, both game files have an in-game field for password protection of the file. This field should be left blank. For the US side the password has been selected before the battles were sent and that field is to be left blank. You can use a password for the Russian side but it isn’t needed because the Tournament feature handles protection from cheating without using the in game system.
  
• The Tournament will have you playing 2 individual battles where you are playing both sides of the same battle. If you get into the game before your opponent, you will see 1 game turn to play. If your opponent has gotten there first then you will see 2 turn files and each turn thereafter should have 2 files.
  
• Once a tournament begins you will receive the files in the "Saved Game and PBEM" drop menu under Automated PBEM++ In Progress. You will receive email notifications when your opponent has sent you turns.
  
• You will need a Matrix user name and password to play any tournament (or PBEM++ battle). If you don't have one already you can get one here.
  

We are proud to announce the release of pbem+++ and tournament support for Combat Mission: Shock Force 2.

You will soon be able to participate in official tournaments and play multiplayer matches to test your skills against other players.

Here is the changelog:

NEW
• Matrix/Slitherine PBEM++ and Tournament features added
BUG FIXES
• Corrected a problem with T-90 frontal armor
• Fixed bug where game hangs on loading screen, results in closing
• Fixed bug where CTD while loading a mission in German Campaign

We are excited to offer these new features to the dedicated community of Combat Mission players. Thanks for your patience and have fun.