Men of War: Assault Squad 2

Men of War: Assault Squad 2

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Road of Life: Operation Iskra (Reworked)
   
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Road of Life: Operation Iskra (Reworked)

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BACKGROUND HISTORY:

The Siege of Leningrad started in early autumn 1941. By 8 September 1941, German and Finnish forces had surrounded the city, cutting off all supply routes to Leningrad and its suburbs. However, the original drive on the city failed and the city was subjected to a siege. During 1942 several attempts were made to breach the blockade but all failed. The last such attempt was the Sinyavino Offensive. After the defeat of the Sinyavino Offensive, the front line returned to what it was before the offensive and again 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) separated Leonid Govorov's Leningrad Front in the city from Kirill Meretskov's Volkhov Front.

Despite the failures of earlier operations, lifting the siege of Leningrad was a very high priority, so new offensive preparations began in November 1942. In December, the operation was approved by the Stavka (High Command) and received the codename "Iskra" (Spark). The operation was due to begin in January 1943.

By January 1943, conditions were improving for the Soviets. The German defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad had weakened the German front. The Soviet forces were planning or conducting offensive operations across the entire front, especially in southwestern Russia. Amidst these conditions, Operation Iskra was to become the first of several offensive operations aimed at inflicting a decisive defeat on Germany's Army Group North.

MISSION INFO:

You don't really need all 4 mods enabled in order to work properly... you only need Robz Realism Mod & ComradIvan Skins, but i suggest having them all activated.

Mission is Single Player, it is also available on coop mode. I recomend you play this mission on normal or harder, with fog of war enabled, in order to make it more inmersive.

The map itself was taken from the multyplayer maps, which is "3x3_gsm_homefront", but heavily modified, to make it look more like an eastern european city, instead of a french, or belgian town, among many other things.

If you want to show your support... Add a rating! any issue you find, or anything that doesn't make sense, leave it in the comments, and i'll be more than happy to help.

Enjoy!
48 Comments
RasEli 1 Apr, 2024 @ 10:50am 
i tried to activate all mods in different updates and non of them worked and crashed my game
RasEli 25 Sep, 2023 @ 10:30am 
still cant find the mission. i have all the required stuff downloaded too
OldBoyGamer 9 Feb, 2023 @ 6:46pm 
excellent mod bravo
RasEli 31 Jul, 2022 @ 9:56am 
i cant find the mission in the mission list
Lee Enfield 17 May, 2022 @ 11:05pm 
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2809533792

Decided to give it another crack lol I'm kinda mad but also somewhat persistent, I was glad as hell to see there was a mechanism were mass capitulation kicked in, rather than having to weed out every enemy soldier. I wasn't far off killing everything and everyone when it kicked in, but it was a very pleasant surprise. Still, only achieved on normal, but that was hard enough, for me.

My advice to anyone playing it, mortars, lots and lots of mortars. Save the Katyusha's for the end and use your small tanks as a meat shield and for anti-infantry duty in the final push. Go straight up the middle too, the left flank is a nightmare for tanks to path find. Use a score of T-34s to deal with the right flank.

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I have GoH on my wish list, hopefully one day I'll get to try out your mod/s for that.
Erik Rosalén  [author] 17 May, 2022 @ 6:15am 
I don't like making easy missions and love to see people struggling with it, but I recognize this one is too much.
Erik Rosalén  [author] 17 May, 2022 @ 6:11am 
LOL, this made my day!
But honestly even i haven't completed this mission, only a Skazo (the YouTuber who's video I've displayed in this page) and friend of mine did.
It's just too much for too little time, I'll give you that.
Fortunately your feedback will be used to improve this mission I'm remaking for GoH.
Lee Enfield 17 May, 2022 @ 3:40am 
PS It might be an idea to offer a way to rearm your tanks if you're going to restrict them throughout the whole mission. To rearm my KV-1s in the end push, I had to sacrifice the munitions of T-34s. And I found replenishing the mortars a strange affair. You bring in an ammo truck, get a guy to grab a box of ammo and move him to the mortars, if he drops it down they don't replenish, he has to hold it, but then the mortars only use it once and you have to un-equip and re-equip the ammo box to replenish again, a bit bizarre and a real chore when there's other things to be doing.
Lee Enfield 17 May, 2022 @ 3:35am 
The last part of this mission of yours is so hard, so I'm going to find something better to do. I got close, very close, to completing it, but it just drives you to despair. You get your tanks all under as much control as you can when the shit really hits the fan, you look away for a second, and your tanks have decided to load up HE for a single infantry man when a Tiger tank is turning it's gun on them. For that reason and the fact you have made this so tough, I'm done, I'll find something a little less impractical. I'll add a screenshot so you can see how close, but this was only on normal
difficulty FFS.


https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2809226487

The only thing still on the map in red is infantry, every enemy tank, vehicle, artillery piece, AT gun is destroyed. 15 minutes is woefully inadequate to do all the tasks and then hunt down every infantry man.
CorporalCanuck 20 Jan, 2022 @ 10:43am 
Alright, I see, thanks again! A wonderful mission you made as well.