Uh, that's a Feature, not a bug.BaronVonWalrus wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 11:33 pm Here's a bug report for AO 1940.
I'm on the Neufchateau mission, having managed to completely eliminate De Gaulle's nemesis unit on the previous Abbeville map.
So, imagine my disgust (and horror) to see my recon overflight of Neufchateau reveal De Gaulle's Char BI unit parked there with 5 XP stars. HE'S DEAD, I SURROUNDED HIS UNIT AND WIPED HIM OFF THE MAP TO THE LAST MAN IN THE LAST BATTLE.
Come on guys, I'm on an FM Rommel mode playthrough with a bare smattering of heroes and no overstrength and I really don't need this. I invested the adaptive strategy (and casualties) to kill him last time out, so he really really shouldn't pop up again. Or does De Gaullle have access to the sort of Iain M Banks - stye soulcatcher tech that poor Commandante Vega in Spain didn't?
However, allow me to say how much I enjoyed Abbeville. I'm very inf-heavy on purpose, trying to see how I go with perhaps no more than 5 or 6 combat Pz units (excl PzJg) on the board (the full Corps roster includes 2 Inf Divs that I rotate, 1 Pz Div and 2 PzG / Mot divs with a panzer regiment in each, plus a Char B1 as an early Schwere-Panzer-Abtas well as FJ and GBJ for when they're needed) and loved the ebb & flow of the battle. I had to use my Pz Div to save Rommel's backside and avoid getting rolled up in 7 Panzer's sector - an infintely better experience than Ebro
For historical purposes and as part of an attempt to make him a more fitting Nemesis compared to SCW's Vega, De Gaulle appears in every Scenario he is supposed to, regardless if you defeated him previously or not.
Fair warning, if you go to Britain you'll run into him in a Valentine a couple of times.