Mannerheim

General info

In this map you play as Axis and defend against the invading Allied forces. The main objective
is to keep at least one of the three officers alive until the 17th SS Panzer Division arrives.
Each player will have their own officer to control and players have to decide what's the safest
place to be at different times. Base is not always the safest place if it gets pounded by
heavy artillery and open fields have snipers and other squads running after the officers.
The officers are stronger than normally so they can take heavy damage but if you are lucky
enough your officer dies on a direct artillery hit at the beginning of the mission or gets
crushed by a tank near the end

The Allied forces will always be controlled by heavily scripted AI so you can only play
as Axis (with friends/AI). During the mission you will also get several objectives to
complete like escort, kill or defend someone/something. The thing in this map is that it
is supposed to be very hard to complete, each minute the Allied forces will get stronger and
start using better units and tactics against you so eventually you will be nearly destroyed.

At the end a team score will be calculated using stats like: time survived, units killed,
units lost, missions completed. The AI has only one difficulty level so the score can be
equally compared with other players.

You probably need to play the map several times to learn the best defensive tactics against
the AI and try to get better team score. Even if you are not good against the normal skirmish
AI you should be able to enjoy the map.

Download

Download the .SGA version
Download the map installer

Playing the map

- Play annihilate with fixed locations
- Fill slots 1, 2 and 3 with any CPU
- Fill slots 4, 5 and 6 with players or CPU

Other info

- If you find bugs or have any other problems with the map post here so we can fix them
- The map preview images are pink when playing lan/online cause of the bug in CoH

Screenshots (click for larger image):

nobody

Awesome.....

I can hardly wait to see what you bring this time

JakcRyan1983g

just like the D-DAY

I'm looking forward to it very much

It should be wonderful

Q77

Looking good! Sounds very interesting to play.
One question though, what if you barricade the chokepoints (that I can see on the screenshots)? Will they push through or ,like skirmish, just sit back?
Or is it rather impossible to barricade yourself in?

Looking forward anyhow!

Deviat

Ohhh man, I can't wait.

PappaRock

Keep me informed...I'd love to try it.

meta304

you make me crazy,man~~

please .. release them , ASAP

Hatge

great!

spud..

this looks sweet as always

GermanRoad

"Give me liberty, or give me pizza pie!" MuahAHaHahah

Aweeeeeeesoooooooooommmmmmmeeeeeeeee

Henry trinkt zu viel :P

TrueKnight

Week is almost over...

Mannerheim

Tonigh or tomorrow

Skyward

Is this going to be unplayable with 2 players?

Henry666

no, you can play it with ai mates also.

Mannerheim

If you cant get enough people to play you can fill the slot with cpu, you can also play it in skirmish with 2 cpu players... cpu just doesnt understand much whats going on so its harder to play with it.

Henry666

Beat our Highscore: Ours was like 10800 points today , will add proving screeny next time we play.

ant!fied

wow. thats pretty nice. i got 4576 or something like that. anyway, any chane for one scripted the other way around? like the allies attack and the axis are scripted to build defenses?

EDIT: Just played again. got a score of 9617. I cant seem to get over 100000...

Q77

I tried it for 5 mins, if I'd play it for 20 mins I'd drop dead I think,lol. I guess I am not the right person for anything that has a countdown in it But it is nicely done, really impressive.

Akranadas

Looks good, I'll give it a shot later tonight.

I only got 3538 Point because a Howitzer shot landed on my Officer

nobody

Ohhh my god, they just keep coming and coming, will it ever end..........

What an amazing scenery and even some very nice NIS.
But i´m not the great player, only hold stand for 30 minutes (darn AI)

Gremlin Shoota

Can it be 3 AI vs 1 Player? I wanna see if I can survive the onslaught ^^

adasd

how do i install this map?

nobody

place the SGA file in :

documents\my games\company of heroes\ww2\scenarios\

Henry666

put the .sga file to: my computer\my documents\my games\company of heroes\ww2\scenarios
(full path is e.g.: c:\documents and settings\"User Name" (e.g. admin)\my documents\my games...)


you need 2 ai mates when you play alone, but you will surely have a really hard time to survive the 60 min.

Today we hardly survived the 60 min playing with 2 humans and 1 ai mate:

TrueKnight

Yeah, I played for about 20min last night with two ai partners and quit because I was getting my butt handed to me. Great job on this map btw. Can't wait to try it with a second and possibly third person.

Gremlin Shoota

Just tried it alone... and I LIVED xD!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ok with 2 easy AI which didn't do anything) I resorted into hiding but still concentrating on objectives (thank god axis have health packs) and I still got a score of 7649 <(^^,)

Tip: Never do this alone

Henry666

we made some more games, beat that:

nobody

guess you lost when rizz got on the team, 54 minutes

Henry666

each round plays a bit different, so you never know where the most units will come from

SScRiBLe

great map! PLS MORE !!!

adasd

best customade map of all time company of heros.....I am hosting a game if anyone wanna join....i played on skirmish....i was alive for 30-25 mins i think...

Make more coop maps like this...best think is u dont need -dev tool

Sarcasm

Hmmm, am I missing something obvious? Everytime I download I get just the .sga file and none of the other map files, and it doesn't show in my map selection when put into /mp.

(yes dev is on)

nobody

Yes you are missing the fact that maps can be distributed in 2 versions;

1# A single *.SGA file, this is the preferred version, this is the map packed for distribution to the end user. this file has to be placed in ;

C:\documents and settings\username\documents\my games\company of heroes\ww2\scenarios\*.sga.

2#the editors mapfiles which are several files *.sgb,*.tga etc. these must be placed in ;

C:\thq\company of heroes\ww2\data\scenarios\mp\
You may change "C:\thq\" to whereever you installed the game.

Henry666

SGA archives go to: MyDocuments/MyGames/Company of Heroes/WW2/Scenarios

no -dev needed

(your talking about unpacked map files that need -dev to run)

edit: lol noboby, you must have clicked post button 1 second before me hehe

nobody

always in pole position

Too many people are asking that question, why don´t they search for the answer or read some FAQ´s. I have lost count of the times the same question have been answered.

pfeeew, sorry just had to get it out

Sarcasm

Ah, why thanks! Will try this tomorrow, kinda late now.

camo1018

Ah ha! I got 12210, just by myself! Beat that!....
........
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Sorry, I modded the Axis side.......

Henry666

so, no major issues found so far I guess ?!?

spud..

im only getting it now and looking forward to my murdering ;D

Kosmic Chicken

Can someone help me stop this map from crashing?

camo1018

Make sure you are not emptying out any slots before you load the map.

ALL slots must be occupied either by humans or computers.

EDIT: I was kind of messing around with this map with scars and I hope Mannerheim won't mind me asking if I could know the variables that are set to the Allies, (like for Axis there are player4, player5, and player6)?

Mannerheim

Kosmic: what does your warnings.log say in the last line after crash? its at "My Documents\My Games\Company of Heroes"

camo: if you mean player variable theres only one and its ALLIED

Melchior

GAME -- Loading completed (36 seconds)
20:49:09.09 SIM -- Setting SyncErrorChecking level to Low
20:49:09.12 LoadArbitrator - load complete, notifying remote stations, data CRC= [8ed61766]
20:49:09.12 LoadArbitrator - remote station [12582914:Held im Eichenwald], load progress = [0.613657], data CRC [00000000].



P2PNetwork - no sync command from station = [12582914:Held im Eichenwald], lag complaint threshold = [2048] frames.
21:01:06.70 Transport - time between calls to [NetZTransport::Svc] exceeds desired limit [168].
21:01:06.81 Transport - operation exceeded time limit [111]


what does it mean?

Only a blackscreen... with 4 Computers and 2 Players after loading.

Henry666

sounds like a network sync problem between you and your mate.

Akranadas

I've found a cheat way to win. At the right and left hand corners you can build a bunker, place your officer in there and he won't be attacked by anything. The AI will just attack your HQ then camp around it until the timer ends.

adasd

if wat u are saying is true then it its an exploit...

spud..

well i lasted an amazing 31mins ;D

Henry666

Good you found this



Playing alone I guess

meta304

amazing this map!!! thanks for your effort,again

so..


Mannerheim ~ If you can...

then, we wanna see another type as you know, that's skirmish not a mission...in some other way..

I'D LIKE TO THIS MAP FREELY WITH COMPUTER

please~~ ^^