Yes because you had incarnated into him and control him, your not him, so hit your teamswitch key and choose the commander as thats who you are.
You'll be back at the villa where you see the two officers at the table, from there just scroll your action menu, and go to the commander screen and your back.

Only way the mission will fail is if the enemy destroys and or captures your base, any other questions let me know. Cheers!

The mission fails when a soldier i'm playing as dies, is this supposed to happen?

Thanks, ya quite a bit went into it, check out the videos of the building of it then the major update where i added the trench system. Ya it is pretty neat the author is still alive, some of the things he has seen during his wartime at a young age isn't something i couldn't fathom, why i highly reccomend that book, he makes it personal as he lost alot of friends he fought with that are in the book.

Amazing the author is still alive at 97, thanks for this mission mate its fantastic

The book "Blood Red Snow"
Is what my mission here is based off of:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/blood-red-snow-gunter-k-koschorrek/1112011261?ean=9780760321980

i used the nook book cover pic for the mission
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/blood-red-snow-gunter-k-koschorrek/1112011261?ean=9781473812482

But i own the hard cover, book is a fantastic read if your into the eastern front, the author was a German Mg42 gunner on the Ostfront, and secretly sowed his diary into his trench coat through the entire war, send his pages off to his sister in Germany when he went on leave.
But the story starts off on october 1942 on the way to the ostfront, he was riding in a train sitting on a bail of straw, train was attacked a couple of times by an IL sturmovik if i recall correctly, but overall story is descriptive and graphic!
Author was wounded 7 times in his tour, must read a 318 page book with some pictures in the middle.

"The acrid powder is sucked into my nose and fills my lungs. But i live, and so does Swina I can hear his convulsive coughing behind me. And there it is again the rattle and the roaring as steel tank tracks grind squealing on their rollers. A deathly noise! I press myself like a worm onto the ground. In the trench everything goes dark the steel monster is parked on top of me, blocking out the daylight."

Pg 92 4 T34 tanks penetrated the German trench lines and the author and his mg assistant are in a trench:

"The T-34 turns its turrent towards our position and comes at us, its engine roaring. I pull my machine gun into the trench and throw myself down. Grommel and Weichert dash into the bunker. Swina is already lying behind me in the trench.
A harsh metallic shot, and a tank shell explodes exactly where my machine gun once stood. Frozen dirt and hot splinters rain down over my head. There is a loud ringing in my ears and it feels as if my eardrum has just been perforated.

continued ....

Ya if i recall the story correctly pg 91 in the book, was a hazy morning with limited visibility, the German's 88 was destroyed by 5 t34's, the 88 before it was destroyed managed to kill 1 of the t34s. After the tanks rolled into the village and started churning up the trenches with German soldier's in them. There were 2 German tanks one was badly damaged, along with a sdkfz AA gun shooting at the tanks which made the Russian infantry get off the tanks and take cover.
Story is very descriptive in one part i quote:
"A torn-off leg, still wearing a felt boot, hits the ground only a few metres from us; the blood pumping out of the leg slowly colours the snow red. We look at each other helplessly, our faces flushed."

Man that book messed me up. Wasn't this the one where it was really foggy and the tanks were just rolling overtop the germans smashing them?

=Update=
Mission updated to version 1.5!
See Change notes tab at the top for the changes, also check out the update video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfko3KPZ_Bg

Version 1.5 update coming soon!

Mission is singleplayer, coop hasn't been tested, PvP wont work because it needs the enemy AI Commander disabled, and have a playable unit in replace, along with camera all has to be scripted and coded.
Coop has been asked about before, i will look into it in the near future.

I have a question, can me and just one other friend play instead of Ten people

Mission updated, see change notes tab up top for details.

Yup very similar.

To me this seems to be WW2 command and conquer.

For Blood Red Snow here im working on an update that i should have for saturday sometime, so v1.3 coming soon!

Welcome.
I do really wish i could have helped you, and was able, and capable of creating an pvp, but it would take alot of research, testing, and possibly more scripting all the more i dont know how to do, i know very little other then what i learned so far from Rydygier and my own discoveries and experience, again i would hope in the near future that alot more things would be possible with this mission series, for now more missions, with more features i can offer as well as updates and new versions of existing ones.

Thank you for giving me the answer to my question.

Getting back to you CasioFin,
Its not really possible for a PvP version right now, as 1st the mission mode was designed for singleplayer although initially with WOO which Ragnarok stems from had a MP component.
Overall for Pvp to work the AI would have to be disabled, another player would need to be setup, and the camera would need to be setup for the other player, theres quite a bit of scripting involved and no one to do it, so sorry to say cant be done, maybe in the future, idk
But thanks for asking!

Cool idea, idk if its doable or not, there is alot of scripting involved, but let me ask Rydygier who is the main coder/scripter behind Ragnarok and see what he says, when i get an answer i'll let you know, and explain the reasons, but thanks for asking.

I do have a mission called IFA3 Arena that is pvp if your interested, look in my workshop missions.

Btw i got another update for the mission coming soon!

Is it possible to play against another player in the future?

Mission updated! See Change notes for details.

Mission updated, see change notes tab for details.

:) Thanks buddy, got another mission im going to start building this week, just need to work out the details and go over new ideas.

Gunter, I see you're very productive ... you're a leader...