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Sorry ASL, but that is exactly what i´ve done... i kept my base game updated all the time and just installed 2.0 and than 2.01.

Can anyone tell me what this is and how to fix it? It started after i installed 2.01

Uh, someone can verify this? Where is he test scenario?

The fire seems to be more accurate in 2.01 and the ROF has been tuned up as well. I am not sure which of both makes the MGs stronger, but they are definitly much better than before. I cant say that i´ve seen successive correction from the gunner, but the higher rof with a better overall accuracy enables a HMG to keep 2 squads at bay quit reliably.

I also miss the feature of getting "uncertain" contacts. In CM1 one often got contacts and just knew "ah, there is something somewhere over there". In CM2 every contact is displayed with maximum accuracy which makes it very easy to destroy by mortars with very little ammo.

While i can understand that the elevation limit is hard to overcome i still think that as long as the issue isnt fixed all infantry at-weapons should be allowed to be fired from inside houses. The current situation (elevation limit and spotting) give the tanks a onesided advantage in town-fighting, something they werent particularly good at.

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Just as a sidenote: From my observations i say that the HMG behaviour is in place since CMSF. On "bigger" CMSF maps the same behaviour showed the same problems because in the desert like lanscape u find almost perfect pooltable conditions... :eek: Ups, i did it again....

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You expect a worse outcome for the attacker if he has cover/convealment available? How?

Shooting over iron sights with a rifle at 500m seems to be within reasonable range... but when shooting a HMG at 600m it starts to get iffy? While we are at effective ranges lets get off topic for a second. Is there any plan to further alter the SMG behaviour? MP40 for example seems to open fire at up to 280m. I often order troops to engage specific targets for a couple of reasons. The result is that SMG-troopers often waste their ammo on ineffective ranges. Out of curiosity: Do u expect a worse or better outcome for the attacker? Sure, i did not planned to do anymore testing before the correction. While we are at it: Any clue when it is going to come? Weeks or months?

Your guess, a known fact or do u speak about personal experience? OK, taking 500 meters for not beeing to far away for rifles and LMGs... up to which range do u expext supression from a HMG? Pls feel free to provide a more realistic testing scenario which deliver reasonable results.

To all of u!

If the range is 200m i am with you, if we speak about 500m+ i am not since 500m+ is well within perfect range for tripod HMG with optics while beeing out of effective range for the 30 guys. Expecially, like in my tests, the HMG is placed within heavy woods with lots of trees meaning cover+concealment. Do i expect that the 30 guys should getting killed instantly when they stay low and hugh the ground? No, and I havent read any single reply suggesting this. But i expect that bad tactics be punished and that is simply not the case in the current situation. And sorry to say again, but we dont talk about 30 guys capable to overcome a HMG using brilliant tactics, we talk about 10 beeing perfectly able to do and even 4 guys have a chance to do with bold tactics. Exactly, and this is why the 30 guys have a very very hard time to deliver effective counter fire at long range, while the HMG has the means to effectively deliver its fire. BTW if those Pooltable situation doesnt exist we wouldnt have this conversation. They do exist with CMFI and its potentialy much longer fields of fire and will be seen regularly in the eastern theater. But i have to confess that the situations in game are often even worse since the attacker doesnt have to cross open ground but has enoug cover/concealment available. Now lets lean back and see what´s coming.

With this setup u would "ignore" one of the important parts of the whole thread. It seems u talk about "short" distances again at which the 30 guys can actually deliver effective fire. This is more comparable to testing LMGs within the squad. This was about HMG fire against an enemy who is, for the most part, out of his effective fire range. Anyways lets see what the current changes will bring.

Thanks for this insight of current changes, much appreciated! Just out of interest: Taking your 30 man team against a HMG position. Which are your sources to take a look at? I am keen to know where to search for such informations.

Steve, first of all thx that u finally decided to join this thread. Yes, u are right that the tactical influence of a HMG will even be less if u throw in more cover, limited fields of fire and other arms. This is the point i realy cant understand. How can HMGs be balanced for a situation where u have intermittent cover, limited FOF and so on but dont produce reasonable results when shooting long range? U realy suggest that MGs produce reasonable results apart from these "Pool Tables"? They might work somehow on CMBN maps with its short overage firing distances, there they show at least a high ROF when engaging targets at ridiculous short ranges. But the pooltables show that the current behaviour simply fail on maps with long fields of fire which is more typical in italy and will be a real showstopper on the eastern front. But it is good to hear finally that there are some tweaks/fixes on the way.

In the first video i find it hard to believe that a tank crew who was busy shooting an enemy target to its front would be able to immediatly spot some grunts on its flank and begin to shoot all within seconds. That is a nice example of questionable spotting capabilities of tanks.

I just wanted to repeat this snippet.

Since the HMG behaviour is what it is since CMBN 1.0/CMSF the date dont make a difference.

Yeah, it seems he has not even tried to do so before posting his knowledge.

You speak about the cases in the reports or in the videos i´ve posted? For the latter i dont think that this is true because in most cases I´ve used covered arcs and not a direct fire command. That way each soldier only opens up if he identifies a target.

Moving the MG and the Lafette should not be much of a problem. Taking a couple of thousand rounds with you seems to be the hard part. So it might be a good idea to cut the ammo level down if one moves this kind of unit. In my mind the same should be true for mortar units. Whats the weight of ammo such a crew carries around? Cutting the ammo supply down, if they are moved, seems to be a good solution to the excessiv offensive mortar use.

OK, do one already speak about a melting process if the barrel begins to bend? For me melting begins with getting something liquid.