iggi
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During a movie playback I selected an enemy infantry unit and saw a line extending from it saying 'ambush marker' and a distance in meters.
Should I be able to know this?
I still have the file.
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Henri and I are with Videotron. Thier server was probably down for awhile that's all.
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>You are the allied TC, buttoned up, peering thru your vision slit, watching rounds from a Tiger richochet off your tank. Your rounds in turn bounce off him with no apparent result. This goes on for a few exchanges (imagine the state of your crew as each round clangs off). Suddenly, thru the smoke, you see him slowly back up. At precisly the same time your commander calls in on the radio "It looks like you damaged his gun...ignore him and start shooting at those guys with rifles over there. Don't worry about the Tiger, I'm pretty sure he's harmless now."<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Ok I see how immeresed he must be. His situational awareness must be
alot lower than mine.<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>For what it's worth, if I had been commanding the tank, you can bet that Tiger would have received a couple more shells on the nose whether he was shooting back or not<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Oh Henri, I have room for another PBEM on my list. Up for a game?
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The guy who took that shot must have been pretty brave
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1)My tests clearly show that tanks in woods rotate slower than tanks in clear.
2)Having tanks right next to each other does not seem to slow rotation rate.
Artillery spotters
My tests show that FOs out of LOS suffer from a longer delay plus a less accurate fire pattern.
The VERY surprising discovery that I made was that if you move an FO that already has a target in LOS after he was out of LOS, the only negative is about a 10 sec addition to the fire delay. The fire pattern comes in nice and tight.
So why pray tell would I expose my FO to a 2min delay in LOS of the enemy when I can run him in just before the strike arrives and get just as accurate fire pattern.
Thoughts?
iggi
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One more question..
If an FO is out of LOS to his target but runs into LOS at the last second, will the incoming fire be as accurate as if he spent the whole 2min in full view if the enemy?
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>the need to gather food, gold, wood, AND stone, and balance your fighting and gathering and production with your available resources<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Which is why I'm sooo looking forward to Red Alert 2. Much less micromanagement.
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I've seen an opponent, I won't say his name..Dave T...
who called arty fire on my squads who were next to his surrendered squad. I was hammered along with the dead prisoner. -
Look here, he's busy assimulating people at wwiionline :
http://www.wwiionline.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/005345.html
[This message has been edited by iggi (edited 09-06-2000).]
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It's not a question about difficulty. The question is which is more appropriate.
For a large battle, real time doesn't make sense for one person to control.
WWii online is real time but every player role plays one person. In CM, you role every squad leader/tanker etc.
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Then if you get a gun hit and the bad guy slams 'er into reverse and disappears, you gotta wonder, is he hurt, or just sneaky?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
There's no hold fire function. So if a damaged tank is retreating in LOS of your tank early in the turn, you just know he was hurt and limping(even without labels). Now you could go for the kill or take care of more important things right away.
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If two tanks are right next to each other, is turret rotation speed slowed down?
I think this happens around woods to simulate turrets having trouble traversing. Does it happen near houses or other tanks/vehicles?
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Welcome.
Reaching out my hand...I'll play you.
Set up on its way.
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iggi - iggi@videotron.ca
Panzer Grenadier - 2nd SS Panzer Grenadier Division "Das Reich"
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*Captain Foobar* , I didn't have those lables on. I figured it out all by myself
.One min we were playing ping pong and the next, the tiger was retreating. This while his infantry was advancing. Obviously he wanted to preserve his tiger as a mobile mg.
While retreating, no return fire was given by him. I figured it out without labels.
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I don't see it as micro management. I see it as allowing human being common sense to decide. I guess it would take more coding to give the AI that sense than to have an ignore feature.
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The only exception to a specific ignore order would be in the case that I was wrong and the tiger let loose a round towards my tank. So in a sense the ignore order would be don't fire unless fired upon, (not mg fire).
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As the tiger was retreating, he was not returning fire, I was sure his gun was damaged. I think that's where a direct order to ignore *that* tank is usefull.
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I didn't know 100% that the enemy's tank was damaged. I figured it out. Get it?
The tiger was shooting at me, then after taking a hit, it stopped shooting and started to retreat away from supporting an important thrust.
My sense was that he was high tailing it out of danger. I could not capitalise on my sense cause my tank wanted to kill a tank. Get it?
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PS the enemy tank was withdrawing since it seemed in fear because its gun was damaged. My tank was still targeting it but I desperatley needed to support infantry nearby. Moving my tank to loose LOS to the gun damaged enemy tank cost me too much time.
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A thought for CM2. I wanted to ignore an enemy tank that had it's gun knocked out. I wanted my tank to support my infantry against enemy infantry.
Would be nice to be able to select a vehicle and then press an ignore key. Thus only the vehicle selected will be ignored. That would be perfect for ignoring gun damaged tanks that your tanks keep trying to hit.
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Same thing is happenning on the wwiionline forum... http://www.wwiionline.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/005294.html
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Some people are over reacting. Since the early forms of the forum, there have been incidents. It has not just popped up a couple of months ago. It's part of forum life.
Now get down you maggot and give me 20
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There's this parade on TV. I think its live.I think it's Russian. Anyone seeing it?
In Montreal, it's cable 14. Hmm it's not mayday. What's up? I have never seen this on tv before. All thier tanks infantry etc..
Are they sending boys off to war? Anybody know whats up?
Ambush marker
in Combat Mission Archive #2 (2000)
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I knew that area fire lines were visible. The ambush marker line surprised me. You can be sure that ambush was blown.