phil stanbridge

In game I've had 81mm knock out BMPs but only 155mm appears to knock out tanks.

Blackcat, when you say your infantry die like flies, how many are you losing per battle? I am on mission 10 of the Brit campaign with the new patch, and have had to change my tactics. The most men I have had KIA is 15 and that was in the dreaded police station mission. I quit early to be awarded a draw. But in almost every other mission I have had very few KIA, maybe 1 or 2, and sometimes nobody, with only a handful injured. But it is incredibly challenging! Definitely harder than the Army and the Marines modules. Before the latest patch I was losing loads, but that was down to me not really understanding how it all fits together. Based on my current results you can play it conservatively and not lose a load of men. But conservative is the word, because you cannot afford to be aggressive. So far I have had 3 total victories, 3 tacticals, 3 draws, and I haven't lost *that* many men. In the campaign prior I lost 169 KIA, and was awarded a defeat. So far I have lost 30 if that, and a few vehicles, but it will be interesting to see how I fair this time!

I was pleasantly surprised last night. In one mission in the Brit campaign, enemy spotters had landed a dozen or so rounds of airburst right over the head of my AFV. I was expecting serious damage to at least the radio/optics etc, but it wasn't damaged whatsoever. Furthermore, my Scimitar was next to it, and was unbuttoned! If they had used AP rounds (or perhaps even general-purpose) it might have been a different story. I believe these were mortar rounds.

Sorry to hear that. Do you have any household insurance? Maybe worth a punt.

Cheers that worked. Is it just a matter of copying/pasting the selected sounds files into my sound effects folder?

I'm with you. I tried to download Odballs mod but it was corrupted. I tried it twice as well.

oooh look forward to this one I love sound mods.

SF does run on the latest Nvidia drivers but it's not ideal. There are graphical glitches. Ironically this game is running better on the new ATI cards! Never thought I would see the day. My spec: Intel i5 @ 3.4ghz Asus Maximus Gene III Matx board 4GB ram ATI 5850 24" 1920x1200 Win 7 x64 Home Premium

There are plenty of free anti-virus programs out there that do a decent job. Maybe time to have a look around?

well I scored a draw, no winner, which is better than losing is it not? I didn't win because I was spotted (one of my snipers was injured). I made it to all of 7 of the points for the first time and I didn't fire a shot. I tried to be as stealthy as I could, but playing this on turn based is a nightmare! By the time I had moved one of my split teams into position to move to an area of interest the Syrians had started to run in my direction. I had no comeback so I hid for as long as I could. The problem is of course because there is no winner the mission sees that as good as a loss so what effect will this have on the next mission? I have played the next mission twice before now, and found it quite challenging. But how does winning the recon mission open this one up, or does it not matter?

I was obviously selecting the wrong insertion points because I tried that and it didn't work. I thought this mission was all about stealth, so that's a very interesting point you make. I'm sure I tried something like that before, and I inflicted quite a lot of casualties but I left two or three of the locations unexplored due to lack of time - but I lost the mission. So I will try again by splitting my dudes up.

Right I'm about to embark on this mission again. So far in the campaign I have two tactical victories and one total victory with 6 KIA and half a dozen injured. I've lost 2 vehicles. Enemy casualties are about 300 KIA and about the same injured, with loads of tanks and vehicles destroyed. So far so good, but this mission kills me. I must look it up, but how do you 'insert' your troops in different FRVs?

Sorry to hear your problems. Do you have the BFC or the other version? I had a similar issue with my BFC copy. I had to to uninstall the entire game to get it to work. I installed the base game and Marines module, and ran it. I then installed the British module and ran it. If I installed all modules at once without running one module first it would deactivate the marines module.

I have found this too. If there is lots going on around the map, the messages appear to 'lag' for want of a better word.

That really is a beast isn't it. Nothing more to say..

They haven't been immobilized have they? I have just ran into this in one of my Marines missions in the campaign, but they didnt get hit, they got stuck.

Question - does 'acquired' ammunition weigh anything in this game?

I think it is important to spend some time studying the map in detail prior to clicking start! I can't talk though I'm the first to rush in and get shot-up. I think the British campaign is the most difficult personally. I notice they don't get as many toys as the US/Marines for starters which means you need to be more careful on the outset, and then the AFVs tend not to offer as much protection as the US equivalents (my opinion anyway) and you need to dismount way before the trouble starts. They don't get the spare Javelin launchers and lots of extra HE/rockets like the US counterparts either. Plus it seems to me that the mission criteria is always more challenging, ie you must not lose a single man otherwise it's game over! An exaggeration I realise, but it makes the missions that much harder.

Hola mate, I'll take a shot at answering some of these. They may be wrong, so don't quote me but I have come across some of these issues myself. 1, I've just had this happen in the Marines module. My crew survived and I could deploy my GL. I had 138 rounds of 40mm ammunition. I have deployed my weapon. It would suggest that your ammunition cooked along with the vehicle. Bad luck? 4, Sometimes the command to pop smoke is delayed for reasons I am not understanding. I think generally the British module is extremely tough. I've played it through twice and have lost both times. In fact the last time I lost so badly I didnt get to play all the missions. The maps are well designed by and large but LOS is awkward at the best of times. I wish there was a LOS tool! I would definitely recommend restarting the campaign (post patch) regardless of what people say.

Yes I agree with this and an 'unload' type of command would be good.

Okay I got myself a minor tactical victory but i had to fight real hard! I had to be aggressive, far more so than I had before. I lost a lot of men too. (11 KIA and 14 injured). I ran two squads down into the wooded area and hid them there and waited for the enemy infantry to appear. Problem is, for me at least, everything happens so quickly in this scenario that you don't have time to prepare a proper defense. My spotter survived the arty bursts this time, although he didn't have good LOS so I planned a linear attack to occur in five minutes, and set the line just down from the arrival point of the enemy reinforcements. Call that cheating if you like, but it slowed them down when the majority of the men arrived under a hail of 60mm mortar bursts. I couldn't make good effective use of the 155mm though, so I just plotted an area attack roughly where I anticipated the enemy to be and fired the lot. At least the airbusrts would have caused panic. My infantry slowed the advance significantly, but my arty was way off the mark. My AT assets knocked out one tank before they got knocked out at point blank themselves. I managed to save one exit point, (the ravine) but lost the other, although I was awarded a minor victory which was a first for me!

Don't quote me on this but I don't think so. I was playing a mission last night where I had a full squad running for cover inside a building. Unfortunately they decided to head for the balcony LOL. Anyway, within a turn of sunbathing on the balcony the entire squad was torn up by one shot from a BMP. All of them were either KIA or incapacitated in a single go. Now I guess you could say that is realistic. After all, they were exposing their privates on the balcony and facing a BMP. But even still, taking into account the perceived cover and the relative abstraction you expect from buildings I don't think this has been addressed. But dudes on the rooftops definitely receive more cover now.

I have seen AT teams fire small arms at tanks but I think that *might* be because they are unbuttoned. Can't be sure though. They seem to alternate between firing small arms and reloading the primary AT weapon. Not in 1.21 though!

Doesn't this simply mean that an infantry squad will not necessarily be able to pick up the Javelin (for example) and use it perfectly.

Thanks mate, couldn't have said it better myself. I managed to go back to an old save-game, which I decided to replay. I hadn't saved the campaign at the correct time, so I had no access to artillery as Blue at this point. But I completed the mission and continued and it was fine afterwards. There's quite a few people in the same boat, so I will point them this way