Da Coder

And of course, war films lead to parodies of war films... Let me offer this little snippet I found on iFilm.com: http://www.ifilm.com/ifilm/skeletons/film_detail/0,1263,221593,00.html [This message has been edited by Da Coder (edited 10-16-2000).]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by CavScout: While the results might be interesting, how do they corelate to real world results? In the real world is a tank going to sit through a barrage? In the modern world, at the first sign of incomming you displace. This means if you see someone laying a bracket on your butt [spotting rounds] you move out! I yet to lose any tanks to artillery in CM, have had a few damaged guns and a few immbolized but no kills. I would suggest that some of the "lethality" in the game is how people are employing armor. It takes two or three turns for a FO to call in a strike. I would ask, why does someone have tanks sitting in view of the enemy for that long? Cav<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Just a note re: tanks sittting there... They don't have to be sitting there. I've often used arty to kill/stop armored attacks particularly when on defense. How? Simple - buy a few TRPs and then identify natural choke points and set up my TRPs and FOs accordingly. Watch for the armor to approach the TRP and then BAM! Usually good to make a BIG dent in the advance with multiple kills on any lightly armored vehicles and usually a tactical kill on one or more of the heavier AFVs. (IE: gun damage, immobilization, etc.) TRPs are cheap and effective... Of course, knowing this, on offense, I always smoke the same kind of locations just to make sure this doesn't happen to me! - Da Coder

Just a note after looking at the pictures from the russian site with the destroyed afvs. If I am correctly interpreting what I am seeing, most of the pictures of vehicles have the penetration locations circled in white. On the the ones where the vehicles were "ambushed" it appears that most of the hits were on a flank side relatively low on the turret or hull. To me this would implie that the artillery was being used in an AT role rather than a bombardment role which is, again interpreting what Fernando was saying, was the type of artillery used against him. So again, it could be a case of apples and oranges.