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I just created a ticket, and will skip this mission. I hope I won't see this again. But I have other games to play.
Thanks for the suggestions.
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Still not firing. After 3 minutes. I am going to create a ticket. Rats. This is going to cost one long mission as the 2 HMG teams in nice trench are going to tear my squads to shreds.
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3 spotting rounds and fire for effect --- lost about 11-12 minutes.
Having been a Software Engineer, I am going to say I hit some form of bounds condition (bug) in the code.
This is where you are on the border line of conditional or loop decision such that in testing it was all LEFT or all RIGHT, but this time it was down the MIDDLE, and that case never actually came up or got tested. Fog of Programming!
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But if he didn't see the round, then should he not call for another? That is what is so weird. 10 minutes went by with not another round. They still had 28.
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Alright, I am moving my HQ and 60mm units 20M forward. I think the HQ will still have enough cover.
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I just checked and the HQ has fairly decent LOS. This looks really very straight forward.
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There was this single spotting round like 8 minutes ago. I have seen the situation you describe where spotting rounds are sent down range to the point that there is nothing left for the shoot.
Yes, I have been thinking about trying to reposition the HQ, but it's like this case of "sunk cost" in terms of mission time.
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The platoon HQ has issued a line target order to his organic mortar (the mortar does not have LOS, but HQ does and there is voice comms). This was 10 minutes ago. It went through RECEIVING right away. And then I saw just a single spotting round about 20M a little short and left. No one is suppressed or taking fire. Neither of the two units involved have any killed or wounded. I would have expected to have seen my fire mission walk the German trench by now. But nothing? The status simply says SPOTTING.
Oh, yee, CM Drill Instructors - help please!
Thank you.
PS1: The trench contains probably 2 HMG-42 teams, and eliminating them would permit movement forward to the next area of cover.
PS2: At what point, does one zip their saves and make a bug report? (I've never done this in 20 years.)
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Okay. Thanks.
I pulled them out, since the LOS tool lied to me and I could not get LOS on what I wanted.
I will have to continue to work the problem of taking the AAA emplacement.
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Was it you or Erwin who posted the training video on indirect HMG fire the other day? I know that is not modeled in CMx2. What about the beaten zone and plunging fire?
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You know how the enemy keeps firing bursts and trees in front of your unit keep turning into wood chips and ground 60M ahead keeps sending up geysers of dirt.
Does this mean that although scary that they have found good cover?
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Does it mean that most incoming fire will strike the trees, but given sufficient time a round is going to find a pixel troopen?
Thanks.
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Well, a soldier represents both a siting profile and a target profile to enemy direct shooters.
Sometimes, they COWER and I assume that are trying to get small. And the HIDE command should also cause units to get small.
So, my question is which situation is smaller?
I have a command unit that has been spotted, but I need them for FO duty. How best to handle their situation before the fire mission begins? (trust me I analyzed the entire map looking for a better spot and could not find one)
Thanks.
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Just curious? Thanks.
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Well, I am playing MIUS and CMBN alternating.
I like the OPs.
I know I have already screwed up this Barbarossa OP (Odintsov) as the Red Army. I thought I would play for good ground and kill ratio.
A major blunder. I should have been falling back as fast as I could (meaning Withdraw) as I will get a company of tanks. But that precious infantry were their eyes.
So, I failed to see the big picture.
I like play like this ... that allows you to feel you made the right decision in a fire fight, but actually as a commander, you are an idiot!
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I must say and also I didn't expect was a active defense, but a very, very active defense as opposed to just a little maneuver. That tore me apart on the first play through.
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I found just put a team with grenades on an action square to the the rear. I have had as many 3 grenades in the air at once. Then, when the enemy comes out the back door armed ... brrp!!!
It is all about interlocking fields of fire and finding the pivotal point where to begin taking it apart. It's kind of like pawn skeletons in chess. Once the key position falls, the whole thing will come down. The hard part is the shape of the map and not being able to get to the base supports of the defense. Indirect fire works well for this.
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Thank you, everyone!
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I have concluded the reason the scenario is so long is because it revolves around the efficient use of mortars to take out heavy weapons.
So, you have scouting, spotter positioning, fire mission, kill confirmation ... this all takes time.
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The counter attack is just getting organized. So, they are coming again. I don't know what trigger is, but I am as ready as I am ever going to be.
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It is going as we speak.
FIRE IN THE HOLE!!!
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My on map platoon begins out of LOS. And they have a covered routed to objectives projected with heavy weapons: HMG & AAA.
My reinforcements will be arriving such that if the pill box is not taken out they have no safe way to advance or cross sides (open field; a long open field).
I only have personal smoke grenades: no arty or mortar smoke rounds.
That pillbox has to go!
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Here is a funny thing about the ACW and Gettyburg. As we know already, I was on the Panther Games team. Dave and Paul were attending a games convention on the West Coast, and then they had meetings out on the East Coast with the US military. So, I, Bil and they met up at Gettysburg (kind of mid point drive). Before that I had no interest in the ACW, but it was a couple of Australians who got me interested, and I have been playing ACW games ever since starting with SMA. Go figure!
* Former member of Mad Minute Games and AGEOD; both developers of ACW games.
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FYI
Not sure why PM set off your AV. But there was nothing malicious out there.
I have been here 20 years, and as best I know BFC has no reports of me hacking the forums or anyone's PC. (Or fighting/ranting on this board.)
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I admit I am playing for the German attack. I am going to kill the pillbox, but except for that team, everyone is deployed to face the counter attack Axis. In reality given my current intel picture, a perimeter would be the more SOP thing to do.
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Well, last time I played, I had the impression the Germans knew they were under attack when I took out the pillbox.
My only viable option given weapons and the situation was the back door and satchel charges. Which means that I should be in about 20M. So, possibly that was the trigger event.
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I have a kind of clumpy woods as opposed to thick homogeneous woods. I hold no contacts, but I am expecting an attack as I have been here before.
So, I split my 3 squads into teams. It just looked like I could probably get a little better spread out (less vulnerable to a grenade) and find better cover for smaller elements (or they find better cover for themselves).
I always feel a little uneasy just splitting except for scouts due to CMx1 and that teams were made brittle to neutralize the advantage of having separate shooting elements.
Comments?
CMBN - 4.03 (MG US Airborn): 60mm organic mortar --- what is going on? (warrior)
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BTW, I have it zipped up. Beta or player is welcome to movies and turns if you care to take a look. Just let me know.
Ticket #32584203