Doug Williams

Yes, this is happening to me also. My troops are fleeing toward known enemy locations, actually leaving the cover of bocage and running toward the enemy through the hedgerow gaps, with predictable results.

Just checking in to make sure everything got "migrated", I can still post, etc. So far, so good.

I did not, since I wasn't sure if they would be a waste of points. It was a brutal, bloody fight (as can be seen in the AAR I linked). Art made excellent use of TRPs. He's a crafty opponent, for sure.

The game (finally) ended in a Draw on August 11th. I've been off these forums (shame on me) for a while, so I thought I better post something before I get auto-deleted for inactivity (if that even happens here). Good game, Art! Here is a link to the Ladder report submitted by Art on Few Good Men (I'm Meat Grinder there.....obviously). :-) http://www.thefewgoodmen.com/thefgmforum/threads/new-ladder-report-submitted.26384/

Yea, and it's possible your three flaming T-90s will light the sky as funeral pyres for your many Russian dead soldat. Not getting involved in the subject of this thread, as I really don't know sh*t about modern. Just ribbing Art a bit on our game. ;-)

A very practical and informative answer! Thanks, IICptMillerII . One last question.....are Drones any good in Thick Haze?

That's a lot of acronyms. Off to wikipedia.

I don't want to reveal what I plan to do in this case, as I understand my esteemed opponent frequents this forum. Thanks for the advice, men.

@MOS:96B2P Tank Hill baby! Thanks.

I'm Yanks.

@gnarly I happen to love the "trash talking" (i.e. psychological warfare). Art seems to be well versed.....

So, I'm not a modern player at all. Only played a few games against the AI and one PBEM. Starting a new QB PBEM with me attacking (Probe, actually) as the Yanks against the Soviets, er...I mean Russians. My opponent is a skilled player with a lot of experience playing Black Sea. I have a lot of WW2 CM experience, but not modern. So, he set the weather to random, and it came up Thick Haze. It's a dawn attack. Looks like I get 16k+ points to purchase with. So.......should I buy any aircraft or drones, or would the Thick Haze make them useless (like it would in WW2)? I already know I'm probably in for a shellacking, but I don't want to waste purchase points.

I got the upgrade bundle and everything seems to be working fine now.

Pretty much this. Interestingly, a similar thread recently came up on the Few Good Men forums. My personal "house rules" regarding this are: No pre-planned arty (even with a delay) or TRPs for either side in a meeting engagement. No pre-planned arty (even with a delay) for the defender in a probe/attack/assault. Pre-planned arty (even arty landing on the first turn) is fine for the attacker in a probe/attack/assault. Always remember to discuss house rules when you are playing an opponent for the first time, as opinions differ. For example, I recently played in a tourney where my 2nd round opponent used turn one arty in a meeting engagement (not in my setup zone, but still.....). I had forgotten to discuss "house rules" with him before we started, so that's on me.

Those are some great features, Steve. Thanks for the head's up.

Yea, it's a ginormous, fairly flat farmland map. Meeting engagement. My oppo is gonna have fun with this turkey shoot.

Obviously, I chose poorly. Should have done more research before making my purchases. Live and learn.

Ah, well if that's the case I'm probably screwed then, cause I'm sure there is more than one KT. Can't remember I've ever used the ISU-152 before, but I was assuming it's AP round could penetrate. What Soviet round can penetrate a KTs frontal armor?

The ranges are 1879 and 1895 meters. They each choose to fire HE rounds twice at the King Tiger. Hits are scored, but (I imagine) little damage is done. Very strange to me that they don't use their AP rounds. Meanwhile, the KT has taken out two of their brethren, using AP rounds. Here is a link to the actual MP4 file that I recorded with FRAPS, which should be higher quality than the YT video. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/33457409/RT.mp4 I'm gonna go ahead and call this a bug. Would anyone like to do some testing? I have to work all weekend and Monday....

Possibly. Anyone else have any ideas? I'm much more accustomed to medium and smaller battles.

I'm not normally one to complain, but this just happened in a Huge ME. So these two ISU-152 each have 6 AP rounds, yet they choose to fire HE at the distant King Tiger?

Steve, thanks. Keep on keeping on with what BFC is doing. We appreciate it.

Meh, works fine for me, with everything set to "Best" quality, tree detail high and shaders on. This is with a desktop I built two or three years ago, using components that were not top of the line at the time.

Wow, check out Mr. "Moneybags" Macisle here, with his expensive mouse. ;-) This is the one I use, a Logitech M185: $13.89 baby. For what it's worth, I can play Huge size CM2 games with little noticeable lag (WeGo). My system specs: I7 4770k @‌ 3.5 GHz GeForce GTX 680 video card 16 gig of ram Windows 10 Edit: removed commercial link (forgot about the rule, but Steve quoted it so I think I'm ok) ;-)

I believe that would add more complexity for little actual gameplay benefit, especially if it was done in a realistic manner like IanL described. Interesting thread, however. I learned something new.