moosehead

Or even simpler, is to have them go back to where they came from.Follow their own waypoints back! Whats even more frustrating, is I give them orders to make their way back to cover, and they ignore it and continue off on there path to death. Most casulties are from the chicken dance of death. :mad:

I am sad to see, but not overly surprised, to see one of the biggest AI flaws, is still present in the 3rd go round of this game. I am talking about the chicken dance(CMBO) , or probably better described as the chicken crawl in CMBB and CMAK. This is when the unit is looking for cover and seeks what it thinks is the best cover. Even if it means going straight at the enemy in open ground, when just 2 ft away is a nice comfy foxhole or hill to hide behind. And Im not talking only about units that have broken, panicked or routed. If there is only one patch to this game it has to be this one, as it is the only real one that stands out and ruins the play of the game.

50mm mortars have a 60 minimum - 800m maximum. The TRP is 300m away.

Or commonly known as a bug. Unless I read the manual wrong, Onboard mortars are able to make use of TRPs, even without LOS. My mortars, NEVER moved from original position. They will not fire on the TRP. These are Russian 50mm mortars. I am also curious about one other thing I have noticed. It says the crew has binoculars. Then why cant it see across open ground any farther than a non-binoccular equipped platoon? Doh! Nevermind. I know why now. Ididnt see it, and never did the enemy. My Sharpshooter hiding in the TRP zone! The TRP graphic is covering up almost all of the sharpshooter. I can just barely see his head. But I still think the binoculiar thing is interesting. [ February 22, 2003, 05:52 PM: Message edited by: moosehead ]

So, is this tourney dead? :confused:

My name is on the list, but no '*'. Count me in please. Is there anything else I need to do?

I am hitting it from the front. I had another 47mm that had a rear shot. It was showing"kill none" , so I didnt even bother using that tank. It is a Russian wooden MG bunker, and as of last turn it was still returning fire. Another point worth noting is, My Panzer IV, wont even target it, unless I specifically tell it to.

I am hitting it with a German 47mm, and a 75mm. I have hit it at least 20 times now. I have seen "hit, no damage", "partial penetration", "penetration", "gun hit". When I target it, it keeps saying "kill, very low" and "kill low".

Does repeated hits on a wooden bunker weaken it. Or is each hit considered as if it were never hit? My thinking on this, is if you keep hitting a wooden bunker it will eventually break. And if this is the case the percentage of penetrating , should increase over time, with repeated hits. Curious to know if this is how the game handles this. Or is it a waste of time and ammo, to keep pounding a wooden bunker, if the hits wont eventually penetrate.

Doh! Never mind. They must be the points.

Just finished a game as Allies. The final scoreboard shows Total casulties at 878 for Axis and 478 for Allies. But casulties for the game at 68,46 respectivly. Where are these other casulties coming from? and do they count in the scoring? as it appears they have.

It was not a preplanned arty barrage. I was hitting a TRP. I then adjusted it to try and follow the advancing infantry in closer as they moved in. But of course I did not have the TRP or LOS, even though it had just been using a TRP, and I wanted to adjust slightly outside the TRP.

Well Im no rocket scientist, but if I had a TRP coordinates, and all I wanted to do was move it a liitle from there , I think I could figure it out, even if I didnt have LOS. And when they send the shells over, and I hear them dropping half a mile to the east I think I would know my math was wrong, and would call it off, instead of wasting all the ammo. Seems that the AI is giving the player the reins in this case, but decides to think for the player in other situations. And come on, your telling me you sat down and read the manual 3 times before playing. You would be no fun at xmas morning!

Who reads the manual! And dont you think the spotter would call off the arty when he realized it was so far off target? It should drop maybe 2 -3 volleys, then realize his coordinates are way off, and re-adjust. Not, just drop the whole 200 rounds out into space! :eek:

Im playing scenario attack on moon. I have a 81mm spotter. I target without LOS. My arty is all falling WAY WAY off the map. I mean ALL of it! Is this a new feature in arty spotting without LOS? Or a nasty bug?

Add another to the list of unhappy soldiers. My CD has a defect at the very edge. It stops at wav92108. :mad:

I always thought there should be different wheat fields depending on the time of year. A golden wheat field should only be in aug-sept. In June it should be green like grass.

darn double post [ January 31, 2002, 04:22 PM: Message edited by: moosehead ]

I agree that duds should be modelled. And i would expect it to be more than one in a thousand. MG are modelled to JAM, so why not model duds. I found this http://maic.jmu.edu/journal/4.2/Features/ww2/ww2.htm website that mentions up to 30% of ammunition were duds. And 10% duds with todays ammunition. maybe it would be difficult to find exact dud rates for every ammunition out there. but it is just as much a bad excuse to not model it , knowing there were plenty of duds.

OK, The straw has broke the camels back. I have to mention what I feel are LOS/spotting bugs. And curious to know if they are fixed in the next release. 1. I normally use view3 or view4. I noticed sometimes that when Im "just so close" to get LOS in these views, that all I have to do is go to view1, and viola! LOS! It should not matter what view your using as to whether you achieve LOS or not. 2. I have had a few times, most noticably at night. Where I can spot a unit BEHIND a vehicle, but NOT the vehicle. If you ask me, a 9 foot tall tank should be noticed , if I can see the unit directly BEHIND it! 3. This is the straw. I just had a situation, DAY,NO FOG, NO RAIN, NO SMOKE. My tank, unbuttoned, with shreck and MG42 on top, sitting still. They dont spot the Stuart until it RAMS them, from the front!!!! Not to mention the full platoon running out in the open in front of the Stuart, which is shooting at them.

Whats the chicken wire for/do? Besides keeping chickens in their pen.

I did a test with about 50 .50 cal mg, against the Hetzer, at ranges up to 50m. I was never able to damage its gun. The best I could do was immobilize it with a frontal or angle shot. I could always eventually Ko it with a shot perpindicular to its side. This gun damage must be 1 in a billion.

OK, so it can damage it then. But has anyone else seen this? It cant be too common. I have targeted tanks many times with a .50, hoping to kill the TC, which is only partially effective. But never damaging a gun barrel. I guess what makes it even more frustrating in this game is, I had at least 6 HMG42 targeting a M20 at less than 50m , and I couldnt even get it to button up! Damn gamey M20s!

I just had a .50 cal mg, damage the gun on my hetzer at 344m. Is this possible?

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Vanir Ausf B: In the 16 games I have played on the RD ladder (including current) I have used Gerbils twice. When playing as Germans I pick them maybe half the time or a little less, and use vanilla infantry the rest of the time Now, if I were buying KTs in every game I played, or in even half of them, that would be a problem, but that is a separate issue. <hr></blockquote> Now I'm confused.