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    American Machine Guns

    in Combat Mission - Tips and Tricks

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    JasonC has a neat idea (which I've yet to try) of an alternate "firebase." Take two M5A1 HT's (.30cal and .50), and use them to transport either 4 M1917 HMG's or maybe 3 w/ an HQ would be better. Drop off the HMGs/HQ at the back of some good cover, then walk them up until they get LOS to targets, then bring the M5A1's around the sides back so you have MUCHO MG firepower. The same idea would be very deadly in CMBB, though it presents a fine target in either game.

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    American Machine Guns

    in Combat Mission - Tips and Tricks

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    Americans always have the .50cal in CMBO.

    Their stats differ greatly:

    mg fp@100m ammo movement speed

    M1919 84 65 medium

    M1917 95 ~100+? slow

    .50cal 110 40 slow

    .50cal is powerful but has so little ammo; it can of course destroy light tanks and halftracks... from the side/rear out to as much as 1000m, and maybe 400-600 frontally, depending on if you're shooting at a SPW (thin front)or a PSW Armored Car (thick front). .50cal can even kill AFV that have the Panzer IV chassis if you're super-close and shooting directly at the rear.

    Main advantage of M1919 is it's speed, and cheapness- you might as well buy two and have them just walk to keep up w/ your advance.

    MG42 can kill halftracks too, out to about 300m if you are perpendicular to the target. The first time I tried that I killed two M5 HT's at 250m, which was sweet b/c my other AT assets were already dead.

    [ April 03, 2003, 02:04 PM: Message edited by: Silvio Manuel ]

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    How you use Snipers in CMBB?

    in Combat Mission - Tips and Tricks

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    Sharpshooters are also good for getting mortar crews to abandon the mortar, or for routing any slow-moving heavy weapons crew while they are moving in the open (i.e. on the attack). They are too valuable to waste for no gain, so don't let them get killed as they are worth about a whole squad just for the one dead-eye rifleman.

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    Hill 312

    in Combat Mission - Scenario Talk

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    Take a look at my AAR (after action report):

    Hill 312 AAR

    Use LOTS of area fire w/ the HMGs, even if you don't have so much as a sound contact in the trenches, just pound them for many turns, and add the 81mm mortars when you have good targets. Use Advance when crossing open ground, and use Rifle teams (squads split using the split-squad command) as the "lead scout" when 'advancing' across open ground so that they find minefields and enemy infantry. Leave the bulk of your squads intact (not split).

    Don't forget that the Tank Hunter team can use it's demo charges by getting to about 25-30m (but not closer) to the target and then using "area fire, use explosives" w/ the normal target command.

    [ March 24, 2003, 05:51 PM: Message edited by: Silvio Manuel ]

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    Dratted Fireflies...

    in Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord

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    von Khan,

    There is one "magic" number to know when trying to figure which tanks are more accurate: MUZZLE VELOCITY!! The higher the M.V., the more accurate the gun, since optics are not modeled. So consider these M.V.s':

    Sherman 619

    Panzer IV 750

    StuG 770

    Tiger I **773**

    Puma 850

    Firefly **885*

    Panther 925 (and Panzer IV-70A)

    Tiger II 1018 (and Nashorn, PaK43, etc.)

    So Tiger is easily out-shot by Fireflies. The Tiger I's flat armor is quite out-dated by June 1944, since the Firefly's 17pdr gun can kill it even without Tungsten, at common CM ranges.

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    Sure-fire tactics to beat the AI

    in Combat Mission - Tips and Tricks

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    reinald,

    Yeah I don't like facing Elites either- which, granted are rare in the field. But you get the same effect if the scenario designer used the %-Chance-to-be-Fanatical feature, and you just have to exterminate some steely squad on your flank w/ 5 darned tanks shooting at it, or better yet a flamethrower since that's the only thing that can rout Elites and Fanatics.

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    Sure-fire tactics to beat the AI

    in Combat Mission - Tips and Tricks

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    Adding Exp.levels really affects the final score too, far more than adding more % of troops (i.e. +25%). AFAIK, when you kill a Regular unit that has been boosted up +3 to Elite, it is still counted as a Regular unit in points, not the Elite cost.

    So if you add +200%, and the AI stupidly loses all those extra troops, it REALLY hurts its score. But if it loses the normal % of Regular troops, boosted up to Elite, it only loses Regular points.

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    Question for grogs!

    in Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord

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    Originally posted by Dandelion:

    I am not sure but it could be a Cromwell from the 22nd Amd Brigade. This brigade had such a symbol, but just a head. It is the head of an elk/deer/stag, drawn in red, on a white background. You see the head from the side, sort of, only one eye visible. Both horns visible and the neck ends in a jagged line. This it?

    Anyway, Cromwells only served in this brigade, plus the Amd Recce Rgt of 7, 11, Gds and Polish Amd Divisions. Is the tank a Cromwell?

    Dandelion,

    Is there some link you could give me that shows what units did/did not have certain tank types? CMMOS has me confused for CMBO b/c it appears that if a certain tank wasn't historically present in a unit, then you can't apply the CMMOS unit markers to it, BUT it doesn't tell you that the application did not work. It's quite frustrating.

    Plz feel free to e-mail me or else respond here.

    kevinmst@yahoo.com

    Thanks,

    Kevin

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    Splitting Squads

    in Combat Mission - Tips and Tricks

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    Originally posted by Dook:

    First, you can split your squads in an attempt to deceive your enemy. When your split squads are first identified, they will usually be labeled as "Infantry?," just like full squads.

    It's interesting to me how one can (sort of) exploit FOW to actually divine real info. If you see 4 inf. units advancing, and 3 say "Infantry squad?" and one says "Infantry?" usually that 4th one is the HQ... they seem to be FOW-represented as only "infantry" and maybe never as "infantry squad?". Of course, he might be a spotter (though would that be "crew?") or some other unit (half squad maybe).
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    Favorite SS uniform mod?

    in Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord

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    As far as CMMOS goes, and w/ all due respect to the artists, the only CMMOS SS unis I like are Andrew TF's grey (fav) and brown (2nd fav) feldgrau SS unis. I also sometimes use Jorge MC's Waffen SS "elite uni #3" which is a blue/black/green camo pattern IIRC.

    So what do you guys use? I'm looking for something similar to Big DD's SS uni in CMMOS... I really want one that looks like the the camo the SS use in Saving Pvt. Ryan.

    So what's your fav/ what SS uni do you use?

    I like the other German CMMOS uni choices, esp. Michael Dorosch's tan/water (reddish in color) Heer uni. Maybe I'll just have to rename those files by hand and convert them to SS (so SS at least has a good camo uni) and then use some other one for Heer.

    Thanks,

    SM

    [ February 21, 2003, 11:59 AM: Message edited by: Silvio Manuel ]

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