Vanir Ausf B

Echo, PM me your password, please.

It's that way for everyone since GaJ has not updated it to officially support CMBS.

Admit it; you learned that from Star Trek

Highlander, check your PMs.

That could be any T-90, but I am guessing it was a T-90A. That's the model with what looks like red eyes on the front turret, which are actually electo-optical jammers meant to spoof SACLOS ATGM, laser range finders and other stuff. TOW is a SACLOS ATGM and from what I have been told it is designed to resist Shtora, but I have come to realize that BFC dislikes having things work 100% of the time or fail 100% of the time in their games.

Yes. Once in 4 years of playing, compared to the scores of times they ran or were gunned down.

AKA mouse-holing. Very effective. Overwatch is a good idea, but is most effective at IDing the enemy that just killed your guys rather than preventing your guys from getting killed in the first place. Accomplishing the latter requires the placing of speculative fires on all unsecured locations with LOS to your moving units. This is effective, but is also slow, methodical and will burn through a lot of ammo.

Forgot this one. There is a certain element of luck involved and you have probably had some bad dice rolls, so to speak. But there are a few things you can do to stack the odds in your favor. One is to do a careful terrain analysis to determine the exact point at which your unit will move into LOS of the enemy and stop there. The more time you spend moving while in LOS of the enemy the greater the odds pile up against you. The other thing you can do is gang up on the enemy tank by moving more than one of your units into LOS simultaneously. He may get the jump on one of your tanks but he won't get both of them so the worst case scenario is that you trade even.

By using units other than the ones who are prone. Units advancing to contact should be overwatched by friendly units who have LOS to likely enemy positions, or who can at least move into overwatch very quickly. This is a known enemy position so you shouldn't be relying on your advance scouts to also provide the base of fire. Finding, fixing and flanking are jobs to be assigned to different units. Also, recon by fire if you already have a good idea of where the enemy is. No LOS? Us area fire very near the objective delivered by direct fire or indirect fire assets.

That's what it looks like when an ATGM gets spoofed and loses lock. I'm surprised to see it happen to a TOW-2B since those are supposedly spoof-proof. What model of T-90 was the target?

There have been others, here and there.

Everyone starting their first PBEM has that "WHAT JUST HAPPENED?" moment. It's like a rite of passage.

Yes, that's how it should work.

Yeah, trees have always worked like that. I suspect there is some random element to it. I've seen units that have been sitting in the same spot for many turns with LOS blocked by trees (confirmed by LOS tool) suddenly spot each other and start shooting. Bottom line is that you can't trust foliage.

I am not sure about evading and trying again, but aircraft can be forced to abort the mission.

I haven't tried it, but my experience with AA units is that they will always fire on any aircraft they see unless they have a Hide order.

A horde of M1s would have ended the campaign anyways...

Try giving the HQ unit a covered arc. As long as the units spotted by the UAV are outside the arc the HQ should ignore them.

Given that the schreck team spots the Sherman twice for very brief moments before losing sight of it again I think it far more likely that it did not have LOS to the stopped Sherman for the whole turn. Also, one of the soldiers is positioned deeper into the smoke than the other. I suspect only one of them could see the Sherman and only for brief moments. Doesn't look like a bug to me.

Also keep in mind that dedicated recon units are the closest thing to special forces currently in the game so they are a poor source of expendables. My advice is that these small specialized teams are better utilized split into two 3-man teams, and that you should look elsewhere for "red shirts".

Taking a second look, the AK shooter who is assigned to the scout team actually is the radio operator because the 4th AK is an engineer who has the breach kits.

Yes.

When the unsplit squad is small you sometimes don't have enough good scout candidates to choose from. In the case of the Russian recon squad there are six men, but only one of them is ideal for the job. You have 4 guys armed with AKs. Two of them are the squad leader and the assistant squad leader, and a third is the radio operator. So you have one AK guy as your first scout then take your pick between the SVD and the PKP.

The way it was described to us was more along the lines of a "if it's in LOS it will be spotted pretty quick" tool. I don't think anyone ever suggested that it could see through solid objects.