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In the unit control panel of the demo, the icon for choppers (and presumably for fix - wing aircrafts) is a drone one. Just noticing.

I cannot install in Win 10. It produces an error message upon installation. It tries to install something on One Drive, or something like that

Just finished Honor (the first new battle from the BS expansion) as blue. A very very good one - although I doubt it can server for H2H

I used the word as a figure of speach. Please feel free to share you theories, that is what the forum is about. :-)

try and play as Russian the last mission from Crossing the Dnieper and the penultimate one of the Russian campaign included in the last patch. Open them in the editor and see that blue has just one raven. This does not justify the amount of artillery coming down on you. You have the campaign de-compiler, dont you?

I have a theory that AI is somehow "cheating" on artillery effectiveness. There are some missions where the AI's is extremelly deadly on my positions which are out of LOS from the enemy. Good examples are the last mission of the 1st Russian Campaing and the mission before the last one of the second Russian Campaign. Using the campaign decompiler I have noticed that all the emeny has is a single raven drone which cannot possible cover sufficient areas large maps as those. Nonetheless, the AI is able to bring artillery fire quicly and accurately on my positions over large portions of map with clearly no line of site at all. It is as if the Raven can see all battlefield at the same time Any other theories?

I can confirm that pathfinding in amphibious BMPs is messed. It has probably to do with the slope at the point of the exit but I have not been able to tell the patern. In general, though the river bank are shown as "passable" the BMP will not exit at the predetermined path and will go around to find a bridge or other exit point.. and get killed This makes movement planning a mess

Can they? Is it only in respect of "area" missions that the area has to be observed (eyeballs or UAV)? Really?!

Yes. Which adds to my point that Russian fixed wing should be made available at the start of the mission to allow for preplaned strikes, rather than arriving in the middle as inefficient tank hunters

I believe the way the game approaches fixed winged CAS is flowed: 1) there is no justification why helos can be brought on a CAS mission without LOS or UAV observation while fixed wing cannot 2) even where there is LOS or UAV observation there is no reason why each plane of a multi unit CAS cannot be designated different targets, especially buildings. It is standard that before a strike mission each plane plots a target to its computer and when the group passes the IP point each plane zeros on its pre planed target. 3) With Russians in particular, where there is always only an air controller (I wonder why designers do so) and noone else can call air support, fix wing support is rendered useless for any other purpose than killing tanks and AFVs. I know that people will argue that CAS is Close Air Support mission (i.e tanks and vehicles are the targets) and not a strike mission. But in large battlefields with lots of buildings it makes much more sense to use the bombs against key buildings. One way to mitigate this (especially for Russians) would be to make the planes available from the beginning in order to allow pre planned missions.

I remember I had an easy time on this one. I expended all artillery I had in pre planned barrages on potential enemy positions (they are quite obvious) an on the objectives. Then hellos arrived and I was just maintaining a perimeter for potential counter attacks (they are in vogue in the last campaigns). The enemy surrended from extended casulties

There was a thread about how badly RPOs are nerfed in the game

I am currently playing the new Russian Campaign (now in miss 5) which by the way is very good BUT I would like to make a comment and a request to the campaign designers of the campaign and in general: -If ammo on artillery batteries is to be shared among more that one missions of a campaign, please state so clearly in the briefing of each mission! I am a very profligate consumer of artillery ammo and I suffer severe psychological distress to see empty batteries at the start of a new mission :-)

Most definitely. I was playing the new US campaign and this was the most likely result of 3x Excalibur on tanks.

If the 4meter range is the norm then, I believe the new patch represents reality better. Question: Is Excal accuracy improved if the munition is laser aimed as opposed to plotted via drone?

I dont know if the gap is indeed 90% before, 10% now (with 3 rounds of munition) but certainly precision arty is far less precise after the last patching

Wow. Thank you

Is there a flowchart for the battles of the US campaing somewhere? The briefing said about 10-13 battles. I stopped at 9th with a major vic

I will post the saved file in due time as nobody seems to believe me

Here you go: Infranty US attack. Ojectives to seize the raiway station and key building of the small town https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9z2aTq5oxcqWUgtZHotdEs0azQ

Thanks. I will upload the file the next couple of days

It is a bug for this kind of building . The los is the way it is because I wanted to take a close screenshot to make the windows apparent

No. Smoke is on. It is definately a bug for this type of building

SPOILERS If you manage to isert quickly two fireteams carrying 2-3 AT tubes each in the big building on your right and, once you hear tanks and BMPs approaching, you withdraw them to the "back" rooms where they are not exposed to enemy fire (except if the enemy comes around the buidling) you have over 50% chance to hold the position and inflict heavy casualties to the advancing Russians. Just remember to withdraw your Strykers in to safety

I have noticed that certain buildings are depicted as having windows on their narrow sides, while this is not the case actually. For example