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Björn Eriksson

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  1. I've seen pictures from the Finnish winter war of AT guns camouflaged with strips of white cloth instead of being painted white. I think this would look great in CM but sadly, my graphical skills are non-existent.

    If there are any modders out there who likes the idea (and if it's possible to make it look good in CM), I can try to find you some pictures of it.

  2. The program will generate a file and you can choose where to save it. Then all you have to do is email the file to your opponent.

    To open a PBEM file, save the file to your harddrive and start CMBB. Simply click the "Join Multiplayer" button in the main menu and then "Load E-Mail". Then just choose the file you want to open and click OK.

  3. In the deployment phase of a CMBO PBEM game I put my artillery spotter on a open hilltop in the middle of my deployment zone. I did this because I always forget that I have any FOs and I thought that if I put it there I could hardly miss it (I always deploy my FOs after all other troops.).

    Naturally, I didn't remember that they were sitting there until my opponent asked me who the guy he just killed on top of that hill was redface.gif

    Oh, how I wished I had that artillery when my troops and his were shooting at each other from woods with 100m of open ground in between. He pounded me with his artillery and assaulted, routing or killing most of my troops and taking the only flag on the map. If only I could call in artillery, the counter attack would have been succesfull. :mad:

    [ December 16, 2002, 09:08 AM: Message edited by: KnivBjorn ]

  4. Originally posted by Frunze:

    Also, in QBs, the Soviets often get to spend a larger share of their points on armor. Maybe 'cause historically they had more tanks?

    Perhaps it is because if the soviet player looses all his AT assets, wich usually are his tanks when attacking, he will have a hard time taking out his opponents tanks with nothing but molotovs?

    Another possible explanation could be that german tankguns are good for destroying other tanks, while the lousy penetration of most soviet tankguns makes them more suited for an anti-infantry role.

    IMHO the germans have a significant advantage over the soviets because of this and BFC might have given the soviets more armour points to balance the game better.

  5. The best thing about playing the Germans is that their infantry squads have organic AT weapons (grenade bundles, panzerfausts etc.).

    I deploy my infantry in cover close to possible enemy tank routes of advance and give them a Cover Arc of exactly 30 m (the range they will usually use their AT weapons at).

    If an enemy tank comes close enough, my infantry squads will take it out and if it is enemy infantry that comes within 30 meters, I open fire at extremely close range, from an entrenched position.

    The trick with AT guns is to never show them to your enemy until you have at least one safe kill.

    I rarely use tanks when defending because AT-guns are both cheaper and easier to hide.

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