akdavis
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Well, think about the experience necessary to differentiate between a regular and a veteran: experience in combat. Now how about the experience difference between veteran and elite: highly specialized training and extensive combat experience. Not too surprising if they don't show up very often. You will get them though. In QBs with veteran troops, I've even had a "crack" team or too show up. Try playing troops that require special training, like paras or mountain troops.
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lol, me too Panzer. I saw some footage of some very suspicious looking Tigers in that doc. I prefer looking at Salma Hayek.
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The Soviet Union was not a bright and happy place!Originally posted by Shadow 1st Hussars:I've noticed that about CMBB too. The terrain isn't as........bright and happy....
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This, along with some sound contact issues, is a good argument for less generic unidentified unit markers. I understand not immediately identify the exact model of every vehicle or exact type of infantry unit, but sound and shape should provide a great deal more immediate information. For example, once in visual contact, halftracks should be identified by "Half-track?" Similarly, based on sound, mortars and ATRs should not receive the "infantry?" sound contact. Their sounds are unique and immediately identifiable.
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Is that the one where your troops were animated turning 180 deg. and extending their middle finger in your general direction?Originally posted by Battlefront.com:As I said, and you quoted, we tried many different systems to correctly simulate the clumsy nature of crappy troops. Just be thankful you got this system instead of the first one Charles coded up
If you think you are "venting" now... 
Steve
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I would say that it is more difficult, but in a good way. There are more orders to learn, but these let you do more things. Now, more than ever, real life tactics pay off. The AI is more challenging as well, but this helps make every battle different. You will not find one proven tactic that you can defeat the AI with in every situation.Originally posted by BismarckB:thx Pack you make a good point....What about the hard difficulty? It seems that AI is hard like a rock
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Depends. If there was no AA fire and the target was in open ground, I think a competent pilot stood a pretty good chance of landing some rounds on target.
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Nope, enemy had no vehicles on the map. The only crewed weapon in LOS of the ATR was a light gun which was still alive at the end of the battle. As far as I can tell, the kills were on a Coy HQ in a foxhole.Originally posted by Wolfe:Might they have been crew casualties from the ATR firing on a HT or other vehicle?
- Chris
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Wasn't there a discussion about white turret stripes being a late-war air recognition aid? Yet this suggests the photo is 1941, and it sure looks like a white stripe around the turret. Interesting...
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Chris, see my post above concerning Italian ATR with tungsten rounds.Originally posted by Wolfe:Yep. The only ones that will fire at infantry are those that have HE and/or AP rounds (Boys and Lahti L-39). AT rifles won't fire tungsten at enemy infantry. Personally I wish they would, but maybe BTS doesn't want them to be used as super-snipers.
- Chris
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I had an Italian ATR with Tungsten rounds score 4 inf casualties during a mission. I just left him with a cover arc and he did his thing.
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Well, yes, but I'm not disputing that they should fire at infantry targets, I'm just disputing their usefulness in the area fire role. Unless you score a lucky penetration on cover, it really wouldn't be any more effective than one guy with A K98 plinking away at an area. Not very "suppresive."Originally posted by Soddball:Sharpshooters only have 10 shots. ATR ammo is definitely specialised, no argument there, but who's going to say to themselves "Hell! An enemy machine gun nest is chewing up my buddies! I'd open fire on them with my 50 rounds of ATR, but I might need the ammo for later, so maybe I'll just let them die."
You see my point, I'm sure.
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Well, having an ATR area fire would be about like ordering a sniper to area fire. They have a limited amount of highly specialized ammo and a relatively slow RoF. They aren't going to just waste ammo. To be fair, in the example I cited, my ATR had a height advantage on the enemy foxhole.
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I had an ATR wipe out an MG team in a foxhole.
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Make my little Nazis and Communists stop being GREEDY and use their smoke rounds without me spanking them repeatedly.
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Unfortunately, the recent introduction of the single finger, but highly potent "Dynamite" has seriously confounded this issue, making ladder play all but pointless.Originally posted by Mare Ichthys:In my experience most players choose Rock because it beats Scissors so easily. Because of this the price of Rock must be increased by 30%. Nobody who plays in ladder games ever uses Paper, so it should not have any effect on the price of Rock or Scissors.
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They are green crews. They don't know that. Those ignorant Russian peasants probably think the Germans have lasers.Originally posted by camp:But I must say if I am in the KV2 heavy tank in 1941 and I know that the Germans do not have one single tank that could kill it with as much AP firing at the front (from over 500m).
Seriously though, I don't think a green crew would wait around to find out if their armor is really as impenetrable as they've been told it is.
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And don't forget the fallout effects!Originally posted by flamingknives:It's firing a bleedin' depth charge!
The blast value is an order of magnitude greater that a 150mm gun.
Now I might be wrong with the next bit, but the blast value represents lethality a certain distance from the impact point. Since the blast affects an area the killing power is actually proportional to the square of the blast value. Nasty.
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Stop whining and give it to that StuG UP THE ASS!!!
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In WWII you could drive your tank over as many huts as you wanted...if you didn't mind throwing tracks all the time. I've heard of cases where tanks were used to collapse exterior walls of structures, but actually driving through rubble of a collapsed building would be asking for an immobilization.
One thing you might check is what visual scale (SHIFT + C) your units are displaying at. If the scale is set above realistic, your tanks will appear larger than they actually are. At realistic scale, they probably won't dwarf those huts.
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I'm sure this doesn't balance things in all cases, but maybe with the 1942 Stug issue: isn't the Soviet player allowed to spend more points on armor? So while the T-34 and Stug come at similar prices, the Soviet player might be able to get 2 T-34s for every German Stug. I think 2 T-34s used well can probably deal with a Stug used not-so-well. I think that answers your specific complaint.
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Ehh...What the hell version of Armored Roadblock did you play?Originally posted by Matt:In the Armored Roadblock scenario I took out the KV-II with a German 50mm AT gun from 400 or so but I had a height advantage and probably scored a hit on the top. I had 5 or 6 50mm AT guns firing at this thing as fast as they could put rounds into the chambers. After 3 minutes of ricochets I finally penetrated from the top and the crew bailed. It was funny watching the KV-II shrug off the hits that were coming one about every 3 seconds.
I think the patch might address this issue though, I read something about crews not bailing so quickly if the guns firing at them are of small caliber and are mearly bouncing off the thick armor. I might have to replay that scenario after the patch comes out.
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The one I played had 37mm ATGs versus a KV-1! I'm confused.
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My only problem is that I often have units take fire, start sneaking for cover, then exhaust themselves out in the open and just sit there till they route. Many instances where they'd be better of using some sort of movement that involved sprinting and dropping to the ground until they got into cover. Perhaps "withdraw" or some sort of reverse "advance?" But then there are other times when I'm very glad they get their little lego asses down in the dirt.
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Or, if you're allowed to dig-in, just put your men in foxholes immediately behind buildings. Once demolished, crawl right on in.
Seriously though, I don't think a green crew would wait around to find out if their armor is really as impenetrable as they've been told it is.
Bugs or design issues in "Popguns and Elephants"(spoilers)
in Combat Mission Archive #4 (2002)
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Couple of issues discovered playing this scenario as the Germans:
1. ATRs begin scenario with "empty" ammo. All other units appear to be at full ammo. Is this intentional?
2. AI will not advance. A few tanks moved 100m or so out of the treeline. Infantry appeared to be just milling around back and forth in treeline, even when under no fire. Continued all the way through turn 27 of 30, at which point I quit.
[ October 28, 2002, 10:27 PM: Message edited by: akdavis ]