White Phosphorus

When the targets are lined up nicely along the aircraft's attack vector the pilot will engage as many as he possibly can. Hell engaging a single target usually involves lots of overshooting and undershooting which would hit other tanks. Haven't you ever seen the guncam footage? But in the game all those shells land in a perfect rectangular pattern the size of one tank. That is simply not humanly possible to accomplish with WWII era weaponry.

Nothing annoyes me more than when a long line of tanks gets strafed side to side, and the airplane attacks only one tank. Mind boggles. I mean would something like that be even possible in real life?

Scoring a major victory as the Soviets in the Bridgeheads scenario. That was before the patch too.

True...though the "German ATR" you are referring to is the 28mm Heavy ATR (tapered bore) that is only available early-war and a higher rarity that the Soviet PTRD/PTRS?</font>

Soviet ATR penetrates 35mm at 100m German ATR penetrates 42mm at 100m

Aren't German ATRs more powerful than the Soviet ones?

It is the player’s job to withdraw his troops in an orderly manner. Breaking off the engagement is one of the most difficult maneuvers. Making the TacAI handle it wouldn't make any sense. Might as well make the computer play the game.

Exactly that's what I use it for. Don't you just love it when your infantry is holed up in some huts, and the enemy tank proceeds to drive down the road from hut to hut blowing them up one after another. I wait till my infantry expend their molotovs then high tail out of there. It looks really cool when they jump out of the building right before it explodes. The very short command delay allows for some really close calls.

Funny you mention it. When I played it, the German plane dropped its entire! bomb payload smack in the middle of *that* spot of rough ground. I laughed and laughed and laughed.

How come the Soviets never get their 122mm howitzer for direct fire? I thought that the rule for direct fire was "nothing above divisionary level".

Yes, the infantry definitely tends to pick a hole and stay in it rather than run around like a headless chickens. This however goes both ways, because now you have to work much harder to get the defenders out of their holes.

Maybe the Soviets should get a "Random foreign AT weapon" once in a while, kind of like the Germans get the PPSh.

What difference does it make? Propaganda is supposed to influence morale.

If Stalin was so afraid of war with Germany, why did he go to such great extent to butcher the army's officer corps? I mean, Hitler was preparing for war, and he groomed his army to perfection. Imagine if Hitler had killed Manstein, and Guderian, and Rommel, and all other experienced generals that saw any action back in the day.

Also when hunting it only stops for AT threats. Like guns and tanks.

The way I see it, is that most of T-34's advantages are out of scope of CM's battlefield.

Troops only seem to sneak when they take a morale hit. I've seen plenty of troops fall to the ground, crawl forward, get up and continue running the second the firing let up. I've also seen troops that are ordered to move start running or advancing forward to get into fat cover.

Well he got gassed in WWI, he probably didn't want his troops to experience the same fate.

Troops will lose skis when sneaking.

I don't think that an "eliminated soft unit" even looks human. Plus I don't think that the troops would want to stare at it.

I never found the infantry death sneak to be much a problem. However when heavy teams do it, it is unbearable. It takes only two turns to exhaust them, and you get only one chance to stop the sneaking insanity. Because the rest of the time you just stare at the screen and wait for the turn to finish. The wego system is what causes the problem.

Well, before the war the Soviets believed that offense was the best defense. They could have hoped for a repeat of Khalkhin Gol if Germany attacked.

Russian climate is too cold to grow olives. Plus the cultures that live in warmer parts have never cared much for olives. As a result the main source of vegetable oil in Russia is the sunflower. That's why there are so many of them.

Amazing!