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Minor Spolier ahead- I just started this battle and I am on turn 5 and had two of my T-70's get knocked out by the Panthers over 1000 meters away. Now as you may know its all flat steppe between me and the Panthers and I have little access to smoke. So the only thing I can think of is to make a massive charge to present them with as many targets as possible and hope some T-34's will surive to get a flank shot. I know this will result in massive casualties and might result in my losing. Any better suggestions? I have big guns, but they cannot go head to head against Panthers(slow ROF).

Russia's Heroes by the way is a horrible book. I bought it in hardcover thinking it to be what you think it is. After reading it though you will have some major regret wasting your time. It basically read like a translated version of a Komsomol history book. Lots of 'but they were brave' and 'socialism made us strong'. It is written for a 5th graders level as well, I could'nt believe a US publisher let it go to press.

Good idea but is'nt rarity supposed to take care of all of this? I have always noticed that I only look at unit prices and not rarity so I wonder why it's even there.

I get the impression that the 2'motar is light as well and was made that way so they can follow the other infantry men on the attack. So is it innacurate that in CMAK they are always lagging far behind from their platoon leader and squad?

Now it makes sense why that thing is always running out of ammo.

Then why does it not show up as an icon on the bottom when you click the unit or show how much ammo is left? It only shows ammo for the 12.7 gun.

Having used this tank in a few battles I was shocked to see what little ammo it had. I did a search and found that the model used in the game is missing it's secondary armament of the Vickers .303 machine gun. Am I wrong in this point? Any reason why it is missing in the game?

"And I seem to recall a little assistance from the British Commonwealth..." -True indeed, but my point is the Nazi ideology eventually limited their technical prowness. "Not only do we have better everything than the Germans, we've got better Germans than the Germans!" -It's from the Right Stuff regarding Werner Von Braun. Yeah the Germans had great rocket technology but worthless really without a good guidance system or a a good warhead like a nuke which they would never would have been able to make.

For all of Nazi Germany's fancy research, they never figured out how to make the ultimate weapon, nukes. Only the richest country spending all that money could do it and they did it with some help from some Germans who were kicked out of Germany. So much for the German war machine.

But when did the Matildas and Crusaders get HE ammo? Matildas in CMBB have HE ammo pretty early in the game, when do they appear in Africa?

When did the British start manufacturing HE ammo for their tanks? And when can I get it in the game? I really hate taking out those pasky at guns without HE ammo.

Last night one of my squads dissapeared and then reapeared to capture a flag. I clicked on them and it mentioned they were unarmed. Despite that they not only captured the flag and captured a platoon HQ. I think the fact that a Matilda rolled right by 'unsurrenered' them and allowed them to capture the flag and enemy troops. But still really cool and strange.

Last night one of my squads dissapeared and then reapeared to capture a flag. I clicked on them and it mentioned they were unarmed. Despite that they not only captured the flag and captured a platoon HQ. I think the fact that a Matilda rolled right by 'unsurrenered' them and allowed them to capture the flag and enemy troops. But still really cool and strange.

I just had a similar experience last night. Playing that early 1940 battle against the Italians whole squads of men would charge then surrender. It actually became a worry for me with so many POW. At the end I had more POW's than infantry and had to use damaged Matildas to watch over them. I thought it was strange but then again they were mainly Italian conscripts versus regulat Indian infantry.

I just had a similar experience last night. Playing that early 1940 battle against the Italians whole squads of men would charge then surrender. It actually became a worry for me with so many POW. At the end I had more POW's than infantry and had to use damaged Matildas to watch over them. I thought it was strange but then again they were mainly Italian conscripts versus regulat Indian infantry.

That is one of my favotite aspects of the game. I also find it interesting when your tanks fire multiple rounds into an 'identified' stug and then when the game is over find out it was like a Jagdpanzer or something totally Uber. Had I known it was a Jagdpanzer I would never have had them target it in the first place.

Isn't that New Kind on the Block guy on the far left in 'Band of Brothers'? Walberg right? Kind of funny when you think about it.

With the plethora of captured vechicles in the game what would be their appropriate use? Did both sides capture enough of a certain vehicle to form whole squads? Or did they operate alone in conjunction with other tanks. Anyone know of a scenario that uses them in a historically accurate way?

Remember the Nazi Swiss Gold scandal? Switzerland was funding the German war effort to the last bitter days, hid loads of Nazi's after the war and was major part of the German war industry. All of this while pretending to remain neutral. They did a good job of it and escaped Allied intervention.

Anyone convert CC2 battles/operations to CMAK? I would love to play the ''Island' again, but with more realism and accuracy.

No, Switzerland takes the cake for most annoying. They should have just joined the Axis and stop pretending otherwise.

Perhaps he is talking about the M10-that technically is a Sherman but with much reduced armour and perhaps a Garand could penetrate the turret from the sides.

It also says that the gun is damaged, I thought once the main gun was finished the rest of the tank stopped firing.

They probably would'nt but if bezerk they would do something like waste ammo like that.

I am currently playing "Panzers in Finland" and having a ball. I also get a better understanding of why tanks did not fare so well there. Most of the armour shootouts are down long roads with trees on both sides, very little manuever possibilities. By the way, last night as I was playing I saw a really unusual behaviour. A Russian T-26 charged straight at my tanks on the opposite side of the road, for a full 500 meters this tank went right at me then stopped and fired two rounds before buying the farm. It was kind of scary but once he died I started to wonder what the Ai was thinking. I don't think the tank went beserk because it only fired when it stopped and not when moving.