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Great idea. Looking forward to it.

Then the attacking troops can use them.

Attacking from the rear in CM IMO is not as effective as in real life. The only benefit is if you find soft targets, or if you can attack from 2 directions at once. Every time I have gotten to the enemy's rear, it just turns the battle around. </font>

Do you preffer to concentrate your forces at one place on the map or spread them out? I usually concentrate my troops. Then I can put down more fire at one part of the enemy line and break through faster. And enemy troops on the other side of the map can't fire at my troops. On the other hand, if you attack the whole map you can flank and surround the enemy. You can also find weak point in the enemy defenses and if you have any reserves/reinforcements you can use them to attack the weak points. If you manage to do that you can get behind the enemy line and hit him from the rear. What do you prefer to do?

Thanks for all the advice. Aside from MZO, do you know of any other places to read AARs? Nice to know that you are still working on that scenario pack D. Thought you forgot.

Well, I guess I don't need that book. Maybe I'll try the strategy guide instead. Can you recommend any other books? P.S. Dandelion, sometime ago you said that you would work on a training scenario pack. Did you make any training scenarios yet?

Hi Dandelion, Ok so you're saying that the books have a lot of errors in them and that the Nazfiger guy is making up stuff. But did your CM game improve after reading them? I'm not that much intrested in historical accuracy, just learning tactics. I don't speak German.

I was thinking about purchasing THE GERMAN TANK PLATOON IN WWII from BFC. Is it any good? After reading any of the Nazfiger books did your CM game improve? Thats why I'm thinking about purchasing that book, to improve my tactics.

Yup, the 2 pounder is a good weapon. It can kill all the Italian crap, all armored cars, halftracks, Marders, and early Panzer3s and 4s. It's also better than the German 37mm. But, for an extra 14 points I'd rather purchase a 6 pounder(57mm) gun instead. Killing guns is what heavy mortars, howtizers, and artillery FOs are for.

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Ok. I'm assuming that 90 degrees is ideal and anything less or more decreases the penetration value, right? Edit: spelling.

When calculating armor penetration, does CM take into consideration the angle at which the tank is facing the gun? In my experience it does, but I'd like another opinion.

Strongly agreed. Hopefully BFC will come up with a solution for this in CMx2. You might remember to raise this point when/if they begin soliciting ideas for the new game. Michael </font>

Kind of off topic, but not really. What I think sucks about embarking in CM is the 2 unit limit. Seems stupid to me that you can put a 12 man squad in a truck but you can't embark more than 2 snipers. My 2 cents.

I find the 2in mortar a very useful weapon indeed. As mentioned by other people it can kill open top vehicles (10 point mortar killing a 140 point flamethrower halftrack )and put down a quick smoke cover. True, the smoke cover isn't as large or lasts as long as from a 3in or 81mm mortar, but the heavier mortarts can't follow the advancing infantry as fast as the 2in one can. The other use for the 2in mortar (and the 50mm and 60mm ones too) is fighting in scattered trees/woods/tall pines. What you do is this; have a halfsquad go ahead of your main force and spot the enemy, then sneak up a HQ unit (with a short cover arc) to spot for the mortar and blast away at the enemy. Because he's in woods, the treeburst effect reduces greatly the efectivness of foxholes. The enemy panicks or gets pinned down, you move up your infantry, he gets dead.

Yes, it would be cool to have an Elefant with an elephant painted on the side. But let's get real, the tiger stripes are an actuall camouflage that could have been used in combat. The others listed by MikeyD would look cool, but stupid, the tiger stripes would actually fit in the game.

Yup, flanking is a good way to distract the enemy. When fighting on the platoon level (with only one or two platoons at one isolated area of the map) it's good to charge one squad from two sides, after all the enemy can only shoot at one target. P.S. I belive that the proper way to say that is "pwn" or "own" :cool: lol .

Great mods! The M10 kind of looks like the tiger cammo I suggested on another thread.

Yes my original post does sound a little funny. But a serious poster who's intrested in doing a mod like I described would be apreciated. P.S. My 200th post! YAY! Edit: added the P.S.

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This thread wasn't intended as a joke. A tiger stripes pattern is a viable camouflage, yellow mixes with the desert sand and the stripes break up the silhouette. Would any modder be intrested in doing a mod like that?

Wouldn't it be cool if the Tiger looked like an actual tiger (the cat). I know that it's probably completly unhistorical but it would look great IMHO. Any moder up for the challenge? P.S. The tiger looking version would be the North African one, how about a European version that looks like the American Vietnam era tiger stripes uniform. And how about a winter version that looks like an albino tiger (white background with black stripes).

Yeah, a prison continent l l .

Thanks for the info. P.S. I never knew about the Australians' reputation for theft lol!

I just noticed that in July, 1942 AUSTRALIANS get the MG34. Is this a bug or is this actually intended? I know that captured weapons were used ad-hoc by all armies but were Australians actually issued MG34s? BTW they get Italian MGs too.