zmoney
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How could I forget! The primitive binary mechanism is explained in the manual, so everything is ok.
So, by binary do you mean your troops are on the objective and no enemy troops are on the objective capable of resistance? If so how is this not adequate as a victory condition?
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Upon further reflection, I kind of associate the reverse slope situations as they are. The enemy has a prepared fighting position that is fairly well protected. Your troops know where the fire is coming from but cannot make out individual enemy soldiers firing at them. So they wait for orders to suppress and start the infantry flanking drills that they so loved in training.
Especially at 265+ meters, I don't think it is much of an issue for them not to fire back at something they know they can't accurately engage. Plus they put themselves at risk of being shot with little chance of shooting the enemy.
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Oh thank god, finally! I have been impatiently waiting to hear your two cents worth. I can now stop refreshing every five minutes and get some sleep.
As far as reverse slope is concerned, you can still usually area fire that action square. I usually suppress with mg's and close with my rifle men. Seems to work good for me.
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The MG42 not more effective than other MGs?
Difference of a sMG42 to a Maxim?
Stukas not more effective than ordinary flyover bombers?
88 immobile against all historical facts. No superior optics. Russian tanks at +1000 m with crappy optics can hit an entrenched 88 more easily than it hits it's target at that range?
Panther's front brittle as a china plate?
And these are not even niche weapons.
I find it funny how the forum propaganda brigade denies it's intentions, although everyone can read it in almost every of their posts.
Haven't played with or against stukas yet so no comment. Uhhh you do realize the MG42 and the maxim are both machine guns right. To what are you referring to? It is not like the MG42 had heat seeking rounds and the maxim fired rubber bullets. In my experience my Russian troops suffer a great deal of casualties when bunched up to the MG42. I'd even say a higher number of casualties than to any other small arm weapon.
Panther being brittle I have not experienced on a wide scale or at all really.
Again in my experience I have a definite advantage at long ranges against the Russia's so I do not see the problem here. Now if a Russian tank spots your 88 at 1000 meters before it fires and takes it out, I would say that is a definite bug. But if your 88 knocks out a couple of tanks and then gets knocked out itself, I do not see the big deal.
If these are your experiences than these are your experiences and not mine, maybe you got a different copy of the game than I. If you live in Germany maybe the game was initially nerfed due to the anti-Nazi laws.
But lastly if you want to setup a battle where I have Panthers, 88's and MG42's I feel pretty confident I can hold in the defense against you even with my watered done units.
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Of course the 88s in the game are modelled perfectly, like everything else that undermodels German weapons...
I do not get what you think was under modeled? I am having literally no problem using German equipment in any of the games. In fact the only thing off the top of my head that was over modeled was the Stug's frontal armor in CMBB.
Correct me if I am wrong but it seems as if you get upset when you lose a single tank or soldier to enemy fire (in the game of course). So some how you think this isn't realistic because the Germans were invincible. This may surprise you but the German loses in total KIA, WIA and MIA for the invasion of Poland nearly equaled 50,000. That was just against the vastly outnumber/ equipped Polish who eventually fought a two front war against both the Germans and Soviets.
The thing people need to keep in perspective is that casualty figures in this time period were much higher. There was no supreme super weapon that was that much better than the opposition's equipment. Un-like in today's militaries where there is a huge difference in training and material between even developed nations. So you cannot look at todays casualty figures in modern wars and try to equate it to figures of wars past. I think this is where the true believers in German total superiority make mistakes.
Quickly just a run down on general equipment. The Germans did not have even close to the best infantry rifle in WWII. Submachine guns were on par but not superior in any way. The STG44 was a revolutionary weapon but did not appear in any number or early enough to make a difference. MG42 was obviously a great machine gun, but it is not as if no other nation had machine guns of their own so really no massive advantage here. So as you can see as far as infantry are concerned the Germans are weaker in equipment than that of the Russians and the US. They are on par with the Britt's for the most part as far as infantry equipment.
In my opinion as far as infantry equipment goes, the only thing the Germans did supremely better at was in the AT department. The faust was genius as well as some of the AT grenades.
So show me how the Germans are under modeled. I think the German command under modeled their own troops and this is reflecting in game.
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I too would like mobile 88's. But I have not witnessed the under modeled German units that some seem to be whining about. Maybe you guys just place your units in unfavorable situations. Like taking on an smg squad at 15 meters with rifle men. After your German rifle men got wiped out you would probably claim how un-relistic it was because even though your troops only had rifles they were German after all.
Believe it or not the allies to include the Russians had military equipment that could kill their enemies. The sense I get from you guys is the Germans should have won because they had magical weapons and only lost because the supply of ferry dust ran out.
I do think the game accurately reflects the equiptment of the time accurately I regularly best t34-85 with PzIV. At a rate of roughly 5/2. So again maybe it is how you fellows are using the equipment.
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Waiting 10 years for 500$ product. Isn't today's moto "I want it all & I want it now"?
500$.... and still same people have complains about 10$ upgrade....
I was kidding, of course I want it now I am an American. I was mostly making light of MikeyD's statement that did not really pertain to the OP's question.
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Even though my tanks were ko'ed I was happy that I wasn't able to spot the gun straight away. Seemed more realistic.
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If BFC provided all units and all timeframes combined then BFC would have to put out a single $500 product... about five years from now. Is that really what people want? Wait ten years for the development of an impossibly large sixty gig mega-product?
Yes, this is what people want.
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I think they are much harder to spot even after firing. A Russian 57mm fired four or five rounds knocking out two tanks from 380m before being spotted and knocked out.
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Is that a change in RT? Cos it didn't used to be the case.
To my knowledge it has always been so. For example :
Set a 50 meter cover arc order your troops/ vehicle to hunt. Your unit will follow through with the hunt order unless an enemy appears inside their 50 meter arc or your unit receives fire from an enemy unit.
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Are you sure about that? I don't think the target arc has anything to do with when a unit stops hunting.
I am not at a gaming computer right now so I cannot check to be 100% sure.
Yes, covered arc will keep your units going until fired upon or an enemy unit appears inside it's arc.
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Well he called shot gun way back in the staging area and he is not giving up his seat :-)
Haha, that made my morning.
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Or you could comp his game. And before you get indignant, I have offered to comp another modder's game. I am putting my wallet where my big mouth is.
BF's UI is just fine, if we like a modder's work it should be on us to show it.
Sburke, I think BF should comp your game as well for saying the UI is just fine. Anyone who thinks that puke green color silhouette of a gun is fine and defends it needs a comped game and maybe even a spot on the legal team. If you can defend that you can defend anything. If they don't hire you I will. ;-)
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Dl'ed and it looks great. This should be what it looks like out of the box. BFC should comp your game at the very least.
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654 kills, that must be some kind of record, wiped out an entire battalion.
I once did this with my bare hands. I didn't want to be gamey and use a tank.
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This would be a good information at the beginning of the campaign.
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Yep, it is in the English briefing and made quite clear too. I don't know if you have a German version and maybe it is not in that one, but the English version is pretty clear about the commies exiting.
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Looks good, I'd use them.
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i`ve played a lot of achtung panzer operation star and the results t34 vs panzerIVG (1943) were highly different from what i can see right now in CMRT. t34s glacis often bounced shells from the 75mm at 800m and even closer.
by the way those designers are building military training complexes and have a military backgrounds + t34s at hand, so i think they know what they are talking about.
5) from what i have seen i also think that something is amiss or broken or strangely modelled regarding armor right now. i cannot point the finger on it (wrong data, too highly flawed armor values, wrong sloping, uppowered penetration values...) but something is strange about armor penetration right now. like some other forum members in other threads already mentioned.
I know we're not supposed to talk about other games but I feel compelled to respond. I own this game that you claim is more accurate (mind you infantry warfare isn't really modeled). So it's basically a tank sim, which I had a different experience with. I played a mission where I had a platoon or so of Tiger I's going up against a company of t-34 76 tanks. In a couple instances I had my Tigers in hull down positions firing at t34's at about 500-800 meters away. The 88 rounds bounced off the front armor of the t34 while every second or third round fired by the t34 would penetrate my tigers with ease.
So you're saying that game more accurately depicts armor fighting? From everything I have ever read it seems that this game depicts reality far better.
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...what?
Haha, just seeing if anyone is paying attention.
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So far CMRT is my favorite, but I am partial to the east front because I fought there. Then CMBN, lastly CMFI and that is only because the Italian theater is my least favorite.
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I liked operations as well, thought they were a great idea. I wish we could have both.
Admittedly I'm on the first mission of the German campaign and I really don't get why people are complaining about German tanks/ equipment being so inferior (like it's Italian equipment). So far in tank duels I've lost two tanks while knocking out five commie tanks. At ranges of 1500+ meters and possibly 1200+ meters the PzIV is superior at least in my experience. You just have to use German equipment at more of a stand off range and utilize fire suppression. Two of the Russian tanks were KO'ed at close range which was hairy for a minute but the German crew was better so won the day and got both kills.
As far as briefings being misleading; this drives me nuts. Is it possible that you used all of your alloted ammo for the arty?
I am really enjoying this game and campaign. Good job guys!
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When will it be available?
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You should change your screen name to hyperbole.
Mord.
Hahahahahaha, that's pretty funny.
I don't get why everyone these days have to act like some holier than thou crusader thought police.
My 2c bout RT
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Late night at work, I guess it sounded funnier in my head. Not meant to be mean.
It's nothing like the CMSF problem was.