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@Soddball Thanks, I understand Greetings

Hello! Just thought about it. Why area fire on the mg nest, if its less supressive than direct targeting the nest? Greetings...

Hello all! Sorry for this late answer. I have to thank you, especially JasonC for his great answer You all answered a lot of questions. I will try my best today on "friedhoshügel" or "chemetary hill" in english? But how can I order "area fire" on an enemy? If i press target and move the coursor on the enemy my units target the enemy dircetly. Do I have to aim just next to the enemy, and does this will effect on the enemy? As I said, it tried a normal attack, with pressing "T" on the enemy hMG, and all my infantry troops where killed, or ran away in panic. That made me thinking about the strengt of entrenched MGs and how to tkae them out, just with infantry Greetings!

Hello! Thanks for the tips. Bringing me to some new questions 1.What is AFV? 2. Why does Artillery need so much time, about 12minutes to fire those 137?mm guns. This means I have to wait for about 12 turns?! 3. Why are my tanks retreating, if their 122mm cannon is deadly for a Panther? I had Su122 (os something like that) driving around a corner, spotting a panther, and retreating?! Why? 4. If a units spotts an enemy, is the enemy position now know to any of my units? So will a tank, advancing with infantry spotting a enemy, see the enemy too? 5. Grenade launcher have indirect fire. Why do grenade launcher teams have to have a line of sight, to attack a target? 6. What is the best tactic, to attack a hMG position? I had about 3-4 groups + officer about 20 meters infront of a hMG42. I ordered the units to attack, but they had no chance, running away, beeing paniced, or pinned down. I know these are a lot of newbie questions, but I hope you will help me. This is really a though game. Hard to get into it... Greetings

Hello! @John Thank, your explaination makes this much clearer! @ Bert I read about this before, bit its hard to remember this fact ingame. In any other game, if you see a bush, you can be sure that it is there I really have to get into this... @ realest Ask me how glad I was I will go on practicing! But I have to ask this question again: "If there is an enemy tank standing behind a house or something, and I know he is there, because one of my units see him. On the other side of the house there is one of my tanks. How can I order my tank to drive arround the corner and aim the enemy tank immediatly? In my case, the tank drives around the corner, and after a few seconds he decides to drive back, allthough he as visual contact." This seems essential for me, is it not?? Greetings...

Here I am again This time my performance was better. Managed even to enter the village I found out that it takes some time to spott entrenched units and AT guns. I took some rounds and when I knew their postions it was qiet easy to take them out. But I still have a few questions. Please look at the picture. How is the Panther tank able to take out my IS-2 through all those bushes and the forrest? Bushes and forest do block LOS, so how could he aim me? Another question: If there is an enemy tank standing behind a house or something, and I know he is there, because one of my units see him. On the other side of the house there is one of my tanks. How can I order my tank to drive arround the corner and aim the enemy tank immediatly? In my case, the tank drives around the corner, and after a few seconds he decides to drive back, allthough he as visual contact. Is it normal, that a Tiger tank is able to fire three shots in the same time my IS-2 needs to fire one shot and reload? Is it somehow possible to tell my tanks a target to attack for the shoot & retreat move, or do they have to look for a target on their own? Thank you for your help!

Hello realest, Ok, I will try "A battle of minors". And may god be with you, if I loose again!

Hello! Thank you for your answers! Its so frustrating! I have no chance, replaying the sma escenario over and over. I german its called Jaegermeister. Dunno how its called in english. Date is 15.07.44. I play russians, like told in the tutorial in the manual. But the tactics written in the manual are 100% useless. I try to take all the positions, like written in the manual, but no way. The forrest position on the right flank, should be good for having a scout position in the villag à I never spotted any enemy from there. I shall take a “hull down” position behind the hill just in front of my starting position à all my IS-2 (!!!!!) end up in flames, beeing shoot by AT guns hidden somewhere. Even if I spott on, and give a tank the order to attack, the AT gun fires 2-3 shells, bevore the tank even moves its turret. The whole “hull down” command seems useless to me. My tanks stand behind a hill, I tell them to look for a “hull down” position relative to a posiotion in the village. What do they do? Nothing. In best case they drive 1-3 meters. But nothin like “its just the turret that looks over the hill”. If I try it manually à the mentioned AT guns, or even Tanks on hills far behind the villag kill me instantly, even if there is just a part of the turret showing up behind the hill… Oh, it seems german units are even able to have a line of sight through bushes and trees. Just look at the pictures I made. The Panther spotted and shot me through bushes. Just like the AT gun These four assault guns, standing in a row are DEAD. I tried to birng them in a “hull down” position. Another thing I don’t understand: I told two IS-2 to move about 5 meters foreward. What do they do? They drive the 5 meters and immediately they drive back to their starting postions?!?! I play pc games for about 14 years now. But there was never a game making me so frustrated on the frist two pictures you can see the AT gun killing tank THROUGH a bush. The tank had also a “hull down” position (at least this was my impression) The Panther kills me through bushes, over a large distance. How could he spot me? Four assault tanks, killed with no chance, alltough “hull down”…

Hello! I play and play but I still have no chance in beating the AI. I feel like not understanding the mechanics of this game, like spotting enemy units, using the right cover and choosing the right movement. So can anyone tell me if there some kind of newbie scenarios for CMBB, which lead me from the basics to advanced skill level? Right now I’am happy like a child on christmas, when I destroy an enemy unit Thank you for your help.

Hello! Thank you all for your answers! I thought so, the the graphics are more "abstract than realistic. On my picture a some bushes to, maybe the scale is not right, and they are blocking the LOS? The thing with the snow, fog, rain was something I forgot about. Of course they reduce sight. But imo it should be more obvious how far a unit can see and why. In my example (the picture) it is not clear if the bushes block the sight, or if it is the snow. Without these informations, it could be hard to find the right tactic in some situations. At least I think so. I dont have much game practice Greetings...

Hello! I am new with CM and have some problems with the lines of sight. I sometimes my units have a clear line between them and the enemy unit, but the LOS indicator is red. For example I try to add a picture at the end of this post. The anti tank crew should have a clear sight, there is nothing hiding the russian soldier, but the indicator shows red. I would be gratefull if anyone could explain me some LOS rules, and sight ranges, or give a link where they are mentioned. Thank you very much!

Thank you! I hope I can try it tomorrow Greetings...

Hello! Is it right that I just have to copy the winter.bmp files in the bmp-folder and then they are automatically used for the winter scenarios? Greetings...

Thank you for your answers! I will have a look on the mentioned page. @ Fußball "Opa Erich!!!" Gege "Laß ihn der is hin." Rollo

Hello! I've been looking for screenshots for a while now, but without success. So I have to ask here Is there winter camo for unis in CCBB? On every Screenshot I've seen the tanks where still green and the uniforms grey I hope there is winter camo! Thanks for your answers! Greetings