mjkerner

Great stuff, Sarge!

Artkin is absolutely right, this is ridiculous and I admit my part was not cool. This whole thing is petty, when you consider all that’s going on around the world. I will not apologize, but by way of explanation, one in my family received very bad medical news today. It did not help my disposition one bit. Over and out.

You overdo it by a factor of ten, but my real complaint is you needling Sarge (and many others over the years) about things they actually do provide, free, for your own G-D enjoyment. You’ve hit him up twice in two days. If you aren’t going to produce anything, and harass those that do, then I will tell you to F**k Off every time. You are a user and a taker, plain and simple, and there is a whole legion complaining about you off site. I broke my silence, because you complained one too many times about regular, non-BFC people who provide content—for free—for your enjoyment. You can complain about BFC all you want (they just ignore you, as I have all this time, until now) but you are way off base when you complain about the guys who make content for our enjoyment. And while you’re at it, it wouldn’t hurt to thank people who try to help you with issues (check your comments; these incidents, too, are legion) instead of doubling down like you did with Sarge. Elvis, I’ll gladly take a ban...it was worth it to get this off my chest!

Hey Erwin, why don’t you try it? You’ve been around forever, you should have learned a thing or two by now.

Another d*ck move, Erwin! I asked you the same thing, but you never answered. All you seem to do here is bitch and moan and bitch and moan some more. Why don’t you try producing something?

Nice move, Erwin. I love the Sarge’s betas! And of course, he produces, and produces, and produces some more. And offers well thought out comments and critiques. It’d be awesome to play one of your completed scenarios or campaigns one of these days, instead of endlessly playing one of your betas. But I haven’t actually seen one of them. Where do you post them?

Sounds a bit like Riddley Walker.

Andrew, check the soft factors. That can affect the willingness of troops to man the gun.

The horror!

American General: Sieg Heil! Monty: Sure. Wait....what?

Your thoughts are my thoughts, Mr. Rice.

Agreed, Warts.

Reorganizing is maybe a better word, but you are reorganizing your teams, and therefore, the squad. It will maybe be clearer if you think of your squad as two or three elements that are reorganizing by combining. That work? The combining of a squad is automatic, the reorganizing is done with the combine command.

No, you can only combine teams from the same squad. It’s really straightforward, John. As Khalerick showed graphically and I tried in writing, each infantry squad in the game either has 2 or 3 teams. When those get shot up and lose men, you may want to combine them, making them stronger but at the cost of losing flexibility (can no longer split that combined squad). By the way, in a three team squad, you can combine two teams without having the third one in the same square, thereby turning a 3 team squad into a two team one.

Lol, danfrodo, it’s good to know I’m not the only one. My favorites are trying to figure out what band he’s talking about! But, as for the piss poor response above, you have to consider the poor guy has been dead for a very long time. Dull’s the mind a bit, I reckon.

Elvis, that means I’m going to be mercilessly vilified. But thanks for the info.

Don’t forget that a lot of the animations are abstracted. What you see is not always what you get.

Khalerick, you are fast! They cannot be uncombined into their original configuration once combined.

John, when they recombine automatically, they will do so in their original elements. As Khalerick points out, he has recombined those three elements into two...permanently. If he just moved them all into the same square, and they recombined automatically, they would still be in their 3 separate elements.

Let’s try this another way. Say you have a German squad from 1944 set at 70% head count. So you might have one team with 3 guys, one with 2, and one with 1 (inevitably with an leg, it seems). You may want to keep the flexibility of having 3 separate teams for maneuver purposes. Great. When they are all in the same square, they will still be 3separate teams, so you can maneuver them indecently as you please. But if you just want to have one beefed up team, you can combine them into one (or two, but then you have to have one of them not in that square when you combine) and from that point one, that squad will be one squad with one team/element that cannot be split. It’s all in the manual, or used to be anyway.

Khalerick keeps ninja-ing me, lol!

No, they will reconstitute into there original configuration...2 teams or 3. This method will take 3 depleted teams, and reconfigure then into 2, or 1, depending how many troops left from the original teams.

Besides soft factors, it depends on how many grenades the section/team, whatever, has. I seem to get plastered about as often as I do the plastering. It does work a charm (usually) when close assaulting buildings.

^^^What he said, too.^^^

You can re-combine 2 or more shot up fire teams/sections into one squad if they are in the same square. Normally, you can’t combine squads except into the whole platoon, and even then there are 2 or 3 separate teams, depending on the TO&E. After being shot up, say one team lost 2 of 4 and another 3 of 5, you can combine into one (and it will act as one team...can’t re-separate them.