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No, please, no. And I don't mean to pick on one person. IMHO we should not be asking BFC to move away from realistic behaviour. It has been established that these AT weapons were *not* *routinely* fired inside. What we should be advocating is BFC tweaking some infantry AI behaviour; shooting around corners, allowing the use of AT weapons from ruined buildings etc. As well as advocating improved urban maps. Lets lend our voices to asking for things that make the game *more* realistic; not less.

Wow that is awesome. Kind of scary, but awesome.

Very interesting. Perhaps the Germans should have side mounted MP40s to their Panzer Shrecks so they can switch to small caliber for the bailing crews. But IMHO there is no such thing as wasting ammo:-) Of course I also say there is "no such thing as too many chocolate chips" in cookies as well.

Interesting. I never would have though of doing that. I will keep and open mind and reserve judgment. Thanks

Wait "switch over". Do you mean it fire either the 37mm or the .50 cals not both at the same time. This is a weapons system I had not seen before. I am going to suggest that a fun QB to play with someone would be a mirror of attacker: infantry only, defender: AA guns only just so both sides can see these things in action.

What you point those things at your friends the Canadians

I am still not 100% sure if you are joking or not. Is this alternate colour rendition a real feature or are you poking fun at a manipulated image in the screen shots. Just curious.

With CMBN those that pre-ordered had a non trivial jump on anyone who wanted to order it on the day. I forget how long the lag time was but I was sad:-( With the following releases it got better but even last time their official policy was there would be 36 hour wait for those of us that did not pre-order. I was sad again :-). In the end it was much shorter than that and I was less sad :-|. For the record; in principal I am OK with people who pre-ordered getting access ahead of everyone else. What makes me sad is that those of us that do *not* want hard good are not allowed be be part of the club. My desire would be for BFC to either: Allow us download only types to pre-order - so we can join the club Stop the advanced access for those that pre-order - so there is no special club that I cannot join

What are you referring to here John? I was not aware that there were any issues with weapons modeling specific to the Russian forces in CMBB. I was not aware that the turret traversal times were not already modeled. It feels like it is to me. I watch my Sherman and Churchill tank turrets turning a different rates and same for PzIVs and Panthers. That would be awesome - I agree. I think changing the gun's facing works reasonably well now. If it could be extended so that moving a short distance would not cost the full packup and setup time that would be very helpful. Clearly moving a gun should not be free and easy but moving slightly should not really involve packing everything up.

Ouch that was a tough break. I think you had your tanks in a good position - well thought out plan for them too. But sometimes a plan does not come together.

Don't let one guy who does not like cats throw you off I thought the arrows aided your explanation. Use em when you need em.

No, mods do not seem to add much to load times. Some of us did some testing on this a while back: http://www.battlefront.com/community/showthread.php?t=103468

@BLSTK, yes, sigh

In a current scenario some of my men are moving behind the front.

Two GIs making their last stand. They were actually my opponents. My men were closing in on the town square but found their PzIVs could not enter. Since my infantry were in pretty bad shape they needed those tanks for support. The PzIVs pounded the outer buildings on two sides of the square and brought them down until they could bring their guns to bear on the inner buildings. The GIs almost held.

Oh I love having them along with an infantry assault. Any enemy that pops up really gets it when the 105 rolls up. They are my favorite Allied tank. I like to include one or two when I can too.

When I use covered arcs I usually use circular ones. I have had men burned too many times by arcs that were just slightly to narrow and so they did not engage the enemy. I switched to circular arcs and presto I am always happy. Well not always but more often:)

That is what their squad mates are for. I love the hail of bullets and all the ricochets that happen when a full squad opens up after a tank crew bails.

Lets be honest none of us are really waiting. I certainly am not. I have 11 PBEM games going at the moment.

Thanks for the explanation. It is still the single biggest request that I have: allow PBEM campaigns. Frankly I could put up with the file sizes but the fact that there are no PBEM campaigns means I do not play them. The one that I started remains half finished because it is just not as fun playing against the AI. Opening up campaigns to PBEM would be wonderful I would jump up and down for joy.

Hold on a minute. Are you saying you can play a campaign via PBEM? Last time this came up that was not possible. Let me know if that has changed.

I am pretty sure Steve has chimed in to say that they have plans to make this more flexible, with more options built in plus open it up to modders but they still have work to do to get there. Consider it to be a taste of even better things that are in the works.

I think after a while you get a feel for how long it takes for your men to move around. As a foot soldier I do not ever remember thinking about the time it would take me and my mates to traverse a field or get to the top of the hill. Estimating distances sure we *could* do that but frankly when we were just moving around why bother. It never occurred to me to care - in that context. I personally would love the whole battle replay but I agree that it should be pretty low on the priority list.

I think they have it right now. You used to be able to just run squads across open fields towards enemy MGs. And they would make it and take out the MGs. That just did not feel right at all. Always bugged me. An opponent just did that against me in 2.01. Only two guys made it across the rest were gunned down or ran back. And the two guys that made it were the furthest from the MG on the side of the field. Thankfully I have another team there that will deal with them. I pretty much wrecked that platoon's day with four guys - due to the MG42.

Two Shrek teams move to get a view on that Churchill tank at the farm. On the left a team takes a position so that if the tank moves forward they will be ready. On the right a team moves to the edge of the barn yard to get a view on the enemy tank from the side. Meanwhile the Stug moves back. Infantry catch up to the Panthers. The newly remounted Stug makes a break for the town. Several squads will open up on the Stuart. Another Achilles has wondered close to town. Since it is an opened topped TD my guys might get lucky. At the very least I expect it will scare off the TD.