conquesodor

Wholeheartedly agree.

If I have my tank area target the ground for suppression purposes, it seems you can only target a very specific area. I wish you could tell a tank or MG to area fire in a line or larger radius the way you can with artillery - or at least I'm pretty sure that is the case?

I can see that cover arcs may help in some situations, but in others it is of very little use. If I have a Sherman 100 meters behind an advancing infantry squad, I want the tank to engage the MG42 that is spotted 500 meters away to their front, but not the enemy squad that appears just on the other side of the hedgerow from my guys. If both enemies are more or less to my front, than a cover arc would either include or exclude both units depending on how I set up the arc. LoS to enemies seems to frequently change from sighted to hidden and back again, in which case my tank commander often switches back and forth between shooting at the MG42 and the enemy squad. Because of the hedgerows, I seem to frequently discover an enemy squad only when I am almost on top of them. (I may be getting shot at, but unable to see where it is coming from.) Too often the "friendly" HE round lands right next to my infantry. :confused: Speaking of Cover Arcs, does anyone else miss the old cover arcs from the original CM's? I liked being able to set a cover arc for armor only. Why is this missing in CM:BN?

I'm not sure if this is a bug, or an intentional (or unintentional) consequence of the game mechanics. What I have seen a number of times is that my Sherman's will open fire with HE rounds on enemy infantry that are just on the opposite side of a hedgerow from friendly infantry. All too often the rounds miss their mark and hurt the friendly infantry. Shouldn't tank commanders be more cautious about choosing to fire HE when friendly units are so close to their target? If the tank has LoS to the enemies on the far side of the hedgerow, shouldn't he see the friendlies on his side of the hedge? Am I overestimating the ability of the tank commander to be aware of the exact location of friendly infantry? Even so, the commander should be aware that there is friendly infantry nearby and perhaps exercise more discretion? Thoughts? Ken