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I had a recent game of FB in which an abandoned Panther was destroyed by a US backpack flamethrower. I think it was upstairs (the Flamethrower, not the Panther). Is that still a rarity or is it easier in the 4.0 Engine? Do the hatches all being open make any difference? I'm just curious.

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It's a lot easier when the crew have already abandoned the tank. If I remember correctly, the tank didn't cook off immediately. I had to spray it down a couple times?!? It was in Final Blitzkrieg so I don't know what the FT vs AFV rules are. There was A LOT of fire going on but the FT was somewhat protected in a building very close. The flamethrower was using incindiary paint ball (IPB) ammunition.

If I remember I had to Target the vehicle with the flamethrower and it was not an insta-kill. All it's hatches were open. Should have been easy, but I don't think that's how it works. The Crew had already skiddadled.

Lucky!!! Next time I'm in the UK I'm going to time it with one of those events in which they drive a bunch of different tanks around a circle. My wife would love to go to one (or avoid it completely)

And don't even get me started on German Half-track variants!

But can a King Tiger bounce hits from a JS-II?

No wonder we couldn't kill it! We were using HEPB ammo!

Oye!

Yeah. Me too.

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I'll be doggone! Did I look at a previous version of the manual or did I completely miss that? Does that apply to AAA as well as SAMs?

Here is a Panther I just could not kill, let alone double kill. I had a couple of hull down Shermans. I'll let you guess which ones. (Actually, one of them moved up and is just right of the big cat.) and we pounded away at this thing (prolly around 100m) until the crew finally bailed. The tank was not dead so we pounded on it some more. Brought a flamethrower up that finally killed it. But disappointingly didn't set it on fire. So I'm guessing nodes to the left front and right front of a Panther are pretty tough.

I looked over the Engine 4 manual and I couldn't find a single thing about AAA and SAMs being degraded by EW. This is probably something that needs to be addressed by the developers, don't you think @BFCElvis?

Ok. Makes sense. I'll try that. I'm surprised you don't get more help desk tickets with this problem.

Bose QC II and Sony WH-1000XM3 Also Windows 10 on a i7 Razer laptop, i9-9900K and i7-11700K desktops.

I use wireless headphones a lot when playing Combat Mission. My headphones shut off after 30min if not used. I've found that the game locks up when loading if no sound device is present. I've verified this on multiple computers, multiple sound devices and multiple versions of Combat Mission. Can this bug be fixed?

Does the EW environment affect aircraft or is it solely for communications? If no EW is present in a game, do aircraft have their own EW value? Aircraft loss rates should be reduced in high EW environments (in my humble, but correct, opinion).

I love AAA Gatling vehicles. They hammer everything in CM. If you were to replace the main gun on an M1 Abrams with those Gatling cannons , then let it pivot up 90+ degrees and add an armored ammo cart behind it, I think you might have a Mk. 1.0 Bolo (or maybe a Mk. 0.5). The cannons don't kill tanks, but they blind them. They chew up APCs and I won't even mention what they do to infantry, poor bastards. They are a must have for clearing out city blocks. But as was mentioned before, their Achilles heal is their ammo supply. I once used a 1/2 dozen of them to help defend a town against an attack/assault QB. I was doing great until some enemy helicopters showed up. Dang AAA shot down all the helos and used up practically all of their ammo. There went my uber-defense. Lost the battle, but did I ever make the enemy pay for it.

Not to worry. Just uber-nerd knowledge from an Avionics Test Engineer

Same here. On both points.

I left an 'n' off of Canon. The company is ITT Cannon. Then they got bought out by AMP, then TE Connectivity.

Love the circular canon plug (mil-std-38999) for power on the front!

Make tea! And here I thought they were completely useless!