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Well that's frustrating - it was marked as fixed - I have reopened it. Not sure if it got reintroduced in 4 or was never fixed. I know I never retested it so I am not sure. Anyway it is back in the queue.

Yeah, I especially didn't like it when they started naming all the attack carriers after Presidents and members of Congress.

You can't really go wrong with a name like Achilles.  Hell the namesake ship was involved in running down Graf Spee.  In the company of Ajax no less.  The British navy is sooo much better with names than US.
 

Is it just me, or is the Achilles like, wicked cool?
Like, mega ultra mondo cool?

The cool thing about this game is how so much of the mechanics are hidden.
The frustrating thing about this game is how so much of the mechanics are hidden.
 
The only way to tell would be to run 100 to 1,000 tests of a three-walled structure (set it up like that in the editor) vs. the same target and shooter with a structure with the wall demolished.
After 1,000 iterations of each (remember, same-same for all tests: shooters and targets), you'll have an idea.
Let us know.

I don't know. Like so many things in the game, it's sometimes difficult to distinguish between how the game actually works and how you think it works, based on how you think it should work.

US Paras crest the ridge adjacent to an Waffen SS occupied stone building.
 
The darkness and the smoke screen help with the surprise assault.

Meijel Mayhem

Bil lost a bet in the Beta tester club to Ken and in doing so was required to take on a totally unfair fight publicly.  Ken is lucky, you should have seen what was required if Bil had won the bet.

If what I read earlier in one of these threads - more frequent updates with less in each - then I will be happier.  As it is I've stopped playing CM games till the fix for running away from a perfectly good defensive position to stand in the open a few feet away issue is fixed.  I didn't want to revert back a release since that is usually a pain to keep straight.  Any other developer taking a year and  half to fix that would go on my never buy from again but BF has enough goodwill stored up that I'm still buying the next game ASAP.

As one who is not currently playing CM (all games still on my machines), I still stop by to see what's happening, so it has been very gratifying to see the information about upcoming releases. "When it's done" has always worked for me as a release date but that doesn't offset my desire for information about the development of releases. So thanks to Steve for the recent information and thanks to all the developers and the betas for this truly remarkable family of games. Now, about CM3...

Has the old "scarecrow" bug returned ?

Just to clarify that work was all @MikeyD

One of us forgot to say sorry?

Remind me why we are crucifying the Canadians..   

One thing I've picked up reading first hand solider accounts (particularly from the western Allies perspective) is that every sudden rifle shot firing from an ambush seems to be a sniper. There's no mention in these accounts if these soldiers followed up and found the 'sniper' and scoped rifle or even confirming the bullet impact was exerienced before hearing the shot signifying very long range.
Many of the nations also didn't really have unique and dedicated sniper rifles like modern militaries. The Germans with their scoped K98's, the Commonwealth with their scoped Lee Enfields. More a designated marksman.
In terms of an infantry only affair, it would be a good investigation for some historian to look into claims of coming under fire from a sniper rather than some regular rifleman waiting in ambush. When you're on the receiving it's really not the front of your mind when the bullet zips over your head. :) It's sort of like every rifle shot must be a 'sniper' like every German tank was a 'Tiger.'

Not really...  Those of us who have been fans of BF for 20 years know that this is the way things are with a small company... and as Chris said... "I personally prefer nebulous shipping dates with quality products released rather than firm shipping dates with buggy releases requiring endless patches.".

It is sad about DiCaprio.  Never knew he used a quill.

I considered that but apart from being unsporting I have had many bad experiences with C2s facing T72s so I didn't think it would necessarily end in my favour.
 
And that's one important aspect of what happened.
 
Close meaning close to you? My thoughts on that were that the open area would make it hard for me to withdraw over after you took Star Hill. I figured I had a chance to get back from Snake Ridge but no way anyone was going to get back from Start Hill. So instead I decided to dominate that ground from key hole positions in the village.

I guess that was a small surprise then.
My dismounted teams on this ridge gave me a huge amount of information on what was going on. I am curious to see if they were spotted at all. They never took any fire so I figured they were not.

Interesting. Meanwhile I was expecting you to come over the top Also interesting that my tank was not positively ID'ed from its MG fire.
So cool reading your AAR...

Yep TRP. coming in at the 5min mark was just a coincidence. I was thrilled that a mortar call using a TRP comes in in under a minute. I am also happy to see that it had the desired effect.

That's actually a good question because my FOW icons are not normally tactical but are the in game ones restyled to match the look of the other ones. @Bil Hardenberger has a good point though unless the light and heavy armour icons are on screen at the same time it is nearly impossible to tell what you are looking at. I'm going to have to test that.
 
Thanks @IICptMillerII I believe you helped me test those. They were based on my CMBS icons I forget how much tweaking was needed - or not.
 
I have not even tested them out yet. It's on the list....

Interesting note on this one. It was an AT LAV (TOW) that did this. Over at the village objective I had two Leos and two AT LAVs. The Leos were in key hole positions but had lots of additional choice locations but the LAVs were supposed to be just hiding. Exposing light armoured vehicles when you don't know what is coming and from where is a bad idea. But it turns out those little one story buildings are *not* actually enough to hide behind. So when the missile flew I was just as surprised as you were.
After that I tweaked the position of the other LAV (it was behind a two story building) so it could peak around the corner and get eyes on the area to your right of the farm. He actually got the second TOW kill.

Straight out of @Bil Hardenberger's lessons from the previous AAR. I have been doing a pretty good job at positioning armour for a while now but I spent too much time just parked in the same good place. Not this time. After seeing Bil so expertly handle his armour in the previous AAR I resolved to make a better effort.
 
Yeah, I copied the master. Imitation is the sincerest form or flattery.