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  1. Bulletpoint
    Ok, so that's a strong Russian tank compared to weak German armour at the time. How is this tactically different from playing Commonwealth forces and going up against German panthers?
  2. Bulletpoint
    Thanks for the answer. Sounds interesting. I never played CM1, and I don't think I played any other early war game.
  3. Bulletpoint
    Honest question: What is it about the early war that makes it more epic or interesting than the late war? Germany had smaller tanks, no Panthers or Tigers in 1941, but in Combat Mission, its still going to be scenarios where you have some tanks and some infantry and try to defeat a defense consisting of tanks and AT guns and infantry. What's the big deal with the early war?
  4. Bulletpoint
    This is an inherent problem with Combat Mission being a game that involves Humans who have motivations for playing that are not always consistent with reality. Yes, I realise it's very difficult to really do something about it. The best idea I can come up with is to be able to put a unit in a cautious state, like a pause order where the tank stays where it is until it detects enemy rounds passing close by, and then carries out the next move order (which could be a reverse order to back down out of sight). Like a conditional pause. For a tank, that would mean staying in place until under AT fire, and for an infantry team or forward observer, it would be until taking any kind of fire. Just an idea. I understand you don't want to make too many micromanagement options.
  5. Bulletpoint
    FWIW I don't see it as just a lab experiment. It's a situation that happens in pretty much every WeGo game involving at least one Panther tank.
  6. Bulletpoint
    I love the WeGo system, but part of it is also because the turn based mode forces players to either let their tank sit for a full minute and get pummelled, hoping to get a spot and a shot off during that time, or to guess how many seconds are needed to spot and shoot - which is impossible to estimate, since so many variables are at play. So you end up with tanks staying up too long, taking too many hits, or you have your tank reverse back in cover just before it was about to shoot. In real life (or playing real-time mode), the tank crew decides what is the optimal time to spot, shoot, and scoot. This is not an attack on the WeGo mode, but just some reflections.
  7. Bulletpoint
    What's the last time anyone got frustrated with CM because it was too realistic? I'm only seeing people asking for more realism, not less. Many special weapons in the game are already inaccurate, which is realistic and makes people perfectly happy. Who ever complained his rifle grenades or Panzerfausts miss half the time?
  8. Bulletpoint
    Yep. This is also correct. sometimes the game does try to show the angle of the impacting round by stretching the hit decal a bit in some direction, but it seems it gets the direction wrong sometimes.
  9. Bulletpoint
    If you see a hole, it means there was a penetration at that location. If it was a partial penetration, then the hole is smaller than for a regular penetration.
  10. Bulletpoint
    Thanks a lot. Finally a pic of a barrel penetration that came from the front arc. So it can actually happen. Not sure exactly what angle it came in at, but it's clear it wasn't from a 90 degree side shot. What shell size would you say made this hole?
  11. Bulletpoint
    Thanks for digging up all those numbers. Does any of those books include any pictures of a barrel penetration coming from the front? I think that's the important part here.
  12. Bulletpoint
    Also, when hull-down at close range, you lose the valuable spotting power of the two guys in the hull. They spot quite well at short ranges. But at 1500m, spotting will be more dependent on the optics of the turret, so it doesn't matter as much if the driver has LOS.
  13. Bulletpoint
    Also, it depends on range. At close ranges (500m), the enemy tank will spot you and start placing rounds on your turret very quickly even if you're hull down, so that's also a hull up choice for me.
  14. Bulletpoint
    If I played real-time mode, that's what I would do. But I play in turn based mode, so I have to find a balance between the chance to spot and hit the enemy tank and my own tank's survivability. For Shermans, that means hull down - for Panthers, it means hull up. At least that's my take on it.
  15. Bulletpoint
    You don't need to put it simpler, because we already understand this quite well. Nobody here is arguing that we want to sit in one position for a long time and shrug off hits.
  16. Bulletpoint
    Kind of funny you would say that, just after you said:
  17. Bulletpoint
    Good explanation. Also, the tank sights might not be perfectly calibrated, so even if you did manage to line up the sight at exact centre mass, you might still be a bit off. I think this would also depend on the distance to the target.
  18. Bulletpoint
    Good post, +1
  19. Bulletpoint
    I think you are misunderstanding a bit here. It's the other way around: I don't want that my Panther should be invincible when I place it on a hilltop in full view. I prefer that the game reward me for playing tactically correct and going hull down, instead of punishing me for it.
  20. Bulletpoint
    Actually he doesn't have much of a point, because the original poster asked for a feature like the Graviteam games have. And those games have just as complex LOS calculations as Combat Mission, with each individual crewmember spotting, etc. You can even toggle on a mode that shows you which vision slit each of the crew is looking out of at any given moment. Yet Graviteam also has a feature to draw a map of the total field of view of any given unit.
  21. Bulletpoint
    Nobody here is assuming that, Mikey. Please read the thread instead of assuming basic incompetence.
  22. Bulletpoint
    I agree with you. Just trying to help mentioning a couple of the things that can cause this to happen. Another thing is that the unseen tank seems to be in a ditch - possibly giving it a higher chance to remain unseen.
  23. Bulletpoint
    There's an element of chance to spotting. It's perfectly possible to have LOS to two tanks and only spot one of them. Then later lose sight of that one and spot the other, etc. Also, it can be because there is foliage blocking the LOS to the second tank. It's not really clear from your video, because we only see the receiving end.
  24. Bulletpoint
    Just for the record, I'm fine with the game not being perfect. I'm just trying to help it improve. When I report bugs and discuss various issues, it is not an insult or attack on the developers or anyone on this forum. I'm happy to be proven wrong - when I am in fact wrong - but it needs to be based on actual arguments, not just assuming I don't know how to play the game.
  25. Bulletpoint
    How is having a calm discussion about how the game works "being a jerk"? Do you think anything will improve if nobody dares to discuss the game? If you want to be of any value in this thread, try to read the many constructive posts made by RobZ and others, where they provide data from actual tests of what happens in various situations.
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