Zimtstern

I recently saw some videos about CM praising it highly for it realism and tactical gameplay so I gave it a shot. There I noticed some strange behaviour: Spotting seems to be somewhat broken. Units more than once dont see things right in front of them even when others right next to them or in worse positions can see them. Horrible marksmenship on all ranges. It almost seems like my units find it more important to get many shots close enough to the enemy than actually putting them in danger of getting hit. Especially on closest ranges this leads to spectacullar fireworks with slow conclusions looking more often than not really funny. When units get suppressed their accurcy starts to drop greatly which isnt strange. Strange is that this goes even for mounted weapons which should be a stable firing platform and battle hardend troops which should have engrained that their own fire is their best protection. Heavy suppression leads to cowering. Apparently CM simulates micro-terrain even when not shown which would explain why someone would cower in the open but again its strange why battle hardend troops would cower instead of merely ducking in cover and without appropiate cover return fire to protect themself. Units can get pinned in situations where it doesnt make sense. If I have a covered line of retreat but cant move because of enemy fire something not right. Can someone enlighten me whats the matter with that? For now I cannot see a realistic combat simulation but simply a game thats inspired by reality but artifically forces their ways of approach on you which are again inspired by reality but fails to let the game naturally conclude to them by trying to portray reality. Together with its aged game design but still very high pricing that could make you cry I dont see why this game is so praised.