Has 4.0 made the stock campaigns unplayable?
I was two thirds of the way through playing a mission from Conrath's Counterattack. I forget which number mission but it's the one where the Germans have to fight their way up a valley and capture the crossroads. I had been blasting away at the American foxholes for what seemed like an eternity with machine gun fire and tank 50mm and 75mm HE. Progress was tough and slow. Within five turns of upgrading to engine 4.0 all the American troops had fled and I was able to just amble up and take the cro
It appears there's room for improvement, for sure.
When artillery comes in soldiers make a decision about what to do OR they panic. If they make a decision it is EITHER to hunker down and ride it out where they are, or relocate to some place else. Engine 4 introduced new behavior that allows soldiers to do the latter to an extent never before seen in CM. It seems that there's some situations where the new behavior (relocate) is getting triggered when the old behavior (hunker) might be