JeffRaider Posted June 13, 2000 Share Posted June 13, 2000 From the excellent www.gamesofwar.de <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR> - the rifle squads provide decent firepower at close range (up to 100 meters), but it drops off significantly beyond that. Please note that one man alone (the BAR gunner) provides roughly 10%, 25%, 33%, 50% of firepower at 40m, 100m, 250m and 500m respectively. Watch out for squads which lost their BAR gunner - their combat effectiveness is highly reduced! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Now, what I'm wondering is when that BAR gunner will die. I know that in CM every man dies before the Squad Leader, but is there any kind of method to it? Is it just a bottom -up sort of list, killing off all rifles before BAR, then BAR before leader, or what? Is it random? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrD Posted June 13, 2000 Share Posted June 13, 2000 My understanding is that casualties are randomly distributed among available squad weapons BUT if a support weapon is taken out there is a random chance that someone else will pick it up. Therefore support weapons tend to be among the last weapons lost but not necessarily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted June 14, 2000 Share Posted June 14, 2000 Exactly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juju Posted June 14, 2000 Share Posted June 14, 2000 BTW, awesome site, Moon. One of the best!! ------------------ Combat Axiom 46. Do unto others, before they do unto you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guachi Posted June 14, 2000 Share Posted June 14, 2000 Moon, would you be at all interested in my Excel graphs which have ooddles of firepower over range for various squads. I've got the info sorted on all types of variables. You might find it interesting for inclusion or use for analyzing squads/platoons. There are several people, including Fionn, with various earlier incarnations and I think they found it interesting. In fact I open this up to anyone that wants the info. If anyone wants the spreadsheet file, I'd be happy to e-mail it to you. Expect a full blown Excel spreadsheet with about 100+ graphs for general consumption once the game is in my grubby little hands. I, personally, find the graphs very interesting. And there is an old thread wandering around somewhere with my analysis of squads... Maybe I can find it with a search. My searchonauts did not let me down. Found the thread in about two minutes. Firing Ranges Linearity Jason ------------------ Betas available to everyone are just publicity stunts anyways. -FK [This message has been edited by guachi (edited 06-14-2000).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted June 14, 2000 Share Posted June 14, 2000 Jason - very interesting stuff In fact, I had that thread saved on my harddisk. When you receive the full version and are willing to write something up, I'll be happy to put it on www.gamesofwar.de . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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