Blowing up yourself!

[Neil aka Major Tum]

I played a quick game last night where I placed one of my Marder II's behind a House. From here I managed to knock out 3 Shermans! But when my 'Super' Marder began to target the 4th Sherman the red line went through the house. I was thinking perhaps the Marder was firing through two open windows?... Anyway the Marder fired, the shell obviuosly hit the house, and the explosion made the Marder crew abandon it!!! What happend???? Are the crew just stupid??? Any answers would help.

[rommel42]

I think it is just a glitch, but I have been able to fire thru buildings before...

[Neil aka Major Tum]

Didn't you blow up yourself though rommel42? Is there any particular way to do this as it a good technique?

[KG_Jag]

I haven't played CMBO for a while, but accidently blowing up nearby buildings certainly occurs in CMBB. Since the Marder is an open top AFV, blowing a building next to it can certainly cause crew casualities and/or cause the crew to bail. However, I will add that this type of event occurs more often when you are firing HE rounds.

[Neil aka Major Tum]

Totally agree, it probably was because the Marder doesn't have an enclosed turret.

- As it has been said before (on other threads) panthers/tigers aren't as robust as they should be; so thats why I choose Marders or Hetzers (because they are cheap and seem to last just as long)

[Sanok]

Originally posted by Neil:

I played a quick game last night where I placed one of my Marder II's behind a House. From here I managed to knock out 3 Shermans! But when my 'Super' Marder began to target the 4th Sherman the red line went through the house. I was thinking perhaps the Marder was firing through two open windows?... Anyway the Marder fired, the shell obviuosly hit the house, and the explosion made the Marder crew abandon it!!! What happend???? Are the crew just stupid??? Any answers would help.

This happened to me once, but with a Priest.

Panthers and Tigers are definitely not uber tanks in BO.

[Falcon988]

Heh, that's hilarious. Tanks can definately fire through buildings though. On the rare occassion that they can fire through a window and out another window to hit their target. Says so write there in the manual and I've seen it done before. This particular instance is either a glitch or... just chalk it up to crew error :-P. I imagine that's a hard shot and if they screw it up then that house is going to explode and take them out.