danfrodo Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 hey all, anyone seen this behavior before:? -- I am on battle #4 of Blunting the Spear. I called for smoke from 105mm howitzers, but the shells seem get swallowed. Tiny little impact and zero smoke. Like shells landed in soup. But it's open, dry field. conditions are dry. Any ideas? W/o smoke I am in a bit of a bind for sure. Can't approach the objectives due to SU76 & T34s hidden in the village areas. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George MC Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 (edited) You’ve not got smoke toggled off have you? ALT-K Edited November 24, 2019 by George MC 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danfrodo Posted November 24, 2019 Author Share Posted November 24, 2019 There's such a thing? I don't even know where I would've done that. where is that? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danfrodo Posted November 24, 2019 Author Share Posted November 24, 2019 oh, there it is, alt-k. I must've accidently hit this. Thanks, that fixes it. Didn't even know it existed 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George MC Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 17 minutes ago, danfrodo said: oh, there it is, alt-k. I must've accidently hit this. Thanks, that fixes it. Didn't even know it existed My pleasure. Worth noting there is a wide range of hot keys that can toggle stuff on or off. The combos are in the manual but worth being aware off. As I have discovered myself when I inadvertently toggled off smoke myself a while back. Easy done. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danfrodo Posted November 24, 2019 Author Share Posted November 24, 2019 I know about the hotkey panel, somehow I just never noticed that one. classic, something right in front of me for years and never saw it. While I've got your attention, if you could ask the russians to not occupy all the buildings in the village objectives it would also be a great help. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George MC Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 He! I’d love to. But... Orders is orders 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danfrodo Posted November 24, 2019 Author Share Posted November 24, 2019 those awful soviet SMGs..... and just had artillery strike land shells in two full halftracks. Ouch. very lucky strike because it must've been plotted before the smoke blocked all view to the area. germans have so little infantry in 1944, losing even a couple sections really hurts. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George MC Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 1 hour ago, danfrodo said: those awful soviet SMGs..... and just had artillery strike land shells in two full halftracks. Ouch. very lucky strike because it must've been plotted before the smoke blocked all view to the area. germans have so little infantry in 1944, losing even a couple sections really hurts. Ouch! Yup SPW units are not very resilient when it comes to losing dismounts. From what I can ascertain they took heavier than average losses I guess mainly due to their role and, if a SPW is hit you can lose a lot of men. I don’t know if you’ve come across Military History Visualized on YouTube? Has some great videos regarding use and deployment of panzergrenadier and panzers from primary sources. If nothing else will make you feel better about taking losses! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Combatintman Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 6 hours ago, danfrodo said: I know about the hotkey panel, somehow I just never noticed that one. classic, something right in front of me for years and never saw it. While I've got your attention, if you could ask the russians to not occupy all the buildings in the village objectives it would also be a great help. Don't feel bad - this type of thing most often happens with turning off trees, I've fallen foul of that on a number of occasions - thinking 'why is LOS so cr@p on this map?' I got three quarters of the way through testing one of the CMFB campaign missions with trees turned off before I realised my mistake. Luckily I had that facepalm moment before I had given feedback to the author which would have been … the map has serious issues. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landser Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 14 hours ago, Combatintman said: trees turned off before I realised my mistake I'd be shocked if every CM'er hadn't fallen afoul of this. I sure have. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanL Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 A classic mistake. Only a few people can claim not to have had this problem but they are the ones that it happened to and they managed to figure it out before they posted to the forum 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danfrodo Posted November 25, 2019 Author Share Posted November 25, 2019 Thanks for that tip GeorgeMC, now subscribe to the miltary history visualized channel. Good stuff. Now, can you get the russians to run away so I don't have to lose half my infantry digging them out of the villages? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warts 'n' all Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 I've done it with "Smoke" a few times. But it's never been a problem with the trees as I never toggle them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George MC Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 16 hours ago, danfrodo said: Thanks for that tip GeorgeMC, now subscribe to the miltary history visualized channel. Good stuff. Now, can you get the russians to run away so I don't have to lose half my infantry digging them out of the villages? Just use tonnes of HE! Nice one - MilHisVis is a brilliant channel and he - Bernard - also has one Military History non-visualized which is less graphic heavy but still useful info. If you are on twitter he's pretty active there too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landser Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 On 11/25/2019 at 12:48 PM, Warts 'n' all said: But it's never been a problem with the trees as I never toggle them. Shocked I tell ya. That didn't take long 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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