is backing up a good un-bogging practice?

[Daniel Prates]

Well... what the title says. 

I've done some experimenting with bogged down vehicles; if I read my 'usually hapless' tutorials right, bogged vehicles will try to free themselves and become either free or permanently immobilized. There is not much indication however on what is the best thing to actually do (as in, interact with the game mechanics) to increase chances of freeing the vehicle. 

Then I experimented with the reverse order. Boy, it could be coincidence or perhaps I stumbled on a tip, but indeed it feels more 'frequent' to get them free, if I cancel whichever order the vehicle had, and order a reverse nearby (straight behind of where the vehicle is). 

Coincidence, or proven method? 

[Combatintman]

Apparently coincidence according to a thread of many many many years ago which I cannot find.  However, what you do in your description above is exactly what I do when my vehicles bog.  Sometimes I get lucky, sometimes I don't.

[Brille]

This topic goes as far back as Cmx1 itself but I stand with my opinion :

It is more for the feels and does nothing significant. 

You see that the driver of the vehicle starts his "unbogging" process right then when it gets stuck by turning the wheels/tracks back and forth. User movement input is blocked for the time being. 

 

It is hard to test this to either approve or disprove this. How often does a unit bog down? And from this instances how often do they free themselves? 

To be 100%sure we would need to have a programmer insight. 

But either way I say that your unit just got lucky in the "unbogging" process-dice roll and it has nothing to do with you putting it in reverse. 

[Holman]

Does cancelling the movement order help with the unbogging process at all? I have the impression that it does, but it might just be confirmation bias.

[Artkin]

5 hours ago, Holman said:

Does cancelling the movement order help with the unbogging process at all? I have the impression that it does, but it might just be confirmation bias.

I also feel like reversing offers a higher chance for unbogging but it might just be because of this. 

Thats if it even helps in the first place 

[Vinnart]

My experience has been plotting a short reverse then a slow forward unboggs most of the time.

[landser]

I've been playing Combat Mission for about 25 years and I don't think anyone has any clue about this. You're best off, I think, to treat it as entirely random. Pick any action, all are just as likely to have the same result, or any other result for that matter. Go slow, go fast, back up, bail out, twist it all about. You'll bog or not entirely due to the whims of the bog god. And the bog god, may she smile upon you.

[Vergeltungswaffe]

It's been many years ago, but I really feel like Steve said there was nothing you could do to increase your chance to escape from being bogged, so unless I bog in LOS of danger, I typically just let it sit there.

[chuckdyke]

I just do what I would do in real life. Tie a cable around a tree or any other object and use the winch. Oh I don't think this is modelled.