jim crowley Posted February 19, 2001 Share Posted February 19, 2001 Recent QB. Lone Piat team move across open ground towards scattered trees (to try and obtain a LoS to an enemy vehicle) Just short of the tree line they sight a foxhole; as they close on the foxhole they spot an enemy FO team in it. The Piat team carries on, moves into the same foxhole as the German observer team and then proceeds to target, fire at and knock-out the enemy vehicle. The two occupants of the foxhole (actually four) then proceed to stare at each other for the remainder of the turn. At the start of the next turn, the piat team is ordered to attack the FO. At virtually point-blank range (the unit bases are completely merged) it fires the piat and destroys the FO! The FO, in the meantime has done absolutely nothing. Unlikely or what? Don,t these folk have a pistol between them,or the sense to run away. And can you imagine loading a piat a few feet away from your enemy and then firing it, while they just sit and look at you. Realism seems to have departed in this instance. Cheers Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bozza Posted February 19, 2001 Share Posted February 19, 2001 Ah well, sh*t happens eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurtz Posted February 20, 2001 Share Posted February 20, 2001 One of my FOs called in a fire mission on an enemy squad 11 meters away when he was overrun. A salvo of 155 mm arrived 20 seconds later and killed everyone in the area, including the FO. Oh well, he would be dead soon anyway...but I was surprised when it happend ------------------ SS-Weihnachtsgrenadiere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJMello Posted February 20, 2001 Share Posted February 20, 2001 Kurtz, if that happened today he would be a hero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
:USERNAME: Posted February 20, 2001 Share Posted February 20, 2001 Thats nothing. I had a priest enter into a circle of german squads. It decides to ignore the rain of hand grenades that are flying through the air. It chases a german platoon HQ in a circle. The platoon HQ left its foxhole and ran in a complete circle till it got back to the foxhole. The priest finally lines up a shot on the foxhole and knocks itself out at point blank range! I watched a couple of times and it was not a hand grenade from the germans but the 105mm HE KO'd the priest! The plat HQ was unharmed. It was too wierd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanonier Reichmann Posted February 20, 2001 Share Posted February 20, 2001 Originally posted by :USERNAME:: Thats nothing. I had a priest enter into a circle of german squads. It decides to ignore the rain of hand grenades that are flying through the air. It chases a german platoon HQ in a circle. The platoon HQ left its foxhole and ran in a complete circle till it got back to the foxhole. The priest finally lines up a shot on the foxhole and knocks itself out at point blank range! I watched a couple of times and it was not a hand grenade from the germans but the 105mm HE KO'd the priest! The plat HQ was unharmed. It was too wierd. Hey... nothing weird about that! Imagine if you will that the Priest commander requested permission from his superior to hunt down that nasty German platoon command group he has spotted. The superior replies "sure, knock yerself out". Unfortunately the commander of the Priest took him literally! Regards Jim R. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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