Abandoning Machine Guns?

[yuvuphys]

Is it possible to have crews abandon their machine guns? If I have a line of defenders pull back, sometimes the HMG's take so long pulling back they get routed or immobilized and get slaughtered rather than leave their gun and run.

[flamingknives]

No.

Apparently this will change in the next game, but with CMX1, (current set of games) you're stuck with it.

[Tigrii]

Very rarely, the last crew member of an immobilized gun will abandon it. You cannot deliberately abandon guns.

[MeatEtr]

Originally posted by Tigrii:

Very rarely, the last crew member of an immobilized gun will abandon it. You cannot deliberately abandon guns.

A whole gun crew can abandon under enough fire and especially if it's a green or conscript crew. But yeah, i think your right, if theres only 1 guy left, recieving no fire from the enemy, can just abandon the gun on his own accord.

Now ive seen the last guy of a immobilized MG surrender very easily, even when my forces aren't even all that close. Then shortly after, he stops surrendering and becomes the enemy(targetable) again. Which now becomes a moveable 1 man MG, but can't fire. The MG is useless basically, but it's ID shows a mobile 1 man MG thats not captured. Hmm, makes me wonder, do you still get points for once captured troops that you don't have control of at the end?

[ March 12, 2005, 01:13 PM: Message edited by: MeatEtr ]

[securityguard]

Originally posted by MeatEtr:

do you still get points for once captured troops that you don't have control of at the end?

99.9% sure you don't. Keep those POW's secure!