SpineRipper Posted January 29, 2003 Share Posted January 29, 2003 Did a search under flame Thrower(FT), didnt find a diffinitave yes or no . The question is, in CMBB can you take out AFV's with a FT. Looking more in the realm of taking out medium to heavy tanks with the old trusty fire gun . Has anyone had success kill Armour this way??? :confused: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soddball Posted January 29, 2003 Share Posted January 29, 2003 Oh yes, plenty of success. I have put together a scenario which will let you try it out in ideal conditions for flamethrower units. It's playable vs the AI. If you're interested in a copy, drop me a line. Edited to correct sucky spelling caused by shortage of sleep and excess of caffeine. [ January 29, 2003, 05:39 AM: Message edited by: Soddball ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engel Posted January 29, 2003 Share Posted January 29, 2003 Basically, ambushes or urban terrain, especially at night, are the best conditions for brewing up tanks with FT's (under any other circumstances the FT unit would be likely routed/eliminated before it gets within range). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindan Posted January 29, 2003 Share Posted January 29, 2003 you can get any tank with an FT. depends on terrain how likely it is . FT with covered arc&hiding and tank buttoned up helps. if you have to move to get the tank... spotted=dead. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fly Pusher Posted January 29, 2003 Share Posted January 29, 2003 Originally posted by Soddball: Edited to correct sucky spelling caused by shortage of sleep and excess of caffeine. I've always wondered what the cause of my sucky spelling was. And here was I thining it might have something to do with my 1970's comprehensive education... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mies Posted January 29, 2003 Share Posted January 29, 2003 I got a T-34 fried from under my over confident ass only 3 days ago. It went up like a christmas tree scorched by a flammenwerfer. Mies 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monty's Double Posted January 29, 2003 Share Posted January 29, 2003 Played a QB against the AI last week set to heavy woods. Gave myself infantry and the AI Armour. By some fluke, the woods left only a keyhole 2 tiles wide from the armour to get through. The bottleneck was 100m beyond my setup zone so I moved 2 TH teams with RPG grenades and a flamethrower to the edges of the neck, thinking I might get a couple of tanks before his infantry got me. An antire platoon (5) of Mk IVs and two heavy ACs obligingly blundered through the gap unescorted and were wiped out to the last. The flamthrower got one AC and two tanks. This cut the AI's morale down so badly that his infantry meandered around in the woods without contacting the rest of my defence, so the rest of my forces never got a whiff. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neuer Art Posted January 29, 2003 Share Posted January 29, 2003 I once played a homemade scenario (if that's what "QB" means??) where I ended up with a Wehrmacht flamethrower team hidden in a foxhole, at the edge of some tall pines with a 30-meter arc laid down on a narrow corridor between the pines and a roadblock. There were no other friendly units in the vicinity or even with a LOS to the spot - it was more of a last-ditch defense than anything. I was tending to another part of the battlefield at one point during the game, and returned to the FT team, finding to my surprise that the team was unhidden, with a SU-122 blazing merrily in the corridor, flank exposed to the FT team. So yes, FT's can work if you can site them to make efficient use of their limited range. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpineRipper Posted January 29, 2003 Author Share Posted January 29, 2003 Good new's for me thank guys. Im in a battle right now where I thought that all I had left was the fuzzy end of the lolly pop. But now thiers still a chance I can get some pay back. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stingray Posted January 30, 2003 Share Posted January 30, 2003 Originally posted by Soddball: Oh yes, plenty of success. I have put together a scenario which will let you try it out in ideal conditions for flamethrower units. It's playable vs the AI. If you're interested in a copy, drop me a line. Edited to correct sucky spelling caused by shortage of sleep and excess of caffeine. Please send me a copy at: willielapus@yahoo.com This scenario seems interesting !!! Thanks, 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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