Using Abandoned / Knocked Out Vehicles As Cover For Infantry

[Col Deadmarsh]

I did a search and found a thread back in January on this issue which seemed to state that vehicles didn't offer any kind of advantage at all to infantry hiding behind it (although one poster disagreed.)

Has the opinion on this changed? Has anyone found that infantry hiding behind "dead" vehicles receive an advantage of some kind?

[Nippy]

I just ran a test using the mission editor. The only way you can use tanks as "cover" is if they are knocked out and burning. The smoke plume blocks LOS and the TAC-AI (or a human player for that matter) is unable to target the infantry squad.

[John Kettler]

Nippy is correct, and BFC has said so explicitly. Neither CMBO nor CMBB supports dynamic cover, the computation load being too great. Am praying dynamic cover will be in CMX2, the new game engine.

Regards,

John Kettler

[Steppe Butcher]

Many exciting WW2 newsreel shots show tanks advancing with friendly infantry following huddled close behind each vehicle for cover,and its a pity AFVs give no such cover in cmbb so we could simulate that tactic.

[Bergerbitz]

I tried andvancing my infantry right behind my tanks a few times and discovered the tanks do provide more of a distraction to the AI rather than serving as real cover for my troops.

Almost every gun on the map was aimed at my tanks and left the following infantry alone (for the most part). But when the tanks were KO'ed my infantry took a lickin'.

No.. ah reckon it weren't a sound tactic, but ah had to try.