Bobhorn Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Been playing Tiger Valley PBEM, and forgot I guess to un- and re-button my Tigers. My genius Elite Tiger TC unbuttons toward the end of the round, 3 seconds later a shot rings out, the TC screams, the crew stats show 4ok,1 cas, "shocked", the turn ends. Next turn, it's still "shocked", but the crew count is 5?!?!? Anybody ever see this before? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParaBellum Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 The crew AI doesn't open the hatches by themselves. This feature has been added, AFAIK, already in one of the patches for CMBB. And no, I never encountered the situation you describe. Yould you post the PBEM file? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobhorn Posted January 20, 2006 Author Share Posted January 20, 2006 What do you mean, post the file? Where, and how? Or, I'd be glad to mail the two turns and the password to you if you'd like..., back to work for right now though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Jochen, I think they do open for themselves if you leave them unattended. (It was different in CMBO - once you made the AI tanks button, they remained virtually blind to the end of the battle.) To be sure they keep inside you must button them up in that turn's order phase - unbutton and re-button if they started the turn buttoned up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParaBellum Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Ah, you're right, Sergei. They changed it so that the crew AI doesn't unbutton after you told them to close the hatches. Bobhorn, I meant to upload the file to some kind of webspace and post a link. For example, a free webhost is http://www.rapidshare.de/ Or you could send me the file and I would host it on my webspace. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David I Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 TC's will unbutton automatically to a default unbottoned status. You should button every plot for tanks that you want to remain buttoned up. David 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Note, though, that the buttoning effect lasts only for a limited period - they WILL eventually open up automatically. But not within a minute of manual buttoning. (damn you, David!!!) Before the patch, they could open up already during the same turn. Which wasn't fun when your tanks were in the middle of a mortar barrage. What is fun, however, is the start of Battlestar Galactica (the new version) in Finnish tv tonight. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParaBellum Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Originally posted by Sergei: What is fun, however, is the start of Battlestar Galactica (the new version) in Finnish tv tonight. Must...resist...urge...to...nuke...Finland. :mad: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfish Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Originally posted by Bobhorn: Next turn, it's still "shocked", but the crew count is 5?!?!? Anybody ever see this before? What you witnessed is the crew deploying the emergency TC, much like the emergency auto-pilot in "Airplane". This was an experimental feature first tried out in Tunisia. The early models consisted of an inflatable figure, complete with intercom, but they were soon replaced with a wooden head and upper torso mounted on a pole. Every once in a great while you will see one being sold on E-bay. Richie is the scenairo designer for "Tiger Valley". I suggest you e-mail him and ask if he has either the inflatable or wooden E-TC feature added to the scenario. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobhorn Posted January 21, 2006 Author Share Posted January 21, 2006 Okay, here's the links, the first file is the movie, watch Lt. Bertrams, at the end of the turn he unbuttons and is hit. In the next turn, the orders turn, you can see he's apparently recovered rather nicely. http://rapidshare.de/files/11463868/CMAK_TigerValley_058.txt.html http://rapidshare.de/files/11464024/CMAK_TigerValley_060.txt.html And the password is bobhorn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobhorn Posted January 21, 2006 Author Share Posted January 21, 2006 BTW Kingfish, that was too funny, I got a good chuckle out of that 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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