SteppenWolf Posted December 8, 2003 Share Posted December 8, 2003 The british CS tanks that offer only smoke shells are almost useless in CMAK thanks to how the smoke command works. It is basically not possible to lay a smoke screen with one tank. Would it be possible to give us something like a smoke arc? It just makes no sense to have a tank fire all its stuff basically on one spot, even worst, smoke doesn't last long enough to create an arc of cover yourself. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKibler Posted December 8, 2003 Share Posted December 8, 2003 Originally posted by SteppenWolf: Would it be possible to give us something like a smoke arc? It just makes no sense to have a tank fire all its stuff basically on one spot, even worst, smoke doesn't last long enough to create an arc of cover yourself. Second the motion... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malakovski Posted December 8, 2003 Share Posted December 8, 2003 Might there be a way to tweak in a patch? Perhaps making the gun very inaccurate, or taking advantage of some other element of game mechanics already in place? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herr Kruger Posted December 8, 2003 Share Posted December 8, 2003 That is a good idea! If it were possible to implement this, I'd love to see it. With infantry being more fragile in CMBB and CMAK, it could help... J Kruger 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted December 8, 2003 Share Posted December 8, 2003 The same "fire arc" functionality would be much more urgent for MG fire, but it isn't going to happen this time. Lame man's approach is to keep the tank moving back and forth to ruin its accuracy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteppenWolf Posted December 8, 2003 Author Share Posted December 8, 2003 I didn't found it that serious for MG's but yes it would be nice. The thing with MG fire is they supress stuff close to impact anyhow and normaly I've enough of available mg power to cover an area... With smoke tanks this is a bit different. Of cause a cool idea would be something along the line: If you hold the shift key while having a target line it changes to an target arc regardless of what you fire... But I doubt I will see this in patch *LOL* 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mike Posted December 8, 2003 Share Posted December 8, 2003 Maybe smoke tanks being useless explains why they didn't stay smoke tanks for very long?? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Tittles Posted December 8, 2003 Share Posted December 8, 2003 It would be nice if there could multiple targets for area fire. This has been suggested before. For MG fire, a 10 second burst in each designated spot. For smoke, fire smoke for 10 seconds into each spot. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalem Posted December 8, 2003 Share Posted December 8, 2003 Originally posted by Mr. Tittles: It would be nice if there could multiple targets for area fire. This has been suggested before. For MG fire, a 10 second burst in each designated spot. For smoke, fire smoke for 10 seconds into each spot. The whole Area Fire modeling needs to be redone from the ground up, much like other aspects. It'll come with CM2. Until then attackers will remain handicapped, but it's workable. -dale 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted December 9, 2003 Share Posted December 9, 2003 Remember those small drums on the rear of the late T34/85 in CMBB? And notice those two small squares on the Churchill's lower-rear hull? Both are generating equipment for laying smoke. CM doesn't model smoke generators. Funny thing is, with the 'dust clouds' feature under their belt they'd probably be able to produce this feature nicely on the 4th go-around of the game engine... but they're discarding this game engine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow 1st Hussars Posted December 9, 2003 Share Posted December 9, 2003 Actually, the drums on the T-34 are fuel tanks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randomgeneric Posted December 9, 2003 Share Posted December 9, 2003 Yeah, I believe he's referring to the fact that fuel could be pumped into the exhaust system, which could create substantial smoke. Don't think that I've ever come across a reference where it was ever widely or even ever used in combat. But it shouldn't be much different than the dust as it's modelled now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWB Posted December 9, 2003 Share Posted December 9, 2003 Note that they are only marginally less useless in CMAK than they were IRL. WWB 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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