FreeFrench Posted April 10, 2002 Share Posted April 10, 2002 Hi everyone !!! Foreword : Excuse my approximate english, if you don't ... No matter ! Maybe we'll meet someday on the battlefield .... CMBO is available in France (dark age Europe !!!) only for 2 weeks ago, so I'm green, and the french manual is not very clear about some questions. I have some questions about ambushes : - Assuming an AT team (Baz, Psk or AT gun) ambushing a crossroad, will this team fire on an unarmored target at the ambushed point, or will he wait an opportunity to fire an armored target ? - Same question if no contact ? Sound contact ? Or if a friendly unit has a line of sight on an armored target heading to the ambushed point, while an unarmored target is at the ambush point ? - At reverse, do a MG (unable to destroy it) will fire on a Tank, or wait for a fire opportunity on infantry ? - How to keep (if any ...) normal relationship with your wife since you discovered CMBO ???? Thanks to all of you for your incoming responses. Bye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thin Red Line Posted April 10, 2002 Share Posted April 10, 2002 Depends on what you call NORMAL relationship. If it's just about saying hello in the morning and good night before falling asleep there should be no problem. I think AT tank guns will fire at everything because they generally have HE. Shrecks and bazookas fire sometimes at soft targets. To be sure not to reveal their position for a not worthy target, place the ambush point very next to the team, so you are sure they will not fire unless somebody steps on them, hide it and target yourself after checking manually the killing chance (you can do that when plotting orders by using the target line ; it will show you for exeample Hit chances 80% Kill excellent _je ne sais pas comment c'est traduit dans la version francaise). Hope this helps Salut [ April 10, 2002, 11:39 AM: Message edited by: Thin Red Line ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wreck Posted April 10, 2002 Share Posted April 10, 2002 To clarify a bit: An ambush, set by any unit, will be "triggered" if any enemy unit is (a) in LOS of the unit with the ambush order, and ( within range (if I recall correctly, 20m) of the ambush point. I suspect that having other units see the enemy unit first will speed things up because of the "borg" sighting used in CM. Once the ambush is triggered, the ambushing unit will then fire at the unit which triggered it, *if* the type of unit is correct. Light AT weapons won't fire at infantry, typically, and infantry won't typically fire at tanks (unless the commander is exposed). Regardless of whether or not the ambushing unit fires, once it is triggered it is off ambush. It will generally keep firing at the triggering unit, just as if you had commanded it to target that unit manually. But if that unit is the wrong type, leaves LOS, is destroyed, moves out of range, etc, etc, then it will happily select some other unit anywhere in LOS to fire at. Sound contacts in CMBO never trigger any action from in-game units. Their only effect is to possibly trigger action from you, the player. As for your final question, there is no way to keep a normal relationship with a woman during the early phases of CM addition. Hopefully you chose one that is tolerant. One thing that will help is to start playing humans via email ASAP; this will make playing the AI much less interesting because the AI sucks compared to a human. Also, playing via email you will also find there are free hours all the time where you are waiting for your enemies to mail you; this time should be spend attentively on the lady. In any case, do *not* get sucked into TCP/IP play until you have gotten over the worst of the early addiction. It's available at all times, practically, takes all your attention for hours on end, and is even more addictive than email play! [ April 10, 2002, 11:59 AM: Message edited by: Wreck ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holien Posted April 10, 2002 Share Posted April 10, 2002 The answers given deal with most of your points. The last point is a cultural issue and depends on your nationality. Being British we have no problems retaining the normal relationship with the wife as these are cold. Our problem is retaining normal relationship with Girlfriends which is normally hot. The mid way stage is when your partner is your fiancee and a bit cold and a bit hot depending on how long it is in the engagement period. Good luck and may your French love not suffer. Well anymore than eating Garlic makes it suffer. Bonjour H Wink added to denote a jokey nature to all above... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pak40 Posted April 10, 2002 Share Posted April 10, 2002 Originally posted by FreeFrench: - Assuming an AT team (Baz, Psk or AT gun) ambushing a crossroad, will this team fire on an unarmored target at the ambushed point, or will he wait an opportunity to fire an armored target ? AT guns will fire upon any type of unit. This flaw will be fixed in CMBB. I think Bazookas and Panzershrecks will only fire on infantry if you give him a direct fire order on the infantry unit, however, the ambush may still be activated. Originally posted by FreeFrench: - Same question if no contact ? Sound contact ? Or if a friendly unit has a line of sight on an armored target heading to the ambushed point, while an unarmored target is at the ambush point ? The enemy unit has to be within 15-20 meters of the ambush marker to activate the ambush and the ambushing unit has to see the unit that is within 15-20 meters of the marker. Any type of unit can activate the ambush. Sound contacts will not activate an ambush, only visual contact. Originally posted by FreeFrench: - At reverse, do a MG (unable to destroy it) will fire on a Tank, or wait for a fire opportunity on infantry ? - How to keep (if any ...) normal relationship with your wife since you discovered CMBO ???? A MG will most likely fire upon the infantry only, unless the tank is unbuttoned. Define normal relationship Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klapton Posted July 16, 2002 Share Posted July 16, 2002 Do you know a woman that plays this game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fionn Posted July 16, 2002 Share Posted July 16, 2002 Several women play and post here. Some of them are even quite good and could hand most guys here their heads on a plate . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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