Tank ignoring incoming fire

[Guest Captitalistdoginchina]

I have a tank in hide mode and i set up a ambush marker for him to target on a road.

2 turns later an enemy tank pulls up from behind a house maybe 60 to 80 meters away from the marker. The enemy tank is in full LoS and my M10 is unbuttoned....The enemy tank starts to fire...once..........then twice....narrowly missing, but my M10 just sits there staring at the Ambush Marker? At the end of the turn i have to cancel the target to the marker and issue a reverse order and to tell him to target the enemy tank, but too late - he pays for it.

I am not sure if this behaviour is correct, surely if a life threatening situation arrises and a tank is under fire self preservation would tell the tank to at least target the enemy and return fire?

Is this a bug or is it abnormal behaviour? Or maybe i should avoid ambush markers especialy when it is known for opponents to see my ambush markers (Happened in other pbem games not this one)

Any thoughts guys?

CDIC

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"Death solves all problems - no man no problem"

J.V.Stalin, 1918

[Freak]

Hi. I hear your problem with ambushing a target area and not having your tank respond to incoming fire from an open LOS tank in front of him. Sounds very frustrating.

I never have used "ambush" for my tank. If I need to use him fro an ambush I just hide him behind a building or a tree line and wait for him (the enemy) to come in my LOS. I also usually hit the "hide" in the orders command. This way my tank will respond to anything in his LOS.

Of course your situation sounds a bit different, if you are trying to keep him from firing and giving away his position before the enemy knows you are there. Hmmm...I dont know...the only thing I can tell you is not to use "ambush" for tanks. It does sound like a programming or some sort of bug though to me. I don't think It is likely a tank would just continue sitting there especially being fired at and especially with the hatch open. I would think he would fire away or get the heck out of there.