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[PoorOldSpike]

Your posts are enlighting as well as entertaining and I look forward to them.
AAAAAND, I much rather watch you take it in the Yang then me

Ha ha (forced laughter), 5 games gone and I haven't won one yet (sniffle)

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Nathangun map, he dumps a barrage on my peaceful little town on turn 1, I'm already getting a bad feeling about this 'un..

 

[PoorOldSpike]

My HT probes the lush fields hoping to identify Nort's American axis of advance and encounters an HMC, and begins hosing it down with 7.92 mm MG fire-

But the US gunner says "My 50-cal is bigger than yours Fritzy", and returns fire. The HMC 75mm gunner also sends a shell winging on its way (large tracer blob) but missed, it flew over the HT and hit a treetrunk behind-

The big half-inch 50-cal slugs slam into the German machine, instantly killing the gunner who vanishes from the screen to be replaced by a red dot (arrowed) to signify he's no longer alive. Seconds later the driver (blue dot) understandably bailed-

 

[PoorOldSpike]

Glorious sunny day, birds tweeting, squirrels happily playing with their nuts, what can possibly pose a threat to my panzers snug among the trees?'..

Johnsy drops a heavy barrage on them...(insert sickly grin emoticon here)..

 

[Johnsy]

Glorious sunny day, birds tweeting, squirrels happily playing with their nuts, what can possibly pose a threat to my panzers snug among the trees?'..

Johnsy drops a heavy barrage on them...(insert sickly grin emoticon here)..

And more to come mate :bounce:

 

[PoorOldSpike]

After having scored a zook hit on my Panther and forcing it to wildly reverse, one of Ericr4b's HQ team now has the gall to throw a grenade at it (circled, and note the throwers dramatically swinging arm) and knocks it out (inset)-

 

[PoorOldSpike]

My panzer group (circled) have been flushed out of the woods by Johnsy's barrage, and now he goes on a killing spree by hitting them with crossfire from three sides with tank thrusts-

 

[PoorOldSpike]

Ericr4b's Johnny Bazooka has a longrange pot at my Tiger...

But the projectile sails harmlessly over it to explode in this field-

 

[Bert Blitzkrieg]

It seems a Panther acts much more panicky when shot at then it did in CMx1. Looks like green crews in CMBB

 

[Ericr4b]

Ericr4b's Johnny Bazooka has a longrange pot at my Tiger...

But the projectile sails harmlessly over it to explode in this field-

Now that surely would have been shot of the tourney if it had dropped into the engine covers.
Very important thing to remember with US squads (HQ included). If they are transported in HTs then there is usually a zook available. The important bit is to remember to "aquire" it, and any ammo before the team gets out. The "acquire" button is on the special "S" tab of the orders menu. Dont leave home without it.

 

[Nort]

First POS finished off my M4. Then he finished off my crew.

Nice shootin' Tex.

 

[PoorOldSpike]

Ha ha just fighting for my life mate..
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My two Stugs and a Panther have got a nice little defensive position in this lane, facing both ways to guard against anything Nort can throw at them from either direction, surely nothing can harm them?

Except a bleddy Rhino! it crashes through the bocage and takes out a Stug and continues hosing it down with MG fire-

 

[PoorOldSpike]

Lighthorse's M10 gets my Tiger in the back and immobs it-

PS- it's impossible to play with trees toggled on like this or nobody would be able to see a thing.
We can toggle to bare 'trunks only' but they look bleddy awful; I'd like to see a patch to make trees almost transparent so we could keep them 'on' and they wouldn't clutter up the screen-

 

[PoorOldSpike]

Bootie's Sherman demonstrates how the Allies historically won the Normandy tank war--by using their superior tank numbers to swarm around the German tanks sides and rear-

 

[PoorOldSpike]

A total of no less than 8 tanks--Nort's and mine-- lie wrecked in "Rhino Lane" as secondary explosions keep going off like nuke explosions-

 

[PoorOldSpike]

My last surviving tank counterattacks to try to wrest the town from Lighthorse's grasp, making a start by knocking out a Greyhound-

 

[PoorOldSpike]

I trundle my Panther out from behind a house down in the town to have a go at Bidermann's 3 Shermans skylined on a ridge, what can possibly go wrong?

**!!@@##!!**!

 

[PoorOldSpike]

With all his FO teammates killed by Bootie, the last survivor of my entire force decides to jack it. (he vanished from the map next turn)-

 

[PoorOldSpike]

I was so fixated with the 3 Shers to my front that Bidermann's flanking Sher was able to deliver this sucker punch.
My Marder (circled) fired at him a second later but its shot bounced and the Sher popped smoke and back-pedalled..

 

[Rolling Thunder]

PS- it's impossible to play with trees toggled on like this or nobody would be able to see a thing.
We can toggle to bare 'trunks only' but they look bleddy awful; I'd like to see a patch to make trees almost transparent so we could keep them 'on' and they wouldn't clutter up the screen-

Read a post by Steve of Battlefront on this issue and his response was it could be done but the framerate hit was unacceptable. It overpowered the machines they tried it on.

 

[PoorOldSpike]

Read a post by Steve of Battlefront on this issue and his response was it could be done but the framerate hit was unacceptable. It overpowered the machines they tried it on.

Okay, another idea they could try would be a "tree density" option where we could cycle through "no trees", "partial trees" and "full trees" to select how many will show on map.
Matrix use that in their 'Panzer Command:Ostfront'.

Another idea- BFront could make the ground under patches of trees a different colour so that we'd know trees were there even when they're toggled off, a dark brown perhaps, to signify fallen leaves and twigs, pigeon poo and badger droppings etc that you get in woods.