Tomanbeg
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Joined: 7/14/2000 From: Memphis, Tn, CSA Status: offline
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Originally posted by Sniper-for-hire: It seems whenever I try to move my troops on the same hex as the enemy, then then do the ALT-M, it says something about "may only initiate melee if in good status."
Now I read that as if my troops are NOT 'pinned' or 'retreating.'... am I missing something?? What puts them in good status? I've never successfully melee'd yet. HELP!
I don't know if it's real or if it's me( my bad luck is famous) but things I have to do to get melee. You have to ease into the pool. When ever I charge across the ground to get into the melee hex, it won't work. But If I'm in the next hex and ease into the melee hex it works fine. This means that the unit you are attacking by melee has to be very suppressed. Retreating or routed. If it is just pinned, you will get shot up to bad to melee. I'm going to find out about dropping off a unit from a track and then doing a melee later tonight. I have an opponent in the ideal position. A Tiger on a reverse slope with something loaded. I can get a track there with 8 mp's(about 30%). I worked a 60mm mortar up to a .5 delay which means if he doesn't move his Tiger, the 60 hits after his movement phase is over. So It should knock the riders off the Tiger and get it buttoned up. I'm planning on shooting up the Inf at zero range then doing a melee on the Tiger. Don't know if you can melee tanks, and I expect the Tiger to get a shot at 1 hex. If that Special op fire hits my track, it's moot of course. I expect it won't work, since the reason that the cammo group was formed was some players decided that this tactic was ahistorical and gaming the system. So I doubt that Matrix, which is the part of cammo group that thinks driving a track into a position, having your armored inf jump out and drop grenades in the foxholes never happened, is not going to allow it to make a comeback after all that work. But I will try anyway, it's just a game. T.( I think 'good status 'means NO suppression of any sort. I'm not sure there is a connection between suppression points 'pinned', 'retreating' and 'routed' conditions anymore. if it is, it is not linear.)
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