Major Destruction
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It is nice to see the AI still has no idea how to deal with smoke. It will sent unit after unit into the smoke and not wonder why it no longer hears from it.
That seems to be more realistic than the "eye of god" vision of the human player.
Ref: Bloody Battle for Tilly" by Ken Tout
Chapter 7: Opertaion TOTALIZE
Quote: The Regimental Navigator could see nothing in the thick haze and very soon ditched itself in a bomb crater. The two reserve navigators, following behind him,tried to avoid this crater and went into another...............From this point.......all one saw were shadowy outlines of tanks as they loomed up out of the fog and disappeared again into the gloom. The confusion was indescribable"
Quote: Out troop was lined up in order: Troop Officer, 1st Sergeant, Artillery Officer, myself and Sgt Munn.............At this time trouble started. A tank was hit and took fire. .........I found out it was our troop officer's tank that was hit. Confusion set in. The troop officer gone, The troop sergeant somewhere away in the dust, Sgt Munn and me alone. After several hours the artillery officer in front of me had lost contact with the tank in front and came back to ask if I would take the lead and he fell in behind Sgt Munn. In a short time we lost him. Don't know to this day where he got to!
Quote: Capt Leonard Harvey, riding in a bren carrier.........found itself driving through Rocquancourt..........it was even darker in the narrow streets. Harvey suddenly sensed a wall on his left and yelled "Keep right, you're going to hit the wall on your left". The driver yelled back, "We can't be scraping the wall on our left because we are scraping the wall on our right" ...........Harvey put out his hand to touch the wall and ........he felt not cold rough stone but warm smooth metal.......his astonishment turned to horror as brief light from a shell flash focused on the regulation German cross insignia on the side of a big panzer. Obviously the Germans were in no better state of awareness than Harvey.
If this is typical of confusion in smoke, dust or darkness, and troop members have no idea where their troop is, then I doubt that the battalion commander knows any better.
btw, it's a very good read!
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They struggled with a ferocity that was to be expected of brave men fighting with forlorn hope against an enemy who had the advantage of position......knowing that courage was the one thing that would save them.
Julius Caesar, 57 BC
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