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Irinami -> (8/30/2003 6:30:11 AM)
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[QUOTE=Vathailos]Had two quick tips/tactics that I've noticed, and one that someone else pointed out that I should have known.
1) Small Units Staying Hidden
Whether it's a Machinegun, Bazooka team, or ATG, no one likes to be spotted and OP-fired. What gives you away? Shots. How do you reduce that? Well, turn off your secondary weapons of course :). It's a tough call if you're fighting in low visibility, as you might be detecting/firing at a range so close that you want both shots. But for large, open areas, turn off that rifle or SMG, you'll stay hidden longer. In addition, I've seen recommendations from veteran players here that include setting the unit's posture to "Defend", and also setting their range to 1 or 0. Play around with them, find out which works best for you.[/quote]
Opfire range can work against you. It is used in computer calculations on spotting. The unit being spotted has several factors introduced to the unit doing the spotting's calculations: speed, size, among them, as well as opfire range. You could consider opfire range to be the range that you start taking shots to zero-in on the enemy.
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2) Artillery Spreads
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In my long-WWII campaign as the Germans, I've taken to purchasing onboard Chinese Krupp 75mm's and offboard Hungarian 300-something-mm's for this very reason. They're 1.) cheap, and 2.) have a wide spread. For the price of a handful of German 75mm's, you can buy about twice as many --as I call them--"mothballed Krupps" and cover a wider area with many more shells, while still hitting the primary target. The Hungarian guns are only good for a few barrages, but I've used them to:
1.) Counterbattery onboard artillery (and AAA!!!!). Especially against a park of British 2pdr's, you can literally destroy half and route the other half.
2.) Interdict supply/reinforcement trains. I have destroyed almost an entire company of infantry+Mortars+ATG's this way. A scout saw them, guns were offline. Next turn guns were online, scout didn't have LOS... but I could guess where they were. That combined with the spread and splash damage of the 300+mm's, and they were GONE. The scout harried the rest into submission.
3.) Stop an enemy advance for 1 turn. Again, they cover all around the enemy, and the splash gets any holes.
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Oh, and one other thing.
I think it was Bel that posted it on the "Saving Private Ryan Caption This" thread about ambushes.
I didn't know this, but now that I hear it, it jives with my own experiences. Remaining stationary (i.e. not moving and acting in the same turn) greatly increases your chance for an assault.
This may well be the reason why, when I assault an enemy AFV while hidden without moving I see a high success number (ex. 46% chance), and when that fails, subsequent assaults drop drastically (ex. 7% chance) . Is this because now you're considered to be "moving"? Even though you haven't moved, attacking gets you out of that poised posture, I assume.
Any final word on that? Anyone?[/QUOTE]
I hadn't entirely noticed that. One thing I have noticed is that being un-spotted greatly increases your chances of assaulting an AFV. This is why your infantry squad of 10 men will have a 37% chance one day, and a base 10% chance the next. This is also probably all or most of the answer to the Gauss Sniper "problem"--they are terribly difficult to spot, so they often get the assault bonus.
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