Charles22
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Kluckenbill: Perhaps what you are seeing is that you've run into a number of fort units that have a '0' hull rating, such as the WF mg posts do. One thing good about those light tanks (which as things stand we can't buy, just yet) is like the HTs they carry quite a lot of ammo. In the first WF battle, I too seemed to knock out mg posts more easily with whatever I was using (I believe it was 37L46s on HTs) than with Tigers. Given the mg post hull was a zero rating (and many forts have hull ratings no more than 40mm), I almost felt as though I was wasting time and ammunition better spent elsewhere than to use the Tiger guns on them, but it's one of those things where in order to hope to advance your Tigers very far, safely, you need to help out the infantry, so as it generally happens with me, there will be a phase where the big tanks are suppressing/destroying any anti-personnel obstacles, and then later, as more AT factors have been dealt with, I will move up some of the lightest stuff to take over while the Tigers move on.
I looked at the panzerschreck yesterday when I got home, and other than what I already knew about it's having more shots, a few other things popped up. For one thing, it has a range of '4', while the best panzerfaust has range of '3'. The accuracy is about the same, given that the more inaccurate panzerschreck is blessed with 33% more range to work off of. Secondly, the panzerschreck has max. penetration of 195, while the faust has 225. A considerable advantage to the faust, but then again, how many tanks withstand the potential of 195? Of course HEAT rounds don't achieve the max all of the time, but given the advantages of the schreck, in the areas it has them, ideally, the enemy tanks would face fausts, frontally from the infantry, while facing schrecks, more distant, from the sides/rear.
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It certainly makes me very happy that you did enjoy it.
The Victors will be online within a few weeks. Let you take a break from the war. You deserve it!
Wild Bill
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Wild Bill Wilder
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Good hunting guys. Keep the pressure on those Ruskies. The kamaraden inside the trap are counting on you to get them to safety.
Wild Bill
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Wild Bill Wilder
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I had already "retreated" my 2 SP mortar and my 2 SPAA before realizing what I was doing.
BTW in this scenario, the objective being to exit before the end (which I did by the 14th turn), I was surprised to didn't have to fix an immobilized Panther (the crew exited the map). Doesn't abandonned vehicle be considered destroyed even if the crew survive ?
Comments:
As I play with all realism preferences "ON", the CC "ON" make me prefer sections and recon-type troops. Flammpanzer when correctly supported by Tigers are my weapon of choice, they are really good to dislodge infantry from 2 hexes away (avoiding close assault) and kill ammo/fuel dump with one hit. Pioneers are much better than engineers, they are elite AND recon troops and come with HT; their range is limited but changing the Plt. leader to SS Rifle and eventually the MG-42 to Pzschrek compensate for this weakness.
Finest moments so far [SPOILER]:
In the first battle, one of my SPAA (Spw-251/17) killed the 1st aircobra with its first op fire. Yes, with its first shot, that's luck, isn't it? 
One tends (or at least I did) to become protective of their units to the degree that affects play. Not being able to replace losses just did not work in a long campaign. In a short one it just might do okay.
Charles22 does have a very valid point about the breakdowns. It would be a problem with that option on. You get enough of them with it off 
WB: those sovjet infantry (who use warptechnology to get in the village) at first battle had no chance. They took out few single soldiers. (My losses so far, yet 6 turns to go. Objectives nearly finished) Poor guys arrived to the village just after I had secured area with two infantry companies. I have, besides infantry, one platoon and one section of Tigers. Infantry has 75mmAT:s with opels. And for Sturmovics I have 20mmflakvirgl platoon. Way I've handled this can be said in few words: Tracked FO recons and infantry moves one step at the time. Mg:s and 4 Tigers have stable positions. 2 Tigers loaded with infantry are moving right after FO and are ready to deal with anything. And I don't use any roads, so I found one mine also. Infantry rules at my core, they take out all that is in range of their AT weapons. Tanks do the rest.
mosh
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