Charles22
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May the power of the mg's be with you. I have the solution. I used to think that firing the main gun, and then hitting 'f' afterwards would keep the mg firing. Not so. If the hex into which you're firing, has multiple units, this may be where the only place where you'll experience problems, though as I'll explain even that has it's benefits.
Let's apporach this from it's most difficult. Assuming the hex consists of one infantry AT, one tank, and on AT gun. Did you realize that units are 'stacked'? In other words, when you see three numerical units (identified with a number hovering over them), that they're stacked from top to bottom? Selecting the AT gun is as simple as patiently moving the cursor so as to see data on a different unit. Do you realize that if you take your cursor over the bottom of the pile, that you can hit LMB and it will fire on that unit? Needless to say, the more units the more difficult to target a specific one, but none to worry, because we're talking mg's here, right? From my experience in this game, it almost seems as though the unit, non-targeted, gets more damage. I have a lot of experience getting around the mg's refusing to fire unless the main gun fires. Simple solution: toggle the main gun off, and move the cursor over the unit and hit LMB. It works every time. It's not unusual, especially if I forget an ammo truck as I did last battle, to have quite a score of tanks with main guns disabled because they are dealing with nothing but infantry at the time. I suppose to really be safe, one could toggle the main gun back on before ending the turn.
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Perhaps the damage from bottom hits should be limited to the hull section of the vehicle?
Also a point about suppression. Now the tanks take very little of it from small arms fire which is good, but the same also seems to apply to halftracks. As the MG(s) of a HT are often located in an open pedestal and the gunner has to stand up to operate the weapon, I'd think he could be mightily suppressed when bullets fly? So perhaps HT's should suppress bit easier, considering that HT's are quite powerful nowadays against infantry as the mg's have been beefed up. And as a further thought, perhaps all opentopped vehicles should suppress bit easier than tanks?
Voriax
Japanese have knee mortar units that have their weapon slots filled with 3 50mm mortars and rifle. When such unit moves, only the slot 1 mortar becomes unusable for that turn but the other two are still available at least direct fire purposes (sorry, didn't check indirect fire).
When a tank has shots left for all weapons, but doesn't have HE rounds and you fire at AT-gun the text 'xxx fires at yyy at z hexes etc..' is written two times in the popup window. The hit result is written after the second text. The tank doesn't fire the main gun though, only mg. This happened to most german tanks in the 'objective snipe' scenario. If you fire at infantry this doesn't happen.
also in the same scenario when a dug-in unit (surrounded by that sand wall) retreates they take their wall with them 
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