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Being that the top armor on tank in general and the Sherman in particular is very thin in comparison to front and sides,I can see where there are vulnerable to air attack from small auto cannon.But still one or two shots(one shot in the case I mentioned)would have to be a one in a million shot...and as for near misses that do area damage to soft targets...this would only scratch the paint on a tank at best..even an explosive 30mm round ..nah..not enough juice...not if it misses and explodes nearby..needs to be dead on target.
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@Ohbaby -
I debated for sometime whether the airstrike's attack(scatterbomb as you call them)were some kind of cluster bomb or lots of lil rockets hitting or what...and seeing Urbz's penchant for history,I have reasoned it thusly:
There were no cluster-bombs(a large cannister dispersing many many small submunitions)as we know them in the summer of '44(which is when this takes place)There were parcels of rockets but these were almost always vehicle mounted or towed(ground based)The Germans did have rockets on some airplanes but these were for use against bombers....so..I think the airstrike is a generic representaion of a Ju-88 Stuka (or possibly a 109 or 190)using a combination of it's small auto cannon(s),machine guns and possibly small bombs.
The Stuka would be most appropriate given the application but they were almost wiped out by this time frame...in fact German airsupport at this point would be pretty darn thin.
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my tank took 2 airstrikes (the scatter bomb airstrike) and still survived. in fact it took those 2 airstrikes after it got friendly-fired upon by my wayward AAA gun. the big single bomb from the sky typically kills my tanks in 1 blast tho.
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I see and feel the rebalancing of your game but,
German landser accuracy:
after the 10th-ish wave the soldaten get sickly accurate,too much so I think...I am seeing normal Wehrmacht guys(all grey gear)and even volkssturm/grenadier(green pseudo-camo)shoot 1st round hits at guys in a trench with a bunker over it,past three layers of sandbags and past/through 2 tanks.And on a regular basis too...where as before this almost never happened.Snipers and some elite SS division type troops I could see where this might make sense,even fallschirmjagers,but normal ordinary troops?>nope ;)
Over all I like how the game is slightly harder(I reset from 3 star/Lt General to run through the ranks again to see the difference)but I think you may have gone a bit to far in the respects I have mentioned above.
Be well.
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Further about tanks being damaged:
Grenades?:please heh,in order for a grenade to hurt qa tank at all it would have to be right over the engine vents on the rear deck or in the tail pipe,I think you should seriously rethink how tanks are damaged by grenades.Even in these most vulnerable spots,a normal infantry man's grenade damaging a tank is a very iffy proposition.
Artillery damaging tanks:
Tanks and thier armor,even 2nd generation WWII tanks of the types deployed in your game are specifically designed to be proof againt arty shrapnel and overpressure...that being said the shear explosive force of a large arty round hitting a tank directly on top would utterly obliterate it,but a miss,even a very close miss would leave it almost undamaged.At worst we might see some track damage or radio mast/antenna blown off.This also needs rethinking in my opinion.
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Other criticisms:
Airstrikes damaging tanks:in point of fact the largest weapons mounted by German ground attack aircraft was 50mm,this would mess up a tank severely,particularly a sherman m3,but in practice mostly after D-day it was me-109's and fw-190's;different destroyer(Luftwaffe designation for anti-bomber and ground attack equipped fighters) verions of the 109 mounted 1,2 and 3 20mm's plus a few 14.5mm machineguns,and some destroyer versions of the fw-190 mounted a few different combinations of 30mm,20mm,and 14.5mm(the heaviest was 1 30mm,2 20mm and 2 14.5mm)...I think my basic point is this:Tanks are especially vulnerable from above and behind,the Sherman was a weak tank..but,I have seen one close airial support shot hit and destroy one of my tanks..utterly..just one shot..this is kind of ridiculous.
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Thanks for the update Urbz,glad you didn't imp hand to hand combat,it wasn't needed and would just clutter the game up that already has too many body parts flying and such.
STILL SOME BUGS,flamethrower guys sometimes just dissapear when they should explode,both allied and axis;pause works now on most things(flying grenades,artillery strikes etc)but still does not work fully for normal soldiers(axis only)sometimes they still fire off rounds well after the pause button has been hit.This needs to work,we are human and have to stop once in a while..for as long as each game lasts,one cannot sit and stare at it for the whole duration without some afk.
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tip: large squads are not always the key to sucsess...
4 mashine gunners with 30+ rifle 6 100+rife soldiers (inc engineer sig and scout) with bars 3 basookers
not much could get past them
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you gain ground by moving your entire squad to the top part of the map, they will go through and come to a new section
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AAA needs its xp gain tweaked so it can go past 9 exp. Bazooka soldiers also need their xp gain tweaked so they can gain levels at 10xp - at this point the only way they can level is by getting a crate themselves or the xp bonus crate from someone else. Still having issues with bazooka targeting, but we'll see how that goes as this particular game continues.
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If you shoot down a plane capture the pilot if he comes out you get 1tp yeah it sucks that the tp is capped to 20 but in the next update it might be fixed if your tp is at 20 you can still taunt the germans and get 1tp but still...
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MUTE BUTTON PLEASE!!! 4/5 till mute button, then 5/5, i wish there were badges for this, maybe soon due to new api...
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Hmm, i think i just encountered a glitch. I've been playing for like an hour and when a new wave came, about 9 planes came, and my AAA shot them all down :D. But i don't think that many planes are supposed to be coming at me at the same time. Is this is glitch or no?
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4 AAA guns = ownage ensured. Everybody, get an engineer ASAP because he's gonna be real helpful. build a trench then get a spec ops guy along with ur engie there. Just wait untill you get get an AAA gun and buy it. AFter that, do whatever you want because you basically won.