The Competition & Teaser Thread

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Some additional questions, sorry to give you such a headache David.

-What happens when a vehicle with passengers drives into a minefield, do both units (AFV+passengers) take losses "normally" even though the infantry isn't walking and thus less vulnerable to anti-personnel mines?

We've answered this one already, I think.

-What happens when a vehicle with passengers is fired at by an attacker without a soft attack value for that range (by a weapon with a greater hard attack range than soft attack range for example)? Can the passengers ever take losses from such an attack (possibly simulating tanks exploding after the ammo was hit or brewing up)?

Firstly, I could not find one unit where the soft range did not equal the hard range so I can't check that.

I did do some test firings at some hapless submachine gunners on the back of T-34's to see what happened when beyond hard range etc.

Here is the first shot on the firing range. It's at soft attack range and is essentially HE shell being shot. The 'D' result was the passengers not the tank unit. The red line is the Hard attack range, the green the soft attack range;



A second shot takes out more of the riders;



Finally, here is a shot within the hard attack range of the firing unit. A T-34 and some of the passengers are taken out, In all the test shots I fired, more riders are lost when a vehicle brews up;

What happens if a vehicle is destroyed, and the unit of vehicles is no longer capable of carrying all of the passengers? Do the passengers automatically dismount the moment after the carrying capacity is exceeded or will the vehicle unit become "encumbered" (as they'd say in D&D) and would it not be able to move until the passengers are removed (like in PzC where the arrival of reinforcements or regaining strength can cause a stack to go over the stacking limit), with the passengers still staying on top of the vehicle until the player manually removes them on his next turn?

I have not seen in testing at any point more passengers than allowed to be carried on vehicles. I would not be surprised if when a vehicle is destroyed sufficient riders are removed to keep the load within the carrying limit.

What happens when a unit with passengers is merged into a bigger unit with platoons without passengers, if this is possible?

Where do the passengers go when that unit is split-up again, provided the combining could take place?

What happens when, as strengths are averaged out when broken down, when the multiple platoon/company unit is broken down none of its components would have enough vehicles to be able to carry the passengers, provided the combining could take place with passengers so they're still around?

You try do this and you get a message;
Units that are carrying cannot combine or breakdown.

That fixes that problem!

Are the opportunity fire preferences rounded up or down in terms of hexes? Say a unit is set to S with a maximum range of 4, does that mean it will fire at targets up to 2 hexes away or just the adjacent hex? Based on your description, I assume there's no way to have long range weapons only fire at targets adjacent to it or possibly up to 2 hexes. For example: the range 16 Tiger in the example would when set to S fire at targets at 5 or 6 hexes away, so still more than 1 kilometre away. The opportunity fire preference mechanism might as such give better results for shorter ranged units, because it's easier to set up an actual ambush with them.

I don't know definitively and will have to slow a replay down to check, but I would expect it would round up. Otherwise units with a range say of one or two run into issues.

David