What genre would you call this?

I was the first 👍

@@dragon_slime It's called Hotdogs, Horseshoes, and Handgrenades, sometimes just called h3VR

@@Thegamespusher ok

Wow, awesome thanks. I'll try it!

haha. I'll have to let Dougie know

He doesn't mention the company commanders role and what made an American unit during WW 2 was signals. During the scouting stage the platoon commander sends on section out and stays in contact. Maintaining contact with the platoon is crucial committing all of the platoon more than likely alerts the enemy that's where the communication with the company company jumps in. BTW I put in a like for the reason I am not very good in making videos. But know a thing or 2 about tactical signals. Rarely anybody mention the 3 green dots and go nuts when a section starts to act silly. Calls the BAR team an assault team???? The sergeant leads an assault, The BAR team over-watch and supports by area fire the other team are the flankers. I play on Iron and make sure the units will spot each other and commit after the platoon commander is in visual contact with his sergeant. Kind regards. Bad leaders they still have a map, binoculars and a radio but need to stay close to the company commander.

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would you knock it off@@CharlesvanDijk-ir6bl

I haven't played in a quite a while now, but you can't is the basic rule. What you're given is dependent on what the country you're playing as had for their squads historically. For example, in this video as a fresh US rifle company the squads tend to be made up of 12 men broken into 3 teams. For a different company or a different country, that could be very different ... for example, a mortar or machine gun team would only be 3-6 men typically (again, depends on the country.) You can split squads up, but you can only reform them back together. You have to remember these are guys that have trained together, under a specific chain of command. It doesn't make sense to mix that all up just as a battle is starting. Now, things can happen - losses can leave a squad too depleted to function, for example... in those cases, between battles command would likely merge and rearrange things into a working structure. But then again.. maybe not. It all depends. This is all handled by the scenario designer between battles. So if you only have squads of 3 soldiers, that's what you're going to have to work with. It's likely for one of the above reasons (most likely I'd be guessing it's because they're a specialists squad - like MG, AT, or something like that.)

Marth667 I go for WEGO (turn based) all the way. I like that things are "out of control." It's like I give orders, and hope they are fulfilled. I find real-time is too granular... WEGO isn't perfect, but I find it a little more realistic. It IS frustrating, though, when the TacAI doesn't do what you want. You'd think as soon as a tank becomes aware of a AT gun, it'd quickly retreat but on the other hand... War is confusing - perhaps they are not in the right state of mind? As an "all seeing eye" you can get the crew to react to an AT gun immediately, but you'll probably find that often the gun is actually spotted by another unit - to communicate that to the tank it may need to be radio'd up the command chain, and back down again. That takes time, so realistically they may not be aware of the gun yet. Even if shells are bouncing off the armour - the crew won't necessarily know what caliber they're being hit with. If it's low caliber, I'd prefer they keep the front armour facing, and try and take out the gun... if there's a chance they'll be penetrated, though, I'd prefer they bug out. But then, I'm not one of the guys in the tank.... they won't always do what I WANT them to do.

Marth667 As to a solution to AT guns - don't make the mistake I made in this video - use infantry to sweep ahead for your tanks. AT Guns have a habit of shooting at infantry (until later versions of CMx2 at least with armour arcs) so, so long as your tanks are properly supported you can improve your chances of spotting the AT before your tanks wander into it.

The Games Pusher Yeah I used that alot in this mission, I found that the smoke rounds on the tanks are very useful for blinding enemy positions, and its quite accurate rather then have your mortar team get shot to shit if they try todo the same

No probs. I'd love to get back into CM - especially with the new modules and all. So many games, so little time!

That's the idea :) I was surprised how good this game is