Tips from the Frontline

[RNL Tiger]

Aside on spotted units during an engagement

Actually, I have a hard time of knowing when my units are spotted and not especially after they have engaged. I've seen numerous LOS posts but they usually focus on prior to engagement as opposed to post initial engagement. For example, in the above QB I had assumed that my ATG was now spotted so it was interesting [and good] to know that it is still lurking. “To find out if a unit of yours is spotted, click on it. If you see red and/or yellow 'light sabres' coming from enemy units towards it, you'll know they can see it and are firing or about to fire.

Guns usually fire 2 or 3 times before they're spotted, plus another couple of times while the enemy is turning his turret to engage, that's why tank commanders hate guns because an AT-gun can do a hell of a lot of damage with 5 shots. For example I could see your panzer and plan a neat attack on him because tanks are easy to see. But you can't plan an attack on an invisible unspotted gun in trees because you have to wait until it decides to fire, and only then will you spot it if you're still alive."

So if those lines are not present then the unit becomes a "spotted marker". Is it as simple as yellow = LOS/spotted; red = attack? I know that sound contacts may be close to the actual location or a fair number of metres away it. “Yes red means lockon, yellow means potential lockon, click different units to get a general idea of who can see who, but of course it can all change and fluctuate during the actual turn as conditions change. Infantry 'sounds' are a very unreliable indicator of where an enemy is, for example see the 'They Called Him the Ghost' picture in this thread, where the T-34s are getting infantry sounds from 30 metres outside the actual copse where a sniper is firing from. They could fire at the icon but it’s just a ghost, its not him. So area fire against 'sounds' icons is very imprecise and a waste of shells unless you've got lots and want to have a crack anyway. https://www.theblitz.club/message_boards...?tid=39828”