Barbed Wire

[RockinHarry]

one more thing: in a recent tournament game my rocket strike made a nice big crater in the middle of a wire section. It seems to me the troops can pass more easily on that location. The wire is not entirely ineffective, but it seems to work only in half of the way.

I also suspect the joints between the wire sections to be more passable. It all boils down how CM stores the terrain tiles internally.

True from my experience. A crater could provide as much as 10 seconds to get through a wire tile faster. In some past tests of mine, I found you can use satchel charges to create a crater at the right spot in the wire tile. Area fire within 30 meters does the trick, although there´s a random chance, that the crater will be created at all and it might use up all SC of participating troops. So this is not a resource friendly affair for gaining that few extra seconds for a quicker wire tile passage.

Note: When targeting the wire tile, one must not target the wire itself, as the command will be cancelled automatically. One needs to play with camera angles (SHIFT - Z) to get very close to the tile and make the yellow target line stick to the ground tile, not the wire object!