Shoot&Scoot...

[PoorOldSpike]

Yes the shoot/scoot order tells your tank to move fast forward to a point ahead; then stop for a few seconds and fire at anything he sees, before finally reversing back to safety.

1- In this test my Pz IIIH (short 50mm gun) is sitting behind a wood out of sight of 3x T-34/76's, he can't see them and they can't see him.
They're buttoned, moving right to left, and their turrets are facing forward, so with any luck he'll be able to do a shoot and scoot on them and fire before they can see him and react.
So in the order phase (below) I set his armour-arc to point at them and order a shoot-scoot, placing the 'shoot' waypoint a few metres ahead so he can peep around the corner of the wood, and placing the 'scoot' waypoint back at his start point-





2- I start the turn and he rolls forward, stops and shoots. His first shot missed, but his second one hits-





3- And about 10 seconds later (note clock) he's reversed safely back to his start point, the T-34's never even had time to spot him.


Tactical summary- Shoot-scoot is best used if you think you can get away with squeezing off a shot or two before the enemy sees you and returns fire, so weigh up the odds; for example he should preferably be side or rear-on to you, or buttoned or moving, or low quality crew, or poor visibility to hamper his spotting, and have a slow turret traverse.
If he's a turretless SP gun you've got an excellent chance of hurting him because no way would he have time to pivot to face you before you scoot.
You can of course use shoot-scoot to peep around any sort of terrain, or even peep over hills into forbidden zones.
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