Observations froma CW-Europe Tester

[John Given]

Hey John;

By large soft attack factor I assume you mean direct fire cannons of the 105mm size or larger. I wonder if that would also happen with a quad 20mm or .50-cal AA weapon also?!

I seem to recall it was either Jason Petho or Hawk Kriegsman who said that when you attack a tank with the rider, say a Pz V, The computer is 'tricked' into thinking that the 13 'hard' defense factor is now a 13 'soft' defense. So if the attacking 'anti-personnel' weapon could hurt a unit with a soft defense of 13 (in this example) then the answer is yes.

This also raises the question of whether the armor facing is nullified when being attacked this way. It would also seem that more thin skinned vehicles with say, an armor of 6, could be killed very easily like this. Fortunately, light tanks can't carry passengers, but early war medium tanks often had defense factors of 6 or so.

Moral: if you try to have your tanks 'run the gauntlet' with enemy mortars or artillery staring you down, you stand to lose a lot more than just your tank's passengers. Thankfully, it's a rare glitch, but technically one that's always ready to strike.

I also wonder about civilians too? Would they have the same effect?

I played a DG- Vietnam scenario that had them, and the computer AI with them seemed just fine regarding movement and retreats.