COMBAT GALLERY

[PoorOldSpike]

Der Kuenstler's German squad punishes my T-34 for breaking the first rule in the tank driver's handbook-"Never drive within 40metres (grenade-throwing range) of any terrain that could be concealing enemy infantry"
(Okay i'll take the rap for driving them too close but my excuse is they'd been under schreck attack from behind in the previous turn and I was racing them down the runway to get away in a hurry..)

[PoorOldSpike]

At last I'm able to silence Der Kuenstler's troublesome gun, just look at the havoc its been wreaking against my T-34's..
My last 2 T-34's can't see it (and it can't see them) because of intervening smoke from burning wrecks, so I use the well-known tactic of area-firing into the ground next to the gun, and the blast knocks it out.
(Note the blank panel (white circle) in its datastrip, that's how we know if a gun or infantry unit is kaput)

[RedDevil]

As always.. good entertainment and fun to read

[PoorOldSpike]

Thanks mate and hopefully newcomers will pick up a few pointers from them.

Incidentally a book publisher recently asked me to write a CM Tactical Guide, but when he said we wouldn't be able to include any of my screenshots "for copyright reasons", I pulled out. I mean pictures are everything!
Anyway I doubt if it'd have sold well even if it'd had screenshots in it, because CM players can already see them for free in the forum!

A player last year asked me if he could print out my screenshots and bind them into a folder for his own use, so I replied "go ahead mate but remember to send me my cut of the royalties if you ever decide to publish" ha ha ha,,:)

[wigam]

Thanks POS, the gun thing you just showed I found out about a couple of weeks ago. Very useful to know!

[PoorOldSpike]

In fact I didn't know about the gun thing myself until The Coil did us all a service by pointing it out here-

https://www.theblitz.club/message_boards...?tid=41649

[wigam]

Yes that was who it was. Well done Coil!

[The Coil]

Thanks guys, but I think it was originally Shadow Player who pointed that out in a DAR, I just started the thread about it in case people missed it. It's a useful thing to know, to be sure. It also applies to other units as well, not just guns - especially useful for telling when infantry in the woods die.

Spike, thanks for all the handy tactical tips and stuff. I do hope you get that Tactical Guide published, it would surely be a unique read.

[PoorOldSpike]

Odies beats back my column of 4 x Panthers by firstly taking out the panzer leader with a T-34/85..
(he wrecked the 5th Panther burning in background earlier in the battle)



Then follows up with another Yak rocket attack which immobs a Panther as his infantry close in..



So I pull the plug and slam my 2 remaining Panthers into reverse (purple arrows) to get out of it while they still can.

[PoorOldSpike]

Bert Blitzkrieg's Russian infantry overun the rail station and several of his SU-100's begin wheeling threateningly towards the Academy (background).
I reverse my 2 x Hetzers out of the line (purple arrow) because the station is a lost cause and they can contribute nothing more to its defence besides being no real match for 3 x SU-100's head-on..