<t> To address the OP's question of NATO tank design and the cold war:<br/>
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NATO was headed IMO in the right direction with their tank design philosophy. I don't think they had the tanks they needed in the time frame portrayed in FCRS though. NATO was always going to be at a numerical ...

Helos (and fixed wing for that matter) all stay the heck away from the gun line, shell flight path, and impact area of artillery strikes. To be truly realistic you shouldn't be able to have any AC in the shell flight path between your artillery and the target hex.

-Jenrick

<t> I physically keep my units close to each other. In the real world you won't often send one platoon over a kilometer away from the other members of the company except in special circumstances. This helps keep everything sorted and controllable. As far as orders go, I usually have my units in one ...

<t> The actual missile in most SAM's systems does not have an IFF interrogator, usually it's just the launching system. Also IFF in wartime is hit or miss, particularly in a truly contested sky no positive friendly signal means a missile is launch. There are a whole bunch of reasons why an IFF ...

<r> Interesting I had expected a simple decrementation of the ammo counter per attack. <br/>

<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>In the long run I don't think combat would be any different really but players could "see" each round being ticked off as it is used. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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One of the ...

<t> Tank main guns usually have an AP, HEAT, and area rating listed. Is this representative of two or three different types of ammo, and each attack uses one and only one value (e.g. discrete KE or HEAT attacks) or does each attack take all three factors into account as sort of a "hybrid" cannon ...

<t> I can see where the designers were going with the armor, as the march in HEAT technology looked to be making RHA plate pointless against cannon rounds. If that was to be the case then why slap more useless armor on it, as it already had enough to shrug off most anything else in the WP inventory ...

<t> If the Leo 1 had been up-gunned to the the 120mm L44 in the A4/A5 configuration I think it would have made a dandy "light" tank. Good speed, armor that will stop anything except a tank main gun round or an ATGM, and a gun that would destroy anything on the battlefield for the time period. <br ...

Ah those are Leo 2's which are a whole different ballgame. The Leo 2A4 is roughly equivalent to the M1A1, while the Leo 1A1 is proably closer to the M48 then the M60. The later Leo 1A5 has a much better fire control system but the armor is still lacking badly.

-Jenrick

<t> Well I was typing out a long detail post with stat comparisons when the internet ate it. So here's the cliff notes version.<br/>
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The Leo 1 is basically just barely achieving parity with early generation WP tanks, in terms of armor and main gun. Some of the later models of the T-55 and T ...

<t> Tanks main guns usually have an AP, HEAT, and area rating listed. Is this representative of two or three different types of ammo, and each attack uses one and only one value (e.g. discrete KE or HEAT attacks) or does each attack take all three factors into account as sort of a "hybrid" cannon ...

<t> I'm not an expert by any stretch of the imagination on the German ORBAT, or equipment. I was curious however that the PzGren ATGM teams do NOT have thermal sights. Now I know that the MILAN was offered with three different sighting options (and only one being a thermal), was it issued this way ...

<t> Well after some serious experimentation I'm starting to get a handle on the Leopard 1. <br/>
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Rule #1: It is not a match for any Soviet tank in a fair fight. You can play with the numbers all you want, but if you try to go toe to toe with a WP tank unit you are asking for failure. Even ...

So far I have had little success in using the earlier generation Leopard. I know it's fast, but it's under armored compared to the other NATO tanks, and the gun is nothing to write home about either. Any suggestions on how to employ them?

-Jenrick

I'm debating tweaking recon units not have any weapons. To be honest if your a recon platoon commander and are shooting at something, things have gone SERIOUSLY wrong.

-Jenrick

I'll check that out this weekend, thanks!

-Jenrick

<t> I believe it's John Tillers Squad Battles Vietnam that had an interesting mechanic for the helicopters. They had to move a certain number of hexes every turn (I believe they are 50m hexes, been a while since I fired it up), or be considered hovering. Additionally fire more then once without ...

I was curious if the Grognard challenge scenario was going to be released for FCRS at some point? I was hoping to have a chance at bettering my score now that I have a clue what all I'm doing.

-Jenrick

Great mod, thanks!

-Jenrick

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>can a APC like the Marders or a Leopard A1 be damaged by the 12.7 mm rounds to a point where they have to fall out in this game? <br/>
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I am thinking the optics or some other damage that makes the tank to damaged to fully function... to be honest I don't really know ...