Did they fix all the reteating?

John Tiller's Campaign Series exemplifies tactical war-gaming at its finest by bringing you the entire collection of TalonSoft's award-winning campaign series. Containing TalonSoft's West Front, East Front, and Rising Sun platoon-level combat series, as well as all of the official add-ons and expansion packs, the Matrix Edition allows players to dictate the events of World War II from the tumultuous beginning to its climatic conclusion. We are working together with original programmer John Tiller to bring you this updated edition.

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cyberwop36
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Did they fix all the reteating?

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I bought and played all the original games. As I remember one of the most irritating things about the game was the duck in a shooting gallery effect.

A platoon taking fire would bounce around getting retreat result after reteat result. Triggering op fire and more bing, bing, bing.

It made armour facing rule useless. If a vehicle platoon takes heavy direct fire they don't back put of trouble like a real unit would. They turn their tails and get hammered on their rear facing.
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RE: Did they fix all the reteating?

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ORIGINAL: cyberwop36

I bought and played all the original games. As I remember one of the most irritating things about the game was the duck in a shooting gallery effect.

A platoon taking fire would bounce around getting retreat result after reteat result. Triggering op fire and more bing, bing, bing.

It made armour facing rule useless. If a vehicle platoon takes heavy direct fire they don't back put of trouble like a real unit would. They turn their tails and get hammered on their rear facing.

Not yet.. but it's coming.

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RE: Did they fix all the reteating?

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You might just play without the facing rules.
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RE: Did they fix all the reteating?

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That's what I use to do in the original games. I was just wondering if it was fixed.

Still AI infantry units will get down to 1 strenght point and bounce around, even when assaulted if I remember. They needed to disolve as stragglers after such combat stresses.
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