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It might just be me, but are grenades super powerful? I just lost three squads in a game not to gun fire but grenades. These were not 3 or 4 ma squads they were 6, 7, 10 men each. Each one was going slowing through heavy woods when they ran into some Cossacks. The Cossacks fired and I took no losses but then the grenades came. Bam I lose a squad.
Were grenades really that effictive? In the game when a unit fires its grenades is it throwing one grenade or is everyman throwing a grenade?
thanks in advance.

I'd assume that more than one grenade is thrown, as well as more than one burst is fired when using yr rifles or MGs.
As for the grenades effectiveness, my personal opinion is that now it is slightly, but just slightly overstimated, but anyway better than how it was in previous versions...
There has been a lot of "noise" in the past by many endusers about the too low effectiveness of hand grenades, so Matrix twicked them up, maybe a bit too up
Same goes with vehicle immobilization following a wall/building breaktrough: people claiming abt a so high chance(not far from 100%, indeed) to get immobilized not to be realistic; now I'm still waiting to run into an immobilization due to wall/buildings, with version 7.1....

Cossak's grenades are they're only really useful weapon.


Also, I think they're effective range is incredibly short (1 hex) which is an overestimization (I doubt I could throw a grenade more than 50m, so 2 hexes would be insane...)

They're VERY effective on units, especially because of their high splash and HE kill ratios, perhaps a wee bit too effective, but...Alas, it balances out in the end.



And I've never ever had a tank get immobilized by a wall. I tend to just drive through buildings now-a-days...