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I've noticed in pvp games, most players will move their AFVs through open terrain, along roads and rarely move through forested areas (mobility 5% or so). Then one player conducted a tank bn attack over a wooded hill which I was barely able to stop and really derailed my plans. This was a very advantageous tactic in that it is much harder to spot and also hit such moving units; so of course, I started using it.

However, my amateur understanding is that this puts AFVs at serious risk of immobolization, and a little further research in the interwebz ( https://www.quora.com/Can-tanks-go-thro ... =384672213) puts them at risk of damaging systems, or misaligning the main gun. I'll readily admit to being conniving, dastardly and underhanded; but if someone was to say my tactics of driving tanks 8+km through forest in approximately 45 minutes were unrealistic it would break my ego.

So, for the sake of my ego, are tanks able to maneouvre through dense forest (5% mobility in the game)? Are there paths, gaps in the trees, or firebrakes that they can follow to get to their destination? I would think that the forests of W. Germany in the 1980s would be dense with mature trees, not tank country at all.

the current game mechanism needs to add more penalty for mechanized troops move through dense forest.

if my memory is correct, move deliberate will take 2 min to move through an open hex (500m) , but it is only 10 min to move though a Forest hex (5% mobility)

There are ways such as putting the main gun over the back deck. It really depends on slope, thickness and girth of the veg and most importantly, soil. I've done said technique a few times in the box in Germany, Pol/Czechia using goat trails, etc. Blew a transmission and a final drive on high slopes. It's slow and I wouldn't do it bigger than a company IRL. Completely different story in the southeastern US. Fun story, I once had to go with a now 2-star then Sqdn CO to fire a scout PLT LT that had managed to mire an entire 3x5 scout platoon in DeSoto national forest while making his own infiltration route beyond the cyber staked area. The whole time, I kept reassuring him, "sir, this is an easy decision."