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Uses for Smoke Smoke is a great way to screen your advance. Suppose you're traveling through the only known, cleared space in a minefield. Is that cleared approach covered? Believe it. The reason there are no mines there, right where you want to go, is because the other guy wants you to go there, mostly so he can whack as many of your tanks as he can. Smoke will minimize the damage he can do. If he can't see you, how well will he be able to hit you? Artillery smoke would be ideal for situations like this, if you can get it. For those times when you can't using the smoke generators on your tank, and putting yourself in a formation so that as many units as possible are screened by smoke, would be another option. Echelon left, right, or column formations will provide the most protection to the most units. There will still be a tank exposed, who can be covered at least somewhat, at least temporarily, by smoke grenades. Switching formations might help minimize the risk to exposed vehicles by trading which vehicles get exposed, and for how long. Smoke is also good for foiling ambushes. Say you stumble into a killing zone. ATGMs everywhere, tanks pointed right at you and/or the rest of your platoon. You have about zero seconds to do something, what will you do? Pop smoke. Hit that TAB key once, and you've bought yourself at least a couple of seconds to think of what to do next. Making vehicle smoke right about now would probably be a good idea, too. Don't forget to turn on your TIS (far right + key). You can now start gunning at the guys who just a second ago were gunning for you. Or you can run away, having bought a few seconds' worth of confusion. Or maybe both. Remember, with your TIS on you can see him, and if you can see him you can shoot at him. Smoke grenades are also handy for disrupting missile fire. Lots of units in SB come equipped with either shoulder-fired or vehicle-mounted (or maybe both) anti-tank missiles. They're bad news. Smoke grenades can keep you from being hit, though. Often, provided the firing unit is distant enough, you'll see the shot coming. If you pop smoke, or make vehicle smoke, and back away, preferably out of sight, you've just saved yourself. Just remember, you only get to use smoke grenades twice per vehicle, per scenario. Using vehicular smoke, the SHIFT TAB kind, can also be handy if you're retreating from someone, and don't wish to actually turn around, so that you can fire at your opponent. Conceivably you could SHIFT TAB, and turn around completely to run away at top speed. What the other guy can't see he probably can't hit, after all. I would prefer not to, though. Note the 'probably' in 'probably can't hit', and while it might seem like a long-shot, you don't want to give anyone even that much of a chance. A shot hitting your front is much more survivable than one hitting your rear. Smoke can save you. Smoke can screen other units, either those in your platoon or others nearby. Smoke can screen your advance, foil an ambush, give you that little bit you might need to win a scenario. Remember that you have it. Remember what it can do for you. And don't forget to turn on your TIS. Good luck, good hunting. 1. Installation 2. Finding online games 3. Tactics 4. Sharpening your skills 5. Goodies 6. Etiquette 7. Credits
1. Installation 2. Finding online games 3. Tactics 4. Sharpening your skills 5. Goodies 6. Etiquette 7. Credits A Thousand Bee-Stings - Anti-Tank Missiles and what you can do about them They're everywhere. Infantry have them, APCs and scout vehicles have them, so does some Soviet armor. They're anti-tank guided missiles (ATGM). As an aside, technically every anti-tank missile is not an anti-tank guided missile, but since their behaviors are closely similar, and since they can both be defeated in about the same manner, let's call them the same thing for the sake of argument. Fine. What are they? ATGMs are shoulder-, or vehicle-launched missiles equipped with HEAT warheads, whose function is to penetrate tank armor, destroying the vehicle. What they can do to you Individually, ATGMs might not pierce the armor of your tank, at least not from the front. This doesn't mean a hit won't hurt. An ATGM will almost certainly damage something; often it will damage a two or three somethings at a time. An ATGM hit might not kill you outright, but it will break something and make you easier to kill, thereby. Lose stabilization for your main gun, and you lose the ability to hit a target while on the move. Stabilization loss also affects accuracy, it has some effect on how fast you can pull the trigger, and that affects how many times you might get to shoot at a target before it gets to shoot back. Coupled with the degradation in accuracy, loss of stabilization can put you at enough of a disadvantage that you might not recover before the other guy gets you. A non-fatal hit from an ATGM can do other things, too. A hit from an ATGM can take out your radio, your TIS, your GPS, etc. You can lose a track, and thereby lose the ability to move anywhere but in a circle. A tank immobilized by an ATGM is effectively out of the action, and therefore out of the game. Your immobilized state also makes you a lot easier to hit, and this time the shot might come from the rear. Lose a track and someone will come along to turn your immobilized state into something a lot more permanent, and smoking. That's the real danger that ATGMs pose. There are so many of them that even if the first few don't kill you, the next one will. Individually they might be no more annoying than a bee-sting, but there are a lot of bees on the battlefield, and they can sting you in places that can be fatal. Tangling with ATGM-equipped infantry and APCs is potentially more hazardous than dealing with tanks. Why? A quick example. You have just run across a platoon (say three) BMPs, each equipped with a squad of infantry. Each squad has dismounted. There are now six potential sources for ATGM fire. They can attack from any direction, and they can be very hard to hit. A comparable platoon of Soviet MBTs will probably attack from one direction, represents three sources of gunfire, and are easier to hit. The hits you take from the MBTs will maybe disable something, but you'll probably get all of them before they destroy you. The same is not true for infantry and the PCs they rode to battle in. If dismounted the infantry and/or their rides might get you before you get all, or even any, of them. ATGMs are everywhere, and can attack from anywhere. It's also a lot easier to ambush tanks with infantry than with other tanks. Try the scenario Blind Elephants; you'll see what I mean. What you can do about them The good news is that as a tank, you're still a lot less vulnerable than either an APC or a squad. A squad could shoot at you with rifles and machine guns all the live-long day without doing more than scratching the paint, maybe. You, shooting back with just your machine guns, would take down the squad before they could do more than scratch the paint. Hit the APC before its dismounts dismount. There, you've just killed two sources of missile fire with one shell. Lighter APCs can be taken out with an M1's .50 cal, and BRDMs are vulnerable to coax fire from the side or rear.
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