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- Can't get damaged, short of killing the TC. Damage to either the TIS or GPS is not uncommon (infantry are
particularly good at zinging the GPS at close range, and man does that suck).
- Higher perspective than the GPS, so you can peek over a hill while keeping your tank almost 100% safe from
enemy fire.
- Is much easier to scan quickly, side to side, etc. The 1x eye view (non-binocular TC unbuttoned) is absolutely
WONDERFUL for maintaining situational awareness. You can look to your sides, to your rear, with a very wide
field of view, and basically see a whoole lotta stuff at once. This can benefit driving, spotting enemies,
coordinating teammates and generally just knowing where the hell you are :) When you're peering out of a sight
(including the Leo's periscope) it's really easy to get lost and not really know where you're looking, where you're
going, or what's going on around you.
The value of the TC unbuttoned view cannot be overestimated. If anything more complex than a shooting-rangestyle
scenario is going on, I'd rather deal with it from the TC's seat than any other position.
As TC, you have everything available to you: you have a wide field of view, you have your own magnification
available, you can easily drive the tank around, you have the .50 if needed, you can point the gunner to the right
target and even fire the gun yourself (but that's not usually a good idea, since it keeps you from doing the rest of
your job)
It also seems that when one of my tanks steps out from cover he gets blown away way before anyone
can find the enemy? How often do experienced players get wacked and not even know where it came
from?
That's about the only way TO get an experienced player :) With SB, it's the enemy you don't see that you really
have to worry about :)
Reconnaisance, mutual cover and careful movement is everything. The first and second are fairly selfexplanatory,
and the third means to try to maneuver in such a way that you can scan terrain as you expose
yourself to it. Don't just roll over a hill right out in the middle of a valley, for instance: you expose yourself to
everyone that might be inside and around that entire valley, which is a lot more than you can possibly scan
before they fire on you.
Mekhazzio - 03/2001 eGroup Forum
On the matter of orientating yourself while in a mission (…) I can then only stress the use of marking points with
your joystick button number 2 (or cntrl, or right mouse click) while pressing shift, in the commander position, (if
you're gunning, that is automatically marked when lasing). That will cause to mark in the map a red star (sort of)
thus indicating you the spot you see. For instance, you could use external view (F8) and mark a point in that
fashion while viewing the tank from the rear part and using magnification (binos on).
One advantage of external view is that then you will have three observers, (you, the gunner and the
commander), thus resulting in a broader field of view. Off course you cannot trust too much on the system
crewmen, but is fair to say they will do a good job.
About the Leo : when not in use let the peri on slave mode, specially if you drive the tank to a different location.
This will aim your peri to someplace surely closer to the spot you wish to aim the gun, otherwise, since it is
stabilized, when you need it, it will be looking to some place God knows where, thus wasting precious seconds.
Héctor García - 03/2001 eGroup Forum
When I am the TC, will I ever see the enemy as well as the AI TCs ? I've been making convoys of enemy