the Steel Beasts Anti- Frustration Kit. - The 29th Armored Regiment

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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
vehicles appear but usually don't see half of 'em go by. When you are the TC - are you better than AI TC?? The computer TC is fast, yeah, but they have a real problem with obscured targets, or targets at range, and a major problem spotting anything to the sides and rear of the vehicle. They're good enough to provide a high level of competence, particularly with a good battle plan that keeps everything to the front, but a sharp player will be able to outperform them regularly (same as the computer gunners). Mekhazzio - 04/2001 SBCom Forum About SA: Maintaining SA is simply the matter of not allowing yourself to get fixated on any one thing : don't micromanage from the map, leave the gunnery to the gunner, and always keep an eye out for new threats you might have to deal with. Mekhazzio - 06/2001 SBCom Forum About "Cavalry to the Rescue"-mission: While there - is - a lot of terrain to scan in this mission, you can narrow that down by excluding that which you can consider reasonably safe. For instance, you can consider everything south and east as clear until you get to the PCs, since the enemy only approaches (and has time to approach) from the north and west. Also, you can dismiss most of the far flat plains area, since it's flat and anything moving across it would be spotted -- no need to keep scanning over it much. Also, you can mostly leave the frontal arc to your gunner...with a human gunner especially, since their TIS will spot things a heck of a lot better than you will. So I mostly focus on the side arcs, and the major areas of concern are the "dead zones", places you couldn't see before that are now revealed as you cross over/around a terrain feature -- part of using terrain to your advantage is to keep those dead zones down to the smallest manageable area -- if you're coming around a hill, you can just scan around that hill as you circle it -- it's opening up a minor portion of area at a time (one you can keep your gun on, in fact) -- but if you go OVER that hill, you're instantly revealing the entire area on the other side, which is way too much to cover before you could receive a round from anybody in there. IMO, the external view really hurts more than it helps -- you're not controlling the tank, the AI is, and the AI doesn't really spot as well as a human can. With external view you're also giving up the GPSE and override capabilities, as well as the tank intercom (so you can't hear your gunner scream "Identified!! BACK UP!!" at you in MP) IMO it's also a lot easier to drive from the TC's seat, and the arrow keys that jump you to facing front/side/back of the gun really help the quick checking of this or that direction (checking up on wingmates, or going to another direction, etc) The TC's seat is the place to be. Mekhazzio - 07/2001 SBCom Forum
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