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Originally Posted by DRG
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I set up a quick test game and bought a large number of Sturmpionieres and sent them attacking at a large number of 2 Pdr guns and the 2 Pdrs will indeed fire at the Sturmpionieres.....with their rifles.
I did not see one 2 Pdr fire it's main gun at any infantry target.
Don
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When I ran my test battle, I had the same result as you. It was just in the one campaign battle I had the problem. I was hoping to see it again in my next battle so I could save a file, but the only 2pdrs the were two mounted on trucks and in bunkers with 25pdrs as the #1 weapons. One truck I dispatched with artillery and the other with tanks so those didn't even fire. As for the bunkers, I didn't want to approach the front of those just to try to draw a shot. My unit would probably just pop smoke and run from the 25pdr anyhow. I figure to let it happen again in the normal course of playing and I can send out a file then.
I'm sure of what I saw when the problem occurred because I had just cleared wire and dragons teeth on the bottom edge of the map with my Sturmpionieres. To their North and Northwest was British infantry, to their Northeast was about eight A13 Mk II (behind the infantry) and to their East was a couple of 40mm AA guns, two 2pdr ATGs and several Vickers HMG positions.
The AA guns and ATGs were dispatched with a combination of artillery strikes and attacks by the engineers, but the HMGs were giving me fits. Can't easily kill what you can't see. I used additional smoke to screen my engineers from the infantry they were past and the HMGs they were not and pushed toward the tanks, figuring they would be vulnerable to engineers since M13s don't have HE ammo. I wasn't as worried about the machine guns. That's when I started taking fire from 2pdr main guns from the A13 Mk IIs. It was so bad I brought up my mine clearing tanks to slowly pick them off. My poor engineers ended up taking a beating in my soaking off attacks against the British tanks before I moved my tanks in.
Until it happens again, I'm not going to worry about it, but I am going to respect the possibility that 2pdrs will shoot HE. For all I know, it was just a corrupted parameter file that cleared up after that battle finished. As I said above, in my last battle units with 2pdrs didn't get a chance to shoot at infantry units, engineer or otherwise.