December 5th, 2008, 09:29 AM
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First Lieutenant
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Brazil/France/Somewhere over the Atlantic
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Re: Unarmed close assault?
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Originally Posted by Mobhack
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Originally Posted by iCaMpWiThAWP
I recently was playing a battle, february 1991, USA assaults Iraq, after some turns, a platoon of abrams ran on my reserve company on my rear area, most of the squads were equipped with AKs, grenades, my heavy weapons got supressed by small arms fire, and i had to assault the M1 platoon since no rpg there, using my pinned infantry to button the tanks, one squado threw a grenade, non-penetrating hit, but mobility kill, by no pen grenade!, then i finished him off, gone for the second tank, assaulted him, with no weapon(it was written: Rifle Squad Assaulting M1... BUT no weapon was selected by the squad) and DESTROYED it, so how could they do this? Did they hopped over the tank, opened the turret and killed the man in there? is this a "bug"?
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No bug. Any infantry unit can kill any tank by assaulting them, even crew counters can do this. Hatches can be pulled open and even pistol bullets pinging around inside is detrimental to the tank crew's health.
Hand grenades can detrack vehicles or penetrate thin tin.
If there are no special weapons, they use grenades usually. However units without a proper A/T weapon will often have a bad result and run away in tank panic based on morale, suppression and experience.
Assaulting troops use whatever weapon they want to, totally ignoring any switched "off" by the human player.
(You did the correct thing in suppressing the tanks before the assault, as being buttoned adversely affects the defending factors of the tank in a close assault. As does being disabled, damaged or in rout or worse status. Being open-topped is about the worst case scenario for an assaulted AFV)
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i learned to button/damage the enemy armor so i can assault them the hard way xD
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