An Observation

[jp10]

I can say that one item concerning a burning tank is that nobody wants to be close to one while it brews up. While one tank may not clear out a full hex, if it was possible code wise, a burning tank should do something akin to reducing the number of units that can be in the hex while it burns or cause units to move/rout out of the hex. A burning tank in a narrow street would block movement as well as LOS.

[Griefbringer]

Originally Posted by jp10

if it was possible code wise, a burning tank should do something akin to reducing the number of units that can be in the hex while it burns or cause units to move/rout out of the hex.

Destroyed vehicles already cause a bit of suppression to all units from their side that are near by.

While this effect may not be very noticeable for a couple of wrecks, try blowing up dozens of vehicles in a narrow area and even early war German tankers may end up retreating after driving to the area.

(My experiences about blowing up large amounts of early war German tanks in narrow areas are based on the Ruin Rommel scenario that was included in the latest release. Great fun to play, though quite time consuming.)

[sigeena]

The suppression of wrecks is very noticeable. I've gone into a number of battles against Soviet, and only did the minimum of destroying all their light and fast armour. Their KVs rout typically when approaching the wrecks.

Good thing as well, I barely have anything to stop their heavies.