My bad I thought the two cross hairs were on the SE Tiger IIs.balone wrote:Correct me if I'm wrong but I see three tiger II's and one tiger I. Twobrettz123 wrote:I think what he is saying is that if you had suppressed him enough with artillery and strat bombers and then attacked with your best tanks first this probably wouldn't have been an issue in the first place.johndoe2 wrote:Have you actually read my post? That's all I'm gonna say...
I don't see any artillery in range (though to be fair the Wespe in the bottom right could have a range 1 hero) and I don't see any strat bombers anywhere so your picture leaves the idea that you did not suppress the tank at all before attacking. Then I have to wonder why you didn't attack with your best tanks first. There is no benefit to attacking with them last.
of the tiger II's are SE so it appears that he did attack with his best
units. IF, preattack, the soviet tank had 4 strength and no ammo then
I think johndoe has a valid point. Surrounded with no ammo? Come on!
Now back to the discussion. It is not stated that the unit was strength 4 when the attacks started and that seems highly unlikely considering it has been attacked by 3 Tiger IIs and a Tiger I. So I think that is something we don't have to worry about too much. So I don't find the situation that ridicules. If you want to get a unit to surrender put some suppression on it!
The other issue would be if you could just surround the IS tanks and get them to surrender when their ammo runs out it would make them even easier to kill. The AI is bad enough that being able to do this would make the game even easier (which I consider to be a bad thing). As it is you can easily just use a strat bomber to get the ammo down to 1 shot and then keep it from being supplied with some tanks until you destroy it.