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Originally Posted by Korsakov829
I've just thought it out. Terrible idea! Can you imagine if this guy had TNT or.. anything explosive, even mines?? You could just sneak some TNT or a mine behind a King Tiger.
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What you see as bad is an plus in my book. Many do that with scouts already anyway, or try it at least. One more reason to keep infantry close to your tank. It happens way to often that you have tanks standing around in the midle of nowhere without infantry cause they are dieing so fast and droping like flies leaving most of the battle out to the "tanks" only, well sometimes it happen that way at least. Even though for eventualy one tank you would have several THOUSAND of infantry around, for ONE single tank. Except in those situations when certain forces had only armored vehicles and a few APCs with infantry. I think the british that very often that they had only armored forces seperated from infantry with cromwells and fireflies. The Germans had their "Panzergrenadiere" which have been troops with vehicles for fast transport. The Soviets had the Tank detzanshiky (or something like that ...) which have been quite similar to the German counterpart following most of the assault guns they are famous for the picture of Soviets ridding on their tanks in to battle which was quite common. I dont think the US had really classified specialiced units for that since they had a large motorized army so most infantry could be transported either by APCs or trucks and jeeps. But I would not be surprised if certain units had specialy trained men for supporting the tanks in their fight. But probably nothing on the level of the Panzergrendiere, German armored units have been almost like an "small" army in itself full with anti tank guns, artillery, tank hunters, infantry and battle tanks of course. Best example with Rommel which had always quite a lot of 88mm anti tank guns with his armed forces before he became a General and just comanded a smaller tank group.
But with spies it could be always done in a way that if the "spy" (letz call it that) gets to close to the target the units will just shoot him assuming they asked for a check, you know most armies have those, Flash! - Thunder! anyone ?. Friendly fire amongst other issues was always a serious problem, particularly when you happend to be out at night on duty and had to check who the person infront of you was. At night someone with a rifle will just have the general shape of a soldier and to know if its friendly or enemy might be important so every army has usualy an phrase they shout and if there is no correct response they start firing.
In WW2 at least the actions of spies or troops behind enemy lines have been very important many times using the uniforms to camouflage themself. This was done at least by certain German forces and as well by British special forces. To avoid cheap use of course such units would have to be expensive and should eventualy not start with a uniform but get the option to use one from fallen enemy soldiers. Eventualy. No clue about that how hard ot easy that would be. And yeah officers should have the optoin to see them and identify them on sight. Snipers as well. The scout can be a pretty effective tool in the right hands and yet I dont see really anyone "spaming" them and attacking the player directly all the time since they are not cheap, cant be taken right from the start (time delay) and can be as well countered effectively.