Fulqrum Publishing Home   |   Register   |   Today Posts   |   Members   |   UserCP   |   Calendar   |   Search   |   FAQ

Go Back   Official Fulqrum Publishing forum > Fulqrum Publishing > Men of War

Men of War New World War II strategy game

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old 08-19-2010, 04:56 PM
CzaD CzaD is offline
Approved Member
 
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 117
Default

I play GSM and I got used to buying single soldiers: a SMG, a bazooka, a mp, an engineer and a halftrack and doing all possible mischief with them (of course that depends on who I play against, coz sometimes I don’t have time to do that). So I thought it would be nice to have a mechanized recon handy in the squad buying section.

As to the scouts, what do you think about their stealth skills? I used scouts to great effect (there are no Scouts in GSM) by sending them near the enemy spawn area and being able to bombard enemy artillery before they managed to fire it and than later destroy enemy squads. I know that some players use them like that.
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 08-19-2010, 06:06 PM
KnightFandragon KnightFandragon is offline
Approved Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: KRL HQ, Ontario Canada
Posts: 740
Default

Scout Stealth skill I like it, although ive been screwed by it time and again I kinda think its awesome that the scout actually has some usefulness in game. Instead of being a lightly armed, hardly armored expensive cannon fodder unit who you send out and he dies in 2 seconds he can actually do his saboteur job well. That stealth is nice allowing the dude to really mess up your enemy if they dont properly place infantry....I dont ever place infantry correctly...Ive lost a match b/c of a scout destroying my T29 the last, no kidding, 2 seconds of the game.....I saw a BOOM and then the end game score screen...I also drilled me a T29 with a scout. So the Scout is nice, just kinda tricky to use and requires Microing like no other.
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 08-19-2010, 07:30 PM
Nikitns Nikitns is offline
Approved Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 128
Default

scout is impossible to spot if moving in bushes (only thing visible is the rattling of the bushes). and he also has crazy run speed and stamina.
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 08-22-2010, 02:25 PM
Crni vuk Crni vuk is offline
Approved Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 185
Default

yeah but they can be easily spoted even on far distance sometimes (without officers) no clue how that happens though. Maybe some elite troops have a better chance of spoting something on the move ? LIke assault troops or paratroops maybe ? I mean it makes sense that a vet might have a better eye for battlefield then a usual grunt

*though I think realisticaly the real scout in WW2 was more the sniper. But I am not sure about that right now. It changed also sometimes from army to army. But many times snipers would take usualy that kind of role, particularly on the soviet side. Not cuase of their weapons though but cause they have received usualy a good training and had excelent battle awarness.
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old 08-23-2010, 10:48 AM
Nikitns Nikitns is offline
Approved Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 128
Default

tbh, I think it is funny how people say "sometimes this game is sooo random!!", forexample when a PZ4 kept bouncing his shells from my T-34 he said "this game is bugged".

What he didn't realize was that I put my t34 up a small hill, and thus the frontal slope increased from 60 degrees from horizontal to ~ 20-30 degrees from horizontal.

In the end I got his Pz4 with a T-34/85.


Same is with scouts. There are no "coincidence". ur scout was probably spotted by a sniper, officer or maybe a hidden rifleman.
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old 08-25-2010, 08:28 PM
CzaD CzaD is offline
Approved Member
 
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 117
Default

And on the topic of snipers? Do they prioritize their targets or they shoot at random? For example, if my scout detects an enemy sniper among the enemy infantry, will it try to take him out first before the others or he will shoot at the one which is closer or something?

Does anyone know?
Reply With Quote
  #7  
Old 08-26-2010, 01:02 AM
KnightFandragon KnightFandragon is offline
Approved Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: KRL HQ, Ontario Canada
Posts: 740
Default

Well, from what I noticed for infantry target priority, in the editor I messed around with alot of infantry fights and both the enemy and my guys seemed to target the guy with the biggest firepower first, my M249 SAW guys got drilled first no matter were they were in the trench. Then the Ai germans just kinda worked their way down from there....but they always dropped my SAW/HMG guys first. Tank Machine Gunners really get wasted to...idk if that was just my own insanity thinking thats how it was going or what but thats the things I saw.
Reply With Quote
Reply


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 11:22 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright © 2007 Fulqrum Publishing. All rights reserved.