zzodr

Cool thks Darkangel. Here's some pics from Instant action in the M1A1. Heavy damage from a miss: [ATTACH]6840[/ATTACH] Red on Red.... I'm the dot on the hill near the yellow arrow: [ATTACH]6841[/ATTACH] T80 hit right down the barrel: [ATTACH]6842[/ATTACH]

Hey, thanks for all the tips & answers. The AI driving on the right and changing lanes actually never occurred to me, I just thought it was like "I'm a tank, I will drive where the hell I want" sort of thing. I did the bridgelayer and breach tutorial, that was pretty cool, I don't remember ever playing a sim that had bridgelayers in it you could drive. I would not like to be driving a MICLIC in a combat zone towing all that C-4 around either... From wiki: (in case the charge does not go off) Due to the inherent dangers of entering a live minefield to manually arm the backup fuses on a charge that could still detonate at any moment, possibly while under enemy fire as well, the act is jokingly referred to as the "Medal of Honor run". :cul:

Hi All, New member here, hi to all. Just installed SB Pro PE patched etc.. works great. Thought I would share my first impressions, it's awesome! Did the M2 tutorials, then took the M2 out for a spin and played with infantry squads a bit. Won't comment on the infantry graphics because I see it has been mentioned enough and I think a update may be in the works for that. The big maps and ability to have lots of units running around is great. I have downloaded custom skins and effects which are great too. In my first engagement, (M2) I was in a hull-down position lining up two BMPs when one fired a ATGM :eek2: (black swerving dot getting bigger in TI = bad) at me, I quickly reversed and and turned right at the last moment and the missile sailed over my turret with a WHOOOSSSH!! It was VERY LOUD on the headphones, kinda one of those whoa! moments in gaming. After destroying the first with some 25mm AP, the second fired a ATGM and I thought, do I backup? or try and kill him while the missile is in flight? I managed to lay the gun on him with the mouse (I find joystick a bit difficult with the gun) and kill him and the missile nose dived into the ground. I guess the gunner must have fallen forward on his fire control yoke or something (like in the movies) I took a platoon of Leo 1A4s out (I have a soft spot for them since I'm in Australia, saw quite a bit of them when I was younger on open days etc - they have been replaced with M1A1's here though) and got my ass handed to me by the AI in T72s so more practice reqd. So other things which were a bit strange.. why does the driver swerve at random when you are driving manually down a road in external view? Also I noticed the stone bridge walls you can pass right through and fall in the river.. I was expected to collide off them with the sound of scraping metal. Was also looking forward to using the .50cal over open sights in TC unbuttoned view.. but I read you can't.. oh well. Have played a lot of M1TP 1 (C64) & 2 (PC) - didn't everybody? and Steel Panthers and WINSPMBT (updated version) which is great, but SB is obviously a lot more immersive and a LOT more realistic - like getting killed and not even knowing where it came from. Spotting the enemy just became a whole lot harder. Unfortunately, work gets in the way too much so can't spend as much time on it as I would like. Happy tanking! zzodr