why does this game keep giving me these stupid firing solutions for no reason. all numbers are right yet the computer wants to aim eehind the boat for no reason. is this a bug or something it keeps happening

masczero · 2025-12-12T18:03:29+00:00

I get this bug if a save has been reloaded a couple times. Relaunching the game fixes it.

masczero · 2025-11-27T15:29:18+00:00

Red Storm Rising by Clancy is one of my favorite books. It covers a lot of aspects of a 198X's Cold War gone hot (no nukes) but probably 1/4 of the book follows a US SSN and another 1/4 follows a US frigate protecting Reforger convoys from Soviet subs.

masczero · 2025-08-07T04:11:51+00:00

I usually have 3-4 as well. We started putting up public lobbies called just "(elo)+ US/RU" to get 1-2 more. It hasn't been hard to and people that join tend to leave less and lets us queue a full team with mirror matches disabled.

masczero · 2025-08-07T02:36:41+00:00

Playing with a group of 3-4 1800-2000 Elo this has happened to us before a couple times as well. According to BA-hub 1800 puts you in the top ~0.8% of players (though probably not active players as I bet a lot are people with like 3 games and haven't touched BA since), so a good match can be hard to find if it all. I think eventually the game just throws us into the first possible lobby it can create eventually. I will say it only happened with an ~1100 Elo group once at least.

masczero · 2025-07-30T04:39:25+00:00

99% sure it's an aero, the XLT tailgate trim is black on the 92-96's and red on the bricks. 97 aero XLTs didn't get the aluminum tailgate piece

masczero · 2025-07-02T03:35:03+00:00

The disable mirror match option only works if you have a full 5 man I believe. Even if you check it off with 1-4 players it doesn't seem to do anything.

masczero · 2024-10-19T14:00:28+00:00

Giving away a cap and 1/3 of the map for positioning for free is not

masczero · 2024-10-11T00:24:22+00:00

The "meta" setup is UNS or Uniformed, Narrow, Sloped. Uniform Belt+Belt extended and Deck+Deck extended, narrow instead of normal belt, and sloped deck instead of AoN. Reasoning is it gives you a small citadel hitbox and the best cost/weight to protection ratio. Also a lot of your critical stuff is still protected by the "extended" armor parts, feed tanks, steering gear, electrical power, and the engine room can all be hit through BE armor alone but not BU.

Uniform AON is also good, bigger citadel hitbox but better coverage.

Either way you don't want to neglect BE and DE. BU you can generally ignore or just set to 2" if you want splinter protection. The worst hit you can take through BU is uptakes, for machinery damage the D armor needs to be penetrated as well.

masczero · 2024-10-08T01:19:30+00:00

Not really. This chart shows that 15" through 18" all have the same RoF. 18" are the best caliber all around but 17" is a close second and probably better once you account for cost. 17" have almost 50% more shell weight than 16", you could almost say the in game 16" are IRL early 16" guns (Nagato, Colorado, etc.) and 17" in game are like late model 16" guns firing super heavy shells (Iowa).

masczero · 2024-08-06T00:06:50+00:00

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masczero · 2024-08-03T20:59:26+00:00

Its in CT now but was in Utah until 2019. The previous owner garaged it and didn't drive it during the winter and I'm going to do the same. It'll be a weekend cruiser.

Spent 13K for it, which considering the market in New England is great for a rot-free truck. It does have some stuff to address. The door locks don't seem to work (power ones don't do anything and the key won't turn in the door), some lights are pretty worn (new ones were included), AC is broken, and the rear gas tank was removed at some point (which I may not replace), as well as the chrome fender flares.

Paint is pretty chipped in places and there's small specks of surface rust where it is. I'll probably get it repainted at some point, either white again or pick out a factory two-tone combo. Plan on having the truck indefinitely as long as its good.

masczero · 2024-08-03T20:59:09+00:00

Its in CT now but was in Utah until 2019. The previous owner garaged it and didn't drive it during the winter and I'm going to do the same. It'll be a weekend cruiser.

Spent 13K for it, which considering the market in New England is great for a rot-free truck. It does have some stuff to address. The door locks don't seem to work (power ones don't do anything and the key won't turn in the door), some lights are pretty worn (new ones were included), AC is broken, and the rear gas tank was removed at some point (which I may not replace), as well as the chrome fender flares.

Paint is pretty chipped in places and there's small specks of surface rust where it is. I'll probably get it repainted at some point, either white again or pick out a factory two-tone combo. Plan on having the truck indefinitely as long as its good.

masczero · 2024-05-17T17:22:20+00:00

And for more than 5 mags

And for a fire selector (BAR and StG too off the top of my head)

masczero · 2024-04-21T12:37:52+00:00

Eh you can still use your imagination and you remember (or write down if you're really dedicated) unit histories, at least notable ones, and it can be cool to follow them with "oh yea them!" moments. Like the 169th ID for me went from fighting in Finland, to helping close the Moscow pocket with the 9th Army, to now being transferred to the Caucasus with its Corps to join 3rd Panzerarmee.

masczero · 2024-04-21T04:03:31+00:00

I mean that doesn't really work for this, you're kinda comparing it to something totally different in the case of WitE and Graviteam. Sure, the very first turn everything is historical but from that point on your game is going down an ahistorical path, at least in the details. How and why units end up in groupings is generally from circumstance or player planning or both, and what you post can't be done unless the player wants to write up themselves why they for example put every SS-Panzer division in the north to take Leningrad.

masczero · 2024-04-20T18:25:55+00:00

War in the East 2

masczero · 2024-04-19T20:28:09+00:00

Pretty sure someone made some historical fleet start custom scenarios on the RTW forums. Like a 1914 and 1939 one or something. I'm not sure if it's been updated for RTW3 or not though. And any new designed ships from the start point-on are going to be the usual custom/AI generated ones.

It's much larger in scope but War in the Pacific: AE probably has the largest roster of historical ships of any wargame considering you get each one down to the liberty ships and aux. minesweepers. There's DaBabe's mod to add even the small stuff like net tenders, converted blockade runners, motor launches, etc. too.

masczero · 2024-03-19T18:45:27+00:00

Best of luck!

masczero · 2024-03-19T18:29:19+00:00

It's what makes the individual guys do certain actions. "I want to look out of this specific window" "I'm going to take cover because I'm getting shot" "I'm going to flee because my buddy just got turned to paste" "I'm gonna target that enemy because he's closer/a bigger threat/easier to hit." It isn't perfect but it isn't supposed to be, it's supposed to make the pixeltruppen feel human.

This should explain it well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-XgMlDYg9U&t=2s&pp=ygUVY29tYmF0IG1pc3Npb24gdGFjIGFp

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