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You can try to do the following, uncheck the box in the options that says you want to play with the classic hotkeys, that way you will have reverse on R instead of U which makes all the difference. Countless times I thought I was telling my tanks to back up and I was mistakenly hitting Y or I.

Always have spotter units for your Jackson, either infantry or M20 utility vehicle, Stuart or even M8. Stuarts are nice because they have their stun ability and point blank engine shot but it's dependent on your teching choice. Alternatively you can also place an AT-gun behind your Jackson so that when they push you aggressively with the Panther you can reverse your Jackson out of there and if he gives chase he will drive right into your AT-guns field of fire.

Also, if you are able to close the distance with a couple of riflemen squads and throw the AT-grenade on it, the panther is basically dead in the water once its engine is broken.

Assault engineers can feel as a random experience, sometimes they just die like flies trying to close the distance and sometimes they just spank enemy squads.

I've tried to learn to use them more effectively lately and the only thing I can recommend is try to use them the same way you would sturm pioneers. What I guess you could try is this: First, use volks or riflemen to set up in any nearby cover to take fire. While they are acting meat shields, bring your sturm pioneers or assault engineers in from a different angle and close the gap, usually I right click and drag their positions right next to the enemy unit.

If all works like it's supposed to, the meat shields will take the bullets while your burst units close the distance in relative safety and cut down the enemy unit.

Hello again.

I played a short game tonight and bug 2 happened again. I'll try and include the replay in this post, I'm new to this kind of stuff. Around 16 minute into the replay I rush a P4 with my Stuart after having repaired it. As I approach I activate the stun shot ability and voila, the attack move button disappears and I can't right click the enemy tank.

Also, around the 14-minute mark my Stuart charges the AI's P4 entering the map, I stun it with the stun shot ability and run up to it to use the point blank engine shot. The point blank engine shot highlights as it normally does when an ability is active, but never fires.

Tried to upload it to the site at this URL:
http://www.coh2.org/replay/21590/bug-attack-move-button-disappears.

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  Bug: Attack move button disappears.

  by: Arkaine map: Crossing in the Woods

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There's a slight difference in the bug happening here to the bug I mentioned as number 2 in my original post. Originally, the button disappeared altogether until exiting and re-entering the vehicle. In this replay the button disappears right as I charge, and as I escape after taking a crap-load of damage, it reappears.

I might also point out that this is a 'single player match' against 3 AI opponents. So I guess it's not related to net code or similar.

TLDR: Stuart light tank.
~14 minutes in, point blank engine shot doesn't work, as far as I can see.
~16 minutes in, attack move and attack ground buttons disappear and the tank can't fire.

Regarding 2. and 3. I have not heard of them prior. Would be good if you save the replay next time to send it to Relic so they can take a look at it. It's sometimes really hard to reproduce a bug.

Will save the replay next time I experience 2 and 3. I've only experienced each of them once so far so it may be really rare.

Regarding the retreat thing I just don't know. I'm sure I don't accidentally tab to scroll through the units, I'm pretty sure I see 3 exclamation marks indicating they're all retreating, but then something happens that cancels it. It could be an explosion or maybe they run into a charging vehicle and get stuck or something, but it is annoying and can be devastating.