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Sorry if it's been asked before:
do retreat bonuses apply to setup team weapons (MGs, mortars, etc) as soon as you click 'Retreat', or only after they've packed up and started running? I would assume it's the first, but it seems like you don't see the retreat icon on enemy team weapons (and squads vaulting fences) until they've started running toward the base. Is it purely a visual inconsistency?

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I can't remember if this came up before and I couldn't find it in the patch notes - the OKW Schu mines don't deal suppression (unlike their equivalents in other armies). Bug?

The worst examples of RNG have been removed from the game. The abandon mechanic was reworked (it's OK now IMO, apart from the US engine band aid), planes no longer pulverize armies, mines can't wipe. What remains is the level of RNG that has always existed in the franchise.

It's true that the first infantry engagement may be decided by RNG, but whether/where/when to take that engagement is up to the player, and on good maps the options are more than sufficient.

Once there are 4-5+ squads for each side, the importance of RNG in infantry combat becomes vastly overshadowed by micro. Something as trivial as a piece of light cover and whether a squad is firing on the move or not will decide a battle much, much more often than which model gets focused in a squad, and the luck factor averages more and more between players the longer the game goes on. Good play, on the other hand, consistently benefits the better player.

As to mortar shell wipes, well, you can hear it firing - stay and take a chance or move your squad (unless you're facing the US one, which is infamously OP as fuck). Players always blame RNG when a squad dies to a mortar, whether it's the first or the tenth shell that kills it.

Soviet - Ostheer 1v1 on Faymonville. Rather noobish (Soviet player at least) but you can see penals, and a T70 at vet 1-3. Not sure if opponent used something WBP-specific.

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