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SOUND PROPOSITION

This series of tests reveals that -
Tanks moving on 'Fast' are the noisiest.
'Hunt' is a bit quieter.
'Move' is much quieter.
Stationary tanks can only be heard if listener is close (roughly 40 metres).
'Hide' has no noticeable effect but might possibly quieten a tank very very slightly if enemy infantry are almost on top of it.

Cheers POS... good job.

That's not, strictly speaking, true. Stationary vehicles give sound contacts, but only at very close ranges, right over a hill crest or something.

A few tests I've run don't, however, show an appreciable difference between 'hidden' and 'unhidden' vehicles. Ran one test with a single file line of stationary vehicles on the opposite side of a hill crest...hide didn't seem to have any effect on how many were detected.

Yes that's what I suspected,maybe that's what the 'hide' command is for, a kind of 'silent running' option like when an enemy destroyer is almost on top of a sub

Cheers, Spike, good stuff.

Yeah, could be, and that's apparently what the manual suggests. But the tests I did showed no real difference at all. Especially since you have to be practically on top of a stationary vehicle to get it to give a sound contact. Hard to imagine it'd ever be worth using in game situations - 'my vehicle can be heard by units out of LOS but within 15m, but now, I've clicked 'hide', and it can only be heard from 12m away!' - like you, I generally don't bother with it.

STOP PRESS NEWS - After very useful comments by The Coil I did the tests again and edited a new shot into the top post showing that stationary tanks CAN be heard if the listener is close (40 metres or so)

that is interesting test - I wonder if weather have influence on that ?