For example, your ally has a tank to your right and you have a pistol the enemy would rather blow you away than go after the more powerful tank. The enemy forces tend to single you out as well.
When you fire it, the shell begins to descend as soon as it's out of the gun. The weapons are relatively useless-it takes at least three machine gun shots to drop a single man, and an entire pistol mag to drop somebody. The way that the maps are planned out and the strategic battle plans are organized are relatively accurate, but each map has at least one noticeable flaw in it. This isn't a particularly bad thing if you just want to blow off some steam and shoot up a map, but after a while it gets frustrating. All of your allies pretty stand around doing nothing while you have to do everything. The AI skills in this game are pretty bad. A very fun and action packed game, BattleField: 1942 is a flawed but still entertaining game.