Capt. Pixel
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Joined: 10/15/2001 From: Tucson, AZ Status: offline
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I stumbled on a superb little river crossing force - Cavalry. Match up a couple of companies of Cavalry with a few sections of medium mortars for smoke cover and shoreline suppression, and you've got one h*** of a tough assault group. They swim across in squad formation. They don't need barges. They're not subject to the one-hit, one-kill sniper shot that assault boats are. They can pop smoke AND return fire from the middle of the river! And even if there IS a mine field on the banks, after a turn or two (and a couple of horses down) they're through and rampaging the backfield. I did a battle this morning with 7 Co So Cavalry, 2 Partisan plt, 3 medium mortar sections - running over a 250 meter river into 2000 points of defending Germans. The infiltrating Partisans arrived just in time to watch the victrious cavalry charge to the rear area objectives. :D I did lose two squads of cavalry tho'. Very impressive! :cool:
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