Griefbringer
Posts: 50
Joined: 3/29/2003 From: Helsinki, Finland Status: offline
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I am not a true newbie - I have played through two late war US campaigns, with relatively good results, and a number of individual battles with both US and soviets - and I can handle decently recon and combined arms, but now I am in a new situation. I just started playing through the long WWII campaign, starting with Brits in 1940, and after the first two battles I found out that they are really different to the late war US that I got used to. Also when it comes to history, I am not as familiar with the British as I am with the historical Soviet, US and German equipment and tactics. There are some pieces of equipment that I haven't found good use for: -Bren Carriers: how do use these well? I find them rather ineffective - small carry capacity, ineffective gun and poor cross-country mobility. I thought of using these to carry infantry to support tanks, but they could only carry a scout team, had difficulties keeping up with the tanks, and a MG burst or two made the passengers freak out. -Boys AT-rifles: I was quite impressed with the Soviet AT-rifles (I saw them take out lots of HTs and light tanks - even one PzIII). However, the British ATR-teams haven't managed to even scratch an enemy vehicle yet - not even Panzer I. Being armed with pistol for anti-personnel weapon does not help the situation. Is there any future for these guys, or should I send them to learn to use other weapons? My first use of LRDG was also a bit disappointing, but I realised that I expected a bit too much from them, and shouldn't have tried to use them for anything else than recon - and the battle was not a good one for deep penetration. Griefbringer
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