AmmoSgt
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Joined: 10/21/2000 From: Redstone Arsenal Al Status: offline
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One of these days you will run up against an opponent that uses infiltration or small airdrops in your rear areas .. those recon could be covering the rear area of your map and save you some serious grief against aggresive commandos or airborne . I have been known to use Airdrop, in low visibilty PBEM games, where I only drop airborne recon troops, 2 or 4 man teams with some bazookas, maybe just an FO per plane ( no need to max out transports, thats just not subtle, and full company airborne drops that close to FEBA never made any sense to me anyway).. if I am moving first, often times the player moving second never even sees the transports do the drop, sometimes they never see the transports ... I use an enemy rear corner lateral entry with a exit at the other enemy rear corner, with the designated drop zone about the 5th-7th row from the back of the map ... if there are not any troops in the rear area .. like the back 15 hexes ..often times the transports or the drop is not seen ... well ok sometimes I fly empty transports and just fake a drop ( my opponent sees the transports but not the drop and just worries to death) .. ya never know .. but those pesky scouts can catch that and spoil the whole thing .. small scout units overwatching rear area Vhexes , will often spot infiltrators, without being spotted themselves, allowing you to neutralize infiltrators with arty or mortars, so they can be easily mopped up by your reserves without disturbing your main line of resistance... all in all some handy units against a sneaky player.
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