V-man
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Originally posted by Lost Lieutenant: I'm currently playing "Watchword Freedom" and am in the third scenario of the campaign. My mission is to take a trio of Russian-held bridges to support follow-on missions. This area is heavily defended - and heavily mined. I've got 2 "Minenram Pz-III"s, but they seem to be completely ineffective in clearing paths through minefields for me. They get through minefields just fine, but any troops/vehicles following them just run smack into the minefield. Is there some trick to clearing minefields with mineclearing tanks? If not, then I fail to see any real use for these tanks, and my attack is going to stall miserably. For the sake of my Joes and my sanity, please help!
There is, indeed, a trick to assault mineclearing.
First, you must indentify the field exists. That requires moving infantry, Recon, or Engineers forward *first*. lay smoke to cover your approach, and fine the mines. Once you find them, you start clearing.
Move up engineers and right click to point them at the mines you need cleared (one hex can be worked by a given engineer squad/mine tank at a time). Using the smoke for concealment, move your leading infantry, SLOWLY, one hex ata time, forward into the field. When they are in a hex with mines, that engineeers are working from adjacent, they will ALSO clear mines in that hex.
I prefer to move one infantry platoon forward as a skirmish line, right behind my recon, to enter the minefield and, one hex at a time, advance through it. The following infantry moves into the field and is supported by Engineers behind it.
IN one battle vs. the AI, I infintrated a full platoon forward of the mines and started clearing a series of entrenchements (under cover of smoke and with supporting artillery and mortar fire) while following infantry and engineers clear the field at the rate of one hex every other turn.
V-man
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