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john g -> (6/13/2001 5:36:00 AM)
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Originally posted by Flashfyre:
I would suggest a higher ratio of armor:infantry. Wide open desert meant alot of manuevering, and the German tanks were undergunned against the British Matildas. Better to buy a company of medium tanks, a company of panzergrenadiers, a platoon of StuGs (for close infantry support), an armored recon group, some SPAA units, a platoon of engineers (to clear the way of mines), some 88mm ATGs (and transports for them), and a forward observer with transport. Also, if you have points left over, get a section of ammo trucks, so your mortar teams don't run out of ammo halfway through the battle.
Things like artillery, strike aircraft, armored cars, etc. should be bought with support points.
I would have to disagree. My WWII German core started earlier, so it downplayed tanks (only pz1b or IIc available).
As I recall it started as
1 company infantry
1 company engineers
2 platoons PzIIc
1 platoon PzIb
2 sections 88's
6 snipers
or thereabouts I do remember the total was 26 units through the campaign.
The IIc's were armored car and soft vehicle killers, the Ib's were infantry shredders.
All serious tank killing was done by the 88's or the engineers.
The snipers were my scouts, going back to the WWI prototype scout-snipers.
By the time I had made it into the desert the infantry company support weapons had changed into a tank platoon armed with III's or IV's and the I's and II's had upgraded into IV's as well. Their primary task was to take on allied light armor and support vehicles.
Some of the snipers had turned into mobile flak or 88's (just can't have enough of them around).
Later when the Brumm and sturmtiger showed up the last of the snipers was converted. Elite recon sturmtigers can find their own targets.
Almost all assaults or defends found my support points going for engineer companies, for meeting engagements I mixed it up and often threw in some armored cars to get a jump on victory hex possession.
My choice of core was colored by my experiance of shortly before playing a 10 year campaign as the Japanese from 30-39. There I never bought any armor heavier than the no longer available 2592 armored car whose 3 mg's made it a rolling pillbox. The Japanese core was made up almost entirely of infantry, some engineers and some horse cavalry.
Both forces downplayed offboard arty, I bought it a couple of times, but no where near as much as I bought transport aircraft or gliders. After testing I decided that strike aircraft were even less useful than arty so I never bought any. After seeing as many as 24 US aircraft shot down by my Germans per battle I came to the conclusion that aircraft only work against a force with no defense against them.
Both the Japanese and German campaigns by the end could steamroller the ai, the ai doesn't seem to do as well vs an infantry heavy opponent.
thanks, John.
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