Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Bonners

Your units need to be in range of their parent HQ, there are two ways to check this. One, if you click on the unit and go into the details tab you will see one bit of information which states 'HQ power', you want this to ideally be at 100% which shows the unit is in range of its HQ. The other way to check is to click on the HQ unit and all its subordinate units will then be highlighted. You will also see a green overlay on the map, this is the range of the HQ. At the edges of its range you will see other colours, which show that the units are on the edge of the HQ's range. Why is this important? Well go back to the details tab and look at the figures under the HQ power stat; depending on the strength of the HQ unit there will be a combat modifier - this can be quite high especially for some of the German HQ units.

The big number on each unit is to give an idea of the raw numbers left in the unit. It is combination of its infantry, tanks, guns, transport etc... I think the actual breakdown is somewhere in the manual, but although this number is important I'm always looking at things like readiness, experience, morale and integrity as mroe important factors in judging a units strength.

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In general I would say the key to succesful attacks are good artillery (and if possible air) prep attacks. I havent really gotten into a well entrenched river crossing with enemy reserves behind kind of situation in any of my games but I think what I would try to do would be something like.

1: Hit a hex with a full artillery stack and drive it back, if you have enough artillery to do several of these attacks then do it.
2: Do not advance into the taken hexes.
3: If the opponent moves back forces into the taken hex then good you now have a low entrenchment target with less than optimal readiness, hit it.
4: If not repeat on a neighbouring hex, you now have to consecutive hexes you can move into on his side of the river, if you dont feel that this will be enough repeat from step 2

This might take a few turns but you should be able to inflict 4:1 or so losses on him which he cant sustain in the long run. A soviet rifle division will only be able to take one or two defeats like this before starting to break unless it has a lot of turns to bring back its morale and get reinforcements in between the attacks.

Edit: Oh and dont attack into non open hexes, there is almost always a better alternative.

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ORIGINAL: wodin

You where taught the USA beat the Nazis and also beat them at pearl Harbour!!!!

Wrong on so many fronts..

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ORIGINAL: Bonners

I'd be looking at stopping the Soviet 23rd tank corps in its tracks by using my divebombers on it this turn, you have nothing there that can stop it amongst your ground forces. Maybe move up the Hungarian regiment and the Security regiment to close the gap and encircle it, although both those units will probably die the next turn.

You should be bale to release the 44th regiment again, but I wouldnt do any more attacks in the north of the salient. In the south of the salient I reckon you should only do 2-3 attacks maximum, aimed at cutting the road to disrupt the supply of the westernmost Soviet forces. One tactic you could also try would be to bomb the last remaining bridge over the Bereka (if you manage to cut the other road with your southern forces) as that will put all of the western Soviet forces in danger. To blow a bridge just use level bombers. To virtually guarantee success you need about 200 points worth of bombers. I very much doubt you have that left, so you would probably be attacking with something like 100 points with only a 50/50 chance of success. Possibly too big a risk, but something to consider.

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ORIGINAL: Bonners

Well done enjoyed reading the AAR, hope it was a decent and fun learning experience. If I were you I would try the linked campaign next, it introduces quite a few more concepts into the game and the AI is again really good. There is an excellent AAR on it which you MUST read before playing each scenario. It is the very last AAR on this page IIRC. He really goes into a lot of detail about how he attacks and how he uses the cards, one of the best AARs on here.

EDIT: 1st Panzer AAR by ComradeP, third from bottom.