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Originally posted by Griffin:
I have found the campaign very entertaining. The first time I played I recieved a combination of DV, MV and Draws. I restarted the campaign after getting bogged down in the Piquet Marshes and have been able to get MV and DV on all the senarios so far. I am now currently at the Stalin Line.
A couple of quick tactics. First in each senario you have to be conservative with your tank ammo. Expecially with your Tank J's. These are the only tanks that have APPC Ammo that can penatrate the armor of KV-1 and KV-2. What I have found is that your other tanks can destroy all of the lighter tanks at range up to 25 hexs and your J's will not fire there APPC ammo beyond hex 10. To be effective you have to get withing 3-4 hexs of the KV-1 & KV-2 to destroy them even the APPC ammo. Otherwise the shots bounces off. Getting that close can be very difficult. Use your terrain and be patient.
Second it is important to look at all of your tanks to see what kind of ammo they have. Many of your smaller tanks will have a limited amounts of AP and APPC. Once this is gone you have to resort to HE which does not penetrate armor well.
Third in a tank battle lead with your Stug's they have the best armor and will ussually survive 5-6 shots on there front armor.
Forth many times you can manipulate tank battles with smoke. Have your artillery fire a smoke barrage and then move up to only one hex away from the smoke. On your next turn move one hex and than start to blast away at the target that you have the highest percentage to hit and whose armor is low enough so that your tank will be able to penetrate. Then move one hex back into the smoke to block line of sight. This can also be done with woods, hills, houses. The object here is to never leave your tanks out in the open where the enemy can blast away at you.
If you have run out of APPC ammo the best alternative it to use two or three infantry units to assault the heavy tanks. You will either get lucky and destroy it of after about 4-5 assualts the tank crew is so suppressed they bail out and you can then destroy them with machine gun fire.
Try to be more conservative and patient. I found the times that I get beat up the most is when I try to push ahead to fast. I now tend to pop smoke and move all units up to the point of contact and then dismount and end my turn. The next turn I will move my infantry forward and engage the enemy. This is slower but I have much better results. This allows you to consentrate fire power and to hit the area ahead of you with artilary fire.
Lastly be very conservative with your recon units. These are probably your best infantry killing units. They have good spoting and have high mobility. Once an enemy infantry has retreated move your mobil recon unit in and overrun them to oblivion.
Oh yes did I mention be conservative. I hope this helps. Good luck and enjoy.
Griffin
Appreciate all of the feedback, guys. I'm in the marshes now, for those of you further into the campaign. I estimate I'm about 10-12 scenarios into it by now. I just earned a moderate victory last weekend, sorry I can't remember the scenario. I do recall it required a sweep of the forests. I completed sweeps and came out on my left flank, supporting the engr.'s and armor I had defending a crossroads. T-28's accompanied by SO mg squads came from the North. BT-7's and ?? across a bridge to my Southeast. My armor was positioned perfectly on the heights above the roadway, along with 2cm flak, 37mm, and 7.5 cm's guns. I annihilated the armor, but the scenario ended before I could capture all of the VH.
I think a large part of my problem has been the early draws forced me into tough situations. I found myself, at least 3 times, in scenarios requiring me to split my attack, not concentrating my attack but being forced into a 2 or 3 pronged attack.
Now I'm forced into a defensive position. Not sure what to expect, but I expect a LOT of armor.
Well, wish me luck!!
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Save your games guys. Play 'till game stops by loop or crash, after that waite LV-Patch#1 and new mech. I am truly sorry to say this but we have stretched game to levels that it starts to scream for mercy and because of this we have worked patch for LV.
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Real life tactics work on and in Lost victories. This was very investigated issue while LV was designed.
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First of all; All scenarios (+250) have had decisive victory from tester before it is approved. There is some that are later edited to be near impossible to win, but that is due to historical essence.
Second: Don't get cought into word that says you have a 'draw'. Some AARs do say quite nasty words of it, but don't take it personally. It is way for your commanders to say that more were required than what result was, also after very succesfully done work. They got higher people above who are saying same things to them. As a game -score draw is not fatal. It will allow you to play alot, with victories you'll get there faster and you have more from where to choose of. With losses you also get there, but it is not recommended way, its too hard and full of unpleasant suprises. Some of the battles are kind of *must* to win, -to avoid early end of campaign.
But draws like Holts (mentioned above) are something that there should not be. But there is. It is not just because of bad design, (Stalin lines for example were tested many times), -it is also depending of OOBs. In early designed scenarios we had 4.5, then 5.01, -and they had unit cost for russians higher than later OOBs. This is one reason out of basic Lost Victories. Second reason, might even be 'The' reason is that points per killed unit is calculated differently in later updates. We did re-tests with early 7th beta and all was ok. We had *soft promise* that there ain't big changes coming in either mech or OOBs according to gaméplay and units. Ok, game is now better itself, but MCs got messed a bit ![]("rolleyes.gif")
... But we are working on these problems and after we have gone thru and solved them according to LV, we have a winner in our hands. Anyway there is still work on that, so be patient, - its worth of it ![]("wink.gif")
I am saying this because I think you should have information of where we are with this game and why. My apologies only if you take this wrong, you are great people all and as a team captain of Lost Victories I feel I owe you at least little explanation 
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