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Before you begin fighting, study the terrain. Spend some time
with the LOS tool, and if you see a position that looks like it offers
good cover, use jump there in first person <F1> to get a good
look. Make note of these positions so that you don't have to spend time
looking for a safe place when you start getting hammered while the fight
is on.
Move Move Move. This is kind of contradicting the
first item, but it's important. When you are in sitting in one of your
well-chosen positions, don't hang around, especially if you've engaged
the enemy from that position. Once the exchange is over, find another
place to fire from. Or at the least, move you vehicles back, leaving no
more than 1 on the ridge to continue scanning for enemies.
The reason for this is to avoid artillery. That stuff
is the most frustrating weapon the enemy has. Your vehicles are smart
enough to move out of the barrage, but they don't always make it. And
the Only time you should ever have 2 platoons within 200m of each other
is when you are hitting a large enemy force and need to kill them as
fast as possible (the faster you kill them, the sooner you can move to
another position).
I have seen an M1 platoon stop a large counterattack
almost single handedly, only to be hit by ICM a coupe minutes later and
have all 4 tanks die in 5 seconds (I'm sure Oddball can give you the
details).
Don't be afraid to split up your units. It
helps keep losses down when you are ambushed or hit by arty. Just make
sure that your units have nearby support. When most of your weapons
(M1's main gun and M2's TOWs) can hit targets 3 km away, it doesn't
matter a whole lot if the nearest friendly unit is 50m or 500m away.
This isn't always feasible (especially in dense terrain), but more often
than not, the increased survivability of your forces makes up for a
slight loss in immediate firepower.
There's no need for you to baby your forces.
Quite often (especially when time is a factor) you will have to take
risks so that you can get to where you need to be. In one MP game my
company and the company next to me were going to rush ahead to take an
objective. I had the longer route, so when I stopped to deal with a few
PCs and their troops, I got so far behind that the other company went in
without me and lost 90%of its vehicles.
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