WW2 Artillery vs. Armor

[Volcano Man]

One other thing... in regards to those German armored formations that are assaulting and isolating you, when you get a chance (if your opponent leaves them alone in a hex) assault them with some massed infantry. You may suffer heavy casualties but you will usually inflict enough fatigue and tank losses that one of two things will happen:

1) Your opponent will largely stop advancing them without infantry support (unless he sends recon assets out first to size up the situation)

2) That lighting attack will begin to slow down

In my Kursk game I find that those armored cars in the McNamara based db are extremely effective at... guess what everybody... recon! :) In the intial implementation of McNamara's db I was subject to many complaints that the armored car units could not stand up armor and infantry attacks any more. Well, that is because you are only supposed to use them to find the enemy and then move away. Recon spotting rule is essential with McNamara based db as well.

Anyway, I digress. I say, without knowing your situation, that your game may very well be outside of the boundaries I predicted if you are using rules that are not suggested in the notes file. Beyond that it is resonable to consider that you will definately have to learn as you go since you may be engrained with old tactics that worked in the past.