Uber Tanks/ Modern Tanks

[John Given]

I prefer to let my infantry scout ahead.

A double-timed infantryman on a paved road can move 5 hexes a turn. Double-timed ski troops can move up to EIGHT hexes per turn. If your opponent has no problem with scouting halftracks, take a HT platoon with reduced sp's, no more than 3 sp preferably, and scout ahead if for some reason you need to look way down the road.

Usually, scouting infantry can do the job. Never end your tanks' movment in open terrain if you can help it. The idea is once you have an idea where the bulk of his force is, you can start planning your own offensive. But until then, the most you will even consider doing is flanking the enemy (attcking where he least expects it).

Great places to put your spotters are on the edges of plateaus (that are also forested), actually any defensible terrain with good visibility. Once you see where the other guy has his stuff, you can just maneuver around it. Sometimes I will stage a minor attack to make my opponent think I'm trying to break through one area, where 80% of my stuff is on the other side of the board. Works wonders.

Try to make him afraid of you. Make little spoiling attacks, then retreat back out of sight. Always keep your non-spotters hidden. Put your units in unspotted forest hex, and turn off op-fire. When it's your turn, come out of "nowhere" and blast him where he least expects it. Try to play larger scenarios so that you have more to work with, and also have more time to put your strategies to work for you. I struggle with smaller scenarios because I don't have enough units for security, nor do I have enough time. So it's mainly larger scens for me.

Those are a few tricks I use. :cool2: