Attacking

[PoorOldSpike]

Would be interesting to see how you experts start attacks or apply defenses when there´s no silly "flags" positioned on any map...

In every real-life military action big or small, there are specific objectives to take or defend (hills/ bridges/ patch of woods/ buildings, factories etc), so a flag marker is simply a way of marking those objectives, I have no problem with that, they simply serve as useful 'reference points', on which to base our tactics..:)
For example in Panzer Leader, Guderian recounts a conversation with Hitler concerning Russia in late summer 41 that goes something like this -
HITLER - "Can your troops make one more great effort?"
GUDERIAN - "Yes if they're given a clearly-understood objective"..

PS I've played a few CM games without flags and thoroughly hated it. For example in the Onion Wars several years ago they gave me a small all-infantry force in thick woods and told me I must attack AND defend.
"Attack and defend what?" I asked, "there are no flags or objectives!" but they just mumbled something about "do as you think best".
So I said "sorry, I won't fight blind", and resigned my command and left the Wars..

And only a few days ago I playtested a scenario that had no flags, I racked up a winning score at the start by killing two bunkers, then just sat out the rest of the game; I mean there was no reason for me to advance any further. But if there'd been a flag on the other side of the map, I'd have been forced to go for it rather than gift its points value to the enemy..