The spirit of the game...

[JasonC]

Put all your guns 5 meters below a sharp crestline so 98 out of 100 shots directed at them hit the hill in front, while they get to fire straight through the hill.

Protect the single exposed flank of your thick-front uberarmor with a bottomless chasm called the board edge. Forever. Every game.

Never take any vehicle that can be penetrated from the front by the standard AP weapon in the enemy arsenal. Ever.

Split every squad you have, always, at set up and maintained throughout, doubling micromanagement and absorbing enemy ammo.

Never take any artillery below 150mm caliber.

Take 5 times as many cheap guns as MGs on defense, and as many as you have squads.

Of course it is possible to push broken aspects of the game so hard fights aren't about anything remotely to do with the actual war. If your opponent does any of the above, tell him to cut it out. If he won't, blackball him. Life is too short to put up with freaks.